S1 – Ep. 4: Karen Wickre on What You Need to Know About Networking to Reinvent Your Life
SUMMARY
Debbie interviews Karen Wickre, an old friend and former editorial director at Google and Twitter. Karen left Twitter in 2016 – not to retire but to reinvent herself as a writer and consultant. She is the author of the new book TAKING THE WORK OUT OF NETWORKING.
EPISODE NOTES
In today’s episode, Debbie interviews Karen Wickre, an old friend and former editorial director at both Google and Twitter. Karen left Twitter in 2016 at age almost 65 – not to retire but to reinvent herself as a writer and consultant. She is the author of the new book Taking the Work Out of Networking.
Karen shares tips and strategies on how to manage the transition from corporate life to what comes next (stay open!) and how that applies to using a gap year to find your next thing. She and Debbie also explore ageism in our modern culture and talk about the importance of having a network at any stage in life.
Mentioned in the episode
- Taking the Work Out of Networking: An Introvert’s Guide to Making Connections That Count by Karen Wickre (Simon and Schuster, 2018)
- Surviving as an Old in the Tech World by Karen Wickre (Wired.com, Aug. 2017)
- Twitter: @kvox
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