What does it really mean to bring your “authentic self” to work when polish and performance are baked into the job description? In this episode, Cari and Annika take a scalpel to one of corporate culture’s favorite buzzwords: "authenticity." They unpack the double bind of being told to “be yourself,” while navigating rigid expectations about how lawyers should speak, look, behave and even feel. They talk about identity, image, anxiety, boundaries, red wagons (you’ll see), and how hard it is to show up as your full human self when you're never quite sure if that self is “appropriate” enough for the room.

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