S6 EP32: From Poverty to Power: The Truth About Feminine Leadership, Identity & SuccessS6 EP32: From Poverty to Power: The Truth About Feminine Leadership, Identity & Success
RAW CHATTER!
Shatoya Jones‑Medor shares how she moved from childhood poverty to global wealth education while embracing feminine leadership, faith and motherhood. The conversation focuses on identity, values and what success can look like for women who refuse to fit into traditional boxes.
20:43•14 Apr 2026
From Poverty to Power: Shatoya Jones‑Medor on Feminine Leadership and Identity
Episode Overview
- Saying yes to opportunities and showing up in person can create powerful connections and open unexpected doors.
- Early money‑making efforts, even small ones, can build responsibility, confidence and access to education and growth.
- Refusing to conform to social norms allows women to build careers and lives that match their true values and personality.
- Homemaking and caregiving can be treated as vital, demanding work, not as something lesser than a formal career.
- Bringing genuine humanity, honesty and warmth into business helps people feel seen and builds deeper trust.
“I have never in all of my life, I have actively fought against social normity.”
What drives someone to seek a life of purpose, power and softness all at once? RAW CHATTER! brings that question centre stage as host Vicky Midwood chats with feminine leadership consultant and influence strategist Shatoya Jones‑Medor. Aimed at high‑achieving women who feel boxed in by expectations, this conversation tracks Shatoya’s journey from growing up in poverty to building global wealth education initiatives, all while refusing to lose her values or femininity.
You’ll hear how she started her first business at just eight years old, selling snacks at school and using the profits to fund leadership programmes, and how that early hustle shaped her ideas about money, responsibility and opportunity. Shatoya shares how studying psychology, Spanish, theatre and dance fed into her work with people, and why movement became her way of coping with a difficult childhood.
She talks openly about juggling multiple jobs – from global literacy mentoring to waitressing in a vegan café – and how each role sharpened her talent for service, hospitality and human connection. One standout theme is her refusal to fit into social boxes.
As she puts it, "I have never in all of my life, I have actively fought against social normity." That shows up in her view of homemaking and motherhood too: she sees caring for her child and home as her "first and primary ministry" and "the most important work" she will ever do, while still supporting women to step into positions of influence.
If you’re a woman who’s tired of choosing between career, calling, faith, family and your own wellbeing, this raw, funny and very real chat might have you asking: what could life look like if you stopped playing by everyone else’s rules?
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