“Many Black and brown people grow up with the notion that we need to work twice as hard to get half as far, and in the workplace, we feel the need to overperform due to being overlooked for promotion and advancement opportunities,” career coach Ciera Graham said.
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What motivates me each day is to help and inspire people to build their self-confidence and to encourage and challenge people to think about the world differently. As long as these two things are being achieved, I am happy. I chose entrepreneurship because it allows me to be authentically myself in ways a traditional 9-5 does not. People are able to connect with me as a person, and if I am being anything but myself, I am doing a disserve to my clients.
-Dr. Ciera Graham, Stories of Entrepreneurship Collabs.io.Mag from
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Leadership Snohomish County is celebrating 20 years of cultivating leadership in the county. Featured alumni in the video include Rochelle Lubbers, Ciera Graham, Kurt Hintze, Vicci Hilty, Bill Tsoukalas, Andre Guzman and Chris Knapp.
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