23 episodes

Join LaShondra Mercurius, co-founder and President of JLM Strategic Talent Partners, as she discusses entrepreneurship, leadership, and success. Over the past ten years, LaShondra has provided talent and built a community within the transportation and infrastructure sector of the construction industry. In this podcast, LaShondra keeps it real sharing her personal insights on the importance of building partnerships and keeping the industry moving forward through innovation and technology. So tune in every month for everything you need to know on how to affect change in your life and in your business – it might not always be sexy, but it will be REAL. Real Talk with LaShondra

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    • 5.0 • 9 Ratings

Join LaShondra Mercurius, co-founder and President of JLM Strategic Talent Partners, as she discusses entrepreneurship, leadership, and success. Over the past ten years, LaShondra has provided talent and built a community within the transportation and infrastructure sector of the construction industry. In this podcast, LaShondra keeps it real sharing her personal insights on the importance of building partnerships and keeping the industry moving forward through innovation and technology. So tune in every month for everything you need to know on how to affect change in your life and in your business – it might not always be sexy, but it will be REAL. Real Talk with LaShondra

    Understanding the Effects our Careers Have on Our Children

    Understanding the Effects our Careers Have on Our Children

    Our children are our greatest teachers, we can learn so much by seeing ourselves through their eyes. In this episode LaShondra’s favorite guest so far, her son Anthony, tells it exactly how it is! Mother and son dive into the power struggles between parents and their kids, what it’s like having two entrepreneur parents, and heated monopoly games.

    Links
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/lashondra-mercurius
    Website www.LaShondram.com

    • 35 min
    Overcoming Negative Feelings Around Money and Financial Insecurity to allow Your Business to Grow

    Overcoming Negative Feelings Around Money and Financial Insecurity to allow Your Business to Grow

    How many of us know how to overcome our feelings around financial insecurity and imposter syndrome when starting a minority and female owned business? It’s crucial to unpack feelings around money in order to get to a place where we feel valuable enough to allow others to invest in us. LaShondra interviews Bella Ganges, Senior Director of Investments, from Founder First Capital Partner, an organization that focuses on growing diverse businesses. Bella provides tools and strategy to female entrepreneurs to understand what their options are for success in business.

    Links
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/lashondra-mercurius
    Website www.LaShondram.com

    • 45 min
    Harnessing Masculine and Feminine Energy for Optimal Performance

    Harnessing Masculine and Feminine Energy for Optimal Performance

    In this episode, LaShondra examines how the people in her life perceive her. Through confronting the good, the bad, and the brutally honest, she assesses if she's truly acting in line with her purpose. Through this very vulnerable process, she uses this feedback to continue the journey of coming back to herself, and in doing so inspiring others to learn with her along the way.

    Links
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/lashondra-mercurius
    Website www.LaShondram.com

    • 25 min
    Being an Advocate for Future HR Executives

    Being an Advocate for Future HR Executives

    In this special episode, LaShondra sits down with her brother, Anthony, as a guest on the podcast. Anthony is an expert in the Human Resources field and a top Executive at a Fortune 500 Pharma company.

    They get real on issues around diversity and being a successful African American male in a white-dominated workplace, navigating the unconscious bias, and LaShondra's experiences growing up in the shadow of her older sibling.

    Links
    LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/lashondra-mercurius
    Website www.LaShondram.com

    • 1 hr 5 min
    Creating a Safe Space for Our Feminine Energy

    Creating a Safe Space for Our Feminine Energy

    In this episode LaShondra explores her difficulty in creating deep connections with other women, a struggle rooted in her childhood. She talks about her experience at a recent women’s retreat that allowed her to confront her role in the dynamics between herself and other women, helping her to create space to work with her feminine energy and start her journey not only in trusting other women but herself as well.

    Links
    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/lashondra-mercurius
    Website - www.LaShondram.com

    • 49 min
    What is Negging

    What is Negging

    LaShondra explores the term “negging,” a term many may not be familiar with, but have most likely been exposed to several times. She recounts her own experiences with this form of emotional manipulation in both personal and business relationships, and how to identify the red flags we should all be looking out for.

    Links LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/in/lashondra-mercurius
    Website www.LaShondram.com

    • 36 min

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