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SECRETS Of The ONLY Black FEMALE CEO · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I want to start.
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  Speaker 2: So, you know, I think your accomplishments shouldn't be minimized
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  Speaker 2: as far as you know, being the CEO of a
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  Speaker 2: company that manages over one point two trillion dollars for sure,
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  Speaker 2: I believe the only black CEO of a fortune one
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  Speaker 2: hundred company. I think there's only been three in history
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to a fortune of one hundred company.
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  Speaker 1: So you're in very rare air and you don't really.
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  Speaker 2: Have many if you don't have any payers, So what
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  Speaker 2: is your journey to get to where you are now?
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  Speaker 1: And they used to work for Chase and you know
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  Speaker 1: a couple other institutions.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of young people in the audience
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure in a lot of times they hear
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  Speaker 2: you know these things, But what are the actionable items?
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  Speaker 1: What's your path that you took to become a CEO
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  Speaker 1: of Craft?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, first, it's just such a privilege to b.
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  Speaker 3: These two amazing men that are making impact around the
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  Speaker 3: world to ensure that millions of people can earn their leisure.
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  Speaker 3: You all give them another round of apply.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking.
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  Speaker 3: In order to make impact, you have to disrupt, and
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  Speaker 3: if you're not disrupting, then you're not shifting the game.
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  Speaker 3: And I just have a lot of gratitude to see
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  Speaker 3: what you all are doing, and it's inspiring to see
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  Speaker 3: how you are connecting with young people and giving them
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  Speaker 3: a different narrative on how to make sure that they
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  Speaker 3: can grab the bag and keep the bag and see
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  Speaker 3: the bag compound. So, in terms of my story, I
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  Speaker 3: want to take it back because I think it's important
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  Speaker 3: for all of you to have context, especially in this environment.
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  Speaker 3: I know, at a very young age it was clear
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  Speaker 3: to me that I am on the shoulders of giants.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that my intellect, my passion, and my vision
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  Speaker 3: was not necessarily sufficient to be here. There had to
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  Speaker 3: be so many people that paved the way and cracked
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  Speaker 3: ceilings for me to be in this seat. And so
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  Speaker 3: I am absolutely grounded in the understanding. And I like
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  Speaker 3: to say that it doesn't escape me in corporate America
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  Speaker 3: that it was the cooks, the janitors, and the secretaries
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  Speaker 3: that introduced my gender in my melanin to corporate America.
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  Speaker 3: And so the reason why I share that context is
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  Speaker 3: in the words of Otis Brown. People may see your glory,
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  Speaker 3: but they don't know your story. It's important to make
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  Speaker 3: sure that you see people and understand that there were
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  Speaker 3: people that may not have this amazing rented title that
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  Speaker 3: paved the way for me to exist. That's less than one.
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  Speaker 3: Be grounded in contexts, especially in your history, and let
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  Speaker 3: your history fuel your passion in terms of how I
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  Speaker 3: got here. That's step one, Step two two is Otis
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  Speaker 3: and Rosie Brown. When you have a father who worked
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  Speaker 3: in a warehouse, scanning boxes and driving trucks, and you
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  Speaker 3: have a mother who's an educator, when you understand that
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  Speaker 3: you are first generation integration.
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  Speaker 1: My parents grew up.
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  Speaker 3: In the segregated South, but Otis Brown told me at
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  Speaker 3: a very young age to reach for the moon because
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  Speaker 3: even if you miss, you would be among the stars.
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  Speaker 3: This is a man that scanned boxes so in order
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  Speaker 3: to be in this seat. Not understanding what that fully meant,
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  Speaker 3: I just knew that my dad had an expectation that
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  Speaker 3: he didn't even understand what that could realize. Values My
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  Speaker 3: mother angered me and my character and my faith and
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  Speaker 3: making sure that I understood that you should see everyone,
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  Speaker 3: and how can I only always look for someone that
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  Speaker 3: has a rented title when the people that inspired me
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  Speaker 3: grew up in the segregated South, and when a man
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  Speaker 3: who is my hero did not have a college education.
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  Speaker 3: The reason why I share this as it relates to
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  Speaker 3: my business journey is because so many times, when you
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  Speaker 3: reach a level of success, you tend to start your
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  Speaker 3: journey with your first career job, or you start your
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  Speaker 3: journey with where you graduated. But I want to start
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  Speaker 3: my journey with the truth. And the truth is I'm
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  Speaker 3: on the shoulders of giants. The truth is a man
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  Speaker 3: who did not have an education but was brilliant has
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  Speaker 3: a lot to do with Why am I here today?
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  Speaker 3: Fast forward? I love sports. Sports played a really important
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  Speaker 3: role in my life. You know, on any given day,
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  Speaker 3: everyone plays a role grit, tenacity, teamwork, perseverance, and so
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  Speaker 3: this mindset of teamwork really played a role in my
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  Speaker 3: life as someone who played basketball and played volleyball and
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  Speaker 3: really was surrounded by brothers that played sports. So what
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  Speaker 3: shifted for me the power of information. There is a
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  Speaker 3: woman and man by the name of mister and Ms Patterson,
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  Speaker 3: and they told me about in Roads. Anyone familiar with Inroads, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I am a product of Inroads. For those of you
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  Speaker 3: who do not know, in Roads is a program that
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  Speaker 3: provides students exposure to corporate America, especially underrepresented groups. And
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  Speaker 3: so without the power of information, I never even heard
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  Speaker 3: the word corporate America. And so I share that as
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  Speaker 3: an insight because you all are getting information every day
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  Speaker 3: at your university. Give it away freely. The power of
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  Speaker 3: information led me to being in this chair. The second
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  Speaker 3: piece that changed the course of my life within information
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  Speaker 3: was the power of advocacy. So with Inroads, they basically
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  Speaker 3: interview you. Companies then decide they want one intern or ten.
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  Speaker 3: And a company by the name of Fanny May that's
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  Speaker 3: in the housing sector, had one intern. And when they
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  Speaker 3: interviewed me in a host of other students, they chose
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  Speaker 3: their one intern.
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  Speaker 1: And who do you think it was? Who?
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  Speaker 3: No, her name was Sarah, But a woman by the
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  Speaker 3: name of Valerie Manning, who was there to interview students,
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  Speaker 3: went back and said these words that changed my life.
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  Speaker 3: But there's this other girl. The reason, yes, the reason
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  Speaker 3: why I share this story is because Valerie Manning did
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  Speaker 3: not have this massive title. You did not get extra
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  Speaker 3: credit for saying, let me give you another intern. But
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  Speaker 3: for whatever reason, Valerie Manning advocated for me when I
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  Speaker 3: didn't even understand what advocacy was at and because Valerie
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  Speaker 3: Manning said, but there's this other girl, Fanny May added
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  Speaker 3: the second intern and that was my introduction into corporate America.
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  Speaker 3: And I worked there for many years and then an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity came to join JP Morgan Chase, and so I
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  Speaker 3: joined JP Morgan Chase. I had many jobs. I moved,
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  Speaker 3: starting in mortgage because that was my passion.
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  Speaker 1: I moved around.
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  Speaker 3: I ended up running the entire mortgage mortgage sales team,
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  Speaker 3: and then I was tapped to be the CEO of Auto,
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  Speaker 3: first African American woman or first African American to run
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  Speaker 3: a line of business at the company. I then moved
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  Speaker 3: into becoming the CEO of the Consumer Bank, and then
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity came for me to lead TIAA. And so
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  Speaker 3: the message here is information. Give it away freely, because
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  Speaker 3: you could be given information to a young girl that
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  Speaker 3: would become the first woman CEO of TIAA. You could
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  Speaker 3: be given information to someone that just continue to make history.
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  Speaker 3: Give away information and then advocacy. Do not wait for
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  Speaker 3: your rented title to feel like you have power. You
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  Speaker 3: have power to advocate and always be okay advocating even
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  Speaker 3: when someone is not asking for you to advocate, or
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  Speaker 3: may not even understand it. You may be the reason
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  Speaker 3: that history is made, and so for that I'm incredibly grateful,
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  Speaker 3: and here I am today.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, yes yes