Alain Hyppolite

Stop Asking for Permission You keep waiting for someone to give you the green light. To tell you that your ideas are great and that your voice matters. To tell you that you’re ready. That you’ve earned your seat at the table. But you’re waiting for nothing. Nobody’s coming to f*cking tap you in. At least not until you tap yourself in first. The proof is out there for you to see and you don’t even have to look far: people who move fast in their careers aren’t waiting for approval. They just...

Your Resume Isn’t the Work I know someone brilliant. I mean f*cking brilliant. Smarter than 99% of the people in any room. Education out the wazoo. Experience for days. Phenomenal soft skills. Easy to talk to. Great listener. She can run circles around most of us. And yet, she doubts herself. Constantly. She overprepares. Overanalyzes. And overworries. While people with less than half of her skill set are getting fast-tracked. Why? Because she’s been looking at career growth the wrong way....

How 36 Seconds Can Change Everything Our brains are strange. And too self-limiting at times. We’re truly our own worst enemies. We tell ourselves we need giant-sized supplies of confidence first. That we need to feel ready before we act. But we don’t. All it really takes is 36 uncomfortable seconds (I totally made that number up. It’s probably even less.). 36 seconds to say the thing you’ve been avoiding. 36 seconds to take space in rooms that usually overlook you. 36 seconds to ask the...

Stop Waiting for Recognition That’s Never Coming You’re probably a lot like me. You’ve been told your whole life that if you work hard someone somewhere will notice. That if you keep your head down and work yourself to the bone, you’ll get rewarded. That the right people will eventually “discover” you. Pfffffffff. It’s bogus. Work hard all you want, but that’s just not how the world works. Recognition and promotions don’t arrive like a f*cking rescue mission. Nobody is launching a lifeboat to...

When Outdated Leadership Tries to Shut You Down It’s over. The playbook that ran workplaces for decades is falling apart. The one obsessed with hierarchy. With control. With the loudest voice setting the direction while everyone else stays quiet. But remnants of it still linger. Unfortunately, until we do away with it entirely, you’ll keep running into the overbearing & obnoxious voices, the interrupters, and the credit-takers trying to steer the ocean. And that’s sh*t stings you. Because...

Your Team Doesn’t Need a Nice Boss. They Need This. You’ve probably seen it before. Leaders who claim to care about their teams, but disappear when the going gets tough. They’re “of the people” and “for the people”, but turn their backs on you if you f*ck up. The ones who talk about “psychological safety” or “team culture”, but will throw their people under the bus the moment things go sideways. And then what happens? Their people shut down. Trust evaporates. Morale craters. Productivity...

You’re Not Lacking Skills. You’re Lacking Strategy. You keep thinking everyone else has it figured out. Their titles sound more important. Their confidence is out of this world. Their words are more sophisticated and land sharper. And so you shrink. You tell yourself that you’re not quite ready yet. Not good enough yet. You keep waiting until the day you finally feel like you’re polished enough. You tell yourself you’ll eventually get there. That you just need to do more self-work and gain...

The Real Reason You’re Overlooked at Work You’ve put an incredibly low ceiling on your earnings. Because you’ve been paying a tax you didn’t even know existed. It doesn’t officially show up on your pay stub. It doesn’t get formally tracked on your annual performance review. But it’s there, taking a chunk out of your hard work every single day. It’s called the imposter tax. And if you’ve been overlooked for promotions, or you’re quietly doing the heavy lifting while others get the credit, then...

I’m back. If you’ve been here for a while, you probably noticed I went quiet. On LinkedIn. In your inbox. Everywhere. I grew this audience from 0 to several thousands. Then I disappeared. Why? Because it got exhausting. Boring. Repetitive. And because I had to take care of myself and my family first. But that hiatus gave me clarity. Step back from anything for a year, and the patterns become impossible to ignore. Too many leaders who talk about culture but lead with control. Too many people...