Making Your Own Career Success | Melanie Lawn

If you want to learn how to take the next step in your career, ask for a promotion, navigate your negative self-talk, and overcome imposter syndrome, then this is the episode for you. 

Today we sit down with Melanie Lawn who has had an incredibly impressive, but squiggly career. Starting in marketing before working in PR for brands such as The Telegraph and Dyson, she then took the leap into the world of recruitment before transitioning to Customer Success for Deltek. She climbed the ladder to Vice President of CS and then earned her spot as the CCO at Peakon and most recently Forecast. Melanie is now a Venture Partner for Eight Roads.

In today’s episode, we discuss the secrets to her success, skills that she has learnt, knowing your worth, and how to make your own success in your career.

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Chapters

• 2:20 What does success look like?
• 5:01 The danger of never feeling content
• 7:30 Squiggly careers
• 8:30 Where will Melanie Lawn go next in her career?
• 11:05 Is saying yes always right?
• 14:29 Do you need to have a niche?
• 20:12 Negative self talk and imposter syndrome
• 23:25 How to stop putting yourself down
• 26:30 Being a woman is the least interesting part about you
• 29:17 The power of the pause when asking for a promotion
• 34:24 How to read the room
• 36:11 Embracing the difficult