Dr. Leana Wen: “Turn pain into passion and purpose”

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Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Last week, Planned Parenthood’s former president, Dr. Leana Wen, parted ways with the organization. After just eight months on the job. But even before she took the helm at PP, Dr. Wen was a rising star in the public health sphere. She was Baltimore’s Health Commissioner, an ER physician, and wrote a book calling for more transparency in medicine - all before she was 35. We sat down with Dr. Wen a week before she and PP parted ways. On the Couch, she talks to us about how she developed the drive to overcome huge obstacles in her childhood and start college at the age of 13 (6:30), how to find and keep mentors (8:50), and how she’s dealt with haters throughout her fast-track career in medicine and public health (17:00). Listen and subscribe to get in on it.

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0:00.0	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skimmed from the couch. This
0:06.4	podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it. From the
0:10.4	good stuff like hiring and growing a team,
0:13.0	to the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary
0:16.0	and giving hard feedback.
0:18.0	We started the skim from a couch,
0:19.0	so what better place to talk it all out than on a couch. So, our interview today is with Dr. Lena Wen, the former president of Planned Parenthood.
0:36.4	We're going to get into the interview in just a second, but we want to talk about it for a minute first.
0:41.3	The past few weeks have been pretty difficult for Dr. Wen and
0:45.1	planned parenthood. Just a few days after we recorded the interview with her,
0:49.7	she and planned p Parenthood parted ways.
0:52.8	We reached out to both Dr. Wen and Planned Parenthood.
0:55.9	The organization sent us a statement in which they thank Dr. Wen for her service and
1:00.4	announced their new interim president.
1:03.0	But they didn't give any specifics.
1:05.0	Reportedly, there had been some issues with her management style.
1:08.0	We invited Dr. Wen to come back and speak with us,
1:11.0	but she's not giving interviews right now. She told us she's glad to be back in
1:14.4	Baltimore spending time with her husband and young son and she told us that she
1:18.4	stands by the statement that she put up on Twitter. In that statement she said
1:22.3	that she and Planned Parenthood had quote
1:24.8	philosophical differences over the direction and future of the organization.
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