LIVE with Sarah Kate Ellis, President and CEO of GLAAD: “Storytelling is a bridge-builder.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Sarah Kate Ellis started her career in the magazine industry, where she helped launch and revitalize major media brands at outlets like InStyle, Vogue, and New York Magazine. Now, she’s the President and CEO of GLAAD. Translation: she’s an expert at using storytelling to shape coverage of the LGBTQ community in media and entertainment. On this episode, recorded live in HBO’s Inspiration Room in NYC, Sarah Kate talks to us about the challenges of leading an activist organization, the GLAAD Media Awards, and writing a book about the time she and her wife were pregnant at the same time.

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0:00.0	Today's The Skim From the Couch is presented by HBO's The Inspiration Room.
0:04.3	As you probably know at the Skim and on this podcast, we are all about sharing the stories of women who inspire us.
0:09.6	That is why we partnered with HBO on their Women's History Month initiative, which is called The Inspiration
0:14.5	Room. This is a very cool one of a kind open to the public exhibition in New York City
0:19.8	that brought to life real diaries from women from all walks of life. We went, we
0:24.6	participated, we loved it, and we want to tell you more about it, but first we
0:28.8	have to get to this episode. When you tell your own personal story it has such power to change a heart or open a heart or
0:41.2	connect and I keep saying that right now
0:44.5	is a really important time for us to be building bridges
0:48.0	to one another and storytelling is a bridge builder
0:51.8	because you find connectiveness through it.
0:55.0	I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch.
1:00.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
1:04.0	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
1:06.6	To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
1:12.1	We started the skim from a couch,
1:14.0	so what better place to talk it all out
1:16.0	than where it began on a couch? Please welcome Sarah Kate Ellis to the couch live from HBO's Inspiration Room.
1:30.0	Sarah Kate is the president and CEO of GLAD, the nonprofit that uses media to share
1:38.3	stories from the LGBTQ community and accelerate acceptance nationwide.
1:44.4	But before Glad, Sarah Kate builds an award-winning career in media,
1:48.5	she got a rep for helping launch and turn around major media brands like In Style, Vogue, and New York magazine.
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