Ashley Artrip

🧬 GTM Engineer @ Clay | 📖 Co-Founder @ Reading Rhythms | 🎙️ Host of Career Advice You Never Got Podcast | ✍️ Author of Career Design | 🍂 Outdoor Enthusiast

[Ashley Artrip @Ashley_Artrip]

Hi! I have 3 tickets for the Minnesota Wild vs Vegas Golden Knights game today (Oct 12) at Grand Casino Arena. You can take all 3 seats or just a single ticket if needed. Message me if you’re interested or want more details

[Ashley Artrip @Ashley_Artrip]

Workplace trauma is a harsh reality, often unseen but deeply felt.
It can become a barrier for career changers, instilling fear and doubt, and hindering the pursuit of new opportunities. Acknowledging and addressing this trauma is key to empowering change.

[Ashley Artrip @Ashley_Artrip]

My recommended career path? fruit sorter (only small fruits). I can’t make this stuff up. Why couldn’t I at least sort watermelons

[Ashley Artrip @Ashley_Artrip]

Remember those “career quizzes” we took in high school to determine what career we should choose? I bet my results were more pathetic and uninspiring than yours

[Ashley Artrip @Ashley_Artrip]

Careers are a lot like finding your soul mate. You have to figure out what you don't want before you know what you REALLY want. Be patient — these learnings will create long term career fulfillment.

[Ashley Artrip @Ashley_Artrip]

Unicorn careers don't just appear; they're crafted with self-awareness, relationships, and vision. Know your unique talents, nurture relationship with those who fuel your growth, and have a vision for the value you can create.

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

Rippling is the category leader in HR. Today they're promoting an event for HR leaders on their platform - and @hebbamyoussef is the host.

Hebba had never written a newsletter or hosted a podcast before coming to Workweek. Today, she's the voice of HR and building one of the largest communities of HR leaders.

This is Workweek coming to life.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

After his second year at Michigan, Tom Brady wanted to transfer.

He wasn't playing in games, and he was so low on the depth chart that he only got 2 reps in practice.

Brady met with his coach to express his frustration, “The other quarterbacks get all the reps.”

Coach replied,

“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the other players on our team are doing. All you do is worry about what the starter is doing, what the second guy is doing, what everyone else is doing. You don't worry about what you're doing.”

Coach reminded him, “You came here to be the best. If you're going to be the best, you have to beat out the best.”

And then he recommended that Brady start meeting with Greg Harden, a sports psychologist who worked in Michigan's athletic department.

Brady went to Harden's office and whined, “I'm never going to get my chance. They're only giving me 2 reps.”

Harden simply replied, “Just go out there and focus on doing the best you can with those 2 reps. Make them as perfect as you possibly can.”

“So that's what I did,” Brady said. “They'd put me in for those 2 reps, man, I'd sprint out there like it was Super Bowl 39. 'Let's go boys! Here we go! What play we got?'”

“And I started to do really well with those 2 reps. Because I brought enthusiasm, I brought energy.”

Soon, it went from getting 2 reps to getting 4 reps. Then from 4 to 10, “and before you knew it,” Brady said, with this new mindset that Greg instilled in me—to focus on what you can control, to focus on what you're getting, not what anyone else is getting, to treat every rep like it's the Super Bowl—eventually, I became the starter.”

Takeaway 1:

Greg Harden telling Brady to just focus on being great during his 2 reps reminded me of a piece of advice from the entrepreneur Mark Cuban.

“People come to me all the time and tell me they're stuck,” Cuban explained. “They're stuck in a job they don't like. They're stuck working for a boss they don't like. They're stuck on a team they don't like.”

“I just tell them, 'Be great.'”

“The reality of life is that you can't just always quit your job. You can't just always go to your boss and say, 'Give me the promotion, or I'm out of here.'” You can't just always go to your coach and say, 'Give me more reps, or I'm transferring.'

“So when you're stuck, you've gotta find it within yourself to say, 'Ok, this is where I am. And if I'm going to be here, I'm going to be great.'

Because if you're great at your job, typically other people and companies find out, so it creates opportunities.”

Takeaway 2:

I've written before about “lead measures”—the actions and behaviors that predictably drive success.

The core characteristic of a lead measure, the authors of The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) write, is that “a lead measure is influenceable; it can be directly influenced by you.”

To achieve your goals, they recommend (echoing what the Michigan Coach told Brady), apply a disproportionate energy to the things that are in your control.

Starting at Michigan and for the rest of his career, that’s what Brady did, that’s what drove his success.

In his first media call after he was selected by the New England Patriots with the 199th pick in the 2000 draft, Brady was asked: “Are you aware that [along with starting quarterback, Drew Bledsoe] there’s another quarterback here that they drafted last year?”

Brady said he was aware of that. “And I know he’s a heck of a player,” Brady said. “But I’ve always really concerned myself just with the things I can control. I don’t put a lot of thinking into the other guys because I know I’m not at my best when I’m not just thinking about playing as well as I possibly can.”

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“I never once in my life ever said I wanted to be the best of all time. Ever. I wanted to be the best I could be, period. I learned that in college. It didn’t matter what the other guys were doing. It mattered what I was doing.” — Tom Brady

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[Ashley Artrip @Ashley_Artrip]

While I'm grateful for any type of positive review of the Mission Collaborative Career Design Program, I'm especially proud of reviews like this.

Career coaching is often financially inaccessible to most, but is something so many (if not all) of us need.

[Ashley Artrip @Ashley_Artrip]

Remember, you're not alone in feeling lost on your career path.

Frustration about progress? It's very common.

Doubting a fresh start? We've all been there.

Embrace the journey – setbacks and all. Your story is unique, and growth takes time.

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

Excited to make an announcement years in the making.

Almost two years ago, we started the process of launching Workweek.

The thesis: How do we help operators/entrepreneurs grow their reputations?

But we had a major hurdle: There is so much noise out there...

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

🚨Announcement 🚨

Kylie and beauty products. Mr. Beast and burgers. Bloomberg and the terminal.

What would you launch if you had 1M+ executives and founders in your audience?

This was a question we asked ourselves from Day 1 at Workweek.

Today, we announce our newest venture.

[Erik Torenberg @eriktorenberg]

As an industry we don't focus enough on how we're perceived outside the industry

Seeing people misunderstand and blame tech in our moment of need is a wake-up call for us to focus on nailing our external messaging

Less apologizing, more persuading

[Workweek 🤝 @workweekinc]

If this isn't the office, I'm not working in person

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

Proud to announce the latest news of Workweek:

[Hebba Youssef @hebbamyoussef]

I never wanted to work in HR.

Why? They get blamed for… everything.

But today, I’m a Chief People Officer — and I want to change HR/People Ops everywhere.

Here’s my first thread… and a big announcement.

[Adam Ryan 🤝 @AdamRy_n]

New creator announcement - but this one is different.

It's someone you already know.
It’s someone you depend on.
It’s someone you feel comfortable talking shit around.

If the break room is the heart of the corporate office, then this is its soul.

Meet the Office Microwave.

[Escape the City @escthecity]

People you should connect with when changing careers:

1- Someone who’s doing the work you hope to do
2- A professional you admire with an unconventional career path
3- A good friend who doesn’t work in your industry

Find out why: https://t.co/Bm0Wrxv2U8

@JosephPLiu via @Medium

[Digital Magazine @digitalmag_]

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[Ashley Artrip @Ashley_Artrip]

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