Be The Ripple Podcast
For Such a Time as This, with Carolyn Hantz | A Ripple Talk
How many of you know what it feels like to give your absolute best, to be the one people rely on, and still feel overlooked? Carolyn Hantz opens with that question because she has lived the answer. She spent forty six years in federal service across eight presidential administrations, sixteen of them in the Senior Executive Service, a group that makes up 0.4% of the federal workforce. She started as an entry level secretary paying her own tuition, and she was selected into the SES less than a year after losing her husband to cancer, while raising two young children on her own. In this talk she lays out what the rise actually requires: closing your experience gaps instead of waiting to be noticed, building strategic relationships rather than surface connections, being visible in the rooms that matter, and making the mindset shift that holds it all together. After the talk, Carolyn joins Ripple Network founder Sabine Hutchison to talk about coming back to public speaking after retirement, what she learned from hearing her own story played back, and why sharing the hard parts makes room for other people to do the same. Ripple Talks are built inside The Ripple Network, a twelve week speaking practice for women professionals who want to speak with more confidence, more clarity, and more of themselves. One ripple can change the tide. Applications for the next cohort: www.theripplenetwork.com
