PODCAST EPISODES
BC007: Jennifer McClanahan-Flint - Leveraging Your Difference and Building A Career with Audacity
“If you are Black, you are different and everybody sees your difference.” In today’s episode, I am pleased to speak with Jennifer McClanahan-Flint, founder of Leverage to Lead Group and Programs. As an executive career coach and career strategist, Jennifer helps ambitious women of color navigate workplace bias, compensation, and their trajectory to build careers with audacity, not apprehension. We explore how Jennifer works with women of color to help them leverage their difference, negotiate compensation, make strategic career decisions, and more.
Topics Covered:
- The role of a career coach in helping to propel your career forward
- Leveraging your difference and building audacity
- Disrupting bias in the workplace
- Strategic negotiations; negotiating compensation
- On dealing with overwhelm
- Recognizing when it is time to pivot
- Asking for and getting what you want
- Preparing for entrepreneurship
Highlights:
- “Everyone needs a team.”
- “Opportunity comes through other people. It’s not because you work hard. It’s because someone sees you working hard.”
- “The thing that you are bringing in your difference is a new idea and a new perspective, which we would otherwise call innovation.”
- “This idea of being slammed with work, it is part of the ethos of American corporate culture. For Black women, if you’re feeling overwhelmed and slammed, you need a team member. It is a danger zone for Black women. Don’t be too busy to look at your career.”
Connect with Jennifer:
On her website: https://www.leverage2lead.com/
On her LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifermcclanahanflint/
By E-mail: support@leverage2lead.com
Subscribe to the newsletter: https://www.leverage2lead.com/subscribe
Other References:
- National Women’s Law Center, The Wage Gap for Black Women: Working Longer and Making Less
- LeanIn.org, The Black Women’s Pay Gap by the Numbers
- McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org, Women in the Workplace 2018
- Kerry Hannon, Black Women Entrepreneurs: The Good and Not-So-Good News
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