Molly Graham

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TED Talks Daily · Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks | Molly Graham (re-release and interview) · 9 May 2026 podcast

So how do you focus on the things you can control?

The main point is, how do you make the most of where you are today?

How do you leave whenever you leave, however you leave, with a great story?

And that...

does come down to pushing yourself to take advantage of the role that you're in now, whatever that looks like.

And it can be small iterative risks.

It can be slightly bigger risks inside the company that you're in where you're proving to yourself that you can do a whole role that you didn't know you could do.

But I would just say like this job market, there's a lot of stuff that's out of people's control.

So I would really focus on the things that you can control, which is your own experience at your current company.

And, you know, the other thing I'll just say is like, you think when it happens, it defines everything.

Like suddenly you think it's like this Scarlet A or whatever the right metaphor is that you're going to carry with you forever.

And the truth is, it's I always say it's just a chapter.

It's not the whole book.

Like it's just a thing that's going to happen.

It's going to be part of your story.

The question is how you move through it.

And you are better prepared for the other side of it if you've learned to live with discomfort and challenge yourself and

stretch yourself to do things that you're unsure about, you know, so that risk taking muscle is developed in small moves and is so valuable for moments of uncertainty.

So first of all, I think taking time off between jobs, if you can afford it, and if you can do it without significant financial anxiety, is one of the most powerful things you can do.

Because jobs are like relationships.

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