A pause is more than a break in the conversation.
A pause can be a spark of curiosity. It can be requesting consent to go deeper on a topic. Pausing can give you space to think through a decision and consider if it’s aligned with your values. And taking a pause can mean making space to Flaunt Your Fire.
India digs into the ways taking a pause can show up in life, what taking a pause from Flaunt Your Fire meant in 2022, and why creating space to pause is so vital to our wellbeing.
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How the physical clutter created by moving and combining households impacted India’s ability to create
Why India pressed pause to reevaluate if her content was aligned with her values and intention
Why she chose to focus on the life her business is in service to
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LinkedIn: India Jackson
Instagram: @FlauntYourFire
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Erica and India discuss their intentions for the shows Pause on the Play® and Flaunt Your Fire®. After nearly 300 combined episodes, they pause to explore how to use them as continued resources and how to stay in the loop about future projects.
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It’s increasingly common for people with traditional jobs to be building their own businesses and brands outside of their regular working hours.
But when you have a traditional job, it can sometimes be difficult to assess how and where to show up publicly. This can be especially true if you work in a field like government or law enforcement.
Officer Kenny Dean joins India to discuss how he started and evolved his social media presence and developed his podcast while actively working in law enforcement.
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We’ve been conditioned to show up to work as our “professional” self and leave our personal beliefs behind. But the truth is, values inform every area of our life, so why try to compartmentalize?
Each month in The Pause on the Play® Community we explore one specific way to make your values more explicit. Our curated connections and learning experiences will help you challenge harmful norms, show up as an imperfect ally®, and live in alignment.
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Fashion is part of everyday life.
Whether you love it and follow the latest trends, or you’re a minimalist with a capsule wardrobe, or none of the above, we all have to wear clothes.
E.K. Powell joined India for a live conversation within The Pause on the Play Community about the lesser-known history of fashion, gender norms, and the role of capitalism in what we think are just preferences.
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Content Note: This episode includes mentions of gender norms, bullying and hatred.
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Change is inevitable, whether in you, your brand, or the humans who are a part of it.
How we meet change is up to us. How do you honor the life and death cycles that come with change?
Brionna Ned joins India for a conversation about death, rebirth, growth, and change within life and business.
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Being explicit about your values in your business used to be frowned upon, but it’s vital to how you market your brand, how you build your company culture, and how you relate to your clients.
In this replay of a 2020 conversation on Racheal Cook’s Promote Yourself to CEO podcast, Racheal and India discuss infusing your values into all aspects of your business, addressing mindset challenges and fears when it comes to getting explicit, and Racheal’s own experiences with making her values known.
In this discussion:
How marketing with your values as the starting point helps differentiate your business
Why it’s vital to understand the ways that consumers are voting with their dollar
Leaning on your values to guide how you show up in public
Taking steps to articulate your values
How leading with your values builds connection and community around your brand
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LinkedIn: India Jackson
Instagram: @FlauntYourFire
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Get clear on what matters. From Implicit to Explicit is a framework to get clear on what matters and how it informs the way you live and lead in your workplace.
This 3-hour masterclass helps you evaluate your personal and professional values, how those intersect with your team and your clients, and how those values need to show up in your brand.
Learn more at pauseontheplay.com/explicit
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Books are powerful tools for learning, connection, evolution, and reconsideration.
From storytelling through fiction to learning about the real lives of others in nonfiction works, books help us reshape our thinking, communicate with the people in our lives, and sometimes just get lost in a really good story.
Erica Courdae joins India to discuss some of the books that have strongly impacted them and how they think about everything from storytelling to gentrification to minimalism.
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Storytellers who took us on unexpected journeys
A book that helped us rethink what we know about gentrification
Reconsidering minimalism and intentionality
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LinkedIn: India Jackson
Instagram: @FlauntYourFire
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Want to learn more about our favorite and recommended books and support Pause on the Play® at the same time? Head to our bookshelf at pauseontheplay.com/books. 10% of every purchase goes to Pause on the Play® to help keep the podcast and our other free resources available. Buying through Bookshop also supports independent bookstores that are vital resources in their communities.
Align the way you shop with your values and vote with your dollars at pauseontheplay.com/books
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Pause on the Play® Ep 98: Weaving Story, Experience, and Humor into the Way You Communicate with Jon Goode
Are you more comfortable calling yourself a content creator rather than an influencer?
The word “influencer” has developed something of a negative connotation, but at its core, to be an influencer simply means being someone who is influential to others. If we model actions and behaviors that reflect our values, we can have a positive influence on those who witness us.
Erica Courdae and India dig into being a positive influence and how behavior modeling has been showing up in their lives and decision-making recently.
In this discussion:
Defining what behavior modeling means for India and Erica right now
How Erica has modeled confidence and making any day an occasion
Why India has been giving herself freedom to experiment with her hair and how she shows up
How to rethink using what you already have to live your life out loud
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LinkedIn: India Jackson
Instagram: @FlauntYourFire
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The Pause on the Play® Community is where brands and professionals create new normals in work and life.
The community helps people connect with values-aligned entrepreneurs and employees, across titles and industries, move from implicit to explicit® values, evolve the way we show up for ourselves and others and grow our influence, together.
Members have access to community discussion, live Q&As, co-working hours, workshops, and our evergreen library of replays and resources.
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We might think of trends as things that come and go in the worlds of fashion and style, but trends impact the world of work and entrepreneurship as well.
Trends aren’t necessarily negative, but when we follow trends in any capacity without questioning them, it can take us down a path that we didn’t intend to be on.
In a replay of a live conversation from within The Pause on the Play Community, Brooke Monaghan and India discuss what it means to consciously and intentionally challenge the status quo and how to be a responsible disruptor.
In this discussion:
How being a disruptor is about more than calling out what you’re against
Why you need to be clear on who your audience really is when you’re challenging norms in your industry
Why staying in conversation with your community is a key aspect of responsible disruption
How intentionality and awareness of your audience will inform your content
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LinkedIn: India Jackson
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This conversation with Brooke Monaghan was a live event within The Pause on the Play® Community. As part of our commitment to accessibility for our global membership, all of our events allow members to submit questions ahead of time, and all events are recorded and replays are available 24/7 as part of our resource library.
Get access to events like these, along with community conversation, Q&As with Erica and India, co-working hours and more by joining the Community.
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Transcend Your Dichotomy Ep 160. Strategic, Values Aligned Branding with India Jackson
Transcend Your Dichotomy Ep 161. Sustainable Visibility with Mai-kee Tsang
What role does consent play in your life?
How does it affect the way that you show up? Consent plays a major role in visibility, from the use of your image, to the agreements you make–or don’t make–when you appear in venues like podcasts, to how much you’re compensated, and more.
Stacie Lampkin interviews India about how consent, or lack thereof, has shown up in her life, from modeling contracts to healthcare and beyond.
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How consent allows you and your collaborators to fully show up
Making your values transparent in your agreements
How consent impacts content creation and partnerships across industries
Suggestions for taking action on consent in your life and your business
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LinkedIn: Stacie Lampkin
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LinkedIn: India Jackson
Instagram: @FlauntYourFire
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Posting photos or stories about the kids in our lives has become habitual for many of us. We need to move away from making assumptions and move towards a place of consent and autonomy with children.
Inside The Pause on the Play Community, Stacie Lampkin and Shannon Collins’s workshop Sharing About Our Kids Online: Do You Have Their Consent, encourages you to reexamine your approach to how we share about children on online spaces.
With space for education, reflection, and accountability, this resource is part of our evergreen library of workshop replays within the community.
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Pause on the Play Ep 176: Legal Agreements: Integrating Your Values and Creating Consent with Autumn Witt Boyd
Pause on the Play Ep 185: Autonomy, Personal Ownership, and Consent: A Conversation With Shannon Collins
People often talk about what their visibility goals are, or how they want to get more visible, especially at the beginning of a year or in the first quarter.
But oftentimes we don’t discuss what we don’t want our visibility to be, what doesn’t feel aligned with how we show up. And that’s important too.
Erica Courdae joins India to discuss feeling invisible, how we judge people for wanting to be witnessed, and why visibility is about so much more than how you show up in your business.
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How the male gaze, and the judgment behind “pick me” and “thirsty” impact how we view visibility
How difficult experiences and transitional periods impact our sense of self and contribute to feeling invisible
How leaning into who you are and who you want to be can you feel truly witnessed
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LinkedIn: India Jackson
Instagram: @FlauntYourFire
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