Unlock Your Leadership Potential

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W four WN Radio. I got
the time And did you know women represent

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just three percent of Fortune five hundred
CEOs and less than fifteen percent of corporate

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executives at top companies worldwide. Have
you wondered what the secrets are to getting

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into the top ranks, whether in
the private or public sector. Do you

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want to figure out how to stop
being held back in your career? Are

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passed over for promotion, then you're
in the right place. Hi, I'm

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doctor Matlananne lewis President and CEO of
the Executive Women's Success Institute. I have

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decades of experience in the military,
the federal government, and corporate America,

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and my mission is to help women
succeed and tap into their full potential.

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I want to reach a million plus
women around the world to become the leaders

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they are meant to be. So
if you want to move into a management

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or executive level position, or maybe
you are a female veteran transitioning out of

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the military into business entrepreneurship, then
reach out to the Executive Women's Success Institute

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at three zero one six nine three
three two eight four. Let us get

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you on the fast track to success. Well. Hello, and welcome to

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the Success for Women's Show, where
you can view us on Talk for TV

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and listen to us on the Women
for Women Network. I am doctor Madeline

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Ann Lewis your host, and my
mission is to help women accelerate the path

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to success. Well, today's topic
is Unlock your Leadership Potential and my guest

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is Miss Vicky Wright Hamilton. Let
me just give you a little bit of

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background on her. Vicky Right Hamilton
is a season executive coach and dynamic keynote

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speaker, renowned for her empowering influence
on entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. As the

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CEO of v WH Consulting, she
combines her rich experience in business leadership with

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a personalized coaching approach, guiding clients
towards unparalleled success. Her unique game face,

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methodology, and inspirational journey as a
black woman in tech and business have

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made her a sought after coach and
speaker. Well, today I'd like to

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present to you, miss Vicki Wright
Hamilton to the Successful Women's Show. Hello,

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Wow, how are you? It's
I'm blessed and so fortunate to be

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here. Well, thank you so
much. Well, you know, I

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always started off by giving my audience
the standard bio on my guests, but

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then I like to ask the guests
to just tell us what you want us

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to know about Vicky Wright Hamilton.
Well, thank you so much for asking.

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But you know when I think about
bios, when people ask, oh,

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well tell me about your bio,
I don't really want to tell you

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about me. First of all,
I am a child of God, He's

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my number one. I take care
of my family. I then want to

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help the community and help others to
continue to grow. So as I continue

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to do that, I am a
proud mother of two grown men, a

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daughter in law, my son's girlfriend, and I have four grandchildren. My

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heart throbs the ones I love,
the mother's right They always say, you

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can't love a child, you can't
love anybody anymore. You love your children,

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Well, let's just that you love
them a little bit differently. Okay,

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Okay. So my foundation of everything
I have done all my life has

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been around how do you manage change, how do you deal with the expected,

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the importance of decisions, and then
how I can reach back and help

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others. So I have been in
corporate America, I've been in nonprofits.

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I've you know, done a lot
of things in my career and have had

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the opportunity to be exposed to a
lot. And what I really want to

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do and what I want my legacy
to be is I have reached back.

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I have served others and I have
helped them to grow to their full potential,

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even when they didn't see it themselves. Absolutely. Now see, you

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are my kind of lady. So
tell us. Have you ever had to

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face a decis decision between your job
and your family? Yes? I have,

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and I want to share a little
story with you in your audience just

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to indicate how impactful these kinds of
decisions can be. As being a black

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woman in technology and over a huge
department at a very young age, we

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had a very major project that was
supposed to be launched, and I had

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worked all these hours and nights and
weekends, and my team had just put

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in everything. I was so excited
about this launch. The morning of the

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launch, I walk into office.
I've been there about thirty minutes and at

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RINT and I pick up the phone
and I say, hello, Vicky,

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this is Carolyn from Arthur's daycare,
and I just wanted to let you know.

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He's not feeling well. He's sick, he's growing up. He's got

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a fever. You have to come
and pick him up. I looked at

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the phone and then I said,
okay, come on my way. My

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palm started sweating, and I said, oh my gosh, there's our big

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launch. My boss is going to
kill me. But it doesn't matter.

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In that taking that chource was all
about what am I going to do for

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my child? So down the hallway
and I looked at him and I said,

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okay, my son is sick.
I gotta go get him. I

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was able to get a doctor's appointment. I have a girlfriend that's going to

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meet me as I was a mom's
going to meet me pick him up so

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I can come back to work and
to my surprise, he looked at me.

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He said, what do you mean
you're going to take him to the

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doctor and hire you to take care
of your kids? I hired you to

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do a job. Yeah. No, he didn't just say that to me.

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And I looked at him just as
easy. He wasn't even thinking,

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and I said, look, you
do what you gotta do. I'm going

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to take care of my son and
I'll be back. So I did exactly

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what I said I was gonna do
to the doctor. Got madisine my girlfriend

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picked me up, and I'm on
the way back to the office. As

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I get back on the road going
to the office, I said, oh

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my god, he has the power
of the choice to lock me out.

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He could lock the gates, he
could lock the door. I have to

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get back and there wouldn't be a
job. And I went through my mind

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first, and then I looked up
and said, nope, my God has

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me. It's gonna be okay.
I can't call it. It's gonna be

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okay. I did what I needed
to do. Well. Of course,

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the doors were open, get inside, and I talked to my team.

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Hard things going, We were right
on track. Things were just going well.

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I was saying, so I go
back and continue to work. A

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little bit later, I walk down
the hallway and I walk into my boss

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and he goes, we better get
this done on time. You know that

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there's a lot of state and we
could lose a whole lot of money.

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And I politely looked up him with
a smile and I said, we are

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right on target. It's going to
be just fine. In that moment,

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that day, I learned the importance
of doing what you know is right,

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yes, and being willing to take
on whatever consequence was going to be there.

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Because I knew that it was going
to be all right. There was

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nothing I could do about it,
couldn't change it was going to be okay,

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But I had to go take care
of my child. That is not

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an option. So at a very
very young age, I understood the importance

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of being able to make those are
decisions. But stand by him, Wow,

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absolutely. I mean I thought you
were going to say that once you

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ran into him and saw him,
he would have had a change of heart.

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But apparently not. Wow, not
during those days. I mean,

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you know, I'm less face,
and I'm an African American woman, I'm

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in technology. Very few of us
existed much less running a major, large

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corp corporation installation, and so there
was a lot of pressure that was there.

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So I didn't expect the niceness after
I got the response that he was

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sitting, but I thought he would
he would also be happy that I found

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alternatives, I found choices, I
was able to make it work. So

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I just felt like, you know, this is going to be all rotten.

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So I did have hys. I
knew what era I was working in,

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I knew the environment, and I
knew the culture. And that didn't

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say a whole lot for him either. I tell you that's a true statement.

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So, yeah, you mentioned about
being a black woman in the tech

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industry. Tell us how did you
navigate the challenges as a woman in the

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tech industry. Well, you know, when I first started out in technology,

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now let's be fair, I walked
in the door nervous, scared,

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not knowing whether I was going to
be able to do anything, if I

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was going to be able to make
it, because I didn't see anybody who

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looked like me, and it was
like, who am I going to talk

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to, Who's going to help me, Who's going to guide me? And

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that's when I felt the pressure.
It's all on my own shoulders. So

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I thought about what's the best way
for me to show success, for me

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to be able to show I have
deserved to be here and that I'm my

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willingness to do the work and the
efforts that it takes. Because I was

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running twenty four y seventy three sixty
five organizations. Some of the industries I

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was in or life or death and
pharmaceutical so it was just a lot of

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pressure. And the one thing that
my mother would say to me, and

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she was during she was very active
as an activist during the civil rights movement,

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and she said, you know,
one one of the best things you

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can do is when you don't know, is sit back, listen and observe.

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But I want you to listen to
something particular. Listen to the words

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they say, the way in which
they say them, and the methods that

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they tell you to follow, because
there's nothing more powerful than to give them

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those words right back, because then
they came fe So I began to learn

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how to really pay attention. And
I remember I was sitting in a meeting

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and something came up and I repeated
back to my boss what he had said

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to me. And it shut him
up. He couldn't say a word because

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it was you taught me that,
right, you showed me how to do

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that. It then leveraged on in
technology, where I also knew you had

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to continuously learn, don't stop learning. That meant I had to read.

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I had this thing on top of
what was coming. And we know technology

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changes all the time, so it's
about what's happening, what's coming down the

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pipe. So when they would have
conversations, I could contribute. It was

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in Homa for the first time that
I got a description. Took Wall Street

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Journal. Yep, Wall Street Journal. I was not bringing Wall Street Journal,

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but all the time, and I
wanted to know what was happening in

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the world. I wanted to be
able to have those conversations. I needed

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them to know who was not just
a statue. I wouldn't he just because

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I was black and female. I
had something to offer, even though I

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was so many times in technology.
That's why I was here so that the

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waters by listening, paying attention,
understanding, so I could begin to read

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the TV's of all the things around
me and the culture and the strategy that

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no one was going to tell me. No one was going to give to

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you. How do you need to
succeed? Absolutely? And you know that

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is so so true. I mean, I remember even when I was in

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my career that that was one of
the things that I realized. You know,

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that you have to stay on top
of your industry, you really do,

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because being, you know, a
black woman in certain industries, you're

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gonna always be looked at as though
she don't know what she's talking about,

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or she you know, But so
you have to always be almost a step

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ahead, two steps ahead as a
matter of fact, so that when you

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open your mouth it's definitely you know, you have the facts and you know

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what you're talking about. And that's
because you're always gonna be contradicted. That's

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what I found that out a long
time ago too, that we're always going

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to be contradicted by someone that's sitting
out there listening to what you have to

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say. And that's it's so unfortunate
that we have to go through all of

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this just because we do have the
knowledge and we have the skills to be

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there. But those that you know
are there don't think that we really should

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be there. For one but even
that we are there, but we don't

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know what we're talking about. That
is so a fox. Yeah, not

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a thing that impacts. That is
when you are in a position that they

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don't expect us to be able to
speak well, they don't expect us to

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be able to show up that we
understand what it looks like. They don't

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expect any of that. And after
I started my career, I guess I

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had been working maybe six seven years, and yes I had been a manager

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and leading organizations, but the work, they would always say to me,

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you're the acception. That's an exception
to what to what expecting? What do

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you mean? I'm the acceptance.
You can well, you can communicate,

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you can write, well, you
understand technologists. I'm not the exception.

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I'm just the only ones who took
the time to get to know that's been

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around you. There's many of us
out there, right, there's an exception

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here. So it's your bias that's
making you think I'm an exception. But

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I'm not an exception. Yeah.
Yeah, I used to get all the

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time because you know, I'm from
New Orleans. So the way they would

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approach me is, oh, you
don't sound like you're from a New Orleans.

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It's like, oh, I guess
so because I can string two sentences

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together, you know exactly those preconceived
notions that are out there annoying it really

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is. It's like what did you
expect? You know, sometimes you just

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want to just slap a material.
But tell me this now, and here's

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something that I saw and even see
when I'm dealing with some of the ladies

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that I deal with. You know, those limiting self limiting beliefs. What

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strategies can an entrepreneur use to overcome
limiting beliefs? Because that is a sometimes

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can be a problem. You know, it's right. And the thing is

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is that I'll be the first to
say entrepreneurship is not for the weak at

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heart. First of all, you
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the downs. There's swings, there's
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to be willing to go through the
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and not and not just focus on
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it is a journey. So the
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is mindset. Where is my mind? What do I want to accomplish?

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What am I thinking about accomplishing?
What does that mean to me. The

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second thing that I think you have
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into daily aspirations and visions. You
don't believe, how can you expect anybody

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else to believe it. So we
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But there's a way to do that. Be confident in doing the things

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that you're already expert at. Ever
gift you have, you are an expert

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in that gift. You have a
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going to be the biggest thing to
take your entrepreneurship forward. So because you're

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comfortable and confident in that knowledge,
let it shine. You deserve to have

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it. Let it shine. So
you have to love that product or service

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that you are passionate about, so
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there's gonna be some hard days,
yes days when you're like, Okay,

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wait a minute, did I make
the right decision here? So little going

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down the path that I really want
to do. So entrepreneurs have to open

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their mind up to the art of
the possible and be willing to go through

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all the challenges so that all those
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at the endely. What thing is
to keep your mind right is that you

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have to reach back and be willing
to work with others. Tall others,

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seek others that got guidance and advice, because just because you're an entrepreneur doesn't

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mean you know everything. A through
Z. There you go, there you

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go. We can all learn.
We can all learn from someone about someone.

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Absolutely wow. So can you share
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coaching that may have impacted you deeply? Oh my gosh, there's one that

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comes to mind for my leadership coaching, and then there's also one that I

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have from a business coaching client.
But I'll start with my leadership. I

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was coaching a leader. And let
me first say I believer. I believe

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a leader is at all levels are
titled that make you a leader? Just

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because you got a title that me
and your leader, that's we all are

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a leader of of ourselves if nothing
else right, So I always say you're

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your own CEO. But I was
coaching this leader who came from being a

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welfare her early single mom and a
teenage at her teenage years, living in

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shelters on the street, et cetera. And to watch her go from there

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to actually getting her career first started
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what she wanted to do. She
wanted to go back to school, she

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wanted to get her masters, she
wanted to move forward. So even after

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finally getting married and having children,
she was willing to do all these things

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while working and dedicate herself because she
had a pigeon. And then that one

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day when she got ready to excel
and got that job and she's now sitting

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at a senior level EXEUS, I
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You go from welfare to that,
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Me back, I felt like I
was on top of the world watching her

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and it inspired me. She was
coming me for coaching. It inspired me

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more. I was like, if
she can do this, I can do

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this over here. It became one
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for both of us and that relationship
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But to watch her grow and overcome
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through I don't know if I'll ever
get there, and are they going to

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give me an opportunity? Will I
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day when I can do this.
So I had to create a vision board.

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And one of the things was on
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do a commencement speech one day.
I'll never forget the text to be a

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convincement stinker. I'm to be a
convincement stinker. And I called her and

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I said, she said, yes, I had her on my vision board.

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I was thinking about it. I
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to be a convinced spiel. That
is the power of hard work, manifestations

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and doing what's necessary to not forget. It may not be this year,

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it may not be next year,
but the time will come when it's just

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right. So that story from a
leadership coaching perspective, right, but it's

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also a testament to you giving also
giving back because you know, with your

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help and your encouragement, she was
also able to do that too. So

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that's a testament to your coaching abilities
too. So well, I appreciate that.

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You know, she says that to
me all the time. It's gotten

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to the point that she caused me
Auntie, and she's like, you just

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keep me going, You just keep
me going. But you know, I

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want to share the gifts that God
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others absolutely. And you know,
from a business perspective, I had a

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CEO of her company. She was
really a solopreneur. And you know a

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lot of times when we're soopreneurs and
we're just working a project or working in

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activity, we go, oh,
I got a business. I got a

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business. Well, there's so much
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not just getting an opportunity of a
ten ninety nine year there. And as

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we began to work together and began
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she wanted to do and where she
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flourish from a solopreneur to a company
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other services and actually continuing to thrive
to places she never thought she could go.

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She was willing to listen, she
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willing to think about doing things differently
and not like I'm just stuck on doing

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it myself. So our coaching arrangement
worked really, really well. But to

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watch that growth when at first she
was like, I'm not sure if I

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could make fifty thousand dollars in one
year, but to see her making well

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in the highest six digits. That
So that's another one that I you know,

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that really really touched my heart in
terms of working with someone, giving

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back and wanting to grow watching them
grow. Wow. So what approach would

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you give to the audience to begin
an entrepreneurship journey? First of all,

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every journey requires planning and preparing.
The first thing you got to prepare is

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your mind. I'm willing to do
this, I want this, I'm passionate

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about this. If you are passionate
about your business, your clients, your

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customers, or anybody else isn't going
to be passionate because all of that feeds

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through. People feed off your energy. They don't buy things to buy things.

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They buy things because of the emotional
feeling and the connection and they know

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like and trust you as you know
right in terms of it. So,

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first of all, plan, prepare, and be passionate. Number two,

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understand your industry you want to get
into. Is it a commodity? Is

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it or not? How many competitors
do you have? What market do you

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want to serve? Is there a
need? Because if you're going to do

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something in a market and it's over
saturated, all you're doing is trying to

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take somebody take the same bucket and
split it more ways, and everybody,

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you know, it's not enough in
that bucket to get you where you want

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to be. So make sure you
understand what the art of the possible opportunity

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is for the audience that you want
to serve, and that means knowing your

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audience. The other thing I will
say is that when you know your audience

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and you understand who your audience is, if your listeners don't hear anything else,

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make sure you can talk the language
of the person that needs to receive

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the message, not the language you
think they need to hear. And I

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like to use the example of a
doctor and you go to the doctor and

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they give us results. They're talking
in all this lingo. We don't understand

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what does that initial mean? What
does that initial mean? I don't understand

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what does this mean? And then
you said you the expert, so you

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understand that. I'll understand that,
Jarny, I need to hear Layman's terms.

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So I need you to talk to
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really mean? Well, when we're
talking to our audience, we have to

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talk to that pain in English.
So if they're sitting over there and I'm

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hurting because I can't pay my light
bill. I need to be able to

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tell me a message that says I'm
gonna help you pay your life deal.

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Right, I need you to hit
me where I'm hurting and you can see

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where that pain is or that need
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that you understand your audience from their
perspective at the very beginning, so you

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really are serving who your your ultimate
client is or a customer is that you're

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looking for. And then lastly,
as you're as you're developing all of that,

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you know it's also important to understand
the structure of the business you want.

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Is it LLC, is it an
S corp? Is it a C

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court? What does that look like? What are tax benefits? What do

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I have to pay for in the
business, my business license registry, all

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those kinds of things, so that
you don't miss a beat and get surprises.

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And the best way to get started
with all of this is to work

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with a business coach. You can
work with you to share with you these

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things so you don't miss a beat, because you know, we don't know

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what we don't know until we get
to the point where we made a mistake.

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It was I didn't know that.
So getting guidance and understanding is extremely

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important as you move forward. Absolutely. Wow. So can you also share

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with us how or what kind of
strategies a person would take for reconstructing uh

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their professional life maybe after being laid
off. So I can speak to this

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very intimately because I, in our
full transparency, I have been I've lost

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my job three times. First time
I lost my job is I work myself

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out of a job and it was
like I did what I was supposed to

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do and they no longer needed it
anymore. The second thing that that happened

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was is that I I lost a
job because we sold the business, Okay,

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so I had to start all over
again. And then the third time

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I lost my job is because they
were uh the company had decided to move

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from one location to another and they
were going to cut staff for all of

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us that were that were in this
particular location. So having been through those

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experiences, I can tell you that
when it comes to having to start over,

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first of all, let your emotions
go, don't hold them in.

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Right, we all have to understand
this is an emotional journey and it's the

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first step where you go through this
shot, oh my god, what just

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happened to me? Yes, you
know, I have no job, and

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then you all the worries about money
and paying this and doing this, all

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those things start to come through your
mind. During that time period. You

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need to be able to seek support
people that you get support from. Don't

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hold it in, talk about it, and if you feel like you can't

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talk about it, get a journal
right, because what happens is it comes

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through us, goes through our hands, so we can release We have to

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get to the point of releasing it
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care those things that help you to
release it as you're moving forward. The

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second thing is is once you get
through the initial shop and it's like,

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okay, this is happening, you
then gonna get angry. Why did they

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let me go? And not so
and so I contributed this, I contributed

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that I did all these things.
I just don't understand what does that mean.

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I don't understand what this means.
And you get mad. It's okay,

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get mad about it, get the
anger, and then once you go

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through it, you can't change it. It's already happened. Absolutely Eventually as

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you process it, you're gonna get
to the point that you're ready to explore

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and look for new opportunities as you're
moving forward. Now, the thing when

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you start that opportunity is fear.
So when you go through that fear,

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take that fear and let it and
where you're fearful of, I may not

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get a job soon enough. I'm
trying, I'm starting out, I'm looking,

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I have these skill sets. I
won't get it. You have to

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stop it. That fear comes through
when people are talking to you. That

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fear is you know, you become
so you're it's almost like you're talking desperate

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that you're not letting your gifts and
skill sets come through. You need to

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let them feel what you can bring
to them and give to them. And

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so you don't want to have that
fear as you're going through it. Right,

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And the last thing I'll say is
focus on the present and not the

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past. You can't change the past. You can't do anything about it.

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The thing you can say is what
I learned from it. If high FI

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it's always twenty twenty, So what
I learned from it? What could I

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have done differently? And because I
learned that, and what I can do

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differently? What am I going to
do differently going forward? And then let's

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get the plan in place and let's
start marching forward and start deciding that that's

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what you want to do, that
you're ready to move forward, You're going

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to take those things and don't hesitate
to invest in yourself. A good one

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to take the number of people that
I have coached and as you were coaching,

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it was either a matter of taking
an extra skill set to get a

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skill during that period because that was
part of your strategy of the next opportunity

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you wanted, and you had somebody
to coach you through it. To help

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me go back. A lot of
times we think, oh, I can't

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spend the money. I can't spend
the money. How many times see you

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afford not to when you don't know
the direction to go? Absolutely? Absolutely,

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And that's one thing that I think, UH, we have to learn

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to do more, especially women,
We need to have that extra UH.

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Coach is like an extra support for
you. You know, when you're trying

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to get through something or reach a
certain point, sometimes you do need someone

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just to look at something that you
may not see, even something that you

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may not even see in yourself.
They they may be able to see that

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for you. So tell us what's
coming up on the horizon, anything coming

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up that you may have plan,
any coaching programs, any books coming out,

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anything that you might want the audience
to know that so that they can

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uh, you know, contact you
like, Yeah, I want to I

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want to get in that program,
let's go it on. Absolutely. I

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always have opportunities. One of the
things that one of the things that I

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pride myself on gives me a competitive
advantages. I don't believe it's a one

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size fits all, so I offer
many products and services. I offer an

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days to fash cash for business owners
that are trying to figure out how can

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I find that money, get that
money to get started. I offer a

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ninety day position of market dominance that
really helps you understand your market, your

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competition, how do I distinguish myself, What do I do from a branding

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perspective, what do I do from
social media? How do I do my

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pricing? All those kinds of things. So I offer that program as well.

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I also do one on one business
coaching in tern of the helping business

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that those CEOs and Latin now I
know we could do group but I really

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want you to contra everybody with me. I want to spend my time all

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I mean, and they're willing to
invest at that level to be able to

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do that. From a from a
leadership perspective, as I do all of

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my individual leadership opportunities, I really
focus on the hearing now and the need

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that you have to get you to
where you really want to be. So

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all of my programs and my leadership
are customized. And because because of that,

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it allows me to have a lot
of flexibility, which is another competitive

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advantage I have. I'm very flexible
in terms of what I'm doing, and

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I try to meet my clients where
they are because I know growth is going

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to happen. Once you show that
what's happening, you get value. You

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understand the value that it continues to
grow. So you want to meet from

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where they are to help them go
and then you know. Lastly, I

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continue to do things in the technology
industry. I do a lot on AI,

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I'm doing a lot in digital transformation. I'm doing to keep those skill

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sets up right. I'm doing a
lot of change management because it's all around

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people. Allows you to continue to
help people grow and develop within organizations.

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Et cetera. So I try to
keep things moving on all fronts of my

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offerings so that I stay current right
in terms of what I'm doing and making

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things happen. And I do a
lot of speaking, right. I think

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one of the things your audience can
actually think about is, no matter what

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you do, when you go out
and speak and you get credibility, it

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just adds more and more value to
your toolbox. It gives you the tools

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you need in order to move forward
where people will respect what you're what you're

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standing for, and the things that
you're saying. So I do a lot

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of speaking, and I do a
lot of getting back, you know,

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I do a lot of helping those
that you know that need the help that

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can't afford it. In fact,
I have a new season coming up on

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my YouTube channel. It's going to
be released at the end of the month

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of Strategic Minds Making Money Moves.
And it's where I invested in a platform

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for black businesses to come on and
talk about what they do, who they

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serve, what they're all about,
and we solve the strategic problem on air.

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And I did the total investment for
them because I wanted them to have

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an opportunity, and everybody can't afford
that opportunity and to whom much is given

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much money? So when is that
going to be released? When are you

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going to start that. It'll be
the end of the end of February,

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so you'll start being postings going out
as each show gets released. It's nine

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episodes of the show, and I'm
really excited about this season coming up.

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It will be my set of my
last nine of seventy two shows. And

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so there are other shows that are
out on my YouTube did you write Hamilton,

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and that you can go and watch
and see lots of strategies and businesses

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that are out there. And as
we're talking about black is for a month,

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let's go help and serve these black
businesses and help them grow and develop,

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right, absolutely absolutely so, tell
us how can they reach out to

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you? If the viewers and the
listeners wanted to reach you, what's the

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best way to contact you? Email
you? Well, absolutely absolutely so.

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I have a website Vicky Wrighthamilton dot
Feel free to reach out to me there,

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feel free to join LinkedIn. I'm
on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram,

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all of them under Vicky right Hamilton. My Instagram is Vicky w. Hamilton,

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so you will be able to reach
me anywhere. Feel free to send

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me an email at Vicky at Vickywrighthamilton
dot com. I am here to serve

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and that's what I want to do, serve and help you reach your value,

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no matter what it is that you're
looking to accomplish. Thank you so

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much. It has been a pleasure
to have you on the show sharing your

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success nuggets with us. I tell
you what I know that it took us

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a little while to connect, but
we're here. We made it so we

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did. Thank you so much for
coming. Enjoyed you and I will definitely

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be reaching out to you for something
else that I'm doing that you may want

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to be a part of, so
stay tuned. I appreciate that, and

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thank you so much for blessing me
with this opportunity to speak with you and

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your audience. You're welcome. We
were glad to have you. Okay,

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So I am now going to let
everyone know what's coming up next with me

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what I will be doing again.
Make sure that you get your copy of

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the Own It anthology It's Your Life, Own It Unapologetically, and also the

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journal three hundred and sixty five days
to Transformation. To order each book,

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you can get each one of them
separately, or you can get both of

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them together. To order, you
can go on my website which is www

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dot EXWSI dot com. There's a
link where you can order them directly,

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or if you have any questions,
of course, you can email me at

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info at EXWSI dot com. Make
sure to tune into the next Black Business

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Olympics. It's coming up next week, which is February twenty six through March

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third. And of course, the
Black Business Olympics is a fundraiser to provide

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scholarships and laptops to high school seniors
going to college and also k through twelve

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entrepreneurs. The Black Business Olympics showcases
black business, black business owners and corporations

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all around the world. And if
you would like to be a speaker to

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showcase your business, you can email
me at info at EXWSI dot com and

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00:41:49.320 --> 00:41:53.079
just let me know. Put in
the subject line speaker for Black Business Olympics

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and I'll reach back out to you. If you miss the show up to

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Rise Up Virtual sum which aired at
the end of January, which was January

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twenty fifth through twenty seven, you
can still get the VIP access pass for

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ninety nine dollars. To get the
access VIP access go to you can email

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00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:22.039
me at info at EXWSI dot com
and I will send you the link to

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be able to do so. I
am also doing another virtual show up to

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Rise Up Summit and that will be
in September September twenty six through the twenty

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00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:39.840
eight So if you're interested in being
a speaker on the platform this time,

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you can go to www. Speak
at Show Up to Riseupsummit dot com that

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speak at Show Up to Rise upsummit
dot com, or you can email me

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00:42:52.760 --> 00:43:01.119
at info at EXWSI dot com for
more information about becoming a speaker and save

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the date. Mark your calendar as
the next Show Up to Rise Up Women's

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Retreat is scheduled for September thirteen through
the fifteenth, twenty twenty four, and

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the location is going to be the
Turf Valley Resort and Spot in Ellicott City.

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So yes, now we know everything. If you want to be kept

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up to date, want your name
placed on the list because you want to

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attend so you can get the rest
of the information, you can email me

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00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:42.079
at info at EXWSI dot com again
that date is September thirteenth through the fifteen.

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Make sure you save the date mark
your calendar. Turf Valley Resort and

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Spot in Ellaicott City. If you
have not viewed my TEDx talk that I

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did in Vancouver, Canada, make
sure that you do so. Of course,

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everything I've been doing around this topic
show up to rise up that was

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00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:07.360
the topic of my TEDx talk.
To watch it on YouTube, just put

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in my name in the search box
doctor Madeline and Lewis and it will come

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up. Or you can email me
at info at EXWSI dot com. And

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I am just so excited because as
of today it is now at one hundred

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00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:31.639
ninety seven thousand and six hundred seven
views. We are still getting out there

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and you know my goal is to
reach one million plus views, So thank

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you. I want to thank all
of you in advance who have supported,

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00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:46.159
who have watched the video, who
have shared the video, comment on a

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video. Please keep doing so,
keep sending it out there so that we

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00:44:52.719 --> 00:44:58.480
can reach that million plus views.
And finally, I am also a contributing

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writer to the own It magazine where
I share nuggets and resources and article.

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00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:09.760
I write an article for them every
month and Own It magazine is a resource

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for personal, professional, and business
development, so make sure you get a

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00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:19.320
subscription and to do so, you
can also go on my website which is

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00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:27.320
www dot exwsi dot com to get
an annual subscription. If you'd like to

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00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:32.199
just view one of the copies,
I can send you a digital copy so

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00:45:32.239 --> 00:45:36.679
that you can see the magazine which
is If that's the case, you can

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00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:45.599
email me at info at EXWSI dot
com. I would like to thank my

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guests again Mss Vicky Wright Hamilton for
being here today sharing some great success nuggets.

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I'd also like to thank my viewers
and my listeners for joining me today.

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This is of course the success for
women's show. I am doctor Madeline

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00:46:01.199 --> 00:46:06.400
and Lewis your host and if you'd
like to reach out to me, I

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00:46:06.480 --> 00:46:10.599
am on all the social media platforms. You can email me at info at

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00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:20.480
exwsi dot com or go to my
website www dot exwsi dot com and while

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00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:24.079
you're there, make sure you download
my free three part video series on three

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things every woman should do to position
herself for executive leadership. You can also

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make sure that you also subscribe to
our YouTube channel. My YouTube channel and

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also subscribe to the W four WN
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that also, and do not forget
to like and share this episode with others.

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00:46:52.440 --> 00:46:58.239
Again, you have been watching the
Success for Women's show. We're here

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00:46:58.320 --> 00:47:04.320
every week and I am your host, Doctor Madline and Lewis helping women to

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accelerate the path to success. Thank
you again to my guests for joining us.

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00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:15.000
Thanks to my viewers and my listeners
for always supporting us. I love

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you all to life, so as
always be well and stay safe out there. Got the