Molly Graham
speaker
217 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 16 Aug
Molly Graham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You are not alone.
Two, layering is not a demotion, even if it feels that way.
Layering can feel like a demotion because something visible is changing.
Scope, status, autonomy, reporting lines.
It's reasonable if your ego needs a good scream or a good cry.
But if this is a true layering situation, it is not a statement that you're underperforming.
It's a statement that the company has grown rapidly and your role has grown with it, sometimes faster than anyone could realistically keep up with.
In other words, the job got bigger.
You didn't suddenly get worse.
In the moment, it can feel like your opportunities just got limited, like your pathways got cut off, or like there's no room for growth.
But if the company is growing, then the growth will show up.
As Don said, he thought his team was doing great at the time, but within 12 months, he realized just how far behind he had been and how much opportunity came from getting to focus on a more narrow area.
When it first happens, all you can see is what's taken away.
So if you choose to stay and commit, you need to give yourself a little time to realize that every single job, including yours, will pretty rapidly be two or three or sometimes 10 times bigger than it is today.
Three.
Don't let your ego be the only decision maker.
Don said this really well, but this is a moment when the ego gets very loud.
Titles, reporting lines, and optics can start to feel like the whole story.
But just as Don said, your ego is not the best part of you to make long-term career decisions.
The questions that matter more are things like, am I learning?
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