Talking Tough Love and Leadership with Ambassador Susan Rice

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today it is my honor and privilege to welcome Ambassador Susan Rice to the podcast!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though Susan needs little introduction, she is an incredible woman and I would like to take the time to appreciate all of her auspicious accomplishments. From 1993-1997, Susan served as President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council staff. Then, at 32-years-old, Rice became the youngest person in U.S. history to serve as the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs at the State Department (which she served from 1997-2001). As a former Brookings Institution fellow, Rice served as a Foreign Policy Advisor to Democratic presidential nominees Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, and Barack Obama. After Obama won the 2008 presidential election, Rice was nominated as Ambassador to the United Nations until 2013. From 2013-2017, she led the National Security Council Staff and chaired the Cabinet-level National Security Principals Committee.</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Currently, Ambassador Rice is a Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow in the School of International Service (SIS) at the American University, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a contributing opinion writer for the</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times.</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">She also currently serves on the board of Netflix and is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, American Academy of Diplomacy, and Council of Foreign Relations. I don’t know how she finds all the time!</span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In our conversation today, Rice shares about her life journey from a personal and professional perspective; the fascinating history of her incredible family and how they’ve persevered through prejudice; her recent book,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tough Love: M