Navigating COVID-19, Building Teams and More – Interview with Kristy LoRusso's Chief Marketing Officer of Kaiser Permanente on her Journey to Success

The Urban Income Show

In this episode of the Urban Income Podcast, host Lavall Chichester interviews Kristy LoRusso, the Chief Marketing Officer of Kaiser Permanente. Kristy shares her inspiring personal journey toward success, her experience as a female in a leadership position, and her advice for navigating microaggressions and fear.

She emphasizes the importance of being disciplined with money, being an ally to women, taking risks, and being vulnerable. She also offers advice on breaking into the healthcare industry and suggests skills and traits that are beneficial for success. Additionally, she shares insights on how to build relationships, explore different opportunities, and leverage them to find success. Here are a few of the topics discussed on this episode of The Urban Income Show.

• Leveraging relationships and networks
• Demonstrating qualifications
• Being an ally to women
• Trying and exploring different opportunities

Resources:

• Urban Income
• Kaiser Permanente
• Growth Skills

Connecting with Kristy LoRusso:

• LinkedIn

Connecting with the Lavall:

• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Quotable:

02:49: “So when you tell me I can't do something, it makes me go, okay, I'm going to go do it. I think that really is part of my history and my family.”
04:16: “I think over time, as I've established myself and built relationships and leveraged those relationships and learned how to ask for help, what I have learned is kindness gets you a lot farther."

23:51: "People in healthcare are very open to networking and communicating and helping you, but be really intentional about how you use people's time”

27:11: "I think it's really important to think of the world as a jungle gym and not a ladder that it's okay and you should bounce around and do different things until you find your thing."