We are focusing on women and leadership, speaking with the incredible Julia, a high-powered executive who leads with authenticity. How can we grow our careers and find purpose and power in our work journey? How can we bounce back from a challenging performance assessment? What lessons have served us in leadership? Your two favorite brown girls are discussing all that and more with Julia in this transformative conversation.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Julia’s career journey
• The value of a good mentor
• Not feeling represented
• The qualities of a good leader
• How Brené Brown has helped encourage vulnerability
• The double bind that women face in careers
• Showing emotion at work
• A shift in the workplace
• The role of personal values
• Recognizing a toxic environment
• The immigrant mentality and how we show up
• The process of unlearning
• The difference between men and women in applying for jobs
• The impact of the workplace environment
• Finding your personal values and how those intersect with your career
• Knowing what lights you up and why you want a particular job
• “You can learn from any situation as long as you are being open and flexible”
• How to grow from feedback
• “The whole point of life is to grow, evolve, mutate”
• Dealing with fear of failure
• X-women!
• How women and men may define success differently
• Our messages to our younger selves

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