003: From Failing Fast to Thriving in Public Health with LaTonya Bynum, MPH, CHES
LaTonya Bynum, MPH, CHES shares her humble story from being secretary to becoming a Rural Health Senior Analyst at the Arkansas Department of Health. She is a serial entrepreneur with a successful book and another on the way as well as a CHES guide app and her own company. She talks about her path from undergraduate with tips on getting exempt from the GRE to get into her Master of Public Health degree. She highlights the two important transferable skills that accelerated her public health career that she learnt from ToastMasters International - communication and leadership - and how that transformed her life. She then talks about her transition to starting her own company and transferring her public health skills to the tech field. She is a true public health entrepreneur.
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