EPISODE · Oct 22, 2020 · 46 MIN
Wife of the late great FRANK PERDUE - philanthropist Mitzi Perdue
from The Motivation Show · host Eli Marcus
Mitzi Perdue is the wife of the late great legendary Frank Perdue, CEO of Perdue farms, a pop culture icon for his famous TV commercials. If that isn't impressive enough, her father co-founded & was the President of the Sheraton Hotel Chain! A Harvard graduate, public speaker & prolific book author, Mitzi's latest book she co-wrote with none other than Mark Victor Hansen, my ole friend & the great Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author, called How to be Up in Down Times. She is also the author of How to Make Your Family Business Last and who better to be an authority on this? In this interview, she reveals some astonishing stories of how her large family stood the pressures of success over time & how they remained close knit. She talks about what she & her husband decided to do to honor their 20,000 employees. It will have you wishing you were their employee. She also discusses the remarkable decision her father made to show his employees how valued they were.
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Mitzi Perdue is the wife of the late great legendary Frank Perdue, CEO of Perdue farms, a pop culture icon for his famous TV commercials. If that isn't impressive enough, her father co-founded & was the President of the Sheraton Hotel Chain! A Harvard graduate, public speaker & prolific book author, Mitzi's latest book she co-wrote with none other than Mark Victor Hansen, my ole friend & the great Chicken Soup for the Soul co-author, called How to be Up in Down Times. She is also the author of How to Make Your Family Business Last and who better to be an authority on this? In this interview, she reveals some astonishing stories of how her large family stood the pressures of success over time & how they remained close knit. She talks about what she & her husband decided to do to honor their 20,000 employees. It will have you wishing you were their employee. She also discusses the remarkable decision her father made to show his employees how valued they were.
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Wife of the late great FRANK PERDUE - philanthropist Mitzi Perdue
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