Networking With Michelle | Personal Connection, Influential Network

Bridgett Joe founder of S.Charles PR an international public relations firm.

In this episode we discuss: 

• Staying relevant from traditional to new media
• Are press releases effective
• The difference between a media kit and a press kit
• The ROI of PR

Resources:

• https://newsclipsforyou.com

Contact Bridgett Joe:

• Website
• Facebook
• Instagram
• YouTube

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand (guide)

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

Founded by International Coach and Speaker, Angela N. Holton, Love Sanctuary is committed to sharing powerful tools, techniques, and resources that have been used in workshops and private coaching around the world to support and inspire people to live more joy-filled, purposeful, peaceful, and authentic lives.

In this episode we discuss:

• The difference between a life coach and a therapist
• In today's digital space defining authenticity, transparency,    and vulnerability
• How to acknowledge your passion and monetize your purpose

Action Item: Meditate consistently. Journal of gratitude. Think about forgiveness. Be present.

Contact Angela Holton:

• Website: Love Sanctuary
• Instagram: @LoveSanctuaryCoaching

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand (guide)

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

• Website
• Book: 70 Days of Happy: Life is Better When You Smile

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand (guide)

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

Cozette M. White, MBA, a transformational speaker and money coach inspires individuals to live in purpose, embrace passion and achieve personal greatness through a balance in work and life. As a money coach, Cozette empowers individuals and business owners to take control of their financial future and provide a financial legacy for their families.

In this episode we discuss:

• Accounting vocabulary 101-sales, profit margin, cash flow, forecasting
• How to a manage a budget on a consistent basis
• The importance of financial reports even as a solopreneur

Previous episode: http://www.michellengome.com/cozettewhite/

Contact Cozette:

• http://myfinancialhome.com/

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand (guide)

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

Timon Kyle Durrett is a passion thinker and consummate dreamer. The Chicago-born author, actor, and artist has long examined the idea of who we are as interactional beings. His first book Who The Hell Do I Think I Am: A Brief and Candid Assessment of Oneself examines the mental toughness one needs to pursue their dreams and live their best life. Many know Timon from his role on Queen Sugar as Davis West.

In this episode we discuss:

• Shaping your mental environment into your physical environment
• Using rejection to your advantage while staying on track
• Managing your friends during your growth
• Season 3 of Queen Sugar

Action Item: Find out your calling, that thing that stays on your mind

*Season 3 of Queen Sugar premieres on Tuesday, May 29th on OWN check local listings

Contact Timon Durrett:

• Book: Who The Hell Do I Think I Am?
• Instagram: @TimonKDurrett

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand (guide)

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

Phoenix Jackson is an award-winning business leader, corporate communication strategist, adjunct faculty and expert in social entrepreneurship turned author and speaker. Phoenix’s calling has been to empower women and men alike concerning their abilities to influence and impact others through entrepreneurship. Additionally, Phoenix is the co-founder of Phoenix Affect, an integrated communications and public relations firm. For profit businesses, nonprofits, professional athletes, entertainers, authors, speakers, and politicians have all been clients of Phoenix Affect, successfully being branded and manifesting their desired outcome within public influence.

Phoenix has been recognized for her intellect and results-driven leadership approach, which has led to many accolades and honors, including the 25 Top Leaders in Denver for Barack Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative, Women Making History Award, a Daniels Scholar Alumni, Denver Business Journal Making Their Mark publication and more.

In this episode we discuss:

• Managing your personal brand with PR
• The key to wealth and philanthropy
• Coming to understand her purpose and rebranding her business

Action Item: Find a digital mentor. Research companies and people you admire and pay attention to their story.

Contact Phoenix:

• Website: http://www.phoenixjackson.com/
• Book: The Spirit of Business promo code: michelle
• Instagram: @PhoenixJackson

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand (guide)

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

Sable B is a strategist and facilitator. She is the creator of Real Brown Girls in 2014, and has become an in-demand thought leader creating a new narrative among professional women of color. 

In this episode we discuss:

• What women need to do distinguish themselves on the resume?
• How to write a cover letter?
• How to manage your career and side hustle?

Action Item: write a letter to your current self from your older self and what advice would you tell yourself.

Contact Sable B:

• http://realbrowngirls.com
• www.instagram.com/realbrowngirls

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

I jump in to do a quick recap on my experience speaking at WomeneurCon in New York and People Fund. 

Join my new NWM Facebook group where I want to create a community to carry on the discussion of life and business strategies from the weekly episodes and beyond.

Upcoming Events:

• Ad 2 Houston - Level Up With LinkedIn w/ headshots

Resources:

• Networking With Michelle Podcast Facebook Group
• http://www.michellengome.com/NOISE-GUIDE/

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

This is a recording of my presentation from People Fund's Innovation Week: Time To Make Some Noise: 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand. 

1. Establish Your Core Message
2. Create a Platform
3. Get Social Your Story
4. Create an Emotional Impact
5. The Triad of Influence
6. From Connections to Credibility
7. Show Me The Money

Resources:

http://www.michellengome.com/time/ (previous episode)

http://www.michellengome.com/NOISE-GUIDE/

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

Darrell James, co-founder of James & Jordan, LLC, a boutique executive search firm based in Sugar Land, TX, Darrell has over 25 years of experience in corporate recruiting, human resources, and diversity.  He is also the author of Inclusion Recruiting: The 12 Secrets to Recruiting a Diverse Workforce. 

• Should companies become more supportive when it comes to side hustles?
• We usually see personal branding from the entrepreneur standpoint, what are some tips and advice to grow a personal brand in a corporate position?
• How much responsibility is divided between you and the company when it comes to growing your career?
• What are the best ways to make a career transition from industry or into a new business?

Contact Darrell James:

• Website
• LinkedIn

Upcoming Events:

Tiffany Taylor Hicks is a training consultant and business strategist of the Velvet Rope Experience. This is a great interview for the solopreneur and small business owner to find the small elements that distinguish you from your competition. In this episode we discuss how to create a memorable customer experience:

• The biggest problems small business owners face within their business.
• The power of connection and process of creating memorable experiences. 
•  The four R's: revenue, referrals, reviews, and retention.

Contact Tiffany:

After The Go-Giver’s publication back in 2008, Bob and John went on to apply the Go-Giver idea — that is, the more you give, the more you have — to sales (Go-Givers Sell More), leadership (The Go-Giver Leader), and education (A Teacher’s Guide to The Go-Giver). The natural question was, “What’s next?” In these highly polarized times, they thought it might be helpful to explore a Go-Giver approach to influence and the role it plays in our capacity for empathy, civil discourse, and the ability to see another’s perspective.

At its heart, The Go-Giver Influencer is a story about what it takes to bridge differences, to settle disputes and defang conflicts, to find common ground where there appear to be only irreconcilably polarized positions. (And, yes, even to negotiate business dealings.) It is also about what it takes to be someone whom others trust and look to for sound guidance, clear judgment, and evenhanded wisdom in times of challenge.

We discuss:

• What is an “influencer”? And what is a go-giver influencer?
• What exactly is influence? Is it something that just comes to some people naturally, like charisma, or can anyone develop it? And if so, how?
• How can Millennials find balance in giving?

Contact John:

http://johndavidmann.com/ 

Upcoming Events:

A bit behind, but wanted to release this HIV Awareness follow up episode. Brittany and I received great feedback from people serving its purpose to get the conversation started.

In addition, NWM is about evolvement in life and business. I will continue to address tough topics on this show and I hope you stay with me on this journey.

Upcoming Events:

• Womeneur Conference, Friday April 27th in New York
• NY Meetup (TBD)

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

Ash Cash a financial expert and author of The Wake Up Call: Financial Inspiration Learned from 4:44 + A Step by Step Guide on How to Implement Each Financial Principle.

My good friend Shimeka Williams told me to reach out to him and I am glad I did. Ya'll know I'm a Jay-Z fan and Ash delivered in this interview. We discussed 

• The history of Black economics.
• Taking action steps to make and save money and manage credit.
• Being responsible for individual wealth that leads to generational wealth and community development.

Contact:

http://www.iamashcash.com 

The Wake Up Call (Amazon)

Upcoming Events:

Womeneur Conference, Friday April 27th in New York

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

Brittany Flournoy is an HIV Awareness advocate based in Houston, Texas. I'm going to be honest this episode took me by surprised. Brittany and I are colleagues and we scheduled this interview a bit casually. I know this is an important topic, but I was not prepared for all the knowledge shared with me. I really hope you enjoy this episode. Start having the conversation with your partner, friends and family. 

We discuss the following:

• HIV affecting African-Americans at a high rate
• Why and how often you should get tested
• Having the conversation with your partners including family and friends 
• The difference between HIV and AIDS

Resources:

• HIV Awareness Days - March 20th National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day #NNHAAD
• AIDS Foundation Houston
• HIV Among African-Americans Stats

Contact Brittany:

Facebook

Upcoming Events:

Womeneur Conference, Friday April 27th in New York

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact Michelle:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

This is the last segment of our Questions & Answers. I wrap up with content creation and podcasting. There is some overlap when it comes to questions or methods but stick with what will work for you. As always Play To Your Strengths! Thanks to everyone that submitted questions.

Some of the questions asked:

• The how to's of content creation
• Benefits of podcasting vs other social media platforms
• Process of producing quality content
• How does podcasting add value to brand 
• The cost typically associated to produce quality programming

Resources:

• Need a strategy session on your personal brand? Code: NWM
• Creating a Content Marketing Strategy (Aug 8, 2016 episode)
• Time to Make Some Noise: 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand 
• 33 Ways to Content Flip
• Podcast Checklist and Resource Guide
• The Entrepreneur's Startup Game by Plan by Sharon Beason's founder of Womeneur Conference

Upcoming Events:

Womeneur Conference, Friday April 27th in New York

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

A conversation with my friend Ashlyn Carr, CPA as we talk about life.

Upcoming Events:

Womeneur Conference, Friday April 27th in New York

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

• What is the best way to begin branding your business?
• Is it best to establish the connection between your name and your brand from the beginning? If so, what the best and most effective way to do that?
• How does being a published authoring add value to your brand?
• Next, best steps after deciding to start your own business?
• How to go from employee/group/team mentality to entrepreneurial mindset? 
• How to combat the unexpected feelings of isolation and the struggle some have to network.

Upcoming Events:

Womeneur Conference, Friday April 27th in New York

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact:

• http://michellengome.com
• info@michellengome.com
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome

I received over 40 questions ranging from business, marketing, branding, becoming an author, and launching a podcast. I am answering every single question over the next four episodes.

Questions:

• When do I need a coach?
• What are the benefits of coaching?
• How do I set my pricing?

Resources Mentioned:

• Understanding Value Based Pricing
• Impact Pricing by Mark Stiving

Upcoming Events:

Womeneur Conference, Friday April 27th in New York

Sponsorship:

• WP Engine (web hosting)
• 7 Steps to Creating an Influential Personal Brand

Contact:

• http://michellengome.com 
• info@michellengome.com 
• https://www.instagram.com/michellengome 

Dr. Ruth Simmons, an accomplished university president with administrative experience in Ivy League schools, a women’s university and a historically black college, has been named President of Prairie View A&M University. Ruth J. Simmons was President of Brown University from 2001-2012. Under her leadership, Brown made significant strides in improving its standing as one of the world’s finest research universities.

Thank you Vannessa Wade from Connect the Dots PR

Website:

http://www.pvamu.edu 

http://www.pvamu.edu/president

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