Joel Peterson is a business leader, author, and professor. He is the former chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Peterson received his MBA from Harvard University in 1973, founded the private equity firm Peterson Partners, and served on the board of over 35 companies. Joel has authored two books on business culture and leadership I am so excited for this podcast episode!! It is so good, guys and gals. We are learning from a titan of this...

In this episode, I interview my Stanford GSB classmate, Vishal Sahoo. Vishal talks about his career in edTech, growing up in India and coming to Stanford, and the challenging time of applying to MBA programs. I hope you enjoy; let’s dive in!

In this episode, we have a different setup: this time I am the guest on my podcast and I answer questions about my career and life. The guest host is my best friend, Jennifer Hwang, who was on season 3 of Cherie’s Corner (you guys should go watch her episode on decoding Wall Street and Finance). I hope you enjoy this episode and get to know me a little better. I am a podcast host, educational content creator, and TEDx speaker with over 300K followers and 100 million views on Instagram,...

In this episode, I speak with Zach Boyette. Zach is the founder of Galactic Fed, an award-winning marketing agency with over 150 employees, and has been a digital nomad for over 6 years. He has worked for notable companies like Google and Proctor & Gamble before starting his own venture. Zach is also an advocate for remote work and intends to speak on the future of the traditional working model in his upcoming TedX talk. Let’s dive in! Zach's contact info: https://zachboyette.com/

In this episode, I speak with Nicole Quinn. Nicole is the General Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners. She’s invested in iconic consumer companies like Calm, Goop, Rothy’s, and Cameo. Nicole started her career on the equity sales and research side of Morgan Stanley where she worked on the IPOs for companies like Facebook, Groupon, and Pandora. She’s a Stanford Graduate Business School alum and we talk all things entrepreneurship and career advice. I’m so excited for you to join this convo....

I speak with my Stanford classmate, Mike Peng. He studied chemical engineering at UT Austin and started his career at McKinsey before coming to Stanford GSB. In this episode, Mike decodes management consulting and the allure of MBB: McKinsey, Bain, BCG. What exactly do consultants do everyday? What are the hours like? What are the pros and cons of the consultant lifestyle? Mike speaks with so much candor and talks through his frameworks of figuring out his dream job and experimenting along...

In this episode, I speak with Stanford Lecturer, Glenn Kramon. Glenn was an editor at the New York Times for 37 years and now teaches a flagship class at Stanford Business School called Winning Writing — students say it’s one of their most useful and favorite classes at Stanford. Glenn shares his tips on how to become a one in a million writer. He has such an interesting perspective on life and the long horizon of our careers and I’m so excited to share his story with you. In this episode,...

In this episode, I speak with my Stanford classmate Jennifer Hwang. She’s an absolute boss in the professional finance world and she gives the download on recruiting for and working in investment banking, private equity, and hedge funds. Jenn also balances warmth, kindness, and silliness, which is why she is one of my closest friends that I met at business school. I am so excited for you to join our conversation. Let’s dive in!

In this episode, we hear from one of my best friends at Stanford, KG. We explore her path from dropping out of college, working and funding her own way through undergrad, and carving a path from the corporate world to now her own women’s-health focused startup. KG is one of those friends who’s obviously brilliant, incredibly thoughtful, and will always be in my corner, rooting me on and celebrating our wins together. I feel really grateful to not only have her a classmate, but a close friend...

Roelof Botha is the Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital and he led early investments in iconic companies like YouTube, Instagram, 23&Me, MongoDB and more. In this episode he gives career and life advice and talks about the different chapters of his career from being hired by Elon Musk to join Paypal to the early days of joining Sequoia. ABOUT ME Hello friends, thanks for watching! I'm a content creator, Stanford MBA student, & former LinkedIn senior product manager 👋🏻 I share...

In this episode, I interview my Stanford classmate, Terry Baggett, who studied at Westpoint and shares his lessons from his time in the military. Terry talks through the peaks and more importantly the valleys of his life and how he applies his disciplined work ethic to all facets of his life. Let’s get started!

In this episode, I interview my former LinkedIn coworker and recent Harvard Business School grad, Emily Carrolo. We worked together on different teams, but at the same company for 3 years. We discuss if it is okay to cry at work: where to cry, does crying diminish your power in the workplace, and is it safe to cry? We also talk about her favorite classes at Harvard, and if her HBS degree is worth it. I love this conversation with Emily because it’s advice that I wish I had known when I was...

In this episode, I interview my Stanford GSB classmate, Grant McNaughton. Grant is a 2+2 MBA student, which means he applied and was accepted to business when he was in undergrad in college. He talks about his time working as a Bain consultant, his chaotic (but successful) application process, and what community has meant for him over the last year. I am so excited for this season of the podcast – as you can tell we’re bringing in a little more spice, personality, and vulnerability to the...

I interview my Stanford GSB classmate, Ty Greenberg, and he kind of interviews me! Ty worked in legal tech and toyed with the idea of either going to law school or business school. He shares his application journey and how he applied to MBA programs TWICE. He wasn’t admitted into his target school the first year so he redid his application and applied the next year. He was then admitted into Harvard, Stanford, and MIT business schools. I hope you enjoy this last episode of the season. Let’s...

In this episode, I interview my Stanford GSB classmate, Katie Dickinson. Katie studied petroleum engineering in college and her first job after graduation was on an oil rig. We talk about what life is like on the rig, what it’s like being the youngest person on her team and what it’s like being a woman in a heavily male-dominated field. She shares her lightbulb moment that made her want to pivot into clean energy after working in heavy oil for years. Finally, Katie gives us insight into her...

In this episode, I interview my Stanford classmate, Chad Janis. He’s a serial entrepreneur who’s now working on his 3rd startup. We talk about lessons he learned from finance and entrepreneurship, his 3 week MBA application process (yes, that is very quick), and life on campus with his wife and their toddler. Finally, Chad provides a different, and maybe unpopular, point of view of Stanford’s curriculum and classes. Listen to the end to hear my podcast and life updates. Use my special link...

In this episode, I interview my colleague from Bain Capital Ventures, Ayushi Sinha. Ayushi just finished her first year at Harvard Business School. Previously, she had roles in big tech, startups, and venture capital. Ayushi gives us the tea on what life is really like at HBS, discusses the ups and downs of her application process, and breaks open the gatekept industry of venture capital. Let’s jump in.

In this episode, I interview my friend Emily Tang, a senior product manager at LinkedIn, who she leads teams of software engineers and designers. Emily gives tips to break into product management, talks about dealing with imposter syndrome, and shares her story of high pressure situations of presenting to LinkedIn’s CEO. LET'S CONNECT 🤳🏻 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cherie.brooke 🌍 My website - https://www.cherieluo.com 📱 TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cherie.brooke ✍🏻 My...

Hi friends, in this next episode of Cherie's Corner, I speak with my Stanford MBA classmate, Gabriela Forter. She’s a dual admit to Harvard and Stanford MBA programs. She talks about choosing Stanford and also still ending up going to Harvard, not for her business degree, but for her Masters in Public Policy. Despite having a successful career in consulting at Deloitte and product management at Meta, she still finds value in pursuing two masters degrees; she explains her reasoning and...

A discussion with my Stanford MBA classmate, Jae Yu. We talk about his career in the U.S. military before coming to Stanford's Business School, serving in South Korea, and being one of the main organizers of Former President Trump’s Visit to North Korea. Jae is a dual admit to both Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business and he talks about how he made the decision to attend Stanford and what he wrote about in his application essay. Finally, Jae gives his perspective...