288. Chasing Your Big Potential: 'Marie Claire' Editor-In-Chief Nikki Ogunnaike On Leveling Up In Your Career & Beyond
Hurdle
Emily Abbate
5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Today I welcome my dear friend, Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire, Nikki Ogunnaike. We met through the industry what seems like forever ago, and I can truly say that she is someone who makes me want to be a better person. In today's episode, Nikki opens up about her career journey, her relationship with exercise, and what she does day-to-day to feel at home in her body. She also provides some guidance to anyone trying to find their way in their own profession, and answers the always popular questions of how to own your no.
IN THIS EPISODE
Owning what it feels like to ‘be in charge’ at a place like Marie Claire (4:24)
How Nikki broke from the anxiety of caring about what others thought of her and stepped into her power (10:50)
Nikki’s relationship with wellness over the years as she advanced her career (14:30)
How to feel comfortable about running your own race (18:00)
Why Nikki strives to fill her community with those who are smarter than her (22:55)
Now to be your most confident self and get out of your own way (29:45)
Accepting failure as something that happening for you (32:30)
The art of interviewing and what is takes to create a good interview (36:30)
How to give more of yourself in conversation when you’re not use it giving more of yourself (39:55)
How to have grace with outgrowing relationships and owning your boundaries (41:55)
What Nikki’s biggest ‘failure’ in her career taught her (46:43)
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Self Checkout, Nikki's Newsletter
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| 0:00.0 | you can step up to that starting line at the race and be like I don't know I don't know how it's going to go today but you have your 14 weeks |
| 0:07.5 | your 12 8 weeks of training in your back pocket and so you just have to trust your training you don't know how the race is going to go but you have to have |
| 0:14.8 | faith in the work that you've done to get to this point. It's worked for me in running and it |
| 0:20.3 | continues to work for me in my career. What's going on everyone? |
| 0:35.0 | What's going on everyone? Emily Abbody here. |
| 0:39.0 | You are listening to episode 288 of hurdle. A wellness focused podcast where I talk to |
| 0:45.0 | inspirational people about everything from their highest highs and |
| 0:48.3 | toughest moments to essential tips on how to live a healthier, happier, more motivated life. We all go through our fair |
| 0:56.3 | share of hurdles. My goal through these discussions is to empower you to better |
| 1:01.2 | navigate yours and move with intention so that you can stride |
| 1:05.0 | toward your own big potential and of course have some fun along the way. |
| 1:10.6 | For today's episode I am elated to bring you my conversation with Nicki O'Genaki. |
| 1:17.2 | She is the editor-in-chief of Marie Claire and a dear, dear friend of mine. |
| 1:22.0 | Nicki and I met through the industry, |
| 1:24.3 | God knows how long ago, and I've had the opportunity |
| 1:27.3 | not only to share many trips, many runs, |
| 1:30.9 | many glasses of wine together over the years and we're going to talk about all of that in today's episode. |
| 1:38.0 | I candidly am so inspired by Nicki. |
| 1:41.6 | She is one of those friends that when I spend time with her she makes |
| 1:44.7 | me want to be a better version of myself. She's so motivated and driven as you can tell |
| 1:51.0 | when she talks to you about her impressive career journey getting to this point |
| 1:56.0 | where she is now at the head the boss of Marie Claire arguably one of the most popular woman's magazines in existence. |
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