EP69: Ambitious Women Are NOT the Problem with Stefanie O'Connell

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The best advice I can give to ambitious women is to ignore most advice for ambitious women.”</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Journalist, author, financial expert, and host of the</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Money Confidential</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">podcast,</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Stefanie O’Connell, joins this episode to talk about</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">unapologetically ambitious women going for what they want, no matter what else is happening in the world. And more broadly speaking, what it means to want to build wealth, lead, have power and a lot of ambition, and to do so as someone who isn't a straight white, heterosexual male.  </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Because if women’s ambition isn’t the problem, what is?</span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>KEY POINTS:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- Why “girl power” isn't working for women</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- The best way to ask for more (at the right place!)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- How the pandemic brought inequities to the surface </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- “Women’s work” and the gender pay gap</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">- The burden of assumed gender roles </span></p> <p> </p> <p><strong>QUOTABLES:</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“The whole idea was we're gonna get to equality by empowering the next generation. Now, here we are. I'm in my mid-30s. I'm looking around, and the numbers of women in leadership, in political office, as CEOs, really has not changed since we were those Take Your Daughter to Work Day girls.”</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“We've really reached the limits of what women can do differently. And it's time to start holding the organizations and culture and workplaces that penalize them n