2024-07-09
37 分钟TED audio collective.
Hey, listeners.
Today we're sharing a past episode of rethinking from the archives.
Enjoy.
Today's guest is leader extraordinaire Melody Hobson.
In the eight years that I've known her, she's consistently challenged me to think again about giving and receiving feedback and speaking truth to power.
Melody has a long list of trailblazing achievements, been on many lists, including times, 100 most influential people.
But through it all, she's only worked in one place.
Aerial investments, the first black owned mutual fund in the US, where Melody is now the president and co CEO.
30 years at one company.
Since 1991, I've only worked at one company.
The average American has eleven jobs in their lifetime.
But it makes complete and total sense if you grew up as me, that you would cling to permanency and security.
I'm the youngest of six kids.
My mother was a single mom.
She worked really, really hard.
But we often were in tough situations of getting evicted or getting our lights turned off, or our phone disconnected or a car repossessed.
Sometimes they didn't know where we were going to live.
It was just a terrible way to live.
And as a result of that, I just had this great sense of financial insecurity.