On this episode of the Playbook, I have the vice president of YouTube, Angela Corden,

and we're going to talk about what it's like to be the head of not only the brand, creative,

culture, and media, and what that means today. Join me for all that and more on The Playbook.

This is Entrepreneurs The Playbook. For each week, I bring you some of the greatest athletes,

celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success,

and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host, David Meltzer.

I am so excited. I'm Angela Corden. She's the vice president of a small company called YouTube,

marketing global head of brand, creative, culture, and media. And I can't think

Angela, a better person when we're talking about being the head of the brand, creative, and culture

of YouTube, media, because you have such a diverse background. You have such an interesting

perspective. And I think someone like you is perfect for such a huge company to help and allow

people to be themselves. And when I read through your history, I love that you learn to love yourself.

How long did it take to learn to love yourself like you do?

Well, first of all, David, thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here among all of your

guests and your listeners. So I love that. I think that we're maybe finally at an age where we can

talk about loving ourselves as part of our professional development and personal development.

And this idea of bringing your whole self to work and what that really means and the sort of

the circuitous history that brought us all here, you hear me here at this time. You know,

it's something we can honor. I think that we, I grew up thinking that life was supposed to be

linear, that we all had one career and we chose a job and we stuck with it. My dad was in the

military for 35 years and, you know, wore a uniform every day. So there was a, there was a conformity

that I expected. And I think that my life, both as a woman, as a queer person who came out in her

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