Mother Mastermind: 5 Lessons on Career and Leadership from Tina Knowles

Lesson 2: Find your passion.

After graduating from high school, Knowles said that she wasn’t 100% sure about what she wanted to do with her life, but she knew that she wanted to get out of Galveston and do something related to beauty and making women feel good.

She went to California to work as a makeup artist for a Japanese company; she was the only African American woman there. She also moved to Denver for a little while and did a bit of modeling.

“All of these were tools that came back to me that I didn’t know I was getting at the time. And that’s how God works. Sometimes you don’t understand it, but he is giving you things that you can take out of the toolbox,” said Knowles.