#398: Breaking Down Internal + External Barriers to Succeed in Business w. Anna Jones | Mimi Moments
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Mimi Bouchard
4.4 • 953 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this week's MIMI Moment, step into the world of business and empowerment with Anna Jones, former Chief Executive of Hearst magazines in the UK. Anna shares her experiences as a female executive in a male-dominated industry. From the challenges she faced to the importance of fostering passion for what you do, this conversation offers invaluable insights for aspiring leaders. Anna shares her strategies for success, from putting your hand up for opportunities to navigating a dynamic career path, all while overcoming biases and stereotypes. Prepare to feel motivated as this episode unlocks the secrets of resilience and determination in the corporate landscape.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's Mimi. Welcome to our new weekly Mimi moments, a new series focusing on short impactful |
| 0:06.6 | excerpts from some of the most powerful conversations that I've had on the show. |
| 0:10.4 | I hope it elevates your day, and if you want to hear the whole episode there's a |
| 0:14.0 | link in the show notes. Thanks for listening. Enjoy. Before I had this company I was the |
| 0:21.4 | chief executive of a very big company I was I ran Hearst |
| 0:24.4 | magazines in the UK so it was a big job and I had a thousand people and I we published |
| 0:31.1 | some of the best-known magazine brands out there from Cosmopolitan Tarpas Bazaar and L and |
| 0:36.8 | lots and lots of brands that you know but when you are the, you don't necessarily get to spend time with people who are the younger generation who are just coming into the business because there are kind of lots and lots of layers in between. |
| 0:53.0 | And I think one of my reasons that my inspiration really for starting all right and |
| 0:58.3 | co-founding about about, and I'll tell you about my partner in a minute, but was that it was really strange to have a female chief executive and you |
| 1:08.2 | think why would that be strange that business has been in existence for over a hundred years it |
| 1:14.2 | reached a third of women in the UK it had so many well-known female brands I had a couple of |
| 1:18.7 | male brands as well squiring men's health as well but mainly female brands and it was not normal for women to be chief executives in the publishing world and |
| 1:27.8 | when I got that role I guess I mean I was delighted it's very exciting but it does start to make you think well |
| 1:34.7 | this is weird why am I the only person at the time in the industry and in my industry in the |
| 1:39.5 | newspapers and magazines I was the only female chief executive, and that is strange. I was a delight and I loved |
| 1:47.0 | doing the role, but you do then start thinking, well why? What are the reasons that there |
| 1:52.2 | are not more women in these roles, men and women and the perception of what men and women can do. |
| 1:58.0 | My dad had four girls and so he became a feminist. |
| 2:01.0 | Because why wouldn't he? He had to. And I was surrounded by strong women, my |
| 2:06.7 | grandmother, my mother, my sisters, and we were sort of taught from a very early age or shown that there was nothing we couldn't do. |
| 2:15.2 | And so I really just believed there was nothing I couldn't do. |
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