Stand Up for Yourself – to defend or support a particular idea or a person who is being criticized or attacked

In this episode, I discuss five reasons to stand up for yourself to defend your ideas, rights, & to gain the respect of others, in this podcast episode. Although in the past, I would usually clap-back hard, my methods were not always as constructive as I would like. These were my young and immature days, where I felt everything was mostly “dog-eat-dog”, ready and willingly taking people out verbally (and sometimes physically) just to make a point.

As I matured I learned to stand up for myself in more effective ways, in order to make a difference and to insight change positively. In these 5 great reasons to stand up for yourself, I touch on issues that are far beyond “killing people with kindness”, and learning how not feel regret or guilt after educating people on how you deserve to be dealt with.

5 Great Reasons to Stand Up For Yourself:

1. Build confidence -

2. Shed light on injustice & disrespect –

3. Set an example/ inspire others –

4. Set a precedent/a bar –

5. Teach a lesson to the accused –

Show up for yourself! Speak your mind and use your voice. Don’t hide behind the avatars and profiles pictures, but come from behind the screen and keyboard to speak up for a group that is being disadvantaged, not just yourself. It’s bigger than just ourselves when so many of us are experiencing so many defeats and obstacles that in the past we were afraid to change.

Check out my interview with Dr. Shantell Malachi of Richmond Virginia, Founder & Executive Director, Dress for Success Central Virginia, Chief Executive Officer at SheEmpowers™ International, Author of “Career Couture: The Modern Guide to Redefining Your Career” available on Amazon, 2012 Style Weekly’s Top 40 under 40. We chop it up about empowering women to pursue greater entrepreneur ventures and get involved in philanthropy while discussing how to run an organization that caters to helping people and solving common obstacles that women face in professional and personal settings.

Dress for Success is a social service DFS provides services to women who are in a disadvantaged situations or facing some unusual obstacles, such as fleeing domestic violence, reentering the workforce, trying to get back on their feet. SheEmpowers, Shantell describes, is taking the work of DFS a step further. Most of the women who are apart of SheEmpowers are professional women who are already started on the path of entrepreneurship, but for some reason are now stuck. The organization caters to women who need an extra push to step their business up to the next level.

We touch about the importance of fulfilling a need in your business in order to be successful. Shantell touches on the different aspects of building an organization that caters to the needs of women of diverse backgrounds, and how helping them helps the overall community. The goal is to transform more women into being leaders in their individual businesses and careers, therefore empowering others to follow their example.

Dress for Success Central Virginia

https://centralvirginia.dressforsuccess.org/

SheEmpowers™

www.sheempowers.org/

Interview with Creative Start-Up Strategist for Retail/Service based Entrepreneurs, Sonja Merritt- Thompkins of www.Sincerely,Sonja.com. I chat with Sonja Thompkins, who has spent the last 20 years working, owning & operating 4 businesses, including a Day Spa Salon and 3 Brick and Mortar Boutiques, as a licensed Cosmetologist and working as a Self Employed Hairstylist. 

In our in-depth discussion, Sonja touches on tips and advice for starting, developing, and growing your retail/service based business on a budget, with little to no capital. She dishes on her experiences starting her businesses, including starting a retail boutique for only $3,000. She also delivers great advice on balancing motherhood and business, overcoming challenges in start-up success, & overcoming the fear of beginning where you are.

Follow and connect with Sonja Merritt- Thompkins at www.Sincerely,Sonja.com

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7 Things to Stop Feeling Guilty For

When it comes to being motivated on the daily, there are a few things that you have to stop feeling guilty about, in order to reach true success. In this podcast, I break down 7 things that you should stop feeling guilty for, to steer you towards a more impactful and purposeful attitude.

The definition of Guilty - culpable of or responsible for a specified wrongdoing; justly chargeable with a particular fault or error

1. Being Imperfect

Having physical flaws

Living life and learning along the way

2. Your desire to be great or your level of ambition

Building your career

Wanting better out of your personal life and your physical well-being

Lifestyle (parenting, marriage, etc.)

3. Being Honest and straight-forward

Keeping it 100 at all times

4. Your Past

Childhood trauma

Past accidents and pain that has impacted you physically or emotionally

5. The behavior and attitude of other people

Can’t keep apologizing for the faults and actions of others

6. Success

Don’t limit yourself or self-sabotage because you’re afraid to leave others behind

Personal growth and improvements

7. Your lack of _________.

Money, popularity, material possessions, etc.

Quote:

“Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, and destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.”

- Dave Grohl

(Singer-songwriter, Producer and former drummer for the grunge band Nirvana)

 

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Jill Vanderwood authored a book, “Shaking behind the Microphone: Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking” shares her ten point plan on facing the fear of public speaking and learning to get in front of the microphone. She will deliver the information you need to face your fears and get into public speaking.

Before becoming an expert, Jill was a proud grandmother and mother. Learning to overcome her fears in her fifties, she decided to go to toastmasters to learn how to prepare to conduct her own workshops and train on overcoming her personal fears of speaking in front of people. She credits toastmasters in getting her prepared, as she says the toastmasters programs forced you to “always be on”.

Jill says it’s important to practice public speaking, because you may be faced with personal terror and fear causing you to freeze and forget what you want to say in front of your audience.

Jill credits Toastmasters training for changing her life and keeping her from depending on her notes, which often fell on the floor causing her to lose her page and her place. She has spoken to rehabs, writers, boys and girls clubs, and many other organizations. She says her desire to transform her abilities.

Jill’s book “Shaking Behind the Microphone: Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking”, a book compiled by Jill who interviewed experts, people struggling with fear of public speaking, and those who sought unconventional methods on dealing with this issue. This book is available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobles, and via her personal website, http://www.JillVanderwood.com

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Listen as I discuss how I plan to return back to work after a much needed hiatus. Returning back to your passions doesn't have to be difficult, if you can put away the fear of returning. This time when you return, you can have a clear idea as to how you want life to be and how you plan to achieve your goals.

Be fearless in knowing that whatever is for you, is for you. No weapon formed against you will prosper. There is no need to live in fear or trepidation, when you are confident in your plan and goals.

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Dr. Capperauld believes that everyone can learn to have the health and healing that they desire. We all want to improve our bodies, our health, and our perspective on healthy eating and maintaining. It’s a challenge to get the right advice, tips, and feedback that will lead to a healthier lifestyle and not a thinner wallet. Tonight we will discuss healthy weight loss and how to achieve it. We will dive into healthy habits and the concept of whole foods and the benefits.

People need to know that being healthy is something that is available to all. 

Good health, including healthy weight loss, is not an elusive “thing” that is only available to a few but a byproduct of learned “healthy habits”.

Get more information from Dr. Capperauld at http://www.conceptsforhealth.com/

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Tonight we are talking about that dreadful comfort zone that keeps you stuck in a rut. Doing the things you’ve always done, and not seeing any new results or improvements? This is the episode for you. We’re diving into the causes for sticking to that faithful comfort zone, and how you can finally break free. We dish on some examples of how you may be stuck in a rut and perhaps you don’t realize it.

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Tonight’s featured artist is Christina Marie Magenta‏, an American industrial rock band based in Northern VA. Christina has been writing music and modeling since she was a young girl.  She went to college in Virginia for business and business law, and at home has studied music and herpetology for many years. Originally she spent years recording an album at a studio in Portland, Oregon; but near the end all files were lost in a flood. She gave up on music for several years until one day she saw her son making music, and decided to start over in a new studio. With powerful motivation, and a new team of musicians, her 1st album Burn was completed in a few short months and was released 2011, followed by Poison in late 2012, Drown in 2015 and 3 remix albums. 

Find out more about Christina Marie Magenta at http://www.christinamariemagenta.com/

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In this episode of GaptoothDiva Radio, we discuss hot, satisfying, and earth shattering sex with Expert and Author Nikki Ransom- Alfred of “30 Sex Positions & Tips for Getting Wild, Rough, and Kinky”. TUNE IN  as we dive deep into a conversation that is sure to enlighten you (if not motivate you). Nikki says that sex can make everything better and that we have no reason to be ashamed about it. We agree and can’t wait for her to dish on the best sexual positions, how wives are “booty suppliers”, and how kinky sex can help in providing better mental health. We are all for being better people. So if sex is the answer, let’s discuss it here! Tune in for this penetrating dialogue.

Visit Nikki at www.NikkiRansom.com

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Also featuring new music by today’s hottest independent artists.

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In this episode of GaptoothDiva Radio, we’re talking with the passionate Octavia Conner, CEO and founder of Smart Accounting Services, LLC about educating and empowering business owners on how to achieve financial abundance in their business. As a Certified Public Bookkeeper, Octavia coaches and consults business owners on how to implement smart money management techniques that consist of financial literacy, proven profit increase strategies and effective business operation systems that enables the owner to enjoy more money, more time and have peace of mind.  

It is Octavia’s belief that if her clients succeed she will succeed. As a wife, mother of four, sister and business owner she understands the work life balance and she works hard to ensure her clients can enjoy the best of both worlds. We’re looking forward to awesome tips and advice for our parents who are entrepreneurs as well.

Listen in as we come back with more of the off the cuff entertainment but with real and honest conversation surrounding topics related to you. Using Fashion, Music, Culture, Entertainment, and Lifestyle, I’esha GaptoothDiva holds no punches in an effort to inspire you to be as phenomenal as you were born to be.

Featuring new music.

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