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Hosted by Amanda Owen-Meehan · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 134 episodes
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Career Espresso gives you a weekly shot of career and leadership know-how in under 15 minutes. I’m Amanda, and each week I share real stories and practical ideas to help you handle the challenges of work. from dealing with tricky bosses to building confidence as a leader. These short, straight-talking episodes are designed to give you something useful you can try for yourself and with your team. No fluff, no jargon — just honest conversations about how we work, lead and grow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Amanda Owen-Meehan hosts Career Espresso, a business show with 134 episodes published.
Episode 125: I'm bored at work (and I don't know if that means I should leave) You're not unhappy, exactly. The job's fine. The pay's fine. Nobody's making your life difficult. And yet you've started caring far too much
How to handle missing out on the promotion you wanted You found out you didn't get it, and somewhere in the same breath you were already arranging your face into something gracious. The hard part wasn't that afternoon. I
How to stop being the person everyone vents to There's a queue that forms at your desk that you never advertised for. People bring you the impossible manager, the credit someone took, the meeting that went sideways, and
A new starter joins, and on their first morning they ask the most basic question there is. So what is it you actually do here? You open your mouth to answer and realise you're not entirely sure how to. The job title is e
How to ask for what you want at work You've been waiting for your manager to offer you the thing you could have asked for six months ago. You've done the work, you've stayed late, you've been the most reliable person in
You're in a meeting and someone turns to you with a question you can't answer. You know it immediately. But instead of saying so, you start talking, because silence feels worse than noise and admitting a gap in front of
I messed up at work and everyone saw Someone mentions a meeting from three weeks ago. An ordinary reference, nothing loaded in it. And your stomach drops because your brain has decided that any mention of that date, that
How to stop taking work home in your head You're on the sofa. Or making dinner. Or lying in bed. And your brain is still at work. It's replaying that conversation from this afternoon, rewriting the email you already sent
You owe someone a conversation at work. You've owed it for a while. And every week you tell yourself this is the week, and every Friday it's still unsaid. Maybe it's a deadline you know isn't realistic. Maybe it's feedba
There's a career moment most people know well: you've just had a conversation with someone who should be able to tell you what's going on, and they did tell you, clearly and at length, and you left that conversation with
What to do when a career opportunity you were counting on disappears You weren't just hoping it might happen. You'd actually been working towards it, observing, positioning, getting yourself ready. And then a restructure
When what worked early in your career stops working You learned something early on in your career. How to read a room, when to speak and when to stay quiet. What got you noticed in the right way and what got you into tro
You can't think straight if you never stop to think You've had the same conversation with yourself more times than you can count. Not yet. When this project's done. When things quieten down. And somewhere in the middle o
There's a particular kind of career frustration that's hard to name. You're doing your job well. You're prepared, present, and contributing. But the conversations that shape what actually happens in your area keep happen
You're in a meeting and someone asks a question that should go to your manager. But they look at you. Because you're the one who's been answering those questions for months now. You're the one who's across the detail. Yo
How to stop justifying every boundary you set at work You said no to something last week. Or you tried to. What came out was closer to a small essay explaining why you couldn't, what else you had on, how sorry you were,
You're speaking up. That's the frustrating part. You prepare, you contribute, you make your point clearly. And somehow it still doesn't land. Someone talks over you. Your idea gets a lukewarm response. Then someone else
Everything's fine at work. Not exciting, but fine. You're getting on with it, you know what you're doing, and there's enough going on that you haven't had time to think about much else. Then the restructure gets announce
How to be direct at work without the three-paragraph explanation You know what you want to say. That's not the problem. The problem is what happens between your head and the page. By the time it's written, or said, there
What to do when your authority keeps getting questioned? You make a decision. A clear one. And before you've even finished explaining it, someone's already pushing back. Not with better information. Not with a genuine co
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Career Espresso is hosted by Amanda Owen-Meehan. The show is categorised under business (careers) and has published 134 episodes.
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