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Business Tip for Culture Makers #521: Refresh Consent with a Pre-Launch Email
In this Business tip for Culture Makers, you’ll learn that building consent into your email marketing is a culture making power move that is also good for business.
for when your contribution or leadership isn’t being acknowledged…
“Leaders Eat Last” as a leadership concept is novel to Simon Sinek but it is the ordinary, unsung leadership habit of most mothers and community-builders
What if…Trashing is about Redistributing Power in our Community?
Trashing is a power struggle triggered by “status dissatisfaction”. There’s a gap between someone’s capabilities and the attention they’re {not} getting
Procrastination: 4 counterintuitive insights that might help you feel a LOT better about yourself
Sometimes procrastination is a creative and business ASSET. Here are four counterintuitive insights about procrastination that will help you leverage it.
Clear The Way! (A Culture-Making Tool.)
Clearing the way means looking for the daily road-blocks and friction and clearing internalized limits and biases that block personal power.
on “lying to ourselves”. (I’m not so sure we do.)
“Lying to ourselves” is a lie. When we build our analysis about money and power, we can see through the lies — and that’s how we get free.
Are You On Your Own Team?
Likeability is a trap is weaponized against women and girls, to prevent us from being on our own team, taking care of ourselves, and pursuing our dreams.
Dear Culture Maker: Do you want power?
Power can be generative and beneficial for everyone involved, rather than destructive and coercive. Here’s how to grow and steward your right use of power.
nope, ‘Queen’ is not a feminist business model
We need to aspire to be feminist entrepreneurs and leaders and CULTURE MAKERS who take care of each other rather than exploit and prey on each other.
How To Get Free
Getting free and healing is never one-and-done. Especially when the source of injury in an oppressive culture that wants you to disappear — remains.
This photo is part of my big why.
This is from 2017 when we were living in Trinidad for the second time.
Mom was vulnerable -- her Alzheimers was rapidly advancing, plus she`d gone blind -- and needed our care so we moved there to do that.
It was one of the hardest times of our life as a family. The adults in our family seemed to have forgotten she existed, or were uncomfortable with her, and melted away.
My little ones, however, freely, whole-heartedly and offered her all the love and assistance they had to give. Like carefully guiding her from room to room.
The world I`m dreaming of looks like this. Like boys with soft hearts. Like intergenerational connection. Like care and protection. Like love and attention, no matter what.
AND I`m dreaming of a world where our elder women have the resources they need to be safe & sound.
In my own family, on both sides, I`ve seen women in acute financial jeopardy in their older years.
The stats tell us that`s not just a personal anecdote: in fact, 67% of elders in poverty are women.
What I`ve witnessed personally, is women working for (not enough) $$ and using it to make sure everyone in their family had what they needed.
I`ve seen them offer a life of service to churches & social causes; raise nieces and grandchildren; and pay for educations; only to end up in absolute peril, themselves.
That`s NOT going to be my future.
Or yours.
That`s why I work in business development.
It`s why I`m forensically, relentlessly practical about making money & growing power.
And it`s why building wildly successful businesses & the culture-making power that comes with that is the work I do in my yearlong WealthCraft Mastermind...
...and it`s the reason my clients stop being the best-kept secrets in their spaces and start turning their ideas & ad-hoc courses into strategic offer suites and *significant*, culture-making IP that converts clients on the spot instead of 18 months later. DM me for details.
Because #WeAreTheCultureMakers and we are NOT leaving our financial future, our flourishing or our rights to chance.
LFG
Nov 25
If you hear screens popping and sizzling today, tell them it was me. (Insert unrepentant Olenna Tyrell voice here: "I want them to know it was me".)
My newsletter today was about selling and making money during grievous times and I got a few things off my chest that might make your business a little easier.
DM me if you want me to send it to you. #WeAreTheCultureMakers
xo
K
#SundayLoveLetter #SundayLoveLettersByKellyDiels #SundayLoveLetterByKellyDiels
Nov 24
One of the ways we contribute to the change we want to see in the world is by doubling down on our unique knowledge & gifts:
What do you know that you wish everyone knew?
What do you see that no one else sees?
What does no one escape you without learning?
My culture-making clients are already stoking change & building their people up, 1:1 or with one organization at a time, which is valuable & critically important work but also limits your reach *and you know it*.
I don`t want only a select few people to have access to the healing things you know and the transformational practices you teach...
I want more people — maybe even all of us, imagine that! — to heal and elevate and use their voices and feel good in their own skin and get out of physical pain and lose the shame and activate their power and get physically stronger and navigate society`s fear of illness & disability with power and feel brave enough to push back on the bullshit and get their message together and know they’re not the problem to be fixed but our society is, and, and, and.
In other words: I want you to put YOUR unique knowledge into the hands of more people, because we need it now more than ever.
And I don`t want you to be a martyr about it. You, broke, struggling and suffering is NOT how we co-create a future in which we all flourish.
**If the culture-maker running the business isn’t flourishing,
it’s not a culture-making business**
That`s why I created Goldmine: so you can learn in 9 weeks what it took me 15 years to figure out.
**Inside GOLDMINE you get**
• 9 Comprehensive & effective weekly video trainings so you can steadily build out your course without getting overwhelmed or stuck
• 4 monthly, 90-minute group coaching sessions so that you can get my eyes on your work and tightly dial it in
• An interactive workbook chock-full of potent exercises that actually generate your course design, modules & marketing messages
• A comprehensive, time-saving, good-decision-making Course Tech Selection Matrix that helps you compare course delivery platforms & tools so you can get going and get your course into the world, now
We start Nov 18. DM me for details.
Nov 13
