What Does An Expert Look Like?
If you close your eyes and think of what an expert in your industry looks like, what visual comes to mind? If the image of a middle-aged white man appeared,[…]
Category: Professional Development
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Listen to The Platform Series
It’s easy to take for granted how much you know and not think it’s a big deal. But when we don’t appropriately value our knowledge and what it means to our audience, it can lead to challenges.
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7 Leadership Lessons from Parenthood
This week, my son, Deon, turned 27. I cannot believe I’ve been someone’s mother for almost three decades! Parenting has been both the toughest and most rewarding job I’ve ever[…]
Chris Rock and the 2022 Oscars: A Lesson in Professionalism
I’m not going to get into whether Will Smith slapping Chris Rock during the Oscars was staged or real, if Will was justified in defending his wife, or if we[…]
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How to Get More Public Speaking Opportunities
Have you been tapped to give a keynote, sit on a panel discussion or deliver a training presentation and realize you want to do more speaking? If you were given[…]
Share Your Knowledge and Build Your Legacy
Are you an expert, coach or consultant who knows you’re called to serve others in a bigger way? If so, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by all the tools available to[…]
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Startup Life Support Book Club
In Michael Gerber’s best-selling book, The E-Myth, he discusses the danger of spending all your time working in your business while rarely working on your business – focusing on the[…]
Small Business Planning Retreat – January 8
Does any of this sound familiar? You know you weren’t put on this earth to be an average person just going through the motions every day in your business. You[…]
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Perfection is an Illusion
Do you feel like you’re not pretty or polished enough to build a platform? Working in media, Sarah R. Adams has had a front-row seat to the insecurities we often have to work through when our work puts us on stages, in front of the camera or behind the microphone.
Building Your Business on Your Own Terms
La’Vista Jones is the Founder and CEO of 31 Marketplace, where she helps entrepreneurs bring order to the chaos of business and life by blending systematization and self care. In this episode, La’Vista discusses when the notion of self care became real for her as a person on the fast track in her corporate career and the day she, in her own words, “lost her mind” and how 31 Marketplace was born out of that experience.