Women it is time to rise up and take your place in the world! If you feel like you’ve made choices in life that has kept you back, you can stop believing that lie. Dr. Cortney tells her story of being a single mom on food stamps to getting her doctorate degree and running her own million dollar children’s home health agency. She and her agencies has served over 100,000 children with special needs.

She finally got fed up with dealing with bosses that weren’t appreciative she started her own home health company. At thirty seven she decided to go back to school and get her doctorate degree in Organizational Leadership. She shares that at orientation she had to write her 80th birthday toast and realized she wasn’t where she wanted to be. Just a few months later she had a stroke and realized that she was given a chance to make a difference. She focussed on women in leadership and narrowing the gender gap.

We are still more than 100 years from gender equality at the C level. One of the four challenges she goes into is the lack of confidence that women have even at the executive level. This was the common denominator in all four of the challenges. We’ve been told to be seen and not heard, mind your manners, wear your Spanx to keep it all in but no one is telling “Bubba” to suck his gut in and pull up his pants.

Another thing we face in growing our careers as women is other women. We act like crabs in a barrel. We seem to always get back to mindset and the inner mean girl that is telling you that you aren’t good enough and wearing down your confidence. Women we need to straighten each other’s crowns and not knock them off. We need to remind each other of who we are and who we can be!

She shares that RESILIENCE is her super power. It is like a muscle and you need to keep using it to grow it. This is closely related to confidence.

“Confidence is found at the intersection of courage to know your purpose

and the faith to walk in that purpose”. Dr. Cortney Baker

Right there at that intersection is where your confidence lies. If you have sent kids off to school and have the day alone again or maybe an empty nester, you are looking for the next new thing but afraid and not confident. Dr. Cortney is a great guide for those women who know the path they want but just maybe don’t know how. She takes women zero to making that first sale or getting that first client and on to building to every level of success.

We need to remember that if someone is paying you to do something and you don’t have a boss, then you are a business owner and there are responsibilities to that. The IRS sees you as a business even if you are calling it a “side hustle”.

We also address how to handle rejection and how to grow from it. Why are you taking it so personally? Kiss the frog and keep moving so that you get closer to your ideal customer or person you are going to hire. Until then BE IT UNTIL YOU BELIEVE IT! Shut that little voice inside you up that is telling you that you aren’t enough.

Last, we discuss why we need coaching for our business’. Dr. Cortney coaches women from start to finish and not having enough money to get coaching is not a good excuse. Betting on yourself and investing in yourself is the one thing you can control.

Favorite books that Dr. Corney recommends:

REDEEMING LOVE - FRANCINE RIVERS

UNLIMITED - CONQUERING THE MYTH OF THE GLASS CEILING - Dr. Cortney Baker

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