Amara Walker, Pushing Past Comfortable

For more than two decades, Amara Walker built her career in journalism, becoming an award-winning CNN anchor and covering some of the biggest stories in the world. Today, she's Amara Walker, Vice President of Public Relations for Porsche Cars North America. It's a new industry, and it still asks a lot of her. On this episode of The LeadStyle Way, we talk about what allows a leader to sustain herself at a high level across the different seasons of a career. For Amara, part of the answer is her willingness to be uncomfortable: hearing "no" and treating it as a possibility, and still pushing herself, right now, through an MBA. But the same drive that propels her can also take a lot out of her. We talk about the career tradeoffs she's made, her open and honest journey to motherhood, what she protects more fiercely today, and why human connection is her recovery. We also talk about the grace she's still learning to give herself. Tune in for an honest look at what ambition costs and what it takes to keep going anyway. Amara doesn't pretend there's a superhero version of leadership. She talks about the limits she's still learning, and the grace she's still learning to give herself.