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Samantha Ettus

Samantha Ettus

When the world shifted from 9-5 to our smartphones connecting us to work at all times, Samantha Ettus was there to advise on managing the increasingly blurry lines between work and life. Now those lines are gone. The future of work is a future where trust is front and center. The post pandemic workplace marks the most seismic corporate shift we have seen in our lifetimes. While companies are having to pivot fast to the changing needs of their employees, there are also an abundance of tactics that team members can use to bring back sanity and fulfillment into their own post-pandemic work lives.

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Ettus has devoted her career to finding that spark within us and turning it into a fire. In her quest to help women achieve financial independence, she launched Park Place Payments, a women-run payment processing company, transforming how financial services are sold to small businesses, while creating recurring revenue opportunities for populations who have been on the sidelines.

Since earning her undergraduate and MBA degrees from Harvard, Ettus has become a best-selling author of five books, a renowned speaker and co-host of iHeart’s leading women in business podcast What’s Her Story With Sam & Amy. Her most recent book is The Pie Life: A Guilt Free Recipe for Success and Satisfaction. Ettus has given hundreds of talks including two TEDx talks and has spoken at countless conferences and companies from Twitter to Target.

Ettus writes a popular weekly work/life newsletter and makes regular national television appearances on shows including the TODAY Show, NBC News, Dr. Phil, The Doctors, Access Hollywood, and Good Morning America. She has been featured and quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, Inc, Entrepreneur and Fast Company. She was the host of leading Internet talk show Obsessed TV, which she created and produced with entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk. Ettus co-founded the Los Angeles Women’s Collective, aimed at supporting women to run for office and win. She currently serves on the advisory board of the Forbes School of Business and Technology, Sparks and Honey and Inspiro Tequila. Ettus lives in Los Angeles with her husband and three children.

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Topics

Topics

Motivation: Lead the Change in Your Own Life

Entrepreneurship: Learn to Navigate the Entrepreneurial Lifestyle for Success

Work/Life: Drop Everything You Know about Balance and Adopt This Life-Changing Framework

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Videos

The New Way To Get Happy | Samantha Ettus | TEDxStLouisWomen
The Pie Life | Samantha Ettus | Talks at Google

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