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Are you a professional woman who feels like you've done everything right in your career, but still haven't achieved the level of success you desire? It can be frustrating to feel stuck in your current position or not be recognized for your accomplishments. But the good news is, you're not alone. With the right tools, it is possible to overcome the obstacles that may be holding you back.

What does your inner monologue look like? When was the last time you stopped to congratulate yourself for a recent accomplishment, or even a simple acknowledgment of how far you have come?

If you’re like most people, the answer (sadly) is probably not recently or even not ever.

Given much thought to your energy lately? I don’t mean your enthusiasm level or your daily caffeine intake or even your post-workout, post-deal-closing, post-quittin’-time I’M KING OF THE WORLD go-get-em energy. I’m talking about your internal, deep-seated, very personal energy, which is essentially the filter through which you experience, interpret, and understand your world.

I’d say that makes it pretty important.

Let's face it: we've all had to deal with a toxic workplace at some point or another. Whether your experiences have been as extreme as the one I’ve described above or not (oftentimes, these types of situations can very quiet indeed: an eye roll behind your back, a microaggression of some kind, malicious office gossip… not all toxic workplaces display themselves so loudly), I can guarantee that if you’ve spent any significant amount of time in the corporate world, you know exactly what I mean when I say toxic workplace.

When I walked away from a 6-figure contract earlier this year (completely separate from my scenario above), I walked away from a superficially diverse c-suite filled with mostly (white) women and a few men. And, as excited as I was to join what was sold to me as a “sisterhood”, it was a horribly toxic, inauthentic nightmare of a company - that literally made me and my family sick.

Yes, we are all responsible for our own energy, protecting it, elevating it, understanding it, and shifting it for our own good. To do so successfully, we must accept and implement a radical level of self-care.

Sometimes this self-care looks like staying. And sometimes it looks like walking away.

TikTok is the latest tech giant to be taken to task by its employees for what is being described as toxic workplace culture and an emphasis on “relentless productivity.” According to The Independent, TikTok staff claim to be suffering burnout and severe mental distress due to its punishing workplace culture. Exhausting hours and sleep deprivation are common amongst staff, while some employees said they averaged 85 hours of meetings per week!

Let’s talk about something that isn’t necessarily new, but is rather a much-needed approach for successful women and men in today’s professional environment to break limiting gender stereotypes inside of communication at work, helping them cultivate healthy professional relationships on all levels. Hint: this has got nothing to do with sacrificing any part of who you are.

I recently observed an exchange between a female senior executive manager and a female employee where the former called the latter “the weakest person we have” in her position in the company after the employee asked for assistance and feedback in an area where she felt she needed help. Shocking? It doesn’t just shock because of its poor taste. It’s truly terrible, toxic management from a communication standpoint because…

We sacrifice authenticity for ease, honesty for tact, and skirt around issues to make life “simpler” but in reality all this does is create conflict within ourselves. Our conflict-aversion becomes conflict-creation.

What if the real issue we should be discussing is less about gender and more about energy?

Here’s the real issue I want to address: it’s time to move away from the gender conversation and start addressing masculine and feminine energy. Feminine and masculine energies are equally important BUT in the world we’re living in today, more feminine qualities – like empathy, receptiveness, openness, intuition, etc – are desperately needed.

More now than ever, women are the driving force behind The Great Resignation: the death knell of hustle culture and the demand for less doing, more being in everything we do.

What if owning the stage actually means… showing up on it less?

What I mean is this: hustle culture teaches us that in order to BOSS UP (and change our lives, apologies to Lizzo) we have to SHOW UP. All the damn time.

Success is achieved when and only when you can perform at the top of your game with high-level, highly-engaged energy for a sustained amount of time. Engaged energy is the type and amount of energy you are using at any given time on any given day. This is important because engaged energy plays a vital role in your success.