Soul Searching with Tionka Humphrey: Obstacles Don’t Block the Path, They Become Your Story

Soul Searching with Tionka Humphrey: Obstacles Don’t Block the Path, They Become Your Story

We wrap up this pandemic season’s soul searching interviews with a big dose of inspiration to help us develop leadership and resilience.

Tionka gives tools to develop confidence. Her goal to become CFO is rooted in helping others “I want to be a beacon of hope for my community because we don’t see a lot of Black CFOs. How you speak can influence the world. I knew I needed practice to develop that necessary skill.” She knows “practice makes perfect, so I say yes to almost everything.” She recently gave a large presentation at nonprofit Year Up and transformed that nervous energy to be of service to the audience. She shares her pep talk “the audience is rooting for me” instead of “what if I mess up” to overcome fear of public speaking and silence our inner critic.

She shares her philosophy that “obstacles don’t block the path, they become your story” on how she reframed the challenge of an unplanned pregnancy in college and reframed “I can’t” to “how can I?” She also learned that “motherhood and leadership go hand in hand. I enjoy seeing people become what they want to be.”

Let’s use these best practices to be servant leaders too!

Free resources to find joy at work and life 

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