Episode 169: Controlling the Controllable
/“It made me cross because I thought, you know we’ve only ourselves to blame here if we choose to use this time [in lockdown] to faff around on Facebook when our male colleagues are on LinkedIn.”
Lisa Unwin
2021, a year so many of us have been hoping will turn a global page for the better, has got off to a rocky start.
There is so much we can’t control at the moment, so in this show we’re going to concentrate on what we can do - that is, take the reins of our own careers, albeit from behind our computers. My guest is Lisa Unwin, co-founder of London-based Reignite Academy and author of She’s Back. I wanted to talk to Lisa because she’s now optimistic about the future, when a few months ago she felt quite differently.
Among other things we discuss the underrated business phone call, how men and women have used social media differently during lockdown (which may be hurting women’s careers), and what happens when women don’t charge for their work.
You can also read a transcript of the show.
via Sherri Fisher of Learn and Flourish
Further reading: Lisa is quite prolific on LinkedIn. Here’s her article on how women can do ‘the next lockdown’ differently.
It’s not the 30 minutes I spend with you, it’s the 30 years I spent before that also by Lisa Unwin.
Per Lisa’s comment in the show, many women do hate networking -or at least the term ‘networking’. The Hell of Networking tackled this topic in 2014.
When Women Work For Free was also released that year.