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Tons more clients, profits, and followers. You thought it just happened by doing the same thing harder? Lol. Babes, multiple systems need an upgrade. And not just your marketing ones.   Work With Me 🍓 Get in Launch Lab 🎉! 🍓 Become a Squad 🎉 member 🍓 Work with me 1:1 with complimentary access to Squad 🎉   Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter   Follow Me 🍓 Follow me on YouTube:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on LinkedIn 🍓 Follow me on Insta:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on TikTok:@confidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on Facebook: @misamessaging Email Me 🍓[email protected]  

Launching. Stop assuming it’s going to be hard. It could just as easily be easy. 😉😈 Work With Me 🍓 Get in Launch Lab 🎉! 🍓 Become a Squad 🎉 member 🍓 Work with me 1:1 with complimentary access to Squad 🎉   Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter   Follow Me 🍓 Follow me on YouTube:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on LinkedIn 🍓 Follow me on Insta:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on TikTok:@confidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on Facebook: @misamessaging Email Me 🍓[email protected]

The panic response vs. the grounded CEO one.   Work With Me 🍓 Get in Launch Lab 🎉! 🍓 Become a Squad 🎉 member 🍓 Work with me 1:1 with complimentary access to Squad 🎉   Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter   Follow Me 🍓 Follow me on YouTube:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on LinkedIn 🍓 Follow me on Insta:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on TikTok:@confidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on Facebook: @misamessaging Email Me 🍓[email protected]

You want the sales, you want the demand, you want the engagement, you want the recognition that you assume going viral entails. But, in reality, many entrepreneurs are unprepared for the actual experience of going viral and how it strains both your business systems AND your emotional coping skills. Here’s how to prepare your systems to accommodate a massive influx of interest. Anxiety from Going Viral is Commonplace References www.netinfluencer.com/content-creators-twice-as-likely-to-experience-suicidal-thoughts-as-general-population-study-finds/ https://youtu.be/_Ah5_nu47u8?si=vWlqRDZ7W0cN85QM   Work With Me 🍓 Becone a Squad 🎉 member 🍓 Work with me 1:1 with complimentary access to Squad 🎉   Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter   Follow Me 🍓 Follow me on YouTube:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on LinkedIn 🍓 Follow me on Insta:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on TikTok:@confidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on Facebook: @misamessaging Email Me 🍓[email protected]

When learning a new skill, building a new belief, or developing a new habit, you don’t get to jump right to having it happen on autopilot. Here’s why you need someone in your corner to remind you - over and over again - what you’re building toward.   🍓 Muscle Memory info Work With Me 🍓 Once-a-year membership sale for The Squad 🎉 through Dec. 1 🍓 Work with me 1:1 with complimentary access to Squad 🎉 🍓 Pick my marketing brain over a ☕ Zoom Coffee ☕ (limited to 1 per person)   Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter   Follow Me 🍓 Follow me on YouTube:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on LinkedIn 🍓 Follow me on Insta:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on TikTok:@confidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on Facebook: @misamessaging Email Me 🍓[email protected]

Engagement with content doesn’t happen without some sort of emotional payoff. Have you factored fun into your marketing strategy? Here’s why you should and how to start if fun feels like a foreign concept.   Head to the blog for the signature content examples discussed in this episode. 🍓The Irresistible Marketing Blog   Work With Me 🍓 Once-a-year membership sale for The Squad 🎉 through Dec. 1 🍓 Work with me 1:1 with complimentary access to Squad 🎉 🍓 Pick my marketing brain over a ☕ Zoom Coffee ☕ (limited to 1 per person)   Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter   Follow Me 🍓 Follow me on YouTube:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on LinkedIn 🍓 Follow me on Insta:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on TikTok:@confidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on Facebook: @misamessaging Email Me 🍓[email protected]

Today’s episode is about how to emotionally prepare to uplevel your business. This was the topic the Squad, my membership for black sheep turned creative entrepreneurs, voted on for our theme for the month of August 2025. With their permission, I’m sharing our masterclass and Q & A with the podcast, because it was just too good not to.    We cover: ✨Why entrepreneurs need a presence practice instead of checking out from their emotions ✨Why lack of clarity is often a sign you need to rest ✨Common blocks for knowing what you want ✨Why desire is uncomfortable for many folks who have been chronically invalidated ✨Why grind=burnout and the rationale behind romanticizing ✨When your inner monologue is holding you back and how to change the story ✨How to build your creativity muscle ✨Why leaders don’t try to do it all alone ✨Creativity as an antidote to feelings of powerlessness and helplessness Let’s dive in.   Work With Me 🍓 Once-a-year membership sale for The Squad 🎉 through Dec. 1 🍓 Work with me 1:1 with complimentary access to Squad 🎉   Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter   Follow Me 🍓 Follow me on YouTube:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on LinkedIn 🍓 Follow me on Insta:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on TikTok:@confidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on Facebook: @misamessaging Email Me 🍓[email protected]  

Real life examples of marketing so powerful, so radical, so inclusive- it profitably changed the tides of public opinion and norms.   Work With Me 🍓 Join The Squad 🎉 🍓 Work with me 1:1 with complimentary access to Squad 🎉 🍓 Pick my marketing brain over a ☕ Zoom Coffee ☕ (limited to 1 per person)   Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter   Follow Me 🍓 Follow me on YouTube:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on LinkedIn 🍓 Follow me on Insta:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on TikTok:@confidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on Facebook: @misamessaging Email Me 🍓[email protected]   Sources for This Episode Fenty Beauty https://thehoneypop.com/2025/02/20/5-ways-rihannas-brand-fenty-revolutionized-the-beauty-industry/ https://www.vogue.com/article/rihanna-vogue-cover-june-issue-2018?ref=popsugar.com&=___psv__p_44816098__t_w_ https://www.popsugar.com/beauty/fenty-beauty-made-100-million-40-days-44816098  https://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/article/rihanna-fenty-beauty-diversity  https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-58084543  https://www.elle.com/beauty/makeup-skin-care/a20967710/makeup-companies-40-foundation-shades-fenty-beauty-influence/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2021/08/04/fentys-fortune-rihanna-is-now-officially-a-billionaire/  https://www.livemint.com/companies/fenty-beauty-rihanna-celebrity-beauty-brand-has-highest-valuation-its-not-hailey-bieber-rhode-selena-gomez-rare-beauty-11748530254494.html  Savage X Fenty / Victoria’s Secret https://girlsunited.essence.com/feedback/news/savage-x-fenty-show/ https://theboar.org/2020/03/downfall-victorias-secret-metoo-movement/ https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellendurney/victorias-secret-accused-of-copying-rihanna-savage-fenty https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/business/rise-and-fall-of-victorias-secret https://www.economist.com/business/2025/06/19/victorias-secret-is-struggling-to-reinvent-itself https://girlsunited.essence.com/feedback/news/rihannas-savage-x-fenty-lingerie-line/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/korihale/2021/02/16/rihannas-savage-x-fenty-reaches-1-billion-valuation-in-lingerie-equity/   Patagonia https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/business/patagonia-trump-bears-ears.html https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/big-business-resist?scope=anon https://www.gq.com/story/patagonia-trump-lawsuit-sales-uptick https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/patagonia-climate-philanthropy-chouinard.html https://www.patagonia.com/ownership/ https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/president-biden-signed-executive-orders-restoring-boundaries-of-bears-ears-and-grand-staircase-escalante-monuments/ https://www.nrdc.org/court-battles/nrdc-et-v-trump-bears-ears   Costco / Target https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-costco-keeping-dei-despite-trump-executive-orders-2025-1 https://www.diversityresources.com/dei-backlash-or-commitment-what-costco-and-target-reveal/ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/costco-managed-another-month-of-sales-growth-in-april-but-it-marks-a-slowdown-from-march-118d4069 https://www.stlamerican.com/news/national-news/target-sales-down-after-dropping-dei-initiatives https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/target-fast-40-day-boycott/81592119007/   Fifty Licks https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/06/fifty_licks_ice_cream_truck.html https://www.wweek.com/promotions/2024/07/23/2024-best-of-portland-readers-poll-food/   Studies https://www.unstereotypealliance.org/en/resources/the-business-case-for-inclusive-advertising https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/press-release/2024/09/new-research-proves-that-inclusive-advertising-boosts-sales-and-brand-value https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/inclusive-marketing

If your About page is just a bullet point list of your qualifications, you’re leaving money on the table.   In this episode, Shaté Hayes, founder & CEO of Career Steward, Inc., shares practical tips for taking radical ownership of your story and sharing it so powerfully, it blasts open opportunities.   You’ll learn:   🖋️ How to convey expertise- ethically 🖋️ How to identify the strongest parts of your story to share in your marketing 🖋️ How to use data to combat your imposter syndrome 🖋️ Why negative self-talk can sink your messaging 🖋️ How to get better stories 🖋️ How to message through a major career (and identity) change Clear your opportunity blocks! 🍓Check out Shaté’s free resource to help clear opportunity blocks, take action, and love your work again. Follow Shaté 🍓careersteward.co 🍓LinkedIn Work With Me 🍓 Join The Squad 🎉 🍓 Work with me 1:1 🍓 Pick my marketing brain over a complimentary ☕ Zoom Coffee ☕ (limited to 1 per person) Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter  Follow Me 🍓 Follow me on YouTube:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on Insta:@marketingconfidencecheerleader 🍓 Follow me on TikTok:@confidencecheerleader Email Me 🍓[email protected]

Expecting instant results often betrays a lack of understanding of your buyer’s journey. Here’s why measuring too early will lead you to misinterpret your data.   Work With Me 🍓 Join The Squad 🎉 🍓 Work with me 1:1 🍓 Pick my marketing brain over a complimentary ☕ Zoom Coffee ☕ (limited to 1 per person)   Irresistible Marketing Tips, Tricks, & Perks Right To Your Inbox 🍓 Join my newsletter