Samantha Power on The Power of Idealism
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2021
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
Samantha Power started as an outsider, a war correspondent who wrote impassioned pieces for the Washington Post, Economist, and others about the failings of the American government on an international stage. That voice led to her Pulitzer Prize winning book “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide and earned her a job in the cabinet of President Barack Obama helping to shape the very policies she was once a harsh critic of.
Samantha has served both on the National Security Council and as an Ambassador to the UN. Most recently she was nominated as USAID Administrator. She is also the author of the New York Times bestsellers Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World and The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, which is now in paperback and was named one of the best books of 2019 by the New York Times, Washington Post, Economist, Vanity Fair, National Public Radio, and TIME.
What I love about Samantha's story and her wisdom from navigating the halls of power, is her winding path to get there. In this episode, we get into:
- How being an outsider, starting something new, or feeling like an imposter can help us to deconstruct the world around us
- How being mission driven can help focus and motivate your work
- The importance of setting modest goals instead of seemingly intangible ones. World changing happens in the smallest bites.
- The X test: Using "if all I get from doing X, will it be worth it?"
- and so much more
Enjoy!
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samanthajpower
Website: https://samanthapower.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, ready, what's up? |
| 0:05.7 | Welcome to another episode of the Chase Travis Live show here on Creative Live. |
| 0:08.8 | You know the show. |
| 0:09.5 | This is where I sit down with Amazing Humans. |
| 0:11.3 | And today's guest is one of those amazing humans. |
| 0:14.9 | This bio is heavy. |
| 0:16.7 | So get ready. |
| 0:17.7 | She's a writer. |
| 0:18.6 | She's a renowned speaker, public servant, Pulitzer Prize winner among so many things. |
| 0:23.3 | So again, hold on to your headphones for this bio and know that we talk about some huge stuff in this episode, like using creativity to solve the world's biggest problems, like storytelling and what a critical skill is in almost any job in the world, why art and our |
| 0:38.5 | humanity are among the biggest means for connection. That's right. I am talking about Ambassador |
| 0:44.6 | Samantha Power. Ambassador Power began her career as a journalist reporting from places like |
| 0:50.2 | Bosnia, East Timor, Kosovo, Rwanda, Sudan, Zimbabwe. |
| 0:54.7 | She was the founding executive director of the Car Center for Human Rights at the Kennedy School. |
| 0:59.1 | Then she became a distinguished professor of practice at the Harvard Law School. |
| 1:03.7 | And from 2013 to 2017, she served as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. and a member of President Obama's cabinet. |
| 1:11.5 | She served on the National Security Council as a special assistant to the president. |
| 1:15.8 | And she, you know, who wrote her first book again, which one appeals her. |
| 1:19.6 | She also has several others. |
| 1:22.2 | Most recent one just came out this week in paperback called Education of an Idealist. And it was recently named |
| 1:30.8 | one of the best books of 2019 by the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Vanity |
| 1:36.0 | Fair, NPR, Time, and others. And she's about to go before the Senate to get confirmed to run |
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