Tiffany Smith Anoa'i - Getting Your Seat At The Table, Lessons From CBS Network's Executive Vice President of Diversity

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🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Tiffany Smith Anoa-i is CBS Network’s Executive Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, a position that she petitioned the network create after she saw the lack of diversity both on camera and behind the scenes in media. She’s been written about in Time magazine and spoken at numerous female empowerment conferences. Tiffany shares all about her journey: how she lost her college scholarship, had to get a job and put herself through school, the lessons she learned along the way, and how she’s not only scored a seat at the table but how she’s learned to speak up and call the shots.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Hashtag RealPod. I'm your host Victoria Garrick and on today's episode we
0:09.9	will be hearing from a very powerful and influential woman in network television. And the
0:15.6	best part about all that power is that she earned it by speaking up and relentlessly
0:21.8	pushing for her voice to be heard. Her name is Tiffany Smith on O'Yee. She is CBS Network's
0:28.4	Executive Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. By the way, a position that she created after
0:35.0	she saw the lack of diversity both on camera and behind the scenes in media. Tiffany has
0:40.4	been written about in Time magazine featured on a variety of shows, spoken at numerous female
0:45.6	empowerment conferences, and she is here today to share so, so much wisdom with us. You're
0:51.3	gonna hear all about her journey, how she lost her college scholarship, had to get a job
0:56.0	and put herself through school, the lessons she learned along the way, and how she's not
1:00.0	only scored a seat at the table, but how she's learned to speak up and call the shots. I met
1:05.3	Tiffany when I was just a mere intern at CBS, my freshman year of college four years ago, but we
1:10.0	have stayed close ever since. I'm so grateful she wanted to spend her time with us today, so let's get started.
1:15.1	So just a lot has changed since we met. You were so helpful in giving me advice and helping me figure
1:23.3	out where I wanted to go. I'm so grateful for our relationship. Me too. I really am. There was
1:27.6	something that when we first met in there was that speaker night, I believe. Yeah. And you were there
1:33.7	and you sat in the front row and I always make notice of who sits in the front row. That's just
1:38.2	something because I give that talk so often. It just, you're closer to me by proximity, so I will
1:44.0	connect and I connected with you a lot. Then you were the first to ask a question. I always noticed
1:50.3	that also you were the first to ask a question. So I think that I had, and your questions were smart,
1:55.6	thought outful, thought out and thoughtful. And so I just had an affinity towards you, especially
2:03.4	because you wanted to know more. So it was beyond the talk. And then when we met in my office and
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