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Dr. Dravon James

Dr. Dravon James

Transformation specialist, life coach, and author helping teens and adults build confidence and inner peace through her "Everyday Peace" philosophy.

Jun 9, 2026

1:50
So can you give us a little bit of a background on what got you into that?
1:55
Oh, yeah, I'd love to.
1:56
[laughs] So I sort of, uh, maybe it chose me, and I didn't choose it.
2:00
Uh, was 17 years old, just graduated from high school, and I was on my way to college, and it was the summer before I left.
2:07
My brother, who was 16 at the time, [laughs] gave me a book, The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale, which all my life I thought he bought for me.
2:17
He told me recently that he just took it off my mother's bookshelf and gave it to me.
2:21
[laughs] And so it's pretty, pretty, um, I, I guess it was sitting in, in my home life, my whole life.

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23:25
So really my question is, what role do parents play in that process?

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