Good Girls Get Rich | LinkedIn Strategy for Accomplished Women

Waiting to be "picked" from a speaker portal is not a strategy - it's a lottery ticket.

In this episode, Karen breaks down exactly how she used one short LinkedIn message to land a spot on a conference panel - no application, no pitch deck, no waiting in a queue. She shares the real conversation, word for word, and shows you how to find the actual human behind any stage you want to borrow.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why the speaker portal is "the void" - and what to do instead

• How to find the real decision-maker behind any conference, podcast, or corporate event

• The exact two-sentence LinkedIn message that opened the door

• What to say (and what NOT to send) after the first reply

• How to build a simple pipeline of stages you want to borrow

If you've been filling out speaker applications and hearing nothing back, this episode will change how you approach it entirely.

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Resources Mentioned In The Episode:

Borrow the Stage Masterclass: Free on-demand training on building your speaker kit and using LinkedIn to book stages

Visibility Salon: Karen's membership community, home of the Borrow of the Stage initiative

LinkedIn for Women Community: Karen's free Facebook group where listeners post their weekly 20-minute windows for accountability.

Work with Karen: Book a call to talk through your own visibility strategy.

Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"You're not competing with the other speakers. You're competing with their inbox."

"Find the human. Find the human. Send the sentence. That's the whole thing."

"If you send out 10 messages and you book one gig, it's still probably the best ROI you have in your marketing."

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LinkedIn just introduced a way for users to flag posts that appear to be AI-generated — and Karen Yankovich sees this as confirmation of something she's been saying for years:

You cannot automate being known.

In this episode of Good Girls Get Rich, Karen breaks down what the rise of AI-generated LinkedIn content means for your visibility, your relationships, and your business.

Instead of trying to impress the algorithm, it's time to become more human, more specific, and more memorable.

• Why polished LinkedIn content is becoming less valuable.
• The difference between being recognized and actually being known.
• How Karen uses AI without handing over her voice or relationships.
• Why automated LinkedIn DMs can create activity without creating real opportunities.
• Why 40 real relationships can be more valuable than 10,000 followers.
• How to make your LinkedIn content unmistakably yours.

Stop trying to sound impressive.

Start giving people a reason to remember you.

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Resources Mentioned In The Episode:

Borrow the Stage Masterclass: Karen's free training on how a borrowed stage becomes 20 minutes becomes a client, from Seen to Known to Chosen.

LinkedIn for Women Community: Karen's free Facebook group where listeners post their weekly 20-minute windows for accountability.

Work with Karen: Book a call to talk through your own visibility strategy.

Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"You cannot automate being known."

"The machine can write the post, but it can't be you."

"It's great to be recognized. It's better to be known."

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In 2010, Karen Yankovich sat in traffic on the Lincoln Tunnel Express for two hours a day, just to get to a job 15 miles from home. She built a business to escape that commute - and then, without realizing it, built a second one: posting every day, chasing hooks, chasing numbers before coffee and after midnight.

In this episode, Karen shares the exact 20-minute visibility ritual that got her out of the second commute for good - and how it can do the same for you. This isn't about posting more. It's about a simple, three-part routine that turns LinkedIn visibility into real, paying relationships.

Key takeaways:

• Why "constant" and "consistent" are not the same thing - and why chasing the wrong one burns you out

• The 20-minute expert visibility plan: tend your inbox, comment with intention, and send two warm opens

• Why a thoughtful comment is you "borrowing her stage" for 30 seconds

• Why your years of expertise make 20 minutes worth more than a beginner's four hours

• How to turn a single "seen" moment into being genuinely "known" by the people who matter

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Resources Mentioned In The Episode:

Borrow the Stage Masterclass: Karen's free training on how a borrowed stage becomes 20 minutes becomes a client, from Seen to Known to Chosen.

LinkedIn for Women Community: Karen's free Facebook group where listeners post their weekly 20-minute windows for accountability.

Work with Karen: Book a call to talk through your own visibility strategy.

Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"It doesn't have to be constant. It has to be consistent."

"Seen is a moment. Known is what you do with that moment."

"A viral post is a flower. A relationship is a tree, and a tree keeps producing fruit."

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Stop trying to appeal to everyone.

The most magnetic brands aren't built by being liked by everyone—they're built by standing for something.

In this episode, Karen Yankovich shares why your strongest business asset isn't a clever pitch or a polished LinkedIn profile. It's your conviction.

Through the story of a client who finally landed a speaking opportunity after changing one thing—and Karen's own experience turning down a five-figure opportunity that didn't align with her values—you'll learn why speaking up is the fastest path to attracting the right opportunities.

• Why being "palatable" is hurting your visibility
• The difference between vanity visibility and authentic visibility
• How to uncover the belief that makes your brand magnetic
• Why your LinkedIn message needs to be consistent everywhere
• A simple three-step exercise to clarify your positioning

When you stop trying to be for everyone, you become unforgettable to the people who matter most.

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Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"Stages don't book topics. They book the woman with the message only she can deliver."

"Your people can't find you at half volume."

"A magnet that doesn't repel anything doesn't attract anything either."

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Two women, same expertise, same platform. One chased virality. One watered relationships. Only one built a business.

Karen breaks down why daily posting, chasing algorithms, and "vanity visibility" leave your calendar empty no matter how many likes you rack up — and introduces the 3-2-0 ritual, a small, repeatable, relationship-first practice for turning LinkedIn visibility into real, booked calls.

• Vanity visibility — posting more, chasing trends, checking your numbers — grows followers, not clients.

• The 3-2-0 ritual: three 20-minute sessions a week focused on conversations, not content.

• Real relationships — comments, follow-ups, genuine congratulations — are what actually create calls on your calendar.

• Your years of expertise mean 20 focused minutes outweigh a beginner's four hours of hustling.

• Consistency compounds. Applause doesn't.

If this episode hit home, subscribe to Good Girls Get Rich and share it with a woman in your life who's exhausted from posting with nothing to show for it. And grab your free seat in Karen's masterclass at she'slinkedup.com/masterclass.

Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"Visibility was never a lightning strike to keep chasing — it's a garden."

"Nobody hires a billboard. They hire women they know."

"Consistency compounds. Applause doesn't."

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"I want to be rich. I want to be known. I want to be powerful."

Did you just flinch? That flinch is the whole episode.

In this solo episode, Karen Yankovich hands you a permission slip instead of a framework. She unpacks the good girl tax — the price women pay for wrapping money, power, and visibility in softer, more "acceptable" language — and walks you through saying three simple, true sentences out loud: I want money. I want power. I want to be known.

• The taboo was never the wanting. It's a woman saying it out loud without apologizing first.

• "I just want to help" is often a true sentence wearing a disguise.

• You can't get booked for what you won't name — silence is the good girl tax.

• Wanting to be known for real work isn't vanity. It's how the right people find you.

• Naming the want is the first visible act of going after it.

Subscribe so you don't miss the next episode, where Karen shows this in action with real examples. And if saying it out loud feels scary, come practice inside the Visibility Salon — www.visibilitysalon.com — your first week is free.

Resources Mentioned In The Episode:

Visibility SalonKaren's private community where women learn to price their expertise properly. First week free! https://www.thelinkedupcollective.com/visibilitysalon/

Book a with KarenBook a call with Karen to learn more about working together. www.karenyankovich.com/call

Karen Yankovich on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/karenyankovich

Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"The taboo was never the wanting. The taboo is that a woman said it out loud, without apologizing for it first."

"You can't get booked for what you won't name."

"Big impact goals need big money — and silence is not being humble, it's expensive."

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You've been calling it responsibility. You've been calling it integrity. You've been calling it just not being ready yet.

Karen Yankovich calls it what it actually is: the good girl tax.

In this solo episode, Karen goes deep on the invisible cost women pay when they keep waiting to be ready — and why that waiting isn't wisdom. It's a pattern you were taught. And it's one you can unlearn.

• Why "getting ready" is the sophisticated, grown-up version of the good girl tax

• The shocking MIT/Yale/Minnesota research on why women get passed over for promotion — even when their performance scores are higher

• Why the "panel" that used to evaluate you is gone — and why you're the only one still running it on yourself

• How getting ready is how vanity visibility sneaks back in the side door

• The one move Karen is asking you to make this week (just one)

If you've been polishing your offer, tweaking your bio, or waiting until your messaging is "totally dialed in" — this episode is for you.

You're not unready. You're over-rehearsed.

🎙️ Listen now, and then take your one step. Tag Karen on LinkedIn when you do!

Resources Mentioned In The Episode:

Visibility SalonKaren's private community where women learn to price their expertise properly. First week free! https://www.thelinkedupcollective.com/visibilitysalon/

Book a with KarenBook a call with Karen to learn more about working together. www.karenyankovich.com/call

Karen Yankovich on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/karenyankovich

Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"Getting ready is what the good girl tax looks like when it's grown up and gotten sophisticated. Same tax. Prettier dress."

"You took that rigged scoreboard, internalized it completely, and now you run it on yourself for free — when there's literally no one else left doing this to you."

"Potential isn't a finish line you can cross. It's a decision you make. And in your own business, you're the only one with a vote."

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What if the tax you've been paying has nothing to do with your prices — and everything to do with where you've been pointing your loyalty?

In this solo episode, Karen Yankovich does something she's never done in nearly 400 episodes of Good Girls Get Rich: she gets in the hot seat herself.

She shares the real number from the worst year of her career. Not a "slow quarter." Not "I undercharged." A full year of work that ended with a minus sign. And in the same breath, she reveals what her own business — the one she was neglecting — was quietly earning on the side.

This episode is raw, specific, and deeply honest. And it will make you think about your own number.

In this episode you'll hear:

• The real story behind the "good girl tax" — and why Karen was the one paying it

• The exact income figures from four years of a business partnership that cost her six figures

• What happened to her revenue the year she finally walked away (hint: it more than quadrupled)

• Why loyalty, patience, and commitment are never the problem — only where they're aimed

• How to name your own number — and why saying it out loud changes everything

If you've ever stayed too long, waited to be chosen, or kept quiet about what something really cost you — this one's for you.

Resources mentioned:

• Visibility Salon free trial — www.VisibilitySalon.com

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Resources Mentioned In The Episode:

Visibility SalonKaren's private community where women learn to price their expertise properly. First week free! https://www.thelinkedupcollective.com/visibilitysalon/

Book a with KarenBook a call with Karen to learn more about working together. www.karenyankovich.com/call

Karen Yankovich on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/karenyankovich

Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"The problem was never that I was good. The problem was what I was being good to."

"A number that you can say out loud is a number that can't run your life anymore."

"From $30,000 to $136,000 in twelve months. Not because I learned something new. Because I stopped spending myself on something that wasn't paying me back."

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Diane did everything right. She worked harder than anyone, she gave more than anyone, and she still got passed over - for the raise, the promotion, and the money she'd earned ten times over. If that sentence made your stomach drop a little, this episode is for you.

In this episode of Good Girls Get Rich, Karen Yankovich introduces "the good girl tax" - the invisible cost paid by women who are the most generous, most responsible, and most beloved in every room they walk into, and the least paid for it. Through the story of Diane (a composite of 100 women Karen has worked with), Karen walks through exactly how this tax gets charged - first in the classroom, then again when Diane rebuilds her career from scratch on LinkedIn. This episode isn't about fixing it yet. It's about finally seeing it.

Key takeaways:

• The good girl tax isn't charged on your mistakes. It's charged on your best qualities - your generosity, your reliability, your willingness to over-deliver.

• "It's a calling" is often code for "we don't want to pay you." Teachers earn about 73 cents on the dollar compared to peers with the same degree in other fields - and that gap is the widest it's ever been.

• The broken rung is the real starting point. For every 100 men promoted to manager, only 93 women make it - and every future raise is calculated off that lower starting number.

• Sponsorship changes everything. Only 31% of women at that level have a sponsor versus 45% of men - and sponsored people are nearly twice as likely to get promoted.

• Letting your work "speak for itself" doesn't work. Diane tried it for 18 years in the classroom and again on LinkedIn - same result both times.

If this episode hit close to home, don't keep it to yourself - share it with a friend who needs to hear it too. And if you're ready to stop paying the good girl tax, check out the Visibility Salon at VisibilitySalon.com - your first week is free. Subscribe to Good Girls Get Rich so you don't miss next week's episode, where Karen shares a confession about her own pricing she's never told before.

Resources Mentioned In The Episode:

Visibility SalonKaren's private community where women learn to price their expertise properly. First week free! https://www.thelinkedupcollective.com/visibilitysalon/

Book a with KarenBook a call with Karen to learn more about working together. www.karenyankovich.com/call

Karen Yankovich on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/karenyankovich

Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"The good girl tax doesn't get charged on your mistakes. It gets charged on your best qualities."

"Most loved, least paid is not a personality trait - it's a tax, and you can stop paying it."

"The world will always pay you at the rate you hand it."

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Are you posting your heart out on LinkedIn and still staring at an empty calendar? Karen Yankovich is done with the fake version of visibility — and she's taking the real one back.

In this solo episode, Karen draws a bold line between vanity visibility (likes, views, viral moments) and real visibility — the kind that puts strategic calls on your calendar and income in your bank account.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why being seen everywhere is actually keeping you broke

• The two ways vanity visibility fails women entrepreneurs every single time

• What the LinkedIn Loop is and why it ends on a call, not a scroll

• The "good girl tax" — and how to stop paying it immediately

• Three concrete shifts to go from forgettable to fully booked

This is Episode 377, and Karen is bringing the Jersey straight talk. Real visibility isn't about the volume of posts — it's about positioning yourself as the go-to authority in the rooms that actually matter.

Ready to practice real visibility with feedback and community? Your first week in the Visibility Salon is FREE: www.visibilitysalon.com

Resources Mentioned In The Episode:

Visibility SalonKaren's community where women practice real visibility, positioning, and authority building with feedback. First week FREE! https://www.thelinkedupcollective.com/visibilitysalon/

SpeakPipe Voice MessageLeave Karen a voice message with your takeaways from this episode www.karenyankovich.com/speakpipe

Karen Yankovich on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/karenyankovich

Magical Quotes From The Episode:

"The women who win in the next decade aren't necessarily the ones posting the most content. They're the ones becoming known, trusted, referenced, and recommended."

"Visibility without credibility just creates more noise. Visibility with positioning - that's where the real opportunities happen."

"Your goal isn't to become internet famous. Your goal is to become professionally unforgettable."

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