No one will fight for you like you will.

Something I tell fresh grads and interns, and it was advice given to me when I started out.

You’ve got to have tough conversations with your boss, you have to fight for that pay rise, you have to fight for that promotion, you have to hold people to account on those promises that were made to you that everyone seems to have forgotten.

In the workplace, no-one will fight for you like you will — and if you don’t put up that fight, if you are not willing to have those uncomfortable conversations that no-one likes having, you will pay a very heavy price.