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Career Identity + Growth Conversations for Professional Women: Exposing the Hidden Reality

Career Identity + Growth Conversations for Professional Women: Exposing the Hidden Reality

Di: Annette Garsteck Master Professional Career Coach + Sandra Wint Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach
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Bias, burnout, self-worth, and breaking barriers are not just buzzwords — they are the lived reality of women navigating leadership, workplace dynamics, and workplace culture every single day. Women's experiences take center stage here, exploring intersectionality, identity, and the invisible forces shaping professional visibility, belonging, and psychological safety at work.

Annette Garsteck, MBA, MPCC, is the author of Own Your Career: Take Control + Accelerate Your Professional Growth, a Certified Senior Professional Résumé Writer, and a former Fortune 50 hiring leader. She guides women to take ownership of their careers, increase their visibility, expand their influence, navigate workplace dynamics with confidence, and accelerate their growth while staying true to their values.

Sandra Wint, GPCC, Human Design practitioner + Gestalt-certified coach integrating shadow work, mother wound healing, nervous system regulation, emotional safety, astrology, and frameworks like the Karpman Drama Triangle to support deep personal transformation and self-awareness. Delivering these in Women’s Circles + leadership retreats, she helps women better understand themselves, their relationships, and the systems they navigate.

Each episode goes deep into trauma-informed leadership, the unspoken rules of power for women, and the influence women already hold but are rarely given permission to use. If you are a woman in leadership, or becoming one, who is done shrinking and ready to claim her space, this is your community.

On Exposing the Hidden Reality, we cover topics such as:
Why do high-performing women stay in abusive relationships?
Why do women burn out faster than men at work?
How does gender bias show up as "culture fit" in the workplace?
How can women overcome imposter syndrome and people pleasing at work?
What are the hidden barriers women face in leadership roles?
How do working women balance personal and professional identity?

Connect with Exposing the Hidden Reality:
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Episodi
  • 061: Dr. Wende Logan-Young: When Good Ideas Get Rejected at Work

    061: Dr. Wende Logan-Young: When Good Ideas Get Rejected at Work
    Oct 22 2026
    What if the answer to your idea is no, but the idea itself is not the problem?

    Dr. Wende Logan-Young saw a gap in the care that patients could receive in cases of Breast Cancer screening and Mammography. But when she could not change the established approach from inside her organization, she found another way. Her story stayed with Sandra because it points to something many of us have experienced at work: seeing what could be better and running into resistance from people who do not see the same need.

    Sandra and Annette explore the moment an idea gets turned down and suddenly feels like a rejection of you. Is it a bad idea, the wrong time, the wrong audience, or a lack of support? And what can leaders do when the answer is not yes, but they still want to open a door?

    If you have ever been told 'that's not how we do things here,' press play. You may find a different way to have the next conversation.

    Connect with Exposing the Hidden Reality:
    https://exposingthehiddenreality.com
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exposingthehiddenreality
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/exposingthehiddenreality
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/exposingthehiddenreality

    Connect with Annette Garsteck:
    https://www.annettegarsteck.com

    Connect with Sandra Wint:
    https://www.me-her-us.com

    Photography of Sandra Wint + Annette Garsteck taken by Katie Garlock, Portrations
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    32 min
  • 060: Who Will Step In? The Responsibility to Recognize, Interrupt, and Respond to Harm

    060: Who Will Step In? The Responsibility to Recognize, Interrupt, and Respond to Harm
    Oct 15 2026
    What does stepping in actually look like when someone is in danger, or when someone trusts you enough to tell you they have been harmed?

    Sometimes it looks like two students who refuse to walk past something wrong. Sometimes it looks like a stranger who sits beside someone at the hospital, without trying to take control. And sometimes it is a colleague who calmly says, “That was Sandra’s idea,” when a woman’s contribution is overlooked.

    Sandra Wint and Annette Garsteck ask what changes when responsibility moves beyond the person harmed. How do we listen without interrogating? How can bystanders intervene without escalating danger? What do leaders and mentors teach through the behavior they allow or challenge?

    This final conversation in their three-part series explores the practical choices that can help people feel supported and change what a community tolerates.

    This discussion contains sexual assault, drugging, and trauma. Please take care as you listen.

    For confidential sexual assault support in the U.S., visit https://rainn.org/.

    Join our newsletter to continue the conversation at https://www.exposingthehiddenreality.com. Access resources from the three-part series, Episodes 058 — 060 at https://www.exposingthehiddenreality.com/episode-058.

    Connect with Exposing the Hidden Reality:
    https://exposingthehiddenreality.com
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exposingthehiddenreality
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/exposingthehiddenreality
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/exposingthehiddenreality

    Connect with Annette Garsteck:
    https://www.annettegarsteck.com

    Connect with Sandra Wint:
    https://www.me-her-us.com

    Photography of Sandra Wint + Annette Garsteck taken by Katie Garlock, Portrations
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    30 min
  • 059: When Silence Enables Harm: Culture, Power, and Speaking Up

    059: When Silence Enables Harm: Culture, Power, and Speaking Up
    Oct 9 2026
    The joke everyone laughs off. The colleague someone quietly warns you not to meet alone. The talented employee who walks away because saying why feels riskier than leaving. What do those moments have in common?
    They help teach a group what is normal.

    Sandra and Annette ask a harder question than whether an organization has rules: Who gets to define acceptable behavior, and what happens to the people who challenge it? From a kindergarten lesson about peer pressure to the uncomfortable realities of speaking up at work, the conversation traces the gap between knowing something is wrong and feeling able to act.

    This discussion also references sexual assault cases, including allegations in a Cornell matter that was under investigation when the episode was recorded. We are examining cultural patterns, not determining guilt.

    Content note: sexual assault, drugging, and trauma

    Resources named - RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network): National Sexual Assault Hotline, 1-800-656-4673; rainn.org/hotline; text HOPE to 64673. The episode identifies these as routes to support for survivors and loved ones.

    Connect with Exposing the Hidden Reality:
    https://exposingthehiddenreality.com
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/exposingthehiddenreality
    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/exposingthehiddenreality
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/exposingthehiddenreality

    Connect with Annette Garsteck:
    https://www.annettegarsteck.com

    Connect with Sandra Wint:
    https://www.me-her-us.com

    Photography of Sandra Wint + Annette Garsteck taken by Katie Garlock, Portrations
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    33 min
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