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Trudi Lebron is an entrepreneur, coach, consultant, podcaster, and speaker working with social impact leaders, and transformative coaches who want to increase the impact of their efforts. Trudi is the creator and head coach of BeABoss a personal and professional development program for Millennial Women of Color, works with entrepreneurs to help them start social impact businesses, and supports social impact executives with leadership coaching, strategic planning, and creating systems and practices to bring alignment between your personal values and the way you work.\nI asked Trudi to come on the show because I knew her story around motherhood as well as the deep impact of her professional work.\xa0I have been dying to interview her for a couple years now - and I can tell you this conversation was worth the wait!\nListen in to hear Trudi share:\n\nHer experience of dropping out of high school and becoming a teen mom to two babies by age 16\n\nHow her traits of being stubborn and making her own rules served her well as a very young mom - and now as she has paved her way to multiple layers of success in education and business\n\nHow she can see the privilege she carried as a teen mom and why seeing all our layers of privilege is so important\n\nHow attaining her GED all on her own was the most impactful lesson of her life\n\nHow the welfare system tried to make her choose between food stamps and getting her college education - and how the system is designed to keep people in the margins down\n\nHow her experience as a Latina teen mom fueled her entire career\n\nHow she constantly chose to capitalize on her strengths in order to build success\n\nHow she uses discernment around her role as a mother to Black sons vs business consultant to lead conversations around her justice, diversity, equity & inclusion work\n\nHow she was able to listen to the urgent needs of her industry to show up & serve in a completely transformational way in 2020\n\nWhy we need to move from consumption of race education to taking action toward equity\n\nLinks mentioned:\n\nJoin my free business training: 3 Essential Building Blocks To Growing A Successful Business\n\n\nConnect with Trudi\n\nAttend Trudi\u2019s May event, Show Up & Serve\n\nTrudi\u2019s podcast: Business Remixed\n\n\nTrudi\u2019s podcast with Weeze Doran: That\u2019s Not How That Works\n\n\nTrudi on Instagram\n\nThank you to our sponsors:\n\nAna Luisa: Go treat yourself and your loved ones and use my code SHAMELESS to get 10% off at https://www.analuisa.com/shameless.\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices