Escaping Amazon After 12 Years with Kristi Coulter

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Get your FREE sample pack of LMNT electrolyte drink mix with any purchase at DrinkLMNT.com/GIRLBOSS. Imagine working at Amazon for 12 years and never getting a promotion. Imagine being called "stupid" to your face by a senior exec in a meeting. Imagine being so burned out by the toxic, relentless pace of your job that you take up an unhealthy drinking habit. Kristi Coulter experienced all of that—and more—in her decade+ at Amazon, arguably the world's best-known and most controversial company. Then she wrote a book about it. Today's convo digs deep into corporate burnout, Jeff Bezos, why workplaces weren't built for women, and what happens on the other side of your "dream job." Check out Kristi's two books: Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career and Nothing Good Can Come from This. New episodes of Girlboss Radio drop every Tuesday. Never miss an episode by subscribing here: girlboss.com/pages/girlboss-radio-subscribe. Girlboss’ very first course, Spark Your Career Renaissance, will help you unlock your differentiator to go from stuck to success. Learn more and enroll at course.girlboss.com/courses/spark-your-career-renaissance. Sign up for Girlboss Daily, our must-read morning newsletter, at girlboss.com/newsletter. You'll get A+ career advice, dream job postings, free coffee every Friday and a few emojis (because we’re fun like that), delivered right to your inbox. Looking for your next dream employee? Post your open role on our Girlboss Job Board at jobs.girlboss.com.

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0:48.8	Girl Boss Radio. I'm your host Avery. I'm the
0:59.8	founder and CEO of Bloom, an HR and DEI consulting firm,
1:03.4	and a big believer that work should work for all of us.
1:06.4	Today I'm joined by Liz, GirlBoss's general manager
1:09.0	to chat about today's guest, Christy Coulter.
1:11.5	Christy is the author of Exit Interview, the life and death of my ambitious career, and I just finished reading this entire book while I was traveling through Iceland.
1:20.0	It was a brutally honest memoir about her 12 years working at Amazon that were both exciting and rewarding, but also extremely disappointing at times.
1:30.5	In 12 years, she'd never been promoted and it was being dangled in front of her the entire time.
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