A CEO learned to embrace her past — and that helped her make her future (via CNBCMakeIt)
The path to success is rarely a straightforward one, and that has certainly been true for Precious Williams."I grew up in the inner city of St. Louis, Missouri. And I was told from a very young age that I would never make it out of the 'hood," Precious Williams told CNBC's Make It. "As a Black woman, I was told, too fat, too Black, no Ivy League degree, there's no way that I could have a career in media or working with the biggest companies in the world.
"I went through a dark period in my life, where I was homeless and a severe alcoholic," Willams said. "Now I've been clean and sober almost six years, walked out of homelessness almost five years ago, restarted my company Perfect Pitches by Precious, became a world-class, master communicator, international professional speaker, four-time number one best-selling author of business books on pitching.
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