Yemi Penn is a Nigerian, British-Australian leader who has a portfolio career – she is an author, TedX speaker, Mechanical Engineer, PhD candidate, Consultant, business owner and serial entrepreneur. She talks about being okay with failure and really giving herself the permission to dream and execute ideas – something interestingly - we both found outside of our home countries. You will hear Yemi’s journey of discovery to find her voice and to use it to empower others. We talk about those moments many people of colour have experienced when they are a minority in numbers in the room and Yemi wonderfully makes the distinction – not being a minority in Power, but just in numbers – love this distinction. You know those moments, when someone refers to visiting your home country or having a friend who is from your home country or liking the food from your culture. Yemi shares some key techniques of understanding your body and mind’s reaction, finding your superpower of reading the intent [she beautifully calls it the intuitive library] and coming up with a ‘clap back’. Yemi shares a sneaky peak into her PhD topic of Trauma and how we hide it, share it, understand it, and how we can transform pain into power if we learn how to. She shares that traumatic events in our lives ultimately shape how we show up in the world, whether it be at work or at home. Time to get comfortable with the uncomfortable and bring a little humanity back into the spaces we operate. Thank you Yemi is was such a pleasure.