Jaime Waydo — Taking Care of Yourself First, Fearlessly Owning Your Desires, Speaking Your Truth and Designing Systems to Support You

The Art of Accomplishment

Brett Kistler

Business, Education, Personal Development, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Management, Self-improvement

4.9 • 275 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 41, Brett interviews Jaime Waydo, Chief Technology Officer for Cavnue. Previously, Jaime led systems engineering at Waymo, Google’s Self Driving Car program, and collaborated with NASA on the Mars Rover Curiosity. Jaime came from a mindset passed down generationally that, especially as a woman, it was important to place everyone’s needs — children, spouse, employees — before her own. She quickly realized that this way of being led her to chronically running on empty, which neither benefited her nor her community. She pivoted to putting herself first: speaking her needs vulnerably, organizing systems to support her and designing a schedule that worked for her, transforming her work culture and her home life, while giving her the energy she needed to live life on her terms. Tune in to this episode to find out how she made it all happen.

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0:00.0	Let's just look at this like a patient on the table.
0:04.0	What are the symptoms?
0:06.0	And then what's the next step in treatment?
0:09.0	And so, you know, solving problems like that and not worrying about like, well, whose fault is something, I think is just a really good way to keep the shame from cropping up in people.
0:20.0	And then they can stay much more in the problem-solving mode.
0:24.9	Welcome to the Art of Accomplishment,
0:26.8	where we explore how deepening connection with ourselves and others
0:29.8	leads to creating the life we want with enjoyment and ease.
0:36.9	All right, everybody, welcome back.
0:39.3	Today I'm speaking with Jamie Waito.
0:41.9	Jamie is the CTO of...
0:44.3	Fuck.
0:47.2	Cavnew.
0:47.9	Okay, we're going to do that one more time.
0:49.4	No, no, keep it.
0:50.9	Keep that in.
0:52.9	Okay, we're keeping it.
0:54.9	Yeah, Jamie is the CTO of Cavnew.
0:57.5	Previously, you were at Apple, you were at Waymo, you worked on the Mars Curiosity rover, and now you're working on autonomous driving.
1:07.2	Yeah, it's been about a decade of working in autonomous driving and really trying to realize my passion of making mobility available to everybody, no matter if they can drive or not.
1:18.8	Nice. In our pre-call just now, before I started and completely botched that intro, you were starting to tell me about something, something that you've learned
1:28.7	through your career, through all of these different businesses, and something that really just
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