Tara McDonagh
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Tara McDonagh
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Communications Business Advisor Activist * Advisor to Fortune 500 Comms & PR Teams * Founder Raise the Tide * 🎙️Pod Host: Communications Business Advisor * Democracy Enthusiast * Proud Feminist * Champion Yapper * Humor advocate … That’s what she said.
Raise the Tide™ isn’t here to “empower” women.
We’re here to get the noise out of your way ...
so you can lead, as you already are.

RaiseTheTide.com

#WomenInComms #CorporateCommunications #CorpComms #InternalComms #PR #RaiseTheTide
August 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I sat in a room where everyone spoke fluent acronym … except me.

EBITDA, OKRs ... huh?
So, I googled and studied.
I asked better questions.
Over time, execs ASKED FOR my thoughts in the room.
Then, I BECAME an exec.

To every comms pro who's felt out of place ... keep building.

#CommsLeadership
August 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Communications Business Advisors. Never Communications Waitresses.

Because if I was a man, I'd be the man.

Let's elevate the field and the women in it, shall we?
www.raisethetide.com

#RaisetheTide
#PR
#publicrelations
#corporateCommunications
#InternalCommunications
#InternalComms
August 14, 2025 at 12:26 AM
No one teaches you how to be a VP of Comms
But once you're there, you're expected to have all the answers …
And now you're alone.

So where do you go?
You go to a fellow Communications expert to get another view.
Because you can't see the label when you're in the jar.

#CommunicationsLeadership
August 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
All feedback is not good feedback.
Yet we've been taught to not get "defensive" when we're given feedback.
August 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
How do you advocate in an oversimplified field like Communications when you're a woman? If you push too hard, you're labeled as aggressive. Here's how:

You join your crew through Raise the Tide.

You don't need to change to lead. Shape an environment that allows you to lead instead.
August 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
"Oh, she just does employee comms. I lead marketing" #pr #corpcomms #internalcomms
August 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Got called an OG Comms Leader/Expert last week and these are the vibes .... owning it.
July 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The December look that's got rizz ...

Off to sleigh the patriarchy.

Who's with me?
December 3, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Comms people think they need more staff, budget, new tech, etc.

What they REALLY need is agency over their own decisions.

To be treated as the advisors they are.

To have people trust that you’re the expert . . .

and that YOU believe it in every fiber of your being.
November 21, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Communications professionals are business advisors, not communications waitresses there to take your order.
November 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM