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Carla Powers

Female

Houston, TX

Growing up in the Armstrong cult in East Texas, Carla Powers didnâ€™t know that the world in which she now lives existed. The impoverished girl, whose fourth-grade educated father was a violent pyromaniac, escaped the clutches of the Radio Church of God when she was 17 and used anger to fuel an insatiable desire to succeed. And succeed she did.She finished Baylor Law School and passed the bar at 22. Five and a half years later, Carla became the first woman partner in a 100-lawyer Houston firm. For the next 15 years, she tried cases, was an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center, wrote articles, and gave speeches. In 2000, she joined a major multinational energy company and three years later became worldwide head of litigation. But success didnâ€™t make Carla happy.When an inner voice awakened her in the middle of the night and told her to start writing, she realized that sheâ€™d found a calling: sharing the transformational power that comes from acknowledging life's difficult experiences and breaking away the walls of shame that keep us from our true purpose. read more ...