The Skills Recharged® conversation recently continued during the Add Your S.A.U.C.E. episode on my podcast, Career Tipper®. S.A.U.C.E is my latest professional development acronym to help professionals like yourself keep their skills recharged, competitive, and hire-ready. #ProfessionalDevelopment

In this bonus video, I'm providing more information on E in S.A.U.C.E on exploring opportunities beyond your comfort zone, including insight from David Tann, the Founder and Creative Director of Tantrum Agency. #SkillsRecharged

S.A.U.C.E. episode on my podcast, Career Tipper®. S.A.U.C.E is my latest professional development acronym to help professionals like yourself to keep their skills recharged, competitive, and hire-ready. #ProfessionalDevelopment

Michele provides more information on C in S.A.U.C.E on communicating your value, including insight from Career Coach, Cathy Francois in this bonus video. #SkillsRecharged

S.A.U.C.E. episode on my podcast, Career Tipper®. S.A.U.C.E is my latest professional development acronym to help professionals like yourself to keep their skills recharged, competitive, and hire-ready. #ProfessionalDevelopment

Michele provideds more information on U in S.A.U.C.E on understanding your niche, including insight from Former Accountant and Investment Banker, Dalan Vanterpool in this bonus video. #SkillsRecharged

The Skills Recharged® conversation recently continued during the Add Your S.A.U.C.E. episode on the Career Tipper® podcast. S.A.U.C.E is Michele's latest professional development acronym to help professionals like yourself keep their skills recharged, competitive, and hire-ready. #ProfessionalDevelopment

In this bonus video, Michele provides more information on A in S.A.U.C.E on assessing your skills that center around transferable skills, including insight from Agile Coach Stella Ihenacho. #SkillsRecharged

S.A.U.C.E is Michele's latest professional development acronym to help professionals like yourself to keep their skills recharged, competitive, and hire-ready. The Skills Recharged® conversation recently continued during the Add Your S.A.U.C.E. episode on my podcast, Career Tipper®. In this video, Michele provides more information on S in S.A.U.C.E on strategizing your money line alignment in this bonus video based on No Boss, Only Clients written by the former accountant and investment banker Dalan Vanterpool.

The Skills Recharged® conversation continues on the Career Tipper® podcast, with Michele encouraging and guiding listeners to add their sauce when promoting and sharing their skills in the workplace and their businesses. Check out this episode, where she shares her latest professional development strategy, Add Your S.A.U.C.E., full of expert advice clips, friendly reminders, and insight to help listeners continue to evolve to their professional best while keeping their skills recharged, competitive, and hire-ready on an ongoing basis.

Show Notes:

[00:07] Michele shares her professional development journey.

[01:38] Michele introduces and explains her latest professional development strategy, Add Your S.A.U.C.E.

[04:20] S - Strategize your alignment with the money line breakdown

[9:20] A - Assess your skills

[15:10] U - Understand Your Niche

[19:55] C - Communicate Your Value

[25:19] E - Explore Opportunities Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Ladies, financial empowerment is an ongoing conversation that helps us evolve to our professional best. Michele Badie hosts the Career Tipper® podcast and is a Women On The Rise International board member. She and the Founder of Women On The Rise International (WOTR), Arelene Blake discussed the Educated & Broke™️ program during a financial empowerment special edition episode. WOTR is educating women on developing tactical strategies to earn more money, know their worth, budget, save, pay off debt, invest, start a business and provide a legacy for their families.  

[00:03] Intros and Arlene shares an overview of Women On The Rise International (WOTR).  

[03:37] Arlene shares her vision for the financial empowerment programming, Educated & Broke™ (E&B) 

[06:29] Michele shares her journey of supporting E&B and becoming a member of the board.  

[8:00] Arlene talks about the importance of being a part of a community-based organization and a program like E&B.   

[11:22] Michele and Arlene discuss the in-person experience and potential takeaways from attending a WOTR event.  

[15:06] Arlene chats about E&B expanding to offer an 8-week cohort.  

[17:50] Arlene informs why the event is hybrid and includes free onsite childcare during the event.  

[20:32] Arlene shares why she includes a self-care component in the E&B program.  

[22:46] Michele and Arlene talk about the journey of being successful and shares a definition of what it means to be a woman on the rise.  

[26:56] Michele and Arlene talk about the monthly masterminds that Arlene offers to the WOTR membership and the importance of being consistent.  

[31:28] Arlene speaks about the intended "how to recognize your value" takeaway for the E&B attendees. 

[33:41] Michele and Arlene chatted about the program strategy to help attendees progress through the E&B program.  

[36:13] Arlene chats about pivoting and monetizing skill sets that don't require a college degree. 

[37:44] Arlene shares the E&B event and cohort details along with her contact details.    

11/05/2022 Hybrid Educated & Broke Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/educated-and-broke-parttm-ii-time-to-level-up-hybrid-event-tickets-433802203067?aff=ebdsoporgprofile 

For more information about the Women On The Rise International organization visit this link. https://womenontheriseinternational.wildapricot.org/

Evolving to your professional best is a journey that includes self-care. Michele kicked off the mental health awareness conversation early for her upcoming Color To Connect workshop in Central Florida on Saturday, 8/13/2022, with the event's guest Mental Health Counselor Natasha D'Arcangelo. Michele believes that mental health awareness is year-round, and small actions can ignite transformation to take better care of yourself. Listen as Michele and Natasha chat about mental health triggers. 

Register for the in-person Color To Connect Central Florida workshop. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/color-to-connecttm-tickets-375573007977

[00:25] Michele shares her why for creating the Color To Connect™ workshop.

[01:20] Natasha shares her "why" for becoming a Mental Health Counselor.

[03:25] Natasha shares signs that listeners can recognize that they might be struggling with their mental health.

[08:20]Michele and Natasha talk about breaking the generational stigmas associated with therapy.

[11:37] Natasha shares how listeners can know if their mental health is stable.

[15:16] Natasha shares an overview of BIPOC mental health awareness. 

[16:17] Michele and Natasha further share their perspective on the importance of therapy.

[17:15] Natasha provides statistics about barriers of care that cause some people of color to be reluctant to include therapy in their wellness practice and potential approach strategies to overcome them.

[25:45] Natasha shares activities that she suggests professionals implement or try to help them mentally stay healthy beyond meditation.

[28:22] Natasha and Michele chat about how coloring helps their mental health. 

[31:12] Natasha shares how she takes care of her mental health.

[34:20] Michele and Natasha share resource suggestions for mental health therapy, how to utilize Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) services through some employers, and how to process mental health information shared on social media. 

[41:34] Natasha shares how listeners get in contact with her.

Resource:

Directory of Clinicians of Color and other Minoritized Identities:

https://www.counseling-csj.org/directory-of-clinicians-of-color-and-other-minoritized-identities.html

Therapy Den: https://www.therapyden.com/

*The Evolution of a Project Manager* The #SkillsRecharged conversation continues this quarter; MJ Bianchi, the Three T Institute CEO, and I are curating project management-centric discussions titled PM Perceptions on the Career Tipper podcast. During the season finale, MJ and I chatted about the evolution of a project manager.

[02:14] Michele and MJ reflect on their collaboration and the first season of PM Perceptions with Michele and MJ. They also shared their takeaways from chatting with professionals about being a practicing project manager and becoming PMP certified.

[07:54]  MJ and Michele share ways for project managers to identify development opportunities.

[11:30] MJ chats about the need for project managers to be patient with themselves.

[15:23] MJ gives insight into what point a PM goes from feeling scared of managing a project to being confident.

[18:10] MJ spoke of the difference between managing and leading a project team

[22:14] MJ and Michele chat about how can a project manager decipher between choosing the standards of project management provided by PMI versus the ones at their organization.

[24:46] Michele and MJ spoke of ways to practice and recognize that you're a proficient project manager.

[27:11] Michele shares details of her why for continuing the work of helping professionals understand the role of project manager and how she recognized that she was a project manager.

[31:42] MJ and Michele chat about determining if becoming PMP certified is the right fit for you.

We welcome you to send either of us a DM with your questions about project management and earning your PMP certification credential.

The #SkillsRecharged conversation continues this quarter; MJ Bianchi, the Three T Institute CEO, and I curate project management-centric discussions titled PM Perceptions on the Career Tipper podcast. During episode three, MJ and I chatted about being project management consultants.