Hi, this is Alisa Likt, and this is Leave Your Mark the podcast, where I brew fresh career advice with some of my most inspiring and successful friends.

It's professional advice that you can action immediately, whether you're just starting out in your career or well on your way.

With a massive to-do list and a large cup of coffee, I promise that you can get it all done

and still have time to post about it.

Okay, we have not one but two amazing topics today.

And I'm so excited to welcome Melody Wilding to leave your mark.

Melody is the author of Managing Up up how to get what you need from the people

in charge. And secondarily, trust yourself, stop overthinking and channel your emotions for success

at work. I honestly can't think of two better topics to talk about. So Melody, welcome to leave your

mark. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.

Oh, my God. Well, listen, I mean, you are the expert for more than a decade. You are an award-winning

executive coach. You are super thoughtful with your clients who are top performers at the

world's most successful companies. And you're also a licensed social worker with a master's degree from

Columbia, professor of human behavior at Hunter College, and a former emotions researcher at Rutgers

University. And naturally, your work has been featured anywhere that matters. So you are going to be

a wealth of information. So the first question I have for you

is, how did you get into this specific work? And I say specific because you are very focused on areas

that are pain points for almost everyone.

Well, you know, they say you teach what you most need to learn.

And I think there's a lot of truth behind that.

So my first book is really about being a highly sensitive person in the workplace.

And that directly came out of my own lived experience, but also what I was seeing

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