Carly Fiorina: Overcoming Fear

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and 2016 Republican Presidential Candidate, says she is not afraid of anything anymore. She has faced discrimination, survived breast cancer and lived through the unimaginable loss of a child. She shares the leadership lessons she has learned from the c-suite to the debate stage, and what she thinks of the current political climate, impeaching President Trump and the state of the Republican party. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to Boss Files. I'm Poppy Harlow. In this week's episode, she ran for president,
0:08.5	was the first woman to run a Fortune 50 company, and a cancer survivor who says she is not
0:14.5	afraid of anything anymore. Carly Fiorina. She's out with a new book, Find Your Way, Unleash Your Power and Highest Potential.
0:23.8	She was CEO of Hewlett-Packard during the dot-com boom and bust
0:28.0	before being fired in what she calls a quote,
0:31.2	courtroom brawl.
0:32.6	When you are leading change,
0:35.5	you get some arrows in your back. Change is hard and resistance is real.
0:43.0	And so it must be understood and managed strategically. I knew that then. I knew it even,
0:50.5	I know it even more now. She faced discrimination, survive breast cancer, and lived through the unimaginable loss
0:57.0	of a child.
0:59.0	Everything I feared in my life has happened to me, not dying, but I feared my mother would
1:07.3	go unexpectedly and I wouldn't be able to reach her and speak to her in time.
1:11.0	It happened.
1:11.5	I feared getting cancer.
1:13.2	I feared a child dying.
1:15.0	I feared bad headlines.
1:17.1	Everything I've been afraid of in my life, I feared the strip club.
1:20.7	Yes, the strip club.
1:22.9	Wait until you hear that story.
1:25.9	She calls herself a problem solver and says that's why she decided to run for president.
1:31.6	After running against then candidate Trump in 2016, does she think the president should now be impeached?
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