The Urgent Life: How to Live On Your Terms with Bozoma Saint John

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Chase Jarvis

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we're sitting down with the incredible marketing executive and influencer Bozoma Saint John to chat about grief, self-reinvention, and living urgently.

Bozoma Saint John is an extremely talented businesswoman and marketer who has achieved success in the corporate world and beyond. She has held various executive roles at companies like Apple, Beats Music and Uber, where she quickly became a highly sought after expert in the field of marketing. Bozoma has become a global icon, standing for authenticity and positivity in the midst of a difficult world. She's been inducted into the American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement, as well as the American Marketing Hall of Fame (among other accolades), so she knows a thing or two about creating success.

But what really sets Bozoma apart is her ability to turn pain into power. She'll share her personal journey of loss and how she's used that experience to fuel her drive for success. And if you're looking for tips on how to embrace change and reinvent yourself after tragedy strikes, then you won't want to miss this episode.

Highlights from our conversation:

Bozoma's impressive career as a C-suite marketer
Deciding to make a massive life change in favor of meaning and purpose
Life is blunt, and our approach to living it should be too
Changing your mindset to take action

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	What you did in the last decade, two decades, five months, 18 months is not wasted.
0:07.5	This is all about evolution.
0:10.6	You know, pivots aren't hard.
0:12.4	They aren't.
0:12.9	I'm not talking about hard in terms of effort.
0:15.2	I mean hard in terms of like a quick break.
0:17.8	You know, we as human beings don't function like that.
0:23.6	If I saw you in six months from now and all of a sudden you're speaking to me in a British accent, I'd be like, Chase,
0:26.8	what's wrong with you? What is going on? You know what I'm saying? Now, if you started using maybe
0:33.1	some other language that, you know, maybe I wasn't used to in this conversation, you start using some real Oxford dictionary type words and stuff like that, I feel like, you know, maybe I wasn't used to in this conversation. You start using some
0:38.3	real Oxford dictionary type words and stuff like that. I'm like, no, Chase, is you, is this a degree
0:43.3	here? Or like, how did you, like, what happened here? You know? Now, that to me is how I describe
0:49.7	the evolution versus the pivot. You know, the pivot feels hard. It feels sharp. It's like, oh, take a left.
0:56.3	And then all of a sudden you leave everything that you've ever done before. We don't have to do that.
1:00.0	We don't have to do that. When we are evolving our brands or we're evolving as people and we want to
1:06.2	reintroduce ourselves to the world, all the stuff that we've done before, good and bad, by the way,
1:12.2	okay? The bad stuff shouldn't be left behind because it makes you human. You know, all of that
1:18.0	stuff can come with you and make you even more relatable. That negative wisdom, y'all, is from
1:24.0	Bozma, St. John. And if you are not familiar with Bose, as she goes by her friends and most circles on the
1:32.1	internet, she is an American businesswoman who has had an absolutely outrageous career
1:37.3	working for many of the top brands in the world, like Pepsi, Apple, Uber, Endeavor. She's been covered by AdWeak as one of the
1:47.8	most exciting personalities in advertising. And even with all that, today's conversation does not
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