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Female Tech Exec
For the mid-career female executive in technology looking to reach the VP level and beyond. Join Lisa Kostova, a former Product VP and mountaineer, and guests for honest and real tips, strategies and conversation to accelerate, and most importantly ENJOY, your career climb TODAY! Based on the Career CLIMB™ framework. For more resources, see www.careerclimb.co
Episodes
130 episodes
The 4-Day Workweek Is A Lie - 4 Strategies To Finally Enjoy Time Off While Being A Superhuman at Work
In the podcast episode, I show you what needs to happen for you to be able to fully unplug AND be a productivity superhuman at work. I give you 4 strategies to take control of your time, whether you're at work or on vacation.
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Season 2
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Episode 131
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When Loyalty Holds You Back In Your Career And How To Take The Leap To The Next Level - A Conversation With an Amazon Exec
In this episode, I interview Tanya Bonamico, a Senior Product Manager at Amazon, leading a team of 50+ for seller risk management and a CareerClimb® client. We discuss her career journey and the challenges she faced while working i...
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Season 2
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Episode 130
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What Gabby Bernstein's Coach Taught Me - an Intimate Conversation With Rha Goddess On Female Power and The Relationship With Our Authentic Self
I dive into a juicy conversation with Gabby Bernstein's coach and author of the book "The Calling: 3 Fundamental Shifts to Stay True, Get Paid and Do Good" - Rha Goddess. We explore topics ranging from the practical to the spiritual. We d...
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Season 2
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Episode 129
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41:36
This Bowling Champion Will Teach You How To Strike a Director Promotion
Today I interview one of my favorite clients ever - Lori Edwards, a Director at Niche - an ed-tech leader in school search. If you’re in the first decade of your career and looking to break through the Director level, this conversa...
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Season 2
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Episode 128
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Working for Steve Jobs Almost Broke This Female Exec - and Walking Away Built her Character
Today I interview Alessandra Ghini, my very first executive coach and a partner at Go Partners. We talk about what it was like working with Steve Jobs at Apple and how Alessandra survived the most difficult working environment for years b...
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Season 2
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Episode 127
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40:14
Advanced Strategies for Leveling Up Your Networking in the New Year - Formula and Templates for a High Response Rates
In this episode, I go through advanced networking strategies, especially for those who are looking for a job. Strategic networking beats transactional networking every time in terms of quality and quantity of results, hands down. Plus, it...
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Season 2
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Episode 126
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37:59
Stop Turning People Off on LinkedIn - How to Get Results through Strategic Networking
In this episode, I talk about the two types of networking - transactional and strategic. I then offer you a 5 step approach to kickstart your strategic networking if you've been doing transactional networking up until now. I also gi...
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Season 2
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Episode 125
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35:47
5 Resilience Strategies I Learned from this CPO who Fought for Her Daughter's Adoption as a Single Mom
Nivedita Ojha has broken quite a few norms in her life. But none more significant than the decision she made to adopt an older child from an Indian orphanage as a single mom.It was the spring of 2020 and as the world came to a halt...
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Episode 124
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43:53
Finding Wisdom and Purpose In a Challenge Many Women are Afraid to Discuss - Conversation with Evelyn Chou
Today I interview Evelyn Chou who currently works in Product at Coursera (ex-Uber) and whose passions include creating great articles and content on Medium and LinkedIn, working with data and analytics, traveling and launching products in diffe...
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Season 2
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Episode 123
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The Secret Key to Powerful Career Transformation - No Career Goals can be Accomplished without It
In this episode, I introduce you to the mechanism responsible for accomplishing goals, including career goals. And I show you what so many psychologists, behavior change experts and best-selling authors agree is the KEY to not falling off...
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Season 2
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Episode 121
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19:55
Visualization - Trying on a New Identity to Create Change
This episode is intentionally missing the podcast intro music. It's intended as a guided visualization for you to use to create powerful change in your career and life by feeling into the identity you're trying to become - whether an executive,...
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Season 2
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Episode 120
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10:27
From Foster Care to a Rising Star in Tech - Conversation with Infectuously Optimistic Sabrina Ruelle
I couldn't think of a more uplifting story and episode to share with you before this Thanksgiving Holiday (and at an economically challenging time for many when it's easy to feel down) than this conversation with Sabrina Ruelle. I...
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Season 2
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Episode 119
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41:58
Beware the Sneaky PIP - How Companies Use Aggressive "Performance Management" to Conceal Layoffs In a Downturn And How to Protect Yourself
In this episode, I break down the trend that we're starting to see in tech - companies using creative "performance management" strategies to cut costs and people in order to avoid labeling them as layoffs and avoid paying severance. These...
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Season 2
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Episode 118
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26:03
Cultivating a Calm and Clear Mind - Your Secret Career Advantage
In this episode, I review the lessons learned from my most recent trip to Japan, where the environment is so calm and peaceful, it's easy to feel grounded and centered. In our more hectic reality in tech in the Western world, I offer you ...
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Season 2
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Episode 117
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40:16
How to Find Work in Tech that Makes You Happy To Work until You're 96, like the Queen of England
In this episode, I challenge an often-held belief that success is working hard at a job you hate in order to retire early and not work anymore. I talk about the example of the late Queen Elizabeth who was working into her mid-90s until 2 days b...
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Season 2
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Episode 116
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24:28
This ONE THING Can Ruin Even the Best Career Plan - Don't Overlook It
In this episode, I discuss something that a lot of us tend to overlook but can destroy even the best thought-out career plans and roadmaps, and I show you how to effectively manage it.
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Season 2
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Episode 115
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22:24
Secrets to Successfully Producing Content on LinkedIn - Conversation with Shyvee Shi, LinkedIn PM and Content Creator with 50K Followers
Join me for a conversation with Shyvee Shi, a PM at LinkedIn and a LinkedIn creator with over 50,000 followers, to understand how to create content successfully and grow your LinkedIn follow-...
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Season 2
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Episode 114
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Recipes for Success for Women in Tech - Conversation with Alana Karen and What She Learned from 80 Women in Tech
My conversation today is with the author of Adventures of Women in Tech: How We Got Here and Why We Stay - Alana Karen, a tech leader in Google and an arti...
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Season 2
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Episode 113
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Lessons from the Latina who Builds Cars for Formula 1
Dalia Ramos Guerra is the Head of Build and Test for the BWT Alpine Formula 1 team, one of the most successful teams in Formula 1. She's also one of only 11% of females in the space and one of even fewer women in a management position.&nb...
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Episode 112
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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos Sought His Advice. What I Learned First-hand From This Industry Giant.
In this episode, I talk about my experience working with the famed Prof. Clayton Christensen, author of "The Innovator's Dilemma" and "The Innovator's Solution" and one of the most influential business thinkers of the past 50 years according to...
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Are you addicted to overwhelm? Why and how to break this habit that is ruining your career
In this episode I explore the hidden costs to overwhelm - both for you if you are relying on overwhelm to get help from your manager or colleagues, and for you as a manager who may be tempted to rescue people out of overwhelm. I also show...
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Season 2
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Episode 109
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16:08
Turn Your Feelings of Inferiority Around Your Compensation into Excitement for Building Wealth - Conversation with Financial Advisor Chris Welton
Many women don't see ourselves as "worthy" of working with a wealth advisor. That is especially true at the start and middle of our careers, when we are paying off student debt and living in expensive cities. Today's conversat...
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Season 2
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Episode 108
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Secrets to Our Community's Success and How You Can Do It Too
Our CareerClimb community has had phenomenal success, as expressed in:40%+ raises in compensationAccelerated promotionsSenior roles negotiatedVP roles landedIndustry and Function switches,
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Season 2
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Episode 107
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27:17
Four Critical Mistakes to Avoid in your Review Cycle if You're Hoping to Get Promoted
The topic of Review Cycles and how to plan your promotion has become one of the most requested ones in our community at Club Denali, so we've decided to dedicate our May 2022 Product VP Challenge to a deep dive of that topic (www.productvpchall...
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Season 2
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Episode 106
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30:36
The Accidental Discovery that Propelled these Women's Careers and Created Life-Long Friendships
In this episode, I share with you my take-aways from spending a weekend with a small group of our clients in one of their beach homes. Here's the twist - I didn't organize it, I was invited to come as a guest. And when did, I was bl...
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Season 2
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Episode 105
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25:17