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I'm Dan McGinn.

And I'm Alison Beard.

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Today we're talking about raising your visibility with Meredith Feynman. She's a leadership coach and the author

of the new book, Brag Better, Master the Art of Fearless Self-promotion. Meredith, thanks for coming in the show.

Thanks so much for having me. Now, many of us are still sheltering at home and not seeing a lot of our

colleagues. Is this a tricky time to think about how you promote yourself?

Yeah, I mean, it's a tricky time for everyone, period. There is a lot of uncertainty. And so I

think that being more explicit than ever about the work you've done to the people that matter

for your career is really, really important.

Do you find that most people undersell themselves or to their own horns way too much?

Oh, for sure, the former. People are so bad at talking about themselves and promoting their accomplishments and their work and conveying that.

I find that that particularly affects

a demographic I call the qualified quiet, which are people that have done the work,

but don't know how to talk about it. So, yeah, it's a huge problem.

Allison, ready for the first question? Yeah. Dear HBR, I've recently moved from being a

manager in a steadily growing company to an individual contributor in a flatter and dynamic global organization.

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