Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson Episode 77: Beth Comstock
Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson Episode 77: Beth Comstock Whitney: Welcome to the Disrupt Yourself Podcast. I'm Whitney Johnson. I think, write, speak, and live all things disruption. My guest is Beth Comstock, former vice-chair of GE, a member of the Board at Nike, and author of Imagine It Forward, a candid and encouraging narrative in which she shares both business and life lessons. It's out today, it's sure to be an instant bestseller, I highly recommend it. Welcome, Beth. We are so happy to have you. Beth: Thanks, Whitney. I've been looking forward to this, thank you. Whitney: So, very first question for you is, where did you grow up? And, what did you think you were going to be when you were growing up? Beth: Yeah, well, I grew up in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia, a small town called Winchester, Virginia. And, um, I loved my small town. It was incredibly nurturing, and, um, I- I think growing up, my- my, uh, my father was a dentist, my mother was a schoolteacher. Um, early on, I think I wanted to be a schoolteacher, um, and then, um, really I, uh, as I got older I wanted to g- get into medicine, and eventually be a ... I knew I wanted to do some sort of storytelling. So, I went off to college, uh, thinking I was going to study biology to be a- a doctor, and pretty quickly, um, found my way to storytelling. Whitney: Oh, okay. So, when you went to college, you were studying biology thinking you were going to be a doctor.
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