FLEB: Results

KELLY COLLAGE_Female Empowerment Brand

The Female Lifestyle

Empowerment Brand

(It's not a good thing.)

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What is Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand? ⁠(FLEB)⁠

START HERE → She's The Perfect Woman, in the form of a business...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #1 Fake Authority

Day 1 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #2 Fake Scarcity

Day 2 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #3 Male Approval

Day 3 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #4 Predatory Payment Plans

Day 4 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #5 Weaponized White Femininity

Day 5 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #6 Relentless Positivity and Conflict Avoidance

Day 6 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #7 Re-enforces Gender Binary & Patriarchy

Day 7 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #8 Safe Status Quo Imagery

Day 8 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand (FLEB).⁠⠀ If...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #9 Social Triggers = Social Conditions

This is Day 9 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand...
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FLEB Marketing Tactic #10 Testimonials as Triggers

This is Day 10 of How To Spot a Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand...

This page includes my definition of The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand + all my essays and blog posts explaining why it’s bad for women, our businesses and our culture.

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Definition:

A "perfect woman" archetype must comply with and embody in order to be deserving of rights and resources

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A marketing strategy that leverages social status and white privilege to create authority over other women.

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In Our Culture

Every Woman Is a Brand

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The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. An introduction.

Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm, which each one of us within our hearts knows “that is not me.” In America, this norm is usually defined as white, thin, male, young, heterosexual, Christian, and financially secure. -...

Featured posts

Ixtapa, Mexico + John Rawls + No Pedi. Unthinkable now, right?

#tbt Toes in the Sand but NO PEDI. Also, The Beauty Myth then and now.

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Feminism, Femininity and The Swinging Pendulum. A Question for You.

The Context for The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brrand

Not Enough Compensation in the World

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand: We Can Do Better

What is The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand and 'empowermyth'? It’s go-go entrepreneur-ism without the caveat that most women entrepreneurs start micro-businesses which generate subsistence-level revenues rather than untrammeled abundance. It’s yoga ...

March 25 2016

#tbt Toes in the Sand but NO PEDI. Also, The Beauty Myth then and now.

Ixtapa, Mexico + John Rawls + No Pedi. Unthinkable now, right? It was the 90s - before Instagram, before I even had a cell phone. ...

A Quick Note About Ambition and Women

There's a very telling Quaker saying that goes like this: That friend speaks my mind. That's what this note it is. A nod to Lianne Raymond, a ...

March 23 2016

Why I’m Writing About The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand

I. This sketch is part of my series on The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. (It starts here.) The reason I'm researching and writing these essays ...

Five Egregious Internet Marketing No-Nos

Overall: consciously refuse to perpetuate or replicate in your marketing and sales funnels the authoritarian, predatory, oppressive and abusive dynamics you want to disrupt in ...
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February 11 2016

Feminism, Femininity and The Swinging Pendulum. A Question for You.

AKA Blame Feminism    This essay is part 3 of my work on The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand.  Part 1 is an intro/definition of The Female ...
The Context for The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brrand

January 25 2016

Not Enough Compensation in the World

A Rather Long Note on the Cultural Context of  The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand AKA part 2 We were at an elaborate, joyous, celebratory meal. One ...

January 4 2016

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand. An introduction.

Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm, which each one of us within our hearts knows “that is ...

November 27 2015

Care is a 4-letter word. So is help.

This week I asked a question of my Twitter and Facebook peeps: Do you feel pressure to be upbeat and positive? There were so many answers: ...

Every week, I send you a

Sunday Love Letter

I write them so that…

  1. You remember your culture-making power
  2. You have the inspiration + tools you need to grow a future in which we all flourish
Are you in?

Are you wrestling with Imposter Complex? This might help. #impostersyndrome #impostercomplex #thoughtleadership #creativeentrepreneur #intellectualproperty #bodyofwork #WeAreTheCultureMakers #deepwork #slowproductivity #visibility #edwardsaid #orientalism #culturalexile #yourdifferenceisyourstrength www.kellydiels.com
Dear Multi-Passionate Maker,⁠⠀⁠
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Maybe you don't have Shiny Object Syndrome.⁠⠀⁠
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Maybe you've been studying & practicing all of these modalities because you're developing a rich body of work, across time.⁠⠀⁠
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(No maybe about it.)⁠⠀⁠
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Multi-passionate professionals often get told that they're "scattered" & need to focus.⁠⠀⁠
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They then internalize negative messages insisting that  their orientation towards lifelong learning, curiosity & creativity is a barrier to success.⁠⠀⁠
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IT'S NOT.⁠⠀⁠
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It's how we build the deep work & creative solutions needed for these urgent times.⁠⠀⁠
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Often, when I work with multi-passionate professionals, it's wildly obvious to me that they're collecting tools, synthesizing across traditions -- and making a whole new thing! -- in order to solve complex social problems.⁠⠀⁠
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They've been gathering all.the.tools.⁠⠀⁠
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You know what all those tools add up to? ⁠⠀⁠
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A practice. A way of doing things. A framework. Your unique process.⁠⠀⁠
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***You have a methodology.*** ⁠⠀⁠
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So let's build language for it and NAME IT, specifically.⁠⠀⁠
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Naming your method makes it tangible AND SALEABLE.⁠⠀⁠
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Now it now gets a lot easier to explain it to other people...⁠⠀⁠
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...and becomes more obvious why they might want to work with you :)⁠⠀⁠
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Once you name it, you substantiate it. ⁠⠀⁠
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****Including to yourself.****⁠⠀⁠
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Now YOU can see how everything you've trained in has led up to this, has prepared you for this work.⁠⠀⁠
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⁠Because, dear Multi-passionate Maker, you're NOT spinning your wheels or getting distracted by shiny things.⁠⠀⁠
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You're growing the solutions & institutions of the future.⁠⠀⁠
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Let's make sure you've got the language to describe them. ⁠⠀⁠
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love + justice,⁠⠀⁠⠀⁠
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#SurfaceYourMethodology #IntellectualProperty #DeepWork #BodyOfWork #SlowProductivity #ThoughtLeadership #ThoughtLeader #MeaningfulWork #WeAreTheCultureMakers⁠
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Self-promotion is NOT a distraction from your Body of Work - it’s a lab for your thought leadership!⁠
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People often think social media is frivolous. A time-suck.⁠
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Or that marketing, networking & self-promotion take your time away from the *real* work.⁠
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But in my latest blog post, I’m sharing with you 3 surprising key activities that will add up to a SIGNIFICANT and MEANINGFUL Body of Work.⁠
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Check it out here: https://kellydiels.com/meaningful-bodies-of-work-require-base-hits⁠
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My Blog link can also be found in my bio @kelly.diels ⁠
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I'm Kelly Diels, an expert on Culture Making, Thought Leadership and IP. I teach culture-making entrepreneurs & creators how to develop a substantial body of work that changes EVERYTHING – your life, your industry, our world.⠀⁠
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#BodyOfWork #MakingAnImpact #ThoughtLeader #ContentStrategy #LevelUpYourBusiness #CreativeEntrepreneur #CreativeEntrepreneurship #IntentionalBusiness  #BrandingIdentity #SocialMediaForBusiness #SocialEntrepreneur #IntellectualProperty⁠