My Story PT. 3 | How a Writer Became an Exec to Become a Bestselling Author

How many of you have a career purgatory? 🙋🏽‍♀️

You know, that place on your resume where you worked because it wasn’t quite what you were looking for, but you had to wait and see it through because that was what was available at the time, and you had bills to pay?

I talk about mine in Part 3 of my conversation with TCU Bob Schieffer College of Communication Associate Tim Dahl, Jr., an aspiring communicator who is writing a profile on me as a part of his account work at the student-run agency there.

Always the optimist, I posed a coaching question to myself then that I didn’t know at the time was one:

“What’s the opportunity in it?”

It was a learning journey that would prepare me in some ways for my next step in comms, but it wasn’t without it’s battles.

For a year, I had to stave off a boss who constantly sabotaged my work, but one day I caught her red-handed.

Remember I’m a tech geek: I know how to read and write computer code, and it allowed me to uncover her digital finger prints on several versions where she had placed errors in my copy before higher up approvals.

I turned her in to her boss with the proof, and she was removed from my team… just in time for me to announce that I was headed to greener pastures only weeks later.

Why did she do it? She said to me that she didn’t like that I was hired from the outside, that I was young and stylish.

Sometimes women can be the worst to other women in workplaces.

I largely kept anecdotes like these out of the interview with Tim, but my LinkedIn community deserves the tea. 🫖☕️

The ultimate career lesson: always keep receipts, and know how to get them even when it isn’t obvious.