031 Blow Up Your Career & Redesign Your Life with Lisa Thee The Empower Podcast with Emily Kennedy

She was surviving, but not thriving, and so she decided to reevaluate everything and leave her safe corporate job to lead a social impact startup. Lisa Thee shares the good, the bad, and the ugly of those early days, how to define success for yourself, and how to blow up your career and reinvent it as something that serves you better.
 
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LINKS TO BOOKS WE DISCUSSED
Tribe of Mentors, by Tim Ferriss
TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking, Chris Anderson
On Managing Yourself, Harvard Business Review
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, Emily Chang
Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, Kim Scott
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, Rachel Ignotofsky
 
LINKS TO WHAT WE DISCUSSED
Twitter post about Calendly
Calendly
Lisa’s article: “Pivoting My Career Focus: Significance vs. Success”
Startup Podcast
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, by Eric Ries
Lean Canvas Model
 
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QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE
“If not me, then who?”
“Do I want to impact a million lives, or do I want to make a million dollars?” 
 
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