Episode 39: Annastasia Seebohm, on becoming CEO of the Spotify founder’s foundation, her leadership of Quintessentially, the global lifestyle group, and how she adjusted her lifestyle after an episode of burnout.

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Sports

4.4 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Annastasia Seebohm is the newly appointed CEO of Brilliant Minds Foundation. This marks her second CEO role under the age of 35. Brilliant Minds Foundation was founded in 2015 by Spotify founder and CEO, Daniel Ek, and has brought together the world’s most influential thought leaders at the intersection of humanity and technology. Prior to her current role, Seebohm was the Group CEO of Quintessentially. The first female and millennial to hold the Group CEO role, Seebohm was responsible for the strategy and day-to-day operations of Quintessentially, the world’s leading lifestyle group. She led over 1,000 employees across 50 cities, and spearheaded Quintessentially’s global growth. During her tenure, annual revenues exceeded $100 million. She’s been profiled in publications including Forbes, Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, The CEO Magazine and Harvard Business Review. British GQ listed Seebohm as one of the Top 50 Most Influential People in the UK. Seebohm talks to Rich and Gianni about the “70/30 rule” she followed to achieve her dream of becoming a CEO before age 30, illuminates the importance of young entrepreneurs finding their “why,” and talks about the childhood experience that supercharged her maturity, enabling her to lead organizations from a young age.

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0:00.0	what's up everybody and welcome to another boardroom out of office podcast Gianni this is
0:10.6	podcast 39 man six more until the first season's done how you feeling no way time flies
0:17.4	time flies when you're doing podcasts every damn week. Is that what it is? Exactly.
0:23.5	Well, today we have somebody on the show who is a fast new friend of both of ours. We had
0:29.5	drinks with this young woman two weeks ago, and we met on another subject. And like we always do,
0:36.1	we went into pod mode. So a lot of what we asked may seem
0:38.9	repetitive to her. But guess what? Gianni, our audience has not heard it. So we're going to do it again.
0:43.9	Sound good? Sounds good to me. All right. Well, without further ado, please welcome to the show,
0:49.8	the CEO of Brilliant Minds and the former CEO of Quintessentially Group, Ms. Anastasia C-Bomb.
0:57.8	Ooh, I killed it on the pronunciation.
0:59.8	So good.
1:00.9	So good.
1:02.3	Thank you.
1:03.5	Hi.
1:04.1	I'm super excited because this is the very, very first thing I'm doing is the new CEO of Brilliant
1:10.0	Minds.
1:28.5	Wow. Wow. That's awesome. I get to be with you, Brilliant Minds. I know I'm super, super excited. Thank you. I appreciate that. Well, you know, you heard what I said. We obviously really went right into it when we met the first time. We just asked question after question. But you, I could tell right off the bat that that was your energy. I was right, obviously, right? We didn't offend in any way.
1:33.1	No, no. I mean, I love, I think life is about questioning. I love the questions, probably
1:38.0	often more than I love the answers themselves. So yeah, I'm all in. All right. Well, so the two guests we've had before you and previously even though
1:47.1	like we just said we've had 39 or you're number 39 were ariana huffington and bosoma st john and
1:53.9	in the case of ariana huffington i read that she was somebody that you looked up to and her her success has come over this last 30, 40 years
2:04.5	of her life. And she's done incredibly well. But when it comes to someone like you, in some ways,
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