Episode 169: Controlling the Controllable
The Broad Experience
The Broad Experience
5.0 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
2021, a year so many of us have been hoping will turn a global page for the better, has got off to a rocky start.
There is so much we can’t control at the moment, so in this show we’re going to concentrate on what we can do - that is, take the reins of our own careers, albeit from behind our computers. My guest is Lisa Unwin, co-founder of London-based Reignite Academy and author of She’s Back. I wanted to talk to Lisa because she’s now optimistic about the future, when a few months ago she felt quite differently. Among other things we discuss the underrated business phone call, how men and women have used social media differently during lockdown (which may be hurting women’s careers), and what happens when women don’t charge for their work.
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| 0:00.0 | Better Help Online Therapy bought this 30 second ad to remind you right now, wherever you are, to unclench your jaw. |
| 0:10.8 | Relax your shoulders. Take a deep breath in and out. |
| 0:20.3 | Feels better, right? |
| 0:21.9 | That's 15 seconds of self-care. |
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| 0:30.5 | for 10% off your first month of therapy. |
| 0:33.8 | No pressure. |
| 0:35.0 | Just help. |
| 0:35.9 | But for now, just relax. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. I'm Ashley Milthight. |
| 0:56.4 | This time, trying to control what we can control in this crazy world we inhabit in 2021, |
| 1:04.7 | including getting paid for our work. What I have to do then is say, this is my rate, |
| 1:13.9 | and then I have to shut up, and that's very hard. |
| 1:14.5 | Because my tendency would be, this is my day rate, but of course you might not want to pay |
| 1:19.2 | that and I can offer you a discount. |
| 1:20.6 | You start to talk yourself out of it if you're not careful. |
| 1:25.6 | Coming up on the broad experience. |
| 1:36.7 | The beginning of this year does not feel like the last new year. |
| 1:41.4 | Doesn't feel like any new year I have ever known. |
| 1:46.2 | Much of the world is still engulfed by a brutal pandemic. Many of us, if we're working, have been working at home |
| 1:51.7 | for months. And when I moved to America almost 25 years ago, I could never have imagined |
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