E51 The Trust Tax: A Three-Layer Framework for Rebuilding Yourself After a Difficult Manager

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She used to walk into work with her shoulders squared and her ideas ready to go. She loved her job. She was good at it. People counted on her to figure it out, hold the line, and deliver. And then something shifted. Not all at once. In small increments over months. A comment in a meeting that landed harder than it should have. A decision made about her without her. A version of events she knew was not quite right but did not know how to challenge. The quiet realization that instincts that had served her brilliantly for years were now being treated as inconvenient. By the time she finally left or started seriously planning to leave, she did not just need a new job. She needed to learn how to trust again. If you know her, this episode is for her. Or maybe it is for the friend you are about to send it to. In this episode of Lead with Spark, Lynsey Mulder names something most career advice completely misses: the trust tax. That invisible erosion that a difficult reporting relationship leaves behind. The second-guessing of instincts that used to come easy. The hedged opinions. The disproportionate reactions in the new role that no one at the new place caused and no one can see.

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