Who you are defines how you build.

This is the entrepreneurial thought leader series.

Brought to you by Stanford E. Corner.

On this episode, we're joined by Shelley Archimbo.

Shelly sits on the boards of Verizon and Nordstrom, and her first book, Unapologetically Ambitious,

comes out on October 6th. Here's host and Stanford professor, Tina Sele.

So you've got this exciting new book coming out. I know that this is something that you've

been working on for a very long time. Can you tell us a little bit about the origin of the book

and what inspired you to write it?

Absolutely. Well, Tina, I have tried throughout my career to actually be accessible. I've been

so fortunate to have a lot of help and support along the way. So when people reached out,

I was always trying to be responsive. But as I got more and more responsibility, it became harder and harder to actually spend

time and meet with people.

I still responded.

Matter of fact, I still do.

But actually having that cup of coffee, let people pick my brain, the story, it was hard.

And I said, you know what?

When I get to phase two, I'm going to write it down.

I'm going to share the strategies and the approaches that I used two, I'm going to write it down. I'm going to share the strategies and the

approaches that I used, how I leverage different techniques and even some hacks, if you will,

to really improve my odds to get what I aspired to, because I want everyone to have the opportunity

to achieve their aspirations. So that's why I wrote the book.

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