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Coach Dora Mendez
Welcome back, Amazing Leaders to another powerful episode of Building Leadership Community Podcast. I'm your host Coach Dora Mendez, and today's conversation is one you absolutely cannot miss. We're sitting down with a leader whose work has transformed the lives of thousands of young people. A champion of educational equity who has dedicated over 20 years to opening doors that were once closed, and a voice that has reached millions around the world.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Our guest today is educator, advocate and visionary leader Dr. Danielle R. Moss Cox. By the end of this conversation, you will walk away with a renewed sense of purpose, a deeper courage to stand in your truth. And a powerful reminder that your voice, your story, and your presence matters more than you even realize. This episode is your boost to rise boldly, unapologetically, and with the conviction that change begins with you.
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Coach Dora Mendez
So settle in. Take a breath and get ready as we roll. Credits.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Hello and welcome to Building Leadership Community Podcast. I'm your host, Dora Mendez. I am the founder and CEO of Coach Dora LLC. Our guests will be entrepreneurs, small business owners, and community leaders that drive social impact. It can be lonely at the top, but it doesn't have to be.
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Coach Dora Mendez
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Coach Dora Mendez
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Coach Dora Mendez
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Coach Dora Mendez
And I'm just thrilled that she's here today. She brings over 20 years of experience in college access and education. She is a leader at Oliver Scholars, a nonprofit that identifies high achieving Black and Latinx students. For admission to selective, independent schools and supports them and supports them through graduation from competitive colleges. A national advocate for educational equity. Dr. Moss Cox has served in senior leadership roles, including CEO of Harlem Educational Activity Fund for ten years.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Doctor Cox has acquired numerous accolades and awards, including a literary award for Love With Accountability, and her 2018 TED Talk on Students’ Potential has been viewed over 2 million times. We have a global celebrity here on the show. Danielle Holds an MA and EdM and a Doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, and a BA from Swarthmore College. Today, Dr. Cox is here to pour into you.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Let's bring her to the stage.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Hi, Danielle.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Hi Dora. Thank you for having me.
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Coach Dora Mendez
I'm so happy. So I. You know, because I know you just as Danielle, but I want to, pay respect. All that hard work to get that doctor. So how how do you best like to be referred to? Okay. Danielle. Really, I loved I loved your TED Talk. You know, I have, I have I was one of the two millions who watched it, and I watched it over and over again in the middle.
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Coach Dora Mendez
And I just want to share with you that I actually, I teach at, a local college here in New York, and I have played it for my students.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Oh my gosh, thank you.
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Coach Dora Mendez
So, it it was I watched. Yeah. No, no, you it's it's amazing. So I want before I turn it over to you, you know, our listeners and viewers, of course, want to hear from you. I thought I want to share with them that we have a we really have a personal connection. And I, I think the way we connected was I was on a board and we were looking for, fantastic CEO.
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Coach Dora Mendez
And of course, we hired you. And I left quickly after that because I got pregnant with my daughter. So she's 11 now. So I think it's been like, 12, 13 years. And, and while we had, like, a formal, we had, like a formal kind of business relationship, I think through the years, you I've really come to know you as a friend, as a confidant, as an advisor.
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Coach Dora Mendez
You gave me great advice on my own children's education. I was like, oh my God, I got a call. I don't know, I don't know what to. I'm not sure what to do. And I called you and you were just so gracious and you're so busy and you just made the time to give me some great advice for my own children's education.
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Coach Dora Mendez
And I just appreciate you so much.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Oh, thank you so much. I'm glad that, you thought of me when you were, you know, making important decisions. So, And I just want to say congratulations on Coach Dora and all that you're accomplishing with this business. Of course, you've come and spoken at the, Oliver Scholars community, and we thank you for pouring into our young people and our staff.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And, you know, it's just one of these full circle moments I've watched you build this business into something incredible and viable. As, Dominican woman leader in New York City. So I want to make sure we give you your flowers as well.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Thank you so much. See, this is this is. I'm just going to have people who who give me flowers on my show. So let's start. We ask all of our guests to share their unique leadership stories. So I want to turn the mic over so folks can hear from you about your unique leadership story.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
You know, this is this is a really hard question because, in many ways, I didn't like grow up saying I want to be a leader. But really, it was adults who were pouring into me throughout my growing up, my development, my journey, who kind of came to me and were like, you're going to lead this.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
We know you can do it. Let us know if you have any questions. And that kind of experience started probably when I was about, 13. And so I understand that leadership doesn't happen in a vacuum. It really happens because a community shows up for a young person. And, gives you a vision of yourself that you may not have, seen as part of your trajectory.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
But I'm going to share something about leadership and the importance of leading with integrity and empathy and how that has worked for me. In my career and in my life. So a lot of people have asked me over the years, how did you end up doing a TED Talk? And I think this is actually, a leadership story for me.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
So I did not know. First of all, I had not assumed that having a TED Talk would ever be part of my trajectory. It wasn't something that was on my bucket list. But I certainly assumed that it was some sort of competitive process where, you know, you had to apply. You had to be a really good public speaker, or maybe you had to send in reels like I had no idea.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And I was at a difficult juncture in my career professionally. Just trying to figure out what was next for me. And I happened to check my personal email address, one day, and there is a message from someone saying that they work for the Ted organization. And would I be interested in doing a TED Talk?
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Coach Dora Mendez
Oh, so you got recruited.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
So. But it's just like. Like I had not applied. Like, where's the application? What do I have to do? At that particular moment, I was, in a in a stage of professional exploration. Let me just call it that. And so I responded. I said, well, the first thing I said was, you know, I'm not the CEO of this organization.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And so she replied back, like, since I don't even know where you work. So it's just like, oh.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Okay.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And then she said. So I said, well, what do I have to do? Like, what do I have to send in? She was like, you just have to say yes. And so I'm thinking like, this seems like a trick. But of course, she, you know, you want to kind of seize the moment. And so I said, yes.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And, if you do, talk through the Ted organizational organization directly, you're assigned kind of a coach. So Ted X events are local events that are locally sponsored and kind of licensed the Ted brand in order to deliver their content. And then Ted has another, you know, pathway where they kind of, like, manage the talk and coordinate and work with you on the drafts and help you kind of get really concise about your message.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And so that was the route that, that I took. But here's the story of how they, found me. So many years ago, one of my staff members, at an organization I was leading was doing her dissertation, and it was on education. She was actually, I think, a TC student, and she said, can can I use this organization for my dissertation?
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And would you be willing to be interviewed? And give me access to certain data and all this kind of thing? So of course, I want to see, other folks win, right? And so I was like, absolutely, this is exciting. Like, maybe we'll learn something more about our practice as a result of your research. So fast forward.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
She's a dynamo. She gets her PhD. And then she comes back and says, you know, I have an opportunity to publish my dissertation as a book. Which I thought was, you know, just as exciting. I was like, oh, my God, congratulations. This is wonderful. And, you know, she promised that, those who had participated in the study would remain anonymous in the book.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Which was good because, you know, we were.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Let's just have because. Yeah, you have to be candid when you when you do those, when you do those things and interviews.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And so she releases the book. It becomes, a staple for many youth development, programs, in academia. But then a lot of people in the sector also, got their hands on the book. And so what happened was, there was something that I said in the book. Right. Which is not attributed directly to me, that caught the eye of the curation team at Ted.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
So basically, there's a curation team that scours books, interviews, organizations globally, looking for what they feel are unique ideas. And so they initially were offering her the TED Talk, and she said, well, actually, that was not those are not my words. That was those were my executive directors words. And let me give you her contact information.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And so once they had my name, you know, then they do their own due diligence. So by the time they were reaching out to me, they had already seen interviews that I had done. They had read articles that I had published over the course of my career. You know, they had vetted me. And so that's why when I got the email and it was kind of like, well, what do I have to do?
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Dr. Danielle Cox
They already had all the information that they needed. And I say that this is a leadership story because how you treat people when you are in leadership matters because there was plenty of opportunity for her to parlay that phone call from Ted into an opportunity for herself. But because she's a person of integrity. But also because I had taken the opportunity to pour into her and to nurture her and support her, educational aspirations when she was on my team.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
She had no problem, connecting me with that organization. And I have to say. Right. I think we've all had bosses who we had been in a similar situation, just based on our personal interactions with those leaders. We would have been, let's just say, less inclined to create a platform for those leaders.
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Coach Dora Mendez
I, I love how you equate your leadership story that you're sharing with, really supporting someone else, sort of lifting as you climb or what's the saying?
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Like that's it.
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Coach Dora Mendez
I just, I feel that's that's just like. That's tremendous. And,
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Dr. Danielle Cox
But I.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Like this idea. Right?
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Dr. Danielle Cox
How you treat people matters. How you show up in every space matters. And maybe, it doesn't. You don't see that the extent to which it matters in that moment. Right. But you don't know who on your team is going to go off to be the head of some foundation or to be in a position to, to to kind of help you along in your professional journey.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
So, so that was something, that I took away from it. But it's also the lesson is someone's always watching.
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Coach Dora Mendez
I love that I think that's.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Great on the internet. You don't know who's reading what you've written, who's paying attention to your content. Who is you know watching your TED Talk. You know someone's always watching and so, you know, and that's not just like I.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Yeah. That that's a, that's a whole nother podcast, a whole nother conversation.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Right? Who you are and how you show up and how you build a personal brand can be incredibly consequential to you personally and professionally. And so if you if you stay ready, you don't have to get ready. Right.
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Coach Dora Mendez
I love that. I love that. That's a great I love that leadership story. I love it. It's I think people are going to find a lot of value in that. And so I want to segue to the other, conversation prompt that, we ask all of our guests is, this is a building leadership community podcast. And so I'd love to get your insight into into community.
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Coach Dora Mendez
What does community mean to you?
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Dr. Danielle Cox
So I recently, did a post on LinkedIn, where, you know, I have all kinds of opinions, as you know. And this has been an incredibly difficult year for nonprofit organizations that have looked to serve, black and brown communities with some intention. To kind of level the playing field. Right. And so suddenly the idea of equity and inclusion has become a dirty word.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And, you know, I think at first there's been a lot of kind of shock at the extent to which we see things being rolled back. But I'm also starting to allow myself to get a little angry about it. And I had a conversation. With someone connected to my organization, and I started to think about why is this bothering me so much?
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Why does this matter? Right? And I came across in my Facebook memories a photo of myself at 15 years old in a kimono, standing in the living room of my host family. When I had the opportunity to go, to Tokyo, Japan, for the summer. And that opportunity was made possible because of philanthropy, right? And I attended an independent high school myself, and I didn't have a full scholarship, but I certainly had generous financial aid.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And that opportunity was made possible because of philanthropy. And that helped to open the door, to a place like Swarthmore College, which also would have been financially out of my family's reach without philanthropy. And so and, and, you know, from a community perspective, my church sent me to college with both money and a Bible, and that was philanthropy, too, right?
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And so what I began to really connect with is, I am the product. You know, I have an amazing mother. I'm a fourth generation college graduate. Right. But because of the way race has, shaped the socio economic experiences of people of color in this country, right? I would not have been able to access, the opportunities that I was more than qualified for without the benefit of philanthropy.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And I think, you know, Vu Le, known as, “Nonprofit A-F”.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Oh, yeah. I love I love this book. I just got that we were we were at a conference together where he was a keynote speaker.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And he talks about, you know, and we have to remind ourselves that the nonprofit sector is the infrastructure of our society. Right. And we can't endeavor to hurt certain members of our, communities without chipping away at what helps to make all of us whole. You know, vous said in his keynote. The nonprofit sector is like air, and you don't notice it every day, but you notice when you don't have it right?
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Coach Dora Mendez
I love that you don't notice it when you don't have it. It's like, yeah, you don't notice it until you don't have it.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And also for me, you know, when I think about the rooms that I've had access to, like what? Other than what other social mechanism would put me in the room with, billionaire donor, like, we're not going to the same places. We don't vacation in the same circles. I can't afford the restaurants that they eat at. Right. But that is the foundation of a democracy, the ability to engage with people who don't necessarily share your experiences.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
But in many instances, share your values. And to be reminded of that in a really tangible way. So, you know, and also like this amazing community, including our meeting each other, that has opened up to me, as a result of my work in this sector. Right. There are a lot of friends I wouldn't have. There are a lot of experiences.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
I wouldn't have if the fundamental foundation of philanthropy, philanthropy wasn't built on this notion of community.
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Coach Dora Mendez
And I love that. And I love those insights. And I'm so happy to give you a platform to share, to share that point of view and your and your thought leadership. There. So given that, you know, I mean, you say you're angry, but I mean, I hear, I hear, I don't hear an emotional argument. I hear a very logical, you know, argument, not an emotional one.
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Coach Dora Mendez
I hear one that's really rooted in not only just your anecdotal experience, but the lives that you've touched. Being able to work and and elevating so many people, and opening so many doors for others. So what advice would you give to the next generation of leaders? Maybe something that you would have told your younger self?
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Dr. Danielle Cox
You know, one of.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
One of the the pieces of advice that I give to young people now is don't take my advice. You know what I'm saying? Like, take, take the meat and leave the bones. Right. But don't be afraid to chart your own course. Right. I would say that there have been moments in my career where, You know, it's the challenge with advice is sometimes people are advising you from the place of their own fears.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
You know what I'm saying? Like, my mother, didn't want me to go into education or social work. Because she didn't think that I could have the same kind of socio economic movement.
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Coach Dora Mendez
She thought you'd be poor because people, teachers don't get paid. Because teachers don't get paid, because we all they're, they're, they're notoriously underpaid.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Right. So, so sometimes we advise out of our own places of disappointment and our fears for young people, because we don't want them to experience all the same, pain, and losses that we've experienced. And sometimes that, you know, it comes from a place of love, right? It's not hatred. Not all the time. Right. But, you know, when I think back to, like, people will say, well, how come you never just started your own nonprofit organization, right?
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And my pursuit of stability, and the advice that I got from people around me, you know, definitely left me kind of gun shy. And I'm going to use a compensation, instance that I had. I was, in the process of negotiating my first executive, opportunity, and I asked, a black woman mentor.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
You know, how should I approach this? Like, I don't even know what to ask for. And she said, you know, well, executive compensation, should be this percentage of the budget. And you should look at what their expenses are. Right. It's all about accommodating the institution. I asked the same question of a white female, mentor. Completely different answer.
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Coach Dora Mendez
She's about how you.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Yeah, she was like, if they want, you know, a Volkswagen, then let them go to the Volkswagen dealership. If they want to burn the Benz and you're in the Benz dealership, then you pay what it costs to drive the more expensive car. What they can afford is not related to your value and your worth.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Yes. The value. It's about the value of being.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
You know what I'm saying? Both looking at the same situation, right? But within the limits of their own lens that's rooted in their own experience. So, you know, I always say to people, one of my most impactful mentors, has been a white male. It's known me for a long time, and people are surprised to hear me say that.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And I say that because Stephen's vision for what's possible for me is has consistently over 20 years outpaced what I saw for myself because it's a white man.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Limitless.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
He doesn't face the same limitations and obstacles that I know are existent in my own life. But I think you do need those moments of clarity to say, am I letting who society views me as limit what I can even imagine is possible for me professionally? You know what I'm saying? Like so he'll be like so and so.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
You know, university is looking for a president. And I'm like, you know, Steven, I haven't worked in higher ed and blah blah, blah, blah, blah. Not in an administrative capacity. But he's like, but all the boxes in terms of competencies are things that you check. And so, you know, it's how to have a balance. Because oftentimes even myself, not intentionally, you're advising from your own lens that is colored by all the, the joys, but also all the knocks and bruises that you've had to endure over the course of your life.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And so listen and.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Be so funny. I think it's funny you say, but if I don't listen to my advice.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Especially right now, essentially.
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Coach Dora Mendez
But it's go for broke, limitless. And it's so it's so interesting that you say that. We had a guest in, last season where I was like, I'm crazy. I'm starting my own business. This is crazy, you know? And, she's like, well, it's limitless. You don't have someone telling you. And I had never thought I. I had thought about all that I was losing.
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Coach Dora Mendez
I had thought about all that I was losing and the and the risks that I was taking. And she was like, it's limitless. You have sure, there's ups and downs, but it's it's really limitless. And I just and, I this this is what I'm hearing and what you're saying. Really. Dream big. And so while we're saying that, take your advice.
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Coach Dora Mendez
That's really good advice. Dream big. It's limitless.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Don't just dream. Act on it. You know what I'm saying? Act on it.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Well, I feel like if you don't have. I tell this to my students. Like, if you don't set high expectations, the students, they will never meet it. If you don't have big dreams, you can never, like, get there. So if you set, if you have big dreams and you have high expectations, then you can begin to take the actions to, to get to get there.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Absolutely.
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Coach Dora Mendez
But you have to have the instead of lowering the expected, you know, instead of low expectations because because of perceived or real or barrier barriers.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
You'll get there.
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Coach Dora Mendez
Yeah. So if you if you those are easy. Right. But if you don't have the big dreams you the the actions and the steps to get there, you you need to have those big dreams in order to get there. And take action or, you know, so that your decisions right, your decisions, the way you, solve problems and take action will lead you to get to, to, you know, make those dreams a reality.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
And so security is something that no one else is going to give you, right? There's no such thing as a secure job, you know.
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Coach Dora Mendez
And there is no and not especially in the context of the, of the, of the times that we're living in right now. It's just, there's no, you know.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
Security doesn't necessarily have, any connection to your competence or your accomplishments. Many years ago, I was going through something, and I had lunch, with, a woman that I respect. And I said, you know, how can you, like, fire someone when they're doing an incredible job? And it's well documented. And she said, competent people get fired all the time because they they disrupt other people's spirits.
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Coach Dora Mendez
And, well, you know, Oprah got fired early on in my career, and.
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Dr. Danielle Cox
I've been fired. And so what that experience taught me was not only was I in good company because, you know, if Oprah got fired, anybody can get fired. But also, that you're the. I'm at a point in my career where I don't define myself by my title. The the head of TIAA. I think her name is Thasunda.
00;33;33;24 - 00;33;42;16
Dr. Danielle Cox
She posted something that said, you know your title, you rent, your character is yours to keep.
00;33;42;19 - 00;33;43;17
Coach Dora Mendez
00;33;43;19 - 00;34;03;08
Dr. Danielle Cox
And so who I am and how I show up has followed me. And every role that I've held. And so I'm less worried about my, my purpose is my purpose. And my job is the vehicle I drive to get to my purpose, if that makes sense.
00;34;03;10 - 00;34;30;09
Coach Dora Mendez
It does make sense. And it's, you know, it's it's something, a theme that has come up often on the show is, leadership is not a title. And you shared insights on it's about how you treat people. And so I love that if, if we were going to boil it down to a nugget. Leadership is how you treat people.
00;34;30;11 - 00;34;54;24
Coach Dora Mendez
And, I could talk to you all day, Danielle, about all kinds of things. You have such, you know, like, you just have such, you know, you're so generous with sharing your time and your thoughts and your leadership and all of that good stuff. Can can you share with our audience how they can support you, how they can keep in touch with you?
00;34;54;24 - 00;35;01;20
Coach Dora Mendez
How can, you know, what would you like to leave our audience with in terms of how can they connect with you?
00;35;01;23 - 00;35;32;12
Dr. Danielle Cox
Well, I, had set a goal of reaching 15,000 followers on LinkedIn. That I have met. And so now I want to get to 20,000. So, if there's anything of value that I've shared today, please connect with me on LinkedIn. Follow me. I try to deliver, useful and valuable leadership content on that platform. And, and.
00;35;32;12 - 00;35;51;06
Dr. Danielle Cox
Yeah, and it's also given me great community. Right? There are leaders all over the country and all over the world that I've been boxed with and had the opportunity to engage with and learn from. So I would I would love it if, you're listeners would help me get to that goal.
00;35;51;08 - 00;36;15;13
Coach Dora Mendez
All right. So, you heard it here, listeners and viewers, we will put the link to Danielle's, LinkedIn, in the show notes and in the description. So don't pull over. Don't pull over if you're listening in your car. It'll be there in the just in the YouTube description. If you watch us on YouTube and in the show notes wherever you get your podcasts.
00;36;15;16 - 00;36;35;15
Coach Dora Mendez
So thank you so much for your time, your generosity, your voice. Thank you so much. And, yeah, so, we're going to roll credits. And when I asked you to hold on for a second, as we roll our credits,
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Coach Dora Mendez
You've been listening to Building Leadership Community. Watch on YouTube @CoachDoraM. Listen, wherever you get your podcasts, follow me on LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube @CoachDoraM. Visit me on the web at CoachDoraMendez.com. Hosted by me, Dora Mendez. Produced by Dora Mendez and Dylan Rogers. Graphics, editing, and sound mixing by Dylan Rogers.
