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Trust Your Gut (with Lisa Price)

Professional Troublemaker with Luvvie Ajayi Jones

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How Did You Drop Out of City College?

i dropped out of school when i was 16. I didn't know how to process it, because i'd always been perfect at school. My parents thought that the way to manage it was to make me feel embarrassed about what i had done. There were decades when i did not even want to walk on to a college campus. When i became a mom, i decided that with my children, i would focus more on the entire person, and not this perfection thing of a certain grade am. And i'm not going to make you feel less than because you couldn't bring home a 94.

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