Hi, this is Elisa Likt, and this is Leave Your Mark the podcast, where I brew fresh career advice with some of my most inspiring and successful friends.

It's professional advice that you can action immediately, whether you're just starting out in your career or well on your way.

With a massive to-do list and a large cup of coffee, I promise that you can get it all done and still

have time to post about it.

Welcome back to Leave Your Mark. I'm your host, Elisa Lict, and today I'm joined by Jenny Wood,

former Google executive, career coach, and now bestselling author of Wild Courage. Go after what

you want and get it.

Jenny spent nearly two decades climbing the ranks at Google where she mastered the art of

getting promoted, negotiating like a pro and playing workplace politics in a way that builds,

not breaks relationships. Her new book flips conventional career advice on its head.

Instead of playing it safe or being

told to stay humble, Jenny makes the case that the very traits you've been warned against,

being weird, selfish, shameless, nosy, manipulative, even reckless are the exact qualities that will

fuel your success if you know how to use them wisely. Today we'll dig into why

wild courage is essential right now, how to ask for what you want at work without apology,

and how to reframe so-called negative traits into superpowers that move your career and your life

forward. Jenny, welcome to leave your mark.

Thanks, Elisa.

I'm so pumped to be here.

I am so pumped to have you.

So let's start off with just the courage part of this.

You call your book Wild Courage.

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