Stop Enabling Your Erasure: Speak About Your Accomplishments!
Your silence about your accomplishments is not service. It’s just enabling your erasure. I posted that and y’all said, I have dragged you and gathered you, but I just need to make sure you really know what I’m talking about. We’ve been somehow told that we need to humble our …
An Oriki Tribute to A’ja Wilson, the 3-time WNBA MVP
A’ja Wilson just got named the 2024 WNBA season MVP for the 3rd time. So I wrote her an oriki for the occasion. A’ja Riyadh of House Wilson. First of Her Name. The Thousand Point Trailblazer. Hooping Historymaker. Bestselling Book Boss. Dominating Defensive Diva. Top Tier Towering Titan.🪜 Bold Blocking …
Home and Family Management Checklist
I am obsessed with finding ways to make life easier. One of those ways is with checklists/templates OR SOPs (standards of procedures) for repeated tasks that are necessary to run both my life and my business. And I literally have a LIBRARY of SOPs that I’ve created and use. Documenting …
The Definitely Earned It Conundrum and Mediocre White Men Fatigue
Last night’s presidential debate felt personal for a lot of us, even outside the political policies we needed to care about. The fact that Kamala Harris has to take Donald Trump seriously is just further proof that we live in an unserious world. The look of every woman who is …
Travel Luvv Guide – Cheat Codes to Fly With Ease
Traveling expands our world in every way, and to be able to do it for work and play is a privilege I don’t take for granted. And like everything else in this topsy turvy world we live in, it’s gotten increasingly expensive and wildly chaotic. So it is especially important …
Who Are We When the Stakes Are High?
First of all, lemme say that it’s EXHAUSTING living through historical times. Like… I miss precedented times so bad and I want them back. 😭 I think back to my high school days when I would read about historical events with a sense of disbelief. I would ask myself “How …
I Am Intimidating and That’s Okay
I have been called intimidating all my life from when I was little, and I’d like to be like, oh, I’m not intimidating. They’re just intimidated. No, I am intimidating because I move different. My confidence is different. The way I talk and it’s straightforward, it’s different. And for people, …
Let’s Talk About the Glory and Grit of Entrepreneurship
I’m ready to talk about one of my hardest years in business. 2023 almost wiped me out. Business was brutal. And at one point I thought I was going to go bankrupt and it shook my confidence to its core. I lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. And you know …
An Oriki Tribute to Dawn Staley, the Undefeated WNCAA Championship Coach
Dawn Michelle of House Staley. First of her Name. Gamecock Gilded Goddess. God-Led Gold Getter. Anointed All-Star Athlete. Commanding Coaching Champion. Perennially Professional Powerhouse. Doubt Destroying Dame. Stylish Sideline Slayer. Final Four Finisher. Uncommonly Favored. Unyielding. Unbent. Louis Vuitton Dawn. An Olympian. A record-breaker. A humble servant. And ultimately, a …
How to Sleep Better: Essential Habits and Things
I am committed to sleeping well and more this year, because I know how critical sleep is for our well being. For years, I haven’t created a good sleep discipline but I committed to changing that last month and it’s already made a HUGE difference in how I go about …