#tiktoklive #livehighlights your value dictates your trajectory.

11 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Sharitta Marshall talks about how imposter feelings lead people to shrink themselves at work, avoiding promotions and raises. Not pursuing visibility and growth stints your financial trajectory, even as systemic barriers like racism and capitalism make the climb harder.

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nervous. So when you don't think you're good enough, one, you're not going to go for promotions. You're not going to speak up for yourself for a merit increase. You are not going to look at different ways that you can create visibility on the work that you do. You're not going to go after different positions because you don't believe that you've checked all the boxes to be qualified for. And that is stifling your career financially because you should be moving up in your career at least every Um, 2 to 3 years in some way, shape, form, or fashion, and it needs to be financial. It can't just be, oh well, I got a promotion, but it was just the name only. No, you know, how was that? How was that increasing your bank account? We got tariffs to pay for. Like, no. So shrinking yourself is going to cost you financially. And I always give this example, and I'm very transparent about it, is that me shrinking myself And a part of it is systemic inequities, capitalism, racism, all those things, all the isms.