OG Tuesday Issue #248

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🥗 How to spot “fake healthy” foods so you can feel good and eat smart.

It’s Tuesday morning and you’ve already sent gentle reminders, calmed nerves, and organized the offsite. None of it’s in your job description, but it’s taking up space. That’s invisible labor, and it disproportionately impacts high-achieving women.

We’re talking emotional support, planning, culture shaping. It doesn’t show up in job titles, but it drains your time, energy, and growth. Women regularly shoulder tasks that shape team culture but rarely lead to recognition, and they take on 44% more non-promotable tasks than men. The payoff? Burnout and stalled career growth.

🧠 Why You Feel So Tired

The constant mental juggling act raises stress and lowers performance. When job demands outweigh your support system, burnout is inevitable.

🔍 Start Tracking the Invisible

• Write it down: Keep a log of tasks, time, and effort.
• Quantify the trade-offs: What high-value work is falling through the cracks?
• Bring it to light: Normalize team-wide audits to make invisible labor visible.

🚩 Rebalance the Load

• Rotate responsibilities intentionally: Administrative and emotional labor should be team-wide duties, not personal favors.
• Set clear boundaries: Next time logistics come your way, clearly state, “I’ve handled logistics recently, and it’s impacting my core work. Let’s rotate going forward.”
• Use receipts: Your log is your proof. Bring it to performance talks or team planning.

Also, integrating inclusive team practices structurally reduces this burden.

👥 What Leadership Should Be Doing

• Acknowledging invisible work out loud.
• Rotating admin and culture tasks equitably.
• Making emotional contributions part of formal evaluations recognizing invisible labor in performance reviews.

If it’s not being named, it’s not being managed. Time to put it on the record.

You’ve tried willpower. You’ve tried cutting carbs. You’ve even tried “just being good” during the week.

But quick fixes don’t stick, and restriction just leads to burnout.

Noom is different. It’s not a diet, it’s a behavior change program built on psychology, not shame. You’ll get personalized coaching, daily support, and tools that actually help you make lasting changes without swearing off entire food groups.

💡 Why It Works:

• 95% of Noom users say it’s a sustainable long-term approach (Disclaimer: U.S: Based on a sample of 4,272 Noomers)
• 98% report real habit change (Disclaimer: US: Based on a sample of 4,602 Noomers)
• Users lose an average of 15.5 pounds in 16 weeks (2x the results of going it alone!)  (Disclaimer: US: Average based on first time users who remained active in the program for a full 16 weeks)

✅ What You Get:

• 🧠 A customized plan based on your goals
• 🤝 Support from real coaches
• 🥗 Food tracking without the calorie obsession
• 🧩 Interactive lessons that make it make sense
• 📲 Tools that sync with your lifestyle (and your devices)
• 🔁 Support after you hit your goals

Done with extremes, and ready for real change?

Take the 5-minute quiz to get your personalized plan.

If you’re still copy-pasting charts every week, formatting the same doc over and over, or pulling numbers manually, this one’s for you:

That report? It’s not just annoying. It’s blocking your brain from doing the work you actually want to do.

Here’s how to fix it:

🧾 Start with a Clean Slate

Audit your recurring reports. Which ones are still useful? Who’s reading them? Try this line: “Can we pause this report for a few cycles and revisit if needed?”

Most of the time, no one will miss it.

🔁 Set It Once. Let It Run.

• Pull data automatically with Coupler.io or Make
• Set up dashboards in Looker Studio and schedule email sends
• Swap status meetings for Slack updates via Zapier or Notion automations.

Some teams saw meeting time drop by 40% just by adding one no-meeting day.

💡 Done > Perfect.

Don’t polish reports like they’re going on your resume. Women disproportionately spend time on “office housework” like over-formatting (aka emotional labor in disguise).

Systemize it. Automate it. Reclaim your time for work that actually matters.

You’re juggling Trello, Notion, Docs, Slack…basically, you’re spending more time managing tools than doing actual work.

If your team’s to-do list lives in five different places, it’s not a system—it’s a stall.

That’s why we love ClickUp.

It brings everything (tasks, docs, goals, and chat) into one smart workspace. No more context-switching. No more lost momentum.

One place to plan, one place to execute.

So you can stop “checking tools” and start checking things off.

👉 Start for free and reclaim your flow.

“Don’t be afraid to change jobs or careers, and use your volunteer experience to showcase your skills on your resume. My degree is in education, but I used the knowledge from that to learn how to do things in my volunteer roles. That experience helped me shift my career because I was able to demonstrate the skills I gained through volunteering. All of that, combined with always working hard to support the team, made me a valuable employee. I bounced between two companies three times over the last 10 years, but now I’m in a position I love (the company went through some much-needed structural changes before I came back), with a schedule that works for me, and in a company that values what I bring to the table.”

— Danielle H. (Administrative Director)

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• Brightsmith is hiring for a Customer Success Manager (Hybrid).
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• ASML is hiring for a Senior Sourcing Manager (Wilton, CT).
• FlexStaff Careers is hiring for a Talent Acquisition Specialist (New Hyde Park, NY).
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