Joanne Lipman: Navigating the Reinvention that Comes with Career and Life Transitions and How Aha Moments Aren't as Random as They Seem
The Ready State Podcast
Kelly Starrett & Juliet Starrett
4.9 • 623 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Joanne Lipman has authored a pioneering journalism career. She was the first female Deputy Managing Editor at the Wall Street Journal, where she created the Weekend Journal and Personal Journal sections and oversaw the creation of the paper’s Saturday edition. She was founding editor-in-chief of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine. And she served as Editor-in-Chief at USA Today and Chief Content Officer at Gannet. Under her editorship, she led these organizations to numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes. Dubbed “star editor” by CNN, she is author of the No. 1 national bestseller That’s What She Said, about closing the gender gap, and coauthor of the music memoir Strings Attached. She is a lecturer at Yale University and a Fellow at Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study. Lipman is a contributor to CNBC.
Transitions in work and life are part of being a modern human. Joanne sets us up with very actionable thoughts and advice on how to think about and navigate these massive changes, and really helps us understand how to reinvent ourselves in meaningful ways.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Kelly Starrett. |
| 0:06.8 | And I'm Juliette. |
| 0:08.3 | And you're listening to The Ready State Podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | This episode of the Ready State podcast is brought to you by Gibbard. |
| 0:19.9 | We just got back from the Olympics where we saw a lot of very wired people doing some |
| 0:26.3 | pretty heroic stuff. And at the root of a lot of that is this thing called balance. |
| 0:31.5 | Yeah. I mean, almost every sport we watched, having good balance matters. So, you know, |
| 0:36.7 | ultimately being a human being is about knowing where you are in space |
| 0:41.3 | and dealing with yourself in gravity. |
| 0:43.6 | And the gibboard is the easiest way to start to up regularly and return on those lights |
| 0:49.5 | that have been dimmed. |
| 0:50.7 | You're wearing squishy shoes, you drive around a car, you do a sit. |
| 0:53.5 | And this thing is so easy to make yourself feel better and to actually move better through the world. Yeah, I think it's the coolest and most fun way to improve your balance and, you know, make sure that you hang on to that skill as you age. I know what you think of yourself. I wish I had a slack line in my living room. And guess what? |
| 1:11.2 | We do. We do. You can. It's so good. It's literally a butted up next to our kitchen counter and it lives there all the time. |
| 1:18.4 | all the time. And we have one at our office. And, you know, we just try to sprinkle these things around our lives. |
| 1:23.7 | And it's super interesting. And I've talked about this before. But anyone who comes in the door is always like, what is that thing? And then is immediately drawn to it and wants to like |
| 1:27.5 | spend a little time balancing on it while we're cooking dinner. Our kids are balancing on it. |
| 1:32.1 | Like it's this thing is in constant use and it looks cool. Yeah. I think as we're trying to |
| 1:36.1 | help people sort out what are the right sort of movement, lifestyle aspects, running it in the background. So it's not like I'm going to, instead of riding my bike or doing something fun, I'm going to work on my balance. It just turns into a game all day long. I cannot recommend this enough. Get one for your kids. A set. Have one around your house. This thing is lightweight and portable, but it can even |
| 1:41.8 | support large humans like Kelly Saret. |
| 2:02.7 | Finally, you suck in balancing. So quit messing around, get on it. You're going to find out that |
| 2:05.3 | you have a lot of little hanging fruit to pluck. So if you want to get your own G-B-S, G-I-B-O-A-R-D-U-S dot com slash |
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