Success Interrupted [and reimagined] | Sharon Epperson

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  So my guest today, Sharon Eberson, grew up in Pittsburgh during a kind of a changing landscape in the seventies and eighties, when the city built by steel was rapidly transforming itself.

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  And raised by parents who were lifelong educators, she developed this deep sense of curiosity about people and their stories, along with a love of writing and speaking as a way to discover and share them.

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  That led her eventually in high school, into the world of journalism, as early as 10th grade, actually, where she would then find herself being taken under the wing of a community of black journalists, writers, and correspondents, among others, who helped not only foster her growing curiosity and shape her skills, but also open her eyes to what was possible.

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  Graduating eventually from Harvard, then Columbia, she became a correspondent, focusing on finance, eventually landing at CNBC and NBC, where she continues to have a really regular air on presence to this day.

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  But it was something that nobody saw coming.

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  A brain aneurysm in September of 2016 that would lead to immediate life saving surgery and a years long recovery that would also profoundly change the course of her life, while adding a new devotion beyond work and family and community, which are already so important to her, with a kind of a renewed focus on advocacy for wellness, for brain health, aneurysm awareness, and so much more.

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  Really excited to share this conversation with you.

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  I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good Life project.

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  Your family education was a huge thing.

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  Yes.

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  Tell me more about that.

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  So my father was the dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Pittsburgh for almost 30 years.

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  So the University of Pittsburgh and that college community was a really big part of our lives.

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  But he was also civically active in the community with the YMCA and the Urban League.

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  And so serving in the community and serving the city of Pittsburgh and bringing the world to Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh to the world was also important.

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  Awesome.

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  And your mom was also a teacher?

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  My mom was a teacher, a first grade teacher, a kindergarten teacher.

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  So she was very interested in making sure.

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  And it was now, as a mom, I realize how special it was to have a first grade teacher as a mom.

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