Why Intentional Ambition is the NEW Career CURRENCY
Driving Impact: The Top 5% Method®
Release Date: 07/25/2025
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Driving Impact: The Top 5% Method®
Follow us on all podcasting channels. Comment + Watch the video on Spotify. Follow us online: Discover the Career Masterclass to launch a side business, accelerate your career or develop your personal brand: Join the 28,000 high performance tribe in my FREE newsletter: https://www.top5method.com/ Summary: In this episode of Driving Impact, host Katheline reconnects with former Google colleague Ivana Tay, who has transformed from a sales professional in the trenches to the CEO and founder of Playfield (), a pet gear company. Ivana shares her unconventional journey from...
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Why Intentional Ambition is the NEW Career CURRENCY
Driving Impact: The Top 5% Method®
Follow us on all podcasting channels. 1) Discover Shankar Desai's Relationship platform: Pebble AI - 2) Purchase Rha Goddess's book: Intenational Ambition - 3) Follow the podcast online: Discover the Career Masterclass: Apply to the Academy: https://www.top5percentmethod.com/apply Join the 28,000 Tribe free newsletter: https://www.top5method.com/ Katheline's Linkedin: Instagram: Linkedin Company Page: Website: Summary: For this special episode, I welcome two guests: Soul Coach Rha Goddess and Serial Entrepreneur and...
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1) Discover Shankar Desai's Relationship platform: Pebble AI - www.trypebble.ai
2) Purchase Rha Goddess's book: Intenational Ambition - https://www.amazon.com/Intentional-Ambition-Redefining-Greater-Fulfillment/dp/1394299680
3) Follow the podcast online:
- Discover the Career Masterclass: https://www.top5percentmethod.com/
- Apply to the Academy: https://www.top5percentmethod.com/apply
- Join the 28,000 Tribe free newsletter: https://www.top5method.com/
- Katheline's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathelinejeanpierre/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drivingimpact/
- Linkedin Company Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/driving-impact/
- Website: https://www.katheline.co/podcast
Summary:
For this special episode, I welcome two guests: Soul Coach Rha Goddess and Serial Entrepreneur and Ex-Google Exec Shankar Desai.
Rha Goddess is an entrepreneurial soul coach who's launched breakthrough leaders like Gabrielle Bernstein (10 NYT Best selling books in SELF- HELP) and Reshma Saujani (Founder of Girls who Code). With 30+ years as a cultural innovator and founder of Move The Crowd, she's revolutionizing how we work with values at the core. She's also co-founder of nFormation, the game-changing community for high-performing women of color.
- Rha Goddess just launched her New Book (which is also the title of this episode: Intentional Ambition).
- From building and selling Naked Apartments to Zillow, to leading multi-billion-dollar strategies at Google, Shankar Desai knows what it takes to scale both companies and careers through the power of relationships. Shankar left a comfortable job at Google to create http://trypebble.ai/ which is a relationship coach for the modern age, his new company.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction to Intentional Ambition
02:10 Avoiding Burnout and Building Authority
54:40 Finding Meaning at Work
56:04 Empowering Women and Overcoming Mindsets
58:34 The Five Wounds and Their Redemptions
01:08:44 The End