Dee C. Marshall, CEO of Diverse & Engaged, is an influencer and award-winning business owner as well as a thought leader on equity, diversity, and inclusion. She is a serial curator with bright ideas that are an outgrowth of passion and her focus on women’s growth and development and not just living life by default. In this episode Dee discusses the importance of recognizing your own unique brilliance and being boldly unapologetic. Tara and Dee also discuss the necessity of having a personal brand for job success, starting your day doing something just for you and they explore what it means to be politically engaged.

Women’s growth and development

Dee wants to see women love their life and live their dreams. She describes many women as living by default – they are following the typical American story but are often left feeling unfulfilled by midlife/midcareer. To make the shift towards fulfillment, first you must gain clarity on who you want to be and what you want, and then you can work towards your goals. For Dee, Brian Moran’s The 12 Week Year has helped guide her with breaking down her goals, and she uses a breakout block, an activity scheduled midweek, to help raise her mindset and health and wealth sets.

Starting your day right

Dee and Tara, both early risers, discuss their morning routines and starting the day with time your yourself. Tara reads the Wall Street Journal in the morning, while Dee avoids news first thing and instead always reads something related to development. Dee describes starting the day with the golden hour whereby you take the first hour of the day to focus on yourself; she states that she first gives time to herself before giving herself away to others.

Owning your unique brilliance and being boldly unapologetic

To own your unique brilliance, consider what you are really good at; discovering this can come through clarity in the morning. Balance your recognition of what you are uniquely brilliant at with what you know little about – “I am uniquely brilliant at X,” and “I am completely clueless with this thing.” Dee also discusses how being unapologetic for who you are is becoming more of a norm.

Having a personal brand and Dee’s retreats

Dee and Tara discuss the importance of having a personal brand to get a job, keep a job, and to grow in a job. By having a personal brand, you highlight what you bring to the table that others don’t and what your value add and unique serving position is. In addition to running a course for personal branding for executives, Dee also offers the Win, Rock, & Rule retreat, a yearly conference in New York for midlife/midcareer corporate women and influencers, as well as the Utopia Retreat, a weekend retreat aimed at helping women do better and be better.

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