Cutting the Anchor of Fear – DeLorean Question: Episode 5 – Plug In With TTC
It’s Episode Cinco and we are thrilled to have talent recruiting maven and entrepreneur Bethany Reese in the virtual studio with us! Drawing from her experiences as a woman in tech and often being the only female in the room, this conversation will challenge your perspective on career adversity, give some much-needed guidance on job seeking, and she even shares a moment of personal reflection that might resonate with many of you. Oh, and this is one “Back to the Future” answer you don’t want to miss!
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Key Takeaways:
Leverage niches – Utilize your partners as expertise within their area
Ask questions – Interview the company you’re applying to
Know and really understand your competition
Overcoming personal obstacles
Perspective is KEY 🔑
Our favorite soundbite:
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Dax:
I want to do the patented Back to the Future question. I ask this of every guest on our podcast and it essentially is something like this…Doc Brown pulls up in the DeLorean just a few feet above you saying, “Bethany you’ve got to get in.” You jump in, and he looks at you and says, “we need to go back and we need to do something different.”
What’s the date? Why are we going? And it’s not necessarily to change it, maybe it’s to accelerate something, maybe it’s to go left instead of right, maybe it’s for you to say don’t do this. Or maybe it’s to say, hey you should get Oreo faster! Or get Oreo a brother or sister. What do you tell Doc Brown when you jump into that DeLorean?
Bethany:
I have thought about this question many times over the years. And the answer is, unfortunately, I allowed fear to hold me back and not move into management because I didn’t think I would be good enough at it. That was not what I told people at the time because I didn’t realize that fear was the factor that was holding me back.
My excuse, shall I call it, was that I had no interest. I didn’t want to manage people, I didn’t have the management skills. That was not what I wanted to do.
But truly as I’ve grown looking back it was, I was afraid that I would fail and I wasn’t good enough. And so that’s for sure the portion that I would change I had great mentors around me that were wanting to see me succeed in management. And, I didn’t allow myself to go there. So that’s definitely the key component that I would go back to Doc Brown and tell him, “this is what we’re going to do – let’s change it!”
Dax:
I love it! Thank you for sharing that, I know that that can be really hard when you go back and talk about something as personal as reflecting on a time, thankfully in the past, where you feel you weren’t good enough to do something.
I really want to take a second and pause so all of our listeners give themselves a moment to think about that. Because, everyone at some point in their career and in their life has that sensibility about them, that feeling of what if I don’t do it well? Or maybe I’m not supposed to be that kind of person even though it’s in my heart, even though it’s right on the horizon and I can grab it. It is an overpowering feeling and it can really lead to issues. If you don’t conquer it or if you don’t talk about it and start figuring out ways to peel back that layer to get to the understanding of what’s causing you to deny yourself something that you secretly know you have to go through to get.
Like the management piece, it’s something a little bit different for everybody but there’s just that little element that just chips away until you bring it out to the open, broadcast it, start talking to people about it that you trust – your friends and mentors.
And you give yourself the opportunity to conquer it, so thank you!
