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25/09/2026

One of the hardest things to learn in your career is that not all criticism deserves the same weight, especially when it comes from someone senior to you.

When you respect someone, admire their career or simply know they have more power and experience than you, it’s so easy to assume their opinion of you MUST BE accurate.

And sometimes it is.

Sometimes the feedback is uncomfortable because there’s something in it you GENUINELY need to hear. Being able to recognise that without becoming defensive is part of growing.

But sometimes it isn’t constructive feedback at all, sometimes it’s somebody’s frustration, insecurity, personal dislike being given to you as though it’s an objective assessment of who you are.

And learning to tell the DIFFERENCE is a skill in itself.

Listen to criticism, interrogate it, look for the evidence (!) and take what’s useful.

But don’t automatically turn someone else’s opinion of you into your opinion of yourself, especially just because they’re more senior than you.

Follow for the career lessons nobody teaches you until you’ve already learned them the hard way 🫠

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24/09/2026

Your career can change because of one conversation you weren’t even in.

That’s why I think we spend way too much time thinking about networking as meeting more people and not enough time thinking about who actually knows our work well enough to put their reputation behind us.

You don’t need 500 corporate relationships.

You need a handful of people who know what you’re capable of, know what you want next and have enough influence to do something about it.

And those relationships are built before you need the introduction, promotion or opportunity.

So if you thought of someone while watching this and went oh s**t, that might be them…invest in that relationship!

And if you couldn’t think of a single person, that’s your next career move 😏

Follow for more career advice for women who are already good at their jobs (and want to make sure all that work is actually taking them somewhere)

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22/09/2026

One of the weirdest things about becoming more senior is that eventually, the strategy that built your career stops being enough to grow it (?!)

Early on, the formula is relatively straightforward:

Work harder, get better, learn faster. Become more efficient, take on more responsibility, be visible. Be the person people can rely on.

And for a long time, that s**t WORKS.

So when your career starts to plateau, you assume you need to do more of the same.

Except at a certain level, the game CHANGES.

The next step isn’t necessarily about becoming better at doing the work. It’s about developing an entirely different SKILLSET: judgement, influence, prioritisation, commercial thinking, navigating people, creating outcomes through others and understanding where your time actually creates value.

And I think this is where a lot of really good people get stuck.

They’re trying to solve a new career problem with the exact skills that solved the old one.

If you’ve reached the point where you’re already excellent at what you do, maybe the question isn’t:

How do I become even better at this?

Maybe it’s:

What does the level above me require that my current role never forced me to learn?

Follow for the career advice nobody tells you until you’re already senior (and how to build a successful career without giving it your entire fu***ng life)

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18/09/2026

Your career champion (/sponsor) is probably not going to MAGICALLY find you.

And no, please do not walk up to the most senior person in your company and ask them to “sponsor” you 😩

The best champion relationships I’ve had in my career were built naturally BUT they were not built accidentally. Clock the difference.

They knew my work, they knew me and CRUCIALLY, they knew what the f**k I wanted.

You cannot expect someone to say your name in the right room or connect you to the right opportunity if they have no idea where you’re actually trying to go.

Save this and think about who in your company you could start building this relationship with.

Follow for the career advice nobody tells you until you’re already senior (and how to build a successful career without giving it your entire fu***ng life)

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16/09/2026

You can be really fu***ng good at your job and still be missing one of the biggest advantages in corporate.

Because careers are not a solo sport.

At some point working harder, delivering more and hoping the right people notice stops being a strategy. You need people around you who understand where you’re going AND at least one person with enough influence to help open the fu***ng door.

I wish more women understood this earlier, because we’re very good at being told to prove ourselves and significantly less good at being taught how corporate actually works.

And unfortunately, being excellent is only part of it.

Follow for the career advice nobody tells you until you’re already senior and how to build a successful career without giving it your entire fu***ng life.

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