Beyond Founder-Led

Strategic Positioning is Complicated - Properly position your personal and business brand to carve out your niche of the marketplace and showcase your values. Segment 1 What’s Happening Now Your personal brand positioning is major! It aligns with your mission and purpose in life. It should be authentic to you. Are you positioned as your truest self or are you not yet there? Have a couple of exampl...

Perfect Vision is Complicated - Realizing our 2020 Vision with solid goals for our lives and businesses Segment 1 What’s Happening Now 2020 goal setting gave me anxiety! I want to talk about my story of setting my own 2020 goals, how it made me feel, and my focus on being all God has called me to be and helping you do the same! Segment 2 Self Care Dealing with anxiety as you outline your vision an...

Bonus Special - In The Moment - Leadership & Culture Treating your employees well shouldn’t be difficult. Check out this In the Moment bonus feature focused on The Verge’s article on Away, the travel brand and the toxic culture some employees experienced. In this episode, I will spotlight 3 red flags from the article and how to avoid them as you build your company culture.  If you haven’t...

Pre-sales are Complicated - Time to sell before you launch! Segment 1 What’s Happening Now Disney Plus subscription service launched this week! Are you also overwhelmed by the amount of content that filled your childhood now available to stream whenever? I am! Anyway, I’m talking about the launch and pre-sale that Disney did for this new subscription service! Segment 2 Self Care Crafting a pre-sal...

In The Moment - Customer Interviewing In this In The Moment bonus segment the topic is on interviewing perspective customers. You have an idea and now you want to make sure it’s viable before you invest time, energy, and money. The next step after the idea is to starting talking. Talking to potential customers to feel out the market and make sure you what you have is something people are willing t...

Knowing Your Customer is Complicated - Let’s bring the customer to the forefront when prepping for launch. Segment 1 What’s Happening Now I hear the bells of impeachment on the horizon. The House officially opened an impeachment inquiry. Oh and Rihanna and Oprah gave us a couple of lessons in running empires this week. Segment 2 Self Care Fall is here! New seasons are the perfect time to get reset...

Episode 42 The Perfect Offer is Complicated We hear so much about crafting the perfect offer and how that offer must be packaged well so we can get the sales we want to see. In this episode, I’m giving you a peek into some of the things you need on the path of crafting that perfect offer! Segment 1: What’s Happening Now The latest Apple Event gave us a good reminder of what it means to craft an ex...

Beautifully Complicated Podcast Presents: In The Moment (Bonus Special) - Launching Before You're Ready Launching is obviously the most important event in a business where we go from conception to selling. Unfortunately, too many of us wait forever to launch because we want everything to be perfect. Perfect isn't an option. Launch. Why? Because business success is wrapped up in the timing of the l...

Episode 41 Launching is Complicated As entrepreneurs we all know what it’s like to launch a new product or service into the marketplace. It’s a lot of work, time, and energy. In this episode of Beautifully Complicated Podcast, the topic is on the art of launching and how to take care of you during that stressful time. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Trump’s been going on a racist rampage attacking...

Meeting Goals is Complicated. We set goals in January on what we wanted to see manifest this year. Now it’s time to do a mid-year check-in to determine if we’re on track to meet those goals or determine if we have to make some changes. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Super short one on this episode! The border crisis is still ongoing and still deserving of airtime until we see changes. So, talking...

Beautifully Complicated Podcast Presents: In The Moment (Bonus Special) - Peak Productivity Time What time are you your most productive? When do you find yourself in the zone and overflowing with creativity and great ideas? That's your peak time to create, curate, and strategize to produce your best work. Identify that time in your workday and leverage it effectively by doing the most important, h...

Episode 39 Knowing Your Type is Complicated As entrepreneurs, we should know what type of person we are at our core. That gives us an idea of areas of opportunity for growth or who we need to hire to help us advance forward and reach our dreams and walk fully in our purpose. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Humanitarian crises are surrounding us. We have a major ongoing crisis at the Southern Borde...

🚨Sound the Alarm!🚨 Something new is happening with BeautifullyComplicated Podcast! Yes, a new element is being added called " In the Moment ." This new feature is a standalone bonus clip that I'll use to share thoughts and ideas on-the-go with the BeautifullyComplicated Podcast family. I want us to remain plugged in and connected with one another in quick conversations that propel us all forward...

Episode 38 Being a Business is Complicated was the epitome of money talk. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Forbes released its list of millionaire and billionaire and 3 notable names jumped out - Rihanna came out swinging as the #1 female musician making money moves. Serena the GOAT of tennis let it be known she’s a powerhouse in VCs too. Then, Jay Z laid out the blueprint for becoming a hip hop bi...

Just wanted to express a little gratitude on my birthday to those who listen to the show, those who surround me daily in my life, and, of course, to God for being my beacon of light. 34 years old. 34 times around the sun. And I'm just getting started. Listen to this quick special clip and be blessed! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/beautifullycomplicated-podcast . Hosted on Acast. See...

Episode 37: Empowered Women are Complicated Women are powerful and empowered. We are not monoliths nor are we silent when people try to strip us of what we know is ours. We will always fight. We will always rise. We will win. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Women’s rights are under attack in a way we haven’t seen in decades. Several states have written and passed so-called heartbeat bills to ban a...

Episode 36 Owning your Brand is Complicated was filled with good nuggets of inspiration and tools to set you up to work on owning your brand fully. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Well, the Mueller investigation ended in March - many indictments, convictions, and other investigations came out of it and the offer to Congress to use their power to hold Trump accountable for possible obstruction outl...

Empire Building is Complicated. Time to build your empire. Focus on getting started and work on manifesting all that is inside of you so that you can impact the lives that are connected to it. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now R. Kelly is still in the news. This time he is officially under criminal investigation and was arrested with a bond of $1 million which was posted a few days later. As the all...

Everything seems Complicated! What more can be said. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now The government shutdown is finally over but people are definitely still feeling the impact of it all over a stupid wall. Covering the shutdown and how its impact has rippled across multiple groups and caused a national security risk. Segment 2: Self-Care Settle into your place of peace. With all of the chaos going...

2019 is already Complicated! Happy New Year! BeautifullyComplicated Pod is back and ready to conquer the year. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Lifetime is airing a 6-part docuseries, Surviving R Kelly. Covering that series and thoughts on sexual violence overall. On a lighter note, talking about Bey & Jay’s influence in veganism and the reaction from Black Twitter. In politics - The Democrats...

The Power of No is Complicated! Even in the midterm elections, we flexed our power of no - no more and rolled out a beautiful blue wave. Boom! Segment 1: What’s Happening Now The midterm elections are over...well, almost, and thank God! Democrats took over the house, some governorships, and many state seats. Diversity, especially women of color, and LGBTQ were well represented in the elected! Fina...

Elections are Complicated! Or are they? Some would like to make it so, but we’re still making ourselves actively engaged citizens of the U.S. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now The last couple of weeks in America has been wildly exhausting but we’re still fired up to vote in the midterms on Tuesday, November 6th so we’re talking why it’s important and what’s on the ballot. Segment 2: Self-Care Choose...

Being Present is Complicated! Or is it? It just takes practice :) Oh and special announcement! Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Kavanaugh has been confirmed and sworn in. Y’all. Boooo. Moving on. New report rolled out on climate change and its impact if we don’t course correct now. It’s real and we need to do something to slow it down. Also, VOTE! November 6th is right around the corner, so if you...

Womanhood is Complicated! Living in a misogynistic world is tough yet something we’ve all come accustomed to navigating. But, enough is enough. We’re pushing for changing and demanding we are heard and respected. Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Covering the latest with the Supreme Court hearing for Brett Kavanaugh and the numerous sexual assault complaints against him that have surfaced, one most...

Owning Your Life is Complicated for sure and requires that you take stock of how you’re allowing yourself to be seen by the world. Are you showing up fully of yourself and allowing your gifts and talents to shine or are you shrinking? Segment 1: What’s Happening Now Beyonce took over Vogue and we stan! Beyonce gave all of the life in her Vogue takeover complete with a writeup that she penned herse...