Leadership Lessons From Mt Everest - Alison Levine

Today's guest is Alison Levine, the author of On the Edge: Lessons Learned from Mount Everest. She's also the executive producer of The Glass Ceiling, a documentary about a woman who was the first one in Nepal to climb Mount Everest. She has some great takeaways like what is your mantra, your three-word mantra? Find out what hers are and why it's so valuable. She tells the story of climbing Mount Everest, that it's not a straight line up and psychologically what that does to you. She said, “backing up is not the same thing as backing down.” One of the things she talks about also is how she launched her speaking career and how difficult that was, and she said, "You need to treat every opportunity as if this is your big break." Finally, she has the secrets to choosing a great team, which is experience, expertise, and ego.