Debating kind of taught me everything.

It was at the time when I started, male-dominated.

So I was usually the only woman on the all-male team,

and I was usually getting feedback that was really different to my male peers.

They were complimented even for their gravitas and their presence,

and I was told, hey, that's interesting, but it's a little bit too much,

or a little bit too angry, or a little bit too angry or a little bit too aggressive.

Sometimes feels like such a narrow tightrope we walk, right?

To be enough, but not too much.

From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work changes us.

That feeling of walking on a tightrope, that feeling that so many of us are familiar with, especially women.

Well, there's a name for it. It's called the success likability paradox. It's that whole idea that in order to become powerful, well, a woman has to be likable.

But then once she becomes powerful, she is less likable.

You know, for men it works just the opposite, right?

The more powerful men become, the more people like them.

It can feel downright frustrating. But our guest today, Kate Mason,

she says it doesn't have to be that way. She is an author, an executive coach, and a world champion

debater. Kate has a new book out with a great title. It is called Powerfully Likeable, a Woman's Guide to Effective Communication. Kate believes

that you can be likable and extremely powerful at the same time. The path to that end is

successful communication and today in the time she has with us, she's going to walk us through

exactly how we can communicate well. Here's Kate.

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