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🪜 When the Ladder Doesn’t Fit, Build a Better Job
Forget the default path. This week’s issue helps you figure out what actually fits you, plus a quiz, toolkit roundup, and the community that gets it.
Chrissy Arias
May 28, 2025
✔️ This Week’s Agenda
🧩 Think you could solve this week’s puzzle?
🧠 The Conversation You Should Be Leading
🔮 Quiz: What’s Your Professional Power Role?
🧰 The EA vs. CoS Toolkit
💬 Introducing: The Inner Office
🧨 The Conversation You Should Be Leading
All month, we’ve been talking about Executive Assistants and Chiefs of Staff, two roles that get compared a lot, usually by people who’ve never actually been an EA.
They haven’t lived in your inbox. They haven’t sat in the tension between invisible work and critical impact. They don’t understand what it means to think like a strategist but move like a ghost.
And yet, somehow, they’re still the ones defining your “next step.” They’re writing the job frameworks, hosting the panels, rewriting the org charts.
This final issue is about taking that narrative back.
You don’t need to be told where you might fit. You need tools to figure out where you actually want to go, and the power to own that decision.
So here’s how we’re closing out this series:
🔍 A quiz to help you choose your own adventure
🧰 A roundup of every tool we dropped this month
💬 And a brand new community for those who are done figuring it all out alone
You deserve more than someone else’s idea of what this role should be.
You deserve strategy, support, a seat at the table, and the tools to build your own if they won’t make room.
With love, and lots of coffee, ☕
Chrissy
🧰 3. The EA vs. CoS Toolkit
We’ve been building all month long. Here’s every resource we created to help you clarify, advocate, and evolve your role:
🏆 Wins Tracker – Show your receipts.
🧠 Career Clarity Framework – Define what you want more (and less) of.
📚 Brag Book Builder – Document your impact, in your own words.
📈 Strategic Scope Audit – Make sure your job matches your skillset.
📩 Using Microsoft Office?
We’ve got you. If you’d like these templates in Word or Excel format, just reach out and we’ll send them your way. → Email [email protected]
💬 This job is hard! Community shouldn’t be.
The Inner Office is a curated Slack space for Executive Assistants, Chiefs of Staff, and office pros who want a real brain trust, not just another chatroom.
It’s where high-performing professionals come to collaborate, swap strategies, solve problems, and support each other through the messy, brilliant reality of the work we do.
🧠 Peer-led discussions and shared strategies
📂 Exclusive templates, systems, and tools
🎙️ Monthly AMAs with sharp thinkers in the space
📍 Optional local meetups for IRL connection
Membership is $20/month, and we’re intentionally keeping it tight.
✔️ Applicants will be vetted.
✔️ Participation is expected.
✔️ This is your external team, if you don’t have one, we’re it.
👉 Apply to join The Inner Office
Applications are open now. Doors open in July.
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