Working Women: Valerie Jarrett and the Importance of Mentorship
IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson
Higher Ground
4.3 • 13.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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In part one of her discussion about mentorship, Michelle reminisces with her friend and former boss Valerie Jarrett about personal growth in the workplace. Find the episode transcript here: https://spoti.fi/TMOP_transcripts
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes young people think that mentoring is just about just show me the way. |
| 0:05.1 | Just tell me what to do. |
| 0:06.6 | Make my path easier. |
| 0:08.0 | Get stuff out of my way. |
| 0:09.0 | Make my path easier. |
| 0:10.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:11.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:12.0 | I want young people out there to know when they're looking for a mentor, they also have to |
| 0:18.0 | think about what are you going to bring to the relationship. |
| 0:21.0 | Just brought with me now. |
| 0:52.0 | Hi everyone, I am Michelle Obama and this is the Michelle Obama podcast. |
| 0:58.0 | In this episode we're going to be talking about a relationship that can make all the difference for us in our professional lives, but also outside of it. |
| 1:10.0 | And that is a relationship with a mentor, whether it's with a boss or a colleague who's a little older, or maybe it's an auntie or an auntie. |
| 1:20.0 | Who you know you can count on. |
| 1:23.0 | And so in this conversation, I'm going to be talking with my former boss, a senior advisor for Barack Obama, president Barack Obama, and me for a very long time. |
| 1:34.0 | And one of our closest friends in the entire world, her name is Valerie Jarrett. |
| 1:41.0 | Valerie is just incredibly accomplished. |
| 1:45.0 | She ran a huge portfolio at the White House. |
| 1:48.0 | She sits on the board of major companies and organizations. |
| 1:52.0 | She wrote her own memoir. |
| 1:55.0 | But more than any of her titles or accomplishments, she is simply one of the most honest, most loyal people you will ever meet. |
| 2:07.0 | Well Valerie, welcome to the Michelle Obama podcast. |
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