ATG 92: The Unexpected Gift of Rejection - My wildly hopeful conversation with Nona Jones

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Is it really possible to change the future or do our pasts dictate who we are destined to become? Nona Jones would tell you that the future is yours to shape, no matter the circumstances you come from. She had the sort of childhood no one expects good things to come from, so she flipped the script on the world.

Nona is now an international speaker, preacher, author, and the head of global faith-based partnerships at Facebook. She is a graduate of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program and was named one of Essence Magazine’s “Under 40 Women to Watch.” She most recently served as Secretary of the Florida Juvenile Justice Association Board of Directors and on the Georgia Statewide Human Trafficking Task Force. Presently she leads a church with her husband in Gainesville, Florida. Nona joined me for an incredible conversation about rejection, redemption, and becoming who you were meant to be despite what you have to overcome.

Nona's Book List:
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Deep Work by Cal Newport

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes A Go podcast, the best place in the entire
0:13.6	world, including all of Canada, to learn how to build new thoughts, new actions and new
0:18.6	results.
0:19.6	I'm your host John Akef and today I'm joined by Nona Jones.
0:23.2	Who's that?
0:24.2	I'm so glad you asked.
0:25.8	Nona Jones is an international speaker, author and the head of Global Faith Based Partnerships
0:30.5	at Facebook.
0:31.6	Have you heard of Facebook?
0:32.6	It's doing pretty, pretty well.
0:35.1	Facebook has done all right these last few years.
0:37.7	Nona held executive leadership roles across the private, public and non-profit sectors in
0:42.3	her career.
0:43.3	She's a graduate of the Presidential Leadership Scholars Program.
0:46.8	Nona was named one of Essence Magazine's Under 40 Women to Watch and Florida Trend Magazine
0:52.5	as one of Florida's 30-something All Stars.
0:56.8	She is currently president of the Gainesville chapter of the Lynx Incorporated and serves
1:01.3	on the University of Florida Digital Advisory Council.
1:05.0	She's done a million things.
1:06.9	She has a brand new book coming out and we're actually friends.
1:10.0	We've done a number of events together.
1:12.5	It was one of the situations where we were in green rooms together.
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