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Career Strategies for Women that Work

Many professional women aspire to advance their careers. Yet, many encounter common obstacles when navigating the landscape both at work and at home. From corporate cultures to internal chatter, high impact women are often searching for proven and actionable strategies to make their goals a reality. With firsthand experience in demanding roles while juggling the numerous demands outside of work, JJ DiGeronimo, a woman in tech turned award-winning author for working women, shares some of her best strategies to empower women at work and in life right here. From self-efficacy to self-boundaries, from asking for a raise to landing a board seat to maneuvering guilt, this podcast offers a series of proven initiatives for women looking to accelerate their professional paths. As many have already learned, much of what happens on the outside starts on the inside. So don’t be surprised if we chat about mindfulness, mediation, and ancient practices too! My goal with Career Strategies for Women that Work is to create safe places to learn, explore and identify what is no longer serving us with opportunities to unleash our inner knowing to illuminate our next level of impact. Through personal anecdotes, examples, and stories from those who have stumbled, fallen, and succeeded, this podcast shares insight to focus on specific actions to maximizes your talents and make your professional goals a reality.

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Career Strategies for Women that Work

Are You Searching for More? JJ shares the Intro Chapter from her Next Book

August 04, 2022 • JJ DiGeronimo • Season 2 • Episode 36

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If you are tired of chasing standards that are imposed on you by others; if you are drowning in to-do lists that deplete your energy and maybe even your impact; or if you are swimming in negative thoughts and self-talk or seeking more meaning …You are not alone!

I, too, felt an internal tug for something more.

The pages in my new book include key findings, strategies, and insights to dig deep, release the guilt, and move toward my life's work.

By doing this inside job, I found far more joy, alignment, and fulfillment.

Interested in a few more chapters - DM me or contact me through www.JJDiGeronimo.com!

To read the chapter, please visit: https://jjdigeronimo.com/36

Thank you for joining me ~ here are some other resources for you!

JJ's new book Seeking: https://www.amazon.com/Seeking-Findings-Energy-Sidestep-Self-Doubts/dp/B0BKQCWJ62

Join me live in my energy community: https://www.togetherweseek.online/

Visit my website for retreats and free resources: https://jjdigeronimo.com/

My energy podcast Together We Seek: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1923001

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Are you over-committed yet yearning for more, I'm looking forward to sharing a really neat next step, as well as wrapping up season two, let's jump in

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I'm JJ DiGeronimo, and I select each episode with you in mind, a working woman that wants to have more influence and impact than they have today. With insight and research, you can gain momentum, knowledge, and even tools to help you leap in the direction you desire. With each episode, you can visit the show notes where I include additional links, worksheets, and questions for podcast clubs. Let's get started.

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Thank you so much for joining me and I couldn't be more honored to meet you here for every episode and for all the women that I'm reaching and connecting with near in far, I send you love and light, and I look forward to being on this journey with you and sharing this next piece to empower and inspire women to step into their goals, their wisdom, and their aspirations.

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The reason I'm writing this book, if you are tired of chasing standards that are imposed on you by others, if you are drowning in your to-do list, that depletes your energy and maybe your impact, or if you're swimming in negative thoughts and self-talk or seeking more meaning you are not alone. I am excited to meet you here. Even if you feel unsure about what you are looking for, what to change or how to tap into your inner knowing. No worries. This is a time to get excited about the possibilities as there are plenty of times to align your energy and impact. I know this because I too felt an internal tug for something more. I was unsettled for years in hindsight, I now recognize that my heart began pulling me more fiercely to pursue new insights beyond my day job and roles at home.

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I pushed the feelings away and tried to convince myself that I was fine yet. My inner turmoil did not quit. It pushed me to seek new conversations, new classes, new books, and that everything was aligned and relevant. But throughout my seeking, I found new areas of excitement and new sources of energy that I call fuel stations. These new activities energized my inner self, my soul. While my mind continued to chase external metrics, such as work, milestones, titles, and accolades through my journey. I discovered I was not alone. And neither are you. Many women I meet are experiencing some level of misalignment because they are working on projects or are tolerating relationships that are draining their good energy and dimming their lights, preventing them from unleashing. Their life's work many, many, many say when you are successful or when you get to a certain level at work or in life, you will experience bliss or joy.

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However, this did not happen for me. Sure. I had moments of joy, but I also had hours of knowing that I was feeling less than full little did. I know I had a sprouting purpose from within that was not satisfied with my external striving and goals. My internal guide, my soul was seeking more alignment in my life's true work. With this growing knowledge, I felt confident that if I did a little more seeking off the side of my desk, I could gain new insights about myself and my work. The pages ahead are strategies and insights. I use to align my energy for the future. I use it as a guide to dig deep into my myself, release my guilt and tap into more inner knowing by doing this inside job, I found far more joy, alignment and fulfillment.

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Since we are so busy, it sometimes takes guidance from others before we discover what is often not obvious to us that we are overgiving overdoing or even misguided with our money or drowning in our self doubt. The beauty in our situations, barriers or experiences is that we are uniquely yet perfectly orchestrated to meet right here right now, as many of you know, there is a bigger purpose for us than what we are living. My hope is by sharing my journey, you feel empowered to tap into your inner knowing by listening to your whispers, recognizing the energy that depletes you and working on releasing your stories in this book, you will find ideas on how to explore your desires strategies for sorting out your options, questions for discovering what obstacles may be holding you back and suggestions to help you energize your journey. Your situations have brought you right here right now with me, which may awaken your inner knowing fuel your unique light, expand your existing sphere and illuminate your path.

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If you're here with me now, it's likely time for you two to prioritize your inner knowing, which will lead you to a higher level of energy. Let's spend time understanding what may be holding you back and finding levers to pull. That will move you beyond where you are now to increase your sphere of light and alignment. Let's explore ways to illuminate your path ahead from the inside out. These are just a few words for my third book seeking. I am very excited to share the key findings that I pepper through the entire book. And I would love to share a few of the preview chapters with you. So if you're interested, you can reach out to me on any of my platforms, send me a message, or even reply to me an email at hello, JJ, Deger amo.com. This is definitely outside of the scope of what I've been talking about to date on careers boards, aligning for leadership.

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But what I have found through my work is that you have to do the inside job before the outside job materializes at its fullest for you. And this book are the key strategies that I have learned to help me create more authenticity, more leverage, and also more impact in the work that I'm doing. And I'm very much looking forward to sharing those findings and lessons with you. So with this, I will be taking the month of August off to finish chapters. I'm just finishing chapter 54. It's about 60,000 words, and I'm getting ready to send everything over to my second editor. So you will not hear from me in August on this podcast, but you can definitely find me on my social handles as I will be posting more information, not only about the book, but you can also find me in my new community together.

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TogetherWeSeek.Online where I'm interviewing energy practitioners and light workers that are sharing more insights, wisdom, and practices to help us really step into our fullest potential and life's work. So I look forward to seeing you there. I hope you have a great rest of the summer and I will be checking back in, in September. Thank you for letting me share my work with you. And I appreciate the work that you're doing to share insights and wisdom with the people in your circles so that we can all elevate to a higher energy level and make a more meaningful impact with that. I'm closing up season two of career strategies for women that work and I could not be more grateful and honored that you've been joining me here for many weeks, that I've been sharing the insights, practices and strategies from my previous books, my women's events and what information I'll be sharing next. So thank you very much and have a great end of summer.