After I finished one of my certs re: Product Marketing. I created a post just like my mentor. @Rebecca Sichel encouraged me to. I immediately sent a short note to the CEO of Product Marketing Alliance, Richard King just to show appreciation for the resources and the inclusive community he created. He simply replied "It's my pleasure", I'm still so psyched assuming it wasn't from a ghostwriter. I couldn't think of a response without fangirling. Any advice on how I can build a stronger rapport?

Hey y'all! I'm Jaya, a new Mentor and Coach 👋🏽 I am SO excited to be joining you all in community to support you along your journey to your dream roles. I am a former corporate DEI leader and have led company-wide DEI initiatives in Big Tech at Amazon and Meta. More recently, I was the DEI leader at Tandem Diabetes Care, a healthcare tech company, where I had the opportunity to launch the DEI function from scratch. 🚀 I live in the Seattle area and I'm a proud #girlmom to two little spark plugs/future CEOs. I recently launched my Jaya Mallik Coaching & Consulting, which centers Women of Color. I intentionally reserve a part of my practice to focus on coaching high-potential underrepresented individuals into becoming high-impact leaders. In addition to cheering you on and sharing advice in your journeys, I'll be offering opportunities for you to engage in learning focused on developing careers and leadership styles that remain authentic to you and your values. I'll be placing a meeting date on the calendar shortly for us to meet - stay tuned for that information! Thanks for welcoming me to the community! 🎉

I wondered at one point if I'm a little bit creepy with my networking skills 🥲 Most of my LinkedIn notes and messages haven't landed me any video call interviews with an SME in the PMM industry, mostly just very long chats. But first try using @Rebecca Sichel's⎯my mentor's advice, got me an informational interview! I've been collecting some study materials to fill in the gap in my proficiency in Product Marketing, but nothing beats learning from an SME's experience! 🤩 Would love to share my post here and see what I've learned! (I hope it's worth the read since it took me 3-5 business days to read a research paper mentioned in the post 😅)

Just wanted to share a great opportunity to network with other women in the industry in LA and Oakland area! See more deets here 😉 LA: https://lu.ma/gq9q9dn1 Oakland: https://lu.ma/rg7ph0ql

As a mentor, I have started sharing specific product marketing insights when it comes to networking and interviewing with mentees. I'm thrilled to see Yuhna leveraging one of my templates for guidance in securing informational interviews!