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How to Navigate Business Growth

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Building a successful business is a journey and every part of the path you have taken has gotten you to where you are today! Even before your business was even a thought, your experiences have molded you into the strong, ambitious business owner and entrepreneur that you are today. Wow, that's SO AMAZING!  Today I am chatting with Bofta Yimam, Emmy Award-Winning Journalist, International Speaker, Coach & the Founder of Speak & Influence, all about how to navigate business growth, the power of your story and how to slow down to visualize the destination and goals for your business.

MAIN TOPICS

  • There is power in your story and your journey
  • The impact of visibility on your business
  • How to build confidence as a speaker

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Take the time to slow down and strategize

Define the stops along the way to your business destination

State your goals out loud

MORE ABOUT OUR GUEST

Bofta Yimam is an Emmy® & Edward R. Murrow Award-Winning Journalist, DC-based National TV Correspondent, International Speaker, Executive Coach & Digital Course Creator. She was recently honored with the Asian-African Chamber of Commerce & Industry International Leadership Award and the Black Business Review’s Top 40 Under 40 Professionals. From London to Washington, D.C., Bofta has captured global crowds with her dynamic style and presence. For more than a decade, Bofta has reported and anchored live on the morning and evening news for TV affiliates around the country, including CBS and ABC. Most recently, she reported on the impeachment inquiry from Capitol Hill as well as the White House. She is the first Ethiopian-American newscaster to receive an Emmy® and has been honored for her work nearly every year in her career. In 2013, she won a Midsouth Regional Emmy® for excellence in “Continuing Coverage.” A year later, she received the Pennsylvania AP Broadcasters Association award for Outstanding Investigative Report. As a seasoned speaker, executive coach and corporate trainer, Bofta mixes high energy storytelling and insightful content that will motivate your audience into action. From teenage depression to an award-winning broadcasting career to building a successful business from scratch, Bofta now works to inspire others that anything is possible. Bofta firmly believes that adversity has its advantages and there’s incredible power in owning your story — that's what her clients learn to embrace, too. From commanding executive presence to implementing savvy storytelling techniques to help your leadership team standout from the crowd, Bofta's value-packed corporate trainings will leave your team with memorable and powerful action steps to reach your goals.

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Join Bofta's Speak & Influence Facebook Group where she is sharing her 14 STRATEGIC WAYS TO LAND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS HERE

EPISODE TRANSCRIBED

I'm so excited about our guest today. She's an Emmy Award winning journalist. She's an international speaker, a coach, and the founder of speak and influence. And so ladies, I know those of you that are listening, you want to know all of this, because you reach out to me and ask a lot like how do you become a woman of influence? And how did you become confident to speak on stage and kind of say whatever you want, and you don't care what people think. I think that was like my strong willed dad race up. Continue Reading

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