Diplomacy to AI Principles to Tea | MJ Pham

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This season, I hope you've realized that Your Next Big Thing is about more than careers and there is a human being underneath that armor. I'm especially grateful for guests willingness to share their dreams, setbacks and wisdom with our audience. With this in mind, I hope you enjoy this episode.

My guest today is MJ Pham. We spoke about her approach to career re-invention. Her impressive career arc spans from Fortune Magazine in New York, to serving in Cambodia, Saudi Arabia and Washington with the US State Department, to her current career in Communications and Marketing @ Google. MJ is an entrepeneur and founder of the Silk Tea Co where she crafts powerful tea blends that make a social impact.

MJ is a two-time winner of U.S. national journalism awards and was selected for the prestigious Pickering Fellowship in US Foreign Affairs. Moonlighting as a gastrodiplomacy scholar, her work has been cited by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Yale Review of International Studies, and Public Diplomacy Magazine.

During her current tenure at Google, her communications portfolio included responsible innovation and AI principles, including an event for AlphaGo, the first computer program to defeat a professional human Go player, and the first to defeat a Go world champion.

Anyone with an interest in reinventing their career, starting their own business, breaking into big tech or heeding the call for public service will benefit from this episode. I hope you enjoy it!

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