Welcome to this week's episode of the Modern Mentor Podcast. I'm your host, Rachel Cook,

and today's episode is an interview I am super excited to share with you. I sat down with

Dory Clark, consultant and keynote speaker,

who teaches executive education at Duke and Columbia University Business Schools.

She's the author of Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Standout,

which was named the number one leadership book of 2015 by Inc. Magazine.

She's been described by the New York Times as an expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives. I am so

excited to pass her wisdom along to you. Dori, welcome to the Modern Mentor podcast. I am over the

moon excited to have you here with me today. Thank you, Rachel. I'm glad to be

speaking with you. I am so excited to bring your voice to my audience. You're somebody I have

been paying a lot of attention to since I started my own business about five years ago.

And I thought it would be a really helpful moment to bring you on the show as we are recording this right now

at a moment of pretty pervasive anxiety and uncertainty. We've got the pandemic happening.

We've got things happening in our culture that are leaving people confused and afraid.

And I think all of us are just looking for some ways to feel a little bit more secure

at work, whether it's about keeping the job that we have or finding a new one or reinventing

our own professional brand. And I know that this is where you are a superstar. So I'm incredibly

excited to have you here. One of the things that you love to talk about is this concept of just really being

invaluable and having ownership over our personal brand.

And I wonder if you could tell us a little bit about your own personal journey to this

point of view and just a little bit about what that means to you.

Well, I started my business doing

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