Embracing Ambition and Rejecting Apologies with Shellye Archambeau
- alesiag2
- Jan 1, 2025
- 2 min read
As women in the workplace, the odds of success and growth are not usually in our favor. So what can we do to improve our odds and set ourselves up for success? In this episode of How Women Inspire, we sit down with Shellye Archambeau, experienced CEO, board director, and author of Unapologetically Ambitious. Shellye shares her inspiring story of overcoming the odds as a Black woman in tech to become a CEO, emphasizing the importance of setting goals, making intentional decisions, and more. This week’s episode 149 of How Women Inspire Podcast is about embracing ambition and rejecting apologies!
In this episode of How Women Inspire Podcast, Shellye Archambeau is sharing the importance of making daily decisions that align with your goals and actionable steps you can take right now to create a self care plan to keep yourself healthy.
Shellye Archambeau is an experienced CEO and board director with a track record of building brands, high-performance teams, and organizations. She currently serves on the boards of Verizon, Roper technologies, and Okta. She's also a strategic adviser to Forbes Ignite and the president of Arizona State University and serves on the board of two national nonprofits Catalyst and Braven. Shellye is also the author of “Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms.”
Some of the talking points Julie and Shellye go over in this episode include:
The importance of being unapologetically ambitious and the societal pressure to apologize excessively.
Strategic goal setting and mankind decisions to support your plan.
The societal pressure on women to "have it all”.
Identifying your own three, non-negotiable self care practices for your health.
Check out Shellye’s book Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms.
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