2017-11-06
45 分钟You know, I've had the kind of career people would pluck out eyeballs for, but then I've got, like, these drawers stuffed with all these dreams that are like, they're about to, like, like crusty old, you know, like paper or photographs.
They're gonna disintegrate if I don't get to it.
Is that it?
So when this week's guest, Sherri Salata, left her post as the co president of the Oprah Winfrey network last year, for the first time in more than two decades, she actually didn't know what was coming next.
She started with Oprah in the mid nineties, rode that wave with her until she became actually the executive producer of the show and headed up the Harpo network as a president, and then made the jump with her to own and helped build that entire network.
Until she hit a point where she started to realize that she has had the most extraordinary career, surrounded by the most extraordinary people and working with incredible, incredible personalities, including Oprah, Oprah Winfrey.
And yet she hit a point where in her mid fifties, she started to ask questions about what was she here to do and who was she here to be and what was this next leg of her adventure?
What was the story that she wanted to tell moving forward that led her to leave the career behind and start a new adventure that she calls story with a dear, dear friend of hers, Nancy Hala.
They also produced a podcast called this is 50 and some other really fun properties, and of course, we'll link to those.
I wanted to sit down with her and explore her journey and some of the big moments in that journey and then also spend some time with her as she's kind of in this interesting space of experimentation and exploration and trying to figure out what does this next part of the story look like.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
I left college, and I didn't want to just go back to Chicago.
I felt like.
But I also didn't have a rock solid plan, and I hadn't.
I'd spent my senior year having lots of fun and not doing a lot of interviewing.
And I was a marketing major.
I had a business degree.
So I just took off and moved to Dallas, Texas.
Ah, did not know that part of the story.
Without a job, without a job, without a plan, and with about $50 in my pocket, I ended up typing in the legal pool at a title company.