Michelle Obama in Vancouver! Reflections & Lessons on Leadership

I have always been proud of my story. You have to believe in your own story. When you doubt, I hope you remember me and my story. I hope you remember that there was a girl called Michelle Robinson Obama. She grew up poor. She didn’t start out going to the best schools but she worked hard. She did good and had working class parents who had the foresight to take out loans to send her to the best colleges. Education was the foundation that prepared her for all she became…

 Paraphrase from “A conversation with Former U.S First Lady Michelle Obama"

I had the privilege of attending one of Michelle Obama’s two talks in Vancouver on Thursday February 15, 2018. It was an amazing experience all around and for me, the former first lady’s talk struck close chords to the issues I care deeply about – leadership, identity, storytelling/narrative and social change. Here are my paraphrases of some of the nuggets I took away...

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