What keeps me going is knowing how important this role is and how we can learn and grow in these roles but the key is to know who you are and see yourself. Know your work and know your worth. ~ Kathy
Having a lack of confidence not only begins to play on your own psyche, self esteem and self wor…
“Money is a tool and it’s very emotional and sometimes we have a lot of guilt and shame and all of these feelings around it; so women feel like they need to have their own sense of self around money before they can really understand how to use it.”
“The need to address some of the common frustrations that we experience in the workplace and the need to help administrative professionals find their voice and work to achieve the career that they desire and deserve is a part of the origin story of how this book came about.”
“A man can walk into a meeting and start speaking and he’s believed; whereas a woman has to take extra time to assert that she’s got the credibility and expertise to know what she’s talking about.”
"Career setbacks are all about highlighting how you grow and change from different experiences that you face and that no one is creating the narrative for us. We create our own narrative, and that's really powerful."
“Then one day you realize oh this could be a reality this is something I never thought I could do; it’s not as daunting or as far out there as you think.”
"It's just wild to look back at all of the things that I've learned throughout my career as an EA and then some of the changes and differences that I've noticed coming into the tech space."
"Mental illness can affect anybody; we need to look at it with compassion and care the way we would any other illness; the people who are suffering deserve to be listened to, to be understood, to be treated with compassionate care."
“It’s nice that the Chief of Staff role is this super popular sexy title right now, and it’s cool that it’s getting more recognition and more companies are understanding the importance of it; but that doesn’t mean that it’s for everybody and that highly skilled EA’s are still really important to or…
“Everybody became a Living Room Leader in the early days of lockdown; depending on your home setup, you were leading from the living room, from the bathroom, from the closet…everyone was forced into this remote work leadership situation."
“I created my blog because I think what we should do is provide the necessary tools for women so they can learn things themselves and make the right decisions for their life”
“Executive Assistants are some of the most solutions oriented people on the planet, if you find yourself in a position where you’re not 100% excited about where you are and you’re trying to make it work…diversify!”
“We use the title administrative assistant so liberally that it almost diminishes the responsibilities of true administrative assistants. I advocate taking a deeper dive into how you assign these titles and making sure they are truly appropriate for the responsibilities that you are assigning to yo…
“You shouldn’t strive to be a computer, you should strive to be your best; the notion that anyone’s best isn’t enough is a shame because that is literally all we can do”
“It’s very gratifying to see that these books are helping to bridge the literacy gap and that the team is able to get books into the hands of children who don’t have any; they want to read, to experience being a kid, seeing that it’s really theirs, there’s nothing that can replace that.”
"At some point you cannot physically do everything that is on your list, I had to delegate to trustworthy individuals because I couldn’t possibly do every single task myself; there just aren’t enough hours in the day"
"It’s good to take a pause and really think about what is going on for me, how do I want it to be, why is it not going quite how I would want it to be, why am I having these feelings about this job that maybe in the past it was all kind of fine, but now has all these different things going on; star…
“Everybody has that filter, ‘I work, you don’t, I have kids you don’t’ whatever it is, it’s important that we allow those moments to let people in; but it’s hard and you have to be vulnerable and put yourself out there but when it works and clicks you think, yes, this is how it’s supposed to be”
“I want to make sure that the people that I place and make matches for are going to be successful and are going to be happy and that it works for all involved”
