In this episode of Practice Dirty, I talk with Abriana Johnson, the Chief Growth Officer at Teaching Horse, and the founder of Cowgirl Camryn and Black Unicorn Creative. We discuss:

• Building a business at the intersection of your interests;
• Building a network to do the work you dream of;
• How leadership development serves as a bridge to having hard conversations;
• Becoming a conduit to translate animal behavior into human language;
• How horses expose a company’s biggest challenges and bring dysfunction into the light; 
• How company leaders want to be influential, and how the perception of power is most leaders’ deep desire;
• The roles of formal and informal power;
• How unconscious bias, microaggressions, and bypassing kill an individual’s ability to function in their role;
• If you can’t find what you’re looking for, become it; 
• Mentorship of younger generations of black girls and teens;
• How our brain crave patterns, it creates feelings of safety;
• Having the audacity of a mediocre white man, or a mediocre stallion - be loud, present and command attention;
• Don’t be afraid to be audacious; it is one of the only road blocks for women of color that prevents them from build legacies and empires;
• Small moments of beliefs bring big mindset shifts.

Follow Abriana Online: 

Instagram: Https://instagram.com/theabrianJ

Website: https://abrianajohnson.com/

Find out more about my work at https://macalarose.com.