Jennifer Palmieri, Former White House Communications Director: “If you act like you belong in the room, people think you do.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Midterm elections are in T minus 6 days. Politicians are trying to convince you to hire them. And behind every politician...is a communications director helping them get the word out. So we brought in two of them to talk to us about how they do their jobs -- and how they made it to the top of the political game. Episode 2: Jennifer Palmieri. Jennifer has a long history in politics, starting when she interned for then-Senator Leon Panetta (D-CA) in college (Panetta was later President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff). Later, Jennifer got into the White House herself. And she became President Barack Obama’s communications director. After that, she was the head of comms for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Now she’s also an author. Her new book is all about stories and advice for the next generation of female leaders. On the couch, she talks to us about crying at work, supporting her female colleagues, and managing up...when your boss is the president.

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0:00.0	What I tell women who are scared about it is the women that are in America right now,
0:06.5	I think we are the ones that have the privilege of showing what it looks like for women to lead and whatever and however you
0:15.0	choose whether that's within your own family or your community or business or in
0:18.4	politics and and setting new sort of standard for what that looks like.
0:25.6	I'm Danielle Weissburg.
0:30.6	I'm Danielle Weisberg, and I'm Kareli Zakinakin and we are the co-founder of the Skim.
0:35.0	You're listening to our podcast Skimmed from the couch where we talk to other female
0:38.8	entrepreneurs about what it's like to get to the top and then what it's like along the way. We're talking bad
0:44.8	advice the really really low days the management mistakes everything that goes
0:48.9	into the real stuff. No BS. We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it all began?
0:56.3	We're on a couch.
0:58.0	So please join us in welcoming Jennifer Paul Mary to our couch.
1:03.6	Jennifer has had a long history in politics
1:06.1	starting back in her college days
1:07.7	as an intern for a California senator.
1:10.4	More recently, though, she was President Obama's White House Communications Director and then she was the head of communications for Hillary Clinton's campaign for president in 2016.
1:20.0	Now she's also an author. Her new book shares stories and advice for the next generation of female leaders.
1:26.5	Jennifer is a big believer in not hiding your emotions, which we'll get into.
1:31.0	She even titled a chapter of her book
1:33.2	nod less and cry more and we're going to talk about that and a lot of other
1:37.4	things Jennifer welcome to the couch thank you I'm really happy to be with you
1:40.8	all we are so happy to have you here.
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