Say It Skillfully® OUR VOICES – Marques Ogden: Own it, reinvent

Say It Skillfully® is a show that helps you to benefit from Molly Tschang’s expert guidance on the best possible ways to speak your mind at work in a positive and productive manner. In Episode 61, the 8th feature of OUR VOICES, NFL pro turned entrepreneur Marques Ogden shares his remarkable story of diversity on many levels. With a supreme role model in his father, he opens up about a fractured relationship with his mother & the reality of going from plenty at home to deliberately overeating when at friends’ because his own fridge was bare. Marques talks of early struggles at Howard Univ—tough love when his GPA was 1.8 made all the difference (and a 3.8)—the business of football, and how arrogance in his 1st company led to the lowest of lows…just $400 left to his name. Marques tells it like it is; self-doubt bent him, but never broke him. He encourages all to realize that little things can go a long way to create a society in which all are safe, seen & heard, and our true, best selves.