Trill MBA Show - The Career Management Podcast for Black Women

How This MBA Rock Star Connects the Dots of Success

In this episode, I chat with one of my favorite Mentees turned Mentor.  In four short years, she has built an amazingly supported career at her current company.  Today, she shares how she has connected the dots of corporate success, allowing her to build a great reputation, solid sponsor relationships and gain the label of high performing/high potential talent.  Although I would love to tell you who she is and where she works, it’s more important to deliver these career nuggets without pause or hesitation.

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Carla Harris  carlaspearls.com

bese.com/black-women-arent-allowed-to-be-introverted/

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Interning While Black with My Little Cousin

In this episode, I have the opportunity to sit down with my little cousin (he’s 20 now but he will always be my favorite 9-year-old with a bow tie) and talk with him about his summer internship experience with a global investment firm.  It is the classic okie-doke set up for failure.  Let this be a lesson to you.  You can interview well, gain the opportunity, get set up to fail… only to be told that you aren’t good enough.  Don’t believe the hype.

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Freedom by FIRE with Ericka Grant

In last week’s episode, I talked about preparing for the next recession.

This week, I chat with a sista who is financially free and only goes to work because she wants to, not because she has to work to provide for her needs.

If you are like me, you want to do better.  In order to do better, we have to learn better.

Ericka Grant is here to do just that, share knowledge about how we can start doing a better job with our finances so that we can all be free from the corporate plantation.  By day, Ericka Grant is a marketing and consumer research professional.  By night, Ericka indulges into her passion for family, real estate and financial freedom.  In just 10 short years, Ericka has built a net worth of over $1 Million Dollars.

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Resources Shared By Ericka:

Books-

Your Money Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin

The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris

Blogs-

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Are You Ready For The Next Recession?

In this episode, I discuss what we can do now to prepare ourselves for the next recession that President Agent Orange Twitter Fingers is speeding up 280 Characters at a time.

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Sources:

https://hbr.org/2008/09/how-to-protect-your-job-in-a-recession

Never Go To HR, Do This Instead!

Happy Labor Day Weekend.  Hope you take some time to rest and recharge.

In this episode, I lay out the pattern of what happens to us when we go to HR and talk about the steps you should take instead of going to HR when you are in a work situation.

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Sources:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/when-your-hr-department-is-your-friend/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resources

https://toughnickel.com/business/Hostile-Work-Environment—-Why-HR-Doesnt-Care-About-You

https://www.rd.com/advice/work-career/13-things-hr-wont-tell-you-about-keeping-your-job/

https://work.chron.com/talk-hr-rude-coworkers-2536.html

http://consensushr.com/the-history-of-human-resource-management-hrm/

For Colored Girls Who Have Questionable Tone When the Email Is Too Much

In this episode, I talk about one of the greatest challenges and banes of our existence as black women in corporate America…. Tone In Email.

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Sources:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/threat-management/201311/dont-type-me-email-and-emotions

https://www.fastcompany.com/3053713/these-7-online-tools-check-your-writing-for-empathy-and-inclusivity

https://medium.com/office-hours/email-101-8-rules-for-writing-effective-work-emails-88f533ab80bd

https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/dos-and-donts-business-email-etiquette/

https://www.lifewire.com/fundamental-email-etiquette-1171187

https://www.thecut.com/2015/07/could-this-tool-end-passive-aggressive-emails.html

National Black MBA Conference Prep with Cherice Williams

It’s that time of year again…. Diversity Recruiting Season and we are in the thick of it.  In a little over a month, National Black MBA Association will host its annual Conference and Exposition in Houston, TX.

Last season, Season 2 Episode 11, I gave you the rundown about what the organization is, my personal experiences at the conference, and baseline what you need to do to prepare if you are going to the career fair.

In this episode, I expound on that episode and get into what you should do now to prepare for the conference. Joining me, my friend and current President of the DFW Chapter of the National Black MBA, Cherice J. Williams.

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Discrimination At Ford Motor Company Continues, Another Example w/ Walter Bernard

In the past 2 years, Ford Motor Company has settled with an EEOC Harassment Investigation for $10.125 Million and in March was ordered to pay $16.8 Million to an ex-employee for discrimination and retaliation.  Unfortunately, allegations and lawsuits of discrimination are not new for Ford Motor Company.   In fact, if you do a good Google search, these stories of mistreatment are widespread throughout the company.   Even though they have all the policies in place, deep within the roots of the culture at Ford Motor Company is racism and sexism.  One might even say that they can’t help it, Henry Ford was a racist openly admired by Adolf Hitler.

So how do you manage your career while working for companies like Ford Motor Company, who hold on to such an entrenched culture of racism and sexism?

In this episode, ex-Ford employee, Walter Bernard shares his story of broken promises and discrimination thinly veiled as a layoff.  Walter is an attorney, MBA, author, entrepreneur and former NFL football player.  He worked for Ford Motor Company for 7 years until he was laid off this June 2019.

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https://www.eandblaw.com/employment-discrimination-blog/2018/01/11/ford-harassment-women-african-americans/

https://www.hrdive.com/news/ford-ordered-to-pay-168m-in-discrimination-retaliation-case/520744/

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/04/mayors-bid-to-censor-article-on-henry-fords-anti-semitism-goes-viral.html

Back To Work After A Career Break: An Update w/ Tiffany Samuels

In this episode, my B-School Bestie and I drop nuggets during this update convo. Last year we sat down to talk about how the huge losses of our mothers have shaped our thoughts on career and taking career breaks.  You can check out our shenanigans in that episode here.

Tiffany and I talk about going back to work after the career break, things we wish we would have done on our breaks, and our biggest life takeaways since our last episode.

We had some go to church moments so let me know if you feel the holy spirit during this episode.

*Warning: The n-word is used more than a Boondocks episode*

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Sis, You Frustrated! And That’s OK.

In a world of Trump Twitter chaos, who isn’t frustrated?  In this episode, I share how the BS is currently frustrating me, the steps I take to manage my frustration, and what you need to do if you find yourself frustrated at work.

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https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newCDV_41.htm

https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/manage-frustration/

https://thriveglobal.com/stories/frustrated-at-work-3-things-you-must-do-to-get-out-of-the-rut/

https://www.ted.com/talks/the_ted_interview_mellody_hobson_challenges_us_to_be_color_brave/transcript?language=en&referrer=playlist-the_ted_interview