Episode Description
International Women’s Month Series
Adrienne Pabst is the President of iHeartMedia's Strategic Partners Group leading a billion-dollar portfolio of the company's largest Fortune 500 advertisers. Her team partners with top marketers and agencies to create large-scale partnerships across broadcast radio, podcasting, digital, and live events. On top of that she's built and led some of iHeart's most important client relationships, helped shape the company's modern go-to-market approach and she's done it all from one company for 18 years.
What I love about this conversation is what 18 years actually means. It doesn't mean standing still. It means Reinventing yourself over and over again to keep growing, keep leading, and keep earning your seat.
Adrienne's first Reinvention happened at 14. She wanted to be a ballerina. Danced her whole life. Then she got a job at a dry cleaner and felt what independence actually was for the first time. Not the work itself. The paycheck. The control. That moment shifted everything.
Motherhood brought another. She was climbing fast, then had her son and hit a wall. So she stepped back. Took a smaller role. Gave herself room. Most people don't talk about that kind of Reinvention. The kind where you choose less so you can show up better.
Then the pandemic opened a door that never would have existed before. The national role she wanted had always been a New York job. Suddenly location didn't matter. She pitched hard. She got it.
We also talked about what's changed in how we work. The expectation to respond in thirty minutes. Volume going up while quality comes down. Her fix now is simple: three priorities a week. That's it.
On mentorship, most of hers have been men. She's honest about that. What she focuses on now is leading by example. Being the person people can come to without a formal meeting.
And on the personal side, she's figuring it out like the rest of us. Micro conversations with friends. Two minutes just to say I love you. Calling her mom on the commute. Reinvention is rarely one big moment. It's a series of small choices that compound over time.
Connect with Adrienne:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrienne-pabst-57307624/
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