Choice - The Life and Career of Group Managing Director Rachel Caggiano

Don't Talk To Me About Work

This week, Group Managing Director Rachel Caggiano chats with Jordan Rizzieri about her life and career.
Rachel doesn't have a strong memory of what she wanted to be when she was young, which she attributes partially to her deeply religious upbringing (1:32). But she did love school as a kid (3:13), and she now views others in the world with an empathy she felt was lacking from her religious education (5:19).
After college, she moved to D.C. to do some writing that involved a new thing called "The Internet" (8:00). But the job did take up most of her time, and so she moved on to book editing before she found her way into the agency world (13:01). Eventually, her husband encouraged her to move to a company that was working at the forefront of social media (15:45).
Rachel shouts out a mentor, Bethany Little (17:20), and discusses the idea that there's no such thing as balance for anyone, especially working Moms (20:53). She also shares the value of setting boundaries (26:50) and how her father's relationship to his work may have influenced her ideas of what work should be (29:33).
Finally, we get into how important choice is, and how much more choice we all have than we think we do (39:05).
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