875: How to Unapologetically Ask for What You Want with Jenny Wood
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Jenny Wood discusses how to overcome self-doubt and fear to confidently chase after what you want.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to flip negativity into positivity with one word.
2) How always aiming to be the best harms you.
3) Where to find the courage to take more risks.
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— ABOUT JENNY —
Jenny Wood is an executive at Google running a large operations team that helps drive tens of billions of revenue per year. She is also the founder of Own Your Career, one of the largest career development programs in Google’s history with tens of thousands of people benefitting.
• Book: The Chase: Unconventional, Uninhibited, Unapologetic Guide to Getting What You Really Want in Life
• LinkedIn: Jenny Wood
• Website: ItsJennyWood.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Article: "Three-quarters of women lack confidence in the workplace"
• Article: “Serendipity: 1. Spreadsheet: 0.”
• Book: The Song of Significance: A New Manifesto for Teams by Seth Godin
• Book: Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career by Jason Feifer
• Past episode: 100: “Going there” with (Uncle!) Topper Steinman
• Past episode: 848: How to Quickly Grow and Future-Proof Your Career with Jason Feifer
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.5 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.1 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host Pete McIdest. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 875 with Jenny Wood. |
| 0:23.0 | If you ever feel a little bit shy or sheepish about asking, Jenny's got some wisdom to help |
| 0:28.2 | you out. |
| 0:29.2 | And be unapologetic in asking for and thus more often getting what you want. |
| 0:34.9 | So you'll learn one how to flip negativity into positivity with a single word to how |
| 0:41.3 | always aiming to be the best ever can be harmful. |
| 0:44.9 | And three, where to find the courage to take more risk. |
| 0:48.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that |
| 0:51.0 | we've mentioned, please visit us over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash EP 875. |
| 0:58.4 | And while you're at awesomeatyourjob.com, I recommend you check out some of our goodies like |
| 1:01.7 | the gold nugget summary email writeups, the 10 days of winning at work, course, full |
| 1:07.6 | text searchable transcripts of this huge archive of 875 interviews and so much more at awesomeatyourjob.com. |
| 1:15.1 | Here's a bit about Jenny. |
| 1:16.4 | Jenny Wood is an executive at Google running a large operations team that helps drive tens |
| 1:21.4 | of billions of dollars in revenue each year. |
| 1:25.5 | He's also the founder of Own Your Career, one of the largest career development programs |
| 1:28.9 | in Google's history with tens of thousands of people benefiting. |
| 1:32.8 | Big thanks to Jenny for sharing her wisdom with us and big thanks to our sponsors. |
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