Jenny Wood Talks About Wild Courage and Fearless Self-Advocacy

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I'm Mike Vardi. My guest on this episode is Jenny Wood, a former Google executive who spent 18 years growing from entry level to leading a multi-billion dollar operations team. She's the author of the book Wild Courage, Go After What You Want and Get It, and she's here to talk about the quiet strengths hidden inside what are often considered flawed traits like selfishness, bossiness, and recklessness. Jenny has written for Harvard Business Review, Inc., and Forbes, started one of Google's most impactful career initiatives, and is a tap dancing, hiking, improv loving pilot. And yes, she once chased her future husband off the New York subway

We'll hear a bit about that off the top of our conversation. And in this conversation, we talk about pushing past fear, dealing with judgment, and getting real about what it takes to truly own your career. So let's get things rolling. Here's my conversation, and a productive one at that with Jenny Wood. Jenny Wood is joining us here.

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