185: Gillian Zoe Segal, author of Getting There: A Book of Mentors

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Today’s guest is going to share the importance of having mentor in our lives…She is the author of the new book Getting There: A Book of Mentors. In it she interviews 30 leaders across different career paths that share their journey on the road to achieving success. From Warren Buffett to Frank Gehry to Sara Blakely, the billionaire inventor of Spanx shapewear for women. Her book offers great advice for everyone from students to those who’ve been working in their fields for years. It’s practical and priceless wisdom that we can apply across the board whether in our careers or elsewhere. She also wrote the book New York Characters, which pays tribute to some of the most interesting New Yorkers at the time. Gillian also received her law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and is a photographer. She lives in NYC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Money episode 185, Jillian Zoe Siegel.
0:04.0	You're listening to So Money,
0:06.0	with award-winning money guru Farno Shkorabi.
0:09.0	Each day, get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration
0:12.0	from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, and from Farnus yourself.
0:18.0	Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons?
0:22.0	Sorry, you're in the wrong place. save on gas or double your double coupons?
0:22.6	Sorry, you're in the wrong place.
0:24.6	Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.
0:28.1	Welcome to So Money.
0:36.0	Welcome back to So Money Everyone. I'm your host Farnoosh Tarabi. Hooray for Hump Day. A little Hump Day Wednesday in the middle of summer, July 15, 2015. I hope you're having a fantastic summer. Today's episode is all about
0:47.6	mentors and it made me actually think about many people in my life that have really given me some life altering career advice and it goes back to probably when I was 20 years old interning at CNBC.com in the Sales and Marketing Department. My boss at the time, Candice Johnson, she was a marketing executive and she'd come on board as a new hire on the job and I remember she and I we shared an office
1:15.1	and we shared many a late night meals finishing decks together in that little
1:20.3	office would order Thai food on the seventh floor of Rockefeller Center.
1:25.0	She had just arrived at CMC from Sony where she told me she'd gotten laid off.
1:31.0	And you know what?
1:32.0	The first week on the new job, she was still sending out her resume.
1:36.4	I don't know if it's because she wasn't happy. I actually asked her about this.
1:39.1	I was like, what are you doing, Candace? And she looked at me and she said,
1:44.0	Farnu should always be ready to move to the next level
1:47.8	and never get too comfortable.
1:50.0	And maybe she was still suffering
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