What does it really take for women of color to thrive at work? In this powerful Leading Up episode, Cynthia Pong—author, career coach, and founder of Embrace Change—opens up about burnout, starting over, and building equitable workplaces. 🌟 She shares her journey from public defender to entrepreneur, the challenges women of color face daily in the workplace, and the 5-part C-CARE framework that’s helped her clients land promotions, change industries, and step into leadership with confidence. Timestamps 00:00 – Meet Cynthia Pong: author, coach, and advocate 01:00 – Why she left law and launched Embrace Change 03:00 – Burnout, therapy, and building career “insurance” 05:00 – Starting a business (and failing forward) 07:00 – From nonprofit consulting to coaching women of color 10:00 – What holds women of color back at work 12:00 – Microaggressions, pay gaps, and systemic barriers 14:00 – The C-CARE framework: Compassion, Curiosity, Action, Real-time, Experimentation 18:00 – Letting go ...