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Emma Rogers shared thisWant to work at Airbnb? Get in touch! https://lnkd.in/dtmJN6w
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Emma Rogers liked thisEmma Rogers liked thisNew month. New role. I joined Canva at the beginning of August as Content Strategy Lead for the UK and Spain, part of Zoë Pearson��s team, and focused on driving content with real cultural resonance across both markets. As someone who’s passionate about self-expression (see: purple hair), I’m excited to be part of a mission built around helping anyone, anywhere bring their ideas to life. Looking forward to working with colleagues, creators and partners to get that right. #CanvaLife #CultureMarketing
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Emma Rogers liked thisEmma Rogers liked this“I took your advice and started applying for roles which didn’t compromise on my skills and experience…” And this was the result ❤️ An Operations Manager role. Part-time. With hours that fit around her life. One of the saddest things I see is parents feeling they have to shrink their ambitions after having children. Applying for roles below their level. Accepting less responsibility. Taking huge pay cuts. Convincing themselves that flexibility means compromise. But flexibility and seniority are not mutually exclusive. Neither are flexibility and ambition. Sometimes the challenge isn’t that the right role doesn’t exist. It’s having the confidence to keep looking until you find it. This message was such a lovely reminder that you shouldn’t have to choose between: → meaningful work → using their skills and experience → and having a life outside work And yes, the fear of being the newbie is very real 😅 But it’s a much better problem to have than spending years in a role that’s too small for you. Messages like this genuinely make my day. 💬 If you’re job searching right now, don’t automatically assume you need to lower your expectations to gain flexibility. You might be surprised by what’s out there ❤️
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Emma Rogers liked thisEmma Rogers liked thisScrolling LinkedIn while unemployed is like window shopping for your old life. Oh look, someone got the job you applied for. Oh look, your old team went for drinks. Oh look, another “thrilled to announce” that you react to with a 👏 while dying inside. And you can’t stop because you need the app to find a job. So you sit there absorbing emotional damage, wondering if this is rock bottom... Or if there’s a worse version involving an MLM and 400 unsold aloe vera drinks under the bed. I’ve been made redundant before. More than once. I know the drill. It's bloody lonely. So, I’m starting an in-person community for women in London going through redundancy or struggling to find work after a career break. No unsolicited career advice. No one being “thrilled to announce” anything. Just applying for jobs together, doing life admin, and getting our steps in between. Because whilst this situation is shxt, it doesn’t have to be lonely. --- 💬 Comment below or DM me for the WhatsApp link. ♻️ Repost for any woman in your network who's doing this alone. She deserves a space of women who get it. P.S. For those with little ones, babies are obvs welcome. I’m not a monster 👹
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Emma Rogers liked thisEmma Rogers liked thisI spent six years of my life trying to get a job at Meta, back when it was still Facebook. It was my dream job at my dream company and it was absolutely everything I hoped it would be. Then, I was one of the first 11,000 to be cut on 11/9/2022. Today, Meta, again, cut their workforce. By 10%. Since leaving, I’ve hit rock bottom and rebuilt my life over time. My career did not suffer. My life did not end. If you found yourself impacted today, and are in my network, know that you are seen. The emotions you are experiencing are normal - no matter what they are, or what people tell you - but it will eventually get better. If you need someone to talk through to help you, please email me at HeyNiki@nicolewight.com and we can set up time to VC or just DM. Whatever. Don’t feel like others don’t get it. We do. And we are here. We also have open roles at Ministry Brands - across many parts of our organization. If you see something that speaks to you, do not hesitate to reach out to me for a referral. We want the best and that’s exactly what you are. Lastly, as you go through these next few weeks you may be putting together your CV/ résumé’s- I am always happy to provide you with at least a round or two of actual feedback from my experience as a hiring manager. Again - don’t hesitate. This is our community and this is what we do. Hang in there.
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Emma Rogers liked thisEmma Rogers liked thisGrief has a way of ambushing you. You never quite know when the next wave will hit — or how hard. Yesterday at work, I was busy, focused, trying to finish a story and help get everything to press. Then, without warning, my mind flooded with images of my dad’s final hours in hospital. All the questions I thought I’d answered a million times before. If he had gone to hospital sooner, would he have survived? Was he in pain? Did he know how loved he is? My body went into overdrive as cortisol washed through me — heart racing, eyes stinging, that familiar, heavy ache settling in my chest. My colleagues are wonderful, I am truly blessed, but the truth is when a wave like that hits there’s no workaround. You just have to endure it. A friend said to me recently: feel the feelings — especially the bad ones. Instead, I tried to do the opposite. I saw it coming and attempted to outrun it. But grief doesn’t work like that. Eventually, I gave in, shut myself in a toilet cubicle, and let it come. The pain of losing him. The trauma of how it happened. The unbearable, still entirely unfathomable reality of not being able to speak to him again. I pulled myself together… just in time for another wave. Bigger this time. It knocked the breath out of me, dragged me under, left me gasping. It took more than an hour before I could function again. By the time I got the train home, I was completely drained. Just one of those days, I told myself. Today feels different. The water is calmer. The waves are still there, they always are, but for now they’re only brushing at the edges. So I’ll keep going. One stroke and deep breath at a time. I’ll hold my girls close, go and have a cup of tea with my mum. Walk on the beach you can see from my parents’ bedroom window. And if you’re out there doing the same — just trying to keep your head above water — I see you x
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Emma Rogers reacted on thisEmma Rogers reacted on thisDuring my time at DoorDash, I struggled to balance supporting my mom through the last year of her life and trying to hold down an incredibly demanding role leading two functional teams inside Legal. A leader at the company pulled me aside one day (a woman on the GTM team who I respected deeply), and told me I should consider leaving my job to prioritize spending time with my mom. It turns out that she had gone through something similar with her parent. She said, you can never get that time back. I didn't take her advice. I thought that I would be able to keep pushing and do both. I didn’t know how much time we had left, and I didn’t want to let anyone down. Looking back, I fooled myself into thinking, if I didn’t make any drastic changes, maybe things could remain the same. It turns out that it all ended up going very differently than I expected….needless to say, losing my mom was the most heartbreaking experience I’d ever gone through and it all went so fast. I believe everything you've done in the past shapes who you are today. Looking back with the knowledge I have now, I would have made a different choice. Because the relationships we have and the people we love are what matters most. And we always think we have more time than we actually do. We tell ourselves we'll get to it later, after this big project wraps up, after this crisis passes, or after we hit this milestone. People ask me how I found the courage to make the leap from a career I had spent over 10 years to build and go all the way back to the beginning. This was the experience that gave me perspective. If we put off doing the things that truly matter to us, we may miss the opportunity to actually do it. I have so much gratitude to my mom, I hope that we’re making her proud.
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Emma Rogers liked thisEmma Rogers liked thisLast week I had the special experience of being a guest speaker at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business for a class taught by my brilliant friend and former colleague, Molly Turner. Molly and talked to students about how to build a policy shop that meets the needs of an emerging tech company, something we had the opportunity to do together at Airbnb. This was made even more special because Molly let me bring my nine-year-old daughter along to sit in on the class and tour campus. I love when professional relationships evolve through the years, when I can share what I hope is helpful career advice with others, and when my family gets a peek into my work world. Thanks Molly!
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Emma Rogers liked thisEmma Rogers liked thisThe truth about starting an ethical business 💔 A couple years ago, I was invited to speak at an event. This was a very high profile event with tickets costing £1000+ At the event there was ‘VIP’ and ‘Elite VIP’ I was very curious to find out what an ‘elite VIP’ might look like so I walked around with my friend to see if I could catch one I bumped into a man He was from the USA I asked him what he did He said he owed a connivence store (US term for off licence) I asked him how many he owned thinking he would say one or two He said 400. I asked him what inspired you to start your business He said ‘alcohol and cigarettes’ two things humans will always pay for I asked him how he raised the money He said he raised over 1 billion pounds to turn old houses into his convenience store The uncomfortable truth is this Capitalism doesn’t care about morals or ethics when it comes to making money Unethical businesses can make a lot of money and often times a lot more than ethical ones The truth is , if you want to start a business that has genuine impact and a positive effect on people’s lives More power to you But please understand it will be a longer and and slower journey than preying on people addictions Or selling people a course that isn’t worth the money But I promise you’ll feel much more satisfied in the long run.
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Emma Rogers reacted on thisEmma Rogers reacted on thisThe wildest part of being interviewed for this Forbes piece was realizing how much of how I operate traces back to my all-girls education. At Westridge School for Girls (where I went from grades 4–12), there was no question of whether girls could lead. We just did. We were never “the girl in the room.” We were the best debater. The best chemist. The best athlete. Period. And maybe more importantly, there was a culture of EXCELLENCE instead of competition. The culture was simple: be excellent at your thing, exceed your highest standard, AND help the people around you be excellent at theirs. Success wasn’t zero-sum, it was shared and earned abundantly! Growing up in an environment where that was the norm—and scarcity was the exception—shaped everything. In many ways, I think I’ve spent my career trying to build an adult, distributed version of Westridge. A network of exceptional women, each in pursuit of their own excellence, while actively pulling others forward alongside them. That’s what Alli Kushner captures in this Forbes piece. She calls it the “reach-back effect.” When one woman operates from abundance, backs another, opens a door, shares power...it doesn’t just change one outcome, it resets the norm. It says: this is allowed. And that’s how you expand what’s possible. Grateful to be on this journey with women like Laura Modi, Molly Morse, and Amy Kiska, who are all featured in the piece and who embody this every day. Tag a woman in your network who moves this way. We are stronger together! Full article in the comments.
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