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Robyn O'Brien

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born

The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.robynobrien.com/

genre

Cooking, Food & Wine, Politics, Parenting & Families

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I was raised in Houston, Texas on meat and potatoes with a fair share of Doritos and Ding Dongs thrown in. I was not a foodie.

My background is motherhood and finance. I earned an MBA from Rice University on a full scholarship and graduated as the top woman in my class. I went on to work in the investment world, jockeying with the gang on Wall Street, as an equity analyst where I covered the food industry and the tech industry - meeting everyone from Martha Stewart, to Meg Whitman, to Henry Paulson, to the management team of Whole Foods along the way.

During those years, I learned a thing or two about “enhancing profitability and shareholder value” and “managing earnings and expectations”. And how management's primary responsibility is to the...more

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Books by Robyn O'Brien

Average rating: 3.77 · 349 ratings · 139 reviews · 2 distinct works

	The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It by Robyn O'Brien, Rachel Kranz 3.77 avg rating — 349 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food is Making us Sick -- And What We Can Do About It by Robyn O'Brien, Rachel Kranz 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:

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Quotes by Robyn O'Brien

“So don't stop moving forward. For a while, you may feel as though you're taking two steps forward, one step back. And there may be some personal heartache along the way. But when you look your little ones in the eye, you will find your voice and take a stand for them. We are their voices. And we must have the courage to stand up for them, whatever the odds or however powerful the opposition might be.”
― Robyn O'Brien, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick - And What We Can Do About It

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