Unlock Your Leadership Potential

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1:33 and my mission is to help women succeed and tap into their full potential. I want to reach a million plus women around the world to become the leaders they are meant to be. So if you want to move into a management or executive level position, or maybe you are a female veteran transitioning out of the military into business entrepreneurship, then reach out to the Executive Women's Success Institute at three zero one six nine three three two eight four. Let us get you on the fast track to success. Well. Hello, and welcome to the Success for Women's Show, where you can view us on Talk for TV and listen to us on the Women for Women Network. I am doctor Madeline Ann Lewis your host, and my mission is to help women accelerate the path to success. Well, today's topic is Unlock your Leadership Potential and my guest is Miss Vicky Wright Hamilton. Let me just give you a little bit of background on her. Vicky Right Hamilton is a season executive coach and dynamic keynote speaker, renowned for her empowering influence on entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. As the

3:10 CEO of v WH Consulting, she combines her rich experience in business leadership with a personalized coaching approach, guiding clients towards unparalleled success. Her unique game face, methodology, and inspirational journey as a black woman in tech and business have made her a sought after coach and speaker. Well, today I'd like to present to you, miss Vicki Wright Hamilton to the Successful Women's Show. Hello, Wow, how are you? It's I'm blessed and so fortunate to be here. Well, thank you so much. Well, you know, I always started off by giving my audience the standard bio on my guests, but then I like to ask the guests to just tell us what you want us to know about Vicky Wright Hamilton. Well, thank you so much for asking.

4:15 But you know when I think about bios, when people ask, oh, well tell me about your bio, I don't really want to tell you about me. First of all, I am a child of God, He's my number one. I take care of my family. I then want to help the community and help others to continue to grow. So as I continue to do that, I am a proud mother of two grown men, a daughter in law, my son's girlfriend, and I have four grandchildren. My heart throbs the ones I love, the mother's right They always say, you can't love a child, you can't love anybody anymore. You love your children, Well, let's just that you love them a little bit differently. Okay, Okay. So my foundation of everything I have done all my life has been around how do you manage change, how do you deal with the expected, the importance of decisions, and then how I can reach back and help others. So I have been in corporate America, I've been in nonprofits.

5:25 I've you know, done a lot of things in my career and have had the opportunity to be exposed to a lot. And what I really want to do and what I want my legacy to be is I have reached back. I have served others and I have helped them to grow to their full potential, even when they didn't see it themselves. Absolutely. Now see, you are my kind of lady. So tell us. Have you ever had to face a decis decision between your job and your family? Yes? I have, and I want to share a little story with you in your audience just to indicate how impactful these kinds of decisions can be. As being a black woman in technology and over a huge department at a very young age, we had a very major project that was supposed to be launched, and I had worked all these hours and nights and weekends, and my team had just put in everything. I was so excited about this launch. The morning of the launch, I walk into office. I've been there about thirty minutes and at RINT and I pick up the phone and I say, hello, Vicky, this is Carolyn from Arthur's daycare, and I just wanted to let you know.

6:56 He's not feeling well. He's sick, he's growing up. He's got a fever. You have to come and pick him up. I looked at the phone and then I said, okay, come on my way. My palm started sweating, and I said, oh my gosh, there's our big launch. My boss is going to kill me. But it doesn't matter. In that taking that chource was all about what am I going to do for my child? So down the hallway and I looked at him and I said, okay, my son is sick. I gotta go get him. I was able to get a doctor's appointment. I have a girlfriend that's going to meet me as I was a mom's going to meet me pick him up so I can come back to work and to my surprise, he looked at me.

7:50 He said, what do you mean you're going to take him to the doctor and hire you to take care of your kids? I hired you to do a job. Yeah. No, he didn't just say that to me. And I looked at him just as easy. He wasn't even thinking, and I said, look, you do what you gotta do. I'm going to take care of my son and I'll be back. So I did exactly what I said I was gonna do to the doctor. Got madisine my girlfriend picked me up, and I'm on the way back to the office. As I get back on the road going to the office, I said, oh my god, he has the power of the choice to lock me out.

8:33 He could lock the gates, he could lock the door. I have to get back and there wouldn't be a job. And I went through my mind first, and then I looked up and said, nope, my God has me. It's gonna be okay. I can't call it. It's gonna be okay. I did what I needed to do. Well. Of course, the doors were open, get inside, and I talked to my team. Hard things going, We were right on track. Things were just going well. I was saying, so I go back and continue to work. A little bit later, I walk down the hallway and I walk into my boss and he goes, we better get this done on time. You know that there's a lot of state and we could lose a whole lot of money.

9:16 And I politely looked up him with a smile and I said, we are right on target. It's going to be just fine. In that moment, that day, I learned the importance of doing what you know is right, yes, and being willing to take on whatever consequence was going to be there. Because I knew that it was going to be all right. There was nothing I could do about it, couldn't change it was going to be okay, But I had to go take care of my child. That is not an option. So at a very very young age, I understood the importance of being able to make those are decisions. But stand by him, Wow, absolutely. I mean I thought you were going to say that once you ran into him and saw him, he would have had a change of heart.

10:16 But apparently not. Wow, not during those days. I mean, you know, I'm less face, and I'm an African American woman, I'm in technology. Very few of us existed much less running a major, large corp corporation installation, and so there was a lot of pressure that was there. So I didn't expect the niceness after I got the response that he was sitting, but I thought he would he would also be happy that I found alternatives, I found choices, I was able to make it work. So I just felt like, you know, this is going to be all rotten.

10:58 So I did have hys. I knew what era I was working in, I knew the environment, and I knew the culture. And that didn't say a whole lot for him either. I tell you that's a true statement. So, yeah, you mentioned about being a black woman in the tech industry. Tell us how did you navigate the challenges as a woman in the tech industry. Well, you know, when I first started out in technology, now let's be fair, I walked in the door nervous, scared, not knowing whether I was going to be able to do anything, if I was going to be able to make it, because I didn't see anybody who looked like me, and it was like, who am I going to talk to, Who's going to help me, Who's going to guide me? And that's when I felt the pressure. It's all on my own shoulders. So I thought about what's the best way for me to show success, for me to be able to show I have deserved to be here and that I'm my willingness to do the work and the efforts that it takes. Because I was running twenty four y seventy three sixty five organizations. Some of the industries I was in or life or death and pharmaceutical so it was just a lot of pressure. And the one thing that my mother would say to me, and she was during she was very active as an activist during the civil rights movement, and she said, you know, one one of the best things you

12:31 can do is when you don't know, is sit back, listen and observe. But I want you to listen to something particular. Listen to the words they say, the way in which they say them, and the methods that they tell you to follow, because there's nothing more powerful than to give them those words right back, because then they came fe So I began to learn how to really pay attention. And I remember I was sitting in a meeting and something came up and I repeated back to my boss what he had said to me. And it shut him up. He couldn't say a word because it was you taught me that, right, you showed me how to do that. It then leveraged on in technology, where I also knew you had to continuously learn, don't stop learning. That meant I had to read.

13:33 I had this thing on top of what was coming. And we know technology changes all the time, so it's about what's happening, what's coming down the pipe. So when they would have conversations, I could contribute. It was in Homa for the first time that I got a description. Took Wall Street Journal. Yep, Wall Street Journal. I was not bringing Wall Street Journal, but all the time, and I wanted to know what was happening in the world. I wanted to be able to have those conversations. I needed them to know who was not just a statue. I wouldn't he just because I was black and female. I had something to offer, even though I was so many times in technology. That's why I was here so that the waters by listening, paying attention, understanding, so I could begin to read the TV's of all the things around me and the culture and the strategy that no one was going to tell me. No one was going to give to you. How do you need to succeed? Absolutely? And you know that is so so true. I mean, I remember even when I was in my career that that was one of the things that I realized. You know, that you have to stay on top of your industry, you really do, because being, you know, a black woman in certain industries, you're

15:05 gonna always be looked at as though she don't know what she's talking about, or she you know, But so you have to always be almost a step ahead, two steps ahead as a matter of fact, so that when you open your mouth it's definitely you know, you have the facts and you know what you're talking about. And that's because you're always gonna be contradicted. That's what I found that out a long time ago too, that we're always going to be contradicted by someone that's sitting out there listening to what you have to say. And that's it's so unfortunate that we have to go through all of this just because we do have the knowledge and we have the skills to be there. But those that you know are there don't think that we really should be there. For one but even that we are there, but we don't know what we're talking about. That is so a fox. Yeah, not a thing that impacts. That is when you are in a position that they don't expect us to be able to speak well, they don't expect us to be able to show up that we understand what it looks like. They don't expect any of that. And after I started my career, I guess I had been working maybe six seven years, and yes I had been a manager and leading organizations, but the work, they would always say to me, you're the acception. That's an exception to what to what expecting? What do you mean? I'm the acceptance. You can well, you can communicate,

16:38 you can write, well, you understand technologists. I'm not the exception. I'm just the only ones who took the time to get to know that's been around you. There's many of us out there, right, there's an exception here. So it's your bias that's making you think I'm an exception. But I'm not an exception. Yeah. Yeah, I used to get all the time because you know, I'm from New Orleans. So the way they would approach me is, oh, you don't sound like you're from a New Orleans. It's like, oh, I guess so because I can string two sentences together, you know exactly those preconceived notions that are out there annoying it really is. It's like what did you expect? You know, sometimes you just want to just slap a material. But tell me this now, and here's something that I saw and even see when I'm dealing with some of the ladies that I deal with. You know, those limiting self limiting beliefs. What strategies can an entrepreneur use to overcome limiting beliefs? Because that is a sometimes can be a problem. You know, it's right. And the thing is is that I'll be the first to say entrepreneurship is not for the weak at heart. First of all, you have to be willing to take the ups, the downs. There's swings, there's lows, there's highs. You have

18:11 to be willing to go through the journey in order to get to the destination and not and not just focus on the destination that you want, right because it is a journey. So the very first thing when you think about entrepreneurship is mindset. Where is my mind? What do I want to accomplish? What am I thinking about accomplishing? What does that mean to me. The second thing that I think you have to do is you have to turn fear into daily aspirations and visions. You don't believe, how can you expect anybody else to believe it. So we have to be confident in what we're doing.

18:52 But there's a way to do that. Be confident in doing the things that you're already expert at. Ever gift you have, you are an expert in that gift. You have a gift to offer someone. That gift is going to be the biggest thing to take your entrepreneurship forward. So because you're comfortable and confident in that knowledge, let it shine. You deserve to have it. Let it shine. So you have to love that product or service that you are passionate about, so you can expect the positive outcomes, because there's gonna be some hard days, yes days when you're like, Okay, wait a minute, did I make the right decision here? So little going down the path that I really want to do. So entrepreneurs have to open their mind up to the art of the possible and be willing to go through all the challenges so that all those tests you go through become a true testimony at the endely. What thing is to keep your mind right is that you have to reach back and be willing to work with others. Tall others, seek others that got guidance and advice, because just because you're an entrepreneur doesn't mean you know everything. A through Z. There you go, there you go. We can all learn. We can all learn from someone about someone.

20:25 Absolutely wow. So can you share with us a success story from your coaching that may have impacted you deeply? Oh my gosh, there's one that comes to mind for my leadership coaching, and then there's also one that I have from a business coaching client. But I'll start with my leadership. I was coaching a leader. And let me first say I believer. I believe a leader is at all levels are titled that make you a leader? Just because you got a title that me and your leader, that's we all are a leader of of ourselves if nothing else right, So I always say you're your own CEO. But I was coaching this leader who came from being a welfare her early single mom and a teenage at her teenage years, living in shelters on the street, et cetera. And to watch her go from there to actually getting her career first started and moving forward and making up her mind what she wanted to do. She wanted to go back to school, she wanted to get her masters, she wanted to move forward. So even after finally getting married and having children, she was willing to do all these things while working and dedicate herself because she had a pigeon. And then that one day when she got ready to excel and got that job and she's now sitting

21:56 at a senior level EXEUS, I can a multi time billion dollar organization. You go from welfare to that, you go from not having to that. Me back, I felt like I was on top of the world watching her and it inspired me. She was coming me for coaching. It inspired me more. I was like, if she can do this, I can do this over here. It became one of those things that it was an inspiration for both of us and that relationship has just continued and continued and continued. But to watch her grow and overcome the obstacles, the challenges because she went through I don't know if I'll ever get there, and are they going to give me an opportunity? Will I get a chance. I'll be glad one day when I can do this. So I had to create a vision board.

22:52 And one of the things was on a vision board is she wanted to do a commencement speech one day. I'll never forget the text to be a convincement stinker. I'm to be a convincement stinker. And I called her and I said, she said, yes, I had her on my vision board. I was thinking about it. I got a phone call and I'm going to be a convinced spiel. That is the power of hard work, manifestations and doing what's necessary to not forget. It may not be this year, it may not be next year, but the time will come when it's just right. So that story from a leadership coaching perspective, right, but it's also a testament to you giving also giving back because you know, with your help and your encouragement, she was also able to do that too. So that's a testament to your coaching abilities too. So well, I appreciate that.

23:56 You know, she says that to me all the time. It's gotten to the point that she caused me Auntie, and she's like, you just keep me going, You just keep me going. But you know, I want to share the gifts that God has given me the sertive and to help others absolutely. And you know, from a business perspective, I had a CEO of her company. She was really a solopreneur. And you know a lot of times when we're soopreneurs and we're just working a project or working in activity, we go, oh, I got a business. I got a business. Well, there's so much to do in a full fledged business and not just getting an opportunity of a ten ninety nine year there. And as we began to work together and began to look at, you know, what she wanted to do and where she wanted to go. I have watched her flourish from a solopreneur to a company employing many other people, doing many many other services and actually continuing to thrive to places she never thought she could go.

25:00 She was willing to listen, she was willing to explore, she was willing to think about doing things differently and not like I'm just stuck on doing it myself. So our coaching arrangement worked really, really well. But to watch that growth when at first she was like, I'm not sure if I could make fifty thousand dollars in one year, but to see her making well in the highest six digits. That So that's another one that I you know, that really really touched my heart in terms of working with someone, giving back and wanting to grow watching them grow. Wow. So what approach would you give to the audience to begin an entrepreneurship journey? First of all, every journey requires planning and preparing. The first thing you got to prepare is your mind. I'm willing to do this, I want this, I'm passionate about this. If you are passionate about your business, your clients, your customers, or anybody else isn't going to be passionate because all of that feeds through. People feed off your energy. They don't buy things to buy things.

26:15 They buy things because of the emotional feeling and the connection and they know like and trust you as you know right in terms of it. So, first of all, plan, prepare, and be passionate. Number two, understand your industry you want to get into. Is it a commodity? Is it or not? How many competitors do you have? What market do you want to serve? Is there a need? Because if you're going to do something in a market and it's over saturated, all you're doing is trying to take somebody take the same bucket and split it more ways, and everybody, you know, it's not enough in that bucket to get you where you want to be. So make sure you understand what the art of the possible opportunity is for the audience that you want to serve, and that means knowing your audience. The other thing I will say is that when you know your audience and you understand who your audience is, if your listeners don't hear anything else, make sure you can talk the language of the person that needs to receive the message, not the language you think they need to hear. And I like to use the example of a doctor and you go to the doctor and they give us results. They're talking in all this lingo. We don't understand what does that initial mean? What does that initial mean? I don't understand what does this mean? And then you said you the expert, so you understand that. I'll understand that, Jarny, I need to hear Layman's terms.

27:45 So I need you to talk to me in English. What does that really mean? Well, when we're talking to our audience, we have to talk to that pain in English. So if they're sitting over there and I'm hurting because I can't pay my light bill. I need to be able to tell me a message that says I'm gonna help you pay your life deal. Right, I need you to hit me where I'm hurting and you can see where that pain is or that need is. So I think it's really important that you understand your audience from their perspective at the very beginning, so you really are serving who your your ultimate client is or a customer is that you're looking for. And then lastly, as you're as you're developing all of that, you know it's also important to understand the structure of the business you want.

28:33 Is it LLC, is it an S corp? Is it a C court? What does that look like? What are tax benefits? What do I have to pay for in the business, my business license registry, all those kinds of things, so that you don't miss a beat and get surprises. And the best way to get started with all of this is to work with a business coach. You can work with you to share with you these things so you don't miss a beat, because you know, we don't know what we don't know until we get to the point where we made a mistake. It was I didn't know that. So getting guidance and understanding is extremely important as you move forward. Absolutely. Wow. So can you also share with us how or what kind of strategies a person would take for reconstructing uh their professional life maybe after being laid off. So I can speak to this very intimately because I, in our full transparency, I have been I've lost my job three times. First time I lost my job is I work myself out of a job and it was like I did what I was supposed to do and they no longer needed it anymore. The second thing that that happened was is that I I lost a job because we sold the business, Okay, so I had to start all over again. And then the third time

30:06 I lost my job is because they were uh the company had decided to move from one location to another and they were going to cut staff for all of us that were that were in this particular location. So having been through those experiences, I can tell you that when it comes to having to start over, first of all, let your emotions go, don't hold them in. Right, we all have to understand this is an emotional journey and it's the first step where you go through this shot, oh my god, what just happened to me? Yes, you know, I have no job, and then you all the worries about money and paying this and doing this, all those things start to come through your mind. During that time period. You need to be able to seek support people that you get support from. Don't hold it in, talk about it, and if you feel like you can't talk about it, get a journal right, because what happens is it comes through us, goes through our hands, so we can release We have to get to the point of releasing it right. And that also means practice self care those things that help you to release it as you're moving forward. The second thing is is once you get through the initial shop and it's like, okay, this is happening, you then gonna get angry. Why did they let me go? And not so and so I contributed this, I contributed that I did all these things. I just don't understand what does that mean.

31:40 I don't understand what this means. And you get mad. It's okay, get mad about it, get the anger, and then once you go through it, you can't change it. It's already happened. Absolutely Eventually as you process it, you're gonna get to the point that you're ready to explore and look for new opportunities as you're moving forward. Now, the thing when you start that opportunity is fear. So when you go through that fear, take that fear and let it and where you're fearful of, I may not get a job soon enough. I'm trying, I'm starting out, I'm looking, I have these skill sets. I won't get it. You have to stop it. That fear comes through when people are talking to you. That fear is you know, you become so you're it's almost like you're talking desperate that you're not letting your gifts and skill sets come through. You need to let them feel what you can bring to them and give to them. And so you don't want to have that fear as you're going through it. Right, And the last thing I'll say is focus on the present and not the past. You can't change the past. You can't do anything about it.

32:55 The thing you can say is what I learned from it. If high FI it's always twenty twenty, So what I learned from it? What could I have done differently? And because I learned that, and what I can do differently? What am I going to do differently going forward? And then let's get the plan in place and let's start marching forward and start deciding that that's what you want to do, that you're ready to move forward, You're going to take those things and don't hesitate to invest in yourself. A good one to take the number of people that I have coached and as you were coaching, it was either a matter of taking an extra skill set to get a skill during that period because that was part of your strategy of the next opportunity you wanted, and you had somebody to coach you through it. To help me go back. A lot of times we think, oh, I can't spend the money. I can't spend the money. How many times see you afford not to when you don't know the direction to go? Absolutely? Absolutely, And that's one thing that I think, UH, we have to learn to do more, especially women, We need to have that extra UH.

34:07 Coach is like an extra support for you. You know, when you're trying to get through something or reach a certain point, sometimes you do need someone just to look at something that you may not see, even something that you may not even see in yourself. They they may be able to see that for you. So tell us what's coming up on the horizon, anything coming up that you may have plan, any coaching programs, any books coming out, anything that you might want the audience to know that so that they can uh, you know, contact you like, Yeah, I want to I want to get in that program, let's go it on. Absolutely. I always have opportunities. One of the things that one of the things that I pride myself on gives me a competitive advantages. I don't believe it's a one size fits all, so I offer many products and services. I offer an days to fash cash for business owners that are trying to figure out how can I find that money, get that money to get started. I offer a ninety day position of market dominance that really helps you understand your market, your competition, how do I distinguish myself, What do I do from a branding perspective, what do I do from social media? How do I do my pricing? All those kinds of things. So I offer that program as well.

35:23 I also do one on one business coaching in tern of the helping business that those CEOs and Latin now I know we could do group but I really want you to contra everybody with me. I want to spend my time all I mean, and they're willing to invest at that level to be able to do that. From a from a leadership perspective, as I do all of my individual leadership opportunities, I really focus on the hearing now and the need that you have to get you to where you really want to be. So all of my programs and my leadership are customized. And because because of that, it allows me to have a lot of flexibility, which is another competitive advantage I have. I'm very flexible in terms of what I'm doing, and I try to meet my clients where they are because I know growth is going to happen. Once you show that what's happening, you get value. You understand the value that it continues to grow. So you want to meet from where they are to help them go and then you know. Lastly, I continue to do things in the technology industry. I do a lot on AI, I'm doing a lot in digital transformation. I'm doing to keep those skill sets up right. I'm doing a lot of change management because it's all around people. Allows you to continue to help people grow and develop within organizations.

36:42 Et cetera. So I try to keep things moving on all fronts of my offerings so that I stay current right in terms of what I'm doing and making things happen. And I do a lot of speaking, right. I think one of the things your audience can actually think about is, no matter what you do, when you go out and speak and you get credibility, it just adds more and more value to your toolbox. It gives you the tools you need in order to move forward where people will respect what you're what you're standing for, and the things that you're saying. So I do a lot of speaking, and I do a lot of getting back, you know, I do a lot of helping those that you know that need the help that can't afford it. In fact, I have a new season coming up on my YouTube channel. It's going to be released at the end of the month of Strategic Minds Making Money Moves. And it's where I invested in a platform for black businesses to come on and talk about what they do, who they serve, what they're all about, and we solve the strategic problem on air.

37:49 And I did the total investment for them because I wanted them to have an opportunity, and everybody can't afford that opportunity and to whom much is given much money? So when is that going to be released? When are you going to start that. It'll be the end of the end of February, so you'll start being postings going out as each show gets released. It's nine episodes of the show, and I'm really excited about this season coming up. It will be my set of my last nine of seventy two shows. And so there are other shows that are out on my YouTube did you write Hamilton, and that you can go and watch and see lots of strategies and businesses that are out there. And as we're talking about black is for a month, let's go help and serve these black businesses and help them grow and develop, right, absolutely absolutely so, tell us how can they reach out to you? If the viewers and the listeners wanted to reach you, what's the best way to contact you? Email you? Well, absolutely absolutely so.

38:55 I have a website Vicky Wrighthamilton dot Feel free to reach out to me there, feel free to join LinkedIn. I'm on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, all of them under Vicky right Hamilton. My Instagram is Vicky w. Hamilton, so you will be able to reach me anywhere. Feel free to send me an email at Vicky at Vickywrighthamilton dot com. I am here to serve and that's what I want to do, serve and help you reach your value, no matter what it is that you're looking to accomplish. Thank you so much. It has been a pleasure to have you on the show sharing your success nuggets with us. I tell you what I know that it took us a little while to connect, but we're here. We made it so we did. Thank you so much for coming. Enjoyed you and I will definitely be reaching out to you for something else that I'm doing that you may want to be a part of, so stay tuned. I appreciate that, and thank you so much for blessing me with this opportunity to speak with you and your audience. You're welcome. We were glad to have you. Okay, So I am now going to let everyone know what's coming up next with me what I will be doing again. Make sure that you get your copy of

40:27 the Own It anthology It's Your Life, Own It Unapologetically, and also the journal three hundred and sixty five days to Transformation. To order each book, you can get each one of them separately, or you can get both of them together. To order, you can go on my website which is www dot EXWSI dot com. There's a link where you can order them directly, or if you have any questions, of course, you can email me at info at EXWSI dot com. Make sure to tune into the next Black Business Olympics. It's coming up next week, which is February twenty six through March third. And of course, the Black Business Olympics is a fundraiser to provide scholarships and laptops to high school seniors going to college and also k through twelve entrepreneurs. The Black Business Olympics showcases black business, black business owners and corporations all around the world. And if you would like to be a speaker to showcase your business, you can email me at info at EXWSI dot com and just let me know. Put in the subject line speaker for Black Business Olympics and I'll reach back out to you. If you miss the show up to

41:58 Rise Up Virtual sum which aired at the end of January, which was January twenty fifth through twenty seven, you can still get the VIP access pass for ninety nine dollars. To get the access VIP access go to you can email me at info at EXWSI dot com and I will send you the link to be able to do so. I am also doing another virtual show up to Rise Up Summit and that will be in September September twenty six through the twenty eight So if you're interested in being a speaker on the platform this time, you can go to www. Speak at Show Up to Riseupsummit dot com that speak at Show Up to Rise upsummit dot com, or you can email me at info at EXWSI dot com for more information about becoming a speaker and save the date. Mark your calendar as the next Show Up to Rise Up Women's Retreat is scheduled for September thirteen through the fifteenth, twenty twenty four, and the location is going to be the Turf Valley Resort and Spot in Ellicott City.

43:22 So yes, now we know everything. If you want to be kept up to date, want your name placed on the list because you want to attend so you can get the rest of the information, you can email me at info at EXWSI dot com again that date is September thirteenth through the fifteen. Make sure you save the date mark your calendar. Turf Valley Resort and Spot in Ellaicott City. If you have not viewed my TEDx talk that I did in Vancouver, Canada, make sure that you do so. Of course, everything I've been doing around this topic show up to rise up that was the topic of my TEDx talk. To watch it on YouTube, just put in my name in the search box doctor Madeline and Lewis and it will come up. Or you can email me at info at EXWSI dot com. And I am just so excited because as of today it is now at one hundred ninety seven thousand and six hundred seven views. We are still getting out there and you know my goal is to reach one million plus views, So thank you. I want to thank all of you in advance who have supported, who have watched the video, who have shared the video, comment on a video. Please keep doing so, keep sending it out there so that we

44:52 can reach that million plus views. And finally, I am also a contributing writer to the own It magazine where I share nuggets and resources and article. I write an article for them every month and Own It magazine is a resource for personal, professional, and business development, so make sure you get a subscription and to do so, you can also go on my website which is www dot exwsi dot com to get an annual subscription. If you'd like to just view one of the copies, I can send you a digital copy so that you can see the magazine which is If that's the case, you can email me at info at EXWSI dot com. I would like to thank my guests again Mss Vicky Wright Hamilton for being here today sharing some great success nuggets.

45:52 I'd also like to thank my viewers and my listeners for joining me today. This is of course the success for women's show. I am doctor Madeline and Lewis your host and if you'd like to reach out to me, I am on all the social media platforms. You can email me at info at exwsi dot com or go to my website www dot exwsi dot com and while you're there, make sure you download my free three part video series on three things every woman should do to position herself for executive leadership. You can also make sure that you also subscribe to our YouTube channel. My YouTube channel and also subscribe to the W four WN channel Talk four TV channel. Subscribe to that also, and do not forget to like and share this episode with others.

46:52 Again, you have been watching the Success for Women's show. We're here every week and I am your host, Doctor Madline and Lewis helping women to accelerate the path to success. Thank you again to my guests for joining us. Thanks to my viewers and my listeners for always supporting us. I love you all to life, so as always be well and stay safe out there. Got the