Life’s Work: Dr. Ruth Westheimer

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 31 March 2016

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Iconic relationship expert Dr. Ruth discusses what she's learned over a long career.

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0:00.0	If you work with early career professionals, my colleagues at
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0:08.4	Young Professional's Guide to Building a Meaningful Career on your own terms.
0:11.9	Share New Here with the Young Professionals in your life. a meaningful career on your own terms.
0:12.8	Share new here with the young professionals in your life.
0:15.9	Listen for free wherever you got your podcasts.
0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.2	I'm Allison Beard.
0:34.7	In every issue of our magazine,
0:36.3	we publish a feature we call Life's Work.
0:38.7	It's an interview with someone who's been wildly successful
0:41.2	outside the traditional corporate world.
0:43.9	For her April edition, I spoke with the Celebrity Sex Therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer.
0:49.4	A Holocaust orphan, she studied psychology at the Sorbonne and Cornell Medical Center before launching the radio and TV programs that would make her famous.
0:58.0	At age 87, she remains active as a lecturer and writer.
1:03.0	Here are some excerpts from our conversation.
1:06.0	So I wanted to start by asking,
1:09.0	you were over 50 when you started your television show,
1:12.0	so it was very much a second act in your working life.
1:14.6	What prompted you to say yes to that opportunity?
1:17.2	H.
1:18.2	What a good question.
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