"We Have A Failure to Communicate": The Power of Using Your Voice with Star Bobatoon

#032: How many times do you use your voice to tell your story? Your story is who you are and can only be heard when you learn to effectively communicate. Life is about who you are and every moment is important and should be told with pride, not pieces that make others happy.

In this episode of Beyond the Culture with Dr. David M. Walker, we have Star Bobatoon, Esq., an award-winning international speaker, a presentation coach, and a trainer. She has over a decade of experience in performing on stage, television, and the big screen. She has another decade of experience as an employment attorney. Star is a trained speaker and trained with the world-renowned motivation speaker Les Brown and is also an author of three books.

Star shares her life story, which is filled with many moments of adversity, and how each time she took control and became an even better person. Listen in to learn the importance of faith when things don’t seem to work even if it means using other’s beliefs until you get yours.

“In every situation, we have the ability to choose which way we are going to go.”- Star [25:36]

What you will learn in this episode:

· [1:46] Star explains when and how she became a child star and why she decided to hide her gift for many years to make peace with her family.

· [8:30] The racial disparities that existed when Star was younger and in the TV world which she became more aware of as she grew older.

· [13:11] How learning her son had Duchenne muscular dystrophy- an incurable deadly disease- changed her.

· [18:40] Why she wrote her first book ‘I hate muscular dystrophy’ to help parents deal with children with life-altering diseases.

· [21:03] The power of belief when you do not have a reason to believe.

· [28:23] Star explains when she decided to do public speaking under the mentorship of Les Brown.

· [34:36] The importance of communication- seeing, hearing, and validating everyone’s story to be understood.

· [40:10] She talks about her book ‘STARPoints’. What it entails, and how it came about.

· [44:40] Star talks about the choices she would regret but has instead become part of her life.

· [46:46] Learn to use this unprecedented time to set the precedent yourself.

Relevant Links:

· Website: https://www.starbobatoon.com/

· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/starbobatoon/

· Email: [email protected]

Star’s Books:

· I Hate Muscular Dystrophy: Loving A Child with A Life-Altering Disease

· STARPoints: 31 Strategies to Illuminate Your Life Vols. I & II