HeyJaredWOOW Updates
Founder Sade Akindele's field notes and reflections from Women on Our Way (WOOW), a community for women rethinking what they want from work.
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The mistake we make when selling ourselves (opens the original)
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Hey, it’s Sade! A bit of exciting news before we get into this week’s essay: WOOW founding membership closed last week at 57 women, nearly doubling our goal of 30! A big, huge thank you to everyone who joined or cheered us on from the sidelines. We’re so excited for what comes next. Membership is open, and you can join any time. If you’d like to be part of our first accountability pods, you have until Friday, 2 October, to jump in. Find all the details here! WHAT’S COMING UP
What a strengths assessment revealed to one former banker (opens the original)
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Hi, it’s Sade! This week we’re featuring Valeria Collu of Coaching Stream, our latest guest writer. In this piece, she explores what happens when the strengths that have helped you succeed aren’t necessarily the ones that energise you most, and how paying attention to what comes naturally can tell you something about where you might want to go next.Valeria will also be leading an online masterclass for WOOW members on 29 September, going deeper into how to spot your strengths and use them withou
What building WOOW membership has taught me (opens the original)
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Next Thursday evening, 24 September, we’re getting together in Holborn to talk about something we all have to do sooner or later: explain why we’re the right person for the opportunity.The workshop will cover how to talk about what you bring to the table, whether you’re interviewing, pitching yourself to a new client, prepping for your annual review or just tired of fumbling the “so what do you do?” question at every event.Learn how to talk about yourself in a way that makes your value impossibl
The surprising costs of staying in a job you’ve outgrown (opens the original)
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Most of the people who stayed in their job this year stayed because they were too scared to leave it. Seriously: when Aegon surveyed 2,000 UK workers, more than half said they’d stayed in a job they didn’t enjoy, most often because of money concerns or fear of starting over. Leaving feels too risky, so the majority are hunkering down under the guise of security. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GsAe!,f_auto,q_aut
You've heard of triggers. Have you heard of glimmers? (opens the original)
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Hi, it’s Sade! This week you’re hearing from Meghan on team WOOW, who still gets the first-day-of-term feeling every September and keeps a list I think you’ll want to copy.As a Type-A planner who loves any excuse to make a list, I am absolutely giddy about the arrival of autumn. It may technically be a few weeks away, but I’m already deep in fresh-notebook, new-habit, cosy-wardrobe-reset mode while the Gilmore Girls theme song plays on repeat in my brain.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-i
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