Back in 2011, I was working in a corporate office, and I was frustrated. I wanted a promotion but it wasn't happening fast enough, even though I was delivering targets, completing extra projects, and known for getting things done. 

In this The Leading with Grace episode, I reflect on my experience and how I discovered the realities that held me back from being a better leader and getting the role I wanted.

The truth was that subconscious programming from societal messaging (and my parents), and an addiction to busyness were the problem. I talk about how similar conditioning affects women as leaders and why it's keeping so many of them from the top. 

Tune in to find out more about why gender diversity targets are so hard to hit and how you might accelerate your own rise to the top.

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Find Jen -

On instagram: @jenreimerleadership

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennifer-reimer-ph-d-0011588

Have you experienced the pressure to have kids? Many women feel pressure from family, friends and societal messaging to have children. This pressure has a name - pronatalism. 

In this episode, my sister, Sheri Johnson, joins me to talk about how the pronatalist paradigm affects how we work and lead. We get into a deeply personal conversation about how it feels to be a childless woman when the world tells us to procreate. We also discuss the division that pronatalism causes between women in work places, and the paradoxes that both moms and childless women face. 

Sheri is the host of the Awakening Worth Podcast and a coach helping childless women (who wanted kids) to get through grief and triggers so they can find purpose and meaning in a pronatalist world.  

Where to find Sheri

Podcast: the Awakening Worth Podcast 
Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching
Take her quiz to find out if worthiness is standing in the way of your joyful future. Quiz

Tune in and learn more about how pronatalism, patriarchy and other factors affect women, both mothers and without kids, in their workplace and in their life in general. 

Find Jen -

On instagram: @jenreimerleadership

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennifer-reimer-ph-d-0011588

The Leading with Grace Podcast is for women who want to experience a new way to thrive in work and in life by breaking free of outdated masculine leadership ideals, tapping into their intuition and stepping into their feminine power.

I’m your host, Jen Reimer, leadership expert, speaker and coach; here to help you identify the conditioning that is holding you back from leading and living from your highest potential. I am endlessly fascinated by what drives human behaviour, and love those “aha” moments when I discover a paradigm I’ve been living into but unaware of.

In this show we explore how societal paradigms and the subconscious mind play a role in the way you work and lead, and how to rise above this conditioning to lead with grace and courage.

Find Jen -

On instagram: @jenreimerleadership

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jennifer-reimer-ph-d-0011588