Badass Basic Bitch

Never Say No to Yourself: Career Empowerment and Self-Advocacy with Sam DeMase

November 07, 2023 Brianna Dunbar / Sam DeMase Season 2 Episode 105
Badass Basic Bitch
Never Say No to Yourself: Career Empowerment and Self-Advocacy with Sam DeMase
Show Notes

In this episode with Sam DeMase, we explore career coaching and self-advocacy against impostor syndrome in a changing corporate world. Sam details tactics helping women achieve their goals and tackle gender pay gaps, transparency, and toxic work dynamics. We discuss Gen Z's influence, allyship, mentorship, and address working mothers' challenges with tools like the "5-second countdown" for confronting bias. Discussions extend to handling toxic bosses, promoting flexible policies, and negotiation strategies to align work with personal success.

More About Sam!
Sam DeMase is an internationally recognized Career Coach, Self-Advocacy Expert, author, and speaker with a community of 650,000+ followers on social media (@apowermood). 🔮🙋🏻‍♀️🏳️‍🌈

She specializes in teaching women how to navigate and hack the antiquated corporate system, cultivate their careers, and command their value. Her best-selling digital career tools have been purchased in 50+ countries worldwide. Her expertise has been featured in media (The Washington Post, Forbes, Fortune, NBC, Business Insider, & more), on podcasts, and speaking engagements at companies (L’Oreal, HSBC, Lean In) and universities (Cornell, Rutgers) globally. She has 13+ years of professional experience holding leadership roles in People Operations and has a BA in Business from NYU.

Sam has built global training teams for multi-million-dollar corporations, created world-class learning programs from the ground up, coached and developed dozens of inspiring leaders, interviewed hundreds of candidates, and self-advocated her way up the corporate ladder. She faced many challenges in her career and learned to advocate for herself every step of the way. She is proud to teach other women how to do the same.

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