Someone tells you to calm down. You get called too emotional in a meeting. Amanda and Lizzie break down why that phrase almost never means what it claims to mean: it's usually projection, and it's coded language that lands hardest on women and people of color.

They walk through three levels of response, from a quiet redirect to a direct callout, and talk about when each one actually works. If you've ever been told to calm down and gotten more upset, not less, this one's for you.

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Getting talked over in meetings costs you credit, visibility, and pay, and most of us have no idea what to say in the moment. In this episode, we're breaking down what to say when you get interrupted, when someone restates your idea and takes the credit, and when you get "voluntold" to take notes (again). We get into the freeze response, the split-second mental math that happens when you get cut off, and why staying quiet is often a calculated move, not a failure. We are sharing some of Amanda's real scripts, pulled from real coaching conversations, that you can actually use in your next meeting. Whether you're the one getting interrupted or the one doing the interrupting (we've all done it), you'll walk away with language for the moment.

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We're back — and yeah, we owe you some context. This teaser for Season 2 of You Got a Minute? is Amanda and Lizzie catching you up on where they went: a major surgery, a longer recovery than expected, and the kind of forced stop that ends up teaching you things you didn't know you needed to learn. This isn't a comeback. It's not a snapback or a bounce back. It's something different — showing up a little more themselves, with more to say.

This season is about the conversations actually happening at work. Not the polished ones. The parking lot ones. The "hey, are you still online, can I grab you for a second?" ones. The moments where you know you want to say something but you don't have the words yet. If you're a woman at work right now — whatever seat you're in — this season was built for you.

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