Show Notes
Are you sure you're ready for Episode 29, the last TNWID episode before the SEASON 1 finale? This one features Jon Jackson who dropped so many gems, including:
-- why most people are afraid of doubt;
-- the role healing pays in longevity; and
-- his healthy disrespect for the idea that people are deities.
His bio: Jonathan Jackson is a writer, speaker, and entrepreneur focused on the intersection of community, culture, and commerce.
Most recently, Jonathan was the Editor-in-Chief at Red Table Talk, overseeing content and audience for the award-winning show and looking to expand its reach and influence into new markets.
As a co-founder and former Head of Corporate Brand at Blavity Inc, he helped spearheaded go-to-market strategy and industry penetration, helping it grow to a media brand for Black millennials and Gen Z in the U.S. reaching over 30M users a month.
He was the 2019 Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society/ His work is centered around the emergence of black media in the digital age, examining new ways to measure black cultural influence, and its effect on the media and advertising landscape both domestically and abroad.
He began his career at LinkedIn, working across various roles at LinkedIn in across HR, Advertising, most recently as an Editor overseeing the Influencer Program, which brings together world’s top thought leaders across business and industry to engage with LinkedIn’s 580M members through rich insights and original content.
As a speaker, he has lectured at Harvard Business School, The United Nations, Pandora, and other global brands and Fortune 500 companies He sits on the advisory boards of Nielsen and sparks & honey, and is an active board member at HBCU.VC, a 5013c organization focused on equipping the next generation of HBCU graduates looking to get involved in venture capital.
His #TNWIDTakeaway: "Whatever you're accountable to largely decides the price you're willing to pay for the success you want."
Check out the rest of the show notes here: https://stephanieghoston.com/tnwid-episode-29
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