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The Mike Litton Experience

From Poverty to PhDs: Dr. Cedric B. Howard on Leadership, Legacy & Generational Wealth

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Careers, Kids & Family, Business, Parenting

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 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, […]

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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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