CMO Of Netflix, Uber & Apple! Work Life Balance Is BAD Advice! "I Lost My Baby & My Husband!" - Bozoma Saint John

If there's anything to know, it is that my world has burned Two times. And that I have risen every time. Bosama St. John. Forbes number one most influential marketing chief. An international phenomenon. Has led marketing and branding at some of the biggest companies in the world. Who have you worked for?

Apple? Netflix. Pepsi. Spike Lee. He was walking by with a script under his arm and I took a red pen to it. I was a receptionist. I really did think I was getting fired that day, but intuition and creativity and following her gut made me be successful. Oftentimes we're in these situations that aren't serving us and we're thinking about how the other person's gonna feel. You are going to be unsatisfied with your life. That is the scariest thing. Be selfish in your life, in your career. I didn't want anything to stop me. But I was about five months pregnant when very quickly things descended into hell. I had a condition where the pregnancy is like attacking you. And the doctor says my husband Peter, you save her. Or you save the baby. Which one is it?

She didn't survive. It was the beginning of the big fractures in our relationship. We were no longer a team. A few years later, he gets diagnosed with cancer, after you've separated. We had to make a choice to have the conversations which were about forgiveness. Anger and misunderstanding really did not matter. We're going to be together. To the last heartbeat.

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