318. Owning Your Voice: Nike's Chief Impact Officer Vanessa Garcia-Brito On Training For Work Like An Athlete & Empowering The Next Generation
Hurdle with Emily Abbate
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4.9 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This entire conversation could be a life coach session. I sat down with Vanessa Garcia, Chief Impact Officer at Nike, at the Paralympic Games, and I feel truly honored to share her immense amount of knowledge and advice with the Hurdler community.
Vanessa started out as a human rights lawyer before pivoting to Nike and we talk about her non-traditional career path while keeping her mission of advocating for women and girls at the center of her journey. She sheds light on how her upbringing helps to inform how she makes decisions, where she gets her confidence from, and gets real about navigating the nerves that come with the nature of her role at Nike and what she does to "train for her job like an athlete."
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IN THIS EPISODE
Vanessa’s feelings to be in Paris at her FIRST Paralympic games (4:35)
What inspired her to make the transition from a human rights lawyer to team Nike (5:40)
Keeping your composure during big, impactful conversations (10:18)
How Vanessa’s upbringing informed how she shows up for herself and others every day (13:35)
A fresh perspective on a support system and understanding your value (17:45)
Advice for chasing the next level of your career (23:29)
How Vanessa keeps a balance in order to live her life in purpose on purpose (28:30)
Integrating a love for movement into your family (32:20)
Training for your job like an athlete (34:20)
The power of the pivot and defining what success looks like to you (37:40)
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| 0:00.0 | Is it more important for you to be right or is it more important for you to move forward? |
| 0:05.0 | And sometimes they're not mutually exclusive, but sometimes they are. Hey, Emily Abbada here. You're listening to episode 318 of hurdle. A wellness focus |
| 0:28.5 | podcast where I talked to inspirational people about everything from their highest ties and toughest moments to |
| 0:34.0 | essential tips on how to live a healthier, happier, more motivated life. |
| 0:39.2 | We all go through our fair share of hurdles and my goal through these discussions is to empower you |
| 0:44.3 | to better navigate yours and move with intention so that you can stride |
| 0:48.3 | toward your own big potential and of course have some fun along the way. |
| 0:53.8 | Now I got so much great feedback after the episode I posted a couple weeks ago |
| 0:58.9 | featuring Alona Amman of Athleta and that's why I know that y'all are gonna love this conversation as well. |
| 1:06.7 | Please welcome to the feed today, Vanessa Garcia Brito. |
| 1:11.2 | She is the chief impact officer at Nike. Now she knew that she wanted to make a difference. |
| 1:18.8 | She started out her career as a human rights lawyer and then pivoted into a non-traditional path for someone of her |
| 1:27.6 | education. We talk about that today and she gives some insight into her decision |
| 1:32.3 | about joining the team at Nike. |
| 1:34.5 | She talks about the longevity she has had at the company |
| 1:37.5 | and also shed some light on how her upbringing |
| 1:40.5 | and being a Latina helps to inform the way she makes decisions. |
| 1:45.0 | She also talks a lot about where she gets her confidence from. |
| 1:49.0 | She's someone that is commonly at the front of the room, |
| 1:52.0 | making some of the biggest announcements on behalf of the brand, |
| 1:55.2 | and I ask her how she garners that confidence, where it comes from, how she navigates the nerves |
| 2:00.4 | that come hand in hand with what she does, and I really appreciate her sentiments about how the nerves |
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