There is a lot of discussion around women's empowerment in general, but women's leadership in particular is a topic that we are still defining and understanding. We’ve spoken before about gender pay gaps, glass ceilings, sticky floors, opportunity cost and the expectations on women to ‘do it all’ before. 

Megan Dalla-Camina is a three time best selling author and award winning women’s leadership and gender diversity expert. She is also the founder and CEO of the fastest growing women's ed-tech platform ‘Women rising’.

Today’s chat is about understanding the reasons behind why ⅘ women feel as though they are not thriving at work and the little voice in our head tells us we just aren’t doing a good enough job. Megan calls this the archetypes of the inner critic:

The perfectionist
The beauty queen
The sceptic
The imposter
The people pleaser
The outsider
The comparer
The good girl
The overachiever
The self doubter
The chameleon
The empath
The ideal mother

We also speak about:

• What mini burnout looks like and how you feel when the mini burnouts happen one after the other

• Motherhood paradox of the expectation to work like they don’t have children but raise kids as though they don’t have work responsibilities

• People pleasing, trying to be an agreeable, easy to work with person and how that leads to you not getting what you deserve at work

• How we can utilise this information to help us feel more comfortable in finding what is going to be ‘success’ to us and make us genuinely happy

• Feminine vs masculine ‘traits’ in leadership
  
  

You can find more from Megan at her website and Instagram
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