Don’t be somebody else, everyone else is already taken. - Bozoma Saint John

🎥 It was such an inspiration to listen to Netflix's Global Chief Marketing Officer Bozoma Saint John at Entrepreneurs' Organization's EO Powerhouse Speakers Series.

🚀 Over the course of her career, Bozoma has earned a formidable reputation as a trailblazing brand and marketing executive and genuine change-agent in the space. 

💥 With almost 20 years of experience working in diverse industries including entertainment, fashion, consumer packaged goods, sports and automotive, Bozoma is a leader known for bold thinking and groundbreaking ideas. Her impressive resume includes experience working for Pepsi, Apple, Uber, and the Endeavor brands, just to name a few!

My main takeaways from this remarkable talk were:

💡"Make time for yourself. Don’t schedule yourself out. Choose yourself" - in the context of having enourmous amounts of work, many demands from all sides + a personal life. Choose yourself by not letting everyone else entirely dominate your schedule. Schedule times only for yourself and what matters to you.

💡"Think bigger – if you plan you might think to small" - an interesting view about not planning too much, in the sense of not limiting the scope and possibilities of your future unconsciously by not being able to imagine bigger ones given your current situation and lack of future information about yet unknown opportunities. Rather strive for greatness in an openminded curious way! In that context she said "maybe the metaverse is to small" - lets find out!

💡"Find buddies to group up with, and talk about them in the rooms and at the tables they are not in or sitting at." - Its about updating each other regularly about what you are working on, to be able to recommend each other by connecting the dots at times where the others are not around, to create opportunities for each other!

💡"Be willing to leave the table" - powerful. Not every table is worth sitting at, even if you worked very hard to sit there in the first place. Realise when it is time to leave the table and dare to do so.

💡"Self confidence becomes harder the more successful you become, as pressure to become what someone else has determined becomes bigger." Generally she said "don’t be somebody else, everyone else is already taken." Also "the energy needed to try to fit in tempers energy for ideas. Don’t create a disadvantage, create your full 100% by not worrying about fitting in, about contemplating whether ideas are “too passionate”. Be truly free. Be you. Be your 100%. Don’t subscribe to anyone’s boundaries and criteria."

💡"Be intentional. Don’t wait. Be urgent and do it now. The small and the big things. Live your life urgently. Life is a gift. Don’t waste a moment."

Finally, according to Forbes, Bozoma Saint John is said to depart as Netflix Chief Marketing Officer. In the last question of the EO Powerhouse, Bozoma said she would like "to be remembered as fully being herself". That will be easy given her sparkling, inspiring and energetic attitude ✨

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