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Building a 7-figure business from ground up, completely bootstrapped, as a Black woman is no small feat. And I'm wiped out from it. I wanna learn who I am well-rested. I need to go bind my wounds of decade+ of people playing in my face. And I need to go tend to the most valuable asset: ME. Soooo I'm stopping. Tak…

Rule at my company: any task that needs to be done needs to have at least TWO people who can do it. Even if it's stuff I do. I need at least one other person to know how to do something b/c no one person should hold the keys to anything. The thing folks gotta realize is that making yourself the ONLY ONE is not a f…

8 years ago, I was asked to do a TED Conferences talk, and I declined it twice. Why? because I was afraid I wasn't ready. I know how rigorous the process can be and I let fear make the decision. And when they asked me a 3rd time and I was about to decline again, I called my friend Eunique Jones Gibson, and she loa…

LinkedIn and social media, in general, have become so obsessed with writing with AI that most people sound like the robots and I hate it. And many of us can tell. Why? Short sentences back to back to back with a very specific cadence too. There's also a lot of "That's not _______. That's _____." I've started mar…

Building a 7-figure business from ground up, completely bootstrapped, as a Black woman is no small feat. And I'm wiped out from it. I wanna learn who I am well-rested. I need to go bind my wounds of decade+ of people playing in my face. And I need to go tend to the most valuable asset: ME. Soooo I'm stopping. Tak…

I've been talking to a lot of my friends, who are also high achieving Black women. And the consensus amongst a lot of us is that we're tired. We've gotten the awards. The credentials. The visibility. The money. We’ve also paid for it in blood, sweat and tears. And decades of being The Responsible One has a lot of u…