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Jamilia Grier

I came to interview her. She coached me instead.


I sat down to interview Petra thinking I was the host. Twenty minutes in, she was the one coaching me. She'd come on What Black Women Know — the podcast I host inside She Leads Here, where Black women experts teach what they've actually lived — to talk about leadership. Then, mid-sentence, she turned a question back on me: if you'd grown up without the rules you were handed, who would you be? I answered before I could stop myself. A dancer. An artist. Something freer. I've had a thousand...
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