February 22, 2024 • 47 mins
Join Dr. Lewis in a conversation with Vicki Wright Hamilton, Founder & CEO of VWH Consulting. Vicki is an executive technology consultant and business coach with over 30 years of industry experience. Her company VWH Consulting provides technology strategies, transformational initiatives, and change management on a large scale. Email: vicki@vickiwrighthamilton.com Website: http://www.vickiwrighthamilton.com
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at three zero one six nine threethree two eight four. Let us get
you on the fast track to success. Well. Hello, and welcome to
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the Success for Women's Show, whereyou can view us on Talk for TV
and listen to us on the Womenfor Women Network. I am doctor Madeline
Ann Lewis your host, and mymission is to help women accelerate the path
to success. Well, today's topicis Unlock your Leadership Potential and my guest
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is Miss Vicky Wright Hamilton. Letme just give you a little bit of
background on her. Vicky Right Hamiltonis a season executive coach and dynamic keynote
speaker, renowned for her empowering influenceon entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. As the
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CEO of v WH Consulting, shecombines her rich experience in business leadership with
a personalized coaching approach, guiding clientstowards unparalleled success. Her unique game face,
methodology, and inspirational journey as ablack woman in tech and business have
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made her a sought after coach andspeaker. Well, today I'd like to
present to you, miss Vicki WrightHamilton to the Successful Women's Show. Hello,
Wow, how are you? It'sI'm blessed and so fortunate to be
here. Well, thank you somuch. Well, you know, I
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always started off by giving my audiencethe standard bio on my guests, but
then I like to ask the gueststo just tell us what you want us
to know about Vicky Wright Hamilton.Well, thank you so much for asking.
But you know when I think aboutbios, when people ask, oh,
well tell me about your bio,I don't really want to tell you
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about me. First of all,I am a child of God, He's
my number one. I take careof my family. I then want to
help the community and help others tocontinue to grow. So as I continue
to do that, I am aproud mother of two grown men, a
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daughter in law, my son's girlfriend, and I have four grandchildren. My
heart throbs the ones I love,the mother's right They always say, you
can't love a child, you can'tlove anybody anymore. You love your children,
Well, let's just that you lovethem a little bit differently. Okay,
Okay. So my foundation of everythingI have done all my life has
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been around how do you manage change, how do you deal with the expected,
the importance of decisions, and thenhow I can reach back and help
others. So I have been incorporate America, I've been in nonprofits.
I've you know, done a lotof things in my career and have had
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the opportunity to be exposed to alot. And what I really want to
do and what I want my legacyto be is I have reached back.
I have served others and I havehelped them to grow to their full potential,
even when they didn't see it themselves. Absolutely. Now see, you
are my kind of lady. Sotell us. Have you ever had to
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face a decis decision between your joband your family? Yes? I have,
and I want to share a littlestory with you in your audience just
to indicate how impactful these kinds ofdecisions can be. As being a black
woman in technology and over a hugedepartment at a very young age, we
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had a very major project that wassupposed to be launched, and I had
worked all these hours and nights andweekends, and my team had just put
in everything. I was so excitedabout this launch. The morning of the
launch, I walk into office.I've been there about thirty minutes and at
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RINT and I pick up the phoneand I say, hello, Vicky,
this is Carolyn from Arthur's daycare,and I just wanted to let you know.
He's not feeling well. He's sick, he's growing up. He's got
a fever. You have to comeand pick him up. I looked at
the phone and then I said,okay, come on my way. My
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palm started sweating, and I said, oh my gosh, there's our big
launch. My boss is going tokill me. But it doesn't matter.
In that taking that chource was allabout what am I going to do for
my child? So down the hallwayand I looked at him and I said,
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okay, my son is sick.I gotta go get him. I
was able to get a doctor's appointment. I have a girlfriend that's going to
meet me as I was a mom'sgoing to meet me pick him up so
I can come back to work andto my surprise, he looked at me.
He said, what do you meanyou're going to take him to the
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doctor and hire you to take careof your kids? I hired you to
do a job. Yeah. No, he didn't just say that to me.
And I looked at him just aseasy. He wasn't even thinking,
and I said, look, youdo what you gotta do. I'm going
to take care of my son andI'll be back. So I did exactly
what I said I was gonna doto the doctor. Got madisine my girlfriend
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picked me up, and I'm onthe way back to the office. As
I get back on the road goingto the office, I said, oh
my god, he has the powerof the choice to lock me out.
He could lock the gates, hecould lock the door. I have to
get back and there wouldn't be ajob. And I went through my mind
first, and then I looked upand said, nope, my God has
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me. It's gonna be okay.I can't call it. It's gonna be
okay. I did what I neededto do. Well. Of course,
the doors were open, get inside, and I talked to my team.
Hard things going, We were righton track. Things were just going well.
I was saying, so I goback and continue to work. A
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little bit later, I walk downthe hallway and I walk into my boss
and he goes, we better getthis done on time. You know that
there's a lot of state and wecould lose a whole lot of money.
And I politely looked up him witha smile and I said, we are
right on target. It's going tobe just fine. In that moment,
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that day, I learned the importanceof doing what you know is right,
yes, and being willing to takeon whatever consequence was going to be there.
Because I knew that it was goingto be all right. There was
nothing I could do about it,couldn't change it was going to be okay,
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But I had to go take careof my child. That is not
an option. So at a veryvery young age, I understood the importance
of being able to make those aredecisions. But stand by him, Wow,
absolutely. I mean I thought youwere going to say that once you
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ran into him and saw him,he would have had a change of heart.
But apparently not. Wow, notduring those days. I mean,
you know, I'm less face,and I'm an African American woman, I'm
in technology. Very few of usexisted much less running a major, large
corp corporation installation, and so therewas a lot of pressure that was there.
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So I didn't expect the niceness afterI got the response that he was
sitting, but I thought he wouldhe would also be happy that I found
alternatives, I found choices, Iwas able to make it work. So
I just felt like, you know, this is going to be all rotten.
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So I did have hys. Iknew what era I was working in,
I knew the environment, and Iknew the culture. And that didn't
say a whole lot for him either. I tell you that's a true statement.
So, yeah, you mentioned aboutbeing a black woman in the tech
industry. Tell us how did younavigate the challenges as a woman in the
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tech industry. Well, you know, when I first started out in technology,
now let's be fair, I walkedin the door nervous, scared,
not knowing whether I was going tobe able to do anything, if I
was going to be able to makeit, because I didn't see anybody who
looked like me, and it waslike, who am I going to talk
to, Who's going to help me, Who's going to guide me? And
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that's when I felt the pressure.It's all on my own shoulders. So
I thought about what's the best wayfor me to show success, for me
to be able to show I havedeserved to be here and that I'm my
willingness to do the work and theefforts that it takes. Because I was
running twenty four y seventy three sixtyfive organizations. Some of the industries I
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was in or life or death andpharmaceutical so it was just a lot of
pressure. And the one thing thatmy mother would say to me, and
she was during she was very activeas an activist during the civil rights movement,
and she said, you know,one one of the best things you
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can do is when you don't know, is sit back, listen and observe.
But I want you to listen tosomething particular. Listen to the words
they say, the way in whichthey say them, and the methods that
they tell you to follow, becausethere's nothing more powerful than to give them
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those words right back, because thenthey came fe So I began to learn
how to really pay attention. AndI remember I was sitting in a meeting
and something came up and I repeatedback to my boss what he had said
to me. And it shut himup. He couldn't say a word because
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it was you taught me that,right, you showed me how to do
that. It then leveraged on intechnology, where I also knew you had
to continuously learn, don't stop learning. That meant I had to read.
I had this thing on top ofwhat was coming. And we know technology
changes all the time, so it'sabout what's happening, what's coming down the
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pipe. So when they would haveconversations, I could contribute. It was
in Homa for the first time thatI got a description. Took Wall Street
Journal. Yep, Wall Street Journal. I was not bringing Wall Street Journal,
but all the time, and Iwanted to know what was happening in
the world. I wanted to beable to have those conversations. I needed
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them to know who was not justa statue. I wouldn't he just because
I was black and female. Ihad something to offer, even though I
was so many times in technology.That's why I was here so that the
waters by listening, paying attention,understanding, so I could begin to read
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the TV's of all the things aroundme and the culture and the strategy that
no one was going to tell me. No one was going to give to
you. How do you need tosucceed? Absolutely? And you know that
is so so true. I mean, I remember even when I was in
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my career that that was one ofthe things that I realized. You know,
that you have to stay on topof your industry, you really do,
because being, you know, ablack woman in certain industries, you're
gonna always be looked at as thoughshe don't know what she's talking about,
or she you know, But soyou have to always be almost a step
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ahead, two steps ahead as amatter of fact, so that when you
open your mouth it's definitely you know, you have the facts and you know
what you're talking about. And that'sbecause you're always gonna be contradicted. That's
what I found that out a longtime ago too, that we're always going
to be contradicted by someone that's sittingout there listening to what you have to
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say. And that's it's so unfortunatethat we have to go through all of
this just because we do have theknowledge and we have the skills to be
there. But those that you knoware there don't think that we really should
be there. For one but eventhat we are there, but we don't
know what we're talking about. Thatis so a fox. Yeah, not
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a thing that impacts. That iswhen you are in a position that they
don't expect us to be able tospeak well, they don't expect us to
be able to show up that weunderstand what it looks like. They don't
expect any of that. And afterI started my career, I guess I
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had been working maybe six seven years, and yes I had been a manager
and leading organizations, but the work, they would always say to me,
you're the acception. That's an exceptionto what to what expecting? What do
you mean? I'm the acceptance.You can well, you can communicate,
you can write, well, youunderstand technologists. I'm not the exception.
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I'm just the only ones who tookthe time to get to know that's been
around you. There's many of usout there, right, there's an exception
here. So it's your bias that'smaking you think I'm an exception. But
I'm not an exception. Yeah.Yeah, I used to get all the
time because you know, I'm fromNew Orleans. So the way they would
approach me is, oh, youdon't sound like you're from a New Orleans.
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It's like, oh, I guessso because I can string two sentences
together, you know exactly those preconceivednotions that are out there annoying it really
is. It's like what did youexpect? You know, sometimes you just
want to just slap a material.But tell me this now, and here's
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something that I saw and even seewhen I'm dealing with some of the ladies
that I deal with. You know, those limiting self limiting beliefs. What
strategies can an entrepreneur use to overcomelimiting beliefs? Because that is a sometimes
can be a problem. You know, it's right. And the thing is
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is that I'll be the first tosay entrepreneurship is not for the weak at
heart. First of all, youhave to be willing to take the ups,
the downs. There's swings, there'slows, there's highs. You have
to be willing to go through thejourney in order to get to the destination
and not and not just focus onthe destination that you want, right because
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it is a journey. So thevery first thing when you think about entrepreneurship
is mindset. Where is my mind? What do I want to accomplish?
What am I thinking about accomplishing?What does that mean to me. The
second thing that I think you haveto do is you have to turn fear
into daily aspirations and visions. Youdon't believe, how can you expect anybody
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else to believe it. So wehave to be confident in what we're doing.
But there's a way to do that. Be confident in doing the things
that you're already expert at. Evergift you have, you are an expert
in that gift. You have agift to offer someone. That gift is
going to be the biggest thing totake your entrepreneurship forward. So because you're
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comfortable and confident in that knowledge,let it shine. You deserve to have
it. Let it shine. Soyou have to love that product or service
that you are passionate about, soyou can expect the positive outcomes, because
there's gonna be some hard days,yes days when you're like, Okay,
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wait a minute, did I makethe right decision here? So little going
down the path that I really wantto do. So entrepreneurs have to open
their mind up to the art ofthe possible and be willing to go through
all the challenges so that all thosetests you go through become a true testimony
at the endely. What thing isto keep your mind right is that you
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have to reach back and be willingto work with others. Tall others,
seek others that got guidance and advice, because just because you're an entrepreneur doesn't
mean you know everything. A throughZ. There you go, there you
go. We can all learn.We can all learn from someone about someone.
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Absolutely wow. So can you sharewith us a success story from your
coaching that may have impacted you deeply? Oh my gosh, there's one that
comes to mind for my leadership coaching, and then there's also one that I
have from a business coaching client.But I'll start with my leadership. I
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was coaching a leader. And letme first say I believer. I believe
a leader is at all levels aretitled that make you a leader? Just
because you got a title that meand your leader, that's we all are
a leader of of ourselves if nothingelse right, So I always say you're
your own CEO. But I wascoaching this leader who came from being a
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welfare her early single mom and ateenage at her teenage years, living in
shelters on the street, et cetera. And to watch her go from there
to actually getting her career first startedand moving forward and making up her mind
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what she wanted to do. Shewanted to go back to school, she
wanted to get her masters, shewanted to move forward. So even after
finally getting married and having children,she was willing to do all these things
while working and dedicate herself because shehad a pigeon. And then that one
day when she got ready to exceland got that job and she's now sitting
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at a senior level EXEUS, Ican a multi time billion dollar organization.
You go from welfare to that,you go from not having to that.
Me back, I felt like Iwas on top of the world watching her
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and it inspired me. She wascoming me for coaching. It inspired me
more. I was like, ifshe can do this, I can do
this over here. It became oneof those things that it was an inspiration
for both of us and that relationshiphas just continued and continued and continued.
But to watch her grow and overcomethe obstacles, the challenges because she went
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through I don't know if I'll everget there, and are they going to
give me an opportunity? Will Iget a chance. I'll be glad one
day when I can do this.So I had to create a vision board.
And one of the things was ona vision board is she wanted to
do a commencement speech one day.I'll never forget the text to be a
convincement stinker. I'm to be aconvincement stinker. And I called her and
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I said, she said, yes, I had her on my vision board.
I was thinking about it. Igot a phone call and I'm going
to be a convinced spiel. Thatis the power of hard work, manifestations
and doing what's necessary to not forget. It may not be this year,
it may not be next year,but the time will come when it's just
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right. So that story from aleadership coaching perspective, right, but it's
also a testament to you giving alsogiving back because you know, with your
help and your encouragement, she wasalso able to do that too. So
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that's a testament to your coaching abilitiestoo. So well, I appreciate that.
You know, she says that tome all the time. It's gotten
to the point that she caused meAuntie, and she's like, you just
keep me going, You just keepme going. But you know, I
want to share the gifts that Godhas given me the sertive and to help
others absolutely. And you know,from a business perspective, I had a
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CEO of her company. She wasreally a solopreneur. And you know a
lot of times when we're soopreneurs andwe're just working a project or working in
activity, we go, oh,I got a business. I got a
business. Well, there's so muchto do in a full fledged business and
not just getting an opportunity of aten ninety nine year there. And as
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we began to work together and beganto look at, you know, what
she wanted to do and where shewanted to go. I have watched her
flourish from a solopreneur to a companyemploying many other people, doing many many
other services and actually continuing to thriveto places she never thought she could go.
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She was willing to listen, shewas willing to explore, she was
willing to think about doing things differentlyand not like I'm just stuck on doing
it myself. So our coaching arrangementworked really, really well. But to
watch that growth when at first shewas like, I'm not sure if I
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could make fifty thousand dollars in oneyear, but to see her making well
in the highest six digits. ThatSo that's another one that I you know,
that really really touched my heart interms of working with someone, giving
back and wanting to grow watching themgrow. Wow. So what approach would
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you give to the audience to beginan entrepreneurship journey? First of all,
every journey requires planning and preparing.The first thing you got to prepare is
your mind. I'm willing to dothis, I want this, I'm passionate
about this. If you are passionateabout your business, your clients, your
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customers, or anybody else isn't goingto be passionate because all of that feeds
through. People feed off your energy. They don't buy things to buy things.
They buy things because of the emotionalfeeling and the connection and they know
like and trust you as you knowright in terms of it. So,
first of all, plan, prepare, and be passionate. Number two,
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understand your industry you want to getinto. Is it a commodity? Is
it or not? How many competitorsdo you have? What market do you
want to serve? Is there aneed? Because if you're going to do
something in a market and it's oversaturated, all you're doing is trying to
take somebody take the same bucket andsplit it more ways, and everybody,
you know, it's not enough inthat bucket to get you where you want
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to be. So make sure youunderstand what the art of the possible opportunity
is for the audience that you wantto serve, and that means knowing your
audience. The other thing I willsay is that when you know your audience
and you understand who your audience is, if your listeners don't hear anything else,
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make sure you can talk the languageof the person that needs to receive
the message, not the language youthink they need to hear. And I
like to use the example of adoctor and you go to the doctor and
they give us results. They're talkingin all this lingo. We don't understand
what does that initial mean? Whatdoes that initial mean? I don't understand
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what does this mean? And thenyou said you the expert, so you
understand that. I'll understand that,Jarny, I need to hear Layman's terms.
So I need you to talk tome in English. What does that
really mean? Well, when we'retalking to our audience, we have to
talk to that pain in English.So if they're sitting over there and I'm
hurting because I can't pay my lightbill. I need to be able to
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tell me a message that says I'mgonna help you pay your life deal.
Right, I need you to hitme where I'm hurting and you can see
where that pain is or that needis. So I think it's really important
that you understand your audience from theirperspective at the very beginning, so you
really are serving who your your ultimateclient is or a customer is that you're
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looking for. And then lastly,as you're as you're developing all of that,
you know it's also important to understandthe structure of the business you want.
Is it LLC, is it anS corp? Is it a C
court? What does that look like? What are tax benefits? What do
I have to pay for in thebusiness, my business license registry, all
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those kinds of things, so thatyou don't miss a beat and get surprises.
And the best way to get startedwith all of this is to work
with a business coach. You canwork with you to share with you these
things so you don't miss a beat, because you know, we don't know
what we don't know until we getto the point where we made a mistake.
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It was I didn't know that.So getting guidance and understanding is extremely
important as you move forward. Absolutely. Wow. So can you also share
with us how or what kind ofstrategies a person would take for reconstructing uh
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their professional life maybe after being laidoff. So I can speak to this
very intimately because I, in ourfull transparency, I have been I've lost
my job three times. First timeI lost my job is I work myself
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out of a job and it waslike I did what I was supposed to
do and they no longer needed itanymore. The second thing that that happened
was is that I I lost ajob because we sold the business, Okay,
so I had to start all overagain. And then the third time
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I lost my job is because theywere uh the company had decided to move
from one location to another and theywere going to cut staff for all of
us that were that were in thisparticular location. So having been through those
experiences, I can tell you thatwhen it comes to having to start over,
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first of all, let your emotionsgo, don't hold them in.
Right, we all have to understandthis is an emotional journey and it's the
first step where you go through thisshot, oh my god, what just
happened to me? Yes, youknow, I have no job, and
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then you all the worries about moneyand paying this and doing this, all
those things start to come through yourmind. During that time period. You
need to be able to seek supportpeople that you get support from. Don't
hold it in, talk about it, and if you feel like you can't
talk about it, get a journalright, because what happens is it comes
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through us, goes through our hands, so we can release We have to
get to the point of releasing itright. And that also means practice self
care those things that help you torelease it as you're moving forward. The
second thing is is once you getthrough the initial shop and it's like,
okay, this is happening, youthen gonna get angry. Why did they
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let me go? And not soand so I contributed this, I contributed
that I did all these things.I just don't understand what does that mean.
I don't understand what this means.And you get mad. It's okay,
get mad about it, get theanger, and then once you go
through it, you can't change it. It's already happened. Absolutely Eventually as
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you process it, you're gonna getto the point that you're ready to explore
and look for new opportunities as you'removing forward. Now, the thing when
you start that opportunity is fear.So when you go through that fear,
take that fear and let it andwhere you're fearful of, I may not
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get a job soon enough. I'mtrying, I'm starting out, I'm looking,
I have these skill sets. Iwon't get it. You have to
stop it. That fear comes throughwhen people are talking to you. That
fear is you know, you becomeso you're it's almost like you're talking desperate
that you're not letting your gifts andskill sets come through. You need to
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let them feel what you can bringto them and give to them. And
so you don't want to have thatfear as you're going through it. Right,
And the last thing I'll say isfocus on the present and not the
past. You can't change the past. You can't do anything about it.
The thing you can say is whatI learned from it. If high FI
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it's always twenty twenty, So whatI learned from it? What could I
have done differently? And because Ilearned that, and what I can do
differently? What am I going todo differently going forward? And then let's
get the plan in place and let'sstart marching forward and start deciding that that's
what you want to do, thatyou're ready to move forward, You're going
to take those things and don't hesitateto invest in yourself. A good one
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to take the number of people thatI have coached and as you were coaching,
it was either a matter of takingan extra skill set to get a
skill during that period because that waspart of your strategy of the next opportunity
you wanted, and you had somebodyto coach you through it. To help
me go back. A lot oftimes we think, oh, I can't
spend the money. I can't spendthe money. How many times see you
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afford not to when you don't knowthe direction to go? Absolutely? Absolutely,
And that's one thing that I think, UH, we have to learn
to do more, especially women,We need to have that extra UH.
Coach is like an extra support foryou. You know, when you're trying
to get through something or reach acertain point, sometimes you do need someone
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just to look at something that youmay not see, even something that you
may not even see in yourself.They they may be able to see that
for you. So tell us what'scoming up on the horizon, anything coming
up that you may have plan,any coaching programs, any books coming out,
anything that you might want the audienceto know that so that they can
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uh, you know, contact youlike, Yeah, I want to I
want to get in that program,let's go it on. Absolutely. I
always have opportunities. One of thethings that one of the things that I
pride myself on gives me a competitiveadvantages. I don't believe it's a one
size fits all, so I offermany products and services. I offer an
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days to fash cash for business ownersthat are trying to figure out how can
I find that money, get thatmoney to get started. I offer a
ninety day position of market dominance thatreally helps you understand your market, your
competition, how do I distinguish myself, What do I do from a branding
perspective, what do I do fromsocial media? How do I do my
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pricing? All those kinds of things. So I offer that program as well.
I also do one on one businesscoaching in tern of the helping business
that those CEOs and Latin now Iknow we could do group but I really
want you to contra everybody with me. I want to spend my time all
I mean, and they're willing toinvest at that level to be able to
do that. From a from aleadership perspective, as I do all of
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my individual leadership opportunities, I reallyfocus on the hearing now and the need
that you have to get you towhere you really want to be. So
all of my programs and my leadershipare customized. And because because of that,
it allows me to have a lotof flexibility, which is another competitive
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advantage I have. I'm very flexiblein terms of what I'm doing, and
I try to meet my clients wherethey are because I know growth is going
to happen. Once you show thatwhat's happening, you get value. You
understand the value that it continues togrow. So you want to meet from
where they are to help them goand then you know. Lastly, I
continue to do things in the technologyindustry. I do a lot on AI,
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I'm doing a lot in digital transformation. I'm doing to keep those skill
sets up right. I'm doing alot of change management because it's all around
people. Allows you to continue tohelp people grow and develop within organizations.
Et cetera. So I try tokeep things moving on all fronts of my
offerings so that I stay current rightin terms of what I'm doing and making
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things happen. And I do alot of speaking, right. I think
one of the things your audience canactually think about is, no matter what
you do, when you go outand speak and you get credibility, it
just adds more and more value toyour toolbox. It gives you the tools
you need in order to move forwardwhere people will respect what you're what you're
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standing for, and the things thatyou're saying. So I do a lot
of speaking, and I do alot of getting back, you know,
I do a lot of helping thosethat you know that need the help that
can't afford it. In fact,I have a new season coming up on
my YouTube channel. It's going tobe released at the end of the month
of Strategic Minds Making Money Moves.And it's where I invested in a platform
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for black businesses to come on andtalk about what they do, who they
serve, what they're all about,and we solve the strategic problem on air.
And I did the total investment forthem because I wanted them to have
an opportunity, and everybody can't affordthat opportunity and to whom much is given
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much money? So when is thatgoing to be released? When are you
going to start that. It'll bethe end of the end of February,
so you'll start being postings going outas each show gets released. It's nine
episodes of the show, and I'mreally excited about this season coming up.
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It will be my set of mylast nine of seventy two shows. And
so there are other shows that areout on my YouTube did you write Hamilton,
and that you can go and watchand see lots of strategies and businesses
that are out there. And aswe're talking about black is for a month,
let's go help and serve these blackbusinesses and help them grow and develop,
right, absolutely absolutely so, tellus how can they reach out to
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you? If the viewers and thelisteners wanted to reach you, what's the
best way to contact you? Emailyou? Well, absolutely absolutely so.
I have a website Vicky Wrighthamilton dotFeel free to reach out to me there,
feel free to join LinkedIn. I'mon Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram,
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all of them under Vicky right Hamilton. My Instagram is Vicky w. Hamilton,
so you will be able to reachme anywhere. Feel free to send
me an email at Vicky at Vickywrighthamiltondot com. I am here to serve
and that's what I want to do, serve and help you reach your value,
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no matter what it is that you'relooking to accomplish. Thank you so
much. It has been a pleasureto have you on the show sharing your
success nuggets with us. I tellyou what I know that it took us
a little while to connect, butwe're here. We made it so we
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did. Thank you so much forcoming. Enjoyed you and I will definitely
be reaching out to you for somethingelse that I'm doing that you may want
to be a part of, sostay tuned. I appreciate that, and
thank you so much for blessing mewith this opportunity to speak with you and
your audience. You're welcome. Wewere glad to have you. Okay,
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did in Vancouver, Canada, makesure that you do so. Of course,
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I am just so excited because asof today it is now at one hundred
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you. I want to thank allof you in advance who have supported,
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I'd also like to thank my viewersand my listeners for joining me today.
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and listen to us on the Womenfor Women Network. I am doctor Madeline
Ann Lewis your host, and mymission is to help women accelerate the path
to success. Well, today's topicis Unlock your Leadership Potential and my guest
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is Miss Vicky Wright Hamilton. Letme just give you a little bit of
background on her. Vicky Right Hamiltonis a season executive coach and dynamic keynote
speaker, renowned for her empowering influenceon entrepreneurs and corporate leaders. As the
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CEO of v WH Consulting, shecombines her rich experience in business leadership with
a personalized coaching approach, guiding clientstowards unparalleled success. Her unique game face,
methodology, and inspirational journey as ablack woman in tech and business have
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made her a sought after coach andspeaker. Well, today I'd like to
present to you, miss Vicki WrightHamilton to the Successful Women's Show. Hello,
Wow, how are you? It'sI'm blessed and so fortunate to be
here. Well, thank you somuch. Well, you know, I
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always started off by giving my audiencethe standard bio on my guests, but
then I like to ask the gueststo just tell us what you want us
to know about Vicky Wright Hamilton.Well, thank you so much for asking.
But you know when I think aboutbios, when people ask, oh,
well tell me about your bio,I don't really want to tell you
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about me. First of all,I am a child of God, He's
my number one. I take careof my family. I then want to
help the community and help others tocontinue to grow. So as I continue
to do that, I am aproud mother of two grown men, a
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daughter in law, my son's girlfriend, and I have four grandchildren. My
heart throbs the ones I love,the mother's right They always say, you
can't love a child, you can'tlove anybody anymore. You love your children,
Well, let's just that you lovethem a little bit differently. Okay,
Okay. So my foundation of everythingI have done all my life has
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been around how do you manage change, how do you deal with the expected,
the importance of decisions, and thenhow I can reach back and help
others. So I have been incorporate America, I've been in nonprofits.
I've you know, done a lotof things in my career and have had
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the opportunity to be exposed to alot. And what I really want to
do and what I want my legacyto be is I have reached back.
I have served others and I havehelped them to grow to their full potential,
even when they didn't see it themselves. Absolutely. Now see, you
are my kind of lady. Sotell us. Have you ever had to
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face a decis decision between your joband your family? Yes? I have,
and I want to share a littlestory with you in your audience just
to indicate how impactful these kinds ofdecisions can be. As being a black
woman in technology and over a hugedepartment at a very young age, we
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had a very major project that wassupposed to be launched, and I had
worked all these hours and nights andweekends, and my team had just put
in everything. I was so excitedabout this launch. The morning of the
launch, I walk into office.I've been there about thirty minutes and at
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RINT and I pick up the phoneand I say, hello, Vicky,
this is Carolyn from Arthur's daycare,and I just wanted to let you know.
He's not feeling well. He's sick, he's growing up. He's got
a fever. You have to comeand pick him up. I looked at
the phone and then I said,okay, come on my way. My
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palm started sweating, and I said, oh my gosh, there's our big
launch. My boss is going tokill me. But it doesn't matter.
In that taking that chource was allabout what am I going to do for
my child? So down the hallwayand I looked at him and I said,
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okay, my son is sick.I gotta go get him. I
was able to get a doctor's appointment. I have a girlfriend that's going to
meet me as I was a mom'sgoing to meet me pick him up so
I can come back to work andto my surprise, he looked at me.
He said, what do you meanyou're going to take him to the
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doctor and hire you to take careof your kids? I hired you to
do a job. Yeah. No, he didn't just say that to me.
And I looked at him just aseasy. He wasn't even thinking,
and I said, look, youdo what you gotta do. I'm going
to take care of my son andI'll be back. So I did exactly
what I said I was gonna doto the doctor. Got madisine my girlfriend
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picked me up, and I'm onthe way back to the office. As
I get back on the road goingto the office, I said, oh
my god, he has the powerof the choice to lock me out.
He could lock the gates, hecould lock the door. I have to
get back and there wouldn't be ajob. And I went through my mind
first, and then I looked upand said, nope, my God has
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me. It's gonna be okay.I can't call it. It's gonna be
okay. I did what I neededto do. Well. Of course,
the doors were open, get inside, and I talked to my team.
Hard things going, We were righton track. Things were just going well.
I was saying, so I goback and continue to work. A
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little bit later, I walk downthe hallway and I walk into my boss
and he goes, we better getthis done on time. You know that
there's a lot of state and wecould lose a whole lot of money.
And I politely looked up him witha smile and I said, we are
right on target. It's going tobe just fine. In that moment,
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that day, I learned the importanceof doing what you know is right,
yes, and being willing to takeon whatever consequence was going to be there.
Because I knew that it was goingto be all right. There was
nothing I could do about it,couldn't change it was going to be okay,
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But I had to go take careof my child. That is not
an option. So at a veryvery young age, I understood the importance
of being able to make those aredecisions. But stand by him, Wow,
absolutely. I mean I thought youwere going to say that once you
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ran into him and saw him,he would have had a change of heart.
But apparently not. Wow, notduring those days. I mean,
you know, I'm less face,and I'm an African American woman, I'm
in technology. Very few of usexisted much less running a major, large
corp corporation installation, and so therewas a lot of pressure that was there.
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So I didn't expect the niceness afterI got the response that he was
sitting, but I thought he wouldhe would also be happy that I found
alternatives, I found choices, Iwas able to make it work. So
I just felt like, you know, this is going to be all rotten.
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So I did have hys. Iknew what era I was working in,
I knew the environment, and Iknew the culture. And that didn't
say a whole lot for him either. I tell you that's a true statement.
So, yeah, you mentioned aboutbeing a black woman in the tech
industry. Tell us how did younavigate the challenges as a woman in the
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tech industry. Well, you know, when I first started out in technology,
now let's be fair, I walkedin the door nervous, scared,
not knowing whether I was going tobe able to do anything, if I
was going to be able to makeit, because I didn't see anybody who
looked like me, and it waslike, who am I going to talk
to, Who's going to help me, Who's going to guide me? And
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that's when I felt the pressure.It's all on my own shoulders. So
I thought about what's the best wayfor me to show success, for me
to be able to show I havedeserved to be here and that I'm my
willingness to do the work and theefforts that it takes. Because I was
running twenty four y seventy three sixtyfive organizations. Some of the industries I
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was in or life or death andpharmaceutical so it was just a lot of
pressure. And the one thing thatmy mother would say to me, and
she was during she was very activeas an activist during the civil rights movement,
and she said, you know,one one of the best things you
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can do is when you don't know, is sit back, listen and observe.
But I want you to listen tosomething particular. Listen to the words
they say, the way in whichthey say them, and the methods that
they tell you to follow, becausethere's nothing more powerful than to give them
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those words right back, because thenthey came fe So I began to learn
how to really pay attention. AndI remember I was sitting in a meeting
and something came up and I repeatedback to my boss what he had said
to me. And it shut himup. He couldn't say a word because
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it was you taught me that,right, you showed me how to do
that. It then leveraged on intechnology, where I also knew you had
to continuously learn, don't stop learning. That meant I had to read.
I had this thing on top ofwhat was coming. And we know technology
changes all the time, so it'sabout what's happening, what's coming down the
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pipe. So when they would haveconversations, I could contribute. It was
in Homa for the first time thatI got a description. Took Wall Street
Journal. Yep, Wall Street Journal. I was not bringing Wall Street Journal,
but all the time, and Iwanted to know what was happening in
the world. I wanted to beable to have those conversations. I needed
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them to know who was not justa statue. I wouldn't he just because
I was black and female. Ihad something to offer, even though I
was so many times in technology.That's why I was here so that the
waters by listening, paying attention,understanding, so I could begin to read
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the TV's of all the things aroundme and the culture and the strategy that
no one was going to tell me. No one was going to give to
you. How do you need tosucceed? Absolutely? And you know that
is so so true. I mean, I remember even when I was in
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my career that that was one ofthe things that I realized. You know,
that you have to stay on topof your industry, you really do,
because being, you know, ablack woman in certain industries, you're
gonna always be looked at as thoughshe don't know what she's talking about,
or she you know, But soyou have to always be almost a step
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ahead, two steps ahead as amatter of fact, so that when you
open your mouth it's definitely you know, you have the facts and you know
what you're talking about. And that'sbecause you're always gonna be contradicted. That's
what I found that out a longtime ago too, that we're always going
to be contradicted by someone that's sittingout there listening to what you have to
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say. And that's it's so unfortunatethat we have to go through all of
this just because we do have theknowledge and we have the skills to be
there. But those that you knoware there don't think that we really should
be there. For one but eventhat we are there, but we don't
know what we're talking about. Thatis so a fox. Yeah, not
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a thing that impacts. That iswhen you are in a position that they
don't expect us to be able tospeak well, they don't expect us to
be able to show up that weunderstand what it looks like. They don't
expect any of that. And afterI started my career, I guess I
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had been working maybe six seven years, and yes I had been a manager
and leading organizations, but the work, they would always say to me,
you're the acception. That's an exceptionto what to what expecting? What do
you mean? I'm the acceptance.You can well, you can communicate,
you can write, well, youunderstand technologists. I'm not the exception.
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I'm just the only ones who tookthe time to get to know that's been
around you. There's many of usout there, right, there's an exception
here. So it's your bias that'smaking you think I'm an exception. But
I'm not an exception. Yeah.Yeah, I used to get all the
time because you know, I'm fromNew Orleans. So the way they would
approach me is, oh, youdon't sound like you're from a New Orleans.
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It's like, oh, I guessso because I can string two sentences
together, you know exactly those preconceivednotions that are out there annoying it really
is. It's like what did youexpect? You know, sometimes you just
want to just slap a material.But tell me this now, and here's
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something that I saw and even seewhen I'm dealing with some of the ladies
that I deal with. You know, those limiting self limiting beliefs. What
strategies can an entrepreneur use to overcomelimiting beliefs? Because that is a sometimes
can be a problem. You know, it's right. And the thing is
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is that I'll be the first tosay entrepreneurship is not for the weak at
heart. First of all, youhave to be willing to take the ups,
the downs. There's swings, there'slows, there's highs. You have
to be willing to go through thejourney in order to get to the destination
and not and not just focus onthe destination that you want, right because
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it is a journey. So thevery first thing when you think about entrepreneurship
is mindset. Where is my mind? What do I want to accomplish?
What am I thinking about accomplishing?What does that mean to me. The
second thing that I think you haveto do is you have to turn fear
into daily aspirations and visions. Youdon't believe, how can you expect anybody
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else to believe it. So wehave to be confident in what we're doing.
But there's a way to do that. Be confident in doing the things
that you're already expert at. Evergift you have, you are an expert
in that gift. You have agift to offer someone. That gift is
going to be the biggest thing totake your entrepreneurship forward. So because you're
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comfortable and confident in that knowledge,let it shine. You deserve to have
it. Let it shine. Soyou have to love that product or service
that you are passionate about, soyou can expect the positive outcomes, because
there's gonna be some hard days,yes days when you're like, Okay,
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wait a minute, did I makethe right decision here? So little going
down the path that I really wantto do. So entrepreneurs have to open
their mind up to the art ofthe possible and be willing to go through
all the challenges so that all thosetests you go through become a true testimony
at the endely. What thing isto keep your mind right is that you
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have to reach back and be willingto work with others. Tall others,
seek others that got guidance and advice, because just because you're an entrepreneur doesn't
mean you know everything. A throughZ. There you go, there you
go. We can all learn.We can all learn from someone about someone.
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Absolutely wow. So can you sharewith us a success story from your
coaching that may have impacted you deeply? Oh my gosh, there's one that
comes to mind for my leadership coaching, and then there's also one that I
have from a business coaching client.But I'll start with my leadership. I
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was coaching a leader. And letme first say I believer. I believe
a leader is at all levels aretitled that make you a leader? Just
because you got a title that meand your leader, that's we all are
a leader of of ourselves if nothingelse right, So I always say you're
your own CEO. But I wascoaching this leader who came from being a
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welfare her early single mom and ateenage at her teenage years, living in
shelters on the street, et cetera. And to watch her go from there
to actually getting her career first startedand moving forward and making up her mind
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what she wanted to do. Shewanted to go back to school, she
wanted to get her masters, shewanted to move forward. So even after
finally getting married and having children,she was willing to do all these things
while working and dedicate herself because shehad a pigeon. And then that one
day when she got ready to exceland got that job and she's now sitting
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at a senior level EXEUS, Ican a multi time billion dollar organization.
You go from welfare to that,you go from not having to that.
Me back, I felt like Iwas on top of the world watching her
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and it inspired me. She wascoming me for coaching. It inspired me
more. I was like, ifshe can do this, I can do
this over here. It became oneof those things that it was an inspiration
for both of us and that relationshiphas just continued and continued and continued.
But to watch her grow and overcomethe obstacles, the challenges because she went
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through I don't know if I'll everget there, and are they going to
give me an opportunity? Will Iget a chance. I'll be glad one
day when I can do this.So I had to create a vision board.
And one of the things was ona vision board is she wanted to
do a commencement speech one day.I'll never forget the text to be a
convincement stinker. I'm to be aconvincement stinker. And I called her and
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I said, she said, yes, I had her on my vision board.
I was thinking about it. Igot a phone call and I'm going
to be a convinced spiel. Thatis the power of hard work, manifestations
and doing what's necessary to not forget. It may not be this year,
it may not be next year,but the time will come when it's just
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right. So that story from aleadership coaching perspective, right, but it's
also a testament to you giving alsogiving back because you know, with your
help and your encouragement, she wasalso able to do that too. So
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that's a testament to your coaching abilitiestoo. So well, I appreciate that.
You know, she says that tome all the time. It's gotten
to the point that she caused meAuntie, and she's like, you just
keep me going, You just keepme going. But you know, I
want to share the gifts that Godhas given me the sertive and to help
others absolutely. And you know,from a business perspective, I had a
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CEO of her company. She wasreally a solopreneur. And you know a
lot of times when we're soopreneurs andwe're just working a project or working in
activity, we go, oh,I got a business. I got a
business. Well, there's so muchto do in a full fledged business and
not just getting an opportunity of aten ninety nine year there. And as
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we began to work together and beganto look at, you know, what
she wanted to do and where shewanted to go. I have watched her
flourish from a solopreneur to a companyemploying many other people, doing many many
other services and actually continuing to thriveto places she never thought she could go.
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She was willing to listen, shewas willing to explore, she was
willing to think about doing things differentlyand not like I'm just stuck on doing
it myself. So our coaching arrangementworked really, really well. But to
watch that growth when at first shewas like, I'm not sure if I
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could make fifty thousand dollars in oneyear, but to see her making well
in the highest six digits. ThatSo that's another one that I you know,
that really really touched my heart interms of working with someone, giving
back and wanting to grow watching themgrow. Wow. So what approach would
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you give to the audience to beginan entrepreneurship journey? First of all,
every journey requires planning and preparing.The first thing you got to prepare is
your mind. I'm willing to dothis, I want this, I'm passionate
about this. If you are passionateabout your business, your clients, your
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customers, or anybody else isn't goingto be passionate because all of that feeds
through. People feed off your energy. They don't buy things to buy things.
They buy things because of the emotionalfeeling and the connection and they know
like and trust you as you knowright in terms of it. So,
first of all, plan, prepare, and be passionate. Number two,
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understand your industry you want to getinto. Is it a commodity? Is
it or not? How many competitorsdo you have? What market do you
want to serve? Is there aneed? Because if you're going to do
something in a market and it's oversaturated, all you're doing is trying to
take somebody take the same bucket andsplit it more ways, and everybody,
you know, it's not enough inthat bucket to get you where you want
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to be. So make sure youunderstand what the art of the possible opportunity
is for the audience that you wantto serve, and that means knowing your
audience. The other thing I willsay is that when you know your audience
and you understand who your audience is, if your listeners don't hear anything else,
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make sure you can talk the languageof the person that needs to receive
the message, not the language youthink they need to hear. And I
like to use the example of adoctor and you go to the doctor and
they give us results. They're talkingin all this lingo. We don't understand
what does that initial mean? Whatdoes that initial mean? I don't understand
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what does this mean? And thenyou said you the expert, so you
understand that. I'll understand that,Jarny, I need to hear Layman's terms.
So I need you to talk tome in English. What does that
really mean? Well, when we'retalking to our audience, we have to
talk to that pain in English.So if they're sitting over there and I'm
hurting because I can't pay my lightbill. I need to be able to
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tell me a message that says I'mgonna help you pay your life deal.
Right, I need you to hitme where I'm hurting and you can see
where that pain is or that needis. So I think it's really important
that you understand your audience from theirperspective at the very beginning, so you
really are serving who your your ultimateclient is or a customer is that you're
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looking for. And then lastly,as you're as you're developing all of that,
you know it's also important to understandthe structure of the business you want.
Is it LLC, is it anS corp? Is it a C
court? What does that look like? What are tax benefits? What do
I have to pay for in thebusiness, my business license registry, all
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those kinds of things, so thatyou don't miss a beat and get surprises.
And the best way to get startedwith all of this is to work
with a business coach. You canwork with you to share with you these
things so you don't miss a beat, because you know, we don't know
what we don't know until we getto the point where we made a mistake.
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It was I didn't know that.So getting guidance and understanding is extremely
important as you move forward. Absolutely. Wow. So can you also share
with us how or what kind ofstrategies a person would take for reconstructing uh
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their professional life maybe after being laidoff. So I can speak to this
very intimately because I, in ourfull transparency, I have been I've lost
my job three times. First timeI lost my job is I work myself
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out of a job and it waslike I did what I was supposed to
do and they no longer needed itanymore. The second thing that that happened
was is that I I lost ajob because we sold the business, Okay,
so I had to start all overagain. And then the third time
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I lost my job is because theywere uh the company had decided to move
from one location to another and theywere going to cut staff for all of
us that were that were in thisparticular location. So having been through those
experiences, I can tell you thatwhen it comes to having to start over,
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first of all, let your emotionsgo, don't hold them in.
Right, we all have to understandthis is an emotional journey and it's the
first step where you go through thisshot, oh my god, what just
happened to me? Yes, youknow, I have no job, and
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then you all the worries about moneyand paying this and doing this, all
those things start to come through yourmind. During that time period. You
need to be able to seek supportpeople that you get support from. Don't
hold it in, talk about it, and if you feel like you can't
talk about it, get a journalright, because what happens is it comes
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through us, goes through our hands, so we can release We have to
get to the point of releasing itright. And that also means practice self
care those things that help you torelease it as you're moving forward. The
second thing is is once you getthrough the initial shop and it's like,
okay, this is happening, youthen gonna get angry. Why did they
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let me go? And not soand so I contributed this, I contributed
that I did all these things.I just don't understand what does that mean.
I don't understand what this means.And you get mad. It's okay,
get mad about it, get theanger, and then once you go
through it, you can't change it. It's already happened. Absolutely Eventually as
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you process it, you're gonna getto the point that you're ready to explore
and look for new opportunities as you'removing forward. Now, the thing when
you start that opportunity is fear.So when you go through that fear,
take that fear and let it andwhere you're fearful of, I may not
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get a job soon enough. I'mtrying, I'm starting out, I'm looking,
I have these skill sets. Iwon't get it. You have to
stop it. That fear comes throughwhen people are talking to you. That
fear is you know, you becomeso you're it's almost like you're talking desperate
that you're not letting your gifts andskill sets come through. You need to
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let them feel what you can bringto them and give to them. And
so you don't want to have thatfear as you're going through it. Right,
And the last thing I'll say isfocus on the present and not the
past. You can't change the past. You can't do anything about it.
The thing you can say is whatI learned from it. If high FI
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it's always twenty twenty, So whatI learned from it? What could I
have done differently? And because Ilearned that, and what I can do
differently? What am I going todo differently going forward? And then let's
get the plan in place and let'sstart marching forward and start deciding that that's
what you want to do, thatyou're ready to move forward, You're going
to take those things and don't hesitateto invest in yourself. A good one
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to take the number of people thatI have coached and as you were coaching,
it was either a matter of takingan extra skill set to get a
skill during that period because that waspart of your strategy of the next opportunity
you wanted, and you had somebodyto coach you through it. To help
me go back. A lot oftimes we think, oh, I can't
spend the money. I can't spendthe money. How many times see you
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afford not to when you don't knowthe direction to go? Absolutely? Absolutely,
And that's one thing that I think, UH, we have to learn
to do more, especially women,We need to have that extra UH.
Coach is like an extra support foryou. You know, when you're trying
to get through something or reach acertain point, sometimes you do need someone
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just to look at something that youmay not see, even something that you
may not even see in yourself.They they may be able to see that
for you. So tell us what'scoming up on the horizon, anything coming
up that you may have plan,any coaching programs, any books coming out,
anything that you might want the audienceto know that so that they can
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uh, you know, contact youlike, Yeah, I want to I
want to get in that program,let's go it on. Absolutely. I
always have opportunities. One of thethings that one of the things that I
pride myself on gives me a competitiveadvantages. I don't believe it's a one
size fits all, so I offermany products and services. I offer an
(35:00):
days to fash cash for business ownersthat are trying to figure out how can
I find that money, get thatmoney to get started. I offer a
ninety day position of market dominance thatreally helps you understand your market, your
competition, how do I distinguish myself, What do I do from a branding
perspective, what do I do fromsocial media? How do I do my
(35:21):
pricing? All those kinds of things. So I offer that program as well.
I also do one on one businesscoaching in tern of the helping business
that those CEOs and Latin now Iknow we could do group but I really
want you to contra everybody with me. I want to spend my time all
I mean, and they're willing toinvest at that level to be able to
do that. From a from aleadership perspective, as I do all of
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my individual leadership opportunities, I reallyfocus on the hearing now and the need
that you have to get you towhere you really want to be. So
all of my programs and my leadershipare customized. And because because of that,
it allows me to have a lotof flexibility, which is another competitive
(36:04):
advantage I have. I'm very flexiblein terms of what I'm doing, and
I try to meet my clients wherethey are because I know growth is going
to happen. Once you show thatwhat's happening, you get value. You
understand the value that it continues togrow. So you want to meet from
where they are to help them goand then you know. Lastly, I
continue to do things in the technologyindustry. I do a lot on AI,
(36:27):
I'm doing a lot in digital transformation. I'm doing to keep those skill
sets up right. I'm doing alot of change management because it's all around
people. Allows you to continue tohelp people grow and develop within organizations.
Et cetera. So I try tokeep things moving on all fronts of my
offerings so that I stay current rightin terms of what I'm doing and making
(36:52):
things happen. And I do alot of speaking, right. I think
one of the things your audience canactually think about is, no matter what
you do, when you go outand speak and you get credibility, it
just adds more and more value toyour toolbox. It gives you the tools
you need in order to move forwardwhere people will respect what you're what you're
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standing for, and the things thatyou're saying. So I do a lot
of speaking, and I do alot of getting back, you know,
I do a lot of helping thosethat you know that need the help that
can't afford it. In fact,I have a new season coming up on
my YouTube channel. It's going tobe released at the end of the month
of Strategic Minds Making Money Moves.And it's where I invested in a platform
(37:37):
for black businesses to come on andtalk about what they do, who they
serve, what they're all about,and we solve the strategic problem on air.
And I did the total investment forthem because I wanted them to have
an opportunity, and everybody can't affordthat opportunity and to whom much is given
(38:00):
much money? So when is thatgoing to be released? When are you
going to start that. It'll bethe end of the end of February,
so you'll start being postings going outas each show gets released. It's nine
episodes of the show, and I'mreally excited about this season coming up.
(38:20):
It will be my set of mylast nine of seventy two shows. And
so there are other shows that areout on my YouTube did you write Hamilton,
and that you can go and watchand see lots of strategies and businesses
that are out there. And aswe're talking about black is for a month,
let's go help and serve these blackbusinesses and help them grow and develop,
right, absolutely absolutely so, tellus how can they reach out to
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you? If the viewers and thelisteners wanted to reach you, what's the
best way to contact you? Emailyou? Well, absolutely absolutely so.
I have a website Vicky Wrighthamilton dotFeel free to reach out to me there,
feel free to join LinkedIn. I'mon Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram,
(39:08):
all of them under Vicky right Hamilton. My Instagram is Vicky w. Hamilton,
so you will be able to reachme anywhere. Feel free to send
me an email at Vicky at Vickywrighthamiltondot com. I am here to serve
and that's what I want to do, serve and help you reach your value,
(39:29):
no matter what it is that you'relooking to accomplish. Thank you so
much. It has been a pleasureto have you on the show sharing your
success nuggets with us. I tellyou what I know that it took us
a little while to connect, butwe're here. We made it so we
(39:51):
did. Thank you so much forcoming. Enjoyed you and I will definitely
be reaching out to you for somethingelse that I'm doing that you may want
to be a part of, sostay tuned. I appreciate that, and
thank you so much for blessing mewith this opportunity to speak with you and
your audience. You're welcome. Wewere glad to have you. Okay,
(40:15):
So I am now going to leteveryone know what's coming up next with me
what I will be doing again.Make sure that you get your copy of
the Own It anthology It's Your Life, Own It Unapologetically, and also the
journal three hundred and sixty five daysto Transformation. To order each book,
(40:42):
you can get each one of themseparately, or you can get both of
them together. To order, youcan go on my website which is www
dot EXWSI dot com. There's alink where you can order them directly,
or if you have any questions,of course, you can email me at
info at EXWSI dot com. Makesure to tune into the next Black Business
(41:08):
Olympics. It's coming up next week, which is February twenty six through March
third. And of course, theBlack Business Olympics is a fundraiser to provide
scholarships and laptops to high school seniorsgoing to college and also k through twelve
(41:29):
entrepreneurs. The Black Business Olympics showcasesblack business, black business owners and corporations
all around the world. And ifyou would like to be a speaker to
showcase your business, you can emailme at info at EXWSI dot com and
(41:49):
just let me know. Put inthe subject line speaker for Black Business Olympics
and I'll reach back out to you. If you miss the show up to
Rise Up Virtual sum which aired atthe end of January, which was January
twenty fifth through twenty seven, youcan still get the VIP access pass for
ninety nine dollars. To get theaccess VIP access go to you can email
(42:15):
me at info at EXWSI dot comand I will send you the link to
be able to do so. Iam also doing another virtual show up to
Rise Up Summit and that will bein September September twenty six through the twenty
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eight So if you're interested in beinga speaker on the platform this time,
you can go to www. Speakat Show Up to Riseupsummit dot com that
speak at Show Up to Rise upsummitdot com, or you can email me
at info at EXWSI dot com formore information about becoming a speaker and save
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the date. Mark your calendar asthe next Show Up to Rise Up Women's
Retreat is scheduled for September thirteen throughthe fifteenth, twenty twenty four, and
the location is going to be theTurf Valley Resort and Spot in Ellicott City.
(43:22):
So yes, now we know everything. If you want to be kept
up to date, want your nameplaced on the list because you want to
attend so you can get the restof the information, you can email me
at info at EXWSI dot com againthat date is September thirteenth through the fifteen.
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Make sure you save the date markyour calendar. Turf Valley Resort and
Spot in Ellaicott City. If youhave not viewed my TEDx talk that I
did in Vancouver, Canada, makesure that you do so. Of course,
everything I've been doing around this topicshow up to rise up that was
the topic of my TEDx talk.To watch it on YouTube, just put
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in my name in the search boxdoctor Madeline and Lewis and it will come
up. Or you can email meat info at EXWSI dot com. And
I am just so excited because asof today it is now at one hundred
ninety seven thousand and six hundred sevenviews. We are still getting out there
(44:32):
and you know my goal is toreach one million plus views, So thank
you. I want to thank allof you in advance who have supported,
who have watched the video, whohave shared the video, comment on a
video. Please keep doing so,keep sending it out there so that we
(44:52):
can reach that million plus views.And finally, I am also a contributing
writer to the own It magazine whereI share nuggets and resources and article.
I write an article for them everymonth and Own It magazine is a resource
for personal, professional, and businessdevelopment, so make sure you get a
(45:15):
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www dot exwsi dot com to getan annual subscription. If you'd like to
just view one of the copies,I can send you a digital copy so
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email me at info at EXWSI dotcom. I would like to thank my
guests again Mss Vicky Wright Hamilton forbeing here today sharing some great success nuggets.
I'd also like to thank my viewersand my listeners for joining me today.
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This is of course the success forwomen's show. I am doctor Madeline
and Lewis your host and if you'dlike to reach out to me, I
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Thanks to my viewers and my listenersfor always supporting us. I love
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