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There's No Wine Named After Her Yet. Napa, Fix This. Pt. 6

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Tonight's Episode

Forrest closes the series with a true-or-false round, and the fun of it is watching how fast Victoria sorts fact from invention. The executive role at twenty-four is real. The sommelier training in Bordeaux is pure fiction — she went straight into corporate leadership and never detoured. The Turnaround Queen nickname is real too, and when Forrest asks whether that's runway or corporate, she gives the answer nobody expects: corporate, absolutely, though she did walk a runway as a teenager.

The turnaround stories are where the episode gets its weight. One came through a consulting engagement with a global organization badly damaged by COVID, whose board mandated thirty percent of the workforce or operating expenses out of the business. She worked directly with the CEO and the board to engineer it. The other is the reason she ended up living in the United States — a company emerging from a dissolved joint venture that rebranded, went public, and then acquired six companies in eighteen months. Compressed, brutal, and exactly the kind of thing she keeps getting called in to do.

Then Forrest asks about the TEDx talk, and the tone shifts. She was the opening speaker in Miami on a night themed around resilience, and her definition is more demanding than the usual one. Healthy resilience isn't gritting your teeth and armoring up — she's explicit that a shield of protective armor is not the thing. It's finding a way to process challenge and adversity rather than simply withstand it, and she built a five-step process for doing exactly that. Anyone who heard her story in Part 1 will understand where the framework came from.

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Welcome, welcome to the best five minute wine podcast with Forrest Kelly.

Okay, these are true or false. So just some fun stuff here. I've got kind of a mixture of true and false. Victoria was the CEO of a multinational corporation by age 24. True. True or false? Before her corporate career, Victoria trained as a sommelier in Bordeaux. False. Nope. She went straight into corporate leadership. Forget that Bordeaux stuff. True or false? Victoria's nickname among former colleagues is the Turnaround Queen. True. And are we talking runway or are we talking company corporate turnarounds Corporate turnarounds for sure on I did walk on the runway as a teenager but no that for my corporate experience So what was the biggest turnaround that you ever had while we brought that up?

Well, I've been brought in time and time again to do turnarounds and transformations. There's, you know, two, there was one, it was in the context of a consulting environment, but I was working with a global organization who had suffered post-COVID and their board mandated for them to take 30% of their workforce or operational expenses out of the business. So I helped work with a CEO on the board to engineer that. The other would be, you know, a company, when I first actually got relocated to the US, it was for a company who had gone through an ending of a joint venture with another partner, rebranded, went public, and then they acquired six companies in 18 months.

So that was pretty significant transformation in such a compressed time frame. I guess you did turn it around. True or false? Victoria gave a TEDx talk on healthy resilience Very true That was TEDx in Miami And how did what is healthy resilience Just a quick definition of that Yeah yeah they invited me I was their opening speaker The theme for the night was around resilience. Healthy resilience is, you know, recognizing that there's a way to deal with the challenge and adversity, but in a way in which you process it, you know, wearing a shield of protective armor is not what I would define as healthy resilience.

So I talk about a five-step process to go through to, you know, be able to work through trauma, challenge, and adversity in a much better way. All right. We just heard you talking about you and Danny going to vineyards in Sonoma. Is there a wine named after you after your purchase? True or false? False. I wish. If you guys are listening, I think you should rectify that situation right now, boys. Victoria's book, The Power of Whole Human Leadership, focuses on managing modern workers toward purpose and profit True or false True All righty Did we miss anything Did we find out everything that we need to be successful and to drink wine unapologetically I think there's enough there.

Your guests, I'm sure, can follow me if they want to go and see more, but I think we covered it. How can we follow you? Give me your website and places to find everything. Yeah, one-stop shop is my website, which is victoria-peltier.com. I'm sure you'll have that in the show notes so they don't need to look up the spelling. And then if they prefer to click a link and connect with me on the other social platforms, they can do that from there. You didn't even break a sweat, did you? I did not. I love it.

Thanks so much.

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Key Takeaways

Victoria became an executive at twenty-four and has built a career in corporate turnarounds, including managing a thirty percent workforce reduction for a COVID-damaged organization and overseeing six acquisitions in eighteen months for a company emerging from a dissolved joint venture.
Her TEDx talk in Miami defined resilience as processing challenge and adversity rather than simply withstanding it, with a five-step framework that rejects the idea of emotional armor as a protective strategy.
Victoria walked a runway as a teenager but her "Turnaround Queen" nickname comes from her corporate work, not the fashion industry; she never trained as a sommelier in Bordeaux.

Frequently Asked Questions

What was Victoria's executive role at twenty-four?

The show notes confirm she held an executive role at that age but do not specify the title or company.

Did Victoria train as a sommelier in Bordeaux?

No, that was pure fiction. She went straight into corporate leadership without that detour.

What is Victoria's definition of healthy resilience?

Finding a way to process challenge and adversity rather than simply withstanding it, not gritting your teeth or building protective armor.

Where did Victoria give her TEDx talk?

Miami, as the opening speaker at an event themed around resilience.