Life Lessons on How to be Authentic at Work

Are you faking it till you make it? Are you being inauthentic? 

Are you not showing up as your full self at work?

Are you kind of phoning it in? Are you shrinking? Are you hiding? 

Are you dismissing bad behavior from your coworkers, from your colleagues, from your peers? 

Are you not showing up as your full, authentic self? 

Are you faking it and hoping that you make it?

And if so, you're in the right place. 🙋🏾‍♀️

Let’s start with the hard truth. Faking it till you make it is not a career strategy. At least not a good one; it won’t get you the results you want. And it definitely won’t get you the job or salary you deserve. 

It is so critical that you are positioning yourself as a woman of integrity, as a woman of authority, and as a woman who is censoring authenticity in her work. 💁🏾‍♀️

And if you're faking it so you make it, if you're not operating in authenticity, if you're not operating from an authentic place, or if you feel like you're in an environment that doesn't celebrate and allow for and make a room for you to be authentic, that is not an environment that you can grow in. ❌

I'm excited to help you make more money and have more impact on your career by really stepping into authority, by really stepping into authenticity. 

The truth is that you're already knowledgeable. The truth is that you already have a level of expertise. The truth is that you have credentials and skillsets that you can use to get what you want. 

But because you're leaning into these outdated and ill-advised messages of fake it till you make it, you go into interviews with talented people saying things like, “I don't have any weaknesses. I'm good at everything or my weakness is perfectionism.”

Girl, stop. 🛑

We all make mistakes. We all do things imperfectly at times. And those talented people know that perfectionism isn’t your weakness. 

We don’t want to come across as fake, inauthentic, being untruthful, or outright lying during interviews. This is exactly how the “fake it till you make it” mentality makes you appear when interviewing. 

But, trust me, I completely understand where this mindset comes from. It's a trauma response to being put down, belittled, and disrespected at work for so long that now you don't know how to step into an authority role with your skillset.

So, to everyone who is currently faking it, let’s stop. Let's stop that. Let's interrupt the cycle of pretending we know all the answers. Let’s stop giving in to imposter syndrome and being overwhelmed at work. 😫

Let's learn the strategies that we must learn at this stage in our career development to make a real impact and move our careers forward. Let's get the help that we need to get what we want. And as a mentor, I'm here to serve you in that capacity.

So join me as I help you to be positioned in a role where you can actually enjoy your work, where you can be authentic, where you can truly excel, where you can make more impact at work. 👩🏾‍💻

Schedule a Mentor Moment with me today and start your journey to being truly authentic at work.