Women Who Ship

Are you a high-achieving woman in tech who is tired of proving yourself in rooms you’ve already earned a place in? Do you ever walk into a meeting and wonder if everyone can tell you don’t quite believe you belong there? You are not struggling because you aren't capable, you're struggling because no one taught you how to lead with confidence in spaces that weren't built with you in mind. Women Who Ship dives into the real, unspoken challenges of tech leadership. Hosted by Sarah Williams, a leadership coach and former Senior Manager with 15 years of experience navigating the tech industry, this show provides practical tools and honest conversations to help you stop second-guessing yourself. Whether you're dealing with imposter syndrome, trying to make ambitious goals stick without burning out, feeling invisible in a "recognition-rich" culture, or figuring out how to navigate massive industry shifts like the rapid rise of AI, this podcast is for you. Tune in to build grounded self-trust and learn to navigate your career with both strategy and heart. Because you don't have to wait for your brain to magically stop doubting you to start leading boldly.

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  Episode #7

  7. Proof of Work as Insurance Part 2: Building publicly with AI

  Aug 27, 202633 min

  "Putting things out there is scary. That is the honest truth. But when you go ahead and do that first, you realize that nobody here is judging you." Welcome back to Women Who Ship ! In Part 2 of my conversation with Tanushree Panigrahy (founder of the Stay Ahead of the Curve Substack ), we get practical about how to start building publicly with AI to actively build your courage and career confidence. In this episode, Tanushree shares her journey of stepping off the over-learning treadmill, dusting off a 12-year-old GitHub account, and putting her "half-baked" experiments online, which led to a major tech VP asking to reuse her code. We walk through four of her hands-on AI experiments: Private Desktop Assistant: Analyzing sensitive personal finance data locally with Ollama. School Memo Summarizer: Simplifying massive school documents for working parents. Deal War Room: A multi-agent AI system simulating proposal teams. Procurement Assistant: Spotting diplomatic evasion patterns in vendor RFP responses. Your next steps: Pick one annoying, recurring problem in your life. Build the roughest possible version of a solution using AI. Spend a couple of weeks playing with it, and then share it publicly. Retrain your brain to trust your own execution! Connect with Tanushree: Substack: Stay Ahead of the Curve LinkedIn: Tanushree Panigrahy Subscribe: Subscribe to Women Who Ship on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. Recommended Reading: Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon (sharing your process over polished output) Let's go ship some good stuff together. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest alone and do not reflect the views of their respective employers. Theme Music: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  Episode #6

  6. Proof of Work as Insurance Part 1: A conversation with Tanushree Panigrahy

  Aug 13, 202633 min

  "I think those were the moments when I felt I need to make something real. Something real that I can see and build that confidence in myself." Welcome to a new episode of Women Who Ship , the podcast for women in tech who are tired of proving themselves in rooms they have already earned a place in and are ready to lead like they know it. Today, we are kickstarting an incredibly timely conversation about a concept that might just be your ultimate career safety net: Proof of Work as Insurance . Our special guest is Tanushree Panigrahy , the founder of the Stay Ahead of the Curve Substack and community. Tanushree has spent nearly two decades navigating tech transformations, bridging the gap between global systems integrators (GSIs) and the vendor side of the table. When she recently decided to leap into an entirely unfamiliar vendor ecosystem, she found herself starting completely cold. Nobody knew her, and nobody knew her skills. Instead of waiting for someone to hand her a project or waiting for a formal title to catch up, Tanushree did something revolutionary: she stopped chasing the certification hype and started building. She became her own judge, role-playing customer scenarios to prove her capabilities to herself first. In this episode, we talk about why certifications alone are not enough in the AI era, how to leverage your hard-earned experience as a strategic asset, and why the messiest parts of tech disruption still require human-led change management, empathy, and stakeholder coordination. Your next steps: Start with a small experiment: Do not wait for permission or a perfect role to start experimenting. Your homework this week is to identify one small, everyday problem in your daily life or workflow. Use a free generative AI tool to build a simple solution. Start with a single prompt and focus on making something real, even if it is not perfect. Proving to your own brain that you can ship a solution is where true self-trust begins. Capture your proof of work: If you want help actually documenting what you are shipping, grab my free Get Recognized at Work: 5 Steps to Document and Show Your Impact playbook. It walks you through a simple weekly “Recognition Retro” so you can turn experiments like this into clear impact statements you can use in 1:1s, performance reviews, and promotion packets. Connect with Tanushree: Substack: Stay Ahead of the Curve LinkedIn: Tanushree Panigrahy Subscribe: Be sure to subscribe to Women Who Ship on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you do not miss Part 2 of this deep dive! Let's go ship some good stuff together. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this episode are those of the host and guest alone and do not reflect the views of their respective employers. Theme Music: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  Women Who Ship

  [Bonus] Beyond Certainty Part 3: What are you building toward?

  Jul 30, 202612 min

  "The recognition and the promotion you have earned deserve to mean something real, not a verdict on your worth, and not the next logical step on a ladder going who knows where." Welcome to Part 3, the final episode of our special bonus series of Women Who Ship: Beyond Certainty: Turning great work into the recognition you have earned . If you have been following along, you have already learned how to separate neutral circumstances from your thoughts and how to build a thought ladder to create believable confidence. But a thought ladder without a clear direction is just energy with nowhere to go. In this episode, we tackle a realization that hits almost every high-achieving woman I work with: she has been climbing hard toward a goal that was never really hers to begin with. We explore the danger of the "should promotion" (chasing a title because it is the next logical step) and the "proof promotion" (using a new role to prove your inherent worth). Because the tech industry rewards behaviors that often go against how women are socialized, achieving these goals can feel incredibly hollow. Instead of burning out for an empty title, I will teach you how to identify your true values and assess if your current and future roles actually align with what gets you out of bed in the morning. Your Next Steps: Assess your values: Think about your career in terms of values rather than titles or salary. Identify two or three core values that get you excited to show up to work, like autonomy, collaboration, or innovation. Then, evaluate both your current role and your next target role to see where they align with or fall short of those values. Subscribe: Hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you never miss an episode. A Special Announcement: I am officially opening three to five founding member spots for my high touch, one on one coaching program, Lead Boldly! If you are ready to turn great work into the promotion you have earned, send me a DM at Coach Sarah Williams on LinkedIn or Instagram and say "I am in" or "tell me more". Let's go ship some good stuff together. Theme Music: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  Women Who Ship

  [Bonus] Beyond Certainty Part 2: Why the confidence advice you've been given isn't working

  Jul 25, 20266 min

  "Nothing is wrong with you. The advice was wrong. And more specifically, it was built for someone else." Welcome to Part 2 of our special bonus series of Women Who Ship: Beyond Certainty: Turning great work into the recognition you have earned . You know that you are capable and have a great track record, but sometimes in high stakes moments, an old thought shows up that holds you back. You have likely tried traditional affirmations and "fake it until you make it" positive thinking, only to find that it just does not hold up under pressure. This advice fails because it assumes confidence is what is standing between you and your results, which ignores the reality women navigate in tech where you are told to be confident but not too aggressive. In this episode, we explore why you do not need to perform false confidence or leap to a positive thought you cannot believe. Instead, I introduce a tool called the Thought Ladder, which helps you figure out what is actually true right now so you can build grounded self trust from there. Your next steps: Practice the Thought Ladder: Go back to the thought that you wrote down after Part 1. Do not try to replace it with the exact opposite thought. Instead, find one thought that is just 10 percent better and slightly more useful. Write it down to create the next "rung" on your ladder. Subscribe: Hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you do not miss Part 3, where we discuss the actual goal you are climbing toward! Let's go ship some good stuff together. Theme Music: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  Women Who Ship

  [Bonus] Beyond Certainty Part 1: Rethinking what it means to be ready

  Jul 21, 20265 min

  "That anxiety isn't a signal that you're behind. It is actually pointing you directly at the biggest leadership opportunity of your career." Welcome to a special bonus series of Women Who Ship: Beyond Certainty: Turning great work into the recognition you have earned . Everyone in tech is feeling a very specific type of anxiety right now related to the rapid disruption of AI. But oftentimes, high-achieving women react to this uncertainty by over-preparing and waiting until they are 100 percent sure before speaking up. Meanwhile, a colleague with half as much knowledge speaks up, gets tapped for a task force, and is positioned as a leader. The gap between you and that colleague has nothing to do with capability. The work you have already done has already earned you your seat. The only thing standing between you and that recognition is the thought that you have to be certain before you can show up. In Part 1 of this mini series, we define the critical difference between a circumstance and a thought, and how you can use this distinction to stop letting disruption write your internal story. Your Next Steps: Separate Circumstances from Thoughts: Pick one moment this week where your work, your idea, or your contribution did not get the recognition it deserved. Write down the circumstance in one neutral sentence. Then, write down the thought or story you attached to it. Do not try to fix it yet, just observe it! Subscribe: Hit subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so you do not miss Part 2 of this special series! Let's go ship some good stuff together. Theme Music: The Success by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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