Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and you're listening to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

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Check it out at Boombox Gifts.com. I'm excited to be here today with Lydia Finney. She is the managing director,

Global Head of Strategic Partnerships at Christie's. As lead benefit auctioneer of the firm,

she has led auctions for more than 600 organizations. She's been featured in the New York Times,

The Wall Street Journal, Forbes,

Vanity Fair, Vogue, Town and Country, and many other publications. Graduate at C-Woney University and originally from Louisiana, Lydia currently lives in New York City with her husband and

three children. The most powerful woman in the room is you. Command and audience and sell

your way to success is her first book. Welcome, Lydia.

Thanks so much for coming on.

Moms Don't have time to read books.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to be here.

So can you please tell listeners what your new book,

The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You, is About?

Absolutely.

So the most powerful woman in the room is you is a story about my 20-year

career at Christie's Auction House. But it's more than a story. It's really a lot of stories

about life lessons learned through being on stage for almost 16 years as an auctioneer.

And a lot of these stories, as I realized, and as I was writing this book, a lot of the stories really apply to things that I've learned over the course of my career, but they were things that I wish someone had told me very early on in my career. And that's really what the book ended up being, which is not actually what I thought it was going to be when I started. And so I think more than anything, it's just a fun read about a 20-year career with a lot of life lessons woven in. And it's so neat for me to be interviewing you because so much of the time in the book you're referencing your career, especially your on-stage portion of the career when you go to different events and raise money for charities as an auctioneer. And I've been in the crowds

and seen you like over the years many times. So it's like always, you know, you always wonder like,

what's your story? So now I actually have your story right here next to me. That's pretty cool.

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