This document provides advice to the author's daughters on taking the road less traveled in life. It encourages confidence, resilience, staying calm, and empowerment. It also recommends seeking coaching to help achieve personal growth and become a better version of oneself. The document contains links to various websites on these topics to provide additional resources and information.
1. Road Less Traveled
Ashlee McCusker
AWS Head of Sales Development ANZ
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Advice to my daughters………………………… a better version of
me
Mom – put your pants on the same way anyone else
Silent strength – never rely on a man to take care of you, but rather a partner for this journey on life
Growing up with artist selling on the weekends
Dad – work ethic – work smart not hard
Sports – teamwork
Learn how to rely on others for an outcome
Understanding opponents weakness and expose
Losing scholarship
Only as good as you are a participant - sitting on the bench is dead weight
Self Confidence
ADP – youth – lose shoes, earring get the job
AWS
Integrity - choices
ADP – performance review sleeping with boss
GE – proposition for $1M deal
Make your own decisions, so you own it and can’t blame anyone
No regrets, learn from every choice even wrong ones
Resilience
Always back yourself
Symantec – leverage your resources and use your voice – be the change for others and yourself
Working mother managing it and realizing it’s ok not to have it all
Perseverance
Hotmail – use resources outside of your org if your not getting support
There is always a way – ask for help
Belief
Never qualified for roles I’ve taken – SUN
Stretch yourself – you will grow into it
Stand up for yourself and what’s right wrong – Symantec LT meeting working mom
Ambitious
What’s your end game
Be prepared to be knocked back
Gaps
Recognize your gaps in your skillset
Symantec – channel
AWS -Sales dev
Scared
PTC It’s ok – worse they can do fire me
SUN – take a risk and turn it on
Symantec – cancer – what’s the future
Failure –
Always an option, it’s an event not the person
If you don’t fail you don’t learn
Learning
Empowerment – a little empowerment goes a long way
Empower – enhance – enable – engage
When you believe you can you do and when you instill that belief if your team they will
Provides – respect, belonging, purpose, acceptance and security
Coaching – transfer of knowledge
Conviction
Cause
Future generation – my girls – letter to them around this preso
Diversity – why it’s important to me know
Speaking up