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Full Circle with Garland is a weekly podcast that seeks to educate, inspire, and empower the next generation of leaders through authentic storytelling.The conversations you are listening to are from people who are sharing their origin stories, career lessons learned, and how their work is creating greater social impact in the world. After spending more than two decades in talent acquisition and the last 8 years within the commercial real estate industry, I've learned quite a bit about the importance to career storytelling and realized I have a gift of telling those stories so that people can recognize their talents and strengths. I hope this podcast allows you to realize you're not alone on life's journey and encourage you to know that doing fulfilling and purposeful work is worth pursuing!

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009 // Cedric Bobo // The Power of Ownership

November 18, 2020 • Garland Fuller • Episode 9

Welcome to Full Circle with Garland!

On Episode 009, Garland interviews Cedric Bobo, Co-Founder of Project Destined, on the lessons he learned early in life on the power of ownership and how that north star has guided his career.

Highlights of Episode 009:

Ownership - 02:12
“Never be afraid to be afraid” - 03:42
Leaving Mississippi - 5:00
Building your tribe through networking - 7:55
Rising early secrets - 12:15
Lessons from athletics - 14:00
Transitioning to real estate - 14:46
Destiny in Detroit 19:35
Making real estate more equitable - 21:10
Cedric’s book recommendation - 23:40
Project Destined - 25:38
What’s on the horizon - 28:36
Inclusion in my industry looks like - 32:47
Life coming full circle - 33:00
Afterthoughts with Garland - 33:34

About Cedric:
Cedric Bobo is a co-founder of Project Destined.Prior to founding Project Destined, Cedric spent over 20 years as an investor and investment banker including over 10 years at the The Carlyle Group where he committed over $2 Billion of equity capital. In 2015, Cedric was named to the“10 Top Powerful Black People on Wall Street You Should Know.” Prior to Carlyle, he worked at D.L.J. Merchant Banking (London) and McCown De Leeuw.

He is the co-founder of Charter Board Partners, a non-profit focused on governance in the charter school sector. He also serves on the District of Columbia’s Office of Public Charter School Financing and Support Credit Committee and the boards of the Washington Nationals Youth Baseball Academy and Beauvoir, and The National Cathedral Elementary School.Cedric received his MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSME, summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee. (Source: Tiger21.com)

Connect with Cedric

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cedric-bobo-187188/
Project Destined: https://projectdestined.com/

Features on Cedric:

HBS Alumni Profile: https://www.alumni.hbs.edu/stories/Pages/story-bulletin.aspx?num=6823
Biz Journal: https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2017/06/26/investment-tycoon-and-local-teenagers-make-real.html
CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/05/alex-rodriguez-jennifer-lopez-boost-inner-city-kids-real-estate-program.html

Read & Watch:

Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun? How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion Dollar Business: https://amzn.to/2K2Jv6W
Reginald Lewis documentary: https://www.wliw.org/programs/pioneers/reginald-f-lewis-and-the-making-of-a-billion-dollar-empire-i048fw/

// Connect with and learn more about your host, Garland Fuller:
Web: garlandfuller.com
Instagram: @FullCircleWithGarland
LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/garlandfuller
Mailing List: http://rebrand.ly/Garland-Podcast

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