What Comes After Corporate? Part 2: Let Me Pick Your Brain
What happens when being the person everyone turns to becomes a habit of giving away your expertise for free? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell and Amanda Goodwin, continue the seven-part anniversary series exploring what comes after corporate and take on one of the most common ways accomplished women undervalue their expertise.
Amanda shares how she learned to distinguish between external validation and a genuine value exchange, including the simple question she now asks when someone wants her time.
If people constantly ask how you did something, seek your advice, want access to your network, or tell you they want to “pick your brain,” this episode offers a powerful invitation to stop giving away what you have spent years developing and start recognizing the value of your expertise.
What You Will Learn:
- How to recognize when people are consistently seeking your expertise.
- Why “Let me pick your brain” can be a sign that you have valuable intellectual property.
- How external validation can make it difficult to recognize the true value of your expertise.
- Why women can become conditioned to give away their knowledge without a meaningful value exchange.
- How to identify the questions people repeatedly ask you.
- How to turn frequently requested expertise into a professional offer.
- Why understanding your audience is essential when creating a high-value consulting offer.
- How social capital and professional connections can become valuable assets.
- Why “I’m hired for that” can be a powerful response to requests for free expertise.
- How to create a script for responding to requests for your time and knowledge.
- Why “help” can create confusion around whether a professional service is actually being purchased.
- How to evaluate whether your work and corporate environment are aligned with your values.
- Why being complete with a role does not mean you are done.
- How support can help experienced professionals recognize and package the value they already possess.
If this episode has you thinking about leaving corporate to start a consultancy, begin here.
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