All of You

Hello, doctor e here. And I wanted to share a little bit about my personal experience. I am the product of a single parent teenage household. My mother had me when she was 17. We grew up in public housing. We were on welfare. We used food stamps. And through all of that experience, it never dawned on me that it was actually helping to shape who I would become and how I would view obstacles and barriers and challenges and what it instilled in me to keep pushing forward and to recognize the level of the challenge and to step up and to meet that challenge.

So I want to encourage you today to use all of you. Use all of your experiences. Use all of those good, bad, and even in between, because those experiences are helping you become the person, the leader, the transformative individual within an organization that you have within you to do so. Don't shy away from the struggles. Don't shy away from sharing your experiences. Remember to look through and glean how those experiences are helping you to become, are helping you to build, are helping you to broaden, and in all of those aspects, you'll begin to see, regardless of the experience.

It's a learning opportunity, it's a growing opportunity, and it's a sharing opportunity. So the more you're able to talk with people, the more you're able to allow folks to learn from your experiences. Those experiences are not for naught. So think about it that way. How can you help someone? How can you be of help to someone? Because all of those experiences are helping you. So don't be ashamed. And don't shy away from using all of.