75: Revolutionary Leadership & Redefining Success As a Black Business Owner w/ Gieselle Allen
Name: Gieselle Allen
Business Name: Gieselle Allen Coaching
Current Title: CEO & Founder
Location: Montclair, NJ
Educational Background: Certified coach via CTI
About Gieselle:
Are you a leader of color who wants to lead and empower in revolutionary ways? Then you need Gieselle Allen…
Gieselle works with revolutionary leaders of color to support them in expanding their businesses, team, and leadership, while also ensuring their needs are met in the process. In her mindset-first approach, she combines mindset, trauma healing and intuition to help her clients create and expand their businesses and revolutionary leadership practices.
When Gieselle’s not coaching, you can find her soaking up the sun in her hammock and taking outrageously long walks with her dog, Syrup.
DURING THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:
- How to be unapologetically Black in your business and messaging
- How racial and intergenerational trauma has affected Black peoples ability to show up authentically and lead
- How the white entrepreneurship world has missed the mark for Black people
- The impact that Black business owners concealing their identity or downplaying their role as owners has on our community
- Unpacking internalized capitalism and how it has impacted and molded our culture
- Why “Twice As Hard” mentality is harming Black people
- Code-switching, and the use of ebonics and African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in business?
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
- [BOOK] What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
- [BOOK] Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome
- Business For The People
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