Jamie Lee is an executive coach for smart women who hate office politics. She helps them get promoted and better paid without throwing anyone under the bus.
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Kabat-Zinn gently pointed me back to the thing I’d temporarily forgotten—despite a decade of preaching the same thing to high-performing anxious people: The healing paradox of non-striving.
The less you try to change your current inner experience, the faster you can actually do something about it.
The more you try to "fix" your emotions and beliefs, the stickier and trickier they get.
Is it just me, or is 2026 already moving at warp speed?
If you’ve been busy creating a 24-page strategic sales plan or negotiating the 2026 budget, you might have missed a few things I’ve cooked up to help you lead with integrity, galvanize the team into action, while keeping your nervous system from hitting the "eject" button.
When you think of the word "authority," what is the first thought that comes up for you?
For many high-performing women leaders I coach, "authority" is a loaded word.
Here’s why that makes sense. We’ve spent years navigating structures where authority was questionable or its misuse eroded our trust. Conditioned to be self-effacing and humble, we often view traditional authority as brash or bombastic.
I read Women Don’t Ask … it changed my life. I realized when I was growing up in South Korea, it was common for women to haggle and bargain, so the concept of negotiating was natural. But in America, I saw most women were not comfortable negotiating for themselves.
That realization lit a fire in me. I thought, maybe it’s not about “fixing” women — maybe it’s about practicing what we were never taught to do out loud.
The result? The year’s not even over, and she already has the backing of her performance coach (the internal one at her company), her new boss, and her boss’s boss.
If getting promoted is like baking a cake, hers is already baked, iced, and ready to serve.
So what’s left? The cherry on top: a five-slide promotion deck that makes her promotion a done deal.
Blatant injustice shakes our confidence and sense of well-being.
Nor is it a lack of strength, power, or will that leads 75% of executive women to second-guess themselves (according to KPMG study)
And it’s no personal failing that 50% of women of color planned to leave their jobs, citing marginalization (according to Working Mother Media survey)
When you’re that rare woman, one of the handful of people of color, or the neuro-sparkly oddball in leadership…Navigating office politics and advocating for yourself is spiritual work.
You'll speak up in a meeting and offer a strategic solution to a shared problem only to be unacknowledged, ignored, or worse yet, shushed.
Then a colleague -- almost always a man -- will paraphrase your idea and get praised for it.
Next time something like this happens to you, please for the love of Jove -- do NOT stay silent.
“I’m the worst at doing the ‘warm and fuzzy’ things. I’d much rather go straight to business,” my client said. As a forward-thinking VP leading a talented team of consultants, she’s determined to solidify her team’s reputation as essential to her firm’s success. With her first in-person team retreat on the horizon, we developed a four-step plan to help her achieve this…
If I were to be Kamala’s executive coach for the next 104 days until the election (yes, a girl’s allowed to dream big 😉), I’d work to equip her with brain-boosting tools to go from great to exceptionally well-resourced.
