I keep thinking about how being quarantined and travel restricted has made things different for me in an unexpectedly positive way. Because we can't travel, I never have to balance my desire to lead work with my own personal and family needs. I don't have to be gone 3-4 days at a time with every pitch or important client meeting. Despite this, I have sold in and produced more work in this time frame than is typical. Not being in an open office means I have been afforded the time and space (cont)

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(cont) to engage in deep work and be more productive and entrepreneurial, looking for opportunities to sell in work. Presenting over the phone vs. in-person allows me to command the "room" in a way that has led to better client engagement and trust in me. But recognizing this, in the end, makes me sad because everything “holding me back” had nothing to do with my talent or abilities or, and, I cannot stress this enough, my desire to do the work.

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The established system, prior to this, was not designed for someone like me to thrive. Shaking up the status quo out of necessity has been eye-opening for me and, I hope, for those in power who tell themselves lies like “we have to work this way” and “women just aren’t as ambitious, especially when they have kids.”

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I feel this exact same way. The previously established system is not a place I could thrive in and don’t want to go back to that full time again.

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I’m totally with you. This curve ball has been hard, scary, but also amazingly eye opening.

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1000% agree. My client and c-suite relationships are slammin’ right now in a way I *know* they would not be if the majority of my time was f2f.

Refreshing to hear another person speak positively about the ability to command the room virtually & do deep thought work. Mte.

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