About the Author
Stacey Vanek Smith is a longtime public radio reporter highly regarded for her insight on work, business, and economics. She is a Senior Story Editor for Bloomberg Audio and a Special Correspondent for Marketplace. She previously served as a correspondent and host for NPR’s Planet Money and Marketplace and hosted NPR’s daily podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money. Her work has appeared in Time Magazine, The New York Times, and People.
Stacey Vanek Smith is the author of Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace. She shows how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their 21st-century work lives and shatter glass ceilings. Highlighting the latest research, tips from successful women across industries, and experiences from her own life, Machiavelli for Women offers tools to combat obstacles in areas including money, promotions, and negotiating.
Known for her unique approach to storytelling across podcasts and radio segments, Stacey Vanek Smith is an engaging speaker on workplace, gender dynamics, business, and economics. Whether speaking at colleges and universities, corporations, federal reserve banks, or industry conferences, Vanek Smith leaves her audiences informed, empowered, and inspired.
A native of Idaho, Stacey Vanek Smith is a graduate of Princeton University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in comparative literature and creative writing. She also holds a master’s in broadcast journalism from Columbia University.
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Raves and Reviews
Praise for Machiavelli For Women
Rich, insightful, and full of big ideas that translate simply into daily practice, Machiavelli For Women is a delicious look at what we have to gain by examining our relationship to power.”
—Sally Helgesen, New York Times bestselling author of How Women Rise
Accessible, funny, clear-eyed, and practical—Machiavelli For Women deserves to be an instant classic.”
—Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author of The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck
Machiavelli For Women is the ultimate battle guide for our times. Brimming with hard-boiled strategies, laced with wit, it’s a must read for every woman ready wield power unapologetically.”
—Claire Shipman, bestselling co-author of The Confidence Code
A succinct and savvy guide to making your way in the world, Machiavelli’s Prince offers a clever conceit to deliver a raft of practical advice for women looking to make their mark and blast off the glass ceiling for good.”
—Suzanne Nossel, CEO of PEN America and author of Dare to Speak
If Machiavelli were alive, he’d undoubtedly tip his hat to Stacey Vanek Smith for totally reimagining his work in a brilliant, entertaining and super-instructive way. The magic of this book is Stacey’s ability to make scholarly material accessible and inspiring. Gender inequity in our culture is one of the enduring challenges of our time. And this book is an outstanding addition to the body of work around how to defeat it.”
—Guy Raz, host and creator, How I Built This
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