The inaugural class of Pensions & Investments Influential Women in Institutional Investing shared career advice they’d give to their younger selves. Our very own, Head of Investment Manager Research, Sarah Samuels, explains what she calls “30 seconds of bravery.”: View the article on Pensions & Investments’ site here.
P&I’s inaugural class of Influential Women in Institutional Investing shared what advice they’d give to their younger self, if they could go back in time.
What follows are some of the top answers:
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Sarah Samuels, NEPC, is a big believer in what she calls “30 seconds of bravery,” which she learned about nearly a decade into her career. “If there’s something that you’d like to do, but you’re too scared to do it — think about asking for a promotion, asking for a raise. So it’s something big in your personal life even, that it makes you sweat to think about doing it… Just do it for 30 seconds. It can hurt that bad. Only so much pain can happen in 30 seconds if you do that hard thing. And I promise you it’ll change your life.”