Do you feel like there’s more to life than what you’re experiencing right now? Are you feeling stuck because you don’t know where to start? In this episode with Certified Life Coach Pamela D. Smith, we talk about how you can change your life without quitting your job, hitting the lottery or some unique twist of fate.

Pamela D. Smith is a certified life coach and author of several books including her newest publication, Harvesting Your Pearls. and my On Purpose anthology series.

A champion of personal growth, Pam helps women reach their full potential and become whole in every area of life. As a divorced mother of two working in the airline industry, Pam was frustrated and ready to quit her job when she discovered the power of changing her environment without changing her environment. That led to several promotions, including one that unlocked her purpose, and later getting her life coaching certification and launching a business while still working full-time.

In this episode I talk to Pam about:

• Why people limit themselves when they know there are goals they want to achieve
• How she started her business while working full-time
• Tools to help you on your personal development journey

Connect with Pamela D. Smith:

Website - https://www.pamhasfavor.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/pamhasfavor

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/pamhasfavor/

Pam Book: https://www.pamhasfavor.com/product-page/harvesting-your-pearls

Join Startup Life Support

If you’re struggling to start or grow your business,I invite you to join Startup Life Support. As a member of our mastermind community, you’ll be able to achieve more and shorten your learning curve by regularly connecting with other entrepreneurs and coaches who will share their knowledge generously and hold you accountable to doing the things that lead to reaching your goals.

Learn more and join at https://StartupLifeSupport.com.

How have your life experiences shaped your behavior professionally? As a leader, have you ever been criticized for being too harsh? Are you always trying to prove that you’re worthy?

In this episode, we chat with Veronica C. Armstrong is the founder of Leadership Life Support and a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach who helps women shake off the traumatic experiences of the past while helping to propel them into the light of their future business opportunities.

Growing up, Veronica experienced living in three group homes, two foster homes and a juvenile detention center before being declared an emancipated minor at 15. Always a leader and a gifted student, her life began to change after meeting the first of several influential women who came into her life.

Instead of using her background as a crutch, Veronica took advantage of the opportunities to succeed that presented themselves. But it didn’t come without challenges. Veronica shares how the scars of her past threatened her ability to be an effective leader and what she did about it.

Veronica and I also talk about:

• How experiences shape your behavior
• Why Black women are seen in a different light
• Strategies to improve your self-awareness
• Receiving constructive criticism
• The difference between a coach and a mentor

Veronica is also one of the co-authors of my new book, On Purpose: 12 Strategies to Reclaim Your Power and Change Your Life. She talks about moving beyond what has happened in your life and overcoming those limiting beliefs that we’ve developed through life. There’s more for you!

Connect with Veronica C. Armstrong: https://linktr.ee/veronicacarmstrong

Do you know your CliftonStrengths Top 5 Themes? Here are Veronica & Isha’s:

Veronica’s Top 5: Achiever, Deliberative. Learner, Focus, Maximizer

Isha’s Top 5: Communication, Futuristic, Positivity, Strategic, Activator

Join Startup Life Support

If you want to connect to a community of fellow entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to talk about the challenges of launching and growing a business, who share their knowledge freely and celebrate each other’s wins authentically, I invite you to join Startup Life Support - a mastermind community that eases the fear, overwhelm and isolation of entrepreneurship. Learn more and join at https://StartupLifeSupport.com. 

Ita Udo-Ema is a video producer, a strategic storyteller, and the founder of the studio, View From Above Entertainment. In this episode, Ita talks about how to move beyond getting caught up in new platforms and vanity metrics and how to use video as a vehicle to achieving your business objectives.

In the episode I talk to Ita about:

• How he ditched engineering school at Purdue for a creative degree
• Understanding the metrics that matter most to your business
• Upcoming trends in video and how it can make your projects even more amazing
• Developing the G.A.M.E plan.

Ita is also one of the co-authors of my new book, On Purpose: 12 Strategies to Reclaim Your Power and Change Your Life. He talks about his life then takes us for a walk through how to take your jumbled ideas and structure them into a beautiful story.

Connect with Ita Udo-Ema:

Website - www.viewfromabove.net

Email - contact@viewfromabove.net

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/ViewfromAboveNet

Download Ita’s free resources HERE!

Platform for Purpose Boot Camp

Are you ready to build your platform, but don’t know where to start? Perhaps you’re completely overwhelmed trying to figure out where to invest your time, energy and money. Should you be blogging? Podcasting? Livestreaming? Hosting events? Pitching yourself to media? Do you need to hire a publicist?

Or maybe you’ve been letting those  nagging voices keep trying to convince you that you’re not qualified, no one wants to listen to you, or you don’t look or sound good enough to be front and center.

If you can relate to any of these scenarios, I invite you to join me for the Platform for Purpose Boot Camp. 

IN THIS LIVE, VIRTUAL TRAINING EVENT, YOU’LL LEARN HOW TO: 

• Build your confidence so you can show up on bigger platforms to reach the people you’re called to serve.
• Choose the right platforms to share your message (Hint: It isn’t ALL of them!)
• Authentically connect to the people you’re called to serve in a way that gets them to value your voice. 
• Position yourself for speaking and media opportunities.
• Stay committed to your goals even when life gets in the way. 

Learn more about the Platform for Purpose Boot Camp at Bootcamp.PlatformforPurpose.com. 

Do you feel like you’re not pretty or polished enough to build a platform? Working in media, Sarah R. Adams has had a front-row seat to the insecurities we often have to work through when our work puts us on stages, in front of the camera or behind the microphone. 

Sarah is an award-winning multimedia producer, freelance reporter, writer and educator with over 20 years of professional experience in broadcasting and higher education. As part of our Platform for Purpose incubator faculty, Sarah teaches the two-day On-Air Boot Camp experience, providing subject-matter experts, coaches and consultants with practical skills to be their best selves when they’re in the spotlight. 

In this episode, I talk to Sarah about:

• Why we turn into someone we’re not when the camera comes on.
• How to make sure you’re not distracting from the message people need to receive. 
• Avoiding the comparison trap. 

Platform for Purpose Boot Camp

Are you ready to build your platform, but don’t know where to start? Perhaps you’re completely overwhelmed trying to figure out where to invest your time, energy and money. Should you be blogging? Podcasting? Livestreaming? Hosting events? Pitching yourself to media? Do you need to hire a publicist?

Or maybe you’ve been letting those  nagging voices keep trying to convince you that you’re not qualified, no one wants to listen to you, or you don’t look or sound good enough to be front and center.

If you can relate to any of these scenarios, I invite you to join Sarah and I  for the Platform for Purpose Boot Camp. 

IN THIS LIVE, VIRTUAL TRAINING EVENT, YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO: 

• Build your confidence so you can show up on bigger platforms to reach the people you’re called to serve.
• Choose the right platforms to share your message (Hint: It isn't ALL of them!)
• Authentically connect to the people you're called to serve in a way that gets them to value your voice. 
• Position yourself for speaking and media opportunities.
• Stay committed to your goals even when life gets in the way. 

Learn more about the Platform for Purpose Boot Camp at Bootcamp.PlatformforPurpose.com. 

Connect with Sarah R Adams:

Website - https://adams1sr1f8f.myportfolio.com/home

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-r-adams-a70b263/

Twitter -  https://twitter.com/AdamsCmu

Order On Purpose:12 Strategies to Reclaim Your Purpose and Change Your Life featuring Sarah Adams

La’Vista Jones is the Founder and CEO of 31 Marketplace, where she helps entrepreneurs bring order to the chaos of business and life by blending systematization and self care. In this episode, La’Vista discusses when the notion of self care became real for her as a person on the fast track in her corporate career and the day she, in her own words, “lost her mind” and how 31 Marketplace was born out of that experience.

La’Vista speaks about how to build your business in a way that is nurturing to you as the founder and getting you to see that your vision is NOT a solo gig. She will show you that you have the capacity to fulfill the vision that you have for your business and take care of the Visionary at the same time; giving you permission not to subscribe to the habits of hustle culture and the glorification of busyness.

In the episode I talk to La’Vista about:

● Why entrepreneurship isn’t necessarily the answer to your workplace stress.
● How we break ourselves of the mindset of busyness and #TeamNoSleep as an entrepreneur.
● Using systems and automation to replicate yourself and eliminate low value work that creates busyness in our lives and business.
● Identifying your personal definition of self care and surprising ways to infuse it into your business.

La’Vista is also one of the co-authors of my new book, On Purpose: 12 Strategies to Reclaim Your Power and Change Your Life.

If you would like to schedule a consultation with La’Vista, you can reach her at www.lavistajones.com.

Read the B.O.S.S. Manifesto shared at the beginning of the episode: https://www.thirtyonemarketplace.com/single-post/shift-manifesto.

Connect with La’Vista Jones:

Website - www.lavistajones.com
Podcast - https://bosstalkpodcast.libsyn.com/website
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lavistajones/

Join Startup Life Support

If you want to connect to a community of fellow entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to talk about the challenges of launching and growing a business, who share their knowledge freely and celebrate each other’s wins authentically, I invite you to join Startup Life Support - a mastermind community that eases the fear, overwhelm and isolation of entrepreneurship. Learn more and join at https://StartupLifeSupport.com.

Social media can make it seem like successful entrepreneurs wake up one day, make a decision to quit their jobs and pursue their dreams and within months, they’re millionaires jet-setting around the world. But those of us who have started businesses know that’s a fairy tale. 

Dr. Erika Brown of Dr. Erika By Design walked away from Corporate America a year ago to launch her business and reclaim control of her mental health. She soon discovered that the rules for success she was used to following in the workplace didn’t always apply to entrepreneurship. 

During our conversation, Dr. Erika speaks vulnerably about entrepreneurship, being able to see the vision, overcoming roadblocks and celebrating successes while giving yourself grace to “figure it all out”.

In the episode I talk to Dr. Erika about:

• Figuring out where to start when you’re multi-passionate and want to do several things in business
• What she learned and unlearned in the transition from employee to entrepreneur
• Being vulnerable in the process of change 
• Figuring out WHO you want to be, not just what you want to do
• What gets her moving when she wants to give up. 

Make sure you stay until the end where Dr. Erika shares advice for those of you who have recently or are thinking about quitting their 9 to 5’s. Dr. Erika is also one of the co-authors of my new book, On Purpose: 12 Strategies to Reclaim Your Power and Change Your Life.

If you would like to schedule some time to talk to Dr. Erika about planning your amazing online event, you can reach her at www.talkwithdrerika.com. 

Connect with Dr. Erika Brown:

Visit the Website - www.drerikabydesign.com

Listen to the Podcast

Connect with Dr. Erika on Instagram (drerikabydesign)

Join Startup Life Support

If you want to connect to a community of fellow entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to talk about the challenges of launching and growing a business, who share their knowledge freely and celebrate each other’s wins authentically, I invite you to join Startup Life Support - a mastermind community that eases the fear, overwhelm and isolation of entrepreneurship. Learn more and join at StartupLifeSupport.com.