Nicole Hudson

I attribute my success to cultivating strong relationships, fostering collaborative teamwork, and strategically aligning education with real-world contracting opportunities to drive measurable results.

Life is a journey. Please do not think you have to have the answers right now. Make sure you are in good, positive spaces, and people are feeding you good energy, and never stop learning to learn. I feel like, even as a woman in her 40s, and as I do business education and have connected with so many speakers, we are always dealing in an ever-changing world. We never should stop learning to learn something new. There's always something new happening around us. But give yourself grace as you move and as you go through life. Pace yourself in the process, and you will have bad days, and that's okay. But you know tomorrow is a new day. As we enter into sometimes different seasons comes a different change, and so just learning to adapt to change. And know that change is occurring. It's forever flowing. And you can only do what is in your power, and you can only control what is in your power. I can't control what's going on in the world, right? I can only do what is in my power to do. I can't help everyone, but if it's in my power to help you, or in any way that I can, I can only do what's in my power to do. So don't think that you have to conquer everything overnight, but once again, that goes back to pacing yourself in your journey. Never stop learning to learn, and really kind of build your network, build your own ecosystem of people empowering other people. I think that that's very important, because you have to have something that you are feeding off of positively.

I would say just access to opportunity, and that's what really grounds me in the work, is because I'm out here actively engaged in those conversations. Just making sure I'm helping people with real opportunities for more long-term success, and me taking things that I'm actively gaining, and how do I put that back out, right, into the community, or turning it into a program or something that is going to help the next person. Once again, we go back to education and opportunity, and just making sure that people do have opportunities afforded to them, and that they're ready to seize them whenever it comes knocking.

I value people. People from all different backgrounds, from different perspectives. You can't accomplish your work without people. When you value people, when you show people, sometimes you have to have a love factor, but I would also really kind of call it a care-based leadership. I care about people. And you never know what people are dealing with at home or at work. When you talk about care, that's something that I think a lot of us, whether you have it or not, need to exude more care for people, and the value that you have for people. Just because I understand in leadership roles, we can't do anything on our own or by ourselves. We have to rely on and depend on others. And it's really the service and the work that we provide into others, into people. So I go back to the people factor and the value that I have for people. I always want to, if there's anything that is in my power to do to make someone a better person, or if I can create a better opportunity for you, that's what I'm here to do. I want to see everyone be successful and win, but once again, the value that I have is really in people. I feel like I'm in a space to where I get paid to help people.