This is a really special episode because it’s the first international episode of Women Talk Shop! Today, I’m talking with Kate Surala and Sarah Wagner, the co-authors of a new book called Unleash Today, a non-fiction book that empowers young women to unleash their full potential in the workplace. Today we’re talking about the little things that add up to make a huge, negative impact on our self-esteem in the workplace. Women tend to overcompensate for our relative inexperience as professionals by working doubly hard and thinking we need to do more, be more, and take on more than men in order to prove ourselves. And, when we aren’t PERFECT at work, or we don’t perform PERFECTLY every day, we shame ourselves and minimize the good work we have done, and all the things we are capable of, as forms of punishment that prove our low self-esteem justifiable. In other words, we look for confirmation bias that we’re not good enough yet, so we need to work harder. This is a pretty thick conversation that ultimately relays back to the importance of self-promotion so sit back and enjoy the conversation with Kate and Sarah, and please share this episode with a friend who you think is way more impressive than she gives herself credit for. Let’s talk to Sarah and Kate.