Ladies Get Paid

In this live recording of one of our Sunday Sessions, Claire Wasserman, the founder of Ladies Get Paid, delves into the critical topic of protecting your energy. Claire shares practical tips and advice on how to maintain and safeguard your energy throughout a typical day. She highlights the importance of addressing common energy leeches such as judgment, lack of presence, and overcommitment. With insights from her experience in professional development and personal stories, Claire offers actionable steps to cultivate and sustain good energy, making ambition easier and ensuring success without self-sacrifice. 00:00 Welcome and Introduction 00:12 The Importance of Protecting Our Energy 00:40 About Ladies Get Paid and My Background 02:38 Defining Success and Ambition 03:07 Overview of the Sunday Sessions 04:44 Understanding and Protecting Your Energy 08:37 Identifying Energy Leeches 14:21 Common Themes and Energy Red Flags 17:41 Strategies to Protect and Recover Energy 28:23 Self-Reflection and Cultural Influences 29:07 Safeguarding Against Energy Leeches 32:29 Setting Boundaries and Saying No 35:21 Handling Unexpected Challenges 35:54 Dealing with Guilt and External Pressures 38:59 Practical Tips for Energy Management 45:05 Final Thoughts and Personal Stories 48:54 Interactive Breakout Session

This recording is part of a four-part live series on making ambition easier and redefining success. Whether you're dealing with perfectionism, procrastination, or impostor syndrome, you'll learn actionable techniques to transform your relationship with yourself and achieve your goals with less struggle. Led by Claire Wasserman, founder of Ladies Get Paid, guides you through five practical strategies - plus exercises to practice them - for getting out of your own way and building a healthier relationship with yourself. 🌟 Cultivate Compassion: Understand and work with rather than against challenging parts of yourself 🧘‍♀️ Practice Presence: Learn techniques to stay grounded when overwhelmed 💪 Carry it Lighter: Develop practical tools to handle difficult moments 🔥 Energize from Within: Balance self-improvement with self-appreciation 🤝 Strengthen Connection: Build meaningful relationships that support growth

This is a special episode of a live event Claire led on how to set yourself up for goal success. Key takeaways include: D.I.M.E. Goals > S.M.A.R.T. Goals Focus on desired feelings rather than just achievements Start with 90-day goals instead of annual Pick 1-2 areas maximum for initial focus Consider both one-time actions and habits Build a "sustainability muscle" by doing less but consistently Focus on what you can control/influence

In this powerful coaching session, watch how a recent masters graduate navigates the emotional and practical challenges of moving back home in her 30s while building career momentum. Perfect for anyone facing a life transition and wrestling with societal expectations versus personal values. Key Moments: 🎯 Reframe moving home from "setback" to strategic choice 💪 Build career momentum while honoring a "slow season" 🌟 Transform a graduate thesis into valuable content 🤝 Create meaningful professional connections across time zones  ⚖️ Set boundaries while living with family Watch as career coach Claire guides her client through practical strategies for: ✅ Convert academic work into LinkedIn content that attracts opportunities ✅ Maintain professional relationships across distance ✅ Build momentum without burnout ✅ Create a structure that allows for both career growth and family time ✅ Move from "self-promotion" to "service promotion" Whether you're considering moving home, navigating a career transition, or trying to balance personal values with professional growth, this session offers a refreshing perspective on creating success on your own terms. #CareerTransition #WorkLifeBalance #GradLife #PersonalDevelopment #CareerCoaching #MoveHome #ProfessionalGrowth

E came to me with a lot on her plate. She has a full-time job plus a side business; she’s also living at home with her parents, where she is responsible for most of the household chores; due to some mental health issues that her sister is struggling with, she also has assumed care for her baby nephew.  In short: the situation as is, is not tenable. E needed my guidance on how to approach her parents with a division of labor that would free her up to focus more on her side business so she can save up money to get her own place.  This short but impactful coaching session is helpful for anyone who struggles to set boundaries, presenting them in a diplomatic way that establishes common ground, offers solutions to choose from, and accept that when you compromise, not everyone will be happy.

Mandy loves movies with a passion. For the last decade, she’s been a writer and editor in entertainment journalism and thrived. But the past few years have been rocky as the industry has downsized and..so has Mandy’s career. She came to me wondering if she should get creative and stick it out, or pivot entirely. With her heart and her bank account at odds, Mandy needed an outside perspective ASAP.

Janine came to me suffering from what’s called “baby bear syndrome.” It’s when you get hired in a junior position or supporting role, are really good at it, and then can never seem to break out of it. As Janine describes it, she gets pigeonholed and not given new opportunities because she’s so good at the thing they hired her to do! The other issue she’s running into is job descriptions that require team management. As an executive assistant, she’s constantly managing everyone and everything, just not in a formal capacity. So how can she convince people that she has the skills, if not the title?

Deidre came to me feeling unmotivated about her business. She’d been successful for the last five years, business just falling into her lap without any marketing. But now things have dried up and Deidre is at a crossroads. She hates marketing and sales with a passion and given the lack of new clients, her self-esteem has taken a hit. She’s wondering if she should just give it up to become a W2 employee again. But in her heart, she knows that’s not what she wants.  Well, what DOES Deidre want? And how can she get it? Take a listen as we work through it - together. 

Sarah was feeling defeated and for good reason. She’d been let go, rehired, and then let go AGAIN. Went through seven rounds of interviews over two months…and didn’t get it. In her last interview, they told her she didn’t have an executive presence. The first thing I told her was to look at this interview process like a bootcamp - albeit high stakes - where her job is to learn as much as possible. Every interview is practicing for the next one. (It’s also an opportunity to network!) But as you know, I’m not into toxic positivity or silver-lining BS. Sarah needed real tactics to make tangible progress in a frustrating job search. Since she was landing a fair number of interviews and getting pretty far in the process, we focused our coaching session on how to up her interview game and finally get a yes. We also talked about how to make each interview something she could be proud of, regardless of whether she gets the offer. Because there’s only so much we can control, in fact, I think the entire job search process is an exercise in pushing forward and letting go. Which is very very hard. So kudos to Sarah for putting in the work - I’m proud of her and I’m proud of you. You’re here, and that counts.

Feretesh came to me looking for job search strategies. But what she was really looking for, was herself. I could tell by the way she wrote in her podcast submission, there were clues that whatever I might tell her, she would have trouble following through. Why? She was disconnected from herself.  Because here's the thing: to know what you want to do, you have to know who you want to be.  Now of course lots of things get in our way: various wounds and traumas and toxic situations we’ve experienced but as you’ll see in my session with Feretesh, I have a theory on how you can actually find your superpowers amidst these traumas. Superpowers that when you tap into them, motivate you to take action, more than any kind of attempt at willpower or accountability. I invite you, as I did Feretesh, to scour your past like a detective, searching for clues that will propel you into the future. Because everything is there for you to learn from and once you open your mind, you’ll see that it can open your world.