Don't Wait for a Promotion. Take it ft. Sonya Horton
"I promoted myself to COO. See, when you don't want to promote me, I promote my damn self."
Sonya Horton started as a receptionist at a Brooklyn livery cab brokerage in the '90s—answering phones for quarters and dimes, reading BOP policies on the train, learning insurance line by line because there was no ChatGPT, no LinkedIn, no shortcuts. Just work ethic inherited from immigrant parents who said: stand on that line.
Twenty-five years later, she was COO of Mogil Organization. Now she's at The Cody Group—the company founded by the same kid she trained 20 years ago when he was "staring into…
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