Bozoma Saint John on the Power of Embracing Memento Mori
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Bozoma Saint John about her new book The Urgent Life: My Story of My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival, how intense personal traumas have shifted her perspective on life, why the best legacy to leave behind is to have treated people well, viewing grief as a choice, and more.
Bozoma Saint John is an American businessperson and marketing executive who has served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Netflix, CMO at Endeavor, Chief Brand Officer at Uber, a Marketing Executive at Apple Music and Beats Music, Head of Music and Entertainment Marketing at PepsiCo. She has also served as an ambassador for the African Diaspora, special envoy to the President of Ghana, and philanthropic ambassador to Pencils of Promise, and was named among the Top 50 Most Influential Female Leaders in Africa within the corporate and business sphere by Leading Ladies Africa. A series of personal tragedies that culminated in the death of Bozoma’s husband to cancer in 2013 prompted her to embrace her life by living urgently. Now, she lectures around the world on that theme. You can find Bozoma’s work at theurgentlife.com and on Twitter @badassboz.
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| 1:05.7 | But it was a big part of my life |
| 1:07.6 | And and I respect it as an art, right in art form |
| 1:11.8 | People who can craft messages who can captivate attention who can tell a brand story who can help a brand |
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| 1:31.8 | This is a reason it pays so well my guest today |
| 1:35.8 | Bozama St John has done this for some of the biggest companies in the world |
| 1:42.1 | She's a Hall of Fame marketing executive. She was the chief marketing officer at Netflix |
| 1:47.7 | She was the CMO at Endeavor. She was the chief brand officer at Uber |
| 1:52.2 | She was a marketing executive apple. She was part of Beats when they acquired it |
| 1:57.9 | She's worked at Pepsi. I mean she just worked at some of the biggest companies in the world |
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