Alyssa Mastromonaco, COO Vice Media & Former Deputy Chief of Staff to Obama

Girlboss Radio

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

From her early days bagging groceries, Alyssa Mastromonaco realized she had a gift for logistics. That gift led her all the way to the White House where she served as President Obama’s Deputy Chief of Staff. If you wanted to talk to President Obama, you had to go through Alyssa first. She left politics in 2014, and now works as the Chief Operating Officer of Vice Media. On this week’s episode, Sophia and Alyssa discuss Alyssa’s early days interning for Bernie Sanders, what good leadership means, and Alyssa’s hilarious misadventures in Buckingham Palace and on Marine One.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone it's Liz Carey here Sophia's girl boss sidekick and partner in crime
0:17.7	this week Sophia's out on a secret girl boss mission so she asked then I introduce this week's episode of Girl Boss Radio.
0:27.0	Each week on the show Sophia interviews a different woman who's carved out a path for herself.
0:32.4	Tracing her from her first job to how she got to where she is today,
0:36.0	to extract solid advice for our listeners who are doing the same with their lives.
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0:50.4	Girl Boss.com and you can follow Sophia at Sophia with a pH am Russo on Twitter and
0:57.2	Instagram and me at the Liz Carey and I'm only on Instagram but Sophia's kind of been pushing
1:02.4	me to get on to Twitter, so maybe I'll show up there.
1:07.0	This week's guest who Sophia interviewed a few days ago is Alyssa Master Monaco, the CEO of Vice and the former Deputy Chief of Staff to President
1:17.5	Obama.
1:18.5	What?
1:19.5	Let's get to it. Alyssa, thank you so much for being here.
1:35.0	Thanks for having me.
1:37.0	This is super fun.
1:38.0	So I like to start every podcast with the same question,
1:42.0	which is, Alyssa, what was your first job not career job but like first job yeah my first job was working at Kilmer's I.
1:50.3	which was a grocery store in the center of the really small town I grew up in and I was a really good
1:56.9	checker.
1:57.9	Oh cool.
1:58.9	And I really packed bags like a demon.
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