Writing "Call & Response" was an incredible journey. The conversations I had with dear friends like Cynt Marshall were so powerful, and sometimes, we got in a few laughs.
You've probably heard "the red hooker shoes" story before? She tells this story from the platform, in media interviews and even in her debut book "You've Been Chosen: Thriving Through the Unexpected."
In fact, it was in my first book No Thanks: 7 Ways to Say I'll Just Include Myself.
But it is important to emphasize, that those were her CHURCH SHOES.
Cynt talks about how leadership lessons from her time in the Pentecostal church taught her to not only unleash her authentic self, but how to unleash it in the people she leads.
After all, "come as you are" is a church mantra.
Are you welcoming of the "hot pink shoes" on your staff?
Or do you make these unicorns keep it "in the car?"
Call & Response: 10 Leadership Lessons from the Black Church is a collaboration between Amistad Books, a HarperCollins imprint and JVL Media, the brainchild of Viola Davis, Julius Tennon and Lavaille Lavette.
Coming soon!
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