So many women are burned out, running on empty, and quietly wondering if they just need to try harder, speak up more, be more assertive, or do something differently. We've been implementing all the advice, and we're left exhausted and frustrated.

I am joined this week by journalist and author Stefanie O'Connell, whose new book, The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up and Then Pushes Them Down, is out this month. It is thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, and a genuine revelation.

We get into why so much of the advice women have been given has actually worked against us (shit!), what the data actually shows about ambition, negotiation, promotion, and pay, and why the burned-out, self-blaming loop so many of us are stuck in is not a personal failing. (Psst! It's a structural failing)

This is the kind of conversation you're going to want to share — with your friends, your colleagues, your daughters. And then you definitely need to read this book and give a copy to another woman who needs this too.

The Ambition Penalty is out now wherever you buy books.

Find it on Stefanie's site here: https://tooambitious.com/book/

Follow Stefanie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stefanieoconnell/

Subscribe to her Substack: https://tooambitious.substack.com/

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