One look at the headlines and it’s clear: experienced professionals don't feel free or at ease at work right now. Middle layers are being flattened, the path upwards is narrowing, and even the most accomplished leaders are carrying worry about what's next. How do you escape it? Drawing on everything from finance theory to real stories of Lead from Within clients who've used this to land top-of-band offers, generous retention packages, and the leverage to turn down "great opportunities" without a second thought, Melody unpacks what real career freedom is and how you can engineer it for yourself.

You’ll Discover:

• The #1 thing that lets you say "no" to a bad offer without panicking
• How one client turned "relocate or get fired" into a deal that worked entirely in her favor
• 4 aspects of executive readiness that make opportunities come to you (instead of you chasing them)

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Most mid-to-senior professionals treat summer as career downtime and then every fall, they're blindsided when the promotions, projects, and budgets get handed to someone else. The truth is that your next 12-18 months are being decided right NOW, while the clay is still soft and almost no one is paying attention. In this episode, Melody reveals why summer is the single highest-leverage season for your advancement, and exactly how to use it (without sacrificing a minute of your pool time).

You’ll Discover:

• Why July is secretly the easiest month all year to get in front of power
• The off-script summer moments where leaders decide if you're executive material (usually when you least expect it)
• Why covering for a colleague on PTO is not a burden, but an audition for the next level

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https://melodywilding.com/training/

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Early in your career, the metrics are clear and your effort translates into direct results. But what happens when that stops being true? When you have to reinvent yourself constantly, and when it seems - no matter how hard you work - success is slow to come? Ryan Hawk – host of The Learning Leader Show has spent years having over 700 conversations with the world's brightest authors, scholars, and researchers. In this episode he breaks down insights from his new book The Price of Becoming.

What You’ll Discover:

• The #1 skill that predicts long-term career success more reliably than talent, credentials, or work ethic
• Use the "advantage us" mindset to stop being derailed by every situation that feels unfair, unpredictable, or outside your control
• The flywheel that separates people who consume content from people who are changed by it

About Ryan Hawk

Ryan is the host of The Learning Leader Show with 680+ episodes over the past 11 years and ranked a top 5 business podcast on Apple. He is the author of The Price of Becoming, The Score That Matters, The Pursuit of Excellence, and Welcome to Management. https://learningleader.com/

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4. Get Melody's new book, Managing Up

What really drives your executive presence, career decisions, and ability to influence the people around you? No, it’s not talent, effort, or strategy. It's your beliefs. In this episode, Melody talks with Nir Eyal, a globally recognized authority on behavior change and human potential, about his new book, Beyond Belief.

You’ll Discover:

• The critical difference between a fact, a belief, and faith
• Beware: positive thinking and manifestation can make you less likely to achieve your goals – here’s why
• Engineer your own luck and draw promotions, plum projects, and more TO you
• One question Nir asks himself that stops a limiting belief in its tracks

About Nir Eyal

Nir Eyal is a globally recognized authority on behavior change and human potential. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the international bestsellers Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, which have sold over one million copies in more than 30 languages. His third book, Beyond Belief: The Science-Backed Way to Stop Limiting Yourself and Achieve Breakthrough Results, became an instant New York Times best-seller and reveals how to identify and replace the hidden beliefs that define our limits. https://www.nirandfar.com/

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Twenty years after Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office changed the conversation about women in the workplace, the mistakes it exposes are still happening, but now in new settings, with higher stakes, and sometimes in subtler forms than ever before.

In this episode, Melody sits down with Dr. Lois Frankel, the bestselling author behind the Nice Girls series, to talk about what has (and hasn't) changed for ambitious women navigating today's corporate landscape.

You’ll Discover:

• The specific seating choice most women make in meetings that suggests they don't belong at the table before they've even said a word
• What to say when someone takes your idea and presents it as their own
• A two-step approach for shutting down gaslighting colleagues

About Dr. Lois Frankel

She is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling business bible for women, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office. Other books in the "nice girls" series include Nice Girls Don’t Get Rich, Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It and an audiobook, Nice Girls Don’t Speak Up or Stand Out. She has appeared on the Today Show and Larry King Live and has been interviewed in the Wall Street Journal, People magazine, Cosmopolitan, and other print media. Her client list includes Amgen, ARCO, BP, Goldman Sachs, Lockheed Martin, McKinsey & Co., Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and The Walt Disney Company. https://drloisfrankel.com/

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What if the thing standing between you and the career and leadership impact you want isn't strategy, skill, or hustle…but hope? In this episode, Melody sits down with Jen Fisher, former Chief Wellbeing Officer at Deloitte and author of Hope is The Strategy. Jen shares the science of hope as a performance skill – one that the research shows directly predicts goal achievement, drives higher performance, builds stronger teams, and creates the kind of leadership presence that people genuinely want to follow.

You’ll Discover:

• The sneaky ways hopelessness creeps into high-performing teams (and why most leaders miss it until it's too late)
• What Jen did with her team during a major corporate restructuring that kept them connected, motivated, and growing with almost no resources
• The one question that trains your brain to find possibility instead of defaulting to threat and catastrophe
• The three most powerful words you as a leader can say right now to instantly build and disarm skeptics

About Jen Fisher

Jen Fisher is a global authority on workplace wellbeing, the bestselling author of Work Better Together, and the founder and CEO of The Wellbeing Team. As Deloitte US's first chief wellbeing officer, she pioneered a groundbreaking, human-centered approach to work that gained international recognition and reshaped how organizations view wellbeing. https://www.jen-fisher.com/

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LIVE VIRTUAL EVENT July 15th @ 5pm ET

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1. FREE NEWSLETTER: Psychology at Work Weekly
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How do you deal with uncertainty at a time when our careers and work have never felt less certain? Melody sits down with journalist Simone Stolzoff to talk about his brand new book How to Not Know and how to stop letting anxiety about the unknown dictate your decisions.

You’ll Discover:

• The #1 reason your tolerance for uncertainty is getting worse (and it has nothing to do with stress or your job)
• How to identify which of three “certainty traps” is holding you back from career opportunities
• The surprising thing smart people do that makes professional uncertainty so much worse
• One question that cuts through analysis paralysis faster than any pro/con list ever will

About Simone

Simone Stolzoff is a journalist and author from San Francisco. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, and on the TED stage. His debut book, The Good Enough Job, was translated into over a dozen languages. https://simonestolzoff.com/

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LIVE VIRTUAL EVENT July 15th @ 5pm ET

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Connect with Melody:

1. FREE NEWSLETTER: Psychology at Work Weekly
2. Get on the Waitlist for Speak Like a Senior Leader™
3. Get on the Waitlist for Lead from Within
4. Get Melody's new book, Managing Up

🚨 LAST CHANCE: Speak Like a Senior Leader™ gives you the system to become a crisp, clear, confident communicator and be handed dream opportunities before you ever ask for them. Secure your spot: https://speaklikeaseniorleader.com

Today, Melody is sharing something personal — the number one truth about influence she had to discover herself, the hard way. And why understanding it might be the most important thing you do for your communication and your career this year.

Top of Mind & Tapped for More
LIVE VIRTUAL EVENT July 15th @ 5pm ET

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Connect with Melody:

1. FREE NEWSLETTER: Psychology at Work Weekly
2. Get on the Waitlist for Speak Like a Senior Leader™
3. Get on the Waitlist for Lead from Within
4. Get Melody's new book, Managing Up