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I just got back from a beautiful, two week vacation. It was desperately needed, because to be honest, right before that I was losing my mind. My anxiety was through the roof, I was struggling to work at all… it was my worst week in a really long time.   Before...

I was writing another post just now, but I stopped because this one is more important. I wanted to write you a post about the lessons we can learn from actually listening to and respecting our needs (don't worry, it's still coming!)  The problem was,  I kept getting...

My ass just sat down to work, and it’s 11am. That’s a full hour after I’m “supposed” to start work (I put that in quotes because I’m a self-employed human so every deadline or schedule in my business is self-imposed, if we’re being honest). Every part of my mind was...

I get frustrated with myself on mornings like this: Mornings when capitalism tells me I should be able to do more, produce more, and clear out my entire to do list… … but if I’m being honest, I’m just fucking tired. I’ve been paying attention to how I feel about my...

Do you know what parts of your business are being run by white supremacy culture? Spoiler alert: honestly, it's probably most of it. White supremacy culture is all around us. in the way we try to be an expert in our marketing in the way we try to do everything right...

I shouldn’t be writing this blog right now. There are 20 million more important + urgent things that I should be doing this morning. But I want to be writing to you. I want to take a second to celebrate that wanting for myself, because it’s new for me. My entire...

8 months ago, I made a promise to myself. I promised that I would step out of the hustle culture, take things slow in my business, and give myself more time to rest and heal (because lord knows I needed healing back then). And precious, I haven’t looked back since...

You ever have this moment when everything’s going great and you’re just being yourself and having the time of your life, and you suddenly stop and wonder… … is this even meant to be this easy? Is it okay to be me and trust that people will like me? Is that really all...

Let’s grab our favorite tea, find the comfiest chair in our house, and have a little chat, shall we? This week, I want to chat about values and intentionality. Because imma be honest honey, I’m still figuring out my space with them. Now, if you met me in the summer of...

I started this business with good intentions. All I wanted was to help women and femmes of color find their place in the world. I wanted to serve my people. I wanted to do right by my community. But somewhere along the way, I caved under the pressure of the...

You may have noticed that I didn’t send out a podcast episode last week. You might be wondering, where the hell is Gieselle?! The truth is - I was resting. After that horrific act of domestic terrorism on the Capitol Building, I just wasn’t okay. And I’m sure you...

We’ve all been fed the Capitalist & White Supremacist Kool-Aid all our lives. The kind of nonsense that starts with ‘you’re not enough’, and ends with ‘it’s okay to give up sleep for a year if that means working towards success’. We’ve been taught that there’s...

There’s an intention for 2021 that’s been floating around for a lot of folks - slowing down, resting, and being intentional. [P.S. - surprise, that’s part of my intentions too!] It sounds simple enough, but to be honest, being intentional can be one of the hardest...

Over the holidays, I moved into my new house. It’s our first house and it’s big, beautiful and spacious (which was an absolute must for me energetically. This chick needs space.) As I was unpacking my clothes into this fancy, huge-ass closet that the white lady who...

I’m not gonna lie, I’ve made some MAJOR mistakes this year (more on that later). But, I join my hands and thank every spiritual being out there that I had the courage to take ONE important, extremely positive decision. A decision I went back and forth on a million...

I’ll be honest, my relationship with money isn’t perfect. Not by a long shot. In fact, some may say it isn’t even good. Even though my business does well and I never worry about money in my professional or personal life... ...I’m straight up avoidant when it comes to...

In these last few months of 2020, I’ve been trying hard to achieve a new goal I’ve set for myself — to truly honor my business hours. It’s really easy for me to devote myself wholly to this work, to work longer hours, show up more, do everything to make sure you...

Last week, I did a live training on how to have thriving rates while being anti-capitalist at the same time. If you attended it, you might’ve thought I was confident, willing to speak my mind and to call out the bullshit in white supremacy culture. But truth be told,...

I’m a black, queer, cisgender woman. But I’m more than that. I’m an entrepreneur. I’m deeply spiritual. I’m a psychic and a medium. I’m a wife. A person living with mental illness. A woman without a child. I’m a woman who struggles with body image. Those are just some...

Earlier this month, I had a mastermind session scheduled for the week of the election. Out of the 10 people in the group coaching call, two of them requested that the session be pushed back because the week was too stressful for them to focus on anything, even a...

Your girl’s gonna get straight to the point today. Revolutionary business is ALL about the right leadership. It’s about showing up in your community, standing at the frontlines of your movement, and leading your people to freedom. Now when we talk about leadership, we...

The first rule of business is that there are no rules. Y’all know that I’m all about liberating myself from the hustle and grind culture, slowing down, defining my own pace, tuning in to my intuition, and living in the present. But your girl wasn’t always this breezy....

Let’s go back in time shall we? Those of you who’ve been following Revolutionary Rising might know this, but I grew up as one of the only Black girls in a predominantly white world. Like most of us, I learned that blackness is unacceptable, and your proximity to...

We were taught to always fight for our place at the table. To do what it takes, even it meant having to elbow somebody else out of their seat. But doing it all alone can get exhausting - and it strips us of what we all deserve as women and femmes of color… ...ease....

As human beings, we’re naturally inclined to watch other people and imitate their actions in order to survive. And as women and femmes of color, society teaches us to second-guess our every thought and action. We’re told that business is cutthroat, there is no place...

I need money to put food on my table. I need money to get my kids to school. I need money to live the good life. I bet some of y’all had these thoughts running through your heads when you heard my podcast on Thursday. And you ain’t wrong, sis. You do need the money....

Stay in your lane, don’t rock the boat, take what you’re given and don’t complain. Well, I’m calling bullshit. And I bet you are too. Times are changing. There’s momentum building…I feel it in my bones. Something that has become crystal clear for me is that this...

What is a revolution? It’s not just standing in a crowd with signs in hand (though that’s pretty damn important). For better or for worse, as women and femmes of color, revolution permeates the very walls of our businesses. And it bleeds into everything we do, like:...

Wow, it has been such a long couple of weeks. I didn’t publish a blog last week because, well, I’m human. On top of that, I’m a black, female-identifying human...so, I needed some rest. Even now, two weeks into this civil rights movement - I’m finding my energy low,...

Here’s the one thing you have to stop doing if you want to make more money, faster: Telling yourself that your ideal client isn’t in your current audience or network. Right now, you’re not making the kind of money that you want to make, and you’re telling yourself...

Make sure you’re not holding yourself back in your business because you’re secretly afraid you can’t handle it. I know it’s easy to believe that you’ll have to become a new, upgraded version of yourself to be able to handle everything in your business. I want to make...

Let’s just be real: it’s a rough week to be a WOC business owner. Unlike our white counterparts, we’re forced to navigate our emotions and retraumatization around the injustice in this country…. ...while also trying to run a business. It’s not easy...so, I wanted to...

There are a couple folks on my feed whose content has been repelling me lately, and I couldn’t figure out why. Multiple times a day, there’s posts about their epic client wins, their unparalleled relationship, the list goes on. At first I thought I was triggered by...

Are you struggling to find inspiration for your content? I could give you a ton of prompts to light your content on fire... ...but tbh, those content prompts you love are just a crutch. Here's the real ass solution: You've gotta start looking for the inspiration....

I don't know about you, but I'm always trying to fix something about my business. My messaging. My systems. My content that I'm delivering to my clients. Literally, I am always trying to fix all of the things. Seeing the problems & holes in things is one of my...

I want to tell you a really cool story about one of my favorite, unicorn clients, who recently told me, “I have to say, I’m a testament to your magic.” She reached out with an update on her life, letting me know that she had: 🙌Quit her corporate job 🙌Launched a...

The hardest part about being visible in your business isn't the actual creation of content. The hardest parts are: believing that you have something to say. saying the thing that you want, even when you’re pretty sure someone’s going to disagree. knowing that you can...

Do you ever catch yourself wondering, “How does she do it?” As you watch your favorite coach have another 50k month? You’re convinced that she has a better: 💕strategy 💕audience 💕message 💕sales call flow or whatever other B.S. you’ve equated leading to success. Can I...

I was reminded of the beauty in the world this morning. 
One of my mastermind clients had made a really personal, vulnerable share in our mastermind group last night. 13 hours later, I checked in and was shocked because: 🙋🏿‍♀️every single womxn in the mastermind had...

You have to pay attention to what you’re thinking. Because your thoughts dictate the way you act. And the way you act dictates the money you make in your biz. I’ll give you an example: I just had a really incredible womxn join my business mastermind. But it was a...

I’m talking to an incredible womxn entrepreneur who is ready to scale her business for real in 2020. She believes in herself. She happened upon me and my work. She totally gets how what I do and feels like the way I do it is exactly what she needs to grow her biz. But...

You are perfect the way you are. Your sensitivity is not a burden. Your unique set of needs are not strange. You are not wrong for wanting and needing something different. You have the most beautiful of souls. I know this because I am you, I’ve loved you, and I’ve...

I sat next to the most annoying guy on the plane the other day. He asked 20 questions to figure out what kind of drink he wanted to order. He asked if someone would switch him out of his middle seat. He asked for a blanket. He asked me to turn my light off, even...

I want to tell you about a client of mine. Her voice was choked up in tears as she told me,“I just never feel good enough.” She felt like all her friends’ businesses were doing better than her’s. She was worried that if she did collaborations with other coaches, she’d...

The end of the year is only days away - holy fucking hell. I don’t know about you, but this has been a year for me. It’s been a huge, excruciating, exciting, and wonderful year full of massive wins...like turning my part time side hustle into a full-time, six figure...

I need you to hear me when I say this: YOU DO NOT NEED MORE DISCIPLINE. I am so tired of women coming to me… ...beating themselves up. ….calling themselves lazy. ….convinced that there’s just something wrong with them… Just because they’re not managing their time...

Want to see your therapist’s jaw literally drop? Say this out loud: “I feel worthless. I’m ashamed that my husband has to tell people I’m his wife.” As I continued explaining why (and she put her jaw back together), she stopped my thoughts with this question......

My dad always says I would’ve been an incredible lawyer. (Honestly, whose parents aren't still telling them they would’ve been the perfect doctor or lawyer?) “There’s no point in going toe to toe with you- you thrive on proving a point.” He’s right - and not because I...