# Why Is No One Getting Back to Me? 😩

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Podcast: [Moonshot Mentor with Laverne McKinnon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/moonshot-mentor-with-laverne-mckinnon-6611026)
Published: 2026-05-04T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://moonshotmentor.substack.com/p/why-is-no-one-getting-back-to-me
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If you want to know where you stand with someone, don’t listen to what they say. Watch what they do. It’s taking me years to learn this. And I got a great reminder of it a few weeks ago. It was late afternoon in Mammoth Lakes, California, fifty degrees with a little cloud cover, and the trails near our favorite place to stay, Tamarack Lodge, were enticing. I mean, the mountain looked absolutely pristine, birds were chirping like they were auditioning for Pitch Perfect, and there was hardly anyone around. Ideal conditions. So I’m about a quarter of the way up the mountain, and I notice where the snow has melted there’s a line where reality begins. One side looks composed in gorgeous white. The other side is real life. Broken branches. Dry brown scrubs. Rocks. Dirt. Dead trees. It was the perfect metaphor for the disconnect between what someone says they’ll do and what they actually do. And then I thought about all the people I know who are job hunting. The follow-up that never comes How many times have you refreshed your inbox over and over after a submission or an interview? They said I’ll be in touch by Friday. Or the colleague who said I’d love to read it, send it over. Or the boss who keeps promising you’ll have that conversation next week. And then, crickets. When the follow-up doesn’t come, most of us wonder what we did wrong. We debate whether to send a nudge. We tell ourselves the silence might just mean they’re busy, swamped, or traveling. Hard truth: the silence does mean something. You just haven’t been trained to hear it. The problem with words If I could turn back the clock on my career, one of the things I’d do differently is stop listening so hard to what people say, and start paying attention to what they do . We’re wired to take people at their word. It…

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