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Watch my new episode if you鈥檙e done comparing yourself to other women, and ready to start asking: what鈥檚 possible for me?
Want more money. Want the raise. Want the bigger life.
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Transcript
When a man says he wants to be rich, we just call it ambition. When a woman says it, we call her a gold digger. A man sees another man doing well and thinks, if him, then why not me? A woman sees another woman doing well and quietly worries if, you know, maybe she takes more, that she's taking it from her, and that is the scarcity story just dressed up, and it's totally nonsense. Because what your colleague earns has nothing to do with what you can go out and command. Stop running the comparison and start running the numbers on what the work is actually worth. That is the shift right there. So I learned this the hard way at one of my first jobs. The owners love to pit me and this other girl against each other. It trained us, like, literally trained us to see each other as rivals. So eventually, I just went to her and I said, why are we doing this? Like, let's stop. You take this job, I'll take the next one, and we'll just sort it out between the two of us instead of, like, clawing at each other for the scraps. Better then we did exactly that, and boom, the spell was broken because that's all scarcity is. It's a spell, and it's almost always completely manufactured, usually by someone who benefits from you believing it.