About Alex

Alex Constantinople is the CEO of The Outcast Agency that works with clients like Airbnb, Instagram, Spotify, Facebook, or Patagonia.

Alex started her career as a publicist for CNN, NBC, followed by marketing and communications roles at GE before switching coasts to join Wired Magazine and eventually The Outcast Agency, first as their COO and then as CEO. Alex is based in San Francisco and the mother of 3.

In this episode we talk about Alex’s favorite books, how she prepared herself and the company for her sabbatical, or how she has learned to take time away from the day-to-day to assess life and work and much much more.

Books mentioned in this episode:

• Margeret Atwood – Oryx and Crake
• Gretchen Rubin – The Happiness Project
• W. Somerset Maugham – The Razor’s Edge
• Tim Rath – The Strengths Finder 2.0
• Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
• Hermann Hesse – Siddharta

Special thanks to our patrons on Patreon:

• Megan Quinn who supports Code2040: http://www.code2040.org
• Anna Caroline who coaches leaders in Berlin: http://truthcircles.com/
• Tim Herbig https://twitter.com/herbigt
• Johannes Kleske https://johanneskleske.com/
• Caoimhe Keogan https://twitter.com/caoimhekeogan
• Eileen Williams https://www.switchup.de/stromvergleich

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