S2 Ep. 3 - The Importance of Business Confidence with Athenia Rodney - Inside The Wedding Planner's Mind

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Inside the Wedding Planner's Mind with Irene Tyndale,
Chief Event Officer of Irene Tyndale Weddings and Events. All right,
Missus Tyndale, let's get to it.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Hey, hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Inside
the Wedding Planner's Mind. I'm your host, Irene Tyndale, and
today's episode is part of a special series we're sharing
this season our pre retreat Sessions from the Becoming the
Business Retreat from Wedding Planners twenty twenty five. Before attending
Steps into the Ruin in Atlanta, we hosted six powerful

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sessions to prepare their mindset and their faith and their
business strategy. Because the transformation starts before you even arrive.
And I know there's conversations we're too powerful to keep
to ourselves. So today's episode is led by an incredible
woman that I know and love and adore, Athenia Rottney, and.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
The topic is one that every.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Business owner needs to hear the importance of business confidence.
Let me tell you, Athena brought the truth with love.
She reminded us that confidence isn't just about what you
look like or how you present. It's about how you
show up in your pricing and your positioning, and your boundaries,
and in your belief in what you've been called to build.

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So if you ever struggle with self doubt, comparison, or
imposter syndrome, this one's for you. Whether you're in the
startup phase or even been in business for years, this
message will meet you right where you are, So.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
Let's dive in.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Welcome to another episode of Inside the Wedding Planner's Mind.
Today is a very special session as I'm hosting a
pre retreat gathering with the incredible attendings of Becoming the
Business Retreat for wedding planners. As part of their retreat registration,
we've been offering exclusive precessions with some amazing guest speakers

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to prepare their hearts and minds for the transformational journey ahead.
And today I couldn't be more excited to welcome a
dynamic guests who is sure to inspire us all, Athenia Rodney.
Athenia is not only an accomplished event planner and founder
of the juneteenth New York City I would say festival

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event it's amazing, but she's also a phenomenal business coach.
She and I have had the privilege of knowing each
other for over ten years now thanks to our share
connection with the amazing Genelle Boyd, who was our business coach.
In today's session, Athenia will be sharing her insights on
a topic that's near and dear to my heart. Confidence

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confidence as a business owner and entrepreneur. Confidence plays a
vital role in how we show up, not only in
our businesses, but in our everyday lives and for women,
especially women of color and faith, confidence is often the
key to unlocking doors, breaking barriers, and stepping boldly into

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our purpose. Athenia is going to dive into what it
truly means to build and sustain confidence as a business
owner and how we cultivated, how do we protect it,
How is it fuels our journeys as CEOs, as wives,
as mothers, as sisters, et cetera, et cetera. So get
ready to take some notes, reflect and be inspired. Let's

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welcome Athena Rotney to the inside the Wedding Planner's Mind Podcast.
My friend, my friend, my friend, my friend, my New
York's sister.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
We're This is the top of the year. It is
the first Monday of twenty twenty five. Thank you, Thank
you Jesus.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
Happy New Year to you and your family.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
I am good. I am.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
I am still coming off of this this cold that
everyone has going.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Into the new year, but I am here. I woke
up this morning.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
I am blessed, and I gave me another day to
make it or break it.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
So okay, i'd right, listen. I we have I have
people who are near and dear to me that every
time we talk to them, there's always like I called it,
the E or syndrome, like E for winning the Pooh.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
You're like, can we just be happy that we.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Woke up today because some people did not wake up today?

Speaker 3 (04:20):
That's what we try to buy.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
Husband says, I'll time, because we woke up today and
someone else did not like aim in to that, so
it's gonna be okay. What did they say that if
you woke up, he's not done with you. He still
got plans for you, right exactly. So thank you so
much for joining us today on this pre retreat session

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and also just being a guest on the podcast, and
so I'm going to tap it to you tell the
people a little bit about yourself and just bless bless
our ears with helping us build more confidence so that
we can, you know, tackle all our dreams and live
out our purpose that he has for us.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Well, thank you so much, Irene, it has been a
pleasure and nice to meet you all. My name is
Athenia Rodney. I am the senior and founder of Juneteenth NYC.
I have been an even planner for now over I want.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
To say twenty six years.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
I know I look young, so but I have been
doing this for quite some time. Started off in wedding
planning because my husband was a DJ, and so I
did a lot of supporting him because it was havoc
going there and trying to be supporting him as a

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DJ and seeing all of everything when they had a
planner and.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
It wasn't no, I'm right.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
So I went into that and especially in trying to
plan my own wedding, looking for a planner of color.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
It was not something that I saw very often.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
After that, I got into corporate pla because I felt
like the event planning stage was becoming very oversaggerated. And
what corporate planning looks like is being able to manage large.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Corporate entities, their holiday parties, their gallas, their fundraisers, and
with that I ended up creating my own which is
where Juneteenth NYC came in.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Now, Juneteenth became a national holiday in twenty twenty one,
but we have been doing June team since two thousand
and nine, So I always say, long before it became
a popular thing to do, we were here and we
were orchestrating this event. And with that came where my
confidence lied, right because with that, I always wanted to

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be in the back. That's as an event planner, that's
what you are. You you are the person that plays
the back. You are to be you know, to be
there but not seeing you to be moving and shaking
and making things happen and adjusting things and perfecting things
and making sure that no one is the wiser of
any issues that might be happening behind the scenes.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
So I was used to that. I was used to
playing in that space.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
And so when I did, I want to say, maybe
the fourth or fifth Juneteenth event, and I partnered with
a council member and he connected one of his staff
members to the event. They didn't come to any meetings,
and the day of the event, he went on stage

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and he gave her an award in front of me.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
And thanked her for all of her hard work and
all of the tireless effort.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
That she put into putt in this event together. And
I was like, oh, no, he did. But guess what
I did it to myself because I did not want
to be on front street.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
I did not want to take the stage.

Speaker 4 (07:58):
And that's where for me, I said, from now on,
I'm going to get on stage, whether I like it
or not, I'm going to get on stage, and I'm
going to even if it's just to say my name
and to say follow me.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
I don't know what you following, but follow me anyway.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
So it became me standing on what it was that
I knew that I worked.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
So hard to create and to build.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
And so I want to just preface that to give
you a little bit of background. And ever since then,
I've been stepping on stage, going at it scared, very scared.
And we got to close the New York Nasdaq, where
I had to make a speech in front of millions

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of people, corporate entities, five fortune, five hundred companies, and
I got to see my name on lights in the
middle of Times Square and not like a fake pseudo, you.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Know, like my real picture up there I got to do.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
I got to go on Good Morning America and talk
about the work that I'm doing and see my name
in lights, and that was that was immaculate. Like those
things were things that I'm like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
I don't believe this is happening. And my husband is
standing here right next.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
To me, and he's like taking pictures and videos. And
every year we go through and we review that because
we have to remember where we came from. And I
always call it my fifteen seconds of fame. I'm like,
June is my fifteen seconds of fame because nobody knows
me anytime outside of June.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
When we get to June, everybody's like a thing is
the june' teenh wait?

Speaker 4 (09:45):
And when June teenth became a national holiday because I
had put so much effort into it previous before it
became a national holiday, everyone swore up and down it
was me that made June teenth a national holiday.

Speaker 3 (09:59):
There was like a thing did it. I'd be like
I did? What if? Like you made it a national holiday?
I feel like gril.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
It was one hundred of us that I've been working
on this for years. I am only a phase, but
it made me feel good to hear that people thought
that the work that I did, they got to see me,
they got to see my face. And this is where
I implore you as far as being able to be
confident in the work that you're doing. You're putting that

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you're putting the work in each and every day, and
it is not until you are doing more things to
put yourself on front street.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
I know when I was doing the the these sessions, these.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
Going to a lot of these sessions, I would see
everybody in all of these newspaper articles and how they
were getting on magazines and how they would get on
all of these political these these oh my gosh news things,
and I would be like, how do I do that?
And I had to really sit with myself and I
had to think, what is it that I'm good at

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and what is it that what's the story.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
That I have to share? And that's how I.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
Was able to get on onto these these different media outlets.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
So I am going to share my screen, but I
like to be.

Speaker 4 (11:18):
Engaged, so I don't want to talk at you.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I do want to hear from you as well. I
know this is a podcast, but so.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Definitely put in a chat if there have been times
in your life where you feel like you have been
challenged with being confident, and what were those moments in
your life? What were the moments where you were most
challenged with your confidence? And that could be you know,

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just and not just about your business. I want you
to also think about other parts of your life as well.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
If you have children.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
I know the first time I took my son home,
but the very first time I was challenged with my confidence.
I have three brothers that I'm the oldest, and I
always been.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Like, those are my kids.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
I raised them, I did everything, I'll go to school,
I'm you know, I did everything for them. But when
I came home with my own child, my confidence went
out the door. I feed them, feed them, change them, sleep,
That's all. And I'm like, it's that simple. And I'm like,

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that's all that that's all I was told. But it
wasn't that simple. What about when they're not sleeping or
what about when they're not eating?

Speaker 3 (12:33):
So just think about.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Those points of your life and again, like I said,
maybe the first time you went to college, the first
time you went to high school, the first time you
started elementary school, like any first or usually those times
where our confidence is at its lowest, So think about
what those times are and please share.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
I definitely would love to hear all right, so let
me share my screen.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
So the importance of confidence in your business, So, like
I shared, confidence is a very big thing, especially when
you are entrepreneur, because you can't lead your team, you
can't lead your your customers if you don't have confidence. Right,

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imagine you being even planned to be like I think
I can make your wedding go off without a.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Hitch, but like you think, sis, are you sure?

Speaker 4 (13:37):
We want to know without a shadow of a doubt
that you are able to take on this task that
people consider to be the most prized possession day of
their life. How are you transforming that to be? How
are you standing in your power? How are you being
confident in that? And so I am going to go

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through a couple of slides and just talk about what
exactly confidence is and all this stuff.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
So confidence is believing.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
In your abilities and decisions even in the face of uncertainty.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
And what does that look like? You do not know
what's going to happen on any event.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Day, you have an idea in your mind that it
is going to go like this, you're going to do
a full run of show, and you're gonna like, the
day is going to go this way. But then the
day comes and somebody is late, or there was a
water main break, or some.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
Glasses broke, or the caterer.

Speaker 4 (14:40):
Got into a car accident, or the DJ's equipment is
not starting. Like, there are so many things in the
gamut of planning the event planning world that you have
to stand in the face of uncertainty and say that
I am going to.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Make sure that this happens without a hitch. So that
is what confidence is.

Speaker 4 (15:03):
And you all embody it in some form of fashion
and you have in some way, but it's just thinking
about it in what that looks like in a daja
yay and a practical outlook, discovering your brand arch type
to align your identity with your audience and what does
that mean a lot of people will say at the

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very beginning, who's your customer, like, oh, anybody who wants
to get married, and it's like, no, that's not your customer.
You need to have a specific and I call it
a prototype, the type of person that you'd like to
work with. Because when I had a type, people come
in and interview with me. Most times I would say,

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we're not a good match because that's not the type
of person that I wanted to work with.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
I was not looking to work with anybody's brisila.

Speaker 4 (15:54):
If I got a hit that you wore a brizila
as a planner, I was like, I do have a
friend who likes a type individuals. I'm gonna connect you
with her. That me but that's me knowing who who
I like to engage with.

Speaker 3 (16:12):
That's me knowing my customer base.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
And you have to have an idea of what that
is so that you know how to manage those individuals
who you're working with.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
So that's a big.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
Part of knowing how to be confident in the business
of work that you're in. Define your customer avatars to
better understand your target audience. I usually have about three
or four avatars for my business people who are I'm
looking to attract for my Juneteenth event. My different avatars.
I have my sponsor avatars, I have my vendor avatars.

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I have people who are my volunteers, people who are
coming to volunteer at my event every year. And then
I have my attendees, the people who come to the
meant to actually be participants at the event. So think
about who are your avatars at the event. While your
customer is your bride and groom for your event, you

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also have others who are in the space that might
be harming.

Speaker 3 (17:15):
You might have the sister cousin brother.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Who is coming to this event and they're thinking about
proposing for Valentine's Day, and now you might be that
person that they're like, oh, that might be the person
maybe I should use them because they did such a
wonderful job at this wedding. So, especially when you're doing
different events, put yourself in understanding that who your current

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customer is is not your only customer in this space,
and to think about some of those others. You want
to also think about your partners and making your event happen,
like your photographers and your caterers and your DJs. Those
are also those can also be your avatars because those

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are people who are going to real for a business
to you. So why it matters in business to build
trust with clients, partners, and your team.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
It matters dramatically.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
As I've shared, because if they don't have confidence that
you are going to go into a space and do
a job well, then they're not going to suggest you.
I have a DJ who's been with me since the
very beginning. He has sometimes done our Juneteenth event for
us for free because we didn't have the funds and

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he was willing to do so because he trusts me,
he trusts my relationship, and outside of my relationship with juneteen,
I also refer him to other business. So there's been
a partnership there. There are spaces where we have grown.
So thinking about who in your sphere are.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
Your partners and making sure that you.

Speaker 4 (18:53):
Are able to have them understand that no they that
person is the person that you need to hire.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
He goes and does weddings all the time, and.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
He will as soon as he gets a booked for
a wedding, he'll refer me to them because he's like,
I know your work, and I know what I have
to deal with and how you are with making sure
things happen. I don't know what they're gonna who they're
gonna hire to do their wedding, but I'd rather work
with you.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
That's the type of relationship that you want to build.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
That's the type of confidence that you want people to
have in you that there's going to be a consistency
in working with you, encourage bold decision making and calculated risk.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Being an event planner is all of that, right.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
We have to figure out where the risks are or
where their potential risks are going to be, especially when
we don't have control.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
When our bride or groom comes to us and they say, you.

Speaker 4 (19:52):
Know what, I don't want to use your DJ, I
have my own, it's always the okay, so does your
does your do they have insurance?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Do they you know? Play edited music? Do they you know?
Do they all of these questions?

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Then they start looking at you like, well, why are
you asking me so many questions? It's like, because the
risks right now will hi because I'm not familiar, I'm
not confident in them, So how can how can you
then give this to me to be confident and walk
into your event knowing that nothing is going to happen,
set the tone for leadership and inspire others as you

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go into any space.

Speaker 3 (20:36):
If you are walking in.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
There in your meek and mild mannered, people are not
going to see see you.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
They won't see you.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
They're not forget the comfort, they won't see you period,
they won't respect you.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
They won't give you the authority that you deserve and.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
That you need in order to make the event happen
the way that it needs to happen. So you need
to go in there. I go into a space immediately,
and I try to go early so that I can
can survey what's going on, so that I can make
assessments about things, and so that I can be the
one to point out certain things ahead of time.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
That is giving me the command in the room.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
That's letting them know that, oh, Okay, you have a
keen eye, you're confident, you really know what you're talking about.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
This is not your first rodeo show.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
This is what people are looking for when they are
looking to work with you. So confidence is the foundation
of influence and success in every business venture.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
So it is it is about.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
How you are influencing others that are around you. What
are things that you can do to do that. For me,
it's wearing red. I know red is a power color.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
That is my color, that is my signature trade. And
funny enough.

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Janelle that was hers as well. She would always wear
something red. And so if that was something that roped
off of me because I was like, I love that
color too, but I wasn't embolden to use it.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Now I'm embolden to use it.

Speaker 4 (22:06):
So every time I am going out to speak, I
know that that is my thing, and I know that.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
When I go to a networking event that that's my thing.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
So that people whenever I meet someone and I'm following up,
I can always say, oh, I was the girl I
was wearing red and I gave you the red business cards,
or I gave you you know, I had the red
ear rings on, or I had the red hat or
the red coat like although all of those anything that
can make you stand out so that you are now memorable,

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that creates more confidence.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
In any space that you step into.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
All right, So how to build confidence in business?

Speaker 3 (22:44):
Knowledge is power.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Stay informed about your industry and mark your trends.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
And I know Irene has.

Speaker 4 (22:49):
Been doing a lot of telling you about this, making
sure that you are you know what's happening or what's
going to happen. And for a long time for myself,
I was like, uh huh, I hate having to read
all these magazines and have to find out what's going
on and guess what. Now there is chat GBT. I

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call it my best friend. If you do not know
my best friend. I employ you to get to know
and to become best friends with.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
Chat GBT too, because all you need to do.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Is put in in chat GBT because it searches the
world wide web now and you're asking questions. Last night,
I was having a meeting with one of my friends
and we were talking about the trends in the market,
and she was like, yeah, a lot of banks are
going to start closing down. And I asked her what banks.
She was like, girl, put that in chat GBT and

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find out and I sure did. I put in chat GBT.
I said, what banks are in are being considered to
be closed.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Down in the year twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
These are the banks that I, you know, I work in.
And it gave me an analysis. Bank of America is
one of them. It was like, Bank of America is
has great outlines or forecast for the next couple of years,
but they do have a high turnover area when it
comes to to to certain inventories that they that they have.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
So guess what this No longer do I have to
go and pay.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
To buy all of these magazines and stuff like that
that are that are out I can use my best
friend to ask some questions and find out and get
some research on what's happening in my industry.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Invest in continuous learning and skill development.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
A lot of people are like, oh, do I really
have to, And it's like, yes, you have to. The
whole reason if you look at your we're at the
end of the year. We were starting at the brand
new year, right, so I arrest time is coming up,
and if you go through your allowable deductions.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Why do you think learning skill development is part of that?
Because it's something that's expected for.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
Any business owner that you do that you were going
to have opportunities where you're going to learn and develop
your skills.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
That is going to help you to be confident.

Speaker 4 (25:13):
It's going to help you to go on stage and
just step in front of your customers and say, I
know that this is going to happen.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
Soon, so you know, we need to prepare for that.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
When I was doing weddings, one of the things that
I always liked to share with my brides was I
need you to have a backup bridesmaid.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
And they would always be like.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Why, my friends have been friends with me for twenty
years and we grew up and with this and we that,
and I said, life happens. And I said, and then
I would go and I would send them an email
that said, statistically, x amount of brides have to have.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Bridesmaids have these issues.

Speaker 4 (25:52):
And I would list all of the issues, a death
of pregnancy, their own engagement, you.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
Know, any of those things. Life happens.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
So how can you say that in the eight or
ten or twelve month timeframe that life is not going
to happen to your six or ten or twelve.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
The more people you have, the more opportunities for it
to happen to somebody. So that made me again.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
It made me a very confident because now when I
said that, and then when it started to happen, now
they lean.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
Into me more. They was like, what else do I
need to be for? What else do you need? You know?
What else? What else is going to happen that I
need to be ready for.

Speaker 4 (26:36):
So when you are doing stuff like that and you're
preparing them from the very beginning on what to expect
in their process because they've never gone through it before,
and you have, you have helped somebody else through this
process multiple times. That shows you and builds your confidence.
Celebrate small wins. Recognize achievements no matter how small this is.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
I don't know. I can't explain how important this is.
And how you go about doing that is by journaling.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
You have to journal every day because you cannot see
how far you've come if you don't see how far
you've come from.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
And being able to see the places and.

Speaker 4 (27:16):
Where you have the beginning of the year last year,
we forget, we look. I forget what happened last week,
let alone what happened last year. So being able to
write it down and to have it in front of you,
to be able to reflect and then review it quarterly,
go back and say, hey, so what did I do

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last quarter? What did I change last quarter? Was I
consistent with that change? Did I continue to do it?

Speaker 3 (27:43):
What did I You know?

Speaker 4 (27:44):
What do I need to do differently? What numbers were,
what was effective, what wasn't effective?

Speaker 3 (27:49):
That is what is going to help you. So celebrate
your small wins.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
And my husband is always like, oh my gosh, why
do you have to put everything on social media?

Speaker 3 (27:57):
And I'm like, because.

Speaker 4 (27:58):
That's my way of remembering.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
He doesn't like to write, he hates it.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
So I said, Babe, why don't you just take a
picture and posting on social media. And he started to
do that and guess what, now it automatically sends him
a review.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
This is what you did. These are the top people
who you posted the most.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
These are the you know, the the success stories that
you had, These are the challenges that you had.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
It doesn't for you.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
Right, So create those spaces, those small winds, and its
small winds could be I just closed the deal with
a new customer. A small wind could be I just created. Look,
I try to get through my emails because I get
thousands of emails, and I try to go through once

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a quarter, and I try.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
To delete as many emails.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
And categorize and organize things in different places. Like that's
my small win, y'all, because I'm like, I need something
to be like, oh, I accomplish something.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Even writing a to.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Do list every day and saying that I got through
all of the four or five things on my to
do list, that's a small way. Something that's attainable, something
that's able, something that you're able to do build momentum
by stacking small victories.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
I have this, it says my weekly plan.

Speaker 4 (29:21):
I don't know if y'all can see that I have
it has deil up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. If
at the beginning of the morning, I write down my
list of things that I can do, and then I'm
able to market off and then this is a sticky note,
and I take the sticky note and I put it
on my board.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
So at the end of the month, I look at
it and I'm like, I got some work done, y'all.
I'm like. My husband is always like, I don't know
what you be doing. I just know you're busy. You
always in a meeting.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
And now I can sit there and say, look, this
is what I'm doing. This is what I did, this
is what I completed. So stack them up so that
you can see them and so that you can feel
proud of the work that you've accomplished.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
In your past. So practice positive talk.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
What I implore you to do after today is write down
all of the things that you feel like you can't do.
What can't you do? I can't this what would be
a good one? I can't eat healthy for a week,
I can't save money. Write down all of the things

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that you feel like you can't do, and then I
want you to change that can't into I am able
to I'm able to eat healthy for a week. I'm
able to save money on a weekly basis so that
I can go to a restaurant once a month. When

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you change that, your mind takes the word can't and
cannot and it triggers something negative in your spirit to stop.

Speaker 3 (31:04):
You from moving forward.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
So that's why you have to put into space, into airspace,
not just writing, but also saying the vibration of your voice.
And they say, I don't know who says, but when
you're pregnant, they always say, talk to your baby because
the vibration of your voice they hear and they experience,
and it goes into their soul when they are born.

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I was just watching something the other day about a
doctor that when he births a baby, he does a
recording of him telling the parents and proclaiming into that
child's positiveness positive attributes of how they're going to be
wonderful and how they're going to make a difference in
this world, so that they can reveal with their child.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
When they get older.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
When you say, think about the Bible, it talked about
all of the things that.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
God did by just speaking it. He spoke it and
it came to pass.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
So why do you If we are to be like him,
then why would we not do the same?

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Why would we not speak it also?

Speaker 4 (32:14):
So that can come to pass speaking and putting it
into existence. And I tell you no, lie. For the
last couple of years, I will go to bed and
I will be praying in my head and things, and
I would be frustrated day after day. The moment I
started praying out loud and saying things, I would get

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a phone called it.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Every next day.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
I was like I need I was like, Lord Jesus,
I need a lawyer that helped me work through putting
these documents together.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Somebody review them. Lord, you not, I don't have any.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
Money to do it. Lord, could you send somebody my way?
I would get a phone call. Somebody would be like, hey,
I'm so and so with this law company, and a
friend of a friend gave me a contact information.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
I saw that you're doing this event. Do you need
any volunteers? I was like, what was you in by
prayer last night? You know you know that.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
I'm like, yeah, I do, and I'm not gonna say
no because you know what God sent you. Even last night,
somebody came to me with an opportunity. I'm like, Lord,
this is a new year. January is gonna be tough.
I don't know how to how to maneuver this financially.
All of these challenges are coming out with with our family. God,

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I need a breakthrough. And literally somebody called me. She
called me out the blue, and I was like, I
wasn't gonna answer the phone call. I was like, Oh,
it's Sunday. I'm not going to answer this call. I
know she's gonna have me on hare sht me talking
all night. She gave me an opportunity of a lifetime
last night, and I was just like and I wasn't
going to answer the phone. And this was something that

(33:56):
I asked for. So use your voice as I'm losing mind.
How to build confidence, step out of your comfort zone,
take on small challenges to gradually build resilience. One of
the things that I did, I knew that well, I

(34:16):
didn't know. I didn't know that twenty twenty one that
Junie Tent was gonna become a national holiday. And as
soon as it did, because I've been doing juneteen since
two thousand and nine, people started calling me and they
were like, oh, we want to do interviews with you
to talk about what you've done for June teens. And
I was like interview what huh? What you mean like
on the news, like with is a pre recorder And

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it was like, no, it's gonna be live. I'm like live,
so like I can't make a mistake.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
How does that work? And I'm like, oh my god,
what did I good say?

Speaker 4 (34:48):
But you know what what did I start doing? I
started doing lives. I started having conversations with my husband.
I started speaking to my my advisory board, and I
started putting in at the top of our meetings every day.
It was something that I did so every time I spoke.
So now when I got on stage and it was like, well,

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introduce yourself, I was like, Hi, my name was Ann Rodney,
see you on the founder of junetieth NYC.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Blah blah blah blah. And I'm sitting it looking at myself.
I'm okay, you gotta get ahead. I'm seeing it clapping myself.

Speaker 6 (35:22):
Oh, because I said it so many times that my
spirit had it on automatic.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
So put yourself in spaces, take yourself out of comfort zones.
And that might look like at this event that you
guys are going to raise your hand and ask a question.
Be known in all of the spaces that you're in.
It might be a zoom event that you might attend.

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Raise your hand every time. Put in your mind that
I need to find a question every single time to
raise my hand, and that is just your small win
so that you are able and every time you raise
your hand, announce who you are, my name is, my
organization is. It's something that you have done very well.

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I've done over fifty weddings of excellence without a hitch
in the last three years.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
That's part of your confidence, y'all. Like that's part of
you being in your comfort zone. That's part of you
being in your zone periods. Not just your comfort zone,
but being in your zone and what that looks like.
It's just as fast. Each success re enforces your confidence
for the next.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Every time you have something that is happening again, if
you're highlighting it, it is going to give you more
what do they call it? Give you another battery in
your pack for you to continue to keep holding on
and keep pushing for it. Embrace a growth mindset. If
you challenge this opportunities to learn and grow. I can't
tell you every single challenge in my life has been

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a set up or propelson for something better if you
think about it. And my pastor talked about this. He
was like, I don't know how many of you are gardeners,
but if you have a flower out in front of
your garden, they say to cut off the top because

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you're putting it in crisis mode. And when you put
it in crisis mode, then it starts to fill out
before it grows up. So the same thing God prunes us.
The whole purpose of us being impruned is to take
away the things that don't need to be there so
that you can shoot up and that you can sprout
into the thing that He has destined you to do.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
But if you.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Never get pruned, you continue to fill out in the
wrong on things, You continue to operate in spaces that
you don't belong in. But it's the proning that refines
what that is. And that's what challenges really are. You
frame setbacks at stepping stones to success, so use those
as propelsions for your future. Communicate with clarity, Be direct, concise,

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enthusiastic in your message, because when you again, when you
step us out, if you like, hey, my name's Tanya,
my name is Tammy.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
I'm not gonna be excited.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
I'm gonna be like, okay with this person, gotta tell
me today, like like it's.

Speaker 3 (38:35):
This gonna be worth my time. No, But if I'm
coming in, look.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
I'm sick, y'all, I'm still energy, I'm still here, I'm
still present with y'all. I still want to feel your
energy and your vibe. I'm gonna give you the energy
that I want to receive. And that's the same thing
that you have to do with your team, with your staff,
and especially.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
As wedding planners, because you have.

Speaker 4 (38:56):
I had a bride who there was a flood right
before her wedding, right before she was about to walk
down the aisle, and I had to go and give
them a whole pep talk.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
All right, so this is what we're gonna do. This
is how it's gonna happen. This is what you're gonna
you know.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
But if I was like, yeah, so, I'm not exactly
sure how that's gonna look.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
But guess what you have to be that confidence for
whoever you.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
Are around, whether it's your staff, whether it's your client,
whether it's your partners, confidence in your communication builds credibility
to continue to be confident what you do.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Lead by example, be direct, be concise.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Again, I can't say to be direct, be concise, and
be enthusiastic in your message. So five practical base and
I'm about to close out with y'all. So I can
answer any questions. Dress in a way that makes you
feel professionally empowered. Like I say, red is my color.
Find what your color is and standing and use it.

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It might not be a color, it might be an
ite or more thing. I know some people are are
great with elephants or peacocks, or birds or red robins
or whatever it is that is your thing.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
It might be you know, at one point it was
a book that I had to always have. I would
always have my special book.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
Whatever it is that gives you that level of confidence
used in prepare thoroughly for meetings or presentations, and that
a lot of that just means rehearsing it, preparing, putting
yourself in spaces where you were saying it before. I
go and do presentations. I go and do lives like
that's my practice space. I go online and I do
a live every day for whatever topic I'm going to

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be talking about in my presentations that are coming up,
so that it now is innate in my mind and
it continues to submit. And then I also get to
hear people's opinions. Somebody gets to refine it based on
what I've heard. Practice speaking up in small group settings
like I shared, raise your hand, asks a question.

Speaker 3 (40:53):
Always have a question.

Speaker 4 (40:54):
I know when we were working for somebody and go
for an interview, they always say, always have a question.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
And this is the same thing. Always have a question.

Speaker 4 (41:03):
Surround yourself with supportive, positive people. Use your team. This
right here, this community that you have that you're building
is your team. Irene and I we were each other's team.
That's how we got together. Initially we were reaching out
to each other. We were talking about our roes, we

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were talking about our glows.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
You want somebody to be in that.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Space with you without looking down on you, because they're
going through it too. Take a moment each day to
reflect on your progress and growth. It could be five minutes, y'all,
just put five minutes. Put it on your calendar. I
have it on my calendar every night. I have a
take my shower journal for five minutes on my calendar

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every night. It is a reminder that pops up on
my phone, on my computer and on everything else.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
So guess what.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
My kids look at and be like, oh my, it's
time for you to go journal. So accountability is creating
all levels of accountability that you don't even know and
are not even aware of.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
When you have things like that in place. And I
think that's last. Yep, that's it. But that was all.
I encourage you.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
Please follow me coaching Thine and Rodney on Instagram. I
try to do a live every day just talking about
business in general and just some of the challenges and
the things that we have to work through as business owners.
And that goes to the gamut from confidence to finding

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funding for your business.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
And I'm complete, Thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (42:51):
That was so good.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
That was so good.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
And I know people are sharing in the chat, you know,
using their voices where they struggle. When you asked earlier
to share where we are not confident, I started typing,
then erased it here.

Speaker 3 (43:06):
It is using my voice is.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
Where I struggle the most, was being confident. I don't
speak up to ask the questions, make the remark, or
just share.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Myself, So you don't speak up in those spaces.

Speaker 4 (43:21):
So Tammy, And I don't know if you want to
continue with the recording.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
I could always do that.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
I could always do that, all right.

Speaker 4 (43:31):
I just wanted to make sure, So, Tammy, I don't
know if you're able to come on.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Oh lord there. And I would have never known that
from you. I would have never.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Known that from you, though, because thus because you're comfortable,
and you're like if you're comfortable in the setting, or
you're trusting because you know these people in the setting,
it doesn't come off that way.

Speaker 3 (43:54):
But like, I would have never thought that of you.

Speaker 7 (43:57):
I hear that a lot, but no, I find myself
when you were asking about situations where you are less confident.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
When I go, like to a networking.

Speaker 7 (44:08):
With people who have been in it, maybe not as
long as I have, or even the time doesn't really matter.
Always seem to feel like they're more how do I
put it, more knowledgeable, But they're in a different space
than me, So I don't answer questions usually I don't,

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you know, use my voice.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
But it's changing.

Speaker 7 (44:33):
So I'm glad I read that you were noticing that
I do it more, but who it's a struggle.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
I would employ you to journal that we're in your
your young life.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
We're in your youth.

Speaker 4 (44:52):
Did you experience that where that was, whether it was
someone telling you not to raise your hand, where you
you might have being challenged in some way, because I
know for me that was a challenge I was.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
I want to say it was fifth grade and I
was always raised in my hand. I was always answering questions.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
And I had a couple of girls meet me in
the bathroom. It was like, you gonna stop raising your
hand and being the goodie two shoes in class and
so and I didn't, And I stopped. I stopped raising
my hand, and I stopped being present in spaces, and
then I would just go and speak to the teacher
after class and just have a one on one conversation.

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So I was able to identify that and since have
been able to maneuver around it because I recognized where
it came from.

Speaker 3 (45:41):
It was from others fear.

Speaker 4 (45:45):
It was because of their fear of feeling inadequate, that
they wanted to make me feel inadequate. So I implore
you to think about where in your past that may
sit for you, where it might have.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Been in your home.

Speaker 4 (46:01):
And I don't know where you lie as far as
your siblings. What where was maybe something a parent or
being sad to you?

Speaker 3 (46:11):
You know that whole be seen and not heard IM scenario?
Where where does that lie for you?

Speaker 4 (46:19):
And put that in your I am I am not
going to allow my paths to determine me anymore.

Speaker 7 (46:27):
Yeah, as I think about it, I can't think of
any one situation or over the course where I would
have picked it up as a child. I'm number five
of seven, grew up in a house with.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Both our parents.

Speaker 7 (46:43):
We were of the your to be what's seen and
not heard? Can you stay out of grown folks business?
But I mean that was across the board for all
of us.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
So I don't know.

Speaker 7 (46:57):
I have to do some soul searching and see if
pops up.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
But you have to understand that that a lot of
a lot of who we are now comes from, like
I said earlier, in your environment, your upbringing, teaching and
that scene and not heard or if you you know,
if you were a child that had an opinion you
were too sassy, you being too grown. And half the
time I think about it too, because we allow our

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daughter to be with respect as respectful as possible, to
be able to speak her mind and and it's funny
because like my mom says, oh, she's just like you,
and I was like, yeah, it's an extent because I
was scared of you. Because but then when you really
listen to a child or a person in the family
who speaks their mind, they're telling the truth and nobody

(47:43):
wants to hear it. That's the problem. That's what they
tell you to be quiet. But then, yeah, certain generations
of us, you know, that's why I tell, like, all
those gen Zers and Millennials and what are we up
to now? Beta Alpha, I don't even know they they
they are have been. They were born into a world

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where you it's okay to speak your mind. So it's
almost like individuality, speak up, speak your mind, don't I mean,
you know, we have the whole med too movement from
speaking up. And you have women who came forth and
it's been fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty fifty years ago that
they were harassed or whatever in the workplace and they
just were told, you know, buckle up.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
You know you're a girl, you know, a woman, be quiet.
And so I love that Lucky you hear right right.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yeah right? You lucky you got a job, you luck
you hear and so there you go. And then you know,
I think it's you don't want to come up across
because I know I was I was raised Athenian. I
know many of our us was to be humble and
not to you know, to be kind and humble. And
sometimes I'm like, Humble's cute, but humble ain't gonna get
you paid, right, Like, and if something is wrong, it's wrong, right.

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And how I look at it is your clients are
paying you to speak up point met you are there
where you are their.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
Mouthpiece, Yeah, to be their advocate.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
M Yeah, you have to, especially if you are planning
the tents. Like if you're a planner of a particular
age and you tend to plan weddings for younger couples
or couples who are you know, you know, in their
thirties or forties, sometimes they need that, Like I don't
know that you are, but I've had plenty of couples
where I was like a mother figure to them, an
auntie figure to them, a big sister figure to them

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because they didn't have anybody, you know, mom passed away
or don't have a relationship with their mom, or whatever
the case may be. You know, and so we're there.
And so I always say, though too, like let your
experiences tammy, your age, your experience, all that stuff, that's
all superpower, every one of it. And at your age,
Ya'll tell everybody what they need to hear. I can't

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wait to like I'm listens, particularly whatever particular. I feel
like with every decade you could speak your mind a
little bit more and you get away with it, like
with everything. My grandma's eighty five, and she'd be saying
the craziest things, and I'm just like, I love it, like.

Speaker 3 (49:58):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (49:58):
She's like she's happy to wait and take care of
himself for time, to be careful, because sometimes when you
take care of yourself too much, that's also bad. I
was like, what he's saying, you.

Speaker 3 (50:07):
Know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
You know or should be asking me bedroom questions back
before I had children, because you thought there was something
wrong with us because she's old. You know, when you
get to a particular age you can speak your mind,
but you know when you have something to say and
that and also I tell you all this all the time.
Close mouths don't get fed, and how you fill up
them calendars is who knows you is who knows you?

Speaker 3 (50:31):
And who knows Tammy's name?

Speaker 2 (50:33):
And and Tanya's and Monikas and Christina. Everybody's on here,
Daisy and Vista, everybody else is catching the replay like
who knows you?

Speaker 3 (50:41):
Point blank? What's anyone else?

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Anybody else wants to share?

Speaker 4 (50:47):
I do?

Speaker 3 (50:49):
So confidence does it.

Speaker 8 (50:52):
I'm one of the ones that used to be the
sassine talking too much.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
You're out of place wherever the case is growing up right,
So confidence is not.

Speaker 8 (50:59):
It's like, for example, for what I was writing, like
Tammy in the chat and I.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Was like, okay, let me stop. I can pay attention
to what she has on the screen.

Speaker 8 (51:07):
But it's like, you plan with the couple all this time,
and the only time I start to feel a little
bit lacking in confidence is showing up on the day,
like I.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Know the plan and everything else.

Speaker 8 (51:20):
But now it's like, okay, I got to speak to
everybody and let them know what they're doing and things
of that sort. So when I'm walking towards it, it's
like I got to get this anxiety in me, But
then I say, you know, I got to fight through
it because today's the day the show must go on,
So and I walk into the place and I show
I exuberate this confidence, but inside I'm like my little

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girl in the corner.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
Like okay, okay, okay, okay, you do this, We're gonna
do this.

Speaker 8 (51:45):
And I literally have to be saying in my head,
we're doing this, We're doing it, you know, we're doing it.
But then I also am the person who, like tell
me such, I'm the total opposite. Someone asks the questions,
I'm trying to prevent myself from jumping to answer the
question and try to take a step back and be like, Okay,
let somebody else do it, because I am the one
that will raise my hand and ask a million questions

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and we'll try to answer everything like that.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
So on the.

Speaker 8 (52:09):
Flip side, it's like, how do you take that confident
and not be and make it not seem cocky, because
that's not my approach. It's to be cocky with the confident.

Speaker 3 (52:18):
But it's just that I.

Speaker 8 (52:19):
Saw the question that came up on my phone or
whatever the case is, and I have an answer. So
do I run and do it or do I just wait?
So I'm kind of like in the mix like that.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
It definitely depends on where what space you're in right.

Speaker 4 (52:34):
So if this is like a online forum or something
like that.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Run and tell it. Like every time, every time.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
Somebody raises the question, you need to be the first
one to or person or respond in spaces when you
are with others. Confidence is also about being able to
read the room discernment, like you know, are there people
in this space who are going to need? Who who
may need?

Speaker 3 (52:59):
And I always say, look, I'm that person too. Count
to five, I'd be like, okay, one, two, three, or.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
By all right, nobody asks all right, so I gotta
have a question. So I was thinking and and a
lot of times, you know, God gave you who you
are for a reason. He made you to be the
person that you are for a reason. Don't shine away
from that because by you being who you are, by

(53:31):
you asking that questions a lot of time, or by
you making that statement a lot of time, that allows
somebody else.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
To feel okay, it's somebody. You were the first one.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Somebody might not want to be the first one, but
you are a ka being the first one.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
So didn't be.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
The first one so that that next person now was like, okay,
well I'm not the first I can go and I
can ask one question or somebody can reface your question.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
I love when someone's.

Speaker 4 (53:54):
Able to be like, oh so you know, just like
you were saying atheneum, X, Y and Z. I'm like,
oh yeah, yeah, listen it okay, So you know what
can you say that's gonna you know, be in this
space that someone might be able to hinge on your
your question or your comment. Again, it's about how are you?
How are you being seen? And a lot of times

(54:14):
we're so focused on the We're either focused on perfection,
which there is no such thing. It's only progress. There's
no no one will ever be perfect. So we can
only progress in everything that we do. And the other
thing is people pleasing and that's another thing that we
can never always do. We can never please everyone. I know,

(54:38):
when I first started my business, I was like, oh,
like I was saying, I want to I want to
work with this person. I want to work with that person.
And then I started working with them, I was like
this is an absolute, like.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
I want to work with this person ever again. So
you have to.

Speaker 4 (54:55):
Think about what those you know, put yourself in those faces,
and really, you know, by by being and people are
gonna attract to you and people are gonna detract from you,
and those people who attract to you are the people
who you want in your circle. Like I said, that's
where you create your circle. That's the people that you
want to be in the same circle with you. People
who are equally minded, just like the people that's gonna

(55:17):
be raising their hair every couple of seconds that y'all
talking over each other to ask a question and answer
question because you know what, when you have a question,
guess what, they're gonna be the ones eager to answer
it for you.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (55:31):
Stay encouraged everyone to definitely encourage you all.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
This is just a stepping stone in your journey.

Speaker 4 (55:39):
And again, confidence is about practicing, practicing whatever it is
that you look.

Speaker 3 (55:44):
Into to achieve tying you continue and everyone else continue
to be the light. Continue to be that sun.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
And whatever it is that you are destined like the
light behind you right now that is going as a halo.
Be that. Let that be the shine for you and Tammy.
Sometimes we can't think of things in our head, but
it's kinesthetically in our body.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
So write it out. Just write it on the top
of your Any question.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
That you are not able to answer about why you're
doing something, write on the top of that paper, whatever
it is, and just let your hand write and whatever
comes to mind is what will end up coming out.
There's so many times that I've just written and I
did not. I was like, oh, where did that come from?
Like if I was talking it out, it wouldn't it

(56:35):
came out. But it's so deeply innated in your body
that you are not even aware of it, and you
have to.

Speaker 3 (56:42):
Sometimes can aesthetically let it go.

Speaker 4 (56:45):
So I encourage you, in all of you who might
have any challenge of things that you are working through,
to do that as well.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
And I'm complete again. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Ooh can we just pause and take Athenia for that
powerful word. Business confidence isn't something you just wake up with.
It's something you build through action, through mindset work, and
through believing that what God plays inside of you is
more than enough. I hope today's session reminded you to
stand a little taller, charge what you're worth, and lead

(57:17):
with bonus in every room.

Speaker 3 (57:19):
You walk into.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
And if this episode spoke to you, then you absolutely
need to be in the room for becoming.

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Speaker 3 (57:54):
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Speaker 2 (57:57):
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love hearing your takeaways and sharing this journey with you.
And until next time, plan our friends, keep planning with intentions,
showing up and confidence and becoming.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
The business that you have dreamt of. Love you all,
see you soon.

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