I’m a Caribbean girl, born and raised in the beautiful island of Trinidad and Tobago, specifically Trinidad. I feel really blessed that I was raised there. I was surrounded by achievement and lived a generally happy middle-class life. The women who raised me were strong, loyal, smart and beautiful. My dad passed away and I was eight years old at the time. But my mom’s village, her family and her friends surrounded us. My aunt helped raise us and taught me to pray – give faith as a gift to your kids; it is so powerful when life’s challenges inevitably show up. I can’t begin to name all the people who blessed us, and I am so grateful. This allowed me to work toward my goals and begin to create achievement in my life so I could live well. Their investment in me and who I was becoming, allowed me to be a high achiever at school, and then a highly successful at one of the big 4 accounting firms, and then excel when I moved to banking and without knowing it, I began to tie achievement to my self-worth.

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