579: How to Go After What You Want (And Get It) with Jenny Wood

Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod

Hal Elrod

Goals, Lifesuccess, Success, Goalsetting, Halelrod, Business, Achievement, Lifestyle, Motivation, Productivity, Miraclemorning, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Imagine if the key to achieving your biggest goals was learning to embrace common traits that aren’t typically associated with great leaders? As you’ll hear from today’s guest, it’s okay to be selfish, shameless, bossy, or even reckless because it can help you break free from limiting beliefs and supercharge your success.

I’m excited to be talking to Jenny Wood. Jenny is a former Google executive and author of Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It. For almost 20 years, Jenny enjoyed tremendous success at Google, starting from an entry-level position to building one of the company’s largest career development programs. But in a courageous move, she walked away from corporate life to bet on herself by practicing the very principles she teaches in her book.

In our conversation, we discussed nine surprising traits that can be powerful tools when applied the right way to help you break free from fear and self-doubt by rethinking what you’ve been told about success. If fear of failure, uncertainty, or judgment has ever held you back, this episode will help you unlock your version of wild courage and take bold steps toward positive outcomes.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

The three fears holding you back from success—and how to overcome them
How to reclaim "negative" traits and turn them into strengths
Why being selfish can actually help others and lead to greater impact
You can create positive outcomes by stepping out of your comfort zone
How to stop believing the tales and false stories we create in our mind

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast, the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.
0:09.6	I am your host, Hal Elrod, and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies to take your life to the next level,
0:16.5	as well as interview world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals
0:21.9	themselves and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need
0:26.6	to do to do the same ready here we go hello friends welcome to the achieve your goals podcast
0:34.0	i am your host hal elrod and today we are talking to Jenny Wood.
0:38.3	And I want to start by asking you a question. What if the traits you need to get ahead are the
0:42.7	exact opposite of what you've been told. To be successful, my guest today says you need to be
0:48.4	weird, selfish, shameless, obsessed, nosy, manipulative, brutal, obsessed,
0:54.9	nosy,
0:56.1	manipulative,
0:57.0	brutal,
0:57.8	reckless,
0:59.2	and bossy.
1:01.1	All nine of those traits and to be that takes courage.
1:02.7	Her brand new book is
1:03.5	wild courage.
1:05.1	Go after what you want
1:06.7	and get it.
1:07.9	It is an energizing
1:08.8	and empowering guide
1:09.8	to embracing your ambition and chasing after
	...

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