{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Unstoppable You","title":"Stop Waiting For Permission. Lead As You","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2209,"description":"\nBeing respected as a leader doesn’t mean being the loudest person in the room.\nIn this episode of Unstoppable You, I sit down with Katie Cosgrove, Partner at Cosgrove Partners, who is helping lead the next chapter of the company her father built alongside her brother. She started her career selling industrial supplies at Grainger, was managing a large team at 25, and spent years feeling like she had to look and act like the leaders around her to be taken seriously.\nWe talk about what it’s like to be “the boss’ daughter”, why trust is a currency you earn over time, and the moment she stopped fitting into someone else’s definition of a leader.\nThis episode is for anyone who has ever felt like they had to constantly become someone else to earn a seat at the table even if they’ve clearly worked hard to be there.\nWhat you’ll learn:\n- Why trying to look and lead like the people around you works against you, and what authenticity changes about how you’re respected\n- How to earn trust over time instead of rushing to prove yourself when people have already decided who you are\n- Why spending more time on your strengths than your gaps makes you better at the work and happier doing it\nHighlights:\n(00:00) Introducing Katie Cosgrove and what it takes to be taken seriously as a leader\n(02:34) What having it all means to Katie, and why it’s about how she feels, not milestones\n(05:36) What Katie had to unlearn to lead with authenticity\n(06:55) Walking into a manufacturing plant as a sorority girl who didn’t look the part\n(11:37) Being the boss’s daughter and the weight that comes with the family name\n(13:22) Why trust is a currency you earn, not something you’re given\n(14:52) Honoring her father’s legacy while following her own instincts\n(20:01) What being unstoppable means to Katie\n(24:42) How Katie redefined what success looks like\n(28:18) Her advice to young professionals\n(30:38) Why realizing every job can be taken on by someone else is freeing\n(32:02) Why you should spend...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kOSK1Z4APj5njOw3LS3oD8QNDCu3VGrRX_urow2H_zI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mM2Vj/MzNiMDMzZDIxMTdk/ZTNjMTcwMGNmNDg4/MGFhOC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}