Flaunt Your Fire

The decision to show up and be visible requires courage.

And often we get support from professionals like makeup artists, hairstylist, consultants, wardrobe stylists, and photographers in crafting how our public image is going to be witnessed and perceived.

But when we talk about visibility, we don't always think about the people behind the camera.

Photographer Shannon Collins joins India for a conversation about making the decision to get out from behind the camera, using their platform to address what matters, and how that has changed their life, their business and the lives of those around them.

In this discussion:

• The photography industry’s issues with marginalized groups, past and present
• How power shows up in photography, and who has an opportunity to tell their stories
• Why capturing joy is an act of rebellion and resistance
• How Shannon mixes visibility and vulnerability with their business

Connect with Shannon Collins:

• Shannon Collins Photography
• Youthphoria
• Instagram: @ShannonCollinsPhoto

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• LinkedIn: India Jackson
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

Ready to dive deeper?

From Implicit To Explicit: Leading Through Your Values Masterclass is a framework to get clear on what matters to you as a human and how it informs the way you show up professionally.

Learn more about Pause on the Play® the Community and join to get access to community conversations, monthly workshops and Q&As with India Jackson and Erica Courdae, and on-demand replays of prior workshops and masterclasses.

Listen to the Pause on the Play® Podcast for real conversations about DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), visibility, and mindset. Erica Courdae and her guests talk candidly to foster unique ways of thinking, while bridging the gap between ethics, values, diversity, + visibility. This is where leaders evolve their everyday actions and reconsider their normal in order to foster meaningful connections.

So many of us are held back by beliefs that we’re too much, or not enough, to pursue our dreams and passions and make them reality.

We absorb messages about being too old, too fat, too skinny, too white, too Black, too smart, too dumb, just too much, but what if we said “eff it” and went after our dreams anyway?

Jetty Nieuwenhuis and India discuss why now is the perfect time to create the roadmap to the future you’ve always deserved, the stories Jetty has rewritten in her own life as a result of her rebrand with Flaunt Your Fire, and why it is never too late to choose who you want to be. 

In this discussion:

• Why Jetty kept the Trujetty name through a major career shift
• How to cultivate your &+$# It Factor
• Being an influencer over 40
• Why it’s never too late to make the impossible possible

Connect with Jetty Nieuwenhuis:

• TruJetty
• Instagram: @TruJetty
• LinkedIn: Jetty Nieuwenhuis

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• LinkedIn: India Jackson
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

Ready to dive deeper?

From Implicit To Explicit: Leading Through Your Values Masterclass is a framework to get clear on what matters to you as a human and how it informs the way you show up professionally.

Learn more about Pause on the Play® the Community and join to get access to community conversations, monthly workshops and Q&As with India Jackson and Erica Courdae, and on-demand replays of prior workshops and masterclasses.

Listen to the Pause on the Play® Podcast for real conversations about DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion), visibility, and mindset. Erica Courdae and India Jackson talk candidly to foster unique ways of thinking, while bridging the gap between ethics, values, diversity, + visibility. This is where leaders evolve their everyday actions, branding, and marketing efforts to foster meaningful connections and inclusivity.

The online business and marketing spaces are flooded with messages that bigger must be better. But is it?

What if that focus on scale and expansion isn’t aligned with your values or what makes you happy?

Ashley Gartland and India dig into what it means to be better than big, being profitable without the never-ending hustle, and how a subtractive approach can create simplicity and ease in your business.

In this discussion:

• Why focusing solely on growth and scale can create complexity and overwhelm
• How a subtractive approach creates simplicity and ease
• How to implement subtraction in your business
• What is means to be “Better Than Big”

Connect with Ashley Gartland

• AshleyGartland.com
• Instagram: @AshleyGartland
• Better Than Big Podcast
• Do Less, Live More Course

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• LinkedIn: India Jackson
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

Your actions for this episode:

In Pause on the Play® The Community we are reconnecting with what's essential in our lives and brands. Join in on conversations and prompts to help you declutter the noise in your life so you can better access the people and causes/non-profits that matter most for you.

Let us know through the rating and reviews feature of Apple Podcasts or FlauntYourFire.com/rate what types of episodes you'd like to have more of here on the podcast.

Want to dig deeper? This week you'll also hear from Erica Courdae and I over on our main podcast, Pause On the Play®. We’ll break down consumerism and how we personally began having more once we took a subtractive approach to our shopping.

Knock it out of the park. Crush the competition. Why do we use so many sports metaphors in the workplace?

And is that competitive atmosphere actually helping? Or is it damaging our ability to make supportive connections and build strong teams?

Dr. Kim Perkins joins India to discuss competition in the workplace and beyond. They’ll dig into competition on social media, how it can turn toxic at work, how a spirit of competition can be used as a tool for building relationships, and more.

In this discussion:

• How the language of competition shows up at work and in our lives
• Why people tend to either love or hate competition
• How competition can turn toxic at work, and ways it can bring teams together
• How competitiveness and rivalries manifest and what to do when you get caught up in it

Connect with Kim Perkins, PhD:

• Facebook: @ThisIsKimPerkins
• LinkedIn: @KimPerkins1
• Winner Take None

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• LinkedIn: India Jackson
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

Your actions for this episode:

Visit PauseOnThePlay.com/community to learn more about joining a community that provides an incubator where members can test ideas, ask for support and feedback and build trusting relationships that expand the ethical marketplace.

Let us know through the rating and reviews feature of Apple Podcasts or FlauntYourFire.com/rate what types of episodes you'd like to have more of here on the podcast.

Listen to Dr. Kim Perkins on Pause On the Play® with Erica Courdae, discussing positive psychology and creating change.

Tell me a little bit about yourself.

Whether it’s your social media bio, on your website, or meeting someone at a networking event, we’re constantly being asked these questions of who are you, what do you do, what do you believe in, what do you value, what do you support, where are you going?

It all comes down to, who are you?

Erica Courdae joins India to explore designing your identity as an intentional act and how your personal image and identity intersect with your public image.

In this discussion:

• Making intentional choices to design your identity
• The mindset shifts and emotional challenges of going natural
• How having your appearance altered as a child can complicate crafting self-perception
• Examining and confronting your relationship to beauty standards

Connect with India and Erica:

• Pause on the Play Community
• LinkedIn

Your actions for this episode:

Visit PauseOnThePlay.com/community to learn more about joining a community that provides an incubator where members can test ideas, ask for support and feedback and build trusting relationships that expand the ethical marketplace.

Let us know through the rating and reviews feature of Apple Podcasts or FlauntYourFire.com/rate what types of episodes you'd like to have more of here on the podcast.

Consistency is key for so many things, and especially on social media, but creating all of that content can feel overwhelming or impossible.

How do you show up consistently without social media taking your attention from all of your other responsibilities to your clients, your team, and your life outside of work?

Jon Goode joins India to discuss moving the conversation from constant creation to content curation.

In this discussion:

• How content curation saves you and your audience time
• Crediting creators and why branding your curated content is worth it
• Curating content based on where you want to go, not where you are
• How amplifying other creators builds connections and creates opportunities

Connect with Jon Goode:

• Instagram: @jon_goode
• Facebook: @jon.goode

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• LinkedIn: ​​India Jackson
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

Your actions for this episode:

Visit PauseOnThePlay.com/community to learn more about joining a community that provides an incubator where members can test ideas, ask for support and feedback and build trusting relationships that expand the ethical marketplace.

Marketing your business on social media can be daunting, whether you’re just starting out or you’re trying to optimize your ad performance to take your business to the next level.

Jeraud Norman of Jeraud Marketing joins India to discuss why social media marketing is so powerful, and tips and best practices so your ads get you in front of your people, not lost in the noise.

In this discussion:

• The homework you need to do before you place your first ad
• Tactics that just don’t work in today’s social advertising marketplace
• The metrics that let you write your own paycheck
• How to approach advertising on multiple platforms

Connect with Jeraud Norman:

• Jeraud Marketing
• Instagram: @jeraud_gave

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire, @theIndiaJackson
• Sign up for From Implicit to Explicit: Leading Through Your Values Masterclass

Your actions for this episode:

Learn more from Jeraud about running your own social media ads. Visit PauseOnThePlay.com/community for full details and the additional benefits of belonging to our hub of entrepreneurs and change-makers connecting at the intersection of values and visibility.

How do we create deeply connected communities?

In this conversation, Kelli Manzano joins India to dig into why we have a need for social connection and how that’s hardwired into our brains. They’ll discuss how risk is related to connection, why online connections are more challenging than in-person ones, and the dynamics around why and when people respond to good news versus please for help or support in online communities and memberships.

You’ll hear tips for connecting in person and getting outside of your comfort zone as things are opening up more in the world.

And they dig into something that’s been on the radar for many of us: emotional burnout.

In this discussion:

• Why social rejection can engender intense fear
• Why social media can leave us feeling so isolated
• Why it’s harder to engage your empathy online
• Tangible steps to create and maintain safe, connected communities

Connect with Kelli Manzano:

• Summit Health Works

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire, @theIndiaJackson
• Pause on the Play, the Community

Your actions for this episode:

Sign up for From Implicit to Explicit: Leading Through Your Values Masterclass

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Get support with YOUR brand visibility. Book a discovery call with The Flaunt Your Fire team: www.flauntyourfire.com

Values. Core beliefs that support every aspect of your brand or business? The code by which you live your personal life? Vague buzzwords floating around your website? 

If you’re struggling to integrate the concept of values in a meaningful way, India and Erica offer expert guidance. Using client anecdotes and experiences from their own lives, they connect the professional with the personal, showing that operating with integrity becomes automatic when you purposefully consider your values.

In this discussion:

• Defining the concept of core values
• Identifying the intersection of your personal and professional values
• Auditing your values and aligning them with your brand or business 
• Determining your values now, before you’ve built your brand or business
• Attracting clients/relationships/partnerships with intentionality

Identify your core values, then move your business, brand, and life into true alignment with those beliefs! From Implicit To Explicit: Leading Through Your Values is your opportunity to receive expert real-time guidance from India Jackson and Erica Courdae.

In this small-cohort masterclass, you’ll establish a foundation from which to lead, attracting the team members, clients, and partners who support your vision for the future. Two sessions remaining in 2021: Thursday, September 16 and Thursday, October 13

Let us know what you think about the conversation! Leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/fire.

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www.ericacourdae.com

Erica Courdae has dedicated her life to expanding how others interact with the world through powerful conversations. As an entrepreneur and certified coach, her work is focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), imperfect allyship, and imposter syndrome. This work has taken her into communities and onto national stages as a speaker and educator at noteworthy industry events like AltSummit, ShePodcasts Live, and Being Boss.

Erica is also the owner of an inclusive beauty salon, Silver Immersion, and the host of Pause on the Play, a podcast that features open dialogue on topics like company culture, visibility, and mindset. She lives in Maryland with her two children.

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Get support with YOUR brand visibility. Book a discovery call with The Flaunt Your Fire team: www.flauntyourfire.com.

The private pieces that we rarely share in public are integral to creating our whole multifaceted selves. What pursuits bring us joy when no one’s looking? How does sharing our genius affect us and those around us?

Joining India once again is her co-host, the co-founder of Pause On The Play The Community, and talented poet Erica Courdae for a poetry reading and a brief discussion about the soul of inspiration. 

In this discussion:

• Poetry by Erica Courdae
• Honoring our vulnerability in private, in public
• Letting inspiration be our guide  
• Acknowledging our humanity and witnessing it in others 

Read detailed articles:

http://www.flauntyourfire.com/theshow

Engage with people navigating and exploring their genuine selves and applying that honesty to their own visibility. Live out loud as you’ve always intended––for your brand, your business, your life.  

Join India Jackson and Erica Courdae at Dropping The Veil, their 3-day virtual event featuring a diverse panel of guests. Thursday, August 12 - Saturday, August 14. See what’s possible when you expose your multifaceted self to the light—details at pauseontheplay.com/events. 

www.pauseontheplay.com/community

www.ericacourdae.com

Erica Courdae has dedicated her life to expanding how others interact with the world through powerful conversations. As an entrepreneur and certified coach, her work is focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), imperfect allyship, and imposter syndrome. This work has taken her into communities and onto national stages as a speaker and educator at noteworthy industry events like AltSummit, ShePodcasts Live, and Being Boss.

Erica is also the owner of an inclusive beauty salon, Silver Immersion, and the host of Pause on the Play, a podcast that features open dialogue on topics like company culture, visibility, and mindset. She lives in Maryland with her two children.

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Get support with YOUR brand visibility. Book a discovery call with The Flaunt Your Fire team: www.flauntyourfire.com.

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