My main motto is lean on. I leaned on those women. They made me feel seen and

cared for in what could be quite a cutthroat White House environment.

I'm Carly Zaken.

I'm Danielle Weisberg.

Welcome to Skim from the Couch.

This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.

From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team, to the rough stuff,

like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.

We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where itmed from the couch. She is the

former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and served in President

Barack Obama's cabinet. Before serving as U.S. Ambassador, she was on the National Security

Council as special assistant to the president and senior director for

multilateral affairs and human rights. Prior to working inside a political

administration, Power studied and critiqued foreign policy from the outside as a

scholar, activist, and journalist. Her scholarship on genocide culminated in her first book

a problem from hell for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. It's just a light casual

resume. In her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist.

I love that title.

And spotlight the power of idealism.

As she powerfully describes, her idealism was confronted by the hard truce of a complicated world.

We are going to get into all of that.

We are so excited to have you here with us today, Ambassador Power.

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