Curating Career Life Stories: How Did I Get Here? Ep. 81 with Yolanda Webb

Join me for the career reflections of Yolanda Webb, Executive Director of the Office of Adult Aging & Disability Services for the State of Colorado and Principal Advisor at WEBB Advisory Group. A journey guided by a curiosity and passion to understand humanity regardless of whether she’s working in mental health, state services, or her own businesses. Her career progresses until she hits that boss that’s not a fit. Always one to make the best of a situation, she decides it’s time to start that side business, something she’s really passionate about -- shaping the narrative for her teenage daughter about what it means to be young, gifted and black in America. Hear how Yolanda creates a super successful beauty line for African American women, her first entrepreneurial experience. She’s all about people helping people with the work she’s doing at the State, and changing the narrative around diversity, equity and inclusion with her consulting business. What’s served her best: understanding that none of us are perfect, that we are going to make mistakes along the way. Her words of wisdom: “I’m here on this planet for a purpose and I daily seek to fulfill that purpose. That doesn’t mean being stagnate, it means knowing and learning and wanting to embrace the world around me, that’s who I am.”