Fresh Take: Jenny Wood

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How can moms feel empowered to make progress towards their personal and professional goals? Jenny Wood, author of the new book WILD COURAGE, offers tips for applying courage in your daily life, balancing personal ambitions with family responsibilities, and setting healthy boundaries. In her 18 years at Google, Jenny Wood grew from entry-level to executive. Jenny’s writing has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Inc., and Forbes. Jenny and Margaret discuss: The nine negative adjectives women are often labeled as and how Jenny flips them in her book How to differentiate between the "truths" and the "tales" you tell yourself about a situation The very small ways you can start to exhibit courage in your everyday life Here's where you can find Jenny: www.itsjennywood.com @itsjennywood on IG and @jennyilles on LinkedIn Buy WILD COURAGE: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9780593717646 We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson. mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent,

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1:18.9	sleep tonight. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Fresh Take from what Fresh Hell laughing in the
1:26.6	face of Motherhood.
1:31.0	This is Margaret, and today I am talking to Jenny Wood. In her 18 years at Google, Jenny Wood grew from entry level to executive, and she most recently
1:37.9	led a large operations team that helped drive billions of revenue per year.
1:43.1	In 2021, she started a passion project within Google
1:46.5	called Own Your Career, which grew to one of the largest career development programs in Google's
1:52.7	history. Through the program she founded, she has trained tens of thousands of people in a range of
1:58.1	skills, including acing a job search, building relationships, and most
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