What does "for profit for good" mean?

Our featured guest today is Tynesia Boyea-Robinson.

Tynesia Boyea-Robinson is the President and CEO of Reliance Methods.  She exemplifies cross-sector leadership. In her book, Just Change: How To Collaborate For Lasting Impact, Tynesia shares her experience investing in cities and leaders across the country. The goal of Just Change is to help readers understand what’s working, what’s not working and why, in order to improve their own communities. Tynesia’s experience as an entrepreneur, Six Sigma blackbelt, and technologist uniquely positions her to catalyze a results-driven era of social change. 

In her previous role as Chief Impact Officer of Living Cities, Tynesia was responsible for ensuring $100M of investment produced outcomes that improved the lives of low income people across the country. 

Boyea-Robinson received her MBA from Harvard Business School and has a dual degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University. She and her college sweetheart, Keith, are committed to indoctrinating their children, Dylan and Sydney, with a love of Duke basketball and all things geeky and sci-fi.

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What's some advice to us dads who want to help our wives and the mothers of our kids, get and maximize their self care time?

Latham Thomas is founder of Mama Glow, a maternity lifestyle company. Latham is also one of Oprah's Super Soul 100 and an author, who just published her highly anticipated second book, "Own Your Glow: A Soulful Guide to Luminous Living And Crowning The Queen Within” which debuts September 26, 2017.

In today's episode, Latham shares her mama glow journey, talks about her inspiration for starting and managing a business while being a single parent and we discuss her new book and what women can expect from it.

Latham shares her meaning of self care and shares a few self-care practices that we can incorporate in our everyday lives.

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How can each of us CLIMB ladders, rocks, and trees in the personal and professional problems and possibilities we all face?

Steve Vassor is a proud Dad, husband, mentor/coach, man of faith and action. He enjoys travel, and as a former DJ loves rap, his musical first love. 

He is a sought-after speaker and facilitator who earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Mental Health from Morgan State University, and a Master’s in Social Service Administration from Case Western Reserve University.

Throughout his career Steve served, supported, led, organized, trained, planned with and funded youth and community serving organizations and agencies. He served on committees, commissions and Boards focused on improving life chances for children, youth and families and has also launched three social enterprises.

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We have heard guest after guest, talk about the importance of getting outside your comfort zone and taking immediate action.  

This August (2017), I forced myself to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, so that I could put a check mark next to some big goals I had for this year, including delivering my first public talk at Podcast Movement.

In today's conversation, I share three practical steps that helped me [and can help you too if you apply them] to organize my thoughts, deliver a confident and fun talk, that impacted my audience and has been generating tons of positive engagement almost 3 weeks after.

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What's the best advice for young Black politicians looking to establish themselves?

Michael Alexander Blake is a young and rising politician. He currently serves as both a New York Assemblyman from the 79th district and a Vice Chair of the Democratic National Committee.

In today's conversation, we discussed the biggest changes in political campaigning, why he's serving in the DNC today and he shares some mission fuel for what the democratic community and other young politicians should begin doing today.

Some of the questions I asked:

• When did you first discover that politics was what you were meant to do with your life?
• How'd you go about sculpting yourself into someone that Barack Obama would later want as part of his administration?
• What are the biggest differences in political campaigning now from when you started your career?
• Why were you inspired to serve in the Democratic National Committee at this stage in your career?
• What are you hearing from the democratic community that is most challenging to put in place?
• What's your best advice to young politicians looking to establish themselves?

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What are some daily actions you can take to build your confidence and remind you to push ahead?

Dr. Clarence M Lee Jr. is a nationally celebrated author, international speaker, and business owner of a personal development brand that conducts seminars on high performance and mental conditioning for teams, organizations and students.

He holds degrees in medicine (MD) and business (MBA). A decorated war veteran, Dr. Lee served in the USAF for 10 years with several assignments, his last being a flight surgeon treating aviators and flying the T-38 and U-2 airframes at Beale AFB, CA. 

Dr. Lee is the author of “PERSIST - How to Beat the Things That Make Us Quit” to be release fall of 2017.

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Why is it so important to empower and uplift others around you?

Today's featured guest, Terra Winston, is the ringleader of inTerractions and Principal of inTerract Consulting.

Terra has dedicated her life to helping her clients unleash the potential of each employee. She is a leadership consultant and executive coach with 20 years of internal and external business consulting experience. Terra has a flexible style that has driven results in boardrooms and on plant floors, for Fortune 100 companies and small start-ups, alike.

In today's conversation, we discussed the common mistakes that derail good people from reaching their full trailblazer potential.

 
Some of the questions I asked:

• How do you cultivate gratitude in your life?
• What drives you today in the work you're doing?
• What's the most challenging experience you've had in your walk as a consultant/coach and what did you learn about yourself through that experience?
• One of your favorite sayings is “Good people do great things”. Terra, what exactly does that mean to you?
• But why is it so important to empower and uplift others around you?
• What are common mistakes that derail good people from reaching their full “Trailblazer potential”?
• What are some keys to getting started for our aspiring trailblazers?
• What does black girl magic mean to you?

Connect with Terra:

• Twitter: @TerraWinston
• Instagram: @Terra.Winston 
• Website: www.interractions.com

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What's the biggest challenge female entrepreneurs, especially black women entrepreneurs are facing right now?

Natasha Nurse is an Adjunct Professor at Nassau Community College, the owner and founder of Dressing Room 8 and also the Lifestyle Editor for Plus Model Magazine.

She's a lawyer, business owner, and public speaker, and today she introduced us to her coaching philosophy and discussed what success means and how to develop a mindset for it.

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What are some of the foundation pieces new entrepreneurs need to put in place to have a successful startup?

Ericka Dotson, Indique Hair co-founder and creative director, was inspired by clients to fill the void in the hair extension industry with a premium, knowledgeable and customer orientated business.

In this conversation, Ericka and I discuss how she got into the hair extension business. She shares how she went counter to the advice of her instructors and went straight into startup mode right out of cosmetology school. We talk about her morning rituals and her approach to attract, nurture and empower new talent. She shares how she gets her team on board with her vision and her crazy creative campaigns. Lastly, she gives some wisdom to all our new entrepreneurs on what we can do to help us succeed with our startups.

Some of the questions I asked Ericka:

• 04:55 What got you into the hair extension business?
• 29:00 What's one of the most challenging experiences you faced in business and what did you learn from that experience?
• 32:40 What are some of your consistent morning rituals that set you up to win everyday?
• 33:50 How are you able to attract, nurture and empower new talent within your company?
• 35:20 As Creative Director, how do you get your team on board with your crazy vision and campaigns?
• 37:20 What are some of the foundation pieces new entrepreneurs need to put in place to have a successful startup?

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Why Black Enterprise created the BE Modern Man initiative?

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Alfred Edmond Jr. is SVP & Executive Editor-at-Large of Black Enterprise.

Alfred spoke about his 30+ years at Black Enterprise, he shares some lessons in leadership, the legacy of Black Enterprise and the genesis story behind how the BE Modern Man initiative got going.

We talked about the inaugural Black Men XCEL Summit (#BMXCEL), coming this Labor Day weekend to West Palm Beach, Florida to Celebrate the Excellence and Leadership of Black Men. And he shares a special discount code that gets you $100 off registration, so listen out for that and get registered today!

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Some of the questions I asked Alfred:

• 08:10 What's been your biggest challenge as a leader at Black Enterprise as it relates to the transition to digital?
• 11:15 What advice would you give to young aspiring editors and journalists wanting to step into the space?
• 16:15 Why Black Enterprise created the BE Modern Man initiative?
• 26:15 What is the Black Men XCEL Summit and who is it for?
• 42:00 What is the biggest thing you see missing in relationships?

Get registered TODAY for the Black Men XCEL Summit #BMXCEL:

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