From Poverty to PhDs: Dr. Cedric B. Howard on Leadership, Legacy & Generational Wealth
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Mike Litton Experience — where powerful stories meet transformational conversations. In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Cedric B. Howard, a dynamic leader, author, higher education executive, and generational change-maker.
From nearly being expelled from college to earning two doctorate degrees, Dr. Howard’s story is a masterclass in faith, resilience, and purpose-driven leadership. Raised in a working-class family, Dr. Howard didn’t just break the cycle of poverty—he rewrote the playbook for generational success.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
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The emotional turning point that launched a career in higher education
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How Dr. Howard became a VP at age 26
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The blueprint for breaking generational curses through education and faith
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Why Unshakable Leadership is essential in today’s world
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The steps he took to build a family economic ecosystem
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How his mother’s vision led to transforming a neighborhood
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The mindset behind writing transformational books—not just bestselling ones
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Why every leader must first master themselves
Whether you’re a leader, entrepreneur, parent, educator—or all of the above—this episode delivers insightful takeaways you can apply right now.
Connect with Dr. Cedric B. Howard:
Book: Unshakable Leadership → Available on Amazon
Website: https://www.cedricbhoward.com
Book: Freedom: A Step-by-Step Guide to Financial Independence and Wealth Building
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| 0:00.0 | And so I got my corn and put my phone. |
| 0:03.0 | The corn's in the phone. |
| 0:04.8 | And I called my mother and says, I'm probably coming home today. |
| 0:07.8 | I want to apologize for letting you down and please tell my grandmother because I was too |
| 0:13.5 | sadden or too afraid or scared to call her directly. |
| 0:18.1 | And my grandparents. |
| 0:19.5 | Long story short, there was an investigation. Later that day, |
| 0:24.6 | I get a phone call to come to the prison's office. She took out the gown and she told all of my |
| 0:29.8 | 11 cousins to get in this gown. And she says, from this standpoint, four, my expectations for you as my grandkids is that each of you |
| 0:41.8 | bring me your college graduation gown entering my master's program i got very active within my |
| 0:50.0 | profession and my professional organizations and so i knew that within two years, I was going to |
| 0:56.2 | enter into the fill of higher education. What I did know is that during my third year with that |
| 1:02.4 | profession, I was going to have the opportunity to become a college vice president, age 26. |
| 1:07.9 | So I were publishing articles and writing book chapters within my professional |
| 1:14.8 | organizations. That is good, but that is a very small slither of people that you're talking to. |
| 1:21.5 | So I decided that it's time for me to start doing that for my community. |
| 1:29.8 | And, you know, I've talked about freedom. So one of the things I realized is that we have a leadership crisis. |
| 1:38.3 | And the reason that I have, I think we have a leadership crisis is a part, because we're not training leaders any longer. |
| 1:46.4 | Did you know there's a technology that's actually an app on your phone that uses sound waves to tell your brain what you want your brain to do? |
| 1:54.0 | We had a young man that was a guest on our podcast, the Michael Lidden experience, who had a traumatic brain injury. |
| 1:59.6 | He was sleeping three hours |
| 2:00.9 | a night. He's using Newcom now and he's sleeping more. Go to Newcom.com.com, promo code Mike 15 |
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