{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Careerist","title":"EP01 - The Reckoning | When Success Stops Working","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1035,"description":"That feeling you can’t name even after achieving your North Star - the pinnacle of your career goals? It’s thanks to a career model built in 1947 that was never catered for women and which is STILL very much adopted.\nIn this debut episode, Natasha Baker unpacks what a Mid-Career Reckoning is and why you shouldn’t take signals for wanting something beyond success personally - it’s a structural problem.\nWe’re giving language to the array of feelings women are experiencing and handing out permission slips for every desire brewing within your high achieving, successful self.\nJoin us in shaping the story arc of female careers today.\nCareer Happiness Survey - https://form.typeform.com/to/vCW9cxTk\nChapters + Timestamps\n0:00 — Opening\n0:40 — Part One: The Scroll That Started Everything\n2:35 — Part Two: The Girlboss Hangover\n6:05 — Part Three: The Pattern\n8:30 — Part Four: The Invisible Tax\n12:25 — Part Five: The Reframe\n14:50 — The Reckoning — Career Happiness Wheel + what's next\n17:00 — Outro — subscribe + share with one woman who needs this\nConnect With us\nCareer Happiness Wheel — https://the-careerist.com/about/\nYouTube:   / @thecareerist  \nInstagram:  / _thecareerist\nLinkedIn:  / thecareerist  \nWebsite: https://the-careerist.com/\nData Sources\nCareer satisfaction U-shaped curve — University of Surrey (2025)\nWomen's job satisfaction drops 20% at senior level — The Conference Board\nCorporate ladder structure dates to 1947 — organisational design history\n1950: 70% of families on single income, 65% working husband + non-working wife — U.S. Census Bureau\nHappiness plateaus above ~$100k for unhappiest 15% — Kahneman & Deaton, Princeton (original + 2023 follow-up)\nWomen receive higher performance ratings but 8.3% lower \"potential\" ratings; 14% less likely to be promoted — McKinsey & [LeanIn.Org](http://LeanIn.Org), Women in the Workplace Report\n200+ hours/year on non-promotable work — Linda Babcock et al., The No Club\n44% more requests for non-promotable tasks assigned to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/OuAKZ0m8hoUNWCXA31fPd-AG7sZl8Y7yDyP-PCz-_44/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZWVk/YzBiMWRmYWM2YjYz/ZjJjYzdiOTFmYjhh/NDhhMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}