#250 Strategies for Success in Business: Former Nike & PepsiCo Executives Share a Roadmap for Professional Growth
The Gabby Reece Show
Dear Media
4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Grace Puma and Christiana Smith Shi, former executives of PepsiCo and Nike, respectively, and co-authors of "Career Forward" share invaluable insights on achieving success in business and life. From setting a cardinal direction to embracing ambition, they offer practical advice for navigating one's career path. Discover how to build professional equity, overcome challenges, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Tune in for inspiration and actionable strategies to propel your career forward.
00:01:31 – The Backstory
00:02:52 – Finding the Work/Life Balance
00:04:23 – Figuring Out What to Do
00:07:20 – Creating a Personal GPS
00:09:46 – A 360 Focus on Choices
00:13:41 – In the Great Reshuffle
00:18:08 – The Value of Diversity
00:21:14 – Who Do You Turn To?
00:26:43 – Being a “Growth Stock”
00:28:38 – The Underdog Advantage
00:33:11 – Changing the System
00:37:32 – Maintain Your Personal Life
00:44:22 – Comfortable Travel Tips
00:46:38 – Advice for the Modern Woman
00:50:47 – The “A” Word
00:54:17 – Negotiating Your Salary
00:59:25 – Switching Gears
01:03:08 – The Age of “Quiet Quitting”
01:06:39 – Fighting for Purpose Not Power
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone welcome to the show I have an incredible podcast today with two powerhouse women |
| 0:05.4 | Grace Puma and Christina Smith She |
| 0:08.1 | Christiana worked with McKinsey and co and Nike and Grace was a CEO of Pepsi and has worked in a ton of corporate jobs. |
| 0:15.6 | They met on a board and became really great friends and together they have |
| 0:20.3 | taken over 50 years of experience in working in corporate America and put it into their |
| 0:25.8 | latest book called Career Forward. Now whether you're a male or a female, this book is about if you're |
| 0:31.6 | trying to create a career versus a job. |
| 0:34.0 | And they give so many helpful proactive tips on not only how to navigate the landscape, |
| 0:40.0 | but some of the things that you might be experiencing and taking things that might be perceived |
| 0:44.3 | as a vulnerability or weakness and making that your strength. |
| 0:48.8 | They share how not to negotiate against yourself and finally and for me maybe some of the most interesting how not to let your career ruin your personal life so I hope you enjoy my conversation with these two women who this was a labor of love they put this together because they said hey these were our experiences we want to create a roadmap to help other people and they certainly have done it in their latest book career forward. |
| 1:13.0 | Enjoy. |
| 1:15.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to the Gabby Ries show. |
| 1:21.0 | Grace, Christina, this, I was just saying, welcome to to my show but this is one of my first times and I think digitally is my first time doing two guests. |
| 1:29.0 | Well we're looking forward to it. |
| 1:31.0 | So let's let's get right into it. The two of you have written a book together, career forward and first of |
| 1:40.3 | all I just love the backstory on how the two of you met and then what brought you to wanting to write this book together. |
| 1:46.7 | We joined a board together and you don't think about joining a corporate board as a way of making friends, right? That's not normally what |
| 1:55.2 | people recommend you do if you're looking to make friends. But we were immediately sort of kindred |
| 2:02.0 | spirits and I think it's partly just because our our approach to life and you know what our |
| 2:07.6 | Career journeys have been like and you know it makes a big difference to actually look forward to working with |
| 2:14.4 | someone and it wasn't something that we had expected when we joined this board. |
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