Welcome to the Power Hour. I'm Adrienne Herbert, wellness coach, international speaker and author.

Each week I speak to a variety of guests from business founders to Olympic athletes, leading coaches,

change makers and innovators to find out their daily habits, their rules to live by and what

motivates them to get up out of bed each day. Personally, I am on a mission to encourage,

motivate and inspire, so I hope that the Power Hour will help you to achieve your personal

and professional goals.

Welcome back to the Power Hour podcast. Today I am joined by Rupil Patel, author of From CIA to CEO,

Unconventional life lessons of thinking bigger, leading better and being bolder.

Today we're going to be discussing the mindset and the tools

that RuPaul developed to not only thrive in the CIA, but to later apply those lessons to

launching not one but two successful businesses. I cannot tell you how excited I am to have this

conversation. I am so ready to dive deep into all of the work that RuPaul does.

As somebody who's been following online and engaging with with RuPaul's work recently,

I feel like we're so aligned and we're going to have so much to talk about.

So RuPaul, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you so so much for having me. As you said, I can't wait to dive right in because, yeah, we are going to have a lot to say.

Absolutely. And I guess where I'd love to start, I follow you on Twitter. I read a tweet, I think it was a while ago from you, that said, I love sharing what I've learned from my own hard one experience. And my mission is to help

smart, ambitious women rewrite the rules of success and become unstoppable. Watch out world, here

we come. And that is when I knew, I was like, this woman and I, we are going to be friends and I need

to invite her to the podcast. So firstly, let's, I guess, start there when you, you know,

that's your mission is to help smart ambitious women.

And I really like, firstly, the fact that using the word ambitious and not kind

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