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Your Job Is Not Your Worth: How to Rebuild Confidence After a Setback | Arunima Jha

Your Job Is Not Your Worth: How to Rebuild Confidence After a Setback | Arunima Jha

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Your job is not your worth. If one setback at work makes you feel like a bad person, not just a bad day, this conversation is for you. Host Shailja Saraswati sits down with lawyer Arunima Jha to talk about what happens when work becomes your identity, and how to rebuild your confidence, your voice and your self-worth after a setback. Arunima grew up a shy, lost child and was told that people like her should not even think about the college she wanted. She answered with hard work, found her voice in writing and law, and got her first real validation at a national moot court. Later she learned what it costs to treat a workplace like home: the quiet belief that you exist only while you are performing well. Shailja reads the pattern underneath it all. A job is a label, a wrapper, and you are larger than the vessel. In this episode: Why your instincts are data When a bad day starts to feel like a verdict on who you are What burnout really is, and who HR actually works for Your rights at work: getting your contract checked and asking about policies Why women are conditioned to see ambition as unfeminine and asking for money as unspiritual AI, layoffs and why leaders need inner authority under pressure Why your data is your biggest asset Arunima's definition of unstoppable "It's a label. It's a wrapper. It's not really constant. What is constant is you." — Shailja Saraswati Has a job title ever decided how you saw yourself? Tell us in the comments. Share this with someone who is rebuilding after a setback. Subscribe to Unstoppable Woman, hosted by Shailja Saraswati. Chapters: 0:00 Highlights of the Episode 1:22 Guest Intro 2:14 Three Keys: Rapid Fire Questions 5:00 Childhood & Early Years in Kolkata 8:01 From St. Xavier's to Law School 10:19 Finding Voice Through Writing 11:07 Realities of Being a Woman in Law 13:41 Standing Up to Ragging in Law School 15:52 Personal Experiences with Abuse 18:35 Workplace Lessons: You Are Not a Label 22:26 Corporate Culture & Red Flags 24:25 The Three Payslips Philosophy 26:08 Burnout vs Tiredness: HR Reality 27:30 Know Your Rights: Contracts & Labor Laws 32:09 Women, Ambition & Conditioning 33:27 POSH Cases & Fighting Stigma 38:31 AI's Impact on Women in the Workforce 43:01 Data Privacy & AI Ethics 48:18 Closing Thoughts #UnstoppableWoman #SelfWorth #WomenAtWork #ShailjaSaraswati #ArunimaJha
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