Do You Have a Worth Deficit?
As a professional woman, do you ever feel unheard and unseen? In your career are you working really hard yet not seeing the growth you want? As an entrepreneur are you struggling to actually bring in any significant cash?
These two problems may seem disconnected— like they have nothing in common, but they actually do.
We’ve coached over a hundred women to the high point of their professional success. Through this process, we uncovered the one common denominator keeping smart professional women lagging behind.
It’s actually why women are only making $.82 on the dollar, it’s why women only hold 24% of senior leadership positions, it’s why women cut their rates when they get a price objection.
Gen X women have what we are calling a Worth Deficit™.
In this episode, Mimi and I are introducing you to the concept of the worth deficit and providing you with a few ideas on how to close the gap.
Do You Have a Worth Deficit? Take the quiz to find out!
In this episode, you’ll learn:
Why you may not think you have a Worth Deficit, but the sneaky ways it shows up and what it sounds like
How societal conditioning has forced women to navigate how they talk about their skills, achievements, and accomplishments and how it hurts us
Women have a higher negativity bias around self-promotion and owning their worth than men
The shocking financial implications of limiting self-promotion
The 3 ways you can start changing your worth deficit right now
“The Gen X woman works hard and puts in her time. The Modern Gen X Woman gets paid for it.”
Discussed in this episode:
The Chicken & Egg of Confidence (podcast)
Unapologetically Ambitious (blog post)
The Negativity Bias: The difference between men and women (article)
10 Things That American Women Could Not Do Before the 1970s (article)
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