Creating Partnerships That Matter with TED's Lisa Choi Owens

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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You're unhappy and want to make a shift in your career, but you don't know where to start. Can you leave your current job and pivot? This week, Puno chats with Lisa Choi Owens, the Chief Revenue Officer and Director of Growth at TED. Lisa discusses her start on Wall Street and how her expansive career in for-profit companies ultimately led to her pivot to non-profit work at TED. Lisa sheds light on the lack of representation in a business-led space and how to find that confidence when you are the minority. Should you get your MBA? How do you navigate networking? Lisa answers all these questions and more in this week's episode. Thank you to our sponsor! Gusto is an easy, online payroll and benefits service built for modern small businesses. In other words, a people platform — one place to pay and take care of your hardworking team. Head to Gusto.com/girlboss and get three months free when you run your first payroll.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hello. Oh, hello. Hello. My name is Puno, and I'm the founder of Isle of Creates,
0:19.6	and this is Girlboss Radio. All right, let's do a little imagination exercise. Actually,
0:27.0	some of you might not have to imagine this, which is unfortunate, but here we go. You're working
0:32.8	somewhere, and you just feel down in the pit of your stomach, and you just feel, uh, and maybe
0:41.6	today is the last day that you're going to feel like this, because you've tried everything, but
0:49.5	your boss is sexist, and your co-workers are really rude to you. Wait a minute. You're
1:00.6	am I in the movie Wolf of Wall Street? So now you're ready to go. You're ready to quit, but you're
1:08.0	not just ready to quit your job. You're ready to quit this entire industry. You're ready to
1:14.9	completely pivot. In fact, you've got to do a complete 180, and unfortunately, you can't just
1:23.6	spa day your way out of this one. Uh-uh. No, you got to go to the Amazon, and you're going to emerge
1:30.6	with a whole new mission-driven career. So, spoiler alert, that is exactly what happened to our guest
1:39.2	today, Lisa Choi Owens. She is the Chief Revenue Officer and Director of Growth for Ted. Yep.
1:49.6	Clap, clap, clap, clap. That one, Ted Talk. You know what I'm talking about? Ted Talk, Ted.
1:54.9	That Ted Talk that you turned on 11 p.m. at night on YouTube, and you're like, you know what?
2:02.1	I need to change. I need to be inspired. And you did. You heard this great talk that changed your
2:12.6	mind about who knows what, but yeah, that Ted, that Ted exactly. We love Ted. So back to Lisa.
2:21.2	Lisa and I are both from immigrant families. I'm half Korean, and Lisa is full Korean,
2:27.4	and it was really nice to be able to talk to someone else about growing up in an immigrant
2:33.1	family that has a very strong work ethic. And at what point is working hard turning into burnout?
2:40.8	And at what point is working hard necessary in part of your experience? And what part of it is
2:47.8	just shitty. We dove into a lot. We also talked about representation and just feeling like,
2:55.2	is this for me? Who am I? But Lisa definitely figured out who she was. She left Wall Street after
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