If you have ever been told to “just be more confident” and felt more frustrated than helped, this episode is for you.

Many high-performing women are already confident. They trust their judgment, deliver strong work, and are relied on by leadership. And yet, that confidence does not always translate into visibility, authority, or promotion.

In this episode, we unpack why confidence is not a single behavior, why leadership interprets confidence differently depending on how they already see your value, and how quiet, relational, or strategic confidence often gets overlooked at work.

This conversation will help you stop trying to fix yourself and start understanding how your confidence is actually being interpreted.

What We Talk About
✅ Why confidence advice works for some women and backfires for others
✅ How leadership perception shapes what confidence looks like at work
✅ The difference between feeling confident and being recognized as confident
✅ Why quiet or behind-the-scenes confidence often gets misread
✅ How to translate your confidence without changing who you are

Confidence is not something you add. It is something you translate.

When leadership cannot clearly connect your confidence to impact, it often gets overlooked. That does not mean you lack confidence. It means your value is not being interpreted clearly yet.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
💰 Start Here: Take the Fast Track Your Income Quiz to understand what’s actually holding your income back—and what kind of move makes sense next.
📞 Book a Promotion Strategy Call: If you’re ready to talk through your goals, your current role, and what’s realistically possible next, book a Promotion Strategy Call. This is for women who want clarity, positioning, and a plan—not guesswork.
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Have you ever opened rejection email after rejection email and thought, What am I missing?

Not because you’re underqualified.

Not because you lack experience.

But because nothing you try seems to translate into opportunity.

In this episode, I’m joined by Aparajita Sudarshan, who shares what really happens when high-performing women enter job search systems that don’t know how to recognize their value.

After more than 17 years building a global learning and development career across six countries, Aparajita relocated to the UK and found herself facing constant rejection. Not because she wasn’t capable, but because the system wasn’t built to see her experience clearly.

Together, we unpack what’s actually happening when qualified women disappear in hiring processes and why doing everything you’re told to do often doesn’t work.

In this conversation, we explore:
✅ Why rejection often reflects system friction, not personal failure
✅ What job search tools and CV “fixes” miss about positioning and alignment
✅ How repeated rejection impacts confidence and self-trust
✅ Why effort alone doesn’t translate into opportunity
✅ What it looks like to stay disciplined without internalizing self-blame
✅ How to navigate job search without losing momentum, time, or belief in yourself

This episode is for women who are capable, experienced, and motivated, but feeling unseen in the job market. Especially those navigating relocation, career transitions, or re-entry into the workforce.

You are not failing.
You are not behind.
You are not broken.

Sometimes the system simply doesn’t know how to read your value.

🔗 Connect with Aparajita Sudarshan

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
💰 Start Here: Take the Fast Track Your Income Quiz to understand what’s actually holding your income back—and what kind of move makes sense next.
📞 Book a Promotion Strategy Call: If you’re ready to talk through your goals, your current role, and what’s realistically possible next, book a Promotion Strategy Call. This is for women who want clarity, positioning, and a plan—not guesswork.
📲 Join the FB Group if you want support, conversation, and real-world career strategy with women who get it
💌 Become an Insider to receive weekly insights, promotion strategy, and behind-the-scenes coaching you won’t hear on the podcast.

🎧 LOVE THE SHOW?
👉 Subscribe & leave a review so more ambitious working women can discover these game-changing career strategies!

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Have you ever had the quiet thought, “I followed the advice… so why does this feel harder now?”

This episode is for high-performing working women who did what they were told would work, built credibility, showed up consistently, and still feel like their career momentum has slowed.

Because there is a point where the advice that helped you rise stops being the advice that helps you advance.

And no one really names that transition.

In this episode, we unpack why the same career advice works for some women and backfires for others, and why stalled growth is often a recognition issue, not a confidence problem.

You’ll hear:
✅ Why effort-based advice stops working at higher levels
✅ How leadership actually recognizes value and readiness
✅ Why two women can follow the same advice and get very different outcomes
✅ The hidden cost of applying incomplete career strategies
✅ How misalignment, not mindset, creates stalled growth

We also talk about why growth can start to feel like self-improvement instead of expansion, and how that leads capable women to question themselves when the system is actually the issue.

If you’ve been wondering: “I know I’m capable of more.” “I feel ready for something bigger.” “I just don’t understand why this feels harder now.”

This episode will help you understand what’s really happening beneath the surface.

You’re not behind.
You’re not broken.
You’re navigating a shift most women are never taught how to recognize.

And naming it is the first step to changing it.

READY FOR YOUR NEXT STEP?
💰 Start Here: Take the Fast Track Your Income Quiz to understand what’s actually holding your income back—and what kind of move makes sense next.
📞 Book a Promotion Strategy Call: If you’re ready to talk through your goals, your current role, and what’s realistically possible next, book a Promotion Strategy Call. This is for women who want clarity, positioning, and a plan—not guesswork.
📲 Join the FB Group if you want support, conversation, and real-world career strategy with women who get it
💌 Become an Insider to receive weekly insights, promotion strategy, and behind-the-scenes coaching you won’t hear on the podcast.

🎧 LOVE THE SHOW?
👉 Subscribe & leave a review so more ambitious working women can discover these game-changing career strategies!

✨ New episodes drop every Tuesday & Friday! Subscribe and leave a review if this resonated with you.

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