I work with a sex coach, not because I have sex problems, but because the coach and I are on a similar wavelength. My coach, Michaelann Gardner, is a deeply compassionate and fascinating person who has studied hypnosis under Melissa Tiers, just like I have. (To give you an idea of what our coaching sessions are like: Michaelann guides me through hypnotic trances where we meditate on death, on the impermanence of life. I emerge from these meditations with a profound appreciation for my earthly ex...
Mar 06, 2025•48 min•Ep. 89
I'm a coach who helps smart folks who don't like office politics get promoted and better paid. Part of that work is helping professionals negotiate their salary. 98% of my clients are women, and I often hear this objection when I coach on salary negotiation: "I feel guilty for asking for the money I want." In this episode, I share insights on how to shift your mindset, presence, and strategy to approach salary discussions with poise and confidence. You'll learn: Why focu...
Mar 03, 2025•16 min•Ep. 88
Since 2011, I've hosted negotiation trainings that can be best described as scrappy, pragmatic, and useful. It started with humble Meetups where I got a bunch of the smartest women I know into a room and had them practice asking for what they wanted -- out loud. When the pandemic hit, I consciously decided to focus primarily on my 1:1 executive coaching, and everything moved to Zoom. (You can read about my coaching philosophy, process, and pricing right over here on the website ) Since then...
Feb 18, 2025•2 hr 36 min•Ep. 87
🔥This might get me fired, I say to my clients to preface this truth bomb — The game is rigged against employees. Learning to negotiate for yourself is an essential part of playing to win the game. The system is rigged to benefit the select few at the top and shareholders, not the hard-working manager or multi-talented individual contributor. And if you’re a hard-working woman or a minority, the odds are even worse. But all is not lost. You need to learn how to: ✅ Advocate for yourself ✅ Negotia...
Feb 05, 2025•18 min•Ep. 86
In this interview, employment lawyer Anne Donne Lee Bush shares practical advice for navigating workplace discrimination. Anne draws from her own experience as an immigrant lawyer who reinvented her career in New York to provide no-nonsense guidance on building evidence, challenging performance improvement plans, and leveraging mediation to negotiate better severance packages. Whether you're facing microaggressions, retaliation, or the threat of layoffs, Anne's honest, empowering appro...
Jan 23, 2025•47 min•Ep. 85
This is a replay of my interview on The Burnout Club podcast, hosted by Patrice Bonfiglio—a hedge fund industry veteran and all-around powerhouse. Key Takeaways: Burnout isn’t caused by working hard—it’s driven by chasing a specific feeling or using emotion as fuel to push yourself to extremes. A key sign of burnout is physical illness—it often shows up through physical symptoms. Overcoming burnout requires a two-pronged approach: logical reasoning combined with subconscious work using hypnotic ...
Jan 02, 2025•31 min•Ep. 84
This holiday treat is a guided hypnotic relaxation designed to help you unwind, celebrate your wins, and step into the new year with lightness, joy, and renewed energy. If you enjoy this, please share this episode with your favorite people! To learn more about my services, come to www.jamieleecoach.com. Happy holidays! Jamie Text me your thoughts on this episode! Enjoy the show? Don't miss an episode, listen and subscribe via Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Leave me a review in Apple Podcasts ....
Dec 24, 2024•7 min•Ep. 83
As the year comes to a close, many of us find ourselves being unusually hard on ourselves. The “itty-bitty-shitty committee” in our minds grows louder, fueled by the pressure of the year-end. We take stock of the past twelve months and too often hold them against ourselves like a harsh jury. For some, the holidays — the Christmas season — can feel particularly challenging, especially if the memories associated with this time aren’t the happiest. It’s a season that often drags us back into childh...
Dec 19, 2024•19 min•Ep. 82
I'm joined by Joyce Kao and Heidi Seibold, the co-founders of the Digital Research Academy. Joyce and Heidi have an inspiring entrepreneurial journey. As former researchers, they decided to take the leap and co-found the Digital Research Academy, a training network focused on open science and research best practices. In our conversation, they share the challenges they faced in making the decision to build the academy independently and how coaching helped them gain clarity on a key decision ...
Dec 12, 2024•39 min•Ep. 81
This is a replay of a recent online workshop I delivered called "How to Tap into Brain Magic When the World Feels like a Dumpster Fire." Here's what you'll learn: Why accessing the unconscious matters when you want to take new action and advocate for yourself, especially when you're a woman, a person of color, or of any other marginalized identity How to overcome self-advocacy jitters and imposter syndrome, particularly for women, minorities, and neurodiverse individuals...
Dec 09, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 80
In this episode of Risky Conversations, we talk about betting on and investing in women leaders. I'm joined by Patricia Lizarraga, CEO and portfolio manager of the W CEO ETF, who discusses her journey from growing up in a military dictatorship in Lima, Peru, to her career in finance. She highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced, including starting a sorority at Yale and bringing financial products to Peru. Patricia explains the investment thesis of the W CEO ETF, which focuses ...
Nov 22, 2024•46 min•Ep. 79
If you've ever doubted yourself, felt out of place, or struggled with imposter syndrome as a woman or person of marginalized identity, remember this: There’s nothing wrong with you. The corporate ladders are broken. Leadership pipelines are broken. It’s not your fault that society conditions women and marginalized people to question their worth. We’re all put into “trances”—altered states of consciousness triggered by external influences—that lead us to second-guess ourselves. It’s essentia...
Nov 10, 2024•10 min•Ep. 78
Today's episode is recorded on November 7th, 2024 — just days after the U.S. election. Like many of you, I’ve been navigating big, complex emotions: grief, disappointment, and a familiar feeling of heartbreak. Today, I’ll share a personal reflection on what this election meant to me as an immigrant, a woman of color, and a coach who serves women striving for leadership in a flawed system. We'll explore how Kamala Harris’s concession speech spoke to the hopes and resilience of so many o...
Nov 07, 2024•10 min
I’m Jamie Lee, an executive coach for ambitious overthinkers who want to stop holding themselves back and start advocating confidently to advance their careers. If you’re curious about how to make that happen for yourself, visit jamieleecoach.com , where you can take a quick leadership archetype quiz or dive into over 100 blog posts packed with actionable tips on self-advocacy. One of the biggest challenges I hear from high-achievers is figuring out how to balance their creative side with their ...
Nov 05, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 77
When you're a smart, capable woman who leads, you're most likely going to be one of the few or the only in the leadership suite -- especially so if you're a woman of color, an immigrant, on the LGBTQ spectrum or neurodivergent. This inevitably means you often have to FIGHT to keep your seat at the table. When should you put up a fight? Why should you risk fighting? What life skills outside of work will help you become a better fighter and therefore a winner? But also, when should ...
Oct 18, 2024•52 min•Ep. 76
When my coaching clients—accomplished professionals who are minorities at work—tell me how they spin out in anxious rumination or freeze up without speaking in large meetings, I know it’s not because they haven’t prepared or tried hard enough. It’s because a part of their brain tells them that speaking up is too big a risk. They're pushing too hard against a belief that cuts right into their sense of safety and self-worth. In today’s episode, we’ll dive into why this happens and, more impor...
Oct 11, 2024•31 min•Ep. 75
Imagine a world where more women and women of color are in check-writing and decision-making roles at every level of entrepreneurship and investing. That's the future I explored as an intern at Golden Seeds (back in 2010), an angel fund dedicated to women-owned and led startups. I relished sitting in on investor pitches and learning about innovative solutions in areas as varied as reproductive health, children's education, and sustainable fashion -- spaces where women's lived expe...
Oct 04, 2024•41 min•Ep. 74
What should you do when a colleague (or a manager) takes credit for your ideas at work? According to Harvard Business Review, it's a matter of when, not if. You’ll speak up in a meeting with managers and offer a strategic solution to a business problem only to be unacknowledged, ignored, or worse yet, shushed. Then a colleague — almost always a man — will paraphrase your idea and get praised for it. It's infuriating. It hurts. While injustices exist, you don’t want to idly stand by and...
Sep 12, 2024•37 min•Ep. 73
In this episode, I'm joined by Anne Devereux-Mills, former CEO of ad agencies and founder of Parlay House, to discuss the bold and boundary-pushing choices Anne made in her career and beyond. Anne shares how she navigated the male-dominated executive suite as CEO of ad agencies, taking risks to draw lines between her work and family life, even when it went against the norms. She opens up about the difficult, vulnerable conversations she had to have -- calling out inappropriate behavior from...
Sep 05, 2024•40 min•Ep. 71
If you've ever struggled with severe PMS, painful periods, or the visceral challenges of having a female body in a male-dominated workplace, this episode is a must-listen. This is an important conversation for me personally. As a menstruating woman in her forties, I've had days where I'd been doubled over in premenstrual pain (both physical and mental) so bad the overly dramatic part of my brain told me I was going to die. I'm always searching for answers, so I've google...
Aug 26, 2024•36 min•Ep. 72
In today's podcast, we're going to talk about negotiating a pay raise after coming back from maternity leave. We're going to address why this can feel risky what you can do to de-risk your request for the salary increase and the steps you can take to ensure that the risk you take in asking for a raise is most likely to be rewarded I'm sharing a simple, easy-to-follow framework, scripts and a mindset shift to help you navigate this conversation. (You can also click HERE for th...
Aug 12, 2024•31 min•Ep. 70
It's with great pleasure and joy that I am announcing the rebrand of my podcast. Two years ago, I bootstrapped an ambitious podcast series for women called Negotiate Your Career Growth. After 1000s and 1000s of downloads, 68 episodes, 20 incredible interviews with thought leaders, award winning journalists, experts and authors... We're going to keep going just under a new name and a reframe. Welcome to Risky Conversations. Why? Because everything that's rewarding is on the other s...
Aug 06, 2024•4 min•Ep. 69
Mid-year reviews. Some companies have them as soon as Q2 wraps up, like clockwork, and some companies treat them informally. Whatever the case may be for you, you want to show up to them feeling confident, prepared, and ready to advocate for career growth that would make you actually want to get up on Monday morning. In this episode, I'm sharing a simple yet powerful five-step framework that has helped real women get promoted and better paid in various industries, including engineering, med...
Jul 23, 2024•31 min•Ep. 68
This is a replay of a webinar that's intended to help you gain confidence and skill in collaborative, interest-based negotiation so you can grow your influence, impact, and income. You can immediately apply the skills and strategies from this webinar to improve your outcomes in everyday workplace negotiations and salary negotiations. You'll also: • Explore frameworks for leading problem-solving, value-creating conversations • Learn a simple, repeatable 5-step framework for negotiating ...
Jul 08, 2024•47 min•Ep. 67
This is a recording of a live webinar I hosted on Friday 6/21/2024. Watch the video replay here: https://youtu.be/noBDqmL5t8g?si=ED0E-TFcFKUvofZT In this webinar, we talked about: Perimenopause and confidence Gender socialization and confidence Self-directed neuroplasticity tools How to politely and firmly say no to a wrongly-timed invitation Demo of bilateral stimulation, which promotes blood flow and impulses to both sides of the brain, effectively reducing anxiety How to generate calm, ground...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 66
As a woman, I've encountered contradicting feedback that my voice is both "too loud" and "too soft." I've felt the pressure to change, minimize, and silence my natural speaking voice because unconscious gender bias leads to more criticism, rather than amplification of women's voices. In this episode, my two guests -- Julie Fogh and Casey Erin Clark of Vital Voice Training -- celebrate a decade of helping leaders communicate with savvy, charisma, authenticity, a...
Jun 12, 2024•55 min•Ep. 65
Selena Rezvani, author of the WSJ-bestselling book "Quick Confidence" returned to the podcast to share with us these pearls of wisdom: How Selena and Jamie's experiences of negotiating as college students informed how we later became our own advocates as a minority in the workplace How taking action and presenting solutions, even while feeling desperate, can lead to courageous outcomes Tips on how to build confidence by keeping promises to oneself, recognizing one's own stren...
May 21, 2024•39 min•Ep. 64
When you want to motivate people to take certain actions but not others (i.e. get the deal on time, but not settle), what do you say? Here's what most people do: Start with the incentive and end with the thing to avoid. "We want to work with you, but these terms don't work for us." "I know we can get the project done on time and on budget, but no last-minute changes this time. Ok?" In this short but mighty actionable episode, I'm walking you through The brain-b...
May 14, 2024•11 min•Ep. 63
I've come across a book that makes the perplexing and painful things from my childhood AND professional life make sense within the broader context of the history of humanity. And I'd like to shout about it from the mountaintops. This book is The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule , by Angela Saini, a science journalist and author who teaches at MIT. Now, don't get this wrong. The book ISN'T about bashing men or making the female gender superior to another (that would just be pe...
May 06, 2024•55 min•Ep. 62
If you're listening -- and not just a bot scanning text online -- you know what a monumental challenge it is to contend every day with leading your human self and other human beings. But what exactly does it take to lead other humans well? What does genuine human leadership look like? Joining us today to unpack these questions is Dr. Jennifer Nash, an executive advisor, leadership development consultant, and author of the award-winning book, "Be Human, Lead Human." Together we div...
Apr 24, 2024•29 min•Ep. 61
