For a very long time, I always ran away from my grief and ran towards work or towards

relationship or towards something but never dealt with the things I was feeling.

And I think accepting the fact that you're grieving or you feel sad or you feel afraid

of failure of, you know, your career or anything, accepting your feelings is the first step

in taking away their power.

I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch.

This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it,

from the good stuff like hiring and growing a team to the rough stuff like negotiating

your salary and giving or getting hard feedback. We started the Skim from a couch,

so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch.

Today, Priyanka Chopra Jonas joins us on Skim from the couch. We are huge fans and so

excited to have Priyanka with us. She's an actress, producer, singer and philanthropist.

Priyanka rose to fame after winning the Miss World pageant in 2000. She later took Bollywood

and then beat global entertainment industry by storm. She's written about her career journey

in her new memoir, Unfinished, which is on sale February 9th. Priyanka or so excited to have you

here. Welcome to Skim from the couch. Thank you guys. So we ask everybody to skim their resume.

You have a long resume. So we're going to ask you to like really skim the highlights here.

It's just everything has sort of happened really quickly right now in my life. So I would say

an actor, I'm a producer, entrepreneur, I'm a founder, I'm an author, philanthropist and yeah,

that's it. That's a lot of things. We're going to dive into all of that, but I actually just hear

you say that. Is there one that you identify more closely with? No, I feel like I'm in some of all

of them. They've all been my choices. Besides the pageants, which I won when I was 17 years old,

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