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A Bit of Optimism

Partnering with Jean Oelwang

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Education, Business

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Some of the most successful people in the world all have a secret power. It’s not their experience or technical expertise that matter most – it’s their partnerships.    As the President and founding CEO of Virgin Unite, Jean Oelwang has had a ringside seat to remarkable people and how they build deep business and personal relationships.   She has spent over 15 years working with some of the world's greatest partnerships as they learned to become better versions of themselves, and in doing so, multiplied their positive impact on the world.  In her new book Partnering, Jean illuminates the six core principles that weave through sixty of these extraordinary collaborations and shows how we can increase depth and meaning in our most important relationships.   This is…A Bit of Optimism.     For more on Jean and her work check out:    https://www.amazon.com/Partnering-Forge-Connections-Things-Happen/dp/059318954X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1646661822&sr=8-2  https://unite.virgin.com/unite/person/jean-oelwang   https://twitter.com/JeanOelwang instagram.com/JeanOelwang

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm really excited about this episode because I get to talk to Jean Olwing.

0:12.0

Jean is remarkable.

0:14.6

She started her career as an executive in telecom and mobile phones and she broke every

0:20.0

glass ceiling.

0:21.6

But after 20 years doing that, she realized she wanted to do something bigger with her

0:25.8

life.

0:26.8

And so she started working in philanthropy.

0:29.9

She's the president and founding CEO Virgin Unite, which basically houses all the philanthropies

0:35.4

of the Virgin company.

0:37.1

She's also a B-team leader and sits on the advisory council of elders.

0:41.7

But what's most important about Jean is as she was meeting all these remarkable people

0:46.9

doing remarkable things in the world, she discovered a pattern that in every single case there

0:52.9

was a partnership that was at the basis of their ability to work at remarkable scale, but

0:59.2

also found great fulfillment in their lives.

1:03.5

And this is why I wanted to publish her book.

1:06.6

She understands that if any of us wants to do something worth doing and find great fulfillment

1:13.6

while we're doing it, we have to work together.

1:18.3

This is a bit of optimism.

1:24.7

The years of working in philanthropy and doing good and running Virgin Unite, which is sort

1:30.7

of the umbrella for all the Virgin charities, you came to discover that these remarkable

1:35.4

people have a secret power.

1:37.4

All these people that we admire, write books about, read articles about, we're all fascinated

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