Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talks about grief and recovery after the death of her husband

Last week, Sheryl Sandberg announced she is stepping down as chief operating officer at Facebook’s parent company Meta.

Sandberg oversaw Facebook’s spectacular rise to a company that generated $100 billion in revenue each year, but she also had to answer for several scandals involving Facebook.

Sandberg became a feminist icon after her best-selling book Leaning In about women in the business world was released.

However, it was a more personal story that Sandberg told in September 2020 when she appeared on Smart Talk. She and psychologist and university professor Adam Grant co-authored the book Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy after Sandberg’s husband died unexpectedly.

You’ll hear an encore of that conversation on Tuesday's Smart Talk.

Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.