How to be invaluable at work with Lauren McGoodwin

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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An interview with Lauren McGoodwin, founder of Career Contessa, who makes the case for why invaluable beats indispensable…and shares some actions we can take to achieve this status.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel Cook, your modern mentor. I'm the founder of Lead Above Noise, a firm specializing in helping leaders and organizations crack their activation codes, finding the simple tweaks to enhance both performance and engagement. In today's episode, I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Lauren McGuadwin, founder of Career Contessa, one of the largest
0:39.0	career development and media education platforms for women in the U.S.
0:43.5	Lauren is a career and leadership expert. She's an author, and she's the host of the Career
0:48.2	Contessa podcast. In this conversation, we got delightfully into the weeds of what it means to be
0:54.0	truly invaluable at work
0:55.7	and actionable steps that we can take to make it happen. Okay. Well, Lauren McGovern, founder of the career
1:03.3	Contessa, I am delighted to have you join me on the Modern Mentor Podcast. Thank you for being here today.
1:09.1	Thank you so much for having me.
1:19.0	So you and I both host podcasts on the topic of just having a great experience at work,
1:24.7	right? Being fulfilled, being well, being balanced. I have a sense that our souls have been hanging out, maybe a little bit longer. It's so nice to finally bring them together.
1:30.1	Talk to me a little bit about how you came to start the Career Contessa and what your
1:36.4	podcast is all about.
1:38.3	Absolutely.
1:38.9	So I launched Career Contessa back in 2013.
1:41.4	If you guys can remember a decade ago, it was before Lean In, it was before
1:47.6	the Girl Boss era. It was really before more transparency in the workplace. And even for people to
1:54.5	consider that work might be different for someone other than a white male. So I actually launched
1:58.9	Career Contessa. It was my master's thesis project. And my
2:02.0	hypothesis was that as someone who had recently entered their career, I had graduated in 2009. So I kind of
2:08.2	went through the recession thing. Now I was working as a recruiter at Hulu and I was writing my
2:12.0	thesis on this. So I had experience on both sides of the hiring table. And I was like, I am thinking that what's going to
2:19.5	happen to millennial women, people like myself, who grew up a certain way, is we are going to
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