When you are striving to develop your corporate career, it is easy to be so focused on work that self-care gets overlooked.  In addition, it can lead us to neglect important people around us, and we can find ourselves successful, yet disconnected from those we love and care for.   Living a “work first” attitude can put a halt to our personal and even professional growth. It can also hamper our financial stability and affect the relationships we have in our lives.

In this episode, guest Stephanie Taylor shares how she realized that the important moments in life were passing her by and that she was capable of much more in all aspects of life, whether financial success personal relationships or self-care.  She was able to achieve her dreams by transitioning from corporate employee to owning her own real estate business.

Listen in to learn how you can take hold of your life and pursue a more fruitful path to success.

Thriving Points:

• Your relationship with a person is your thoughts about them. It’s not what that person does. – Stephanie Taylor
• I know there are so many things that we can complain about, but we also have so much privilege and so much opportunity, that it is really an incredible blessing. – Stephanie Taylor
• We can’t appreciate what we don’t know about. – Stephanie Taylor
• Your life increases in satisfaction the more you are able to make those tough decisions. – Stephanie Taylor

Get to Know the Guest:

Stephanie Taylor is a UK-based real estate investor, co-founder of award-winning real estate management and development company, HMO Heaven, and co-founder of Rent 2 Rent Success, which has inspired thousands of non-traditional investors to get started in real estate. Along with sister and business partner Nicky, they grew their real estate management business, secured contracts worth over £2m in under three years, and bought their own multi-million-pound portfolio of multifamily blocks and commercial property.

Connect with Stephanie:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Facebook

Other Resources Mentioned:

• HMO Heaven
• Rent 2 Rent Success
• Blow Up Your Life

About the Show:

Women Thriving in Business features candid unscripted conversations with entrepreneurs, business experts, authors, and academics aimed at contributing to business success. This weekly show provides interviews with business leaders who have built, grown, and are thriving in business. Nikki A. Rogers, host of the show, also discusses achievements, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring business owners to develop the mindset, strategies, and connections necessary to thrive in business. Whether you are just starting or you have been in business for decades, WTiB offers inspiration, strategies, and resources to help you THRIVE in business.

About the Host:

Nikki is a strategist and transformation coach who believes life is too short not to do what you love. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build sustainable companies and supports business leaders in developing the mindset, strategy, and connections to create thriving businesses and build legacy wealth.

Nikki is the CEO of The Bladen Group and an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Connect with Nikki:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Youtube

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Your life including your responsibilities and daily routine changes the moment you become a parent. It’s not an easy task to take care of a child, as it comes with sleepless nights and requires a significant amount of energy, emotional commitment, and a great deal of patience. The adjustment to parenthood can be challenging, especially during the first year.  During that time, many parents need support from their family, friends, and most importantly, their employers.

The transition to being a working parent is challenging to navigate, and it is so important to have support from your company or organization. Despite the well-known benefits associated with parental leave for both employees and employers, many organizations have not yet adopted parental leave policies. Parental leave contributes to the healthy development of children,  improves the health of mothers, and increases the economic security of families. . This benefit allows parents to return to their organization with their most productive selves, which in turn increases overall participation in the workforce.

In this episode, we are joined by Amy Beacom and Sue Campbell from the Center for Parental Leave Leadership (CPLL), the first consultancy in the United States that primarily focuses on parental leave. Dr. Amy Beacom is the Founder and CEO of the Center and is the United States’ premier expert on the personal and professional interplay around parental leave for employers and employees. Sue Campbell is the Communications Director for the Center and is a writer, author, and coach. Her work is often focused on issues important to parents.

Dr. Amy Beacom and Sue Campbell authored a book called The Parental Leave Playbook: Ten Touchpoints to Transition Smoothly, Strengthen your Family, and Continue Growing your Career that aims to “help parents take control of their leave and make the most of what’s considered a career time-out, but is actually a vital “time-in” for your life.”

Listen to our conversation as Amy and Sue share with us their practical tips and advice about creating the best possible parental leave experience within a broken system. Their guidance is based on Amy’s doctoral research and their collective work with Fortune 100 companies to improve parental leave policies and programs.

Listen to Episode 704 to learn more!

Other Resources Mentioned:

• The Parental Leave Transition Assessment
• The Parental Leave Playbook:10 Touchpoints to Transition Smoothly, Strengthen Your Family and Continue Building your Career 
• Learning in Action by David A. Garvin
• Steering by Starlight by Martha Beck

Thriving Points:

• The mission is to really make sure that everyone in this country, regardless of their role or their level of job has a paid and supported parental leave process. – Amy Beacom
• If we can nurture and support parents through this process, they just become these rock stars on the other side of it. If we can sell them on that message, train the managers on how to support the parents. This is just going to go so far into improving parental leave culture and the country as a whole – Sue Campbell
• I try to walk my talk. That means that whoever works with me has as much leave as they need. Can come when they’re able to come to work, then I’m supporting them more than they’re supporting me. – Amy Beacom

Get to Know the Guest:

Dr. Amy Beacom is the founder and CEO of the Center for Parental Leave Leadership, the first full-service consultancy in the US to focus exclusively on parental leave. She conceived of and began developing the field of parental leave coaching and consulting in 2006. Drawing on over 25 years in executive leadership development and coaching, Amy consults with Fortune 100 companies, international organizations, working parents, and more to transform the way our companies and our country engage with the parental leave transition. Amy is also the co-author of The Parental Leave Playbook: Ten Touchpoints to Transition Smoothly, Strengthen Your Family and Continue Building Your Career (Wiley, 2021).

Sue Campbell is a writer, author, and coach who has worked with the Center for Parental Leave Leadership since its early days, helping to communicate the transformative impact of its core mission. Her writing often focused on issues important to parents and has been published in many outlets, including Prevention, Good Housekeeping, Scary Mommy, and Mamalode.

Connect with Dr. Amy:

• Website
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Twitter

Connect with Sue:

• Website
• Instagram
• Facebook

About the Show:

Women Thriving in Business features candid unscripted conversations with entrepreneurs, business experts, authors, and academics aimed at contributing to business success. This weekly show provides interviews with business leaders who have built, grown, and are thriving in business. Nikki A. Rogers, host of the show, also discusses achievements, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring business owners to develop the mindset, strategies, and connections necessary to thrive in business. Whether you are just starting or you have been in business for decades, WTiB offers inspiration, strategies, and resources to help you THRIVE in business.

About the Host:

Nikki is a strategist and transformation coach who believes life is too short not to do what you love. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build sustainable companies and supports business leaders in developing the mindset, strategy, and connections to create thriving businesses and build legacy wealth.

Nikki is the CEO of The Bladen Group and an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Connect with Nikki:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Youtube

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Entrepreneurs embark on every business venture with the intention of eventually growing a healthy and sustainable business. But the million-dollar question is, how do you get there?

Managing your finances is one of the most important aspects of a business. Many business owners avoid their finances and don’t try to understand and manage the numbers. The management decisions you make regarding your business will determine its success or failure. Depending on those decisions, your business finances could either propel you forward or cause your business to collapse.

When you are financially savvy, you will have more control over your business. When you understand the meanings of various financial statements, including balance sheets and profit-and-loss statements, this will provide a crystal clear picture of the health of your finances, and give you the ability to make smarter decisions on growing your business. Having the right person to assist you with finances can help you overcome the challenges that you will inevitably face on your journey and realize the goals that you have set for the future of your business.

In this episode, we are joined by Kathy Svetina, Founder, and CEO of NewCastle Finance. She has 14 years of experience working in the finance industry. She was encouraged to start her own business after observing how small businesses handled their financial matters and how difficult it was for women-owned businesses to find the right financial advisor. Kathy helps women grow sustainable and profitable businesses by providing them with the same powerful financial insight that Fortune 500 companies use to their advantage.

Kathy shares with us the significance of establishing internal controls over our finances and how to know when to hire a fractional CFO. She also discusses advice for small business owners on how to generate a million dollars in revenue, as well as some lessons from Fortune 500 companies that female business owners can use in their own businesses.

Listen to Episode 703 to learn more!

Other Resources Mentioned:

• Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen by Donald Miller
• Value-Based Fees by Alan Weiss

Thriving Points:

• If you have a lot of growth that you want to go and have in your business,  you have to plan for that and you have to plan for it appropriately. Otherwise, the business can really suffer. – Kathy Svetina
• When you own your business, it’s not just the things that you’re good at. You also have to now start doing things that you’re not good at. – Kathy Svetina
• As I’m working with clients, I’m starting to understand more about the things that I love to do and things that I don’t want to do.  – Kathy Svetina
• What other people are doing in the business might not be appropriate for your specific business. – Kathy Svetina
• Whatever you do in the business, whether it be how you treat your customers, how you treat your employees, or how you manage people. Everything will eventually end up in your numbers. – Kathy Svetina
• You cannot have a fractional CFO, a good fractional CFO, in place if you do not have a bookkeeper and an accountant. – Kathy Svetina

Get to Know the Guest:

Kathy Svetina is the founder of NewCastle Finance, a company offering Fractional CFO services to women-owned small businesses. For nearly 14 years, she did senior-level financial planning and analysis for Fortune 500 companies. She saw firsthand how big companies use financial information to drive their companies forward.

She started NewCastle Finance because she wanted to offer that same powerful financial insight to women-owned businesses. Now, she helps business owners as a “Financial Puzzle Solver” to get clear on their numbers and their financial strategy so they feel confident they are making good decisions that will result in a thriving business.

Connect with Kathy:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Help! My Business is Growing Podcast

About the Show:

Women Thriving in Business features candid unscripted conversations with entrepreneurs, business experts, authors, and academics aimed at contributing to business success. This weekly show provides interviews with business leaders who have built, grown, and are thriving in business. Nikki A. Rogers, host of the show, also discusses achievements, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring business owners to develop the mindset, strategies, and connections necessary to thrive in business. Whether you are just starting or you have been in business for decades, WTiB offers inspiration, strategies, and resources to help you THRIVE in business.

About the Host:

Nikki is a strategist and transformation coach who believes life is too short not to do what you love. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build sustainable companies and supports business leaders in developing the mindset, strategy, and connections to create thriving businesses and build legacy wealth.

Nikki is the CEO of The Bladen Group and an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Connect with Nikki:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Youtube

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Are you tired of working for an organization whose purpose, mission, and vision don’t align with yours? Do you envision running a business that is different and guided by your core values and goals? If that is your dream,  then creating your own business and being your own boss might be the thing for you.

However, entrepreneurship isn’t always easy and fun. It does have its challenges along the way and you have to ask yourself, are you willing to navigate through those bumps on the road to have the dream lifestyle you’ve always wanted?

Self-employment is a huge undertaking and a lot of uncertainty surrounds it. For example; How do you consistently pay yourself?  How do you find opportunities that align with your skills? How do you market your product or service to an ever-changing marketplace?

In this episode, we are joined by, Maggie Karshner, a self-employment coach for small business owners. The driving force for Maggie to start her self-employment journey was a desire to help small business owners solve problems and to coach others on starting their entrepreneurial journey.

Maggie shares how she went from employed to self-employed and how she navigated through the ups and downs of her chosen career path. She also provides advice on how to start your own self-employment journey and practical tips for those already in business.

Listen to Episode 702 to learn more!

Other Resources Mentioned:

• Drive by Daniel Pink

Thriving Points:

• I do the stuff that my heart’s really involved in and it gets you interacting with different people, you start seeing connections, you build these relationships. A relationship is not transactional. -Maggie Karshner
• Test the advice against your own knowledge and experience, because what works for one person might not work for another. -Maggie Karshner
• One size doesn’t fit all. Because I think one of the things, if you have to, you do have to change, right? In some ways, you do have to try different things and, Be outside of your comfort zone and some air in some instances. But if it’s something that’s just so out of character, it’s not going to work because you’re not going to be able to sustain it. – Nikki Rogers
• That’s a great reminder. So if you think about a plow horse, he’s plowing a field and at the end of the day, now you have this freshly plowed fill and, there’s that sense of accomplishment. And if you’re not doing that, then you don’t have the ground to sow your seeds. -Nikki Rogers

Get to Know the Guest:

Maggie Karshner is a self-employment coach, having ten year’s experience encompassing managing a small business, supporting non-profits, corporate business consulting, and, of course, coaching wonderful solopreneurs. Have a BA in Geography from Syracuse University. And have been featured in The Seattle Times and King 5.

Connect with Maggie:

• Website
• LinkedIn

About the Show:

Women Thriving in Business features candid unscripted conversations with entrepreneurs, business experts, authors, and academics aimed at contributing to business success. This weekly show provides interviews with business leaders who have built, grown, and are thriving in business. Nikki A. Rogers, host of the show, also discusses achievements, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring business owners to develop the mindset, strategies, and connections necessary to thrive in business. Whether you are just starting or you have been in business for decades, WTiB offers inspiration, strategies, and resources to help you THRIVE in business.

About the Host:

Nikki is a strategist and transformation coach who believes life is too short not to do what you love. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build sustainable companies and supports business leaders in developing the mindset, strategy, and connections to create thriving businesses and build legacy wealth.

Nikki is the CEO of The Bladen Group and an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Connect with Nikki:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Youtube

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Did you know that humans now have a shorter attention span than goldfish? Unbelievable, right?  But according to research, our attention span has markedly decreased since the turn of the century. In 2000, it was 12 seconds. By 2015, it had shrunk to a mere 8.25 seconds.

The question now is: How does that information affect your approach to business strategy? 

When you are a company decision-maker who needs to use consumer data and insights, you’re not going to read a 200-plus page report.

Listen to my conversation with Camille Nicita, CEO of Gongos Inc., who shares how to take all that consumer knowledge and create customer-focused strategies that will give you a market advantage.

Listen to Episode 701 to learn more!

Other Resources Mentioned:

• Gongos.com

Thriving Points:

• If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance a whole lot less. – Camille Nicita
• The market is always changing. Change is constant and will always be there and being perfect in a market that’s always changing is impossible. So focus on the small wins that you’re achieving each and every day. – Camille Nicita
• Progress over perfection. And that requires that nurturing a spirit of knowing what you do well and what you want to keep investing in and also knowing what you don’t do too well.  – Camille Nicita

Get to Know the Guest:

Camille is the former sole owner of Gongos, Inc., a WBENC company that was named a Forbes “Small Giant” in 2020. Camille is on the board of the Insights Association, a contributing member of the Forbes Agency Council and is an official judge of the North American Customer Centricity awards. She has served as Chairperson of the Advisory Board of Michigan State University’s Master of Science in Marketing Research Program and has contributed to the University of Michigan’s Institute for Survey Research. She earned a BBA at the University of Michigan and an MBA at Wayne State University.

Connect with Camille:

• Website
• LinkedIn

About the Show:

Women Thriving in Business features candid unscripted conversations with entrepreneurs, business experts, authors, and academics aimed at contributing to business success. This weekly show provides interviews with business leaders who have built, grown, and are thriving in business. Nikki A. Rogers, host of the show, also discusses achievements, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring business owners to develop the mindset, strategies, and connections necessary to thrive in business. Whether you are just starting or you have been in business for decades, WTiB offers inspiration, strategies, and resources to help you THRIVE in business.

About the Host:

Nikki is a strategist and transformation coach who believes life is too short not to do what you love. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build sustainable companies and supports business leaders in developing the mindset, strategy, and connections to create thriving businesses and build legacy wealth.

Nikki is the CEO of The Bladen Group and an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Connect with Nikki:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Youtube

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Ever held back from doing something you really wanted to accomplish because of fear? No matter where we are going or what we are doing, fear is always going to be a part of our lives. Fear is powerful, so we should face it and use it as a teacher instead of letting it control our lives. Fear should not prevent us from moving forward toward our dreams.

There is a great deal of fear involved when it comes to starting a business, growing it, and moving it to the next level. And even if you already conquered fear the first time you do something new, that same sense of fear may return a second or third, or fourth time; you still have to DO IT. Whether it is establishing a new business relationship, submitting a proposal, negotiating a contract, hiring team members, or having difficult conversations with staff or clients.

Your support system, which consists of family, friends, and team members,  plays a vital role in and has a significant impact on your success. Having someone on your journey who believes in your abilities is so much better than having to deal with it alone, especially during difficult times. You can take bold and courageous action when you are committed to your goals. Sometimes you need cheerleaders, a push, or just internal resolve to do the hard and fabulous things you need to do. Determine what you need and ask for it.

Focus on the journey, not the destination, as the joy is in what you learn and experience along the way. There are things to learn along the way, sights to see, and points of view that you would not have access to in any other circumstance. Fear can be a propellant or a prison. I chose to use it as a propellant – what will you choose?

About the Show:

Women Thriving in Business features candid unscripted conversations with entrepreneurs, business experts, authors, and academics aimed at contributing to business success. This weekly show provides interviews with business leaders who have built, grown, and are thriving in business. Nikki A. Rogers, host of the show, also discusses achievements, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring business owners to develop the mindset, strategies, and connections necessary to thrive in business. Whether you are just starting or you have been in business for decades, WTiB offers inspiration, strategies, and resources to help you THRIVE in business.

About the Host:

Nikki is a strategist and transformation coach who believes life is too short not to do what you love. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build sustainable companies and supports business leaders in developing the mindset, strategy, and connections to create thriving businesses and build legacy wealth.

Nikki is the CEO of The Bladen Group and an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Connect with Nikki:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Youtube

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The pandemic’s impact on business has highlighted the need for today’s workforce (and employers) to be flexible and resilient in the face of adversity. Working from home has become the new normal for many businesses in order to sustain operations in the face of the pandemic.

Now that most COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted, many businesses are altering the work-from-home setup by adopting remote or hybrid work. In a setting like hybrid work, it is important that the lines of communication and the expectations of the team are clear.

The question now is, How can you maintain engagement among your virtual workforce?

It is far more challenging to keep a virtual workforce engaged and collaborative than it is in a regular office environment. it requires intentionality to foster a positive work culture where employees are empowered and encouraged to think creatively, their feedback and suggestions are valued, and most importantly, they have a strong working relationship with their team. Giving them time to build relationships within their team is important to maintaining engagement and fostering collaboration.

In this episode, we are joined by Denise Cagan, Founder, and CEO of DCA Virtual Business Support. She has been successful in navigating the business world, and now she uses her strong operational and management style, along with her excellent business advisor skills to aid small business owners in achieving their goals. She does this with the assistance of her tech-savvy team of project managers and virtual assistants.

Listen to our conversation where Denise shares with us how she was able to sell her previous business of ten years, the value of creating a syllabus for new hire orientation and screening for a virtual workforce, determining where to invest in technology for your business operations needs, and so much more!

Listen to Episode 609 to learn more!

Thriving Points:

• When you have a really small business, the problems of your clients or the problems of your team sometimes inherently become your problems without you even trying to. -Denise Cagan
• I am very creative when it comes to finding out how to pull things together and make them work a little bit better. -Denise Cagan
• If you want people to feel engaged in working as a team and collaboratively,  you do need to give them that time to do that. -Denise Cagan
• It’s really a matter of putting your money where your mouth is, or being very cognizant and intentional about your values and how you’re creating culture because you have to actually invest in it. -Nikki Rogers
• Sometimes, people with very good intentions will give you misinformation -Denise Cagan

Other Resources Mentioned:

• DCA Virtual Business Support Website
• The E-Myth Revisited by Michae E. Gerber

Get to Know the Guest:

Denise Cagan started her first company while still working as a QA Manager at Coca-Cola. After a year of doing both, she moved on to become a full-time business owner at DiCi Services. She grew DiCi for 10 years, selling it in 2011. At that time, Denise established a second and third company. Only one of these remains today, which is her current business, DCA Virtual Business Support. DCA Virtual provides support for growing businesses for their administrative and creative needs. Outsourcing these functions enables small business owners to develop and expand their organizations. DCA believes in small businesses and the families they support. As such, we are dedicated to helping small business owners attain growth and exceed their goals.

She attributes her success in navigating the business world to her strong operational and management style and an incredible business advisor. Denise graduated from James Madison University with a BS in Quality Systems Development. She is a mother, grandmother, and dog lover.

Connect with Denise:

• Website
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• DCA LinkedIn
• LinkedIn
• Youtube

About the Show:

Women Thriving in Business features candid unscripted conversations with entrepreneurs, business experts, authors, and academics aimed at contributing to business success. This weekly show provides interviews with business leaders who have built, grown, and are thriving in business. Nikki A. Rogers, host of the show, also discusses achievements, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring business owners to develop the mindset, strategies, and connections necessary to thrive in business. Whether you are just starting or you have been in business for decades, WTiB offers inspiration, strategies, and resources to help you THRIVE in business.

About the Host:

Nikki is a strategist and transformation coach who believes life is too short not to do what you love. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build sustainable companies and supports business leaders in developing the mindset, strategy, and connections to create thriving businesses and build legacy wealth.

Nikki is the CEO of The Bladen Group and an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Connect with Nikki:

• • LinkedIn
  • Instagram
  • Youtube

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The pressure we put on ourselves to be successful manifests in how easily we are willing to deprioritize or sacrifice our health and wellness.  We have been raised in a society that has taught us that we have to give up something in order to accomplish our goals. We often feel we have to choose between our personal and professional lives.

In reality,  we do have the benefit of choice, and that gives us the ability to steer our lives in a variety of directions. If we choose to be the pilot of our own lives, we are accountable for ensuring that our lives unfold in the manner in which we envision them.

Our health is frequently the aspect of our lives that we fail to fully prioritize and take care of. Your body and health are entirely your responsibility. Nobody knows your body better than you do. Don’t rely solely on other people to take care of your health; rather, you should be knowledgeable and vigilant about your own health.

For many of us, it is in our nature to put the needs of others ahead of our own. But how can you help others if you don’t prioritize yourself first? Your health is your most prized possession. If you don’t take care of your body, you won’t be able to do the things you love and live long enough to spend quality time with the people you care about.

The Thriver joining us this week is Dr. Jerrica Dodd, Founder and CEO of Your Pharmacy Advocate. She has been a pharmacist for 24 years, providing the highest level of pharmaceutical and wellness expertise to providers and patients.

She shares with us the value of prioritizing our health and stepping outside of our comfort zone. She also discusses the right of patients to be involved in decision-making processes pertaining to their own medical treatment, as well as the significance of having a comprehensive awareness of one’s insurance policy.

Be inspired. Be empowered. Listen to Episode 608 to learn more!

Thriving Points:

•  The thing that I’m most proud of is that I started shaping and having my hands on other people’s businesses. So my impact was further than my own impact that I could have with patients,  but my impact was on the lives and the families, and the businesses of other women in pharmacy. -Dr. Jerrica Dodd
• As I was coaching the women,  I decided that I needed to help them tell their stories because I had learned how to tell my story.  And that was what was people coming to me and finding me because I was telling my story. -Dr. Jerrica Dodd
• It’s hard to believe that being, I say, that my back was against the wall with regards to my health and that the decisions I felt pressured to make were really the decisions that were the ones that nudged me to go ahead and make that leap. -Dr. Jerrica Dodd
• When I think of the things that have happened since then,  both personally and professionally,  I don’t know that those things would have happened if I had stayed in my comfort zone. -Dr. Jerrica Dodd

Other Resources Mentioned:

• PharmaSis Magazine
• Atomic Habits by James Clear

Get to Know the Guest:

Dr. Jerrica Dodd is a pharmacist, entrepreneur, coach, and leader. She has been a pharmacist for 24 years and is the Founder and CEO of Your Pharmacy Advocate, LLC, with a mission of providing pharmacist advocate care for patients seeking better health results. Dr. Dodd has spoken on many stages across the country. She is a coach to women in pharmacy to build businesses and is the proud Executive Editor of PharmaSis Magazine: Celebrating Women in Pharmacy. Dr. Dodd gets joy from traveling, reading, cooking, and attending cultural events. Dr. Dodd loves encouraging people to be their best and to get the most out of every opportunity that life presents. Her favorite scripture is Luke 12:48 ”to whom much is given, much is required” and Dr. Dodd endeavors to live life giving back from the abundant ways in which she has been blessed.

Connect with Jerrica:

• Website
• Dr. Jerrica Dodd | Facebook
• PharmaSis Magazine | Facebook
• Your Pharmacy Advocate | Facebook
• Dr. Jerrica Dodd | Instagram
• PharmaSis Magazine | Instagram
• Your Pharmacy Advocate | Instagram
• LinkedIn

About the Show:

Women Thriving in Business features candid unscripted conversations with entrepreneurs, business experts, authors, and academics aimed at contributing to business success. This weekly show provides interviews with business leaders who have built, grown, and are thriving in business. Nikki A. Rogers, host of the show, also discusses achievements, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring business owners to develop the mindset, strategies, and connections necessary to thrive in business. Whether you are just starting or you have been in business for decades, WTiB offers inspiration, strategies, and resources to help you THRIVE in business.

About the Host:

Nikki is a strategist and transformation coach who believes life is too short not to do what you love. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build sustainable companies and supports business leaders in developing the mindset, strategy, and connections to create thriving businesses and build legacy wealth.

Nikki is the CEO of The Bladen Group and an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Connect with Nikki:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Youtube

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As a woman thriving in business, do you still subscribe to the saying, “It’s a man’s world”?

If you do, don’t judge yourself. It’s hard to outgrow decades – if not hundreds – of years of cultural, societal, and media perspectives deeply ingrained in our psyches and entrepreneurial systems. As women, we have been socialized to put everyone’s needs ahead of ourselves.

Thankfully, there are more and more women who are helping countless others step outside of imposed boundaries and think beyond the four walls of their homes and cubicles, such as this week’s Thriver, Sara Roach-Lewis. Sara not only embodies a strong, independent woman; she actually wrote guidelines that will help educate and inspire fellow women to take action in their own businesses.

Listen as Sara shares the six She Rules and how she was able to overcome challenges in her own life and achieve so much in her career and business.

Thriving Points:

• The more women can hit that six-figure and seven-figure mark, the better off we all are. – Nikki Rogers
• The bible of business strategy is “The Art of  War”, which is a book about military strategy. And it is supported by a woman at home doing everything. So when we think about that, it’s no wonder that it doesn’t always feel comfortable for women – because it wasn’t created for us. – Sara Roach-Lewis
• There’s so much of that hustle culture and you just having to do all the things. You have to do it hard, and you have to do it fast, And that doesn’t work for women. – Sara Roach-Lewis
• To ignore (everything else a woman does) in a plan for your business is just not fair. – Sara Roach-Lewis

Other Resources Mentioned:

• She Rules: What You Didn’t Know Is Holding You Back in Business by Sara Roach-Lewis

Get to Know the Guest:
Sara Roach-Lewis is a coach and advisor to ambitious businesswomen. She teaches the strategies they need to claim their confidence, scale their businesses, and double their revenues. Her first book, She Rules: What you didn’t know is holding you back in business is available for purchase on Amazon.

Connect with Sara:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Instagram 

About the Show:

Women Thriving in Business features candid unscripted conversations with entrepreneurs, business experts, authors, and academics aimed at contributing to business success. This weekly show provides interviews with business leaders who have built, grown, and are thriving in business. Nikki A. Rogers, host of the show, also discusses achievements, lessons learned, and advice for aspiring business owners to develop the mindset, strategies, and connections necessary to thrive in business. Whether you are just starting or you have been in business for decades, WTiB offers inspiration, strategies, and resources to help you THRIVE in business.

About the Host:

Nikki is a strategist and transformation coach who believes life is too short not to do what you love. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build sustainable companies and supports business leaders in developing the mindset, strategy, and connections to create thriving businesses and build legacy wealth.

Nikki is the CEO of The Bladen Group and an alumna of North Carolina A&T State University and UNC-Chapel Hill.

Connect with Nikki:

• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• Youtube

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