Burnt Out

Towanna Burrous is the President of the Coach Diversity Institute that teaches people to become amazing coaches. In this episode, Towanna points out the major issue that people of color and women face when they are trying to move up in the workplace. Supervisors and bosses looked for "demonstrated abilities" instead of their potential.  She used her experiences to become a trend-setter in the mentoring and coaching roles for women, people of color, high school students, and her community. She knows to look for POTENTIAL in people, not just their "demonstrated abilities." The Burnt Out Experience Towanna's experience with feeling burnt out involved a non-profit she created that mentored young girls to move forward, go to college, and to keep following their dreams. She was working SO hard and her mentality was that "if I didn't do it, then who would?" She didn't have enough rest, their was a lot of stress, and people were counting on her.  How did she deal?  Mentorship Towanna also describes her mentors as fri