#49: Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, The Bestseller Guru

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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If there's anyone that knows what it takes to have a bestselling book it's Jennifer Rudolph Walsh. She is the head of William Morris Endeavor's (WME) Worldwide Literary, Lectures and Conference Divisions and became the youngest person, and only female, to join WME's board of directors. Under Walsh's leadership, her department boasts more New York Times Best Sellers than any other agency in the world. In spearheading the launch of WME's conference division, she created national conferences for authors like Oprah Winfrey and Arianna Huffington. Her latest endeavor is the Together Tour, which will stops at ten cities this fall. Learn more about the Together Tour: http://togetherlive.com/ Twitter: @Together_Tweets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/togetherliveevents/ Instagram: @TogetherLiveEvents Want a chance to ask Rebecca your career questions? Send an email to [email protected] for a chance to ask Rebecca on an episode of No Limits! No Limits Entrepreneur of the week: Hitha Herzog, Chief Research Officer of H Squared Research LLC, consumer spending columnist at US News and World Report and author of the book "Black Market Billions: How Organized Retail Crime Funds Terrorists." Find out more: http://www.hithaherzog.com/ Know someone who should be a featured ‘No Limits’ Entrepreneur? Send your nominations to [email protected] Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0	Are you feeling limitless? I hope so. And if you're not, we're going to help because we're starting a new segment called Ask RJ where each week I'm going to be speaking with one of you, our listeners, on an episode of No Limits, answering your career questions. This is something that I'm always doing for friends, for people around the office, for my family.
0:22.1	So I thought, let's make it the No Limits family.
0:25.6	Let's do this.
0:27.1	For a chance to ask me your questions on an episode of No Limits, send us an email to No Limits with RJ Podcast at gmail.com.
0:34.8	Again, that's No Limits with RJ podcast at gmail.com. And we're going to reach out to you
0:40.0	and we're going to set it up and make it happen. All right, now here's this week's episode.
0:47.0	Do I always feel a little bit like an outsider? And the answer is yes, but that doesn't mean that I
0:50.7	don't belong. From ABC, it's no limits.
1:00.1	I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most bold and influential women playing at the top of their game, trying to demystify success and what it really takes to get there
1:06.5	and all the tradeoffs.
1:08.6	Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story,
1:13.0	you're in the right place.
1:15.8	On today's episode, The Art of the Best Seller.
1:19.4	If you want to tell your story, you go to her.
1:22.4	So how did Jennifer Rudolph Walsh go from being kicked out of high school to selling her first company
1:28.3	at just 33 years old and working with Oprah, Sophia Bush, and Alicia Keys.
1:33.8	You're about to find out.
1:36.9	Jennifer Rudolph Walsh, welcome to No Limits.
1:39.8	Great to be here.
1:40.9	I'm thrilled to have you here.
1:43.1	Really interested in digging into a lot of different
1:45.5	components of what you've done because you're what's known as an entrepreneur. That's right. You
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