Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: Shatter Limiting Beliefs - Redefine Success - Chase Big Dreams

Erica Anderson Rooney

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Career power without apology.

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Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors blends candid career coaching with conversations about the hidden behaviors that keep ambitious women stuck. Erica Rooney centers workplace power, confidence, hard conversations, and the pressure to be capable without becoming invisible.

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Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors treats career growth as both a strategic problem and an internal one. The show’s central concern is not simply how women get promoted, but why capable women so often become stuck doing work that proves their usefulness without displaying their authority. Erica Rooney frames those patterns as sticky floors: self-doubt, perfectionism, burnout, fear, people-pleasing, and the habit of waiting for permission. The result is a show with a strong coaching spine. It is energetic. It is plainspoken. It returns often to the paradoxes around women’s ambition: being encouraged to lead, but not too visibly; to speak, but not too forcefully; to work hard, but not expect recognition to arrive automatically. Recent episodes sharpen that focus through workplace stories and guest conversations. Tracy Nolan’s episode centers the cost of being remembered for setting up the room instead of leading the business. Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer’s episode challenges the familiar “head down, work hard” career script. Melody Wilding’s conversation reframes sensitivity as a professional asset rather than a liability. Sara Anderson’s episode speaks to ambition without apology. Dan Goodman’s episode brings a more skeptical lens to workplace systems and HR. Other conversations move through burnout, regret, joy, strategic identity, and the work of building a life that feels aligned. The show does not treat confidence as a slogan. It treats it as a set of repeated choices: clearer asks, firmer boundaries, better rooms, harder conversations, and less reflexive shrinking. Its style is encouraging without being soft. Rooney’s language is direct and communal, but the editorial center stays practical: what keeps someone stuck, what changes the pattern, and what power looks like when it is no longer being disguised as niceness. For listeners tired of vague empowerment talk, the show offers career advice with a sharper behavioral edge.

Made for: Ambitious women working through leadership pressure, burnout, self-doubt, people-pleasing, or the feeling that hard work is not translating into influence. It also fits listeners who want career coaching with emotional candor and practical workplace language.

What sets it apart: The show connects internal limiting beliefs with concrete workplace behaviors, especially the invisible labor and over-functioning that can make capable women look like doers instead of strategic leaders.

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The "Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors" is the empowering podcast dedicated to the modern woman navigating the complexities of today's world. This is where we tackle the paradoxes women face daily: being told to lean in but not too far, to speak up but not too loudly, and to balance the demanding roles of professional and motherhood with grace and strength.Hosted by Erica Anderson Rooney, a seasoned HR executive with over 15 years of experience, this podcast is your go-to source for breaking through the 'sticky floors' – those limiting beliefs and toxic behaviors that keep you STUCK. Erica's mission is to e...

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A billion-dollar leader gets remembered for setting up the room; this is your cue to stop volunteering.

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to ask for the raise with evidence instead of hoping your excellent vibes reach payroll
to separate genuine ambition from the bigger-title treadmill you no longer enjoy

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Lead with Heart and Grit with Tracy NolanApr 1, 2026

A clear reminder that being useful is not the same as being seen as strategic.

The conversation focuses on a familiar kind of workplace trap: capable women getting steered toward support work while the strategic spots go elsewhere.

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