Moment 138: The Power of Letting Go & Embracing the Unknown Bozoma Saint John

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In this moment, the American businessperson and marketing executive, Bozoma Saint John discusses how to find your destiny. Bozoma says that too often people say that they just ‘fell into’ the job or industry they are in, when in fact she believes that this is destiny coming to find you and that we are constantly creating our destiny. She says that we underestimate the power of letting go of control (which is not the same as surrendering or giving up) as a way of opening up to different possibilities and routes to finding our destiny. As too often we bang our heads against closed doors, when instead there is an open door that is open on a different route. To realise this, she says we need to treat our powers of intuition like a muscle, ignoring external voices and opinions, training and growing your intuition to the point where you can have 100% faith in whatever it is telling you. Listen to the full episode here - https://g2ul0.app.link/q9EARBxJ9Eb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Bozoma: https://www.bozomasaintjohn.com https://www.instagram.com/badassboz/?hl=en Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	Your first sort of real significant career move seemed to be this encounter with
0:38.1	Spike Lee's agency. So for people that don't know who is Spike Lee okay and how did that happen?
0:44.0	Spike Lee is blackity black any black.
0:46.5	First of all, all the blackness.
0:50.9	No but he is a film director, really, at his core, filmmaker, let's call it that, because he
0:59.3	certainly produces and does other things and rights. But he has an advertising agency in New York.
1:06.0	When I was there, it was on Madison Avenue.
1:09.0	So Madison Avenue is like the place for advertising in the world right it's the place where the show
1:15.7	Mad Men was made from so D. D. B is one of the biggest agencies and Spike had a
1:21.7	J. VV with them.
1:23.4	What brought you to New York in the first place?
1:25.2	Um, curiosity.
1:28.0	I was, I graduated from Wesley University, which was in
1:30.8	Milledtown, Connecticut, and it was just time to apply to med school,
1:36.5	and I really didn't want to, and New York was right there.
1:39.1	It was like an hour and a half from school, and I really didn't have a plan.
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