Underpaid & Micromanaged? 5 Steps to Change Your Career NOW (2026 Exit Plan)

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Are You Building an Exit Strategy or Just Surviving Until Friday?

If Monday mornings fill you with dread, your micromanager questions every move, and you KNOW you're underpaid by at least $20K but feel paralyzed to do anything about it—this episode is your intervention.

This isn't about setting fluffy 2025 goals. This is about building LEVERAGE.

In this no-BS episode, Jassani Courtney breaks down the exact 5-step blueprint to stop being overlooked and start commanding the respect (and compensation) you've earned. Whether you're planning your exit or fighting to transform your current role, you need OPTIONS—and options require strategy, not hope.

You'll discover:

• Why your LinkedIn profile is keeping you invisible to recruiters (and the 60-second fix that changes everything)
• The "Vampire Audit" that reclaims your time from energy-draining meetings and toxic coworkers
• Word-for-word scripts to shut down your boss's last-minute demands without sounding difficult
• The uncomfortable truth about how you're being judged in the first 7 seconds—and what to do about it
• Why your home life is secretly sabotaging your career moves (and how to fix it this week)

Here's what most career advice gets wrong: They tell you to work harder, be more visible, or "lean in." But you're already exhausted. What you actually need is a system to build leverage while you're still employed—so you negotiate from power, not desperation.

This episode delivers the scripts, the tactics, and the Monday morning checklist that changes your trajectory immediately. No corporate fluff. No motivational platitudes. Just the strategic moves that create real options.

Your job is a contract, not a prison. But only if you do the work to create alternatives.

Ready to stop settling and start leading? Press play.

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