What if the advice you’ve been following is the very thing slowing your career down?

You’ve been working hard. Saying yes. Being dependable. Keeping your head down.

And on the surface — that sounds exactly right.

But in the Season 6 finale of The Climb Podcast, Felicia Smith delivers the honest conversation most people won’t have with you: the advice that got you here is incomplete. And if you don’t recognize that, you can spend years doing everything right — and still feel completely stuck.

The rules shift when you move to the next level.

And this episode gives you the three shifts that actually move you forward.

✨ What You Will Learn

• Why high performers are not always the ones who get promoted
• The difference between advice that gets you access vs. advice that drives advancement
• Why dependability alone will never make you look like a leader
• Shift 1: How to move from effort to visibility — and why your work needs a voice track
• Shift 2: The difference between an intentional yes and a career-stalling yes
• Shift 3: Why execution mode keeps you stuck — and how to move into positioning
• The question you should be asking yourself right now about where you are in your career

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – Cold Open: What If the Advice You’re Following Is Holding You Back?

01:00 – Welcome to The Climb Podcast

03:00 – Season 6, Episode 10: Bringing It All Together

05:30 – Somebody Should Have Told Me: When Doing Everything Right Isn’t Enough

09:00 – Why Dependability ≠ Leadership

13:30 – Truth Is: That Advice Was Designed for Access, Not Advancement

18:00 – Why Hard Work Alone Won’t Get You Promoted

21:30 – The Three Shifts That Actually Move You Forward

22:00 – Shift 1: From Effort to Visibility

27:45 – Shift 2: From Yes to Intentional Yes

33:10 – Shift 3: From Execution to Positioning

39:00 – Final Thought: Different Level, Different Strategy

42:00 – Season 6 Wrap + What’s Coming in Season 7

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