Deep Dive with Ginni Rometty on Purpose

Kelly Corrigan Wonders

Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

I loved being with Ginni Rometty. She is full of insight and clearly oriented toward world-positive work. I was also taken with her Midwestern charm and candor. Emerging from a tricky childhood, she found herself running IBM in a time when very few women were commanding boardrooms (a statement that is maddeningly still applicable today). Now, she is entirely devoted to making good careers available to many more people, and her plan is working. This is a conversation for anyone who wants to build more purpose into life and perhaps one to forward along to the young professionals in your life as inspiration. Thanks to AmeriHealth Caritas and PBS for supporting this work. You can watch this conversation anytime at PBS.org/kelly. (Previously aired) Ginni Rometty’s book: Good Power: Leading Positive Change in our Lives, Work, and World To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:10.1	Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders.
1:13.0	I'm Kelly Corrigan, and today I'm wondering about this thing an old friend once said to me, that the first third of your life you learn, the next third you earn,
1:18.5	and the last third you return. I knew what he meant, and learn earn return has a nice ring to it,
1:24.1	but I think it's a mistake to stop learning and definitely a mistake to wait
1:27.7	on returning. Then I met Ginny Rometty. I kept wondering what mix of gumption, circumstance,
1:35.1	and public policies slingshots, a poor daughter of a teenage mom, into the boardroom of one of the
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