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OhHello - Camille Fetter
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Camille is a force! And we're so excited to have her as one of our OG Mentors on the OhHello.io platform.
Camille Fetter is the Founder and CEO of Talentfoot Executive Search, leading firm-wide strategy to reimagine digital business executive search for the ambitions of an evolving workforce and society. A leader who is on a mission to change lives for the better, she founded Talentfoot in 2010 to help people find fulfillment through fulfilling work.
Camille never stops thinking “what’s next?” and thrives on disrupting the status quo to fuel business growth. Believing that the right job has the power to change the trajectory of life, she rejected the one-size-fits-all approach to executive search. Her life mission is reflected in the firm’s mission to both enable and motivate people to find fulfillment through work they are passionate about and that set them up for continued success in the new, blended workplace.
As an executive recruiter for nearly 20 years, Camille has a track record of helping build difference-making leadership teams for high-growth organizations – from Series B funded startups to private equity and venture capital, Fortune 50 brands, advertising and marketing agencies, and SaaS providers.
Camille started her career in advertising where she realized that she was not fulfilled even though she loved the industry. She was introduced to executive search which came with the opportunity to make a real difference in people’s lives, and soon recognized that digital business executive search had been her calling all along.
Camille has a Bachelor of Science in advertising with a minor in technology, art and media from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a member of The Forbes HR Council, Chief, a network connecting women executive leaders, as well as YPO, a global leadership community for CEOs. Her expertise and insights on the future of work are featured in top business and digital business media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Digiday, Ragan's Workplace Wellness Insider and Authority magazine, to name a few.
talentfoot.com
Camille Fetter Published Writing & Press Clips
• Forbes: The Great In-Between: Navigating The Shift From The Great Resignation To The Great Regret • Bloomberg: Fed’s Inflation Battle to Strip Workers of Rare Bargaining Power
• Forbes: Why Leaders Should Prioritize Fulfillment In The New Workplace
• The Wall Street Journal: Job Openings Near Record as Labor Market Emerges From Omicron Disruptions
• Inside the Funnel Podcast: Camille Fetter’s 4 insights into the Great Resignation • EdTech Digest: The Great Resignation has just Begun
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Welcome
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Good grief. Oh, come on, Charlie Brown. Oh, hello Camille. Oh, hello Jeremy. How are ya? I'm excellent. It's really good to see you.
00:00:24
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It's great to see you. It was so nice catching up with you. We've had the pleasure of knowing each other and being friends for nearly 15 years. I know who you are. I'm very fortunate to know you, your team, seeing your business ascend 20 fold over the years. Why don't you tell our oh, hello audience that are either listening to the pod or watching the VAD, who I have the pleasure of speaking with.
00:00:52
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Well, thank you. I want to appreciate you having me on this incredible podcast, and I could not be more excited for, oh, hello, success. Thank you. I'm a mother, I'm a daughter, I'm a sister, I'm a friend, I'm a mentor, and I'm a founder.
Business Growth and Leadership
00:01:10
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And I'm the founder of TalentFoot Executive Search and Staffing. We service series B-funded startups to Fortune 50,
00:01:19
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organizations that are looking to essentially accelerate their growth via digital business. We have roughly 40 associates throughout the country and we'll be 13 years old next month. That is amazing. It's been so fun watching you watching you grow from
00:01:36
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from a one person founder and CEO to growing a team that covers so many different sectors, so many different verticals, levels of expertise, as you mentioned, from obviously series B to fortune 50. And
00:01:52
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We're just so pleased to have you here. Part of the reason I thought it would be wonderful having you be a guest is because you are a female founder, you're an executive, and you are so empathetic, and that to me is inapproachable. And that to me is so important about what the, oh, hello, network and tribe is that we're creating. Tell us a little bit more about what defines you, what defines you as a person and what defines you as a founder.
Defining Success and Leadership Values
00:02:20
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Yeah, you know, I would say it took me some time to really understand what defines me. But over time and studying a lot of incredibly successful people, I was able to hone in on myself on really what does define me. And I would say values, very values-based servant leader.
00:02:43
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I've worked for some incredible leaders and some not so great leaders. And I've learned both what to do and what not to do as a leader, right? So I'm very grateful for those experiences, the good, the bad, and the ugly. And I'm very much focused around empowering others.
00:03:01
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I have been empowered by incredible people throughout my life and it's made all the difference, right, in me pursuing my passions and my dreams. And I hope to continue to empower others for the rest of my life. With being able to empower others throughout the rest of your life, tell us a little bit about your skillset and how you would characterize it in terms of how you're gonna be helping up-and-comers, people feeling lost,
00:03:31
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people feeling vulnerable through the Oh, hello community. Tell us a little bit about just your skill set and just your traits. Yeah. So, you know, one thing that I'm very passionate about is helping people find their strengths and identify their strengths, right? And so often I think when we're very young, we're focused around trying to work on our weaknesses.
00:03:51
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And I very much believe, work on your strengths and forget your weaknesses because that's what's gonna really differentiate you well above your peers, right? That is so, that's powerful. That's good. Keep on going. Good. And so, and I, in studying humans for almost 20 years now, I've realized that we actually, the work that we enjoy most
00:04:17
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is typically the work that plays to our strengths, right? So do you feel the same way? I do. Absolutely. Absolutely. Keep on going because part of the reason that I'm creating this community and this platform is going to be launching very soon, but by the time the listeners are listening to it, it might be available, is because of that, pursuing different strengths, pursuing different interests,
00:04:44
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based on what we know and what we feel good doing. Please, keep on going. This is about you. Yeah, so I do believe that if you really own your strengths and you continue to expand upon those strengths and accelerate those strengths, that you will then find work that you love. And if you find work that you love, you will find fulfillment and happiness. And if we had more happy people in the world,
00:05:11
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have a more happy place, right?
Purpose and Success Redefined
00:05:13
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So, you know, I really do also believe that if you hone in on your strengths and you identify opportunities that allow you to unlock those strengths every day, you're going to make an impact on organizations, which is only going to impact your own professional growth, right, and your own career trajectory.
00:05:33
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In addition, the added layer of if you can find work and organizations that really tap into your purpose and help you find purpose while bringing those strengths to the table, that's the recipe for, to me, ultimate success and happiness. Love it. Success and happiness absolutely are the end goals for so many people. You want to be successful, you want to be happy.
00:06:00
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What do you think? Oh, please go ahead. Jeremy, I think success is defined in so many ways. And I think it's really important to know what your definition of success is. And I thought early on, if you would have asked the 20-year-old Camille what was success, I think I probably would have had an answer along the lines of climbing the corporate ladder.
00:06:27
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Right? And that's not how I define success today. But I think young people, and frankly, anyone at any point in their life should pause and stop and really ask themselves, what is success to me? Because it's really unique to yourself.
00:06:45
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So I'll say, what would you tell your 25 year old self looking back, knowing specifically that telling yourself to be able to consistently reengage and reevaluate how you define success. Would that be an area of how you would looking back change and
00:07:04
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I don't know. Let me be a little bit more concise and crisp with my question. What would you tell your younger self looking back after being in advertising and marketing and being an executive recruiter and founder of a well-respected firm? If you were to look back in your career and if you said, okay, X amount of years ago, if I could do X, it would be this. What kind of advice would you tell yourself?
Mentorship and Personal Growth
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So I got lucky, right? So I didn't necessarily know I was working towards my own version of success, but early on I worked for a crisis line and I got bit by the bug of impacting people's lives who were very much struggling and realized the power of conversation. So that propelled a career into executive search after meeting an executive recruiter who I met and I realized that
00:07:57
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wow, they're truly impacting people's lives. So, you know, I do, I think I got lucky, right? Because that is my personal, that is my purpose and my mission, right, is to impact as many lives as I can. And I was able to find that through my work. But I will say, and those that spend time with me, hear me say this often, there's two things that we have at the end of our lives. It's our memories and our relationships.
00:08:23
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And if I would have really, truly have known what my values were early on, which we touched on, right? If I would have taken the time to truly understand my personal values, I would have probably have been more intentional about those that I decided to bring into my life personally and professionally, right?
00:08:47
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I would have ensured that I was joining organizations and leaders and teams that shared my same values because I do believe if you surround yourself, proximity principle, with those that share your same values, it's going to lead to fulfilling work.
00:09:04
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Because you're surrounded by others that truly want to live a similar life and interact and respect other humans in a similar fashion to you or whatever those values might be. We treat people based on our values and vice versa. So with memories and relationships, who are some mentors that have made a profound impact on you?
00:09:30
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So I would certainly say my parents, for one. I think they built an incredible amount of resilience at a young age. I have memories, Jeremy, of family bike ride trips and probably 40 degree weather in the rain and being the youngest of three at the end of the line. And my parents saying, keep up. And I'm about a mile behind the crew.
00:09:58
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I do think my parents, they've always believed in me, right? And I wouldn't have started a business at 28 years old if they didn't say, you're ready, you can do this. And then I've had a wide spectrum of mentors throughout my life. And I will say, as I reflect on these mentors and these relationships I have that are ongoing, these mentors come from different
00:10:25
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functional areas of business, right? So I have mentors that are CFOs, that I have mentors who are tech entrepreneurs. I have mentors who are chief people officers, right? I have CMO mentors, right? And so, but they all bring a very diverse perspective and experience at the table.
00:10:45
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And I do feel early on many professionals feel that they should really only seek out mentors in their functional area. So if they're a marketing manager, they're obvious mentors of CMO, but it shouldn't be that linear. So I have a long list of mentors and I'm so grateful for them and I continue to seek out mentors.
00:11:08
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I really respect the way that you explained not having a linear mentor and understanding whether you're a founder of a company if you are
00:11:19
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a VP, a director, a manager, a supervisor, an associate, whatever level you are, that you can get tidbits of advice and expertise from people of all different experiences and industries and categories. I think that's really important because it makes us as people so much more well-rounded and less narrow-minded, narrow-focused. You pick up a lot more that you can give back to others by talking to different people, which also goes back to a few minutes ago when you were talking about just
00:11:49
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Picking and choosing who you want to spend time with in terms of relationships in terms of knowledge So that was that was insightful to hear that your mentors come from different different areas Anyone you want to give a shout out to or they're just too many that that you respect them off There are so many and I wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings for nothing Yeah, there are so many but I will say you know going back to the values and mentors and
00:12:17
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I will plug Shelly Paxton, who is a coach and mentor within the Women's Chief Network. She actually is a leader that helps me refine my values in my forties through an exercise. So she is a very simple exercise.
00:12:38
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for your listeners. So yeah, please tell us. Okay, great. I'm a Brene Brown fan, which is probably no surprise to you. Brene Brown has on her website, a list of 100 core values. And Shelley walked me through this exercise that I'm so grateful for.
00:12:54
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It's essentially studying that those lists of a hundred values and honing in on the top four to six that really speak to your soul. Right. And so once you've, you've defined what those top four to six values are to really come up with an action plan of how you're going to have more of those values.
00:13:14
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in your day-to-day life, what actions do you have to take to have more of those values in your day-to-day life? And even equally of importance is what actions do you need to stop taking to have more of those values in your life? And oftentimes it comes down to the people you have in your life, the activities that you have in your life, how you spend your time. So I think that if I would have had that 20 years ago, I think I'd
00:13:44
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I probably would be living some of a different life today. Amazing. Well, it's a part of the advice that you got from Shelley and from the Brene Brown methodologies. We're never too old to look back. We're never too old to keep on ascending. We're never too old mentorship and guidance and advice and just hitting that reset button is really important at any stage of our careers.
00:14:12
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We appreciate you so much. It was so good having you on. You rock. Oh, hello listeners. Thank you so much.