So my guest today, Sharon Everson, grew up in Pittsburgh during a kind of a changing landscape

in the 70s and 80s when the city built by Steele was rapidly transforming itself and raised

by parents who were lifelong educators.

She developed this deep sense of curiosity about people and their stories along with

a love of writing and speaking as a way to discover and share them.

It led her eventually in high school into the world of journalism, as early as 10th grade

actually, where she would then find herself being taken under the wing of a community of

black journalist writers and correspondents among others who helped not only foster her

growing curiosity and shaper skills, but also open her eyes to what was possible.

Graduating eventually from Harvard and Columbia, she became a correspondent focusing on finance,

eventually landing at CNBC, an NBC where she continues to have a really regular air on

presence to this day.

But it was something that nobody saw coming, a brain aneurysm in September of 2016 that

would lead to immediate life saving surgery any years long recovery that would also profoundly

change the course of her life while adding a new devotion beyond work and family and

community, which are already so important to her, with a kind of a renewed focus on advocacy

for wellness, for brain health, aneurysm awareness, and so much more.

Really excited to share this conversation with you.

I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project.

Your family education was a huge thing.

Yes.

Tell me more about that.

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