Lydia Fenet, auctioneer and Global Director at Christie’s Auction House: “I realized I was making a third of what everyone else was making.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Note to self: always bring a gavel to future meetings. Lydia Fenet always has one in her purse. She’s the Global Director for Strategic Partnerships at Christie’s, and the company’s lead benefit auctioneer. Even if you can’t carry a gavel around, she sat down with us to tell us how to apply our own “strike method” and command a room. In this episode, Lydia shares how to start networking, even when you don’t know anyone in your industry (7:29), how she collects herself before a big negotiation (23:40), and how to get your boss invested in your career (24:52). You can also pick up a copy of Lydia's book for more of her career advice.

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0:00.0	Today's episode is sponsored by Estay Lauder, the nighttime skin care expert.
0:05.0	We will explain what we mean in a bit year career where all of a sudden I was like I need to really think about this and I need to
0:24.8	start asking questions.
0:26.0	I'm Carly Zaken.
0:29.1	I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:30.1	Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:31.5	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:35.2	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.
0:38.0	To the rough stuff like negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback.
0:43.6	We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it began
0:48.6	on a couch? Today Lydia Finette joins us on Skimmed from the Couch. She's the global
1:00.0	director of Strategic Partnerships at Christie's auction house.
1:04.0	She's also their lead benefit auctioneer and she's raised over half a billion dollars for
1:09.0	charities around the world.
1:11.0	Lydia has taken the lessons she's learned while paving her own career path and has put them in her book,
1:17.0	lucky for you.
1:18.0	Entitled, The Most Powerful Woman in the Room is You.
1:22.0	Lydia, welcome to Skim from the couch. Great to be here.
1:25.0	You have the coolest job. We're going to get into it, but I just want you to skim your
1:28.0	resume for us. Well, my resume is actually kind of short. I've worked at Christie's
1:32.0	auction house in New York for 21 years. I started as an intern and had worked at the company for basically two internships and then was hired out of an internship.
1:42.8	I ran the events department for basically 10 years.
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