Rapid Response: Taking over when tragedy strikes, w/Guild's Bijal Shah

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

4.6 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

After Guild’s founding CEO suffered a stroke at the age of just 34, Bijal Shah was tapped to take the helm. Shah joins Rapid Response to share the story behind the emotional leadership change, and how she wrestled with the immense responsibility of shepherding a company out of crisis. Shah also discusses how Taylor Swift inspires her leadership, and why Guild recently partnered with Team USA ahead of the Paris Olympics.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Bob Safian, host of Rapid Response.
0:03.4	Many of our best episodes are only in the Rapid Response feed.
0:07.5	To make sure you catch it all, search for Rapid Response,
0:10.7	wherever you get your podcast.
0:12.4	This Friday, we'll be digging into
0:14.4	Apple's AI adventures and highlighting what you most need to know from this week's
0:18.8	W. W. W. D.C. Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference.
0:23.5	We'll explore what Tim Cook calls Apple Intelligence,
0:26.9	the company's partnership with Open AI, and more.
0:29.9	It's only on rapid response, so subscribe and listen this Friday.
0:34.8	See on the other side.
0:38.8	There was a business continuity plan in place,
0:41.7	and so it was known that I would step up.
0:47.0	I remember turning to my husband and being like,
0:49.6	I don't know how I'm going to do this.
0:52.4	I am reckoning with my own post-partum. I have a new baby. I have a
0:57.9	three-year-old as well and my husband was like you're going to put one foot in
1:02.2	front of the other and you're just going to get through every single day.
1:10.0	That's Bejal Shaw who became CEO of Guild Education when the founding CEO, 34-year-old
1:18.3	Rachel Romer, suffered a stroke.
1:21.8	This episode of Rapid response is quite personal about the human
1:25.8	challenges of dealing with the unexpected, about when leadership is thrust
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