23. (Part 2) Confidence, Courage, and Credentials - Bootstrapping a Marketing Career with Rachel Truair of Adobe

Part 2 of 2.

On this episode, we're talking to Rachel Truair, Director of Global Enterprise Campaigns for Adobe. Rachel is a marketing leader who honed her agility and marketing skills at startups like Pet Relocation and Magento. She’s taken the grit and can-do attitude she developed in those roles to big corporations like 3M, Oracle, and now Adobe. Rachel is an award-winning marketer who has spoken at big conferences such as SXSW and Oracle’s Modern Marketing Experience. She’s accomplished quite a lot in her career so far and we’re excited for you to hear what she’s learned along the way. Hope you enjoy!

Some of the topics we discussed:

1. Navigating the decision to have children while building your career
2. Why you shouldn’t hold yourself back from things until the “right time”
3. Career pivots and how to make them
4. Setting boundaries and why you need to stop emailing after-hours
5. How getting an MBA can make a difference in your career
6. Advantages and disadvantages of data
7. The importance of storytelling and understanding attribution models
8. Infusing humanity and empathy into your marketing
9. Why it's important to adapt leadership and management styles to different team members
10. Inspiration from Andrea Ward and the What it Means Podcast by Forrester Research

Resources mentioned:

• Interactive experience Adobe created using research mentioned about the future of marketing being creativity: https://cmo.adobe.com/the-future-of-marketing-is-creative.html
• What it Means Podcast by Forrester Research: https://go.forrester.com/what-it-means/

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• https://www.linkedin.com/in/racheltruair/
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This episode is sponsored by TCI Lead Gen.

TCI Lead Gen is a cloud-enabled demand gen startup that helps B2B marketers achieve their goals. TCI’s lead gen programs create the best B2B leads ever available. Find out more about TCI and how they make the best B2B leads at www.thebestb2bleads.com.

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