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Career Bites by Lorraine K. Lee: Weekly Bite-Sized Career Tips In 3 Minutes

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why your coworker gets trusted faster than you

👥 Bring Impact to Your Team2026 dates are filling up! If you're planning a company event, leadership summit, or team offsite for 2026, I'd love to make your next event truly unforgettable. Book Me to Speak Here's something I've watched happen a hundred times, Reader: Two people on the same team, doing similar work. One gets pulled into the strategy meetings. Their opinions get repeated. Their Slack messages get reactions from leadership. The other one is doing equally good work (often better)...
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read this before your next meeting

The meeting upgrade you didn’t know you needed. I've been using Fathom for three years, and this week they launched multiple features on my wishlist I had to share with you. 😍 The biggest update: Ask Fathom is now account-wide, which means every meeting you've ever recorded is fully searchable. I tracked down a decision from six weeks ago in seconds. Game-changer!!! Here's what else is new in this launch: 📱 Mobile app⚡ Live in-meeting summaries📝 Personal scratchpad mid-call🎧 Audio-only mode...
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AI told me not to send this email

Hi Reader, This week marks ONE YEAR since Unforgettable Presence came out into the world! 💙 I genuinely can't believe it. (also: thank you, truly, to everyone who purchased a copy, gifted it, highlighted it, sent me a photo of it on your nightstand or somewhere around the world - I’ve seen every single one!) To celebrate, I wanted to share something that happened recently that I can’t stop thinking about. It's a tiny story, but it taught me something I didn't expect about AI, judgment, and...
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3 signs your manager is losing confidence in you

📚 A Book Worth Your Attention This Week While we're on the topic of showing up with intention — my friend Jess Ekstrom’s new book, Making It Without Losing It, officially releases on May 5, and it’s available for preorder now! It’s for anyone who has ever chased success only to wonder, wait… is this actually how I want to feel while doing it? A few reminders that I loved: • Prepare your key point, not every possible sentence • Pause before speaking instead of rushing to prove yourself •...
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what turning 36 taught me about visibility

📚 A Book Worth Your Attention This Week While we're on the topic of showing up with intention — my friend Jess Ekstrom’s new book, Making It Without Losing It, officially releases on May 5, and it’s available for preorder now! It’s for anyone who has ever chased success only to wonder, wait… is this actually how I want to feel while doing it? A few reminders that I loved: • Prepare your key point, not every possible sentence • Pause before speaking instead of rushing to prove yourself •...
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Q1’s most useful career advice

Can you believe we’re already a quarter into 2026, Reader?! To kick off Q2, I pulled together the 5 topics that resonated most this quarter, based on what you opened, clicked, and replied to. Whether you missed one or want a refresher, here’s your Q1 recap: Your Career Bite 1. Skip the resolutions. Make these 3 upgrades instead. We started the New Year focusing on what actually moves the needle: your space, your network, and your skills. If you’ve lost a bit of momentum, this is a good place...
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why the hardest workers get passed over

👥 Bring Impact to Your Team2026 dates are filling up! If you're planning a company event, leadership summit, or team offsite for 2026, I'd love to make your next event truly unforgettable. Book Me to Speak For years, I watched people delivering less get promoted faster, Reader. But I couldn't figure out why. I was staying late, hitting every deadline, and taking on the projects no one else wanted. And I still got passed over. 😩 The only feedback I ever got was, "Keep doing what you're doing."...
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3 things you did this week that deserve credit

📚 A Book Worth Your Attention This Week While we're on the topic of showing up with intention — my friend Jess Ekstrom’s new book, Making It Without Losing It, officially releases on May 5, and it’s available for preorder now! It’s for anyone who has ever chased success only to wonder, wait… is this actually how I want to feel while doing it? A few reminders that I loved: • Prepare your key point, not every possible sentence • Pause before speaking instead of rushing to prove yourself •...
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the #1 reason your ideas get ignored

📚 A Book Worth Your Attention This Week While we're on the topic of showing up with intention — my friend Jess Ekstrom’s new book, Making It Without Losing It, officially releases on May 5, and it’s available for preorder now! It’s for anyone who has ever chased success only to wonder, wait… is this actually how I want to feel while doing it? A few reminders that I loved: • Prepare your key point, not every possible sentence • Pause before speaking instead of rushing to prove yourself •...
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