Why aren't we talking about this: Jealousy (Live Episode)

"LinkedIn is a jealousy machine pretending to be a motivation machine."

Ooofff.. yep.

Award season rolls around. Amazing job announcements. That campaign you wish you'd thought of. Everyone "thrilled, delighted, and excited."

And you're sitting there feeling hot with rage wondering what's wrong with you.

Nothing is wrong with you.

This is a live recording and we did not hold back.

We talked about every aspect of jealousy. Not in a sanitised, packaged way. In a raw, I'm actually naming who and what my biggest triggers are kind of way.

We talked about:

Reading someone's brilliant work and feeling genuine rage- not because they did anything wrong, but because it held up a mirror to everything I'd been sitting on and not doing.

Why jealousy might only be about other women and what that says about how few seats there still are at the table.

The sliding doors version of yourself. Getting jealous of the life you didn't choose. Is that jealousy? Or is it grief?

What your body is actually telling you when jealousy hits and why it's not about the other person at all. Spoiler hot and ragey...

The jealousy map. A tool that might just change how you process it.

My biggest takeaway? Jealousy is a signal. When you actually stop and listen to it, it's pointing at something you want, something you care about, something that matters to you.

The question is whether you let it fester or let it unlock something.

Huge thanks to Women in PR and FINN Partners for making it happen. 

 

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Why Aren’t We Talking About This? is a series of honest conversations about the stuff we rarely discuss but probably should - big feelings, weird thoughts, life, death, and all the messy, beautiful parts of being human.

Hosted by me, Carly Osman-Holme, on a quest to dodge a full-blown existential crisis. I’ve reached that point in life where I’m asking the big questions: How did I get here? What do I actually want? And why didn’t they teach us any of this in school?