Choose Courage Over Fear with Kelly Charles-Collins

Choosing her Hustle Podcast

Choose Courage over Fear with Kelly Charles-Collins

Guest Bio

Kelly Charles- Collins is a retired attorney, professional speaker, award winning TEDx speaker. She is also the chief visionary badass of ladies who leverage global network and mentoring accelerator where she connects and mentor badass women entrepreneurs in safe, supportive spaces so that they can create and share ideas, build thriving businesses and live life unapologetically A F. Kelly is the host of The Ladies Who Leverage podcast and recently became the publisher of The Ladies Who Leverage Visionary Life magazine.

Intro:

Hey there! I'm so happy to have you here. In this week's episode of Choosing Her Hustle podcast, we are joined by Kelly Charles Collins. She an incredible woman who is doing amazing things as an entrepreneur after quitting her lucrative job as a lawyer to pursue her purpose in life. Kelly takes us through her journey, what she does and how she started her six-figure business in the middle of a pandemic by leveraging a tragedy into an opportunity and other interesting conversations. This one fascinating episode you can't afford to miss out especially if you are thinking of quitting your paycheck job and pursuing your own life goals.

Let’s delve in!

In this Episode You’ll Learn:

[01:49] Who Kelly is.

[03:10] Why Kelly retired as a lawyer to pursue her purpose in life

[06:05] Kelly’s journey after retirement

[02:20] How Kelly made the big difference in terms of her speaking business and built a six-figure business in the middle of a pandemic/ George Floyd's murder 

[11:48] How to increase your level of influence/Things you can do to raise your level of influence

[12:56] Why people follow celebrities and influencers

 [14:50] Kelly’s thoughts on power and influence

[17:26] What living life unapologetically means especially for black women stepping into entrepreneurship

[19:39] Kelly’s thoughts on the imposter syndrome

 [20:58] People who have success also live in fear forget the illusion

[23:48] Kelly’s pot holes, bumps and detours in life

 [24:35] When you are clear and have more certainty you win

[26:36] The biggest lesson according to Kelly when building business

[27:55] Choosing the right voice to listen to and learning to trust your gut

[31:52] What is going on in Kelly’s life

 [32:42] Why businesses started by most women don’t last long 

[34:00] The baby effect and its five elements

[36:22] Kelly talks about her new incubator programme she just launched for women who have not reached six figures 

Quotes:

• “You have to choose courage over fear. And in that courage is where power lies, right the somebody who is powerful is courageous” [00:16]
• “The universe will call you to account for the things that you put into the world.” [03:57]
• when we're talking about impact, when you raid when you create impact, and you raise your level of influence money will come. [06:32]
• “It was a way to leverage something that was so tragic, for the good to create the impact that I had set out to create.” [11:05]
• “In order for you to make the impact that you want, right to create the impact that you want, people have to know who you are, people have to know who you are, they have to know what you're capable of doing. “[12:21]