Rapid Response: Be relentless – so your team can be fearless, w/Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Faced with long odds, how do you keep your team motivated and moving forward? As a leader, Alexis McGill Johnson is focused on building hope. As the president of Planned Parenthood, Johnson is preparing for the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. But in the meantime, she’s modeling a sense of relentlessness for her team – so they can be fearless and unapologetic. Since she took over at Planned Parenthood, she’s faced both internal and external challenges. Something she learned early: "You really need to drive it like you stole it,” she says. “And don't wait for permission to make the transformations that you need to see.” She’s chosen to speak boldly, emphasizing equity and addressing the organization’s legacies of racism head on. The lessons she offers can be focused as a refusal to shy away from disappointments – and impossible dreams.

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0:00.0	Hi listeners, it's Chris Goethea, one of the producers here at Masters of Scale.
0:04.5	As any entrepreneur knows, partnerships are immensely important. No one scales alone.
0:09.4	But how do you build the mindset for finding, creating, and sustaining successful partnerships?
0:14.4	We answer that question and dive into the key of activating strategic partnerships
0:19.0	in the newest course in the Masters of Scale courses app. It's called the Power of Partnerships,
0:24.1	and you'll learn how to find, cultivate, and expand alliances from experts like Reid Hoffman,
0:29.8	Damon John, Stacey Abrams, Bill Gates, and more. So if you're already a Masters of Scale member,
0:36.2	jump right into the Power of Partnerships course today. And if you're not yet a member,
0:40.8	search for Masters of Scale courses in the app or Google Play Store to start your seven day
0:46.3	free trial. In just 10 minutes a day, you'll learn the tools you need to build the kinds of
0:51.3	partnerships that will unlock your business's potential. So go check it out. Again, that's
0:56.8	Power of Partnerships in the Masters of Scale courses app. Now on to today's show.
1:02.9	It's in our interest to actually speak to the intersection of how gender, gender identity
1:10.3	access to sexual and reproductive health care and, yes, race are really foundational to understanding
1:16.4	the core of freedom. My favorite quote by Alice Walker is a poem called Hope is a Woman who has
1:23.6	lost her fear. I am sad. I'm definitely angry and I have to practice every day to find that hope,
1:31.7	that hope to be fearless and to model that so that my team feels fearless, my team feels unapologetic,
1:39.3	my team feels like they can lay it on the line without penalty.
1:47.6	That's Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Plant Parenthood Federation of America and
1:53.0	the Plant Parenthood Action Fund. Plant Parenthood is an institution that often sparks strong feelings
1:59.1	from various constituencies, but there's no denying the perilous situation it finds itself in now.
2:05.2	I'm Bob Safian, former editor of Fast Company founder of the Flux Group and host of Masters of
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