by Amy Wilkinson | 5 07, 2023 | BALANCE, Perfectionism
Have we been sold a lie – that “women can have it all”? Because a lot of the women I speak to every day think they should be able to “have it all” but in the pursuit of that, they seem to have completely lost who they are and why they’ve been chasing after it. And...
by Amy Wilkinson | 5 09, 2022 | Communication, Confidence, Habits, Imposter Syndrome, Mental Health, Perfectionism
You know you need to be more assertive at work but you’re worried you’re going to turn into that d!ck that works in Ops* and come across as aggressive, awkward and unhelpful. This probably goes against every fibre of your being as you were brought up to be polite,...
by Amy Wilkinson | 29 08, 2022 | Burnout Prevention, Communication, Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, Mental Health, Perfectionism
A lot of the women I work with come to me feeling super under valued, like their voice isn’t being heard and they may as well be invisible. One of the things that we often explore as a starting point is to work out whether that’s actually true or whether it’s the...
by Amy Wilkinson | 22 08, 2022 | Communication, Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, Leadership, Perfectionism, Resilience
I know what you’re thinking, “I don’t want to be visible. If I just get my head down and do a good job, then I will get recognition” – and that does work for a while, until it doesn’t any more. That’s when you start to notice the less experienced (and frankly less...
by Amy Wilkinson | 25 07, 2022 | Confidence, Habits, Imposter Syndrome, Leadership, Perfectionism, Stress
For a long time, I thought confidence was a personality trait – you either have it, or you don’t. I used to watch other people present and think I would never be able to do that. Last week, I stood up in front of an audience of over 200 people at one of the UK’s...
by Amy Wilkinson | 14 02, 2022 | Burnout Prevention, Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, Leadership, Mental Health, Perfectionism, Resilience
“You’re not bringing that in the factory, have you even checked for allergens?” “Don’t you know we’ve tried it before and it didn’t work?!” “Nope, orders take priority, the trials cancelled” Just a few of the phrases I remember being pretty much spat at me early in my...
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