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Hannah Awonuga - Founder & CEO of Illume Executive Consulting, an award-winning cultural transformation and inclusion consultant - shares her testimony, strength, and faith including growing up in a dual religion home; finding Jesus when she was homeless at fifteen; the cultural divide within her family; how her family difficulties inform her own parenting; turning back to the Church for safety; the surprising offer for her first job; how someone seeing her beyond her roughness changed her life; her rise at Barclays from cashier to Global Director; the importance of seeing the person for the person; knowing “who you are and whose you are”; reflecting the communities we serve; the commerciality of inclusion; Employee Resource Groups (ERG); being scared and excited for the unknown of what’s next; landing a publishing deal in the midst of heartache and grief; shedding titles and positions to walk in God’s calling; how music has helped her through the seasons; “The Illusion of Inclusion”; and so much more!

https://www.hannahawonuga.com/

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Emily Kile - Founder & CEO of Workzbe - shares her beauty from ashes story including growing up going to a Baptist church; losing her virginity at 13; pregnant out of wedlock/in the south/ teaching Bible study; the impact of Psalms 51; how her shame interfered with God’s love; an emergency C-section; learning to love yourself; starting her own company; looking for God in the valleys; how God keeps giving her chapters for her books; “Bitter to Better”; her “stupid tax”; having aphantasia; what gratitude does in the body; movement/marriage/silence; be a human being rather than a human always working; WISE; being HOT; and so much more!

https://www.workzbe.com/

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Bitter to Better book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FZDXMWR5?tag=&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1

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Judith Tutin - Irish-born/Cornwall-based Visual Artist & Teacher - shares her faith and her gift including growing up in a Catholic family in Ireland; how having a strong faith instilled in her allowed her to withstand Catholic scandal; how her older brothers, and spending time alone in Rome, brought her back to her faith; her parents faith example and influence on her; the meditation of praying the rosary; her passion for drawing and art as a young child; how music compliments her art and our mutual admiration for The Smiths and Morrissey; how the decaying buildings in Rome links to nature; how overthinking art can get in the way of enjoying art; an appreciation for Rothko; a vocational compromise with her parents that led to teaching art; how she decides what to put on the canvas; how her painting affects her faith; the importance of beautiful churches; if she could own one piece of art in the world, what would it be and why; and so much more!

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https://www.judithtutinart.com/

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