Full Transcript for 7 Leadership Lessons from Taylor Swift

mature woman. 26 00:02:36,368 --> 00:02:41,773 And now she's in her mid thirties and she is breaking molds and it is incredible. 27 00:02:41,773 --> 00:02:44,407 But there's so much pressure that comes with 28 00:02:44,407 --> 00:02:47,919 living out loud like that and so much ridicule. 29 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:56,874 People not extending a lot of grace to someone who was ultimately 15 years old when they started their career. 30 00:02:56,874 --> 00:03:09,482 Taylor, at 15 years old, releasing her first studio album and then how she grew and learned out loud, fully unapologetically and allowed herself to expand is just something 31 00:03:09,482 --> 00:03:11,853 that, ugh, chefs kiss. 32 00:03:11,951 --> 00:03:26,419 So I've been a Swifty for a long time and I am so in awe of one, Taylor's songwriting ability and her ability to connect through her words that are poetry and her ability to 33 00:03:26,419 --> 00:03:32,812 just be like, to tell the truth, like radically authentic about what is happening in life and the world around us. 34 00:03:32,812 --> 00:03:36,234 And that to me is just like so spectacular and sensational. 35 00:03:36,234 --> 00:03:39,958 And I just adore her, but 36 00:03:40,033 --> 00:03:44,496 Where she has blown my mind, like those things are what we expect from her. 37 00:03:44,496 --> 00:03:46,077 Like she's a musician. 38 00:03:46,077 --> 00:03:47,768 She should be good at her craft. 39 00:03:47,768 --> 00:03:49,480 She should be good at telling stories. 40 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,242 That's something that like she's, we should expect from her. 41 00:03:53,522 --> 00:03:59,386 But where she blows my mind in other ways is her business acumen. 42 00:03:59,566 --> 00:04:01,528 My word. 43 00:04:01,528 --> 00:04:08,048 I've talked about this on the show before, but just the fact that Taylor had the presence of mine. 44 00:04:08,048 --> 00:04:18,494 apparently inspired by a tweet by Kelly Clarkson to re-record her masters after she wasn't presented the opportunity to buy them back. 45 00:04:18,494 --> 00:04:19,594 And then she did. 46 00:04:19,594 --> 00:04:24,857 And she gave the fans exactly what she wanted, exactly what the fans wanted. 47 00:04:24,857 --> 00:04:32,121 More content, more songs, more soul, and re-released her early studio collection. 48 00:04:32,121 --> 00:04:36,664 And those albums, the new ones, they just like absolutely broke my heart. 49 00:04:36,664 --> 00:04:38,034 Taylor is a boss. 50 00:04:38,034 --> 00:04:43,854 She is a bad bitch and she holds her vision and it is fucking incredible. 51 00:04:44,174 --> 00:04:45,974 I'm going to gush a little bit more. 52 00:04:46,174 --> 00:04:48,854 So let's talk about the era's tour. 53 00:04:49,054 --> 00:04:51,654 We are coming off of post pandemic life. 54 00:04:51,714 --> 00:04:55,174 She had released Lover in 2019. 55 00:04:55,174 --> 00:04:56,574 Oh my God. 56 00:04:56,574 --> 00:04:58,014 What an incredible album. 57 00:04:58,014 --> 00:05:02,234 And then the pandemic hit and then we have Folklore. 58 00:05:02,234 --> 00:05:02,874 Folklore. 59 00:05:02,874 --> 00:05:03,234 Oh my gosh. 60 00:05:03,234 --> 00:05:04,254 So that's my era. 61 00:05:04,254 --> 00:05:07,698 Like I'm a folklore girl and into ever more. 62 00:05:07,698 --> 00:05:09,440 Oh my God. 63 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:13,103 was what we needed so much. 64 00:05:13,103 --> 00:05:24,023 And then coupled with the re-recording of Fearless, the re-recording of Red, and the re-release of Speak Now, just absolutely incredible, but Speak Now happened during her 65 00:05:24,023 --> 00:05:24,634 tour. 66 00:05:24,634 --> 00:05:26,695 Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself. 67 00:05:26,716 --> 00:05:32,581 So when Taylor announced that she was going to go on an international world tour, 68 00:05:32,595 --> 00:05:36,178 called the Ares Tour, I lost my mind, I knew I had to be there, I couldn't wait. 69 00:05:36,178 --> 00:05:39,561 It was what the world needed for so many reasons. 70 00:05:39,561 --> 00:05:54,533 One, just to come together in song, in joy, in bliss, uniting our voices with shared music that was new and old was just something that like I saw that vision, I aligned with the 71 00:05:54,533 --> 00:05:57,194 vision, I was like, I'm going to absolutely be there. 72 00:05:57,617 --> 00:06:07,983 was lucky enough to be at one of the early shows in Nashville, Tennessee, The Rain Show, where the thunder was shaking the stadium just as much as the Swifties. 73 00:06:07,983 --> 00:06:10,015 Oh my God, I will never forget it. 74 00:06:10,015 --> 00:06:16,699 I will never forget her absolutely soaked, still being a boss out there singing, and it was incredible. 75 00:06:16,699 --> 00:06:22,202 Then I had the chance to take my daughter to the Aris Tour in Chicago, night three. 76 00:06:22,321 --> 00:06:28,995 I'm like being very hyper-specific about this for those who are like, want to go look up the secret songs and all of the things that were shared. 77 00:06:28,995 --> 00:06:35,929 And I brought my daughter, she was seven years old at the time and she will be very embarrassed by me saying this, but she fell asleep actually. 78 00:06:35,929 --> 00:06:39,631 But before that, I got to bring her down. 79 00:06:39,631 --> 00:06:48,038 We walked down the steps of the stadium to kind of the glass wall of the section and no one minded that we sat there. 80 00:06:48,038 --> 00:06:57,803 But my daughter and I took in the 10 minute version of All Too Well, her sitting in my lap surrounded by Swifties who were absolutely unbothered by us being there. 81 00:06:57,803 --> 00:07:06,768 In fact, they were just like so enamored by this mother daughter pair singing along to every word of the 10 minute song. 82 00:07:06,768 --> 00:07:08,789 And it was perfection. 83 00:07:08,789 --> 00:07:11,351 It was absolute perfection. 84 00:07:11,351 --> 00:07:17,296 Then in May on Mother's Day, actually of

2024, 85 00:07:17,296 --> 00:07:26,737 was in Paris and got to see, be among the first to see Taylor's new show with the introduction of the Tortured Poets Department songs. 86 00:07:26,737 --> 00:07:28,259 And it was beautiful. 87 00:07:28,259 --> 00:07:33,605 And here's what I can say, that I very much believe in feminine energy. 88 00:07:33,605 --> 00:07:37,830 And I believe that as human beings, it was our sacred. 89 00:07:37,848 --> 00:07:43,601 right and sacred rites of passage for us to sing together in unison, in safety, in joy. 90 00:07:43,601 --> 00:07:45,632 And that's why the Ares Tour felt so good. 91 00:07:45,632 --> 00:07:53,617 It was just this full embodiment of what it means to be feminine, what it means to feel safe, and what it means to unite our voices in a common cause. 92 00:07:53,617 --> 00:08:04,372 And I don't know if people really recognize how actually powerful it was and that that was the thing that made the Ares Tour so incredible. 93 00:08:04,372 --> 00:08:07,514 So when Taylor just recently released her 94 00:08:07,854 --> 00:08:15,517 six episode docu-series on the making of the heiress tour and the behind the scenes book, I immediately tuned in. 95 00:08:15,517 --> 00:08:21,600 And I have to tell you, I was in a full smile, tears streaming down my face the entire time. 96 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:25,521 I love this woman and everything she stands for and everything that she's created. 97 00:08:25,521 --> 00:08:32,945 And after watching this, I realized that I had to come on and do an episode about Taylor Swift as a leader. 98 00:08:32,945 --> 00:08:36,754 So we're going to talk about seven lessons in leadership. 99 00:08:36,754 --> 00:08:41,288 from Taylor Swift as applied to her creation of the Aris tour. 100 00:08:41,288 --> 00:08:42,299 So here we go. 101 00:08:42,299 --> 00:08:46,062 Lesson number one, trust your magic. 102 00:08:46,062 --> 00:08:49,023 So I am a lifelong entrepreneur. 103 00:08:49,024 --> 00:08:58,271 And I would have to say that in reflecting on the good, the bad, and the ugly, all of my greatest missteps have happened from me not trusting myself. 104 00:08:58,271 --> 00:09:06,448 And God, it is so fucking hard to do, to hold your vision and hold it, to see the thing and to follow through on it. 105 00:09:06,448 --> 00:09:09,079 and not listen to anyone else around you. 106 00:09:09,079 --> 00:09:15,661 Trusting your magic is pivotal, especially when you're trying to do big things in the world. 107 00:09:15,661 --> 00:09:22,312 Don't get, I always, I love the quote, like, don't take advice from someone whose life doesn't look like the life you want to lead. 108 00:09:22,312 --> 00:09:23,663 And it's so true. 109 00:09:23,663 --> 00:09:25,898 It is so easy to play small. 110 00:09:25,898 --> 00:09:32,445 I mean, those little things, like my mom, bless her heart, I'll say that I'm going to a concert and there might be bad weather. 111 00:09:32,445 --> 00:09:33,475 She's like, please don't go. 112 00:09:33,475 --> 00:09:35,506 And it's like, okay, maybe you wouldn't go, but. 113 00:09:35,506 --> 00:09:36,706 I'm going to go. 114 00:09:36,706 --> 00:09:47,826 This is not a great example, but the main point of this is that when you want to do something great, not everyone's going to get on board with you right away. 115 00:09:47,826 --> 00:09:49,546 They're not, they're going to think it's too much. 116 00:09:49,546 --> 00:09:53,206 They're going to see the obstacles where you see the end game. 117 00:09:53,266 --> 00:09:56,646 so trust your magic, trust the end game. 118 00:09:56,646 --> 00:10:02,886 Taylor had this vision of creating the heiress tour and said it was going to be three and a half hours. 119 00:10:02,886 --> 00:10:03,906 It's going to be a global tour. 120 00:10:03,906 --> 00:10:05,266 She's going to cover. 121 00:10:05,266 --> 00:10:08,688 17 years of music all in one night. 122 00:10:08,688 --> 00:10:13,811 And I am going to venture to guess that a few people had something to say about that. 123 00:10:13,811 --> 00:10:14,621 Is this possible? 124 00:10:14,621 --> 00:10:15,446 Are you sure? 125 00:10:15,446 --> 00:10:16,903 Do you have the energy? 126 00:10:16,903 --> 00:10:17,633 Will you be safe? 127 00:10:17,633 --> 00:10:20,575 Like asking all of these fear-based questions. 128 00:10:20,575 --> 00:10:22,816 And she's like, nah, I got the vision. 129 00:10:22,816 --> 00:10:25,498 Let's figure out how to do it. 130 00:10:25,498 --> 00:10:28,319 Which leads me to lesson number two. 131 00:10:28,319 --> 00:10:31,801 Surround yourself with people who trust you. 132 00:10:31,801 --> 00:10:33,218 The heiress tour. 133 00:10:33,218 --> 00:10:36,940 never would have happened if Taylor didn't have the right people surrounding her. 134 00:10:36,940 --> 00:10:39,902 People who saw her vision got it and said, you know what? 135 00:10:39,902 --> 00:10:40,232 Okay. 136 00:10:40,232 --> 00:10:47,065 Even if I don't know the answer to every little one little question, if I don't know exactly how this is going to play out, Taylor, I trust you. 137 00:10:47,065 --> 00:10:48,086 So let's do it. 138 00:10:48,086 --> 00:10:48,876 Let's suss it out. 139 00:10:48,876 --> 00:10:53,408 Let's figure out the details and let's see how we can make this work to bring your vision to life. 140 00:10:53,408 --> 00:10:55,950 That is so important. 141 00:10:55,950 --> 00:10:56,690 When you 142 00:10:56,690 --> 00:11:01,490 surround yourself with people who are constantly trying to work against you, that's not going to get you very far. 143 00:11:01,490 --> 00:11:10,510 So finding as a leader, those people who are going to really support you, who are going to really understand you and really trust themselves in your hands is an amazing and 144 00:11:10,510 --> 00:11:11,230 incredible thing. 145 00:11:11,230 --> 00:11:13,910 And it's necessary if you want to do something big. 146

00:11:13,910 --> 00:11:21,370 So you've got to make sure that you're surrounding yourself with people who trust you as the leader. 147 00:11:21,370 --> 00:11:24,366 And it is so clear that Taylor had those people. 148 00:11:24,366 --> 00:11:25,587 around her in life. 149 00:11:25,587 --> 00:11:35,252 And not just that, that she had the right people, the best choreographers, the best sound engineers, the best videographers, the best costume designers. 150 00:11:35,252 --> 00:11:43,717 And that those people, I'm sure that I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there might be people who are better at their jobs out there in the world. 151 00:11:43,717 --> 00:11:48,200 But the difference is, is that the people who Taylor has around her, they trust her. 152 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,390 They trust her vision. 153 00:11:49,390 --> 00:11:52,022 And then she creates space where she can trust them. 154 00:11:52,022 --> 00:11:52,572 So. 155 00:11:52,572 --> 00:11:56,444 Let's go on to lesson number three, trusting your team. 156 00:11:56,444 --> 00:12:07,040 It is so clear to me that Taylor has built deep, deep, deep trust with her team so that she doesn't have to waste her time and energy getting into the trenches to ask and answer 157 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:09,701 the questions that they should already be asking. 158 00:12:09,701 --> 00:12:11,292 So here's a great example. 159 00:12:11,292 --> 00:12:15,578 One of the backup dancers wanted to perform in... 160 00:12:15,578 --> 00:12:16,478 Are you ready for it? 161 00:12:16,478 --> 00:12:19,538 And that wasn't his normal song throughout the whole tour. 162 00:12:19,538 --> 00:12:21,380 And so he worked hard. 163 00:12:21,380 --> 00:12:23,000 He learned the steps. 164 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:29,382 He found a costume and then Taylor's team brought it to her to see if it was okay. 165 00:12:29,382 --> 00:12:32,093 So she didn't have to ask them like, well, does he know the steps? 166 00:12:32,093 --> 00:12:33,083 Does he have a costume? 167 00:12:33,083 --> 00:12:34,524 Does he have all those things? 168 00:12:34,524 --> 00:12:36,124 And get into the minutia of it. 169 00:12:36,124 --> 00:12:43,120 She could trust that if her team is in charge of the choreography, that they are going to make sure that it's excellent. 170 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:50,986 And that when they're coming to her to get her to sign off on it, that she doesn't have to go deep, deep, deep in the trenches and said she could celebrate what they were doing and 171 00:12:50,986 --> 00:12:53,758 celebrate the vision and be like, okay, you got this? 172 00:12:53,758 --> 00:12:54,619 Absolutely. 173 00:12:54,619 --> 00:12:55,840 Let's fucking go. 174 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,111 And I love that so much. 175 00:12:58,111 --> 00:13:01,184 It is so important as a leader to trust your team. 176 00:13:01,184 --> 00:13:04,262 And I have to say that as an entrepreneur, I haven't always. 177 00:13:04,262 --> 00:13:05,863 trusted my team. 178 00:13:05,863 --> 00:13:07,722 And there's a combination of that. 179 00:13:07,722 --> 00:13:10,527 One, if I wasn't trusting myself, why should they trust me? 180 00:13:10,527 --> 00:13:11,418 Why should I trust them? 181 00:13:11,418 --> 00:13:17,333 Like it all feeds into one cycle of reciprocity and growth and mindset. 182 00:13:17,333 --> 00:13:22,117 And so that kind of alignment from your team is just so critical. 183 00:13:22,117 --> 00:13:31,024 And it starts with lesson number one, trusting yourself and trusting your magic and then getting the right people around you and then trusting them to do their thing so that you 184 00:13:31,024 --> 00:13:33,722 can be beyond the minutia of doing their job. 185 00:13:33,722 --> 00:13:35,423 and focus on what you do best. 186 00:13:35,423 --> 00:13:37,724 So Taylor could focus on the production. 187 00:13:37,724 --> 00:13:38,795 She could focus on the song. 188 00:13:38,795 --> 00:13:47,330 She could focus on knowing the moves, focus on showing up every day as the leader of this massive, massive, massive operation. 189 00:13:47,330 --> 00:13:53,673 The next lesson in leadership from Taylor Swift is number four, don't be afraid to be too much. 190 00:13:53,763 --> 00:13:55,194 my God, and this is huge. 191 00:13:55,194 --> 00:13:58,156 It is so important and so vital. 192 00:13:58,156 --> 00:14:01,138 If you guys caught the documentary, I'll summarize it here. 193 00:14:01,138 --> 00:14:02,032 So first of all, 194 00:14:02,032 --> 00:14:06,826 Halfway through the tour, she introduces an entirely new era. 195 00:14:06,826 --> 00:14:07,976 This is wild. 196 00:14:07,976 --> 00:14:10,087 This is bananas. 197 00:14:10,148 --> 00:14:11,429 It's bananas. 198 00:14:11,429 --> 00:14:19,134 She already had three and a half hours of detailed, choreographed, highly complex stage production. 199 00:14:19,134 --> 00:14:23,518 And then halfway through, asked her team to introduce a new era. 200 00:14:23,518 --> 00:14:25,539 And this is so exceptional. 201 00:14:25,539 --> 00:14:29,982 Many, many other artists, many other people out there would have maybe said, 202 00:14:31,018 --> 00:14:32,039 This is too much. 203 00:14:32,039 --> 00:14:32,639 I don't know. 204 00:14:32,639 --> 00:14:33,380 Should we not do it? 205 00:14:33,380 --> 00:14:34,621 We could just keep it as is. 206 00:14:34,621 --> 00:14:40,626 But no, she understood what the fans wanted from her and she delivered. 207 00:14:40,626 --> 00:14:52,916 So she asked the team to come together weeks prior to going back on tour to learn the new set, to learn the new steps, to understand the new cues, to understand all of it so that 208 00:14:52,916 --> 00:14:57,350 she could introduce the Tortured Poets department to the Ares tour. 209 00:14:57,350 --> 00:14:58,781 And it was exceptional. 210 00:14:58,781 --> 00:15:00,220 But she didn't just stop there. 211 00:15:00,220 --> 00:15:03,601

Towards the end of the tour, she was playing at Wembley in London. 212 00:15:03,601 --> 00:15:05,912 London is a very important city to Taylor Swift. 213 00:15:05,912 --> 00:15:08,192 She lived there for a long time with her ex. 214 00:15:08,192 --> 00:15:21,796 She wanted to bring, by having an incredible guest, Florence, of Florence and the Machines, on stage, she wanted to do a higher end production of Florida for the fans to 215 00:15:21,796 --> 00:15:29,738 make sure that she was adding all of the beauty, grace, all the things that Taylor's fans have come to expect from her. 216 00:15:29,890 --> 00:15:30,750 in this show. 217 00:15:30,750 --> 00:15:32,031 And it was incredible. 218 00:15:32,031 --> 00:15:37,012 And so many other people would have been like, OK, maybe this is too much to ask from everyone. 219 00:15:37,012 --> 00:15:38,402 But she didn't. 220 00:15:38,402 --> 00:15:39,913 She didn't apologize for herself. 221 00:15:39,913 --> 00:15:42,273 She wasn't afraid to be too much. 222 00:15:42,273 --> 00:15:43,654 And what happened then? 223 00:15:43,654 --> 00:15:46,494 The fans were delighted. 224 00:15:46,615 --> 00:15:48,305 She got to shine even brighter. 225 00:15:48,305 --> 00:15:51,276 Her team got to shine even brighter. 226 00:15:51,276 --> 00:15:54,757 And so many other people would have been afraid to take up that space. 227 00:15:54,757 --> 00:15:57,788 I think that, like, Taylor is obviously iconic. 228 00:15:57,788 --> 00:15:59,844 But if we take this down to, like, 229 00:15:59,844 --> 00:16:10,917 ourselves as leaders in our everyday lives, in work and business and life, that it's easy to sometimes be afraid to be too much and to bring those big ideas to the table. 230 00:16:10,917 --> 00:16:16,579 may this be a lesson that like, no, this is actually just continuing to push the envelope of excellence. 231 00:16:16,579 --> 00:16:21,790 And you deserve that if that's your vision, if that's what you want to bring to the world. 232 00:16:21,790 --> 00:16:23,020 Okay. 233 00:16:23,020 --> 00:16:28,522 So here, the fifth lesson in leadership from Taylor Swift is to be gracious. 234 00:16:28,522 --> 00:16:29,510 This woman. 235 00:16:29,510 --> 00:16:35,616 This woman is the epitome of grace and class, and it is exceptional. 236 00:16:35,616 --> 00:16:50,529 So one of the moments that stuck out to me is that the touring cast does a, like a huddle before every show where they say like, fuck, fuck, fuck it up, up, up, like that. 237 00:16:50,529 --> 00:16:51,550 And it's so cool. 238 00:16:51,550 --> 00:16:55,738 But they get in circle and they come together and they share a few words before going on stage. 239 00:16:55,738 --> 00:16:58,499 And Taylor doesn't dominate the spotlight. 240 00:16:58,499 --> 00:17:03,440 Other people take turns in sharing their reflections and their moments. 241 00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:15,323 And one of the backup singers shared that she had been at a party or a red carpet event with Taylor and Taylor introduced her as someone she sings with. 242 00:17:15,323 --> 00:17:25,126 Instead of saying, this is my backup dancer and making that person feel small, even though like being a backup singer for Taylor Swift is like incredible, the most incredible thing. 243 00:17:25,126 --> 00:17:36,996 Taylor wanted to make sure that this person who she trusts, who performs with her all over and over and over again, felt absolutely seen for the whole person that she was. 244 00:17:36,996 --> 00:17:40,058 This is someone that sings with me. 245 00:17:40,058 --> 00:17:45,943 And that to me was just so exceptional and so freaking powerful. 246 00:17:45,943 --> 00:17:50,887 And I also noticed throughout the docu-series that Taylor would constantly say thank you. 247 00:17:50,887 --> 00:17:54,629 She was approachable and stood in her own power. 248 00:17:54,629 --> 00:18:00,705 but was also just so human and so gracious in the process. 249 00:18:00,705 --> 00:18:11,456 So in terms of some of the choreography, for example, Taylor doesn't learn dances in eight counts, and I get that, she learns them in lyrics. 250 00:18:11,456 --> 00:18:13,504 So the choreographer then... 251 00:18:13,504 --> 00:18:18,055 leaned in and started to teach Taylor in terms of lyrics. 252 00:18:18,055 --> 00:18:21,136 And then Taylor could respond to that and they could show gratitude for each other. 253 00:18:21,136 --> 00:18:31,039 And it was just like absolutely so beautiful and such a testament to surrounding yourself with the right people and being gracious and acknowledging like what your limitations are 254 00:18:31,039 --> 00:18:36,661 and how you can be symbiotic and how you can create that teamwork together so that everyone can shine. 255 00:18:36,661 --> 00:18:42,030 The sixth lesson in leadership from Taylor Swift is to show gratitude and 256 00:18:42,030 --> 00:18:50,873 This woman, rumor has it, gave over $100 million in bonuses to the Ares tour production cast. 257 00:18:50,873 --> 00:19:00,296 So everyone from the truck drivers to the backup dancers, to the sound engineers, to the set managers, they all received bonuses. 258 00:19:00,296 --> 00:19:05,357 So when the tour did well, the team got to do well also. 259 00:19:05,357 --> 00:19:07,858 that understanding how important 260 00:19:07,878 --> 00:19:18,428 it is to be compensated fairly for leaving your family, for being on the road for that long and for that demand of excellence and then really making sure to compensate people 261 00:19:18,428 --> 00:19:23,552 for it and express thanks, express gratitude was just so beautiful. 262 00:19:23,552 --> 00:19:30,478 Also, for those who don't know, Taylor would donate very quietly to food banks in every city that she visited. 263 00:19:30,478 --> 00:19:35,266 And that kind of altruism and that level of commitment to humanity is so... 264 00:19:35,266 --> 00:19:48,090 Beautiful, because what Taylor understands more

than anyone is that it's important to be human, that the human within all of us is so important to be tended to, seen, nurtured, 265 00:19:48,090 --> 00:19:48,950 spoken to. 266 00:19:48,950 --> 00:19:59,153 And she created a tour that was in gratitude of the human in all of us, the stories that we carry, the way we need to show up, how we want to feel safe, how we want to be seen. 267 00:19:59,153 --> 00:20:02,153 And it was just chef's kiss, spectacular. 268 00:20:02,153 --> 00:20:04,344 And seeing how she took care of her team. 269 00:20:04,344 --> 00:20:13,488 was it just made my heart melt and made me want to be an even better leader and something that I will really carry with me. 270 00:20:13,488 --> 00:20:14,018 Okay. 271 00:20:14,018 --> 00:20:22,542 So the last and final lesson in leadership from Taylor Swift is number seven, rise together. 272 00:20:22,542 --> 00:20:26,924 Taylor Swift set a fucking high bar with the era's tour. 273 00:20:26,924 --> 00:20:31,266 It was like nothing that had been done before and nothing like it will happen again. 274 00:20:31,266 --> 00:20:31,830 And 275 00:20:31,830 --> 00:20:34,401 She didn't say sorry for it, which we covered. 276 00:20:34,401 --> 00:20:35,292 She took up the space. 277 00:20:35,292 --> 00:20:36,373 She trusted her magic. 278 00:20:36,373 --> 00:20:37,753 She built the team. 279 00:20:37,753 --> 00:20:39,494 She trusted her team. 280 00:20:39,494 --> 00:20:40,695 She showed them gratitude. 281 00:20:40,695 --> 00:20:42,355 She showed them grace. 282 00:20:42,376 --> 00:20:47,359 And she set a high bar so that everyone could rise together. 283 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:55,763 There is not going to be anything better than what's on the resumes of all of the people who were involved in the Arrows Tour, that they could say that they were involved in it, 284 00:20:55,763 --> 00:21:01,216 because you know that it required absolute excellence, timeliness, attention to detail. 285 00:21:01,216 --> 00:21:04,448 more than any other production in the industry. 286 00:21:04,448 --> 00:21:06,991 And that to me is just exceptional. 287 00:21:06,991 --> 00:21:09,572 But she knew that she couldn't do it alone. 288 00:21:09,572 --> 00:21:18,139 She had to do it by surrounding herself with people who were not just going to see her, but who were going to lift her up, who were going to see the vision and then follow 289 00:21:18,139 --> 00:21:18,920 through on it. 290 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:24,244 And that to me was so incredible because when one rise, we all rise. 291 00:21:24,244 --> 00:21:27,776 And I just want to take a moment to say thank you. 292 00:21:27,776 --> 00:21:41,115 I know that there is never a chance that Taylor Swift will see this podcast or video, but I am in awe of a woman who under so much pressure, under so much scrutiny can continue to 293 00:21:41,115 --> 00:21:43,557 set a high bar so we can all rise. 294 00:21:43,557 --> 00:21:45,742 So she can tell stories that 295 00:21:45,742 --> 00:21:53,808 break down the lies that we've been told about what it means to be female, what it means to desire love, what it means to want to make a difference in the world. 296 00:21:53,808 --> 00:21:57,361 And she can hold that vision for all of us to rise together. 297 00:21:57,361 --> 00:21:59,222 And I am so grateful. 298 00:21:59,222 --> 00:22:01,555 I am a huge fan of Taylor. 299 00:22:01,555 --> 00:22:06,159 Cannot wait to see what she does in this next era. 300 00:22:06,159 --> 00:22:08,542 We had the pleasure of watching Taylor. 301 00:22:08,542 --> 00:22:12,183 If we're looking in terms of like archetypes, she was a maiden. 302 00:22:12,183 --> 00:22:15,704 She started as a young girl, went through her formative years. 303 00:22:15,704 --> 00:22:16,815 She wanted love. 304 00:22:16,815 --> 00:22:23,490 She stepped into her own power and then was able to attract an incredible, incredible, incredible, powerful love. 305 00:22:23,490 --> 00:22:24,911 And that's what she wanted all along. 306 00:22:24,911 --> 00:22:26,732 we all got ahead of front row seat to that. 307 00:22:26,732 --> 00:22:28,423 And it was incredible and beautiful. 308 00:22:28,423 --> 00:22:39,512 And then now, as she's getting into this next era of motherhood, of creation, of whatever else may be, whatever else she may birth, we are cheering you on, Taylor. 309 00:22:39,512 --> 00:22:41,033 Congratulations. 310 00:22:41,033 --> 00:22:43,224 You are an inspiration to us all. 311 00:22:43,224 --> 00:22:54,409 Now for all of you entrepreneurs and leaders out there, know this, trusting yourself and trusting your magic is the first step and holding that vision and holding that over and 312 00:22:54,409 --> 00:22:58,621 over again in presence is so important. 313 00:22:58,621 --> 00:22:59,941 You can change the world. 314 00:22:59,941 --> 00:23:03,233 You can do whatever you want in the world. 315 00:23:03,233 --> 00:23:04,544 Why not you? 316 00:23:04,544 --> 00:23:07,955 But remember, no one is going to trust you unless you trust you. 317 00:23:07,955 --> 00:23:09,706 And I know that firsthand. 318 00:23:09,706 --> 00:23:10,286 So. 319 00:23:10,286 --> 00:23:16,749 Thank you all for tuning in to this gushy episode about one of my favorite figures, Taylor Swift. 320 00:23:16,749 --> 00:23:22,291 And go out there, make some mischief in the world, make some magic in the world, make an impact in the world. 321 00:23:22,291 --> 00:23:23,232 You can do it. 322 00:23:23,232 --> 00:23:28,334 And until next time, I'm Ashley, and I am unapologetically yours.