A speaker shares how working multiple jobs while broke in college and grad school taught her that leadership is a learnable skill. She argues that learning to influence people and build relationships accelerates your progress, and points to historical leaders who overcame hardship to prove it.
You ever have hope in your life and you do want to take progress, but you're broke. I was one of those kids who went to college and had to work three jobs all throughout college and grad school. When you have no money, but you have tons of inspiration to change, that's when it's hard to keep that positive persistence in progress. Now I'm in grad school and I fall in love with the topic of leadership. I felt like if you can learn how to influence with other people, you can way faster progress in life. One of your ultimate teachings to yourself is to be comfortable with other people, but also to know how to build a relationship with them where you lead something. When you start studying leadership, you start meeting all these great leaders in history and you find out they were broke, they were confused, and then something switched in their life. A level of faith or a level of progress that turned them into history makers. And it would inspire me. I wanted to get out of the town I was in. I wanted to live a bigger life. I wanted to have money. I wanted to make an impact.
