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76 | WHAT IF? Your Professional Image Is Holding You Back
Most of us learned a quiet rule early in our careers: the more credible you want to be, the more of yourself you keep quiet. We call it protecting our professional image.
In this episode of the What If? series, Jamesyn tells the story of walking up first at a corporate karaoke event, singing "What's Up?" by 4 Non Blondes at full volume, and the days of second-guessing that followed. She looks at the difference between planned visibility and unplanned visibility, where the doubt actually came from, and what happened when a colleague got up to sing after her.
Then she asks the question at the center of the episode: What if letting people see more of you at work doesn't cost you credibility? And what if it shows other people what's allowed?
In this episode:
- Why planned visibility tells people what you've accomplished, but not what's allowed
- How one moment turns into an identity question, and why that's where women start cutting pieces of themselves
- The roles that keep the version of you at work getting narrower: the reliable one, the overachiever, and the people pleaser
- The Outgrowing signal, and how it differs from burnout
- Why going first can be part of your career strategy
- A small experiment for this week: letting one edited part of you into the room
Career Signal: Outgrowing
Career Evolution Framework stage: Strategize, where you build the plan for where you're going, including the moves, the conversations, and how you'll be visible along the way.
Take the Career Signals Quiz: If the version of you at work has been getting narrower, this 2-minute quiz names your Career Signal so you can stop guessing. Take the Career Signals Quiz
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About Jamesyn: Jamesyn is a career strategist, author, and the voice behind The Bold Life. By day, she leads learning technology for a robotic surgery education program at a global MedTech company. She's been choosing again her whole career: from classroom teacher to educational publishing, to learning leadership, to building her own companies. On The Bold Life, she shares the stories and strategy behind career evolution, and works 1:1 with ambitious women ready to build what's next.
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