S2E4 Lydia Fenet - Becoming the Most Powerful Woman in the Room

How do you become the lead benefit auctioneer at the largest auction house in the world, and what does this teach you about power?

Join Laura Gassner Otting as she hosts this episode of LGOtv with special guest, Lydia Fenet - Auctioneer, Glass Ceiling Shatter, Most Powerful Woman in the Room.

Timestamps:
1:32​ - Make yourself available and say yes!
3:29​ - At what part in your youth did you decide that you were going to work at Christie's Auction House?
5:42​ - "The door is yours if you can kick it open."
8:25​ - "At the end of the day, all I heard was yes."
15:22​ - "I heard some of my male colleagues use that line, but from a woman, they didn't appreciate it as much."
17:45​ - "As a charity auctioneer, the thing to always remember is that it actually has nothing to do with the people who are bidding...You are telling a story on stage."
23:20​ - "When you realize you're making a third of what you want, you feel completely betrayed."
28:55​ - "I said, 'There's no step 1 because there's no step 2. If I don't get what I want, I'm leaving.'"
35:42​ - "Ask for the most you can and every year keep asking."
38:58​ - It's the first time a women's magazine ever called me thin.
41:48​ - "It was sheer force of will that the book ended up selling as many books as it did because I refused to let it fail."
45:36​ - "I see the mountain getting higher and I think, strap on my crampons, we got the ice part of this going."
52:49​ - "It was the moment that you need, when you realize there's a net underneath you that is so strong, that even if you were to fall, there are 20 people that have got you. That's when you realize that you've done it right."

Links:
https://lydiafenet.com​
https://www.instagram.com/lydiafenet​