MSNBC’s Alicia Menendez on the Likeability Trap, Why We Care So Much About What Others Think of Us, and Why Women in Particular Often Have to Choose Between Success and Likeability

Talk about feeling seen—when I read Alicia Menendez’s book The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed As You Are four years ago, I thought, “Finally. Someone gets me.” And, listeners, I believe you will feel seen too through this conversation, though I wish that wasn’t so. So often women in particular have to choose between being successful and likeable. Why is it so difficult to like a successful woman? And why do we care if we are liked at all? We dig into everything in this Throwback Pick conversation—one of many this season.

The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed As You Are by Alicia Menendez