Jordan Taylor and Edith Cooper on Running a Business as Mother and Daughter

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

At 59, Edith Cooper never thought she’d make a career pivot. She spent nearly 30 years working her way up at Goldman Sachs, but then, she was approached to co-found a company called Medley. Who was the other co-founder? Jordan Taylor, AKA her daughter. The mom and daughter duo launched Medley, a coaching platform equipping Millennial-aged workers with the skills they need to be dynamic, inclusive, and authentic leaders. In this episode, Jordan and Edith share: Whether Jordan calls Edith “mom” or “Edith” in the workplace The parts of her Wall Street HR career that Edith misses Why we forget to support middle-level managers – and how Medley solves for it The moments Jordan relies on Edith as “mom” vs. “co-founder” Why boundary setting is crucial to success as co-founders who are friends or family Psst…this episode of “9 to 5ish” is brought to you by New York Life. Their financial professionals can help you navigate life’s decisions, big and small.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by New York Life.
0:02.8	Their financial professionals can help you navigate life's decisions,
0:06.3	big and small.
0:07.8	We'll explain more in a bit, but first, let's get into the episode.
0:12.2	Being super time constraint with a never-ending to-do list
0:15.0	is almost directly at odds with wanting things to be perfect.
0:18.0	Because you can't make things perfect
0:20.0	when you have a very finite amount of time
0:22.0	and you have 100 things to do every
0:24.2	single hour. I'm still learning to not try to get to 150% and to accept the
0:30.0	fact that probably my 80% is more than good enough.
0:34.0	I'm Carly Zakin and I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:37.0	Welcome to 9-to-5-ish with the skin.
0:40.0	We've run into so many questions over the years and had so many moments where we needed advice
0:46.2	and we got it from women who'd been there.
0:49.7	And that's what we're bringing you with this show.
0:51.8	Each week we're helping you get what you want out of your career
0:55.0	by talking to the smartest leaders we know.
0:57.3	Because we know your work life is a lot more than 9 to 5.
1:02.0	All right, let's get into it.
1:06.0	Today, our guests are Edith Cooper and Jordan Taylor.
1:09.8	This is a leadership coaching
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