💪🏾 No magic formula can replace hard work: do your job well & hit all the targets you are set.
😬 When you're struggling, ask for help so you can stay on track to get results, or collaboratively adjust targets.
🙋🏾♀️ In 2011, I was hired into my first junior role in tech @Groupon
👩🏾💻 By 2020, I was headhunted into a VP role in a global tech company @Brandwatch
🤖 I achieved this progression in less than a decade, without ANY coding skills
🔮 How did I do it?
*a thread*
💪🏾 No magic formula can replace hard work: do your job well & hit all the targets you are set.
😬 When you're struggling, ask for help so you can stay on track to get results, or collaboratively adjust targets.
🧙🏿♀️ When challenges arose I was bold enough to try new solutions. Not everything worked, but constantly trying produced valuable innovations.
🧠 I was proactive in finding new, better ways to get the job done.
😎 I put myself forward for any opportunities to gain recognition e.g. speaking opportunities or awards.
👀I actively worked on gaining visibility.
❤️ I didn't fake it. I always acted on my values, and spoke up when something didn't feel right. I showed integrity.
🤗 I was a team player. To everyone.
🗣 I learned how to ask for feedback that showed me my blind spots & flaws so I could work more effectively.
👂🏽 I learned how to listen without defending myself, and simply absorb & learn.
🍂 I embraced change AND I embraced failure.
😒 Things don't always go to plan, I accept that, I expect that.
💪🏾 Every step in the journey made me wiser & more resilient.
✊🏾 @hustlecrewlive wouldn't exist if I listened to super smart, experienced tech pros who told me it wouldn't work. We're on track for 7 fig ARR. And it's my side hustle.
🤓 I did things MY WAY.
🌈I embraced my differences & uniqueness & leaned *heavily* into these.
❤️ I surrounded myself with people who bigged up these parts of me.
🙋🏾♀️ In doing so, I built my self-belief & self-confidence.
🧐 I surrounded myself with people smarter, more ambitious & driven than me.
🤯 I expanded my knowledge thru podcasts, articles, videos, books.
🧠 I built a network of mentors I've never met but whose content I've absorbed.
😕 I accepted missing out on fun stuff when in-between jobs or starting @hustlecrewlive.
🛍 I accepted times I could only afford essentials.
😥 I accepted declining mental & physical health, too.
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