Jenny Wood | Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It | Talks at Google

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Jenny Wood discusses her book “Wild Courage: Go After What You Want and Get It” – a bold, empowering, and energizing guide to embracing your ambition and chasing after what you want. Wild Courage coaches you to smash through your fear of discomfort, failure, and the judgement of others, to embrace your boldest self in pursuit of what you want. To be successful, you need to have courage. Wild amounts of it. Get the book here: https://itsjennywood.com/book. Learn more about Jenny: https://itsjennywood.com/. In her 18 years at Google, Jenny grew from entry-level to executive and ran a large operations team that helped drive billions of revenue per year. She is the founder of Own Your Career, one of the largest career programs in Google’s history with 56,000 people benefitting in nearly 100 countries. Jenny's work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc., and Forbes. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and two children. Moderated by Eva Valerio.
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