Creating Opportunities for the future you want | Elizabeth Montano | TEDxPortofSpain

In this interview with Keita Demming, licensee of TEDxPortofSpain, Montano speaks about her belief that how you view an opportunity is just as important as the opportunity itself. She shares some of her experiences of what others might refer to as missed opportunity and she describes how she created some and ceased others.
Elizabeth Montano (Lady) started her career as an educator and teacher. Her career has juxtaposed Academia and supporting the meteoric rise of her son’s career. Under her guidance her son, Machel Montano became one of the most successful Soca/Calypso artists in the world. 2014 marked her retirement as Machel’s manager and the start of another deep dive into academia. In 2018 she was awarded an MPhil in Cultural Studies. Lady took pride in shining an academic lens on the career she helped build.
After graduating with Distinction from Mausica Teachers College in 1971, Elizabeth Montano (Lady) started her career as an educator and teacher. In 1977 she made the University’s honourable performance list when she received her Certificate in Education with Distinction. By 1979 she was awarded her Degree in Education; also with Distinction. That was quickly followed by her appointment as a Guidance Officer, a position in which she served for nine years before taking early retirement in 1989. Her career has juxtaposed Academia and supporting the meteoric rise of her son’s career. Under her guidance, Machel became one of the most successful Soca/Calypso artists in the world. As if she wasn’t busy enough, Lady found time in 2006 to dive back into academia at the University of the West Indies and graduated with a Diploma in ACEM (Entertainment Management with Distinction). This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

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A true mother's love is something you can never put value or measure! Thanks Mommy Montano for doing all that walking!!! We are sooooo blessed to have Machel ❤❤