103. New Models for Playing Big Without Sacrifice with Jessica Marati Radparvar
Overview
Today, I’m joined by Jessica Marati Radparvar.
Jessica serves as inspiration as someone who is practicing Sustainable Ambition, crafting a life with work that works for her. In Jessica modeling this for us, it makes it feel more possible for all of us to thrive in life and work.
Jessica works in the field of sustainability, and regularly sees firsthand how building resilience is critical for impact practitioners who carry the weight of, and champion, making change in the world. As she says, “You can’t drive change from an empty cup.”
Today we’ll discuss how Jessica practices Sustainable Ambition in her life and work, as well as cover the work she does to support changemakers in the world.
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More About Our Guest
Jessica Marati Radparvar is an entrepreneur and strategist on a mission to help impact leaders drive bigger, bolder, more sustainable change. Through her company Reconsidered, she creates resources, teaches courses and consults on ESG strategy and communications for leading brands and organizations—all toward a vision of a more thriving, just and resilient world. Jessica has an undergraduate degree in History from Princeton University and received her M.B.A. from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. She draws inspiration and motivation from her native Chamoru and Italian roots; her upbringing in Guam, San Francisco and Rome; and her toddler son's magical view of the world.
Listen to the full episode to hear:
How graduating into a recession led Jessica to embrace a “bendy” career path from freelancing to corporate responsibility to starting her own business helping leaders drive sustainable change
How Jessica’s childhood ambitions shaped her high-achieving early years and how she realized that she needed to change her approach to her ambitions
How Jessica and her husband designed their work around the life they want to live
Why parenthood has Jessica wanting to challenge the paradigm that playing big means sacrificing her family life
Why the social impact space is rife with burnout, and how reimagining systems of sustainability, resilience, and ambition is needed
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