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I have a confession: I’m human and I’m not perfect. I used to think you don’t need websites to grow a business and I’ve changed my mind. My new answer: websites do matter! Why’d my answer change? Let’s flash it back to June 2017. I just got my masters with the...

This quick 2 minute video might be exactly what you need to watch right now. Note: You can hear the person I was talking to, but I made sure to block her face out to keep her privacy which is why you will see a bit of black throughout the video. A reminder that our...

I was feeling this way a couple months ago. Resentful. Are you feeling resentful too? Maybe because you're putting others first over yourself? I was talking to my boyfriend and realized I was overcommitting to so many social obligations because the holidays were...

Before we start talking about how to run a business without social media, let me share with you my life before I became a business and career coach for women of color and allies. I was a former grassroots organizer and nonprofit fundraiser for over a decade. As a...

Before you set new goals this quarter, ask yourself these 5 questions (keep reading to get the 5 questions). It’s a new quarter. And it is so easy for us to just say #thankunext But there’s so much to learn from the past quarter whether it was either great OR a...

“Elaine, you’re too smart. She’s worried you’ll steal her job.”These were words I received from a consultant when I was interviewing for a non-paid internship job. I was 18. It’s unfortunate, I had jobs in my professional career where women were threatened by me and...

The foundation of my whole business is: BUILDING ORGANIC RELATIONSHIPS. This is how I’ve been able to serve 300+ clients in 24 different countries with NO Facebook Ads. Creating, building and maintaining relationships is the core of my business. It has led me to speak...

I’m here to remind you that businesses existed BEFORE social media. Once upon a time, I was caught up in thinking I needed the perfect IG grid to fill my programs with amazing women of color and allies.  But I told myself, “Hold up, wait a minute. I was a former...

Today marks my 4 Year Business Anniversary. This means I’ve been helping people avoid shiny objects since 2017 😜 I still remember that day because starting a business is hard. I just registered my business to the Secretary of State, and got my first paying client! I...