March Update From Meant For It (for real this time)
Hello Friends!
Thanks for joining us for our first newsletter. We are new to the world of Substack, so please give us a pass if it’s not quite perfect yet. While we organize all the content we are curating for next month, we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss any of the podcasts we released in March. We spoke with Dr. Ramani, today’s preeminent narcissism expert, not once, but twice, after we had such incredible feedback from our listeners, some of whom wrote in telling us that the interview was eye-opening and life-changing and wanted to hear more from our amazing guest. We also chatted with the always inspiring Dana Perino and met the lovely Ashira Salomon, who has us hanging onto the hope that friendship after debating the most polarizing of issues is still possible. Our last episode in March was with Jane Boulware who will inspire you as much with her incredible success as she will with her stories of overcoming.
Scroll down for more about these episodes and other things we loved. Thank you to everyone who’s written to us with feedback about our show and how the guests have impacted your lives. We encourage everyone to drop us an email to let us know more about what you are interested in, what you’d like us to cover and how we can best serve you. Lastly, an easy way to support our show is by leaving us a friendly review and (and, hopefully 5 star) rating on Apple Podcasts. It’s a chance to tell us what you love about the show and it helps others discover it, too.
With love,
Polina, Yelena, Amber
Tools we are loving:
We are truly loving using Fireflies.ai as our AI meeting notetaker. Fireflies.ai follows you along to every call and transcribes ( with nearly perfect accuracy) the entire conversation including summarized notes, to-dos, who was speaking and chapters so you can quickly go to the desired area. You can also upload files to Fireflies for transcribing, If you want to focus on the meeting instead of taking notes. After a podcast we refer back to Fireflies to review the conversation and decide what to highlight. Give it a try!
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We had two conversations with Dr. Ramani. The world’s expert on narcissism (because one wasn’t enough)
You may not know it, but chances are high that there is a narcissistic personality somewhere in your life. After our friends listened to this episode, we got calls saying how shocked someone was to realize their mother, ex, friend, husband is a narcissist. Yes, narcissism has been inflated because everyone talks about it, but it’s also true that there are way more narcissists than you probably expected. That means you should educate yourself and people you love on this topic.
If you have ever dreaded going to work because of a nightmare colleague or manager you are not alone. Dr. Ramani joins us again to discuss a topic rarely discussed in corporate environments: narcissism in the workplace.
From extreme competitiveness to gaslighting, Dr Ramani gives examples and discusses the subtle tactics narcissistic bosses use to keep talented employees from advancing and creating a 'frozen talent' scenario that keeps high performers stuck in the same roles.
We spoke with the lovely Ashira Solomon, an international Public Speaker and Member of The Israeli TV Show, The Quad.
We spoke with the lovely Ashira Solomon, an international Public Speaker and Member of The Quad, an Israeli show with 4 co-hosts covering everything Israel and Jewish from the unique female perspective. Ashira a native of Livermore, California, took us through her transformative journey that led her to embrace a new religion and to become an advocate of independent political thought in a world where identity politics seems to be the norm.
Ashira shares what it really feels like to live and study in Israel and how political discourse between citizens varies in Israel and the US.
We caught up with Dana Perino, Fox News, Co-anchor America’s Newsroom, Co-host The Five, host of Perino on Politics, Former Press Secretary to George W. Bush
We caught up with Dana Perino, Fox News, Co-anchor America’s Newsroom, Co-host The Five, host of Perino on Politics, Former Press Secretary to George W. Bush to touch on several issues of the day including news on social media, the Israel war and the time Dana met Putin. Dana also gave us the scoop on what hobby has been keeping her busy in the evenings. Dana reminded us that there have been times in US history when the country has been just as or even more divided and we pulled through to greater days. So if you find yourself in a panic about domestic politics, remember these words from Dana, "our system is the best system of an imperfect set of possibilities, and it does correct itself."
How Jane Boulware Went from Penniless to Number 10 Women at Microsoft by Age 40
From the Gottman Institute Bio for Jane:
Unwilling to let circumstances, fear or others define her, Jane was penniless and married at 20, earned an MBA at 24, saw the ocean at 25, commuted to South America each week at 31, brought two sons into the world by 35, was a millionaire at 37, and one of the top 10 women at Microsoft at 40. By 52, Jane had launched three billion-dollar businesses, been VP of the largest merger in the history of the US, forged global alliances, won lots of awards and left a legacy of strong leaders in her wake.
Along the way to the corner office, Jane was hit on, spit on, shot at, yelled at, a zero and a hero. She’s been called a bulldog, a bitch, an idiot and brilliant, all in the same week.
Books We Loved:
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: Quite possibly on of the best self-help books (after Stephen Covey’s classic), We’ll be discussing this book in April in a podcast.
The Woman: Kristin Hannah, beautifully written, pulls you on the first page and takes you into Vietnam as a nurse.
Worthy: From Iowa’s Corfield to Microsoft’s Corner Office: You won’t be able to put down this memoir: it’s raw and real, and Jane is someone you immediately relate Jane Boulware shares the story of grabbing every opportunity and when they weren’t there, she tells us how she made them.
PS:
We are hooked on The Free Press and their incredible reporting. If you aren’t following them yet, you should be!