Auguste Crenshaw left a 20-year career as a successful cosmetologist; people thought she was crazy, but she followed her calling to become a business coach; developing Advanced Mental Conditioning paired with intuition are her keys to helping clients identify barriers to their success. https://www.augustecrenshaw.com/

In this episode, we discuss:

• Mindset is everything, and the mind can keep you from reaching your true potential.
• Master the art of being while becoming! Utilize the resources at your disposal. What does that mean?
• Business coaches must get to the uncomfortable parts of a client outside of business fundamentals.
• Her coaching methods come from life experiences.
• Intuition, how it is her secret weapon.
• Entrepreneurship will humble you and can magnify the insecurities that you have.
• Mentorship, leadership is necessary.
• Passion is natural, but Google will kill it when you don’t pay for the direction, invest in a mentor, mastermind.
• MO.V.E: Master of Virtual Economy her upcoming summit because people are missing out on internet opportunities. - This summit covers everything (the total package) that impacts us virtually, business, and personal.

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Mary Hazward Fernandez – Community activist in Portsmouth Virginia, Sales Director – Mary Kay Global   https://www.businessdevelopmentbywohi...​

Community activism comes from her parent’s involvement.  As an adult, she yet resides and serves in her beloved community. Through her organization, Women of Help and Influence, she aids women in gaining courage and confidence to start their journey.

The life of an activist includes formal preparation (LEPCO – a certified city leadership program instructing what the city offers and the difference residents can make)

Activists stay in tune with city and state policies, movement and Mary chose to serve as President of a Chamber that covered a family of 5 cities in the Portsmouth, Va. Area.

When Walmart was to come to her community, her group Midtown Business Association become visible to the company, and Walmart chose Mary’s group to visit the main office. Walmart’s way of showing the group how the company operates, thinks, its vision, and value. Per Walmart’s request, Mary chose to become project manager, with her team, write a grant to spotlight businesses in the community that could use help position themselves for success.  Mission accomplished! Mary and her team received the grant monies.

Charlotte Elizabeth Terrell

Clinical therapist, certified transformational life coach, author, helps women with work/life balance.

Discussion Points:

Not being able to do it all

The power of no

Set boundaries

Reward yourself for all achievements

Be who you are

Peace power happiness

Dr. Stephanie Atkinson Austin

Professional life and business coach, Best Selling author. Retired Navy. https://www.atkinsonalstonproduction.com/

Discussion Points:

The difference between a coach and a mentor.

Evidence-based coaching and how her style is not intrusive coaching; recommendations are given with permission.

“Trippin on the Sofa During the Damndemic”

“How much energy do you have to achieve what you want to do.”  What does that mean?

Talk about reinvention! Monica Glenny worked within the data/ accounting industry for over 30 years. Who knew that Mary Kay Cosmetics would satisfy the need she had for years – the need to help women develop their small business?  https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicaglenny/

  Discussion Points/questions answered.

How did a business know for” face to face, knee to knee, toe to toe” interaction pivot with success when Covid hit?

Monica believes in approaching her customers the same way she did small business owners – see them from the inside out. How effective is this method?

Do women understand their power?

Trina Ramsey, certified career and life strategist coach, supports women in their fierce 40s, fabulous 50s, sensational 60s, and beyond. She empowers them to make daring changes in their career and life. Trina’s book, Do You A Declaration of Independence from Guilt Obligation and Shame   Website - https://justdoyouinstitute.com/.

Discussion Points

Ladies, we are in the days of the side hustle, which makes for a prosperous life.

Do most women in their 40s, fifties, 60s, and beyond know what their next is?

Pain points, mirror moments, how they wake us up to pursue what's in our hearts.

Trina deposits words of wisdom and understanding to women at the crossroads due to Covid.

There is a cost of being a slave to your external persona.

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Aruna Krishnan has ten years of firsthand study, the discovery of emotional intelligence. In this conversation, she shares how her research and application of EI have evolved into three Amazon Best Selling books and a working reference to dealing with people.

Aruna Krishnan, the founder, and CEO of OPTIM

 https://www.optim-strategies.com

The Three-part series -Busy Mind

  It's time to reframe the old normal, balance the workplace from a mental health perspective. Today's conversation is with Maggie Georgopoulos, a global crusader, author, conversation keeper concerning mental health where we work. She says, "we all have mental health" P.S she is interviewing from Vietnam, and we look at how that country fought Covid -19 mirrored against the rest of the world. https://www.linkedin.com/in/magsinspires/    LinkedIn  

Discussion:

Meghan Markel, her admission of depression and how the media handled the news

The subject of mental health and the C-Suite position.

Bi-polar condition, C-suite leadership position, managing successfully in the workplace.

Reframing how business is done from a mental health perspective.

  This transformation life coach believes in coaching what you know and have experienced. Dawn Lieck’s mantra is “Do it scared.” Dawn recently led thirteen authors to Best-Seller status on Amazon in Four categories! All seasoned authors? Not at all! The anthology Finally Free represents settling old fears, the past, observations, and a sense of accomplishment for Dawn and all authors.

Tracy L James is a sales and marketing professional turn business growth strategist. She's a consultant speaker, an author, a trained dancer that uses what she learned in the dance studio to get results as a strategist." Get in there, learn the step, learn the technique, perfect, perform it at 110%". There are no excuses – look for solutions per Traci L James!  https://www.tracieljames.com/
Highlights
What does it mean to be excuse proof?
How does Tracy overcome obstacles using her dancer training?
Being the only black woman in the room, what's Tracy's add vice for overcoming, excelling in that situation?
Tracy's book Excuse Proof Leadership informs of how leaders learn to become excuse proof.