Undaunted: Stretching Through Fear
Featured Narrative: Carolyn Colvin, Former Acting Commissioner, Social Security Administration
You never know all you need to know for any of life’s experience.
Sometimes an arc in life becomes a circle, a single point both launch and return. For Carolyn Colvin, that place was the Social Security Administration. As a young working woman, she began as a typist and later returned to become deputy commissioner at the request of President Obama, coming out of retirement to lead the organization of 65,000. For “a little girl who grew up in a two bedroom home, without inside plumbing,” she says, “it was the highest honor.”
“But,” she adds, “for every job that I’ve taken, I’ve been scared to death.”
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