#94 Sarah McDonald (Re-Release) - Best Selling Author / COO / Ebay and Accenture / Le Cordon Bleu

Wish I Knew . . .

Career Background:

• Best selling author of her book "The Cancer Channel"
• COO for a start up in SF Adentro
• Ebay for over 14 years
• Consultant at Accenture
• Started her career at Chubb in LA and spent time in NYC

Educated at
- Occidental College

• Cornell for the MBA
• Le Cordon Bleu Ottawa culinary institute

Highlights

• what to do during "down time" her YMCA Gig
• Having PhD Parents and loving learning
• Talking her way into numerous jobs
• What is this Management Consulting all about
• MBA at Cornell and NO interest in Wall Street
• Cross country move with Accenture and Ebay
• Going it alone without mentors on some heavy decisions
• Suffering from the Princess Complex
• The impact of her parents
• Drive across America
• The power of the Sabbaticals
• Culinary School on a Sabbatical
• Being a learner
• Train ride from New York city to Albany
• Writing her first book
• After quitting no looking for a job for 2 months
• High sense of urgency and drive
• Backing a colleague into a corner
• Giving more grace AND space
• When the student is ready the teacher appears
• If you treated your friends like you treat yourself, you wouldn't have any friends
• Falling in love with reading again
• Why Not?
• Brian Stevenson Conversation

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