Podcast Welcome: A Toast to Truths is where I share the mental, financial and emotional frustrations of being an entrepreneur. This is Season 9 Episode 9, "Have a Career. Not Just a Good Year."

Q: Are you thinking about the totality of your blog or just until the next check clears?

Part I

• Travis Scott: Momma I Can Fly documentary on Netflix
• The hustle to have a good year
• S9E2
• The truth behind the scenes of a "good" year
• Why you need to focus on the career instead
• Deciding what my career will be now
• What chasing good years can do
• S7
• Backwards design
• Your message determines whether you'll have a good year or not
• Building a whole business on trend
• Chasing opportunities
• The basis of building a career

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Part II

• Where I plan to dominate
• Turn good years into a solid career
• Know how to anticipate 2020 trends so you can build a strong career
• Recession proof decisions
• Securing my space in the events industry
• Have a clear message to build a career
• Why I charge to cover events
• What happens when missed opportunities happen at an event?
• Impacting others positively
• Replicating good years
• The challenge I gave to the listeners

Final Toast:

• Don't let 1 year be the best year of your life. Make every year count. Do what need to be done to make each year a positive success.

This has been A toast to truths with me, Vernetta R. Freeney. This is season 9 episode 9 and the consequences I've encountered.

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