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Culture #1 Sriram Personal Purpose

(Visual Description: Sriram looks through a stack of old photographs.)

That's my great grandmother. She told me the very first story I heard. I lost my dad when I was three. I went to school, came back crying that I did not have a father. She told me that there are great personalities who don't have fathers and told me a story about a very inspirational woman. Life was pretty basic growing up in India.

(Visual Description: Sriram Raghavan, Strategy & Alignment Director, Truist)

I was raised by my great grandparents first and then my grandparents. My grandparents would tell stories as a way of connecting with us and showing us that they cared enough to make our lives just a little better every day.

(Visual Description: Now, all these years later Sriram is a Marketing Transformation Manager at Truist.)

My whole professional life is about making complex connections a little simpler and easier for people.

The technological connections I helped bring to Truist enable us to further our connection with our teammates, our clients, and our communities.

But they do more than that. They actually help tell us our story. Well, I've always loved my work. I always had this feeling like there was something more that I was meant to do.

It was then that I began to see my personal purpose.

(Visual Description: Sriram began using storytelling to help children in his community understand what it means to live with purpose and meaning.)

The king was worried and thought to himself. My children will grow up one day. Oh, King. It takes a minimum of 12 years to learn grammar alone.

When your life story connects almost effortlessly with your present-day life at work, at home, and in your community in a way that shows care and makes the world just a little better.

That, to me, is finding your personal purpose. Every time you tell a story to a child, the eyes light up. Are into the characters. They imbibe lessons from it automatically. I'm also living Truist's purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities, and I can't help but smile when I imagine the impact my stories will have on my kids.

Just like the impact my grandparents had on me. To me, that's what it's all about. Making lives better by caring.

My name is Sriram Raghavan, and I'm a Truist teammate and I'm living on purpose.

(Visual Description: Truist title and logo)

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Culture #2

(Visual Description: Lindsey looks through a stack of old photographs.)

Education was a really big part of my childhood. My mom focused on education, and I think that she got that from my grandmother. She was an educator in the school systems in North Carolina and had to educate students and in particular brown students when access to education was limited.

(Visual Description: Lindsey Joyner, Director of Enterprise Recruiting and Programs, Truist)

The two constants in life are change and choice, and I have a passion for finding the possibilities.

My mom raised me on her own, which came with a lot of joy, but also a lot of challenge. The week before I was planning to leave to go to college, we received a call that we needed an additional $5,000 in order for the tuition to be paid to money. The school that wasn't my first choice, stepped in.

I went on campus and decided to make the most of my four years there. When I look back over the four years, I had an opportunity to lead teams to start organizations that would help women of color on this campus. And it's so rewarding to think that all of those things came from embracing something that didn't go my way.

Life wasn't without its challenges from there, though. After college, I met my husband, Andre. He was larger than life to me and to so many others. We married, had two young boys, and we're so very happy. We thought we would spend the rest of our lives raising them together. That night we went to sleep and he woke me up and he said, Babe, you need to call an ambulance.

And Andre was having a heart attack and then I remember when he actually passed and I remember going into the room and the moment of just having to remember to get it together, because I had two boys that I had to go home to that went to sleep with their daddy and would wake up and he wouldn't be there.

(Visual Description: In her most difficult moment, Lindsey decided not to give up on her purpose.)

I choose to move forward as a single mom, raising our two sons and teaching them to face life's challenges and find the possibilities.

(Visual Description: Lindsay spending time with her kids in the park)

At Truist, I get to live out my purpose by helping others see the options available for growth that may never been known. My role enables me to work with others, to inspire them to seek out opportunities, believe in themselves, and open doors that may have previously been closed.

My name is Lindsey Joyner. I'm a Truist teammate and I'm living on purpose.

(Visual Description: Truist title and logo)

Disclosure:

Truist Bank, Member FDIC ©2022 Truist Bank Corporation. Truist, the Truist logo and Truist Purple are service marks of the Truist Financial Corporation. Truist, the Truist logo and Truist Purple are service marks of the Truist Financial Corporation.