Paulina Ryters

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02/07/2023

Red flags: how to recognize and deal with toxic management

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Story #1: Your colleague spontaneously asks you to present updates in front of the company during the meeting in 15 minutes, because he’s running late. No handover. You agree, because what can go wrong? It won’t be perfect, but it’s an emergency, so all good. After the meeting you are…

01/20/2023

Equality achieved: women finally paid the same as men… Oh wait!

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“Equal pay isn’t just a women’s issue, it’s a family issue. When women get equal pay, their families do better. That’s something that helps men, too.” This a how Michelle Obama emphasized the importance of addressing the gender pay gap and promoting gender equality in the workplace. The gender pay…

09/28/2022

10 questions to ask during a job interview

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Congratulations! You have your job interview scheduled and now it’s time to prepare. It should be obvious nowadays, that the right fit has to work both ways. And yet we tend to forget to ask about the company culture, leadership and growth possibilities during the initial conversations.

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08/23/2022

Lift each other up!

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When I started running in April 2021 and signed up for my first half-marathon, a “friend” of mine gave this unsolicited comment: “Everyone can run a half-marathon. It’s a success only if you can make it in under 2 hours.” Dude! What the hell? Why would you say something like…

11/21/2021

Be afraid and do it anyway

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A short story about overcoming the fear of flying

10/10/2021

Grief is the loudest silence

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“Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going, no feeling is final.” – Rainer Maria Rilke Grief is by far the most intense, weird and complicated emotion that I’ve ever experienced. It’s more like a state you all of sudden find yourself in. It comes and goes…

08/17/2021

Best TED talks for working mums

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There is so much great content out there that sometimes it’s really hard to decide what to watch and what not. I had a lot of time last year to consume some content and today I would like to share my favorite Ted Talks for working mums with you. However,…

04/11/2021

Start somewhere

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In October 2020 I lost my beloved Mum to cancer; in March 2021 a friend and a mentor to Covid. It was the moment when I thought that’s it. That’s just it. I can’t stand the overall situation anymore and do nothing. There is so much hopelessness around (which is…

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Red flags: how to recognize and deal with toxic management

Equality achieved: women finally paid the same as men… Oh wait!

10 questions to ask during a job interview

Lift each other up!

Be afraid and do it anyway

Grief is the loudest silence

Best TED talks for working mums

Start somewhere

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