In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Sarah talk about: * Choosing all the available options * The value of being able to anticipate the ways in which something will go wrong * Using silence as leverage * A callback to having to make the choice of scaling your management style vs customizing it * Sarah's background in astrophysics and how the funding dance is terrible * Falling in love with being helpful * A tall step up to VP * Mild anxiety around maybe having reinvented the wheel in coming to one's own conclusions * How Sarah and rachel are origin story twinsies! * Kendall having to interrupt us from staring into each others' eyes * Structure in compensation and leveling as a way to offer needed leverage to under-represented groups * Having values that make it more comfortable to have authority * Turning the tables on rachel vis-a-vis the introversion vs extroversion question * The importance of modeling healthy work-life balance * Coaching and teaching as an embodiment of 'helping' on an ongoing basis You can find Sarah on twitter as @szelechoski and on the Hangops Slack. Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music <3