Feb 26, 2021
From early aspirations for journalism and politics, to assuming the throne of the Playboy Empire, Christie Hefner has been through the hoops and has some incredible insights to share about the journey.
EPISODE
SUMMARY:
3:08
- How her father’s support
engendered a career plan shift
7:09 - Working with your father: taking on a major
role in dad's business
10:46 - The Playboy path to growth and her transition
to CEO
12:39 - That point when you realize you’ve made
it
15:45 - Call me “Your Highness” - how to handle
shareholder meetings with a smile
19:56 - On becoming a better
speaker
22:31 - On feeling the pressure to settle
down
26:58 - Juggling family life and business when you’re
the CEO
30:31 - Secrets to stress relief in a high-stress
job
35:24 - On the
potential for future political work
36:52 - The importance of negotiation and the skill
of listening
QUOTABLES:
16:04
- “If you’re fully prepared for
something, whether it’s a meeting or a presentation, or whatever,
you have to have confidence that you ARE fully prepared and then
allow yourself to be your authentic self.”
29:09 - “It’s still isolating when, at the end of the
day, you are bearing the ultimate responsibility for, both making
the decisions, and the results of those
decisions.”
29:23 - “I don’t think everyone who has the
intelligence, or even the ability, to be a CEO should necessarily
assume that they would be happy being a CEO.”
29:50 - “There are a lot of great ways to have both
intellectual satisfaction and challenge and professional
fulfillment without taking on that responsibility,
too.”
37:21 - “You don’t really get in life what’s fair -
you get in life what you can negotiate for.”
PARAPHRASE (edited
quote):
30:59 - “It is critically important that each of
[you] make sure that enough time is spent on those things that
actually create energy for you and make you feel
restored.”
34:17 - “One of the learnings that, I think, with
time becomes richer (and that is), how important it is who you
choose to spend your time with. When you choose where to work, it’s
as much about who you’re working with, as anything
else.”
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