Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote: "Self-trust is the first secret to success.

In this solo round of the Go Be Great Podcast, Host Jackie Capers-Brown shares insights about the compelling WHY that inspired her to create the "Believe You Are Enough" Program for Women.

She discusses WHY women need to develop self-trust and believe they are enough right now, wherever they are in life, in order to step into the fullness of their power, potential, and possibility.

She shares pivotal personal experiences to encourage women to believe that everything they have experienced up until this point in their life has prepared them to act on the calling, the whispers in their soul to step forward in order to achieve the next level of greatness they are capable of.

She shares some of the key benefits of the immersion audio program and the impact it will have on the lives of women who invest in the Believe You Are Enough Program.

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Today in the guest chair is Rocky Singh Kandola. He encourages us to say YES to new opportunities and take the leap of faith even when we don't know how every step of our plan will unfold into success.

Rocky Singh Kandola is the business owner of Hair Maiden India. His business provides business owners with high-quality hair products for them to successfully run and/or scale their business. He travels directly to the temples to keep hair quality high.

Rocky has been through a lot when he was younger because of the decisions he made. He uses the insights and lessons he's learned to inspire others, especially, felons to believe that they are capable of creating a better life for them and their family.  He believes that no one should allow a bad decision in the past to define who they can become and what they can accomplish now.

He believes in his heart that part of his path to healing and gaining fulfillment from the wisdom he has accumulated from navigating life-changing setbacks into great comebacks is sharing his story and speaking to motivate and inspire other people to believe in themselves and their dreams and goals.


Some Questions I Asked

• What's the theme song for your life?
• What he wished he had known before becoming an entrepreneur?
• What self-leadership traits you believe have led to your success?
• What challenges have you overcome recently?
• A lot of people believe that hurt people hurt people. What's your take on this?
• What fear have you had to overcome?
• What experiences led to half of his face being fake?
• and so much more...

In This Episode, You'll Learn

• The #1 vacation destination he recommends to everyone and why
• How the fear of his past caused him to feel arrogant anger towards life,  people, and himself
• The perspective shift that helped him to stop worrying so much as a new entrepreneur
• The three things that keep him grounded and focused on growing his business
• The importance of creating a snowball effect in business
• Challenges his import product-based  business faced during Covid 
• Insights about why I believe he is a modern-day philosopher in the making
• and so much more ...

Contact Rocky Kandola

Website: Https://rockykandola.com

Business: https://www.hairmaidenindia.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/HairMaidenIndia

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Today, we have in the guest chair Italina Kirknis. She grew up playing tennis with a fan favorite star, traveled around the world, believes in her "inner-knowing" and her superpower of being personable is what attracts many of her online business clients.

As an Online Presence Expert & Speaker, Italina helps you upgrade your presence online through LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

Italina and her team of Social Media Managers, help you gain more visibility online, driving a steady stream of clients to your business.

 You should know Italina is trained as an attorney; she has a Juris Doctorate Degree and has a legal background. However, like many recovering attorneys, Italina is now practicing her passion, Online Branding & Marketing. 

Since 2012, her business has been the vehicle for her personal and spiritual growth, while she creates value for each of her clients.

Some Questions I Asked

• What inspired your love for playing tennis?
• What type of woman did you want to grow up and be?
• Who are her ideal customers and how does she serve them?
• What inspired her to become an attorney after college?
• What are key leadership traits for online business owners?
• Why do you feel our self-talk is so important to our success?
• What should be your primary focus when you first start an online business?
• and much more...

In This Episode, You'll Learn

• The famous tennis start she played with growing up
• How she ended up traveling the world, playing tennis and representing the U. S.
• The bold career decision that made some of the people she knows question her judgment
• Why she believes in and relies on her "inner-knowing"
• The importance of having a social media strategy to build your brand
• What happens to our inner light when we aren't doing work that enlivens our soul
• Why it's important to do work that brings you joy
• and much more...

Contact Italina

IG: @ItalinaK

LinkedIn 

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Contact Jackie Capers-Brown at www.jackiecapersbrown.com

In the guest chair today we have E. B. Sanders. She says, " Change generally doesn't happen very often without conflict."

Her name is Erin Blythe Sanders but she goes by "EB."  

She's a Certified Career Coach who spends her time teaching creative types how to Find Their Thing and design their careers so they can achieve the fulfillment they really want. 

Basically, she helps people think bigger about how they want to show up in the world. Why? Because she wants you to be happy in your life & career! Like belting out Beyonce into your organic loofah in the shower on Monday mornings, happy. 

Some Questions I Asked:

• What lessons did she learn when her life was falling apart?
• Why is self-leadership important to navigating a meaningful career?
• What are three traits leaders should demonstrate on a consistent basis to be effective?
• Why is it important for us to see challenges as opportunities?
• How she found her "Thing"?
• and many more...

In This Episode, You'll Learn:

• Why Dolly Parton's song 9-5 is the theme song for her life
• What happens in your life when you fail to take the lead of yourself
• How to be the best advocate for yourself and the career you want
• Why you shouldn't negotiate your salary and what you should do instead
• What the process of navigating career transitions feel and look like
• and so much more...

Contact E. B. Sanders

Website

Instagram

LinkedIn

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In part five of the Author Showcase, we have in the guest chair a returning guest to the show who is now a first-time author, Karen "Joy" Langley.

Joy Langley is an online course creator,  stress management coach, cognitive behavioural therapist, and author of the book, "Navigating Stress".

 Joy says her sole purpose on this earth is to help 1 million people in the only way she knows how to  – help them remember what ‘joy feels like … using humour, playfulness, curiosity and an appetite for life.  

She uses her 3 part Joy T.E.A system to helps clients question their thought process, recognise they have choices, and that their biggest choice is the one to ‘change’ and move on. She equips her clients with this and other tools and strategies that help them develop a better attitude towards stress, build greater resilience and reduce the impact of daily life events. This means they experience more joy and less emotional pain.

The Empowering Insights You'll Learn In This Episode

• The compelling WHY that inspires her great work
• How the book "Conversations with God" helped her to reconnect with her spiritual self
• Why we experience stress in our body
• The biological responses our body undergoes when we are stressed
• How she reframed the stress she experienced while writing her first book to complete it
• How to repurpose your energy
• Coping strategies for navigating stress
• What she learned about herself from writing her first book
• The superpower that enabled her to write her first book
• The theme songs she associates with her book
• And much more...

Contact Karen "Joy" Langley

• Email: j[email protected]
• Website: https://www.stopfeelingstressedout.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenjoylangley/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/stopfeelingstressedout.community

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In the fourth segment of the Author Showcase, Author Toretha Wright is in the guest chair.

Toretha Wright is a writer of prose, plays, and poetry. Her works include ten celebrated novels and poetry books, three children’s books, several performed plays, and essays on the human condition.  She's been writing professionally for 18 years.

She has been honored twice as a “Living Legend” for “phenomenal writing” and recently won  a National Book Award for Historical Fiction/Romance for my book  "The Secrets of the Harvest." My latest book is "Ties That Bind Us - Part II: Cleo's Song" published September 27, 2020

She is the owner of WrightStuf Consulting, LLC. The company provides assistance to literary artists who would like their voice in print. Our services include editing, proofreading, and general assistance to others in the arts and entertainment industry.

Empowering Insights You Will Gain from this Episode

• The childhood experiences that inspired her to love writing
• The book that was her prized possession growing up
• The benefits of becoming a member of a writer's group
• What she gained from being a guest of a reader's group
• Why she doesn't struggle with writer's block
• What she would tell her younger self when she first embraced the path of becoming an author
• Key insights and strategies from her creative writing process
• How she uses stories told to her, and her experiences to create award-winning fiction books
• And so much more ...

 Contact Toretha Wright

Website
Facebook
Recent Book: Ties That Bind Us - Part II: Cleo's Song"

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As part of our third segment of the Author Showcase, we have in the guest chair today, David C. Squires, author of How I Became Beanie Dave.  He asserts, "Just be yourself because no one can be a better you than you!"

David Christian Squires was born May 23, 2004. He always knew he was special. One day his grandmother told him the story of his birth. His umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck; but God made sure he was born without incident.

David was always extremely insightful into the needs of his brother and everyone around him. It's as if God gifted him to care for everyone.

Always asking questions. Always full of life and love David really fell in love with sports. Today David is a great student, notable football player, regional champion wrestler, track and field athlete, and an asset to anyone who has the pleasure of meeting him.

Beanie Dave is a fictional character David and his mom developed to share some of his real-life experiences with other kids who struggle with being unique too.


Empowering Insights You'll Gain from This Episode

• What he learned about himself with all the school changes he has had to endure due to the COVID pandemic
• Why it's important to him to stand out and accept that he is different
• How he and his mom developed the fictional character Beanie Dave for his first two books
• Being different doesn't mean that something is wrong with you
• Why he wore the same pair of black jeans every day during his 5th-grade year
• Why Spider-Man is his favorite superhero and how he emulates him in everyday life
• His marketing strategy for his books
• Advice he would give to teens and adults aspiring to write their first book
• And so much more

Contact David C. Squires

Facebook

Book: How I Became Beanie Dave


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In the second part of the Author Showcase podcast series, we have a returning guest to the show, Dr. Julianna Hynes. She says, " A lot of what we want isn't a destination, it's a process."

Dr. Julianna Hynes is the CEO of Julianna Hyness & Associates. She's the author of Living on Purpose: The Black Woman’s Guide to Shattering The Glass Ceiling.  She's a coach, speaker, career, and leadership coach.

In our conversation, we dive into her writing process to complete writing projects while discussing key insights from her book and how we can navigate career success with greater clarity and focus.

Empowering Tangible Takeaways You Will Receive from this Episode

• How her book was birthed out of her own experience of navigating her career
• The challenges she faced at the start of her career as a black woman
• Why her book is so on time for this moment in our collective history
• Insights she gained from her research for the book
• A key lesson about embracing the process of writing to get into a flow
• Key insights from her book and why they are relative today, especially for black women
• Why relationships are the secret sauce to advancement in the workplace and in business 
• Two key actions that are necessary to navigating career success
• The advice she shares with black women to move forward and shatter glass ceilings
• And so much more...

Contact Dr. Julianna Hynes 

• Cell: 925.207.1578 
• Website
•  Book
• FREE Career Strategy Call

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Our guest today is Author Desiree Tomlinson. She believes it's important that we debunk the myths about seeking counseling so that we access the support needed when we're faced with life difficulties that negatively impact our mental health.

Author Desiree Tomlinson is the creator of the children's book series Grace & Mia. Her family and friends call her "Sunshine" and "Des". She is an ambitious and very determined single mom, retired Army veteran, entrepreneur, self-published author, and illustrator of her children's book series which is based on a true story.

She uses her creativity and passion, to write children's books about divorce, to help young children and their parents navigating through a divorce. She is committed to her great work because, as she puts it, "Her divorce didn't have, nor will it ever have, a happy ending...but I'd like to think it could help other families cope in a positive manner." She loves teaching as an adjunct professor, cooking, relaxing, and decorating my home (indoor and outdoor).

Empowering Insights You'll Gain from this Episode

• How her 3-year-old daughter's word of confidence served as a confirmation for her to make the move to return back to her home state of S.C. and begin divorce proceedings from her ex-husband
• The benefits she's gained from professional counseling and why she and her children are actively participating in family counseling
• Why she credits having a strong support system as a saving grace 
• The thinking process that she engaged to determine the best audience for her book series Grace & Mia
• Lessons learned growing up a farm
• How growing up on a farm made it easy for her to be a great soldier in the Army
• How the disciplined developed over the two decades in the Army helps her to manage  disruptions in her life
• Why she thinks parents need to recognize that children need to develop coping skills to be resilient when they experience the divorce of their parents
• The messages parents send to their children when they don't remain in relationships create a toxic home environment for their children
• And so much more...

Contact Author Desiree Tomlinson

Website
Facebook
Instagram
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Our guest today Kimberly Fallis believes, "Say what you want to BE until you SEE what you SAY. "

Kimberly Fallis is an Empowerment Coach. She is known as The Navigator and CEO of Level UP Academy LLC.  She's passionate about empowering professionals to get unstuck so they Level UP and become relentless self-leaders of their lives and live the life they are so deserving of.  She believes everyone is capable of achieving their goals and walking in their purpose.     

Empowering Insights You'll Gain from this Episode

• Developing a morning routine helps us to be intentional towards our day and how we live our life
• The importance of developing a regular reading habit to cultivate a growth mindset
• Some of the barriers Kimberly had to overcome to start her business while working her full-time job
• How you can frame a strategic risk to pursue your dreams and goals
• Steps you can take to begin your transition from your full time job to becoming a business owner
• How 2020 lit a fire under her feet to start her business and why we should use the lessons learned in 2020 to step into the role of CEO of our lives
• How framing NO's as Next Opportunity helps us to stay in the arena and play full out to win
• And so much more ...

Contact Kimberly Fallis

• Website
• Facebook

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