New President, New Website, Who This?
This week-ish was pretty slow and boring, huh?
Well. What is there to say about last week-ish?
We have a new president.
And while it didn’t go down exactly as I predicted, we all really knew the outcome as early as Wednesday, even if the networks didn’t call it until Saturday morning. At least as I did. And I explained exactly why I felt confident and willing to be patient in last week’s episode of The Op-Ed Page with Elisa Camahort Page, my current events podcast, in an episode entitled Wait For It.
My confidence today is certainly helped by knowing smart people in high places, like CBS’s resident election and voting law expert, David Becker, who gives a drama-free review of the state of current challenges to the 2020 outcome in this video. Watch this and feel your blood pressure sink just a bit. (And ask me about playing drinking Trivial Pursuits with him when we were 20-somethings!)
And yes, shenanigans will continue, but we just have to turn all eyes to Georgia and support Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, while we wait for it.
I have a new website.
Totally as important as a new President, right? OK, maybe not, but if you find it as agonizing as I do to spend a lot of time thinking about how to talk about yourself and your best qualities, then you can appreciate how happy I am to have secured the assistance of more smart people I know (predominantly Britt Bravo on copy and Joy Johnson on design) to babysit and handhold me through the agony. And to have it done. Cobbler’s children and so on. Yes, I coach other people on how to do this very thing. Yes, I find it painful. Yes, that’s also why I’m good at helping other people do it!
If you’ve been meaning to level up your presence on LinkedIn or your website or your resume, and you’ve been utterly STUCK, my hot tip this week is simple: OUTSOURCE to LEVEL UP.
Just because you’re a writer doesn’t mean you’re great at writing about yourself. Just because you’re a marketer doesn’t mean you see all your best features and benefits without a little prompting. You probably know people who would help you to return a favor, or you could actually hire some great person (who could probably use the business these days) and consider it a worthwhile investment given how much time it will save you.
Hire. Help. That’s the tweet.
Before I go: I also have a new dream career.
Namely: Easy-#vegan-cooking show host.
And thanks to Jane Velez Mitchell’s news outlet, Jane Unchained, I now have the perfect audition tape. Watch me make Un-tuna Salad and Eggless Egg Salad as part of their #LunchbreakLive series.
Coming this week-ish:
This Friday I’m interviewing Dr Terri Givens about her upcoming book, Radical Empathy. It’s the latest in a series of fireside chats I’ve been doing for Remotely, a start-up I’m advising. Terri is an expert on European right-wing authoritarianism, but in the last five years, she’s turned her attention inward to her own country, the U.S. and her own lived experience, as a too-rare Black woman in academia and entrepreneurism.
I’m also writing a regular column for Remotely called The Activist Leader. My latest article asks whether you want to be a Coinbase or Expensify type of CEO. I might have strong opinions about it.
As always I appreciate a share of this newsletter, of my podcast, of my column. And I appreciate feedback and hearing from you too.
And if you think I can help you break through the things that are keeping you stuck, you can always set up your first introductory 30-minute consult for free by booking it in my Calendly.
Have a great week-ish!