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Leadership, is it worth it, and why it sucks?

Leadership, is it worth it, and why it sucks?

What is so great about being a leader anyway? Leaderships isn’t always what people make it out to be. It’s a privilege to lead, but can be a heavy burden to carry. There are great leaders [...]

Unpopular for All the Right Reasons

Unpopular for All the Right Reasons

Being unpopular isn't about flipping people off, being mean or blatantly going against the grain for the sake of ruffling feathers. It's about finding your own beat, feeling comfortable in your own skin, and blazing your [...]

Book Release: No, You Can’t Pick My Brain, It Costs Too Much

Book Release: No, You Can’t Pick My Brain, It Costs Too Much

I woke up on January 3rd to a flood of email, tweets and messages from people congratulating me on my Forbes article. Of course, I had no idea what they were talking about. So I went [...]

Black in America- My Take, My Challenge, My Pledge- Part I

Black in America- My Take, My Challenge, My Pledge- Part I

This installment of Black In America definitely opened up the dialog. It gave us, the viewer a chance to experience through the eyes of the (Black) participants what it takes to get prepared to enter Silicon [...]

5 Things to Keep in Mind When Applying at a Start Up

5 Things to Keep in Mind When Applying at a Start Up

We're in a new era, and it's not just because big business is unreliable, but because the job market and small business is changing. Garage and dorm room companies are starting by the hundreds. And [...]

Your Brand is Who You Are

I see branding as an opportunity to go deeply inside and figure out what we’re about. We begin, sometimes in a rush and superficially, with a quick logo design or a free website only to become [...]

I’m Ready to Shake Things Up

If you’re already familiar with my story and the twisting, turning path Empower Me! has taken over the years, you’d know that I am constantly focusing on evolving. At times to the point of frustration, I [...]

4 Reasons Your Company Brand Doesn’t Pop

It’s amazing to me. Whenever a client approaches me about doing some recruiting, I almost always get the same response- “We’re a great, fast growing company and everyone should know us, but they don’t“. Gee, I [...]

4 Things to Do to Go from Unemployment Check to Successful Entrepreneur

OK first I want to start off by saying not everyone can go from unemployment check to entrepreneur with the snap of the fingers. In fact, many will challenge me that when you’re starting from such [...]

Please, Don’t Ask Me to Lunch

OK I know that I, Miss Networking Diva, am about to sound really crazy right now. But I want people to stop asking me to lunch. There, I said it. I can breathe now. I have [...]