it’s totally OK. Let the walls down and accept the
crappy situation. Give yourself a little more love
and lot more heart. Your business and your personal life deserves it.
About the Author
About the Author
you will build business relationships that are stale
and bland. I don’t know about you, but in a perfect world, my ideal client would also be my best
friend. Maybe our clients would love and trust us
more, if they saw the real raw side of us too.
This doesn’t mean you have to wave your dirty
underwear around for every person to see, it just
means that we are little more open to being judged
and vulnerable. Our business life does not mean
that we have to walk around with a ruler shoved up
where the sun doesn’t shine. Be you. Being you is a
pretty damn awesome. My goal is to have a pretty
damn awesome business so naturally the two just
make sense in my head.
The person you see online is the same lady you
get face to face. I say off the wall things, but I can
come up with some magical social media strategies. In my personal life, I am blunt and to the
point. I’m just like that in business. There is no
double standard.
Let’s all get a little more cozy with ourselves and
our relationships. Personal and business. If something in business doesn’t feel right, trust your gut
instincts. It’s kind of like the same feeling you get
when you know you shouldn’t date a jerk. Same
thing. Same world. Trust it.
The next time you show up to a business meeting with your walls up or you are feeling crappy
because you just had to let a client go, remember
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Samantha Parker is a Social Media Strategist +
Manager and the owner of Hype Social Strategies. She teaches small business owners how use
social media to find their true voice and let their
badass selves shine with a direct, non-apologetic
style. She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief
of Badassery Magazine whose mission is to
inspire, empower and support badass entrepreneurs everywhere.
hypesocialstrategies.com