“So I encourage folks to not use the word ask for more, especially for women, because we're done asking, we're here to negotiate.”- Kim

If you are in the space of feeling like you have to ask or beg to be taken seriously, to delegate, or to even get a raise, this episode is for you. 

Today I am talking with Kim Tran, the owner of Your Work Inspires. She is a career negotiator and business coach leading women and communities of color, regardless of job title or industry  to close the pay and wealth gap. She currently leads brand strategy for Top Fortune 10 programs in the edtech and online learning space. 

In this episode you’ll learn:

1. Things you have to reflect on in your life to understand where you learned the unconscious bias of the pay and wealth gap.
2. What language shift can do for us as women when we want more.
3. How we get comfortable negotiating and taking up space can also impact our private lives.

My hope for this episode is that you learn to take up space and use your big CEO energy in and out of the office to get what you want. Tune in to listen to the incredible Kim teach us all how to do that!

About Kim Tran: 

A former aspiring lawyer-turned-tech-marketer, Kim began her career working in media litigation and First Amendment law before jumping client-side with a global Fortune 500 media company. While there, she leveraged her legal background into a brand strategy, marketing, and advertising career full-time, leading high-performing cross-functional teams and producing multimillion-dollar media campaigns in highly regulated industries, from tech to financial services. Most recently Kim oversaw marketing and growth initiatives in Latin America for a global Internet infrastructure company, and currently leads brand strategy for Top Fortune 10 programs in the edtech and online learning space.

After a decade spent on both sides of the hiring table, Kim founded her career negotiations and business coaching firm, Your Work Inspires, with one single mission—to help close the pay gap and wealth gap for women and communities of color, regardless of job title or industry. Kim holds a BA in Psychology and MA in Strategic Communications, and frequently speaks and conducts workshops on various business and career topics for diverse audiences of all backgrounds at Duke University, American Un

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Having tools to capture all of the systems and SOPs you have put into place is crucial to easing the burden on yourself, your team, and your business as a whole. Using tools that are simple, easy to teach and digest, and move the needle of your business forward create an environment for your business, and your brain that is unmatched.

Today I am talking to you all about the tools that are out there for small businesses and entrepreneurs. These tools listed below help you to start small and then scale as you grow.

Tune in to discover what tools are great for YOU, the small business or entrepreneur!

Tools mentioned:

Accounting:

Hire a bookkeeper! Ally is my bookkeeper and I'm not sure what I would do without her. You can check her out here: https://mcmurtryvs.com/

Quickbooks

Wave

Freshbooks

Xero

Tool streamliner: Shift

Task Management:

Asana

Trello

ClickUp

Basecamp

Slack for team communication

File management:

Google Doc

Dropbox

Docusign

CRM:

Dubsado

Kajabi

Plutio

HoneyBooks

Bonsai

Email MArketing:

Aweber

MailChimp

Constant Contact

1CRM

Content Housing and Scheduling:

WordPress

Squarespace

Wix

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Do you look for external things to create motivation? 

Has the well run dry on finding things to keep motivating you? 

I might ruffle some feathers but, what you have here is a lack of self-discipline. Self- discipline reaches farther than motivation every will and in this episode, I show you why and what you can do to create your own motivation through creating a fool proof self-discipline routine.

You can read more in THIS blog post and learn more about creating a morning routine HERE.

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“You should be an advocate for yourself for your health, because at the end of the day, you want to feel confident in the health decision that you had to make.”- Shannon

We, as business owners, sometimes have a hard time admitting when our mental health needs a barometer check. We often drive ourselves around with the check engine light on and don’t address the issue because to be frank, we don’t even know where to begin.

And maybe, we don’t even know IF we have a problem worth addressing but what we do know is that our work, our businesses, are being affected because we end up being paralyzed by our debilitating thoughts.

I thought it was such a wonderful time to bring Shannon from You Got This-The Journey to talk about her mental health journey and how now she is our deepest advocate and warrior for creating the life we all deserve by working with us one on one through our mental health journey so we can become the business owner, side hustler, or full time corporate person we have always wanted to be.

In this very raw episode, Shannon talks about:

• How she determined she has anxiety 
• How she worked through it to get to the other side and what it takes to keep your mental health- healthy.
• How she can help you facing the same struggles

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About Shannon Andress: Shannon is the host and creator of the podcast “You Got This! – The Journey”. After suffering from her own experience with anxiety and depression, Shannon has become an advocate for mental health awareness and helping others to find ways that they can become the happiest and healthiest versions of themselves. By sharing her story of her own personal journey, she is helping her listeners to know that they are not alone. She recently became a mindset coach and fitness instructor and she is determined to provide her clients all of the resources they need to achieve their dreams and succeed. Shannon is passionate about making a positive impact on everyone around her and is hoping to make a difference in the world by following her purpose.

Shannon Andress

Website: https://www.shannonandress.com

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/You-Got-This-The

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“I’ve got to build my own building so I can have my own ceiling.”- Monica 

You can’t scroll your Instagram or Facebook feed for more than a minute without running into an entrepreneur posting about becoming their own boss, and external factors you need to do that too!

What IS being an entrepreneur really like?? And should you take the plunge?

My guest for this episode, serial entrepreneur Monica Allen, is here to spill the beans on exactly what the journey of transitioning out of corporate to running multiple businesses as a mom and wife really means.

Sounds great, right? But there’s more — she and her husband kept the doors open, even in the midst of Covid and still came out swingin’!

Is the hype of running a business ever actually justified?

And should you just start willy nilly? What about hiring employees? Should you be like your previous boss to get things done?

“I just need to figure out a better way to manage it. And I need to figure out how to get things off of my plate so I can focus on the strategy, the big moves, the big place.”- says Monica, “So that's where I am this year is really focusing on what resources do I need to allow me and my husband to make the big moves, the big place.”

In this episode, Monica shares how to build your business, how to get nitty gritty when crisis strikes, how to not be THAT manager and how to develop your authentic brand in the midst of being a serial entrepreneur!

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About Monica Allen: Monica Allen  is a wife, mom, entrepreneur, podcaster and a life-long learner. She  started my first business almost 20 years ago, and she  loves hosting the Become Your Own Boss podcast where she is  breaking barriers, building businesses and leaving a legacy. Monica’s goal is to help you launch, grow, and scale your business so you can sustain and leave a lasting legacy for years to come and avoid many of the pitfalls of business ownership.

  

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Monica Allen

Become Your Own Boss Podcast

Become Your Own Boss Planner

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When you hear the words: imposter syndrome, what do you think about? Do you instantly raise your hand and say “that’s me”? Do you know what you are saying when you say that you have imposter syndrome OR is it just a lack of knowledge about yourself and the things you need to retrain your mind and skillset on?

In today’s episode, we talk about some of those things that can often mistakenly show up as imposter syndrome and we walk together to understand how you can overcome those barriers. To me, imposter syndrome is a blanket statement that we often like to you when we decide we don’t want to do the inner work of understanding the situations before us and why we arrived with our thoughts.

Tune in to listen to how you can break these barriers and get tangible action items putting you in a positive head space so YOU can show up with BIG CEO energy.

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If someone were to ask you “When did you know it was time to leave a job?” What would you say? What are some things that you can think of as to WHY you would leave a job?

If you are contemplating leaving corporate all together or just making a job change, you will want to listen to this episode. This episode we talk all about the real and honest reasons why you should leave a position and some key things to think about when you start getting a stir that it is time. 

Gathering data and reflecting daily on where you are and where you see yourself helps you to understand when you may be outgrowing a position or outgrowing working for someone else all together.

Walk with me as we discover where you are and what you can do to understand if it is time for you to leave your job or not.

Links:‌ ‌

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Ready to Grow Your Business? → Book a Strategy Session Walk away with clarity, systems, and next steps tailored to your business stage.

🎙️ Want to Be a Guest? Have a story, lesson, or business breakthrough to share with other CEOs? → Apply to Be a Guest

What if your business had a solid foundation by this time next week? → Download the Free CEO Starter Kit

Could a supportive community be the thing you're missing in your momentum? → Join The Kallective Mentorship, accountability, and bi-weekly sessions to build your business the smart way.

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Hustle culture is the kind of callous on the bottom of your heel that just won’t go away unless you keep working at it. 

It is the point where instead of providing excitement and positivity, it leaves you with burnout, broke relationships and a bad taste of the reason why you started your business in the first place.

Friends, this episode is powerful. Tune in to learn about how I was sucked into hustle culture and ways to expel it from your life.

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Ready to Grow Your Business? → Book a Strategy Session Walk away with clarity, systems, and next steps tailored to your business stage.

🎙️ Want to Be a Guest? Have a story, lesson, or business breakthrough to share with other CEOs? → Apply to Be a Guest

What if your business had a solid foundation by this time next week? → Download the Free CEO Starter Kit

Could a supportive community be the thing you're missing in your momentum? → Join The Kallective Mentorship, accountability, and bi-weekly sessions to build your business the smart way.

→ GET THE GOOD MAIL Lots of fun. Never spam. Promise.

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All the buzz all around is morning routine this and that. Well, I am NOT a morning person BUT I love to do all of the morning things. In this episode I walk you through my morning routine because I think it is important that is you are going to have THAT big CEO Energy, you need to have a morning routine that supports you to be energized throughout your entire day to make those BIG decisions that we all do.

Come with me as we explore my night before and my mornings together and maybe you will find a new thing or two to implement into your morning routine. This is what works for me but maybe you will get inspired.

Links:‌ ‌

Kal+Co: www.thekalandco.com

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 https://thekalandco.com/services

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Want more tips and inspiration? Follow me on Instagram @_kalandco

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Links mentioned:

Flexispot desk: https://www.flexispot.com/

The Organized Money: https://www.theorganizedmoney.com/

The Budget Mom: https://www.thebudgetmom.com/

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Ready to Grow Your Business? → Book a Strategy Session Walk away with clarity, systems, and next steps tailored to your business stage.

🎙️ Want to Be a Guest? Have a story, lesson, or business breakthrough to share with other CEOs? → Apply to Be a Guest

What if your business had a solid foundation by this time next week? → Download the Free CEO Starter Kit

Could a supportive community be the thing you're missing in your momentum? → Join The Kallective Mentorship, accountability, and bi-weekly sessions to build your business the smart way.

→ GET THE GOOD MAIL Lots of fun. Never spam. Promise.

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‌The change is here!

Welcome to THAT big CEO Energy podcast. I am so happy to announce this change and I am elated that I get to still share my heart and what it means to have THAT big CEO Energy. Transforming us from employee to CEO strategy is important and necessary.

Tune in to listen what this next phase will bring.

Links:‌ ‌

Kal+Co: www.thekalandco.com

1:1 Project Intensive:

 https://thekalandco.com/services

Work with me:

Want more tips and inspiration? Follow me on Instagram @_kalandco

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Leave me a review on Apple Podcast! And don’t forget to rate, review and follow this podcast on your favorite podcast app so you never miss an episode!

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Ready to Grow Your Business? → Book a Strategy Session Walk away with clarity, systems, and next steps tailored to your business stage.

🎙️ Want to Be a Guest? Have a story, lesson, or business breakthrough to share with other CEOs? → Apply to Be a Guest

What if your business had a solid foundation by this time next week? → Download the Free CEO Starter Kit

Could a supportive community be the thing you're missing in your momentum? → Join The Kallective Mentorship, accountability, and bi-weekly sessions to build your business the smart way.

→ GET THE GOOD MAIL Lots of fun. Never spam. Promise.

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