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On "Protégé," host Molly Jaggers joins other high-performers and business leaders to decode the invisible rules of advancement and challenge preconceived notions of moving up to the next phase of your career. Discover actionable advice to help women rise as leaders and cross the broken rung. Learn the difference between mentorship and sponsorship, the strategic moves that get you chosen, and the internal shifts that prepare you to lead. This is how you turn ambition into advancement.
Molly hosts Protégé, a business show with 17 episodes published.
Your company was never teaching you the skills that actually get you promoted. And the ones that used to try? They've quietly stopped. McKinsey's latest: only half of companies still prioritize women's advancement. One i
Are you doing the work but not getting seen for it? You're not alone. Remote women get promoted at half the rate of remote men. Same companies. Same roles. Same performance. But here's what nobody's telling you: a peer-r
98% of Fortune 500 companies have mentorship programs. Only 37% of employees say they actually work. And this year, for the second year in a row, the gender pay gap widened — 81 cents on the dollar. First consecutive dec
75% of executive women have experienced imposter syndrome. The standard advice is to overcome it. MIT researcher Basima Tewfik found the opposite: employees with more impostor thoughts exert 13% more effort under pressur
Women spend 200 extra hours per year on tasks that keep the organization running but will never show up in a performance review. Carnegie Mellon researchers call it non-promotable work. It's the meeting notes nobody volu
By the end of this year, 20% of companies will use AI to eliminate more than half of their middle management roles. But the headline is hiding the real story: it's not managers disappearing. It's a type of manager. The C
Every International Women's Day, your feed fills up with the same posts about closing the gap. This year, there's a new one — and it's compounding faster than any gap before it. Women adopt AI at 25% lower rates than men
79% of women believe DEI rollbacks will hurt their careers. But here's what nobody's saying: the broken rung was already cracking before any program got cut. Those leadership development tracks, mentorship circles, and d
You're still showing up. Still performing. But everything feels harder than it should — and you can't figure out why. It's not a motivation problem. Your foundation shifted, and nobody told you. Gallup's latest data show
108,000 people lost their jobs in January - most were doing exactly what they were told to do. The playbook changed underneath them. Three structural shifts are reshaping which roles exist and who gets picked for leaders
You've been told to "just believe in yourself." You've also been told the system is biased. Both are true—and both leave you stuck. Here's what actually builds confidence. Confidence isn't a feeling you wait for—it's a s
The feedback that feels good is often the feedback that holds you back. When your manager says "you're doing great," they're validating your performance—but performance isn't what gets you promoted. Potential is. And wom
"AI won't take your job—but someone using AI will." You've heard it. And if you're like most people, it lands somewhere between motivating, mildly annoying, and terrifying. Here's what no one's telling you: women are 25%
Good work doesn't get you promoted. Visibility does. If you're waiting for decision-makers to notice your contributions, you're playing the wrong game. Q1 is when promotion decisions get made—and most women are still "he
You got promoted. Or you're about to be. But here's what nobody warned you about: becoming a leader means losing the version of yourself that got you here. The one whose value was obvious—measured in deliverables, define
You have mentors. Smart, successful people who believe in you. You're getting advice, coaching, guidance on how to navigate. And you're doing well—but you're not advancing at the pace you expected. Here's the trap: you'r
You're climbing fast, but something's off. Suddenly the growth that felt inevitable has hit a ceiling you didn't see coming. The invisible rules of leadership feel like a game you didn't know you were playing—and nobody
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