No Woman Left Behind

No Woman Left Behind is the career and leadership podcast for high-performing corporate women who want their work to be visible, their value to be understood, and their impact to be recognized and rewarded. Hosted by Rosie Zilinskas, creator of the Articulation Gap Framework for Workplace Communication and Leadership Visibility, the podcast explores why women can deliver exceptional results and still be overlooked for promotions, compensation, and influence. The Articulation Gap is the distance between the impact you create and the impact leadership recognizes and rewards. Closing that gap is not about becoming louder, performing confidence, or working even harder. It is about communicating your accomplishments, leadership, expertise, and strategic value in language decision-makers understand. Rosie teaches three pillars for closing the Articulation Gap: Clarity: Translate your work from tasks and responsibilit

No Woman Left Behind is a business podcast hosted by Rosie Zilinskas, with 144 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Rosie Zilinskas hosts No Woman Left Behind, a business show with 144 episodes published.

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  Episode #145

  How Do You Find Your Next Job After a Layoff? | Michelle Schafer

  Oct 2, 202657 minS2

  Losing a job can feel like losing part of who you are. Even when you saw it coming. Even when part of you was ready to go. Michelle Schafer has been restructured twice and reinvented herself both times. Today she is a career coach who has guided nearly 1,000 professionals through career transitions and was named one of Ottawa's Top 20 Career Coaches in 2020 and 2024. She and Rosie start where most job search advice skips: the emotional side, then get into her five-step process for finding what's next. In this conversation, you will hear: Why any job loss is a real loss, even when you are headed somewhere better What happened when one client could not write a single line of her resume How to tell your leave story so you own the message Why "30 years of experience" on your resume may be working against you Why online job boards should be only 20 percent of your search The street hockey conversation that turned into a job offer Your accomplishments did not disappear with your job. This episode helps you see them clearly again, and put them into words other people can act on. Want help turning your work into language others recognize? Get your free Impact Clarity AI Coach: https://nowomanleftbehind.ac-page.com/impact-clarity-ai-optin Connect with Michelle Schafer: Website: https://mschafercoaching.ca/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleschafercoaching/

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  Episode #144

  Why Do Qualified Women Hold Back From Leadership? | Mary Buchzeiger

  Sep 24, 202647 minS2

  You are qualified for the job. You read the description; you can do almost every line of it, and then you find the one thing you have never done, and you close the tab. Qualified women hold back, and it usually has nothing to do with what they can actually do. Mary Buchzeiger has watched it happen for thirty years, and she is done being polite about it. Mary is the CEO of Lucerne International and Lucerne Global Solutions in Auburn Hills, Michigan. She could drive a high low before she could drive a car. She learned the floor from her mother on second shift and the numbers from her father, took the business international in 2003, bought her father out in 2008, and now leads a global manufacturing company in one of the most male-dominated industries there is. In this conversation you will hear: The research findings about how men and women read the same job description, and why it has nothing to do with ability What Mary wishes she could tell her younger self before walking into a C-suite room Why "one more certification" is the most expensive habit talented women have How to advocate for yourself with data when self-promotion feels physically wrong What she tells a woman who feels stuck and cannot see a way out of her organization The eight screens, three computers, and AI agents she built herself, and the one thing she says to do with what you build The peach schnapps ritual she inherited from her father, and what it has to do with getting recognized You may already be ready. The question is whether the people making the decisions can see it. Want help turning your work into language your leadership recognizes? Start with the Free Impact Clarity AI Coach: https://nowomanleftbehind.ac-page.com/impact-clarity-ai-optin

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  Episode #143

  Are You Shrinking Your Own Voice at Work? | Misti Rice

  Sep 16, 202643 minS2

  Are you shrinking your voice at work? Misti Rice, Vice President of Government Affairs at Magna International, works with policymakers, industry leaders, and even prime ministers. And yet she does everything she can to avoid speaking engagements. Her advice is not about becoming louder. It is about saying what you know, simply, and letting it stand. Misti has more than 30 years in government, legal, and consumer affairs, including senior roles at Stellantis before joining Magna in 2016. In this conversation with Rosie Zilinskas, she shares what bad bosses taught her about leading, why relationships come before you need them, and the negotiation move that starts with silence. In this episode: • What micromanaging bosses taught her about letting people do their jobs • Why she learned golf, and what "missing the hole" has to do with relationships • Why people pick up the phone for people they like • Advice for the woman who dreads making the call • The job description habit that keeps qualified women from applying • "That's a great question. Let me get back to you." Why you never bluff • Why the person against you today might be your biggest advocate tomorrow • "If you're not at the table, then you're on the menu" • Stop shrinking your own voice: expertise is not perfection • Say yes before you're ready • State what you want, then stop talking Read the full blog post: https://nowomanleftbehind.com/shrinking-your-voice-at-work/ Contact Misti Rice: Misti.Rice@magna.com If leadership does not see your impact yet, start by putting it into words they recognize. Get your free Impact Clarity AI Coach: https://nowomanleftbehind.ac-page.com/impact-clarity-ai-optin Rosie Zilinskas created The Articulation Gap: the distance between the impact you create and the impact leadership recognizes and rewards. She works with high-performing corporate women to close that gap through Clarity, Composure, and Conviction. Subscribe for weekly conversations on women in leadership, workplace visibility, speaking up at work, and career growth.

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  Episode #142

  Why Don't Women Ask for What They Need at Work? | Nicholle Walter

  Sep 12, 202645 minS2

  You keep your head down, do the work, and trust the rest will come. Meanwhile, the support you actually need is sitting in a policy nobody has ever mentioned to you. Nicholle Walter learned that the hard way. She is a Senior Systems Engineer at John Deere who has been pregnant, breastfeeding, and pumping on a manufacturing shop floor while helping lead production launches, including the start of production for the See & Spray technology portfolio. She is a mom of two who now advocates for parents and caregivers in manufacturing, including at the Women in Manufacturing Summit with Sarah Wells. In this conversation, you will hear: • Why growing up pushing around 1200 pound horses taught her to take up her own space at work • The question she asked in her very first interview at John Deere that made one interviewer stare • The assumption managers make about moms that quietly removes them from promotion conversations • What happened the first time her son got sick and she did not think she could leave • The cow emoji trick that made an awkward conversation easy • Why supporting moms turns out to support everyone on the team The support you need may already be there. This episode is about finding the courage to ask for it, and the words to do it. Want help turning your work into language leadership recognizes? Get your free Impact Clarity AI Coach: https://nowomanleftbehind.ac-page.com/impact-clarity-ai-optin Connect with Nicholle Walter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nichollemwalter/

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  Episode #141

  How Do You Get Hired After 50? | Marcylle Combs

  Sep 3, 202638 minS2

  You have the experience. So why does the room keep doing the math on your age? Marcylle Combs has been asked, point blank, how long she plans to keep working. She has also been told, at 66, that she was too old for the surgery she wanted. She got a second opinion, switched doctors, and kept going. Marcylle is a leadership expert and speaker who founded and ran home health and hospice agencies for decades, the author of Never Hire Your Friends, and a leader who has been hiring older workers since she was in her thirties. In this conversation, Rosie and Marcylle talk about: What "when are you planning to retire?" really means, and the answer investors are hoping to hear The interview prep routine that matters more when you are the most experienced person in the room The uncomfortable truth about first impressions that Marcylle asks you to forgive her for saying What a 60-plus hire brings that no employer has to teach Why Gen Z is not the generation you need to worry about The one thing that instantly makes you look current If you have been wondering whether it is too late, this episode says it is not, and shows you how to walk into the next room ready. Ready to put your impact into words leadership recognizes and rewards? Grab the Free Impact Clarity AI Coach: https://nowomanleftbehind.ac-page.com/impact-clarity-ai-optin

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