Thinking Big with Sheena Iyengar, Business School Professor + Author

Best of Both Worlds Podcast

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Kids & Family, Careers, Business

4.6 • 761 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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In this episode, Laura interviews Sheena Iyengar, a Columbia Business School professor and author. Sheena was is the daughter of Indian immigrants and started losing her sight at 9 years old, becoming completely blind by 16.

She has built a remarkable career writing and innovating while growing her family, and she discusses her unique path with Laura as well as what inspired her latest release, Think Bigger: How to Innovate.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
0:05.8	Oh yeah.
0:06.6	Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular audiobook titles, including romanticity,
0:15.3	autobiographies, true crime, and more.
0:19.3	Suddenly listeners didn't mind sitting in traffic or even missing their
0:22.6	flight. Amazon Music Unlimited now includes Audible. No way. Download the Amazon Music app now to start
0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Hi, this is Laura Vanderkamp. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist,
0:37.9	and speaker. And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of five, an author, journalist, and speaker.
0:43.9	And this is Sarah Hart Unger. I'm a mother of three, a practicing physician, and blogger on the side.
0:49.2	We are two working parents who love our careers and our families. Welcome to Best of Both Worlds.
0:55.1	Here we talk about how real women manage work, family, and time for fun. From figuring out child care to mapping out long-term career goals, we want you to get the most out of life.
1:02.3	Welcome to Best of Both Worlds. This is Laura. And in this episode, I am going to be interviewing
1:08.1	Sheena Iyengar, who is a professor at Columbia's Graduate School of
1:13.1	Business. She is the author of two books, one called The Art of Choosing, which a number of people
1:18.0	have seen her pretty famous TED Talk on that topic. She's also the author of a new book called
1:23.7	Think Bigger. So, Sarah, are you thinking bigger these days? I don't know. I started looking. I
1:30.9	haven't read her book yet, although I'm actually super intrigued by it. And so I was looking at Amazon
1:36.2	reviews as one does. And I was slightly intimidated by the idea of thinking bigger. Like sometimes
1:42.9	I find that a phrase like that sounds like it applies to specifically an entrepreneur who is going to grow their business and, like, get billions from some venture capitalists and ultimately, like, go public.
1:57.3	Like, and I don't really have aspirations of that.
2:02.4	I don't even know if you do.
2:04.1	So I'm like, is this one of those books that like sounds really cool but like won't
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