24 | Leading the Charge: A Former Editor’s Impact on Women in Tech | Rebecca Leppard Nobody Wants To Work Tho

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From editor to tech guru, Rebecca Leppard's journey is awe-inspiring! Rising to Editor-in-Chief, she shifted gears to public relations, excelling as an Account Director. Now, she's empowering women in tech, guiding them to new career heights. A true industry trailblazer!



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Show Notes



Speaker 1 0:01Hey y'all, this is your host Elyse Robinson. With nobody wants to work though podcasts, I hope the stories were inspire you to switch careers. I was an auditor in my past life and I'm in tech, then let's get to it



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Speaker 1 0:45Hey, Elyse Robinson, when nobody wants to work, though, podcast today, we have Rebecca. And we are on number 19. So we ain't even a month into this. And we're on number 19. I'm excited for the future of this. So, Rebecca, where did your career start? And what are you doing now?



Speaker 3 1:07Oh, thank you for having me. Because this podcast, I love the title. First of all, nobody wants to work though. So my career started since I became a writer, when I was nine. And then I became a public speaker when I was 12. But my professional professional career started force when I got paid, which is when I was 22. I was an editor and in the magazine in the national magazine, it's called mother and baby. So it's all it's about pregnancy about health and safety of your kids and toddlers and all that. Sweet rainbows and unicorns. And a few years after that, I switched career into the dark side of communications, which is the public relations. So I switched career. When I was 2526, I was thinking, oh my god, I had a quarter life crisis. Oh my god, what am I going to do? Am I just going to be pursuing my editorial career, all the way up to being an editor in chief, because that's, you know, literally, like a military career, you go up to become a four star general. Or you switch. And I decided to switch career. And it was crazy, because I not only that, I switch lanes from editorial to public relations. I also switch industries, to hospitality industry. And then I switched the location of my work from a big city to an island. So it's a tourist destination. So I had to completely change my mentality from you know, the city girl who's like, just imagine if you in America, you are a New York, New Yorker,