“I have no one”
(Please note: confidentiality is of the utmost importance to me. This client experience has been written with their express consent and agreement.)
Berenice has an incredible heart and a resume that may be The Shining Example of Accomplishment. She loves her work and the ways she’s able to see her blood, sweat, and tears create a legacy of lasting change. She’s also a mom to school-age kids and an active member of her church. She BUSY.
In late 2021, Berenice became a partner at a Fortune 500 company. She knew it was an opportunity she had earned. She was excited to bring her expertise and leadership to a global scale. Once she arrived, she found she was the only woman in a sea of male colleagues. While her past experiences were lauded, she met with extreme resistance. She felt her carefully structured work-life integration slipping away.
“I look around the table, and no one looks like me. No one thinks like me. No one seems open to my ideas. I have no one.” She came to Uproar wanting to clarify her next steps: did she stay at this job? How could SHE change in order to make this situation better for herself? Maybe she didn’t really belong there.
Biweekly one-on-one executive coaching gave way to weekly check-ins which evolved into almost daily pep talks and sanity checks – Berenice is the original shortwave-r.
Here’s why, [FIRST NAME GOES HERE].
Berenice got clear really quickly that it wasn’t her: she was in the right place. Each career step had led to this opportunity; it really was her dream job and she deserved it.. She was the right leader for that moment.
What she was missing was the support of someone on her side who could listen, validate, and respectfully push back without the stakes of professional competition.
Through our ongoing texts and chats, Berenice
Imagined the workplace culture she wanted to create for her organization, and then built it
Redistributed the work of 120 people to maximize individual contributions and ensure that everyone was working on something both within their wheelhouse and that allowed them to grow
Reclaimed her leadership style, and figured out how to build key relationships that maximized her impact
Stabilized her day so that she could be present for kiddo drop-offs and bedtime and everything important in-between
Modeled the leadership for the future of her organization, instead of the outdated male/pale/stale models she arrived to
“I came into our coaching relationship feeling like I had no one. But in shortwave, I was never lonely.”
Because it’s true: you won’t be. I’m there at the other end of Voxer, ready for your text or chat with on-demand coaching support. I’ll challenge you when you doubt your actions, your approaches, and your motivations. I’ll call you in when you’re forcing yourself into shapes and molds that are not honest or authentic to who you are. I’ll be the first to shout HELL YEAH when you discover a better way of doing things as YOU for YOU.
Inside shortwave, you’ll have:
A coach on stand-by through Voxer: someone who supports you, cheers you, calls you on your bullshit (in a way that feels safe to you), who identifies where you’re creating your own obstacles, and reflects back what makes you a glitterbomb; so that you can do the radical things, to proclaim unabashedly and unapologetically what you want for yourself, for your life, for your relationships, for your business, for whatever is important to you -- and get it. [It’s me, [FIRST NAME GOES HERE]. I’m the coach.]
Weekly reflection prompts to keep you moving towards your goals and to boost your productivity without punishment so you can get prioritize that never-ending to-do list and still have time (and energy) for what you love
A second set of eyes to review the stuff you’re working on, like your resume, your emails, your pitch decks, your grad school application, because your strongest work results from collaboration, not working in a vacuum
Some delightful bonuses, including one-hour coaching intensives, lifetime access to Uproar’s mini-courses, and more
If you’ve gotten to that place where you’re feeling alone, let’s make it a little less lonely.
