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We’re not playing nice in this one, friend! This episode features the creatively talented Rochelle Sodipo, Creative Director at Roseredd. In it, we discuss the widespread practice of faux vulnerability, the art of intellectualizing, and how you can start bringing out your own authentically vulnerable creativity.

Meet Rochelle Sodipo:

Rochelle is best known for Brand Identity and Brand Strategy. She is the founder and Creative Director of Roseredd, Etc.®, a brand support agency focused on branding and design. 

As a consultant and coach, Rochelle partners with executives, entrepreneurs, artists, and influencers to build and cultivate individual and organizational brands across their stages of growth, from start-up to scale.  She supports clients that range in size from small businesses to multi-million dollar organizations.

A fine artist and educator by training, Rochelle pairs her passion for the aesthetics of art with her expertise in scaffolding and pedagogy to work with clients to understand and refine a brand vision that reflects their core values. Her signature service, “Soul Level Branding,” leverages the Roseredd, Etc.®️ framework to go beyond design by defining, highlighting, and amplifying the personality and value proposition of a brand before curating a complementary visual identity. 

Rochelle self-identifies as a creative leader. As a designer, she prides herself on using standard tools in non-traditional ways and finding clear connections between what others may see as disparate ideas to create a cohesive vision.

Outside of running day-to-day operations for Roseredd, Etc.®, Rochelle teaches tools and tactics to support solo-entrepreneurs and other students in understanding how to effectively mix brand theory and creative artistry to drive impact while retaining the heart of a brand. 

Episode Highlights:

• (10:50) Weapons of distraction; 
• (26:36) Faux vulnerability; 
• (32:15) Leverage good storytelling; 
• (46:39) Introspection;

Connect with Rochelle

Facebook: @rosereddetc 

Instagram: @rosereddetc 

LinkedIn: @rochellesodipo

Episode Resources:

• Roseredd Course (https://www.rosereddcourses.com)
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• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)

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We are featuring the wonderfully regal Liz Miranda, State Representative 5th Suffolk District, MA House of Representatives. In it, Miranda shares her journey about being an immigrant in the United States, how the killing of her brother shaped her career, and the importance of being an effective political leader in underrepresented communities. 

Meet Liz Miranda:

Liz is best known for leading the police reform bill in Massachusetts to passage and her Social Moniker is Betti! 

Since elected in 2018 and re-elected in 2020, Elizabeth "Liz" Miranda has served as State Representative for the 5th Suffolk District of Roxbury and Dorchester. 

Representative Miranda currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Human Resources and Employee Engagement, and serves on the Joint Committee(s) on Community Development and Small Businesses, Public Safety and Homeland Security, and Veterans and Federal Affairs. 

In her first term, Representative Miranda has filed and passed legislation to reimagine public safety, improve racial disparities in maternal health, promote environmental justice within disproportionately impacted communities, and ensure a just recovery for micro-to-small businesses most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she was the first legislator in the Commonwealth to establish a district-led community care program which connected 3,000 vulnerable residents with support and resources.

As a result of Rep. Miranda’s Covid Vaccine Equity Bill, Governor Baker implemented nearly all of the core tenants of the legislation- reimagining health to include socioeconomic determinants.

As the daughter of Cabo Verdean immigrants, Representative Miranda has been a tireless advocate for immigrant rights, while leading the fight for an equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to serving in the Massachusetts Legislature, Representative Miranda was a non-profit executive, entrepreneur, and community organizer, which began as a teen living in the Dudley triangle. 

In 2017, Representative Miranda lost her 28-year-old brother, Michael Miranda, to gun violence. After her decades long advocacy for gun violence prevention, losing her brother was a catalyst in her entrance to electoral politics. Her lived experience and commitment to community propels her fight for immigrant rights, criminal legal system reform, improved black maternal health outcomes, and economic justice.

Her professional roles have included serving as the Executive Director for the Hawthorne Youth and Community Center and Director of Youth Opportunity Development at Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI). Rep. Miranda’s career has aimed to build resident-led leadership and advocacy for youth development, violence prevention, and economic justice. 

Representative Miranda is a Wellesley College alumna and proud graduate of Boston Public Schools, graduating from the John D O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science. She is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Boston Alumnae Chapter, and the Wellesley Club of Boston.

Episode Highlights:

• (10:04) Demand more and demand better; 
• (12:03) Leadership is both a privilege and a responsibility; 
• (17:59) Being a little too much in leadership;

Connect with Liz:

Email: liz@lizmiranda.com

Website: https://lizmiranda.com

Instagram: @replizmiranda

Episode Resources:

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Kishshana zeros in on faux vulnerability versus real vulnerability and how that works for you as a leader. How do vulnerabilities from your life or previous work experiences carry over into your current work and your leadership? They show up in you being closed off, not allowing people and coworkers to get to know you, striving to achieve, and being extra hard on yourself and therefore on others. 

Have you asked yourself whether your faux vulnerability is preventing you from bringing a level of realness and openness to your leadership? And remember to pay attention to the fact that vulnerability goes two ways. How are you making space to be vulnerable? And how are you creating space for others to be vulnerable with you?

You do not need to figure this out alone. Work with Kishshana 1:1

Episode Highlights:

• (3:23) Summer well series powered by Bloomerang; 
• (4:26) Faux vulnerability versus real vulnerability;  
• (7:28) Examples of vulnerability;  
• (10:40) How to be vulnerable as a leader;  
• (12:44) Your leadership journey;  
• (14:01) Can I actually be vulnerable;  
• (15:30) Vulnerability goes two ways;

Episode Sponsor:

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Bloomerang (Bloomerang.co)

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)
• Visit The Rooted Collaborative (https://www.therootedcollaborative.com)

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Kishshana points out that you all carry a leadership role in some aspect of your life whether in your career, in your faith-based organization, social organizations, or as a leader at home. She suggests contemplating what you need in a leadership roadmap for yourself, to set your leadership foundation, in order to figure out how to be a good leader. 

Have you dug into the foundation of who you are so you can create and grow your leadership roadmap? Are you fortified enough? Are you self-aware? Are you introspective? Can you take feedback? Where are you in that journey for yourself? Once you determine what is in your actual foundation you've got to learn how to build, how to sustain, and how to give social capital. How are you building relationships with your peers, with folks that you want to be in alignment with, who may not be your peers, and with folks who look up to you? And ultimately, who is on your support team, and are you leveraging that support in a way that is allowing you to prop up your wellness game plan, inviting goodness into your atmosphere, and releasing the things that are not good for you or your leadership?

You do not need to figure this out alone. Work with Kishshana 1:1

Episode Highlights:

(4:25) Each of us carry a leadership role;

(6:00) Think about your leadership foundation;

(7:42) Building relationships;

(12:47) Leveraging support tools for your wellness game plan;

Episode Sponsor:

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Bloomerang

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)
• Visit The Rooted Collaborative (https://www.therootedcollaborative.com)

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Kishshana continues with the Summer Well Series and in this episode, she checks in on your wellness and well-being and what that really means for you as a leader right now in your work and in your life. Her mission is to make sure that you are leading a life you love, that you have a career you love and that you are healthy AF! 

You must ask yourself and answer the question, “Are we well?” because leaders tend to spend their time focusing on everything else but themselves. How is stress showing up for you and are you paying attention to the signs or the clues?

It’s okay to name the places where you need help and to wonder what will happen if you say you’re not well. It's a real sign of leadership to know it, and then to be able to be conscious enough to redirect that energy, redirect that work, and reallocate those resources. 

As a leader, when you think about your own wellness there is a consciousness about how the things you do to activate or aggravate your practice of wellness implicates other people, your team members, your family members, your business, and yourself. When you think about answering the question, Are We Well?, you need to consider if you have an actual wellness game plan. When things feel like they are spiraling out of control do you have a game plan to turn to that helps get you back on track?  

You do not need to figure this out alone. Work with Kishshana 1:1

Episode Highlights:

• (1:04) You're invited to the 2022 Rooted Retreat; 
• (4:12) Focus of this episode is the question, “Are We Well?”;  
• (10:09) Navigating the question “Are We Well?”;  
• (11:07) What if I say “I am not well?”;  
• (14:47) Your wellness journey as a leader;  
• (15:29) Your wellness game plan; 

Episode Sponsor:

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Bloomerang (Bloomerang.co)

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)
• Visit The Rooted Collaborative (https://www.therootedcollaborative.com)

Support the Show (buymeacoffee.com/managemintmadeeasy)

Coaching with Kishshana Palmer: https://www.kishshanapalmer.com/coaching

Kishshana talks about all things planning and pausing. She shares her experience with planning in her career and professional life as well as in her personal life. Are you getting caught up in the cycle of planning or are you putting off taking a pause?

Since Season 2, Kishshana has dug in to really learn about herself and understand what it is that she’s looking for, what she needs, and the voids that she’s felt in her life.

Here are four key things to be thinking about as you listen to this episode: “Is it time to pause?”, “Have I pressed the pause button too long so that I'm now on a break?”, “How do I plan for a pause?”, and then “How do I know when it's time to take an unplanned pause?”.

Kishshana gives you her three tips for how to navigate planning vs. pausing. First, sit in gratitude for the things that you have, that you’ve done, that you’ve accomplished, and most importantly, who you are. Second, think about planning it out loud. Speaking your plans out loud allows you to give voice to the things that are rumbling and bumbling around in your head and allows you that space to give yourself the energy to imagine a different possibility. Third, get a friend, a thought partner that’s there to walk alongside you as you put the planning and/or pausing into action.

As we think about our wellness and we think about well-being as it relates to the planning and pausing in our personal and professional lives, remember that we will grow where we are watered.

You do not need to figure this out alone. Work with Kishshana 1:1

Episode Highlights:

• (2:11) You're invited to the 2022 Rooted Retreat;
• (3:20) How many of us are planners?;
• (5:21) Do you feel like you're in planning mode?;
• (7:44) Slowing down enough to take a pause;
• (12:04) Too much planning in my planning;
• (13:00) Navigate planning versus pausing;

Episode Sponsor:

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Bloomerang (Bloomerang.co)

Episode Resources:

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)
• Visit The Rooted Collaborative (https://www.therootedcollaborative.com)

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For this summer mini series Grow Where You are Watered, Kishshana talks about what she’s been doing, seeing, and experiencing since ending Season 2 of Let’s Take This Offline. 

For those of you listening in for the first time, Kishshana founded The Rooted Collaborative, a community and organization focused on black and brown women who are doing social good. This global community is about wellness and wellbeing, financial fortitude, personal and professional development, building real community, and leveling up women who are moving into the ranks of leadership. 

The Rooted Collaborative has a hybrid event coming up in September, The Rooted Retreat, happening in Jamaica and virtually online, September 29th through October 2nd. The Retreat supports the conversations about giving voice to the things that matter for women and particularly for women of color and specifically for black women happening right now in the sector, as it relates to wellness, wellbeing, and to leveling up to leadership.

This is our summer well series for all of you who are thinking “How do I do life better?”, “How do I shift?”, “How do I pivot?”, and “What is in it for me right now in this season?”. Grow Where You are Watered is the well series right here on Let's Take This Offline and Kishshana is ready to answer all of those questions and more.

You do not need to figure this out alone. Work with Kishshana 1:1

Episode brought to you by our sponsor Bloomerang (Bloomerang.co)

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)
• Visit The Rooted Collaborative (https://www.therootedcollaborative.com)

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In this wrap-up of Season 2, Kishshana breaks down some of the lessons she learned within this past season about herself and about what it means to be a strong leader. We have to swallow our pride and ask for help when needed.

Stay tuned for Season 3!

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Hey Fab Crew!!!

We are back and almost wrapping up the season with another great episode!  In this episode, Kishshana sits with organizational leader and community developer Taneshia Nash Laird to discuss something that is almost human nature but can be so destructive to our growth & mental stability and that is comparing ourselves to others and their journeys.

You won't want to miss this episode!!!

The Change Agent:

Taneshia Nash Laird is a social change agent and community developer who centers cultural equity in her work. She is the President and CEO of Newark Symphony Hall, a historic performing arts center located within the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Newark, NJ. Since her appointment in November 2018, she has expanded programming to respond to community needs and announced plans to restore the 1925 vintage concert hall in a $40 million renovation and leverage it for neighborhood revitalization in a process she calls Symphony Works.

Taneshia previously served as Executive Director of the Arts Council of Princeton, notably as the first person of color in that role. 

Taneshia has also served as Director of Economic Development & Acting Director of Housing Production for the City of Trenton (NJ), Regional Director of the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce, and was the Executive Director of the Trenton Downtown Association, where she initiated Destination Trenton, an award-winning arts and tourism program in NJ's capital city.

Taneshia is an adjunct professor in Drexel University's Entertainment & Arts Management Bachelor of Science degree program.

Widowed in 2013 and a pink lady warrior since an early-stage breast cancer diagnosis in 2019, Taneshia is most proud of being a mom to aspiring ballerina and budding cellist Naima, age 10, and self-proclaimed future doctor Imani, who in 2019, two months shy of her 13th birthday, played violin with her youth orchestra in Sicily.

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Hey Fab Crew!!!

IT'S KISHSHANA'S BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Another trip around the sun marks not only a new year but a new outlook on how to approach the year ahead. It's different from the New Year's saying - "New Year, New Me!" Let's look at it through the lenses of "New Year, BETTER ME"... It's a great time to sit back and really reflect on what worked and what didn't work.

In this episode, Kishshana sits back and really takes a personal inventory of what she has noticed throughout the year. In this raw and very intimate conversation, she digs deeper into the meaning of what it really means to be a "woman of a certain age".

• For more Management Mastery head over to ManageMint (https://managemint.co)
• Get our free eBook "Super Leaders Need Love, Too: 3 Hacks for Not-So-Great Days" (https://www.managemint.co/freeresources)

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