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Why Intentional Ambition is the NEW Career CURRENCY

The Top 5% Method®

Release Date: 07/25/2025

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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