Finding Purpose and Fulfillment Outside Traditional Legal Careers | Juanita Ingram

Leveraging Latitude: Cultivating a Full Life in the Law

Royalty visits Leveraging Latitude as the reigning Mrs. Universe catches up with Candice Reed. Juanita Ingram is an attorney, author, award-winning actress and filmmaker, and she is also the first black woman to be crowned Mrs. Universe. Juanita speaks about her unique career path and the life lessons she’s learned along the way. With her characteristic charm, wit, and vulnerability, she shares how she came to embrace her full self and the opportunity to be found in stepping outside the confines of established expectations. She discusses:

• Why, in the midst of a successful legal career, she began competing in pageants;
• The challenges she faced as a “trailing spouse” after leaving her in-house position with Rolls-Royce to move to London for her husband’s job;
• The advice from her life coach that helped her to embrace the possibility and value of a successful and meaningful nontraditional legal career;
• How a backyard BBQ gave her the idea for the award-winning docuseries, The Expats International Ingrams;
• Why she believes it is critical to tell a variety of black stories in film and television; and
• How she found her purpose by charting her own path.

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