Free · 90 minutes · Live A Baddies Building Brilliance workshop

The Receipts Audit

Everything you've done that nobody can see.

Thursday 20 August 8:00 – 9:30 PM Eastern
7:00 PM Central · 6:00 PM Mountain · 5:00 PM Pacific
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The problem

It isn't imposter syndrome

Ask a capable woman what she's accomplished in the last two years and watch her go blank.

The usual diagnosis is imposter syndrome — that she's bad at recognising her own value. I think that's wrong, and I think it's insulting.

Here's what's actually happening. She can't name her work because she can't see it. It's on a Drive she lost access to. In a Slack she was removed from. Credited to "the team," or to whoever presented it upward.

The evidence isn't missing from her memory. It's missing from her possession.

You can't fix a possession problem by believing in yourself harder.

Four mechanisms

How the evidence disappears

Not one of these is a confidence problem. Every one is a system keeping what you made.

One

Platform custody

You built inside systems somebody else owns. Access ended at 5pm on a Friday. The work is still running — you just can't reach it.

Two

Attribution drift

It became "the team's." Or it became whoever narrated it upward. Nobody lied. Credit just flows in a predictable direction.

Three · the one nobody names

Maintenance invisibility

Prevention leaves no artifact. The outage that didn't happen. The client who didn't churn. The process that stopped breaking. The women doing the most stabilising work in an organisation are frequently the least visible in it — not despite the stabilising, because of it. You made it look easy and everyone believed you.

Four

Translation loss

You unblocked the thing. You got two teams shipping. Real, high-skill, load-bearing work that produced no file.

This is a working session, not a talk

What we actually build

Three techniques most professionals have never been shown. You'll run all of them on your own history, live, in the room.

01

Query your own history

Your inbox is a searchable database of your entire career and nobody ever told you. We run real search operators, live, on your own Gmail and Drive.

to:me ("great work" OR "you saved" OR "nailed it")

That one takes eleven seconds and usually returns things you'd completely forgotten.

02

Build the ledger

Not a document — a database. Structured fields, dropdowns, and one column that changes everything: where does the proof of this actually live?

A document is something you read. A database is something you ask questions of. Same information, completely different amount of power.

03

Automate the capture

You'll build a form that writes to your ledger and save it to your phone's home screen. One tap, twenty seconds, timestamped forever.

It's the first real automation most people ever build, and it takes eight minutes. The reason you couldn't answer the question at the top of this session is that nobody was writing it down. After this, something is.

You leave with

A system, not a list

Your inventory

Twelve to twenty pieces of your own uncredited work, written down.

Your custody rate

A number showing how much of it you can actually prove. It's the number that reframes everything.

Three retrieval methods

Rerun them any time your memory goes blank — before a review, an interview, a raise conversation.

An automation you built

Yours, on your phone, running from that night forward.

Who it's for

Women who are good at their jobs

And can't point to a single piece of public evidence of it.

If you've ever frozen in an interview on a question you should have been able to answer in your sleep — so what have you been working on? — this is built for you.

No technical requirement. If you can use email and a browser, you can do this. Nothing to prepare.

The honest part

Yes, this ends with an offer. At the 80-minute mark I'll spend about two minutes on a paid weekend I run called Built by Sunday, and then I'll stop.

Nothing in the first 80 minutes changes based on whether you buy anything, and if you leave before the offer you'll have gotten the entire thing I promised. I'd rather tell you now than spring it on you later.

Details

The logistics

WhenThu 20 August8:00–9:30 PM ET
WhereZoomLink on registration
BringA laptopAnd your work calendar open
CamerasOptional, alwaysChat counts as being here
CostFreeNo catch, no card
Can't attend?Register anywayRecording sent to everyone
Questions people actually ask

Before you register

How do I build a portfolio when my work is confidential?

Strip the client name, the tool, and the exact figure, then describe the shape of the work. "A mid-size health system" and "cut review time roughly in half" is publishable and still impressive. The description of what you did is yours — no employment agreement revokes that.

I can't remember anything I've accomplished. Is this for me?

Yes, and that blank is the exact reason it exists. Accomplishments aren't filed in memory under "accomplishment" — they're filed as ordinary Tuesdays. We use three retrieval questions that ask about consequences other people experienced rather than asking you to rate yourself. That's why they work when "list your accomplishments" produces a blank page.

How do I find proof of work from a job I've already left?

Your personal inbox holds more than you think. Search operators surface praise you received, deliverables you sent, and status updates you wrote at the time. You lost access to their systems — you didn't lose your own correspondence.

Do I need a portfolio if I'm not a designer?

A portfolio is evidence, not art. A spreadsheet that saved a team forty hours is portfolio. A process you fixed is portfolio. It has to be findable and clearly described, not beautiful.

Why do I go blank at review time?

Because nothing was writing it down as it happened — and because a large share of skilled work is preventative. The outage that didn't occur. The client who didn't leave. Prevention leaves no artifact, which is why the most stabilising work in an organisation is often the least visible.

Is it really free?

Yes. No card, no catch. At the 80-minute mark there's a short mention of a paid weekend called Built by Sunday, and then it ends. Nothing before that depends on whether you buy anything.

Come get your receipts

Ninety minutes. You'll leave with a written record of work you'd forgotten you did, and a system that stops you losing the next two years the way you lost the last two.

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