Episode 1. Seeing What You've Shipped: Recognizing Yourself at Work

What do you do when everyone around you is getting recognized, and you feel oddly invisible? In "recognition-rich" tech cultures, Slack shoutouts, peer awards, and birthday cards are everywhere. But for senior women in leadership, who are often the ones responsible for giving out the praise, it's easy to feel completely unseen.

In the premiere episode of Women Who Ship, host Sarah Williams tackles the taboo topic of feeling unappreciated at work. She breaks down why waiting for "gold stars" from others puts your confidence on a rollercoaster, and why you don't actually need external praise to validate your worth.

Instead, Sarah shares practical tools to help you build grounded self-trust through intentional self-recognition. You'll learn how to separate the facts from the punishing stories you tell yourself, how to redefine what recognition looks like at the senior level, and exactly how to run a weekly 30-minute "Recognition Retro" to build a private evidence file of your own impact.

Your Next Steps:

• Take Action: Block 30 minutes on your calendar this week to run your own Recognition Retro. Write down three specific things you did that mattered, and exactly why they were important.

• Share: If this episode helps you see your own value, please share it with another woman in tech who might be feeling invisible in a noisy, recognition-rich culture.

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Let's go ship some good stuff together.

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