The Breakthrough Hiring Show: Modern Recruiting, AI, and Talent Strategy
Mar 19, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 19 segments
Rebecca Palmer lived in multiple places growing up, an experience that taught her to adapt fast and focus on finishing what she starts. Those instincts now shape her work as co-founder and head of…
You said that that was like formative because you developed certain skills based off those experiences of moving around.
And so I saw my parents model just like a really great attitude and approach to efficiency to deal with that.
Because if it takes you a month or two to pack up and another month to unpack, like you really can't dawdle or you'll just be living in boxes and stress like constantly when you move that much.
They have a really no nonsense attitude about like, Hey, what are the things that need to be done? You can't, live in an unfinished state all the time you just have to do it don't give yourself excuses do it and do it right now um and so that translates not just like packing up rooms but also like reply to that text do it right now book the dentist appointment do it right now choose the house reply to that email talk to that person at work like just do it right now um no excuses really and it uh it feels funny like i don't know if other people are like this but it feels like like a mental mode of extreme optimization.
Like I'm always thinking about how to optimize things and I have a hard time not doing this.
So like if I am making dinner, I literally am thinking about how many times I am opening and closing the refrigerator.
Or like when I'm drinking water, I'm like counting the number of gulps I drink.
uh, my mom would do this thing and she would tidy up the house where we each had a stair on the staircase.
And like, if we left our stuff around, she would put our stuff on that stair.
And if you are going up the stairs to your room, you better grab your stuff that's going to your room because you're going anyway.
You said that that was like formative because you developed certain skills based off those experiences of moving around.
And so I saw my parents model just like a really great attitude and approach to efficiency to deal with that.
Because if it takes you a month or two to pack up and another month to unpack, like you really can't dawdle or you'll just be living in boxes and stress like constantly when you move that much.
They have a really no nonsense attitude about like, Hey, what are the things that need to be done? You can't, live in an unfinished state all the time you just have to do it don't give yourself excuses do it and do it right now um and so that translates not just like packing up rooms but also like reply to that text do it right now book the dentist appointment do it right now choose the house reply to that email talk to that person at work like just do it right now um no excuses really and it uh it feels funny like i don't know if other people are like this but it feels like like a mental mode of extreme optimization.
Like I'm always thinking about how to optimize things and I have a hard time not doing this.
So like if I am making dinner, I literally am thinking about how many times I am opening and closing the refrigerator.
Or like when I'm drinking water, I'm like counting the number of gulps I drink.
uh, my mom would do this thing and she would tidy up the house where we each had a stair on the staircase.
And like, if we left our stuff around, she would put our stuff on that stair.
And if you are going up the stairs to your room, you better grab your stuff that's going to your room because you're going anyway.
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