Black Girls Consult TOO!

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Black Girls Consult TOO! Podcast Unplugged AI can speed up your consulting work, but it can also make it sound generic if you are not careful. In this episode of the Unplugged series, we get real about the slippery slope of over-relying on tools like ChatGPT and Claude AI, especially when your bus...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Black Girls Consult TOO! Podcast Unplugged The moment you see the real contract value behind your work can hit like a wave. The day I finally saw the full consulting agreement for a healthcare client and realized the difference between what I was paid and what the firm was paid for the same expert...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Black Girls Consult TOO! Unplugged Credentials can signal expertise, but if we aren't careful, we can also turn them into a weapon that we may not always use in the best light. We can see this play out with some of the discourse online around culture and politics. So much of this wider argume...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Black Girls Consult TOO! Unplugged "Go all in" gets thrown around like a law of entrepreneurship, but it can quietly guilt you into choices that do not match your life. We unpack what that phrase misses, especially for high-achieving professionals building a consulting business while kee...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Black Girls Consult TOO! Unplugged The consulting world you entered a few years ago is not the consulting world you're competing in now, and consulting businesses used to thrive and scale through hierarchy and workforce. That model still exists, but it no longer defines who wins, especially f...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Black Girls Consult TOO! Unplugged Long-term consulting contracts can feel like the ultimate safety net, but that “security” sometimes hides a different kind of risk. In this episode, we’re unpacking why short consulting engagements can be a strategic advantage, especially if you’re building a sus...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Black Girls Consult TOO! Unplugged You can have the sharpest pitch, the best slide deck, and the right introduction and still lose a corporate contract. The hard truth is that corporate consulting is a familiar-looking but drastically different process.  In this episode, we talk through two moves...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Black Girls Consult TOO! Unplugged History just got loud, and it is impossible not to feel it. When Georgia elects the first Black woman governor and other states choose first-ever leaders who are Native American and Latina, I don’t just see politics. I feel possibility pressing on every excuse I’...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! You can be capable, disciplined, and deeply driven and still feel like you’re falling behind. That tension is what we’re unpacking today: the moment when life gets fuller, responsibilities get heavier, and the “I’ll catch up later” plan stops working.  If you’re the dependable one in your family,...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! You can land the invite, sit at the table, and still feel like you are waiting for someone to open the door. That tension is what we unpack as we rethink the career and consulting advice we hear all the time about “getting into the right rooms.” We get practical about how to evaluate any room befo...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! In this first episode of Black Girls Consult TOO! Unplugged, I’m kicking off NaPodPoMo’s challenge of 30 podcast episodes in 30 days. Inspired by MTV Unplugged, I’m stripping back the production and revisiting familiar conversations with more reflection, more context, and room for the complication...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Profit can feel like a boring spreadsheet topic until you realize it is the difference between freedom and constant pressure. We are talking about the quiet, everyday decisions that slowly eat away at your consulting profit margin: the extra platform you do not need yet, the duplicate subscription...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! The market is crowded, budgets feel tighter, and AI has everyone rushing to create the next “perfect” offer. When sales get slower, it is easy to fall into the trap of adding more: more sessions, more deliverables, more customization, more access. But “more work” is not the same thing as “more val...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! You can be brilliant at consulting and still feel like your business is dragging you down, and a lot of the time it comes from one habit we rarely question: rebuilding everything to prove we’re “really” experts. In this episode I’m walking through the real difference between customizing your offer...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! You know how to do the work. The question is... How do you get more of the right buyers to choose you? If finding your next consulting client feels like a constant cycle of networking, following up, and chasing opportunities, there may be another way to approach the problem. In the Demand Decoded...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! A client tells you exactly what’s wrong, you can see the solution instantly, and the conversation feels like a win… then you hear: “We need someone like you, but we’re not ready yet.” That moment can make even the strongest consultant question their offer, pricing, or credibility.  In this episode...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Buyers are not comparing you to the best consultant they have ever hired; they are comparing you to the last disappointing experience they want to avoid. That is why demand can feel strangely out of reach even when your expertise is real, your credentials are strong, and your work delivers. In epi...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Can we talk honestly for a minute? Some consultants start with built-in advantages that help them build business momentum. While many women, especially women of color, start closer to ground zero.  The result? A gap that can look like a visibility, volume, or value problem when it's a little...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! The most frustrating consulting loss is when you know you were stronger on paper, yet the client chooses someone else. That moment can feel personal, but it usually is not. In this episode, I walk through the buyer psychology behind consulting decisions and why uncertainty is the default setting f...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! If you’ve ever scrolled LinkedIn, seen a flood of “new contract signed” posts, and quietly wondered why demand seems to find everyone but you, we’re getting honest about what’s really happening and why it messes with your confidence. Demand is often shaped by trust signals that sit outside your cr...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! I stopped pretending the math made sense. Many of us as women, especially women of color who are highly educated and deeply skilled, are still undercompensated in the spaces we help run. We fought hard for the degrees. We deliver the results. And somehow the numbers still don't add up. After...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! The most frustrating part of watching “overnight experts” win in business is knowing you actually did the work: the training, the experience, the credentials, the outcomes. So why does the market still reward people whose expertise is questioned?  The answer is uncomfortable but real. They make th...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! How to Start Consulting While Working Full-Time | 6 Mistakes Keeping Women Stuck Are you trying to start a consulting business while working full-time—but still feel stuck? In this episode of Black Girls Consult TOO!, we break down the 6 biggest mistakes keeping smart, qualified women from buildin...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! Want to know how to start a consulting business that actually gets clients and not just likes, views, or compliments? In this video, I break down the real reason most consulting businesses struggle to gain traction and what to do instead if you want to attract paying clients consistently. If you’v...

Send me a text message and get your questions answered on the podcast! I'd love to hear from you! You’ve built a career that looks successful on paper. You’re trusted, respected, and consistently relied on to solve complex problems and navigate high-stakes situations. But at some point, a quieter realization starts to surface. Much of what you’re doing day to day feels like something that coul...