What Rules!?: A career podcast for women of color

And that, Rulebreakers, is a wrap on year number two!

We changed our name, launched our YouTube channel, faced our fears, and broke more rules than we even knew existed. Time to look back on all the moments that made 2021 amazing and get hyped for whatever lies ahead because you KNOW it's going to be magical.

All we have to do is show up.

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Episodes mentioned:

33. Chloe Arnold on How Small Acts Can Shape the Future

35. Lucy Park on Owning Your Career

36. Vanessa Santos on Finding Your Secret Sauce

42. Shantell Thomas on Befriending the Unlikely Person at Work

44. Not in it Alone w/ Michelle Fransisco

46. Elizabeth Colón-Rivera on Learning To Live As An Outsider

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What do you do when the price of staying quiet is too high? Do you assume the risk and say what needs to be said? Or do you soldier on and live to fight another day?

For Rose Aviles, the answer is all too clear.

In this episode, Alisa and Dr. Merary are joined by Rose, a Community Services Coordinator for Yonkers Public Library, who shares the incredible story of her journey to the top of a LITERAL mountain... amidst a global pandemic... while pregnant. Talk about owning your power.

“There’s no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It’s experiencing the climb itself – in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue – that has to be the goal.” – American Filmmaker, Karyn Kusama

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If someone handed you a brick and asked you to come back in an hour with a product, what would you make of it? How do you innovate with little more than a single block with which to build? How do you put aside all the rules the world gives you about what's possible and just... create?

This week, Alisa, Rosa, and Dr. Merary get deep into the cracks of what it means to be creative and how innovating using only what you already have is an essential part of every great Rulebreaker's toolkit.

"Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher." — Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy

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It's been said many times, it's not what you know, it's WHO you know. And that's especially true when you're breaking rules and forging new paths. If you're looking for strategies to advance your career, the people around you are so critical. You've got to squad up to get ahead, that's what we always say (or will from now on).

This week, Alisa, Rosa, and Dr. Merary get to know Managing Director of Northern Trust Wealth Management, Linda Nolan. She breaks down everything she's learned about the power of keeping a tight-knit crew and how it pushed her confidence to new heights.

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Have you ever had so much freedom that you ended up caging yourself in? What if you had the ability to look at an opportunity and change course without hesitation? What rule says you have to do what you thought you had to do?

Join Alisa, Rosa, and Dr. Merary as they chat with Vice President of FP&A and Treasury at Parallel, Sandy Li, to break down what happens when seizing an opportunity floods your mind with doubts about leaving what you already have behind.

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Is there any part of your life that comes so naturally, you've totally overlooked the possibility that it could lead to your next big career move?

Today, Alisa and Rosa connect with Celebrity Chef Marcela Valladolid about how taking things that are seemingly simple and leveraging them to create an entire career can lead you to success you never thought was possible.

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What if you could look into the future and know for certain you'd end up a success? What risks would you then be willing to take, knowing the "hows" of everything you're working toward?

Join Alisa, Rosa, and Dr. Merary as they look closer at the idea of risk-taking and ponder the question "what if the answer was yes?"

"If you are conservative about your career over and over again, over the course of 20 or 30 years, the cumulative effect is that you aren't going to advance nearly as much as the person who takes risks." – Kathleen Murphy, President, Personal Investing, Fidelity Investments

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Today we're talking about the idea of being fast to listen, slow to speak. Has there ever been a time when you really nailed that concept?

Alisa and Dr. Merary catch up with Managing Director for J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Stephanie Neely, about the idea that when you choose to speak can add volumes to what you have to say.

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"Be authentic and be comfortable being uncomfortable. But make sure that you respect you, your thoughts, and your values so that it doesn't haunt you later." — Dr. Merary Simeon, Motivational Speaker

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Has there ever been a time you knew you were unqualified, but went and did it anyway?

Well, according to Forbes Magazine, "you can level up your career by applying to jobs where you meet 50% of the requirements." Assuming that's true, congratulations! You're a rule-breaker, a risk-taker, and you've probably got a story to go with it.

Listen as Alisa and Dr. Merary chat with Lake County, Illinois Treasurer, Holly Kim, about her journey from reluctant Spanish Major to elected official and the leaps she took to get there.

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"Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you'll wake up one day and realize you're living the kind of life you used to be jealous of." — Jen Sincero, author of You Are a Badass

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Today we're talking about getting comfortable in our own skin and overcoming self-doubt. Being an outsider doesn't mean you don't belong!

Join Alisa, Rosa, and Dr. Merary as they chat with Elizabeth Colón-Rivera, President & CEO of Metaphrasis Language & Cultural Solutions LLC, about how to own your reality by reframing it in a powerful way. Or as she puts it, "You don't have to compete with anyone. Not even yourself. You just have to be you."

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"You can actually leverage being an outsider, in order to be the most unique and be the biggest voice in the room, and bring a new perspective to things that everybody else takes for granted." — Namwali Serpell, 2015 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing

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