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Do you feel sometimes your time is both all your own, and completely out of your hands. You are inundated with calls, emails, meeting online or in person, and more requests coming from your boss or other departments. All day, every day. At the end of the day you completely exhausted and feel no progress in your works and deliver crappy qualities. How to avoid the day dictate your schedule is topic of discussion between Intan Khatulistiwa and Shabrina Koeswologito (Digital Specialist Manager at Mindshare and Founder of Slow Travel Story) to help you build correct prioritization.

Despite increased publicity and discussions surrounding the inequalities women face in the workplace, there remains a tremendous amount of work to be done to close the gender gap. Women are underrepresented at every level and unfortunately we see lack of action that society still suffers from today. In today’s episode Intan Khatulistiwa and Alda Prawitera (Management Consultant) discuss how we can kickstart the first step at our workplaces from organizational and cultural perspective to give more representations to women and benefiting the organizations at the same time.

In this episode Intan Khatulistiwa has a fascinating conversation with Citra Benazir (Co-director of Hollaback Jakarta) to reshaping our responsibilities as human being to build a safe place for sexual harrasment victims to speak up. The widespread impact of the #MeToo movement has caused more and more people shared their truths, but whether we are as citizen of the world already made the right gesture to them? Did we response correctly to empower them? Did we create the right messages to victim and society? Did we proactively seek for further solutions? Whether as a friend, family, colleague, bosses, or even a policy maker, everybody need to take active role to break this complex issues.

How to build a healthy relationship with your boss? Regardless they are bad or good leaders, organized or long-winded, micro-managing fans or hands-off, managers are also human and need help with decision-making and day-to-day executions. It's our responsibility to make the dynamic works. At the end if you can be a well-rounded source of help, it will help your career path faster. Listen conversation between Intan Khatulistiwa and Triana Krisandini (Assistant Director Sustainability, APRIL) in how dealing with different bosses and their managerial styles.

Conflict is part of the job and our daily life, however each of us experience and manage conflict a bit differently. In this episode Intan Khatulistiwa with our guest Asrini Suhita (Senior Sales Director Modern Trade P&G Indonesia) share her ‘head-on’ style in managing conflict and encourage women from across industry and areas of expertise to share their struggles. We will discuss issues faced by women in day to day whether when they interact with their peers, bosses, or their team. How to address the unique challenges women face when dealing with confrontation, friction, or disagreement, but at the end of the journey we can enjoy the process and level up.

Women are usually expected to take care of the children, while men are expected to work outside the home and be the breadwinners of the family. But now number of women in the work place and in managerial position has simultaneously higher. But prior researches shows that female leaders are often torn between their profession and family roles, which makes them feel stressed and lot of them also take hard decision to sacrifice their aspiration. This condition might be changed if women receive support from their husbands, they are less likely to feel that their bright career is a threat for their family. Listen Intan Khatulistiwa’s conversation with our role model couple Windy Natriavi (Cofounder and Chief Product Officer at AwanTunai, Cofounder and CEO of WomenWorks) and Raditya Wibowo (Chief Transport Officer Gojek) in uncover male spouse role to support their wives.