Podcast Episode 010: Kathleen Turner’s 3 Most Powerful Leadership Lessons
Episode Summary:
In this episode, President & Co-Founder of Take The Lead Gloria Feldt shares what she’s learned from one of her treasured friends — actor/activist, Kathleen Turner. She discusses fearlessness, self-definition, and the power of risk taking. Though you might not expect leadership lessons to come from someone who describes herself as an actor/activist, Gloria found herself absorbing and applying many of Kathleen’s principles. Tune in to learn how you can, too.
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Books Mentioned
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INTENTIONING
Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women
Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) Good
The new book from Gloria Feldt about the future, taking the leadership lessons learned from this disruption and creating a better world for all through the power of intention.
- Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles, by Kathleen Turner and Gloria Feldt (book and audiobook)
- No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, by Gloria Feldt
Articles and Other Resources
- Kathleen Turner full list of credits on IMDB
- Blogpost: “I might have been leaning in but I was bowing out of my power to choose and own the worth of my work”
- Blogpost: “Molly Ivins speaks her truth”
- 92 Y interview
- Kathleen Turner talks at Take The Lead event
Articles and Other Resources
- Kathleen Turner full list of credits on IMDB
- Blogpost: “I might have been leaning in but I was bowing out of my power to choose and own the worth of my work”
- Blogpost: “Molly Ivins speaks her truth”
- 92 Y interview
- Kathleen Turner talks at Take The Lead event
TAKE THE LEAD’S WEBSITE
https://www.taketheleadwomen.com
Quotes / Tweetables
“Fearlessness at 20 springs from not knowing what challenges lie ahead. Fearlessness at 50 comes from having wrestled with life’s challenges and learned from them.”
— Kathleen Turner, actor/activist
“Be essential in any role you play.”
— Kathleen Turner, actor/activist
“Don’t repeat your successes.”
— Kathleen Turner, actor/activist
“Banish the yet. Yep, just do it. You are as ready as you’re going to be. Make the commitment and go for it. The world is waiting for you. ”
— Gloria Feldt
“Do something every day that scares you. ”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.