S2 EP10: Got Value? Podcast | Building Community with Sherrell Dorsey 

How to Use Your Community to Support Your Needs

In this session, Transformation Coach, Alechia Reese explores a realistic conversation with data journalist, author, strategist, and entrepreneur Sherrell Dorsey around “Building Community.”  From leveraging all your experiences to solve problems and develop your strengths to managing the grief that comes from evolution. Listen in now for the tools to help you build community and honor your needs. 

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https://youtu.be/L7rNt-p0kFg

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• Show up and take up space.

• Invest in experiences that strengthen confidence. 

• Managing the grief that comes with evolution. 

• Remind yourself that you deserve more.  

• It’s okay to change your mind and evolve.

• Treat your life like it’s an experiment.

• Letting go is hard, especially when things are comfortable. But remind yourself, I deserve more.

• Sometimes you can be limited by your circumstances if you keep sticking it out. 

• If you want to design an extraordinary life and you recognize your circumstances are out of alignment, then you have to allow yourself the process of letting go. 

• Everything we’re doing and creating is an experiment.    

• Perfection is not required, but action is. – Alechia Reese

Sherrell Dorsey 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherrelldorsey/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sherrell_dorsey/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sherrell_dorsey

Website: http://tpinsights.com/ 

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Alechia Reese

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S2 EP9 | Leader Relationships with Sonia Jackson Myles

How to Leverage the Power of Your Relationships for Success

In this session, Transformation Coach, Alechia Reese facilitates an exciting conversation with her real life mentor, Sonia Jackson Myles in Leader Relationships. From being coined as Essence’s $20 Billion Woman to founding the global movement, The Sister Accord. Sonia is on a mission to teach 1 billion girls and women how to love themselves and each other. This spirited discussion talked through the #heartwork required to heal and lead well and getting still to get to know yourself. deficient and struggles that come with living for others and so much more. The universe cooperates with a made up mind. Listen in now for the tools to help you make up your mind, find aligned mentors and sponsors, and lead with kindness. 

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https://youtu.be/7JZBlj7rgyo

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• Doing the heart work is healing the stuff on the inside that allows you to show up to effectively lead. 
• Don’t make excuses for bad behavior and when looking for mentors, pay attention to how they are too. 
• We all have superpowers, but when you overuse your super powers they can become a liability. 
• The process of getting to know who you are requires stillness.
• Be intentional about doing the “heart work” and heal so that you can connect with like minded people. 

• Heart work is the hard work so most people just blow by it. 
• The universe cooperates with a made up mind.
•  Leading with kindness is truly how you lead sustainably. 
• The most important relationship leaders can cultivate is the ones with themselves. — Alechia Reese

Sonia Jackson Myles 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonia-jackson-myles-00639b2/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesisteraccord/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/thesisteraccord

Website: http://thesisteraccord.com 

Use the following information to join Sonia on The Sister Accord’s 10 year anniversary celebration cruise:

• Call AAA at 1-800-648-8272 say "I'm calling for the Sister Accord Cruise" on Freedom of the Seas 
• If calling from Colorado, call AAA at 1-866-212-8639 
• If calling from the Carolinas, call AAA at 1-877-912-8747

Date: August 28-Sept 1, 2023  

Get Social with Your Host:

Alechia Reese

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In this session, Transformation Coach, Alechia Reese explores The Way Up with the mission-driven health executive on the relentless pursuit of health equity, Errol L.Pierre. From retrofitting your job into your purpose and the paralyzing fear of not knowing enough, to boldly making mistakes and learning from them. This authentic and transformative discussion talked through the attention deficient and struggles that come with living for others and so much more. Listen in now. 

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https://youtu.be/X-vV2kLXtEA

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• A lot of times we get frozen in being good at something and it prevents us from trying something new because we don’t want to make a mistake so it keeps us from future blessings, opportunities, and friendships  

• Take the time, thoughtfully, to really understand and know your purpose.

• Everything becomes easier when you know your purpose because you now know what to say ‘no’ to and what to say ‘yes’ to.
• Even when things are not going well when you’re pursuing your passions you’re able to keep going because you’re inside your purpose.
• People of color have more degrees than a thermometer - it’s not about skill. It’s about the systemic challenges inherent to the system.

• Have the courage to make one million mistakes, but the wisdom to not make the same mistake one million times. 
• If you learn a lesson from every mistake, imagine how smart you’re going to be if you’ve made a million mistakes but they’re all new mistakes and you’re learning from each one. 
• For people of color, it’s not a corporate ladder. For many people of color it’s a corporate mountain and the experience is very different.
• Wake up each day and advance your mission by at least one inch. 
• Leadership and learning are the number 1 transferable skills.

Errol L. Pierre 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/errollpierre/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/errollpierre/

Website: https://www.errolpierre.com/

Get Social with Your Host:

Alechia Reese

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In this session, Transformation Coach, Alechia Reese explores the lessons in trust with former White House Secretary and Founder & CEO of Hook & Fasten Consulting, Deesha Dyer. From developing pivotal leadership skills through trust to honoring your needs in the face of professional growth and opportunities. This open and honest discussion talked through the isolation of authenticity and so much more. Listen in now. 

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https://youtu.be/NLpwq02RpiY

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• Who I am today might not be who I am tomorrow and it’s okay to embrace and accept that.

• When you must adjust how you get your voice heard; get creative and strategic and bring others to the table who can help you achieve your goal.

• You can accept who you are and still be open to feedback. 

• It can be very isolating to sometimes walk in truth and authenticity because we all want connection and community. So many do not walk in their truth because of that isolation.

• Always look at the consequences of what happens when you don’t honor your needs. 
• Embracing mistakes and failures, and taking accountability is one of the first steps to learning and accepting yourself.

Deesha Dyer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deeshadyer/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deedyer267/

Website: http://hookandfasten.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/DeeshaDyer

Self-described scientist and people transformation expert, Taria Buchanan, sat down with transformation coach Alechia Reese to discuss the actualization of her fullest potential to serve. She stays on a growth and evolving path. Her core purpose is to help others in the discovery of their full essence. One not restricted by fear or expectation. She posed 4 primary questions to help us all begin the discovery of who we are:

1. What’s your full essence when it’s on full blast? 
2. How does your energy bless those around you? 
3. What does it create? 
4. And who do you become when you allow yourself to be? 

Listen in now.

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https://youtu.be/TvL2Sgp7uhc

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Who you become without the inhibitors of fear and expectations is who you are at your essence.

Knowing who you are at your core helps you to operate at your highest level.

Ask questions to uncover your own layers. It all starts with asking yourself, “How does this experience feel to me?”

How are you supposed to choose joy when you’re not actually choosing joy?

• Self-discovery requires bravery.
• Fear suffocates your intuitive guide and inner GPS.
• You choose your experience by the decisions you make.  

Taria Buchanan

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tariabuchanan/

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Alechia Reese

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In this Leader Bites Session, Transformation Coach, Alechia Reese clarifies comfort zones and the need for safe spaces. Building houses in fear-filled comfort zones instead of allowing them to be the rest areas they’re designated as trips a lot of leaders up. Comfort zones are great if you want to stay the same. Owning and honoring when we need rest is necessary.  Listen in now. 

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https://youtu.be/LQsQfX9KfQI 

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Comfort zones are beautiful places, but nothing ever grows there.

You deny yourself the gift of growth when you refuse to move out of your comfort zone.

When you’re so focused on never wanting to be uncomfortable you’re telling growth, new opportunities, and advancement of your future self – no.

• Comfort zones are rest stops. They are necessary and revolutionary! However, if you get too comfortable turning rest stops into lodging areas you stunt your growth. There is a gift in your discomfort. Embrace it!
• The gift that comes with discomfort is growth.
• Having knowledge is not enough if you never actually apply it.

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Alechia Reese

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In this Leader Bites Session, Transformation Coach, Alechia Reese gives us the permission slip we didn’t even know we needed. She provided the permission to unsubscribe from everything that no longer serves us, supports us, or helps us to grow. Learning how to listen to your own voice, in spite of the influence of others, is a skill she walks listeners through developing. Choosing the path that works for us changes the game. Listen in now. 

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YouTube Interview:

https://youtu.be/IDIiz16-0J8

There are multiple ways to get to what you want. Be so committed to yourself, your faith, and your belief in yourself that you do whatever it takes – even if you have to take an alternative route to get there. 

You do not have to subscribe to a belief and stay in patterns that don’t feel good to your nervous system.

Step out of boxes that are too restricting for you. You are not required to buy into the stories, societal norms, and systems that don’t work for you.

• You do not have to subscribe to the reality that others require or try to impose on you. 
• What you look for is what you’ll find more of.
• Knowledge only counts when you apply it. If you don’t apply what you know then you don’t get the benefit of that knowledge.

Get Social with Your Host:

Alechia Reese

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Elizabeth Herrick, Health Coach of Herrick Health & Wellness, helps active women understand their bodies’ unique nutritional needs so that they can beat burnout, avoid fatigue and empower their lives, joined Transformation Coach, Alechia Reese for the conversation “Uniquely Me”.  This conversation takes a look at how we honor ourselves from asking for support, shifting our mindset around what we deserve, to honoring our body and how we fuel it for success. 

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Watch on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/z5y_XozEST0

Instead of focusing on what was, or what could be, take time to accept what it is and consider how you feel about it. 

When considering what we deserve, so often we sell ourselves short and don’t take into account that we are deserving of an expansive life.

It is normal to want and have desires. 

We should normalize asking for support and asking for help. 

Look at mistakes as feedback, not as something you did “wrong”, but as a place to learn from. 

The language of using the word “sorry” often places blame where there is none. 

Ask for what you want, your time is of value, and you are deserving of the support you need to be successful. 

Shift your mindset to ask what your food can do for you. 

There is an importance of listening to your body and honoring its needs. 

• Sometimes I don't need all the parts of me to be understood, to be respected. - Elizabeth Herrick 
• Progress can look different, and perfection can look different, and that changes as we grow. - Elizabeth Herrick 
• When we are defining what works, what doesn’t, how we want things to be, we kind of forget what we actually want. - Alechia Reese
• Being deserving and worthy of something is not being entitled. - Elizabeth Herrick 
• Settling into what you deserve and what you want and what matters to you, knowing that allows you to more clearly, and more effectively, articulate what your needs are to others. - Alechia Reese
• My definition of an empowered life is not allowing the things that scare me to stop me from doing something that I would find exciting. - Alechia Reese
• To live an empowered life means that you are setting your own goals and you are the one who's taking the steps. - Elizabeth Herrick 
• When you do give away so much of your power, you tend to forget that you even have it. - Alechia Reese
• Food can fuel your success. - Elizabeth Herrick 
• Mindset and body and energy are all connected. - Elizabeth Herrick 

Stay Connected to our Guests:

Elizabeth Herrick, Health Coach, Herrick Health & Wellness

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-herrick-033945172/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/herrick.healthandwellness/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/herrick.healthandwellness/

Website: https://www.herrickhealthandwellness.com/

Get Social with Your Host:

Alechia Reese

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Angelina Darrisaw, Founder and CEO of C-Suite Coach, a firm that offers expertly designed inclusive training and coaching programs for working professionals and small business leaders, joined Transformation Coach, Alechia Reese for the conversation “Gaining Clarity”.  Tap in to discover the power of acknowledging and accepting yourself, allowing yourself the freedom to shift and change, and how being honest with yourself can help you to not only identify your goals, but to reach them as well. 

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Watch the interview on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/KWFjOouxhMw

It is incredibly important to focus not just on the end goal and the numbers, but to focus on the people who you work with. 

It is important to have your own understanding of yourself, because some people will only ever see you how they want to see you. 

Awareness and reflection are critical elements in discovering yourself. 

Self discovery is founded on the acceptance of the version of yourself you are sharing, understanding the facade you show others if there is one and why you hide parts of yourself, and there blind spots that you don’t see in yourself. 

It’s okay to have areas of yourself that you don’t like, and be able to identify them as an area to work on and change. 

Make choices out of passion. 

Allow yourself to recognize the times that you have had to do what it takes to survive, be able to accept that and unpack the baggage. You are able to shift who you are and how you show up moving forward. 

• Your perception of yourself, your desire to be who you want to be, is going to shift. - Angelina Darrisaw 
• Giving yourself permission to evolve and to change is something that, at least for me, has been a new revelation. - Alechia Reese
• Success for me is about acceptance. - Angelina Darrisaw 
• The destination will feel how the journey felt. - Alechia Reese
• Any moment in our lives isn't necessarily the full story of who we are. - Angelina Darrisaw 
• There are parts of ourselves we just will not know until an experience comes out. - Angelina Darrisaw 
• What was acceptable for you previously is now no longer acceptable. - Alechia Reese
• It's okay to recognize that there are things you don't like about yourself, it's just not okay to get stuck there. - Angelina Darrisaw 
• The things that are our wildest dreams, the expectations that we feel are the most unrealistic, are only that because we haven’t thought through the tactics to get there. - Angelina Darrisaw 
• Your talent can get you in places that your trauma will kick you out of. - Alechia Reese

Stay Connected to our Guests:

Angelina Darrisaw, Founder + CEO, C-Suite Coach

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelinadarrisaw/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linadarrisaw/?hl=en

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nyccareercoach/

​​Twitter: https://twitter.com/linadarrisaw

Get Social with Your Host:

Alechia Reese

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Harriette Cole, founder of the educational platform, Dreamleapers, designed to help people access and activate their dreams, joined Transformation Coach, Alechia Reese for the conversation “Unlocking Greatness”. This conversation dives into the work behind making your dreams reality, how to best show up for yourself, and how to turn frustration into action into accomplishment. 

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Step one is that you have to discover it, you have to access it. 

If you are aligned with the flow of the work you are doing it does not feel burdensome. 

Prioritizing your purpose is essential to feeling fulfilled. Frustration only comes when you have not been actionable toward your goals. 

It is much easier to place blame on others but it is important to look to yourself, your actions, to determine what you can do to reach your goals.    

You should not be frustrated if you have taken the time to write out the manageable steps that it will take for you to make this manifest and every day you work on it.

You can turn frustration into action, and then accomplishment. 

Find people who are supportive. It is harder to grow when you are surrounded by naysayers. 

Change in life should not be feared. You will keep going, you will find your new path. 

• Claim it. Cultivate it. State it. Articulate it. - Harriette Cole 
• A lot of times we give away our best stuff without ever pouring into us. - Alechia Reese
• Everybody can’t be in that cultivation period. - Alechia Reese
• Attitude is everything. - Harriette Cole 
• You will have little successes which will fuel your energy. You can replace frustration with accomplishment. - Harriette Cole 
• If you’re not putting action behind it, it's just sweet pretty nothings. - Alechia Reese
• No moment is promised other than the one you are in. - Harriette Cole 
• Go beyond the boundaries to think bigger. - Harriette Cole 
• It's in the moment of awareness, that we can make a choice and a change. - Harriette Cole 
• I may not be perfect at day one, but as long as I am making progress, even when the steps are a centimeter forward, that is still not in the place that I once was and I am going to be okay with that. - Alechia Reese
• We can all make dreams come true, we just have to work at it. - Harriette Cole 
• Confidence is built by doing. - Alechia Reese
• It's not pass/fail, it's living your life fully. - Harriette Cole 

Stay Connected to our Guests:

Harriette Cole, Founder, Dreamleapers

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harriette-cole-54b7525/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harriettecole/?hl=en

Facebook: ​​https://www.facebook.com/harriettecolemedia/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/harriettecole?lang=en

Dreamleapers: https://www.harriettecole.com/dreamleapers

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dreamleapers/?hl=en

Get Social with Your Host:

Alechia Reese

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