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September 17, 2026

How Do I Develop My Own Leadership Voice?

(Finding Your Sound in a World That Teaches You to Imitate)

There’s a moment in every leader’s journey when imitation stops working.

You’ve sat in enough rooms, absorbed enough advice, watched enough executives, and you wake up one day realizing something isn’t landing the way it should. You’re doing everything “right,” but something in your leadership feels off forced, constrained, incomplete.

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September 16, 2026

You Can Live Here

One of the things I have come to appreciate about the United States is something that sounds pretty simple: You can live where you want to live, assuming you have the means to live there.

I don't think I always understood how significant that was.

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Born in East Saint Louis to a drug-addicted mother who died when he was eight years old, author Orvin Kimbrough chronicles his early years through foster care, orphanages, physical and sexual abuse, hunger, and poverty. He could have joined a gang. He could have become a teen father. He could have fallen into drugs and the violence of the streets. He could have ended up in prison. He could have been shot dead.

But he rose above it all to become a prosperous leader in the Saint Louis business and nonprofit communities.

Read more in Twice Over a Man: A Fierce Memoir of an Orphan Boy Who Doggedly Determined a Finer Life.

Leadership Student, Washington University
“Orvin creates an environment where every voice feels welcomed. Even in a structured setting, his approach fosters openness and connection.”

Twice Over a Man was awarded the Silver Medal in the 2025 Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards.

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Reframe Your Thinking

So many people believe their scars disqualify them. But faith tells a different story. Your scars are proof of survival. They are evidence of God’s grace.

“This doesn’t prove I’m broken; this proves I survived."

Reclaim Personal Agency

Scars can make you feel powerless, like life happened to you and there’s nothing you can do about it. But reclaiming means refusing to let your scars tell the last word.

Rename Your Social Networks

Too often we let scars define us by old labels: abandoned, unworthy, broken. But in Christ, we get a new name. We are chosen. We are redeemed. We are called.

I had to stop calling myself “the orphan who got lucky” and start calling myself “a son of God with purpose.” That renaming gave me confidence to walk in identity, not insecurity.

Your scars are not your shame. They are your story, your strength, and your strategy.

Reframe them. Reclaim them. Rename them.

Do that, and you won’t just carry scars—you’ll rise with them, walking in the very purpose God designed you for.

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Orv's Book Is Now Available On Amazon