This content was created by Thomas Anglero. This content was uploaded by Thomas Anglero. This is a podcast episode (Episode 108: "Your Authentic Voice Changes Your Life") — a monologue by host Thomas Anglero (recorded March 8, 2021). In this motivational talk he reflects on International Women’s Day and interview dynamics, offers career advice (especially for women and nontraditional candidates), criticizes the “fake it till you make it” mentality, and urges authenticity over strict corporate conformity. He discusses shifting hiring practices (companies de-emphasizing Ivy League/degrees), the impact of COVID and ongoing cultural change (entropy), and encourages listeners to be bold and true to themselves. The excerpt is primarily a solo address by Thomas Anglero; it references another panelist (a CMO) but contains no diarized multi‑speaker conversation. Metadata: title "Episode 108: Your Authentic Voice Changes Your Life", contenttype PODCAST, createdtime 2021-03-08, thumbnail URL provided.
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Welcome to the Soul of Innovation podcast. I am Thomas Anglero, and I just finished speaking on the stage during one of these Clubhouse groups, and we were talking about International Women's Day, and then I was answering questions about how women interview, how different it is than men. And I was giving my advice that if you're gonna go for it, you go for it, that you should have in your head, why not me? Why not me? Why, why, why shouldn't I be in that position? Why? I deserve to have that promotion. Why not me? Why shouldn't I be on the management team? I deserve to be on the management team. Why not me? And I thought I did an okay job of expressing myself and explaining and giving good content. Another person on the panel was a person who was Chief Marketing Officer for a very big international firm, and he made it very clear that he was Chief Marketing Officer for another international firm, and they stole him away. Good for you. And his reply was that in the interview process, it is very important that the candidate's criteria, background, and education is thoroughly investigated, that I'm looking for the energy from the candidate, and that the candidate must be very good for the position. Yeah, I see the world right now where we are with COVID where we are with the split. The split in what? Will we go back to what we were and who you were before this mess had kicked in, Or do you accept the inevitable that change and, let's be more scientific, entropy, and that is that everything changes and everything will return back from a state of chaos to a state of calm? In other words, change is permanent universal law. Which is going to be the outcome? The answer is change is permanent, and that the mess that we got these corporations in the world into, and the mess that you got yourself into, is based on pleasing people from this old world. That when you interview for a job, you have to make sure you have the right credentials, the right education, the right bit tone of voice, the right everything to impress this one individual sitting across from you from the table that owns the keys to your future and your life. Or You be you. Explain that maybe you didn't have a chance to go to college, you didn't have the money. Maybe you had a kid when you were early in life. Maybe you had a sick parent that you had to take care of. But now you have a moment, you have a chance. If you've done with those life responsibilities, you don't have the education, you don't have the paperwork, you don't have the experience, but you know what? I'm here right now and this is the right place and that's the right position. Do you know that IBM, Facebook, Twitter have all stopped recruiting from the Ivy Leagues primarily? They realize, and I could quote Google, they realize that when they filled their company up with nothing but straight-A students, perfect 4.0, 6.0, whatever your grading system is, that perfect grade, well, that once they had a couple, like what they said, once we passed 5,000 of these perfect-graded students, we realized we had the worst corporate culture possible. These people had no culture and no sense of socialness. And they said they'll never go back to recruiting from degrees ever again. They now recruit without degrees. They wanna know who you are, what you're made out of. They're now hiring more people without degrees and people with passion, people with focus, people who've gone through life and experienced everything and are now ready to kill it. Those people are much better than people who got perfect A's, had their college degrees paid for, had tuition, had mom and papa take care of them, and now Google's taking care of them and they are horrible employees. My point with this whole thing is that this is your moment, and that all these people in the corporate world— if you choose to be so damn corporate, there's nothing wrong with being corporate, but there's got to be some sort of balance. Because you have to look at the rearview mirror, you have to look at the mess called our history, and that occurred because the corporate way is falling apart. It's literally rocks falling off a cliffside. And slowly over time, the sea and the waves will come and deteriorate the rock, and the rock will disappear. And that is the corporate culture that's falling apart. We have things like, like Clubhouse. We have things like social media, which 15 years ago no one would have ever imagined it would do what it has done to this world. And all those things are just more and more waves hitting the shore, hitting the hillside, deteriorating the rock pebble by pebble, grain of sand by grain of sand. And the universe's law of entropy and that change is constant and that you can't beat it is actually what you have to accept to succeed. There's a little bit different But what I'm trying to say is that tonight, when being confronted with my alter ego, when it comes to living your life, do you want to be known as the corporate guy, corporate girl? You follow the rules of the book, you go home, you're corporate. Or as he said at the very end, he said, hey, I give you one bit of life of work advice. 'Fake it till you make it,' which means fake being a professional at work and then be the whoever you are at home. Not good advice. Don't live two lives. Be who you are all the time. Don't fake a damn thing. Every time you fake something, it costs you, because now you got to remember what you faked, and you have to do that faking again and again and again to every single person that you faked it to. And you can't You can't blow it. If you blow it one time, they call you out. You're full of shit. Fake it till you make it costs you your soul. Being who you are enriches your soul. I don't hate corporate. I hate bad culture. I hate people who sell themselves out for money. If you were to get sick tomorrow morning, really sick, and you reflect on your last 24 hours, you want to be proud that you attended every meeting, you were good on those phone calls, or do you want to reflect that you were your authentic self at every one of those meetings? And you spoke up with your authentic voice in every one of those phone calls. It's a big damn difference. Go forth and spread beauty and light. Spread yourself. Be a wave coming against the shore. Over and over again, waves come. Whether there's wind or no wind, there's always waves coming into the shore. Deteriorating the beach, which represents the past. And after every wave, the beach is never the same. Life will never be the same. Be a wave. Change the world. Change your life. And you'll have a beautiful life. I love you. I am truly your biggest fan, and I don't want you to have any regret or any doubt. I don't want you to hesitate. I want you just to be and to love. Be yourself. Let everyone around you know who you are. You could do it with your voice. You could do it with a stare. You could do it with a glance. You could do it with a smile. Be you. Please. I love you. Until the next time. Thank you for listening to that episode. If you want to contact me, you can contact me on my website at anglero.com, and you can also subscribe to the newsletter, or you can find me anywhere on social media with Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. Thank you so much, and I hope to hear from you very soon.
