24. Advocating for Your Experience, Knowing Your Worth and Embracing Change with Kylie Sprott

Building Doors with Lauren Karan

The most important one is to be willing to change course. Sometimes the best laid plans will get changed and it'll be through no fault of your own. Having the ability to remember that and don't get too stuck in only one way of getting to the end is important. Kylie Sprott

Join us in this inspiring episode of "Building Doors" as we dive into the diverse and global career journey of Kylie who shares her thoughts on the gender pay gap, challenging the status quo and leading a career filled founded on the opportunities that exist through change.

A truly international leader, Kylie, has also enjoyed working in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Ecuador, United Kingdom, and Asia. She shares her journey and life lessons through some truly challenging acquisitions and how she dealt with some poor behaviours early on in her career with grace and a continued strong alignment to her own personal values.

Listen as Kylie shares with authenticity her own personal experiences climbing the career ladder and facing the gender pay gap head on in traditionally male dominated industries

Get ready to gain insights on advocating for your experience, knowing your worth and staying true to your values despite obstacles you may face in your career.

In this episode Kylie shares with us her own personal journey and life lessons and we talk about

• Holding high standards of success
• Challenging the status quo.
• Shifting ambitions through your career journey
• The personal impact of the gender pay gap
• Maintaining a childlike enthusiasm for life
• The human impact of redundancies and restructures

Kylie reminds us that as we grow in our careers we can still maintain that zest for life and inherent curiosity.

Her honest reflection on her own career journey and the challenges she faced reminds us to continue to focus on doing good work and that no skill we ever learn is wasted.

Kylie’s warmth and values led leadership reminds us that we can achieve often beyond what we believe is possible for ourselves.

It's time to stop waiting and start building with Kylie Sprott.

You can connect with Kylie on on LinkedIn and read her articles on her website here.

About your host:

Lauren Karan, Director and Founder of Karan & Co.

With over a decade of experience as a recruiter and development coach, Lauren Karan found that her priorities rapidly changed after the birth of her two children. In 2022 she founded Karan & Co flipping the out-dated recruitment model with a focus on retention through career coaching and development.

Lauren believes that If opportunity doesn’t knock, you have to build a door – and it’s this same philosophy that inspired her to create the Building Doors podcast. The Building Doors podcast is for anyone undergoing a transformation in their life. Regardless of whether you feel stuck in your current role, need some inspiration on what steps to take next, want to learn how to level up as a business owner or simply want to listen to the experiences of successful entrepreneurs and industry professionals, the Building Doors podcast is all about unlocking your potential.

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