Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success.

I'm Ashley Milthight.

This time, when your name makes people confused about your gender until you enlighten them.

The point was you aren't going to be taken seriously if you've just outed yourself as a miss,

you now look kind of insignificant. That's what I got from it.

And what it's like when a man swaps names with a female colleague for a week.

I had no authority, essentially. Prior to this, I had just kind of an

assumed authority. People seemed to assume that I was capable of the job that they had paid me

to do, and I guess I had taken that for granted, because when I was working as Nicole, that was

oftentimes not the case. But don't expect everyone to believe you.

We just said, hey, guess what?

We didn't experiment.

And fun fact, our clients treat Nikki kind of like crap on the whole.

And he just immediately was like, ah, yeah, you can't prove that.

And you don't know what you're talking about.

Coming up on the broad experience.

And just a heads up, you will hear the occasional swear word in this episode.

So in the unlikely event you're listening with kids, you might want to put your headphones on.

But before we begin, how often do you think about marketing yourself?

Some of us are great at this.

Others, like me me would rather do anything

other than talk ourselves up, which is completely understandable. The thing is, every decision

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