Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks | Molly Graham

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Success in your career looks different for everyone — but no matter your industry, you'll need to take risks. Company and community builder Molly Graham shares three key skills to learn before jumping off the metaphorical cliff, outlining a path off the corporate ladder and into true professional and personal growth. After the talk, Modupe shares her own experience with risk-taking when she left her consulting job to pursue academia. What helped her along the way? The support of a good mentor.

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0:56.8	Call me crazy.
0:58.2	But of all the gym equipment out there,
1:00.8	I have a particular fondness for the stairmaster.
1:05.0	Maybe it's the careerist in me.
1:07.1	There's something satisfying, comforting even,
1:09.8	about that literal forward march.
1:12.7	Climbing, climbing, climbing, climbing.
1:15.1	But sometimes it serves as a cruel metaphor.
1:18.3	I sweat my way up all those steps and get nowhere.
1:23.1	So what's all that climbing for?
1:27.7	I'm a D Dubacanola.
1:29.6	This is Ted Business from the TED Audio Collective.
1:32.9	Our speaker today is company and community builder Molly Graham.
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