Joi Gordon, CEO of Dress for Success: “Find your purpose and your passion.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Joi Gordon is the CEO of Dress for Success. That’s the nonprofit that provides low-income women clothing and career counseling to help them succeed in their careers. But she didn’t start there. Joi got her start as a lawyer and volunteered at Dress for Success on the side. Not long after that, she switched over full time. And she’s spent the last 20 years growing the nonprofit from one storefront in NYC … to a global entity. On the Couch, she talks to us about why she gave up her law career (6:00), what she looks for when hiring full-time employees (10:50), and the key to convincing people to get on your side (14:25). PS: This week, we’re getting our focus on with Oprah’s new book, “The Path Made Clear.” Get it here.

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0:00.0	Today's episode of Skim from the Couch is brought to you by Prudential. Prudential helps you plan financially for today and tomorrow.
0:07.0	Okay, let's get into the show.
0:09.0	I think that's the beauty about young people is that is you're starting out on your
0:13.4	career you can go in any which direction you choose and it's important that you
0:18.8	choose as many directions as possible until you find your purpose and your passion.
0:25.0	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:29.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:33.0	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team,
0:35.8	to the rough stuff like negotiating your salary
0:38.7	and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:41.2	We started the skim from a couch so what better place to talk
0:44.3	it all out than where it began on a couch?
0:52.2	So please welcome Joy Gordon to our couch. Joy is the CEO of Dress for
0:58.3	Success, the nonprofit that provides the clothing, career counseling, and other resources that low-income that
1:04.0	the clothing, career counseling, and other resources that low-income women need to succeed in their careers.
1:07.0	But Joy actually started her career in law,
1:09.0	and she volunteered a dress for success on the side.
1:12.0	Eventually, she decided to come on board full time and in 2002 she became CEO.
1:17.6	Since then she's helped grow the nonprofit from one storefront in New York City
1:21.9	to a global entity.
1:23.3	Today, Dress for Success operates in 160 cities
1:27.5	in 30 countries and serves 1 million women.
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