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🗓️ 31 October 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge. |
0:05.4 | Things you used to do in a day take a week. |
0:08.3 | You deserve a customized solution, and that's NetSuite. |
0:12.8 | Learn more when you download NetSuite's popular KPI checklist, |
0:16.9 | absolutely free at NetSuite.com slash women at work. |
0:21.2 | That's NetSuite.com slash women at work. |
0:26.5 | Body size is on my mind because I'm thinking about how I present myself and how I'm perceived and how I can climb my own career ladder. |
0:41.5 | Why haven't I had success in some areas and wondering whether or not people are listening to me or hearing me or thinking that I have a leadership presence |
0:54.5 | so that I can be considered for other opportunities and even be promoted? |
0:59.5 | Nina's a diversity and inclusion manager. |
1:02.5 | In that job, she strives to create an environment where everybody's accepted, no matter who they are, including their race, age, gender and weight. |
1:11.5 | Personally though, she says she's been fighting to stay a size 12. |
1:16.5 | Oh gosh, the fight is, I think part of it is because I'm mad at the clothing industry. |
1:23.5 | It's very hard to find clothes for work and going out and everything in those in a 14, not even the 24s and the 26s, but even in a size 14. |
1:35.5 | And so trying to not go higher than 12 so I don't have to struggle with the clothing and being uncomfortable and not feeling confident. |
1:48.5 | That's how she felt going back to work after having a baby. |
1:51.5 | When your pregnant people have lots of empathy, after your pregnant people are just like, what's wrong with you? |
1:56.5 | Why is the baby weight melting off? |
1:58.5 | I was in a training position where I did orientation every few weeks. |
2:04.5 | And so I'm in front of people and I want to wear a suit and look professional and energetic and have people take me seriously and I'm worried about parts of me spilling out. |
2:15.5 | She also started worrying about not fitting a mold. |
2:19.5 | I feel like there's so many leaders around me who were thin. |
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