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Traffic Jams 🚗 🚗
How to leverage your knowledge of job ladders to circumvent a period of slow growth.
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
Creative Job Ladders 🪜
Context is everything when you're about talking roles & responsibilities for different jobs.
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
The Frustration Bank 🏦 💳
How to manage your workplace angst.
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
When Saying "Yes" is Bad
Being too eager to take on work can be a bad thing for your development as a creative, and also for how others perceive you at work.
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
6 Reasons You’re Not Getting Promoted in Your Creative Job
(And 6 Things You Can Do About It)
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
The “SO WHAT?” Method
I’ve had to learn to say, “So What?” whenever my brain offered me an unhelpful justification for why I shouldn’t try for something I wanted.
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
DON'T give it your best
Do this instead.
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
Knowing what I know now
My real growth only came once I was willing to believe in my own worth even when I didn't think anyone else was going to.
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
Take the first step into your ideal timeline
If you can practice picturing and embodying what you want and who you want to be, you can make it happen.
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
Failure > Success
Today I wanted to talk to you about failure.
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
Waiting in lines
Good morning!
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
The rules are bullsh*t
One of the things nobody tells you about life is that you’re going to be surrounded by all kinds of people who believe that the world should function…
 • Cathy Davenport Lee
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