Cherie's Corner

Joel Peterson is a business leader, author, and professor. He is the former chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Peterson received his MBA from Harvard University in 1973, founded the private equity firm Peterson Partners, and served on the board of over 35 companies. Joel has authored two books on business culture and leadership I am so excited for this podcast episode!!

It is so good!! We are learning from a titan of this industry, one of my favorite professors at Stanford, Joel Peterson. Do you know how lucky we are?

We learn through his peaks and his valleys through his 70+ years and the wisdom that he so openly shares with me and with us. I love chatting with icons like Joel because obviously his career success is something we can see on the outside, but understanding who they are on the inside and how they think, how they make decisions to get to where they are today; what matters to them – that’s what’s exciting to me.

Let’s dive in!

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

03:01 Podcast starts

04:38 Joel’s favorite audiobooks

06:46 How Joel started walking 10k steps a day

07:29 Engineering a remarkable life

12:07 Joel’s plans at 28

14:04 Adaptive plans

16:51 Joel’s assets & liabilities

19:05 The importance of gratitude

21:39 Common pitfall people make in their career

24:26 “Thriver” vs “Striver”

26:11 How Joel became chairman of JetBlue

29:05 Was joining JetBlue’s board daunting?

31:25 Importance of mentorship

34:10 The “never enough” mentality

35:46 Comparison is the thief of joy

36:52 Mitt Romney & Ray Dalio Lessons

40:17 Conversations from titans of the industry

42:10 Learning from valleys and peaks

45:40 Joel’s lessons from losing parents

49:50 Stanford vs Harvard

50:30 What is "smart trust"?

54:45 Emotions at work

57:05 What’s next for Joel?

59:50 Cherie’s Stanford experience

01:03:40 Closing thoughts

ABOUT ME

Hello friends, thanks for watching! My name is Cherie and I'm a content creator, Stanford MBA student, & former LinkedIn senior product manager 👋🏻 I share personal career stories on Cherie's Corner Podcast via YouTube and Instagram, so you can learn from my friends and our successes and failures, all while owning our authentic selves and living happier lives.

Music produced by Sammy Signal https://open.spotify.com/artist/2HsyknHuxhT8RoZfn5rqMS?si=SGH_SbD_SBStH2wJHcBXrg

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