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As Seen on TV: The ABCDs of a BOLD Life & Career | Episode 3: Challenge
Ted Lasso vs. Amy Santiago: Are You Ready for Your Next Challenge?
Welcome to The Bold Brief—
Are You Ready for Your Next Meaningful Challenge?
What happens when the next step in your career does not come with an instruction manual walk into a job interview.
Ted asks how everyone is doing, remembers the receptionist's name, and somehow leaves with three new friends.
Amy arrives twenty minutes early with a detailed portfolio, a list of anticipated questions, and enough color-coded tabs to make an office supply store proud.
Both want to succeed.
Both care deeply about doing good work.
But they have very different relationships with uncertainty.
Welcome back to As Seen on TV: The ABCDs of a BOLD Life & Career!

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After taking a week to celebrate Medical-Surgical Nurses Week, we are returning to our television-inspired exploration of Authenticity, Balance, Challenge, and Driving Forward with Confidence.
We have already explored what Cristina Yang and Moira Rose can teach us about Authenticity, and how Bow Johnson and Leslie Knope reveal the complexities of Balance.
This week, we turn to C for Challenge. And our two characters raise an interesting question:
Do we grow because we are ready, or do we become ready because we are willing to grow?
Grab some popcorn and let’s talk about Ted Lasso and Amy Santiago.
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Introducing Fair Game from Vanity Fair

Join Mark Guiducci for a series of wide-ranging conversations with cultural leaders from the worlds of Hollywood, Politics, Style, Silicon Valley, and beyond.
On every episode, Vanity Fair pulls back the curtain on how some of the most interesting and powerful minds in our society work – and where they see us going. On Fair Game from Vanity Fair, no subject is off limits.
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Ted Lasso: Curiosity Before Competence
When Ted Lasso arrives in England to coach AFC Richmond, he is an American football coach entering a world where even the meaning of the word football is different.

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