Leadership strategist Edna White, creator of the Keeping It Real On Purpose podcast and Wounded to Wonderful newsletter, discusses the culture shock of moving from Alabama to Long Island as a child, her nervous breakdown in her 40s, and her decision to teach English in China. Living in China, she climbed the Great Wall and sampled tarantula and scorpion, returning to New York a changed woman ready to help others. She is the founder of Second Chance, Inc. and lives on Long Island in New York.
00:00 Moving Along Introduction to Edna White
03:34 Black Girl Growing Up in Alabama and Long Island
07:31 Leadership
10:19 Finding Your Original Identity
12:10 Embracing Your Emotions
13:40 Meshing Emotions and Leadership
18:07 Edna’s Gift of Clairsentience and for Helping Others
19:42 Making the Wrong Mistakes
20:12 The Solitude of Home and Canoeing
21:06 Learning to Meditate
22:23 Teaching and Traveling in China
24:16 Walking the Great Wall of China
27:16 Zip Line Down the Mountain
28:13 Arriving in China
30:17 Culture Shock in China
30:58 Real Chinese Food
33:58 A New Leaf, Writing and Coaching Back in New York
34:10 Eye-Opening Lessons About Communism and Religion in China
36:53 Learning Different Kinds of Meditation in China
37:27 Can We All Be Leaders?
39:51 How to Contact Edna
Contact Edna:
At Edna’s website, you can sign up to get more information about her projects:
Podcast: Keeping It Real on Purpose
Newsletter: Wounded to Wonderful
Book (not an affiliate link): The You Project: Uncover the Real You and Create a Better Life
CREDITS
Host and creator: Christi Cassidy
Contact: christi@movingalongpodcast.com
Artwork by Phyllis Busell
Music by Eve’s Blue.
Post-production help from Auphonic.com.
Show notes written with assistance from Descript and Claude.ai.
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