Show Your Worth: Engineering Your Ascent with Shelmina Abji

She left Tanzania at 15 with no safety net and no plan B. Today she's one of the highest-ranking women of color to serve as VP at IBM. Shelmina Abji, author of Show Your Worth and founder of ShowYourWorth.ai, joins us to break down how she built her career strategy from the ground up, and how you can too. If you've ever kept your head down instead of speaking up, or wondered if you need a mentor or a sponsor, this conversation will shift how you think about your own path. We get into: - Defining success on your own terms - Mentor vs. sponsor, and when you need each - Why leadership branding isn't self-promotion - The voice of fear vs. the voice of courage - The "power quotient" concept Follow Her Career Unplugged wherever you listen for more real talk on the gap between the polished narrative and the actual career.