The Leadership That Shines Podcast
Jun 10, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 20 segments
Career growth in leadership does not begin with a title or a plan. For Courtney Intersimone, it began with saying yes to things she was not sure she could do and discovering that figuring it out was…
Courtney IntersimoneGuestNatalie DavisHostNo, Courtney, I think this is this is huge, especially growing up in a household where your parents were educators.
And when you get into this space, I mean, you probably went in a direction that was nowhere on their radar.
Honestly, Natalie, you laugh, but I mean, this goes to show you some of my own neurosis.
and not to make it sound, not that my parents were like, you know, martyrs or anything like that, but they were more drawn to doing things that touched and impacted other people's lives, you know, less so than a financial reward.
And I think I interpreted that as, well, I shouldn't really, yeah, I should only care about making a difference for people and not, you know, like caring about money is like a problem, even though they never quite said that, but that was my interpretation.
And point being that when I went and took this job, at a bank on wall street you know like i felt like i was like the devil incarnate you know like they were gonna be like
but all i'm saying is like that's how far it was from my you know awareness i mean when i was a senior in college um You know, I was at a school where a lot of the big name firms would come on campus.
You know, again, this is many years ago, but to recruit for analyst programs and whatnot.
And I just remember seeing people around me, you know, everyone's in a frenzy.
No, Courtney, I think this is this is huge, especially growing up in a household where your parents were educators.
And when you get into this space, I mean, you probably went in a direction that was nowhere on their radar.
Honestly, Natalie, you laugh, but I mean, this goes to show you some of my own neurosis.
and not to make it sound, not that my parents were like, you know, martyrs or anything like that, but they were more drawn to doing things that touched and impacted other people's lives, you know, less so than a financial reward.
And I think I interpreted that as, well, I shouldn't really, yeah, I should only care about making a difference for people and not, you know, like caring about money is like a problem, even though they never quite said that, but that was my interpretation.
And point being that when I went and took this job, at a bank on wall street you know like i felt like i was like the devil incarnate you know like they were gonna be like
but all i'm saying is like that's how far it was from my you know awareness i mean when i was a senior in college um You know, I was at a school where a lot of the big name firms would come on campus.
You know, again, this is many years ago, but to recruit for analyst programs and whatnot.
And I just remember seeing people around me, you know, everyone's in a frenzy.
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