Carol is the creator of 'Spark your G.E.N.I.U.S.' and the initiative 'Women Living BIG', for women who are ready to get out of your comfort zones, realize their potential, and fully experience their lives.
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We go through certain things in order to make us ready for what's to come. To become who we are meant to be. Carol shares her amazing story that led her to find out what she was meant to offer the world and help other women succeed.
You have a gift that you are meant to share and someone needs your message. Find out the journey you need to take to find your unique gift.
Your biggest fear is around your biggest opportunity. Carol tells us how to move through the fear. Learn Carol's technique of how to break down the fear and mind map it to tackle it.
Heather Ann Havenwood, CEO of Havenwood Worldwide, LLC and Chief Sexy Boss, is a serial entrepreneur and is regarded as a top authority on internet marketing, business strategies and marketing. Since marketing her first online business in 1999, bringing together clients and personal coaches, she has played an active role in the online marketing world since before most even had a home computer.
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Do you feel limited by where you live? Find out why it does not matter where you live. No matter where you are you can create. You can choose your experience of life and move to your destination of prosperity.
Heather shares her secret to connecting with her audience. Why it's not about proving that you can help people but it's about the authenticity you offer.
Never keep anyone in your life that is not part of your fan club. Learn who are the people in your life who you should surround yourself with.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is when you can hear the end trash in your head, but you choose to move forward.
Amy Walker is a highly sought after keynote speaker, international executive business coach, radio show host, highly acclaimed author, and CEO/Founder of Amy Walker Consulting. Amy has been featured on television, radio and various global publications. As a business owner, leadership thought leader, sales guru, and marketing maven, Amy knows how to get results. Amy will motivate you and your team to create massive growth, increase productivity, and show up for success.
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Life is not meant to be comfortable. The question is which discomfort are you going to choose. Amy shares which brand of discomfort to embrace and how to select the one with the greatest reward.
When you are committed to your vision, it all comes together. There will always be stuff to throw you off course. Amy talks about the obstacles she has faced in running her business and what it takes to get through the road blocks.
Every time we go to take a leap, there is going to be fear – so recognize that fear is part of your journey and don’t desire it to be gone. Listen in as Amy discusses how to find out what the fear is teaching you and how to keep moving.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is following your vision and your inspiration and your belief no matter what.
Deborah Austin is an award winning speaker, writer, trainer, coach and consultant. Her mission involves helping people to have a greater impact in the world through enhanced communication and leadership skills. As a transformation expert, Deborah empowers people to elevate their public speaking and presentation skills to the highest level.
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Are you an introvert? So are Deborah and Jena! Listen in as they tell the audience the steps to take to get out there and speak in front of audiences (while staying authentic to who you are).
Wanting to start something in business but feel you aren’t ready? Deborah shares what motivated her to do what it takes to get started and launch her own business.
To make your goals a reality – you have to let go of some of the activities that are consuming your time and not moving you forward. Deborah discusses the strategies and course of action you need to take to let go of these activities and focus on the ones that are going to make your dreams happen.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is being true to yourself and to your own value system. When we know our values we can take those risks and make those choices that are in alignment with our value system.
Karen Lynn Maher is a leading authority on writing and self-publishing expert nonfiction. With an English degree from Seattle University and 15 years in corporate communications, Maher founded LegacyONE Authors to help business professionals with the process of writing books. Since 2001, she’s developed more than 50 authors, guiding them from concept to published book.
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Karen shares her method for how to face the fear. Find out why you have to stop, breathe through it, and ask yourself what is the truth of what is happening.
It’s okay to talk and cry at the same time; Karen discusses why it is a natural process to be accepting of crying. Learn how crying can be impactful and not a weakness.
Be in touch with who you are. Discover how you’re meant to find out your purpose and what you’re meant to do in the world.
Want to write a book. Listen in to find out how to create a plan to get your book written.
Stephanie Merchant is the Founder of The Nutrition Mom, LLC. She is a Food & Lifestyle Expert, a best-selling author and speaker. Stephanie helps families create healthy habits that last a lifetime. Through food choices and through life choices, busy Moms are finding balance and nourishment without struggle and stress.
Stephanie has been featured on Dr. Oz Show, SHAPE magazine and many other media outlets.
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Get Stephanie's advice for working through the fear. Working through fear is almost like a muscle. The more you work it, the easier it gets.
Hear Stephanie's story on what shifted things for her to go from paralegal into something new. We have to walk our own talk first so we can hold the space for everyone else to have it.
Dream without limitation. Don't hold back. What is it that you want to do. Listen in to what Stephanie has to tell you to inspire you to keep moving forward. Be bold and step into it.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is putting the fear aside. Shift the fear and instead of looking at like it is fear, look at it like it's excitement.
Dr. Venus Opal Reese, Your "Black Women Millionaires" Mentor™ Inspirational Speaker, Black Women Millionaire Mentor™, and founder/CEO of Defy Impossible, Inc., Dr. Venus Opal Reese has been featured in Forbes, Ebony, Black Enterprise, on ABC News, CBS News, PBS, in Glamour magazine, Diversity Inc., the Associated Press, on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, MegaFeast and is a regular contributor to Heart and Soul Magazine/TV.
Dr. Venus was a walking statistic. She went from living on the "mean" streets of Baltimore, to Stanford PhD, to seven-figure sister. Her business, Defy Impossible, Inc., has grossed $2.3 million just four years after launching. Her clients have generated over 7 million in revenue using her PROVEN programs, systems and strategies. Dr. Venus knows what it takes to break through inner glass ceilings that limit performance. She teaches purpose-driven, high-achieving Black Women professionals, entrepreneurs, how to defy their impossible to break the million-dollar mark—on their own terms.
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Have you reached the glass ceiling but want to get to the next stage and grow your business? "You cannot get to where you're going to be, being who use to be." ~ Dr. Venus. Find out the path Dr. Venus wants you to take to connect to the Universe, heal and arrive at the next level - so you can GROW AND PROSPER.
Do you want more money? Dr. Venus discusses how money is a function of your ability to receive and that your external world reflects who you are.
Something in you says there is more to life than this. Listen in as Dr. Venus shares with us how if you can feel it, you will seek it. When you want something different you will be willing to do something different. There is a way, there is a how. You can go forward.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is your willingness to get in a street fight with yourself on your own behalf. The bravest fight is the fight for yourself. The first person to convince is yourself.
Scott is a high performance coach, sought after speaker, published author, and Entrepreneur. As a high performance coach, Scott helps business owners increase sales, get booked solid with clients, break through barriers, and become high performers.
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To grow as an entrepreneur you need to surround yourself with the right people. Who are the right people? Get Scott's answer.
What to focus on. Listen in for a powerful message on how to keep moving forward when unfavorable stuff happens - so that you can achieve your goals.
Scott's Success Hat. Find out how to get a routine that lets you make time for yourself to get grounded and have the energy moving through you that will lead you to make the right decisions and work effectively.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is staring the fear in the face and knowing that on the other side of it is a transformation.
Liz Scott is a marketing expert who works with entrepreneurs to do the right kind of marketing based on what stage of business they are in.
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Get Motivated! Liz has some tools that help her get through the tough days and stay motivated - and she shares them with us.
What's next for you in business? You have to look back at what you accomplished too. Find out about the POWER of looking back and what it can do for you to bring you forward.
Do you want to get out to the world your excellence but don't want to get bogged down with all the tasks of running your business? Listen in for Liz's advice on how to stay in your zone of excellence and still have your business function effectively.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is walking away from a stable corporate job to align yourself with your purpose - trusting that the path will unfold and you will arrive at the right destination.
Pat Iyer works one on one with business owners who want to get more clients, earn more money and avoid expensive mistakes. Pat draws on her deep expertise as an independent legal nurse consultant. Pat has written, coauthored or edited over 675 books, chapters, case studies, online courses or articles about nursing or legal nurse consulting.
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Sometimes you are at a breaking point and you have to make decisions that will require monumental changes in your life. Find out what to do during this time period – and the action steps to take to come out on top.
You need to take risks in business. Get Pat’s advice for when to take risks, what type of risks to take and the approach to take for each risk.
Surrounded by non-supportive people as you build your business? Find out how to handle the naysayers and stay positive and skyrocket forward in your journey with entrepreneurship.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is taking risk and trusting that what is going to happen is going to be right for you. Being able to let go of the perfectionism and take risk knowing that you will learn from it.
Lorraine Crowston is the owner of Eating Evolution and a Culinary Management graduate. Lorraine is a Certified Life Coach, a Nutritional Therapist and has a certificate in Sports and Exercise Nutrition. Her coaching practice focuses on two areas: emotional eating and stress fatigue.
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Discover how to put yourself in other people's shoes to find out if the product / service you are about to launch has a market ready to purchase it.
Do you stress eat? Get Lorraine's advice on what you could do to not eat when you are faced with stressful situations.
10 seconds is all you really need to get past the fear. You can move forward when something doesn't work out the way it's supposed to. Learn Lorraine's action steps to take so the worry doesn't sap your energy.
Why a solo-preneur needs a good support business group. Listen to hear about the importance of networking groups and the amazing benefits they can bring to your business. You don't need to go at it alone.
Kathleen Day is a professional organizer who works with business owners to upgrade their organizing skills, optimize their environments and learn how to sustain a game-changing shift in their relationship to time. She founded her company, LifeSmith University, in 2011 to deliver educational programs that teach people how to make wiser, more fulfilling and more effective choices about how they use their time.
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Discover the one thing you need to do to get started so you can start transform yourself to someone who is organized.
Are you overwhelmed where you plan to catch up at some point in the future but can’t seem to start today? Find out where to start so you can get in charge today!
The all or nothing syndrome. Learn the small changes you can start to make today prevent the pile up from happening.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is stepping outside of the fear and just trying out something new and experimenting with it.
Akeela Davis’s lifelong vocation is making a difference through innovation. Akeela’s own experiences with her highly engaged employees, coaching business leaders, and as an employee drives a deep passion for finding solutions to the epidemic infection of disengagement in today’s workplace.
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Find out if you are aligned with your reputation – the only thing that you can take with you when you leave this world.
Discover the importance of understanding who you are at the very core and what drives you. When you could see that it makes it easier.
Find out how to come to the truth of the matter to set you free. Is it the problem itself or how you are looking at the problem? Listen in for guidance on how to overcome your fear.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is having the courage to look yourself in the mirror and saying you can do this. Going after what you want with courage and tenacity.
Debbie Saviano is an advocate for Women and their role in Leadership. She has been working with 2 partners for over a year on a new business they will launch in 2016. It will be all day Events to support Women in the Leadership Journey.
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Learn about the abundance mindset and not the scarcity mindset. Find out why you need to see other women entrepreneurs as people who complement you and not as competitors.
Discover how to plan properly. Find out why you need to plan and why you shouldn’t over plan.
Are you unsure if you should go forward in business? Find out what you need to do for your confidence to increase.
Learn how to create your own very own mantra that can put an end to your self-limiting beliefs.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is taking the step despite the risk and the uncertainty.
Stacy Maynard helps businesses shorten the learning curve and guide them on a Strategic Social Media path to success on many of the popular social media platforms including LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Stacy helps clients create a unique plan so they can be social (not do social) and attract the right customer through building authentic online relationships so their business will be on a clear path to social media success.
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Learn about relationship building. How to use social media to build relationships online that will lead to relationships offline. Find out how social media adds value, connection and interaction.
Find out how by taking the time to listen to others you build successful relationships.
Discover why you don’t have to say yes to everything and why it’s okay to turn down opportunities. Learn about when to say yes and when to say no to opportunities that don’t speak to you.
Understand the importance of reaching out to others in business for help. Find out the resources you can use for assistance and who are the best types of business people to seek out for help.
J V Crum III helps entrepreneurs grow six and seven figure conscious businesses that combine making high profits with making a positive impact. He is a speaker, coach, Huffington Post Columnist, and best-selling author of “Conscious Millionaire: Grow Your Business by Making a Difference.”
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Learn how to change your internal thinking. First we have to change how we see ourselves in this world, then we can take off and achieve much higher levels of contribution to the world.
Discover how to make money that makes a positive value for your clients and the world.
Have an idea and want to know how to find the target market that is the best for you? Listen in to find out how to investigate the different target markets and then from your research determine the one that you need to work with.
Learn the tools that will make you aware of the business dynamics that are needed for your business grow to new levels.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is being bold to create the big vision that you want to create for your life and business and then going out and living it.
Ingrid Menninga is the Founder of Women Building Wealth, a movement dedicated to making conversations about money and building wealth cool, comfortable and FUN for women. Ingrid manages Women Building Wealth social clubs and conferences.
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Learn how to set the pricing for your business that will attract the right people. Get Ingrid’s expertise on how to value yourself and why that’s important.
Discover that even if you are not bringing in large quantity of revenue, you can still keep the right amount of money to advance your business. Find out the percentage Ingrid recommends.
Receive Ingrid’s advice on savings. Find out the plan you need to have, the importance of diversification and the magic number for savings.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is learning to put yourself out there – you have a personal limitation and you learn to love and embrace what you need to do to make your business a success.
Dana helps people get out of their own way and live – no excuses, no apologies - their most powerful, connected and fun-filled lives. With irreverence, humor and deep wisdom, Dana has a talent for directing you to the path of least resistance.
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Learn Dana's solutions for how to handle difficult situations that come up in business (low sales and debt) and come out on top .
Receive Dana's advice for what to focus on for growing your business: should you focus on growth profit or growth sales. Learn how to establish a clear cash flow projection.
The fear and doubt you have might not be yours. Fear might actually be about your excitement. Listen in to find out how to distinguish between fear that isn't yours and excitement that actually does belong to you.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is about raw and uncensored honesty. It takes a lot of bravery to be honest with yourself and other people.
Adele Spraggon, CEO of Shaped Within, has one role – to show entrepreneurs how to let go of subconscious patterns that prevent them from having the businesses they deserve. Adele invites all of us to take a step past our cultural and self-imposed boundaries and let go of subconscious patterns that block our success.
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Learn Adele's 4 Steps Technique on the steps to take to overcome fear and why this technique can put you back in control.
When we want to go forward in business, there are patterns that show up (fear of failure, comparing ourselves to others, not asking for the sale, etc.) that stop us from taking the next step. Listen in as Adele explains how to deconstruct patterns that will enable you to break free and achieve the success you deserve.
Do you have ideas but not know how to go forward? Do you sit still because you want everything to be perfect before you launch? Receive Adele's tips on how to overcome the need for perfection and put your ideas into action.
Michele PW (Pariza Wacek) is the best-selling author of “Love-Based Copywriting" books that teach how to write copy that attracts, inspires and invites, and the owner of Creative Concepts and Copywriting LLC, the premiere direct response copywriting and marketing agency through which she guides entrepreneurs in attracting more clients and boosting their business.
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Be careful when selecting your business mentors and coaches. If you get the wrong mentor, pick up and go find the right one. Stay the course regardless of what they say when you know something is right for you.
Wherever you are in your journey, be kind and gentle with yourself. Learn from it and grow from it. Remember you are doing the best you can.
When making choices - listen to your inner wisdom; your inner wisdom will tell you if its the right choice.
Your inner wisdom is love based and your inner critic is fear based. Your inner wisdom gives you the opportunity to choose. It won't harass you to make the right choice. It will let you make the right choice.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is being willing to do it even if you are still afraid. It's not the absence of fear but being in action regardless.
Adam Urbanski is the go-to guy for successful service professionals who want to quickly attract more clients, increase their sales, and make more profits. His students and clients often multiply their revenues and profits by two, five, and even 10 times in 90 days or less! Known worldwide as The Millionaire Marketing Mentor® Adam built and sold his first 7-figure business in less than 10 years starting with only $194 and a limited ability to speak English. Adam influences over 80,000 coaches, consultants, speakers, experts, online marketers and entrepreneurs, teaching them how to transform their limiting, time-intensive businesses into automated money making machines that Attract Clients Like Crazy®.
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Successful entrepreneurs are not chosen because of our abilities. We just persevere. The opportunity for entrepreneurship is available for everyone.
If you find yourself walking in the same direction as everyone else, it’s time to change directions and march in the opposite direction. Entrepreneurs stand up and question the establish rules. They go against the norm.
You have to P.A.T. people (Polarize, Entertain, Teach). You have to stand for something. You have to give good content that is educational and what your audience can use right away. That’s what matters.
There’s no one rule that applies to everything. Think for yourself and don’t just do what others are telling you. Do what works for you. It’s about how you show up. Be a leader and not a follower.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is experiencing whatever emotions you experience; taking the next despite these emotions (what’s the worst that can happen?) Make a choice rather than just react. Our responsibility it to become aware of how we react and choose to respond. Step into the brave.
Naomi Hardy is national speaker and a coach on relationships and empowerment!
Her area of expertise is romance. She offers fun, educational and entertaining topics that empower. Naomi provides insight to the dynamics of relationships and your power to affect those relationships whether business or personal. She inspires you and leaves you ready to move forward with at least one action item. From her talks, you will understand and want to own your power to create and have the joy you want in your professional and/or romantic relationships.
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A dream is just a dream. If there is ACTION then it becomes reality. You need to move to have your dream - that's what matters.
The more clearer and vivid is the vision that we have for ourselves and our future - then the more we can go forward.
You have to put your resources into a business. Sometimes we have to re-prioritize so the business has a chance. We can then appreciate more what we are working on.
It doesn't matter your field or your purpose. What's important is that you own it and know that there is a target audience for whatever you have to offer. Stop making your audience wait.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is admitting who you were and where you are now; that you changed. Change is required to move forward. Owning who you are.
Pat Mussieux is an author, television personality, internationally acclaimed speaker and business coach. Her newest book, “Stop Compromising and Make All the Money You Want (A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Starting Up and Starting Over)” was released in July 2013. She has also co-written “Leadership Gurus Speak Out!” contributing her wisdom and expertise in the fields of Human Resources, Sales, Marketing and Training.
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Anything is possible. It’s not about being more special or smarter. It’s about the guts you have and the actions you take to follow you through.
You have to know what you want and say it out loud. It doesn’t matter what others think – it’s about YOU being accountable to yourself and your word.
Choose the right people to be around – those who will build you up, will support you in your mission and encourage you to stay the course even in the face of adversity. Keep in mind that some people are only meant to be in your life for a season or for a reason and not forever.
Fear is lack of information. When you start to feel the positive anxiety, write it down. Then go on a search and ask the questions, do the research. Then once you have the information – you can make an informed decision.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is staying true to your mission. You need to stay focused on the work you need to do, keep the right people around you and keep going.
Erika is a specialist in working with women who do not want to have a corporate job but yet want to make money thru their own businesses.
She helps her clients get the Confidence, Motivation, Determination, Marketing Skills and & Sales Strategies that will help them become strong, powerful entrepreneurs who can make more money, command every aspect of their lives and Thrive No Matter What.
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When you are in charge of your financial destiny, that's when you become unstoppable.
Take action in the steps you are in at that moment and that will lead you to the next step. The more you get into the business of business (e.g. talking to prospects), the more you will find your mission. So the important thing is to start. Start now with whatever you have, but just start.
Once you find what works - then you need to repeat and do it again. Do it over and over again. What happens over time is you become faster at implementing. You become brave and unstoppable.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is moving forward in spite of fears. Get to a point of total honesty with yourself. You say to yourself - I'm scared to death but I'm going to do it anyways. Courage is nothing else but fear that has said its prayers.
Meredith Eisenberg has a passion for helping solopreneurs to make a living on their own terms by teaching and sharing their passions with others.
As co-founder of the Time Traders Club, Meredith helps entrepreneurs stay in their zone of brilliance by trading skills with others.
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Stay the course. Don’t be afraid when it’s not working and then make new decisions; just stay the course and have the faith and you will end up where you are meant to be.
As your business grows and you build an infrastructure and grow your team, you have to find a way to still be a leader in your business and still remain the brand of your business.
You need to figure out what you are brilliant at and what you enjoy – that is what needs to be brought to the market place. Focus there and delegate the rest. Learn to delegate so it does not get in your way.
What does BRAVE mean?
Brave is when you are willing to stand at the edge of the diving board and have faith that there is a swimming pool underneath.