Why Bozoma Saint John Marketing Director Wants You to Be More Selfish

Marketing Executive Bozoma Saint John She never saw herself as the type to air her personal problems in the office. Then she received the call that her husband Peter St. John He was dying.

At that moment in 2013, when her mother-in-law asked her to come to the hospital, she wasn’t aware of the details — that doctors had told her partner of more than a decade that his cancer was advanced — only that he had received some news. “I didn’t know what the hell she was going to say,” Bozoma shared in her exclusive interview with E! News, “But I knew it wouldn’t be good.”

In a daze, the then head of PepsiCo’s music and entertainment division walked into a colleague’s office. “Under normal circumstances,” the mother of a 14-year-old said On the ceiling I continued, she would never. “You feel like you’re oversharing, because of TMI. But it’s like there’s no other choice. You’ve really hit bottom.”