Podcast Overview
<p>On "Protégé," host Molly Jaggers joins other high-performers and business leaders to decode the invisible rules of advancement and challenge preconceived notions of moving up to the next phase of your career.</p><p>Discover actionable advice to help women rise as leaders and cross the broken rung. Learn the difference between mentorship and sponsorship, the strategic moves that get you chosen, and the internal shifts that prepare you to lead.</p><p>This is how you turn ambition into advancement.</p>
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April 23, 2026
Power Skills No One Taught You
<p>Your company was never teaching you the skills that actually get you promoted. And the ones that used to try? They've quietly stopped. </p><p></p><p>McKinsey's latest: only half of companies still prioritize women's advancement. One in six have already cut the programs that housed this training entirely. One HR leader said it out loud: "We don't have a women's leadership program anymore."</p><p></p><p>This episode names the five power skills that drive the move from IC into leader — strategic self-advocacy, the difficult conversation, delegation as leadership, influence without authority, and Emotional Intelligence as strategy — and diagnoses exactly why the system failed to invest in any of them. Plus: what almost nobody's connecting about where the org chart is heading, and why the role shapes women have been building all along are the ones the future rewards.</p><p></p><p>This week's newsletter has your power skills gap diagnostic — subscribe at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://newsletter.theprotegeproject.com" target="_blank">newsletter.theprotegeproject.com</a></p>
April 16, 2026
Visibility Was Always Yours to Build
<p>Are you doing the work but not getting seen for it? You're not alone. Remote women get promoted at half the rate of remote men. Same companies. Same roles. Same performance. But here's what nobody's telling you: a peer-reviewed study found that gap vanishes completely when managers see the same work. It was never about where you sat. It was about whose work got seen.</p><p></p><p>The old visibility playbook — show up in the building, hope the right people notice — is gone. And nothing replaced it. Until now.</p><p></p><p>This episode breaks down the Visibility Paradox and gives you four specific moves to take control of how your work gets seen: the Async Paper Trail (turning your written output into a visibility engine that works 24/7), the Attribution Architecture (building a traceable record of your judgment that decision-makers can actually find), Cross-Functional Exposure (picking the right projects and briefing your advocates so they can champion you in rooms you're not in), and the Invisible Labor Check (auditing the career debt that's eating 200+ hours of your year). Plus a 15-minute visibility audit you can run this week.</p><p></p><p>This week's newsletter has the full Visibility Audit template — subscribe at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://newsletter.theprotegeproject.com" target="_blank">newsletter.theprotegeproject.com</a></p>
March 31, 2026
"Waiting to be Chosen" is Over. Here's What Gets You Backed.
<p>98% of Fortune 500 companies have mentorship programs. Only 37% of employees say they actually work. </p><p></p><p>And this year, for the second year in a row, the gender pay gap widened — 81 cents on the dollar. First consecutive decline since the 1960s.</p><p></p><p>This episode breaks down why the traditional sponsorship model failed — not slowly, but all at once. Three conditions broke simultaneously: the rooms where sponsors found you went distributed, the companies that incentivized advocacy pulled back, and the risk of backing someone in a volatile market got higher. The fix isn't finding a sponsor. It's becoming impossible to ignore.</p><p></p><p>Covers the sponsor's inversion framework (making the choice irrelevant by building visible, measurable, distributed impact), the three principles of the new model (measurable impact before anyone asks, solving problems that travel upward, micro-networks over golden sponsors), and a Sponsor Deficit Assessment you can run this week to find the gaps in your advocacy network.</p><p></p><p>Subscribe to the Protégé newsletter for weekly frameworks: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://newsletter.theprotegeproject.com" target="_blank">newsletter.theprotegeproject.com</a></p>
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- What is Protégé?
<p>On "Protégé," host Molly Jaggers joins other high-performers and business leaders to decode the invisible rules of advancement and challenge preconceived notions of moving up to the next phase of your career.</p><p>Discover actionable advice to help women rise as leaders and cross the broken rung. Learn the difference between mentorship and sponsorship, the strategic moves that get you chosen, and the internal shifts that prepare you to lead.</p><p>This is how you turn ambition into advancement.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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