018: Expanding Your Role with Kara Eschbach
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 1 June 2016
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Verily co-founder and CEO Kara Eschbach shares about the differences between the corporate world and entrepreneurship, and what everyone can do better navigate their careers.
— YOU'LL LEARN —
1) How a casual brunch transformed Kara’s career on Wall Street into founding and launching a major web publication.
2) How to accelerate your career by taking on more responsibility, faster.
3) Tips and tricks for building a great working relationship with your manager, regardless of your industry.
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— ABOUT KARA —
Kara is the co-founder and CEO of Verily, a women’s fashion & lifestyle website focused on helping women be the best version of themselves. Kara was formerly the co-host of the nationally-broadcast radio show Catching Up with Kara and Monica on SiriusXM radio, was on the investment team for Credit Suisse’s secondary private equity fund, and developed a coaching program for recent college graduates to accelerate their career. Kara earned her BS with highest distinction from Purdue University, where she was a member of the varsity golf team and selected as the class commencement speaker.
• Kara's website: Verily
• Kara's Instagram: Instagram
• Kara's email: Kara@VerilyMag.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:18.0 | Well, hello again, it's more fun here on episode number 18, and I'm pretty excited to introduce to you my friend |
| 0:26.0 | Kara Eshbach. I met Kara once, but once was enough because she left an impression. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm more tight with her brother and they're both an |
| 0:33.2 | entrepreneurial sort of duo family that everybody must be very proud of these |
| 0:38.6 | high-achieving performers and her claim to fame these days is she's the co-founder and CEO of Verily magazine, which is more of her the website publication these days. |
| 0:51.0 | And she has a really cool perspectives associated with the differences between kind of |
| 0:55.6 | the corporate finance world and what she's doing now and kind of best practices and lessons |
| 1:00.1 | that absolutely apply to both. |
| 1:02.1 | So you're going to walk away with some great |
| 1:04.4 | tidbits including one, how a casual brunch transformed Kara's career on |
| 1:08.4 | Wall Street into founding and |
| 1:15.0 | two, how to accelerate your career by taking on more responsibility |
| 1:18.0 | faster and three, some tips and tricks for building a great working |
| 1:22.0 | relationship with your manager, wherever your |
| 1:24.2 | industry may be. |
| 1:26.0 | If you want to check out some of the extra stuff, you can find that awesome at your job.com |
| 1:30.0 | slash Epp 18. That's the transcript and notes and things linked here and of course if you want it |
| 1:36.2 | really fast you're going to want to sign up for the golden nuggets email at |
| 1:41.4 | awesome at your job.com to read a two minute email summary of these and all the |
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