A short YouTube video segment in which Sonya Shelton describes how growing up with entrepreneur parents shaped her leadership development. She explains that, although she never planned to start her own business, listening to her parents’ difficult leadership conversations at the dinner table taught her skills ‘by osmosis’ that helped her advance into leadership roles throughout her career.
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Actually grew up with entrepreneur parents, and I realized that I learned a lot from them by osmosis, although growing up, I didn't. I never thought that I would have my own business. That's not. That's not the direction that I wanted to go. But they would have conversations at the dinner table in the evening that were the hardest conversations, usually about leadership. So things that they couldn't talk about or didn't want to talk about in the office that were, you know, more confidential, more people oriented. So I got to hear them go through through these difficult situations with people and didn't realize how much I learned from them until as I started working. I kept moving up into leadership positions every time I would get a job because of what I learned from them. I actually grew up with entrepreneur parents, and I realized that I learned a lot from them by osmosis. Although growing up, I never thought that I would have my own business. That's not the direction that I wanted to go. But they would have conversations at the dinner table in the evening that were the hardest conversations, usually about leadership. So things that they couldn't talk about or didn't want to talk about in the office that were, you know, more confidential, more people oriented. So I got to hear them go through these difficult situations with people and didn't realize how much I learned from them until as I started working, I kept moving up into leadership positions every time I would get a job because of what I learned from them.