Imposter Syndrome is a term that many of us are way too well acquainted with. 

But what if it's not what you thought it was? What if it is the fear of you being so much more than you ever dreamed? 

Erica shares her thoughts about what Imposter Syndrome is and isn’t and how it shows up as we expand what we think is possible and embrace our next best selves.

In this discussion:

• Why imposter syndrome is so persistent for Black and brown people
• What we’re really afraid of when we experience Imposter Syndrome
• How to embrace the next best version of you

Ready to dive deeper?

If you want support in embracing the next best version of you and expanding what you think is possible, join Pause on the Play®, The Community for accountability, community, and commitment to Imperfect Allyship® in creating real change.

Learn more at pauseontheplay.com/community

Imperfect Allyship® applies to more than just race and gender. And we need space to think about how our allyship efforts intersect with creating systems of collaboration, support, and giving back.

Emily Thompson joins Erica to discuss how Imperfect Allyship® shows up in her work and life, the systems she has put in place to make allyship feel easeful, and her December collaboration with Pause on the Play®, The Community in support of the L-CMD Research Foundation.

In this discussion:

• Why Imperfect Allyship® requires space and self-awareness
• Why a company culture of giving back starts with a core of caring
• How to give yourself and your team space to find out what matters
• How to build systems to support giving back

Connect with Emily Thompson:

• Being Boss
• Almanac Supply Co. *affiliate link
• Instagram: @beingbossclub @almanacsupplyco

Ready to dive deeper?

In order to create systems of collaboration and Imperfect Allyship®, you have to be clear on your values.

Join Erica and India From Implicit To Explicit Masterclass, where you’ll have the space you need to get explicit about your goals and what you support and shape your company culture through your values.

Many of us want to have the capacity to be more creative, to be better communicators, and to be able to tap into our empathy.

Improvisation can be a tool to broaden your capacity in all of these areas, giving you a playground to expand what you think is possible with a sense of levity and play.

Gary Ware and Erica discuss how to use improvisation skills to bring energy and joy to your work and to access your empathy and communication skills.

In this discussion:

• How improvisation and play helps you be present
• How improv builds your empathy and communication skills
• Why improv provides a container to safely release and work through difficult emotions
• Why you need to give yourself permission to play

Connect with Gary Ware:

• Breakthrough Play
• Connect with Gary on LinkedIn
• Instagram: @GaryWare

Ready to dive deeper?

Leading from a place of empathy, curiosity, and play requires you to be clear on your values and what you support so you can build transparency and trust with your team.

Join up for the From Implicit To Explicit Masterclass where we help you lead through your values, get explicit about what you support, and align your actions with your values and goals as you shape your company culture.

Systems can create frameworks that generate freedom in more than just your business. These systems are a part of mindset shifts that extend outward and support how you navigate your life and your relationships.

Adrienne Dorison joins Erica for a conversation about the Run Like Clockwork framework and how systems can create and support freedom.

In this discussion:

• How systems prevent burnout and support freedom in your life and your business
• How transparency about your workload and capacity benefits you and your team
• Why leaders need to commit to embodying their values to shift toxic workplace paradigms

Connect with Adrienne Dorison

• Run Like Clockwork
• Instagram: @RLClockwork

Ready to dive deeper?

In order to create systems that support your freedom, you have to get clear on what matters to you. Leading through your values means being explicit about what you support and how your actions are aligned with that.

Join us for the From Implicit To Explicit Masterclass where we help you lead through your values, get explicit about what you support, and align your actions with your values and goals as you shape your company culture.

Some people have the wherewithal in them to dream big, to think that anything can be possible, that things that they’ve never witnessed, things that they thought were out of reach, can be possible.

And some don’t.

Often, the same person will experience both at different times.

Erica and India come together to have a conversation about envisioning the impact you want to make and believing in what’s possible.

In this discussion:

• How our backgrounds influence what we can conceive of as possible
• How to help yourself and others dream bigger
• The feelings and fears that get in the way of claiming possibilities

Ready to dive deeper?

Connecting with a community can help you expand what you believe is possible. Pause on the Play® the Community will lend you courage when you need it, in community with others who all desire to create impact from a place of equity.

If this is the type of support and community you are seeking, learn more at: PauseOnThePlay.com/Community

People think they know what to expect, but they haven't met you yet. Bi-weekly India Jackson, co-founder of Pause on the Play®, has conversations exploring branding and visibility. Own your values and amplify your influence by giving the Flaunt Your Fire® Podcast a follow today.

Where are you playing a role in giving or receiving urgency and its harmful side effects?

Urgency isn’t about whether or not something is time-sensitive. Urgency is about demanding something before it’s actually due, creating unreasonable expectations and unhealthy environments in its wake.

And if urgency is about saving your time and resources, who’s paying the price for the reclamation?

Erica breaks down what urgency is and isn’t, how it intersects with white supremacy, and how it impacts our stated commitments to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

In this discussion:

• How urgency skews priorities and reinforces power imbalances
• Why your benchmarks need context, and why some things may not need them at all
• How urgency circumvents clear expectations and communication
• How urgency impacts relationships and environments

Ready to dive deeper?

Urgency loves to show up and dismantle the work you’re doing to reconsider your normal and figure out how things can be done better.

From Implicit To Explicit is a masterclass that helps you identify where you want to be better, where you want to grow, where you want to evolve, and what truly matters to you so you can take action through a lens of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Learn more today at pauseontheplay.com/explicit

People think they know what to expect, but they haven't met you yet. Bi-weekly India Jackson, co-founder of Pause on the Play®, has conversations exploring branding and visibility. Own your values and amplify your influence by giving the Flaunt Your Fire® Podcast a follow today.

What assumptions do you make about yourself? What assumptions do you make about others?

The assumptions about identity that we make about ourselves and each other are often not supporting us in our lives, or in our efforts to be visible and make the types of impact that we want to make in the world.

Lucia Doynel joins Erica for a conversation about identity, assumptions, and the stories we tell about ourselves and others.

In this discussion:

• The layers of identity and the boxes we put ourselves and others in
• Why calls for diversity are contradicted by pressure to assimilate
• How other people’s assumptions and projections about us show up in person and online
• Why turning comparison into inspiration is helpful

Connect with Lucia Doynel:

• Free Masterclass: 5 Steps To Creating High Quality Photos Of Yourself
• Instagram: @theLucias

Ready to dive deeper?

When reconsidering your understanding and assumptions around identity, it’s so important to be clear on your values, what matters to you, and how you can lead from a place of clarity, understanding, and empathy.

From Implicit To Explicit is a masterclass to get clear on what matters to you as a human and how it informs the way you show up professionally.

Learn more today at pauseontheplay.com/explicit

Listen to the Flaunt Your Fire® Podcast where India Jackson and her guests explore visibility and the art of owning your power as you align your brand. Don’t miss her conversation with Lucia Doynel about having the confidence to show up authentically so you can amplify your influence and create lasting impact.

Can being selfish be a good thing?

Selfishness actually needs to be incorporated into our lifestyles in order to support the work that we are designed and purposed to do.

We cannot do the things that we want to do, the things that we need to do, and create the types of changes that we want to create if we’re pouring from an empty, cracked, chipped, broken cup.

Dr. Marcuetta Sims joins Erica to make the case for being selfish.

In this discussion:

• Why Dr. Sims is reclaiming the word selfish
• Why Black women are so prone to overwork and self-neglect
• Why we need models of self care
• Why selfishness is integral to thriving
• How to set boundaries that demonstrate how you want to be treated

Connect with Dr. Marcuetta Sims:

• Worth, Wisdom, and Wellness Center
• Instagram: @WorthWisdomWellness, @DrMarcuettaSims

Ready to dive deeper?

At Pause on the Play® the Community we are taking action alongside other imperfect allies and digging into why self-care is essential to making lasting impact.

Learn more and join us at www.pauseontheplay.com/community

Listen to the Flaunt Your Fire® Podcast where India Jackson and her guests explore visibility and the art of owning your power as you align your brand, have conversations that disrupt industry standards and defy stale marketing advice.  If you are ready to amplify your influence and create lasting impact, this is the podcast for you!

How does brain science connect with communication and relationship building? And how does that intersect with empathy? Utilizing brain science has the potential to shift conversations and dynamics around race, diversity, empathy, and healing.

Eric Bailey joins Erica for a discussion of how brain science influences our relationships, our imperfect allyship, and how both are ongoing processes.

In this discussion:

• Conversational principles for when you don’t agree
• The brain science of defensiveness and why we can’t learn until we calm down
• How the illusion of certainty thwarts allyship
• Two questions to engage in discussion with radical curiosity

Connect with Eric:

• EricMBailey.com
• The Walking Meeting
• Facebook: @BaileyStrategicInnovationGroup, @EricMBailey
• Connect with Eric on LinkedIn
• Twitter: @Eric_M_Bailey
• Instagram: @Eric_M_Bailey
• The Cure for Stupidity: Using Brain Science to Explain Irrational Behavior at Work

Ready to dive deeper?

From Implicit To Explicit: Leading Through Your Values Masterclass is a framework to get clear on what matters to you as a human and how it informs the way you show up professionally.

Learn more about Pause on the Play® the Community and join to get access to community conversations, monthly workshops and Q&As with India Jackson and Erica Courdae, and on-demand replays of prior workshops and masterclasses.

Listen to the Flaunt Your Fire® Podcast where India Jackson and her guests explore visibility and the art of owning your power as you align your brand, have conversations that disrupt industry standards, and defy stale marketing advice.  If you are ready to amplify your influence and create lasting impact, this is the podcast for you!

What does it mean to amplify your influence?

If everyone has the capacity to influence others, no matter how small their circle might be, how do we consciously amplify our positive impact?

Five members of the Pause on the Play® the Community, share what amplifying their influence means to them, based on their contexts, experiences, and opinions.

In this discussion:

• Five perspectives on amplifying your influence
• How being in community influences how you show up in the world

Ready to dive deeper?

From Implicit To Explicit: Leading Through Your Values Masterclass is a framework to get clear on what matters to you as a human and how it informs the way you show up professionally.

Learn more about Pause on the Play® the Community and join to get access to community conversations, monthly workshops and Q&As with India Jackson and Erica Courdae, and on-demand replays of prior workshops and masterclasses.

Listen to the Flaunt Your Fire® Podcast where India Jackson and her guests explore visibility and the art of owning your power as you align your brand, have conversations that disrupt industry standards and defy stale marketing advice.  If you are ready to amplify your influence and create lasting impact, this is the podcast for you!