REGISTER NOW: Uncomfortable Conversations: The Skills Crisis
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Be the Salesperson of ‘You’

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Kim Bode smiles while posing for a camera inside of the 8THIRTYFOUR Learning Hub.

In 2016, Kim wrote a blog about how terrible professionals are at marketing themselves. The gist: if you want to grow, you have to stop hiding and start showing up. Blog, network, speak, post, give, say yes, and put in the time. It was right then and it’s still right now.

Kim was talking about owning your authentic self and showing up as you a decade before the rest of the world caught up. What’s changed is that she’s spent the last ten years building an entire framework around it, because the insight was always right; it just needed a system behind it. That system is Big Deal Energy™: the confidence of knowing exactly who you are, owning your QUIRKS™, and communicating your authentic self unapologetically.

Doing all the things, the LinkedIn posts, the speaking gigs, the networking events, doesn’t matter if you don’t know who you are when you show up to do them. Most people are performing a version of themselves they think other people want to see, rather than showing up as the one that actually exists. The people who are remembered aren’t the smartest ones in the room; they’re the ones who figured out how to be memorable, and memorable starts with owning the quirks, experiences, and perspective that are entirely yours.

The Big Deal Energy™ Workshop is where that shift happens. In 2.5 hours, you’ll work through the QUIRKS™ framework to question the rules keeping you small, uncover your Big Hairy Audacious Goal, identify what makes you weird and remarkable, and start showing up as yourself consistently and unapologetically. You’ll leave with a plan and a group of people cheering you on.

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National Perimenopause Month starts today. We have a LOT to say, and we’re not going to be quiet about it, especially this month, so buckle up.

We were not prepared for perimenopause, much like our periods, sex, or anything else to do with our bodies. God forbid we talk about it openly.

We were taught to be ashamed, keep quiet, and to accept that it is just part of being a woman. We reject that narrative. In fact, like @bodespeaks, we want to bring it up in every conversation. 

When we normalize perimenopause and the conversation around it, we stop isolating, and we’re all more prepared.
Join us for Uncomfortable Conversations: The Pause on September 24th — a powerful conversation hosted alongside the @smallbusinessassocofmichigan 
Women’s Business Council, featuring some kicka$$ experts who will give you the real talk on perimenopause (more to come on them later).

Register at the link in bio.
You asked, we delivered.

Introducing the Women's Owners Network - a new program built for what comes first, joining our proven Fellowship model to support Michigan women at every stage of business ownership.

Whether you've got a team of 10 or it's just you and your laptop, you deserve a room full of women who get it.

Six months of leadership, finance, operations, capital access, paired with real support for the isolation, emotional volatility, and decision fatigue that come with owning your own business.

You'll have your own board of directors in your corner, including @bodespeaks plus a group of mentors, instructors, and coaches who've been exactly where you are.

Applications due October 1. Apply now at the link in bio.
"I am big enough to admit that I am often inspired by myself" - Leslie F*ucking Knope 

You are the hero in your own story. Be like Leslie and believe it. 

Come to the Big Deal Energy Workshop, @bodespeaks will show you how.

It's personal branding with a shot of tequila. Register in bio.
THROWBACK THURSDAY: We took a walk to one of the houses @bodespeaks lived in Creston. There were 3 total. We also got a history lesson of @crestongr along the way. Of course we had to take Joey too.
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