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National Association of Black Women in Construction

The Vision of the National Association of Black Women in Construction (NABWIC) is to build lasting strategic partnerships with first-rate organizations and individuals that will provide ground-breaking and innovative solutions for black women in construction and their respective communities.

We are “THE VOICE OF BLACK WOMEN IN CONSTRUCTION”.

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How To Communicate More Clearly

Communication is the foundation of everything we do. Whether you leave the house or not, you still communicate with others daily, be it online or in person. How well you get along with people hinges on how well you communicate. How successful you are in life hinges on how well you communicate. There are a few 'rules' that you can apply to all of your communications. Why? This is specifically for work or professional communication. Often, we waste a lot of time and energy communicating when we don't actually know why we're bothering. So, think about what you would like to accomplish? This can also be applied to your personal life, even idle chit-chat can have some type of purpose, whether it's bonding or getting to know someone. When others initiate a conversation, consider why it's taking place. If you can't understand why try to gently guide the dialogue to determine the why. The purpose of this is to focus and understand the why to avoid rabbit trails and side iss…

Featured Podcast Higher Vibe

This week's featured podcast is Higher Vibe with Taylor Stone This podcast focuses on personal development, spirituality, mindset, energy healing, consciousness, intuition, self-worth and empowerment. It will raise your frequency and bring the mind and body into alignment to bring about more abundance and magic into your life. Taylor is an energy healer and self mastery mentor who helps women make the connection of how your mind and current belief systems influence your overall well-being and how to instead reprogram your brain to manifest the life you desire. She focuses on energetics and mind body medicine, which addresses all areas of life including mindset, thoughts, emotions, stress level, dietary habits and believes that by raising your frequency and bringing the mind and body into alignment is what will permanently heal your life and bring more abundance into your life. Listen to Higher Vibe on Apple Podcasts

Featured Podcast – Fabulous Fempreneurship

Fabulous Fempreneurship Podcasts with Host Elaine Slatter The Fabulous Fempreneurship Podcasts features collection of podcasts by a variety of exports on a wide range of subjects to help women entrepreneurs. This is a community that empowers, supports and mentors women entrepreneurs, worldwide. Listen on Apple Podcasts

Featured Podcast – The Jali

About The Jali Podcast, hosted by Melyssa Barrett Welcome to The Jali Podcast, with your host Melyssa Barrett. This podcast is for those who are interested in the conversation around diversity, inclusion and equity. Each week, she interviews a guest who has something special to share or is actively part of building solutions in this space. Listen on C-Suite Radio

Featured Podcast Manage Self, Lead Others

About Manage Self, Lead Others. Nina Sunday presents. Aimed at the experienced and aspiring intrapreneurial manager, Nina Sunday interviews experts in self-leadership and leading others, highlighting emerging trends to transform culture. Fiercely Australian, fiercely global. Listen on C-Suite Radio

Coping Strategies for Presentation Jitters

If you are not nervous before a presentation, then you are lying to yourself. Even a veteran speaker gets butterflies. Here are some strategies to assist with overcoming nerves that can sabotage your talk. Public speaking is a skill that everyone needs to cultivate, although most would rather be having a root canal instead. Why? People are fickle and frightening. An audience can turn as quickly as week-old bread. Whether it is a group of twenty or a group of 1,000, the dynamics of your presentation should stay the same. A stable foundation of how to reach your audience will give you the confidence to speak to any size crowd. That alone won’t be enough however. So, here are some coping strategies to tip the scales continually in your favor. How to Cope with Presentation Jitters 1. Get rid of your nervous energy – Instead of fidgeting on the stage for all to see, burn off some of that energy with exercise. Exercise releases those feel-good endorphins that calm mood and outloo…

Follow Your Heart

If you want to be your own person then you will need to learn how to follow your heart. We all have those tugs and feelings that pull at our hearts, telling us where we want to go. Having the strength to follow them is different case altogether. In order to follow your heart you have to learn how to let go of certain things, and start acting upon your instincts and your desires. So how do you start following your heart? First you have to learn how to trust yourself, this means learning to accept you for who you are. Take a look at your life and see what circumstances have led you to where you are today. Is this the path that you want to be on? If not it is time to change course, and only you can give yourself permission to do this. It will not always be easy to follow your heart. You may end up upsetting or disappointing your family. May be you really don’t want the career your parents had hoped for. Or you heart’s desires may lead you to moving away from your family and …

Featured Podcast Love Sex & Magi‪c‬

Love Sex & Magi‪c‬ with Melissa Wells Heart centered wisdom, soul shaking truths, and insights that are juicy AF Love Sex and Magic is the show for people who believe they CAN have it all AND know they deserve it; relationships that are healthy AND passionate, careers that are successful AND fulfilling, and a life filled with meaning, purpose and magic. Join Melissa as she sits down with some of the most brilliant, inspiring and knowledgable voices in the fields of love sex and relationships, health, spirituality, self love, and personal development. Listen on Apple Podcasts

Featured Podcast Manifestation Bab‪e‬

Manifestation Bab‪e‬ with Kathrin Zenkina Whether you’re looking to discover your purpose, want to learn how to attract financial abundance, looking to create massive success in your business, or want to hear inspiring stories from brilliant thought-leaders around the world, The Manifestation Babe Podcast had got you covered! Get ready to feel FIRED UP, ready to take action, and better than when you initially pushed play! Listen now on Apple Podcasts

Lessons Men can Learn from Women in 2021

Lessons Men can Learn from Women in 2021 by Sara Simmonds As a Conscious Innovator and Impact Entrepreneur, my goal is empowering others to collectively rise. We have forgotten that the best ways humans perform is through collaboration, by empowering and shining a light on others, you are in turn, empowering and shining a light on yourself. Be direct, be honest, but be reassuring, create safe spaces where people share their feelings, their vulnerabilities. For too long, in a masculine view culture, it has not been deemed acceptable to share how we really feel, but what I find is the secret of your supercharged growth is through allowing fearful feelings of shame, self doubt, or worry. I encourage conscious leaders through my impact training: the "Your Real Power is You Mentorship Program" to share how they really feel, because when you address your fears, and look them in the eye, you can deal with them, and in your fears, are you secrets to supercharged growth, …

Three Apps that Help Stressed Out People Sleep Like a Baby

Stress has a way of making itself known when we want to go to sleep. Somehow, we can shove our stressful thoughts aside most of the day but the moment we try to clear our minds and go to sleep, BAM- stressful thoughts overwhelm us. There are times when it’s really hard to clear our head and go to sleep. Thankfully, there are ways to help. Our smartphones are never very far away. They can be useful when it comes to reducing stress and helping us sleep. iPhone and Android have apps that help us better understand our sleep cycle and help us clear our minds and sleep better. Here are three apps worth trying. Headspace- The Headspace app’s tag line is Be Kind to your Mind. This mantra is perfect when stress tries to rob you of your sleep. This app has a variety of benefits including help to assess why you may not be sleeping, functions for power napping, and being mindful. The app is free for basics and charges a monthly fee for advanced features. Calm- The Calm app is one …

Featured Podcast Coulda Woulda Shoulda

Coulda Woulda Shoulda with Habits Expert Shelley Rose Sheare‪r‬ Are you ready to be your most Vibrant Self and not live in Regret? Is it time to Re-Frame your Life? How can High Functioning Habits help you to overcome the pain left behind from Abuse, Depression and Illness? It's time to Change your Mind and let go of limiting beliefs. Join Shelley Rose to find a new perspective. Listen on Apple Podcasts

Featured Podcast The Working Mom’s Balance

This week's featured podcast is The Working Mom's Balance Podcast with Tracy Kulwick‪i‬ The Working Mom’s Balance Podcast is aimed at helping you increase your happiness, find meaning and purpose for your life, improve your health, and teach you practical time management skills to get more done in less time. Tune in each week as Tracy Kulwicki, wife, mom, full-time employee, and life coach shares inspiration and motivation gleaned from the field of Positive Psychology to teach Christian working moms how to thrive and experience greater well-being. We’ll talk about faith, parenting, marriage, health, mindset, finding meaning, managing emotions, time management, and so much more. Listen on Apple Podcasts

Featured Podcast Evolve Your Wedding Business

The Evolve Your Wedding Business Podcast: Marketing For Your Wedding Business | Online Business If you are looking to grow your wedding business and learn how to make more money in your wedding business, The Evolve Your Wedding Business Podcast is for you! Your host, Heidi Thompson is the best-selling author of Clone Your Best Clients and the founder of Evolve Your Wedding Business where she specializes in business and marketing strategy for wedding professionals. She helps wedding professionals like you grow their businesses and reach their goals without going crazy in the process. Heidi will bring you top industry experts to help you rock every part of your wedding business, make more money and enjoy your work. Make sure you head over to http://www.evolveyourweddingbusiness.com to get all of the show notes and information on each guest along more even more helpful content! Learn more and listen on Apple Podcasts

Featured Podcast Go Pitch Yourself

This week's featured podcast is Go Pitch Yourself with Angie Trueblood Angie Trueblood is a self-made visibility strategist who is determined to inspire and equip mission-driven entrepreneurs to start putting their hard-earned expertise to good work. Discover how to connect with audiences of your ideal clients through podcast interviews, online publications, speaking opportunities and more, in a way that feels authentic and moves your business forward. If you're tired of doing #allthethings to get known in your niche, it's probably time to get more strategic and focused. Not only will Angie help you develop a strategy that is do-able and effective, but she'll also share behind-the-scenes secrets on what industry experts love (and hate) to see in the pitches they receive. Learn More and Listen on Apple Podcasts

Featured Podcast The RE-Focus Podcast

This week's featured podcast is The RE-Focus Podcast with Angela Stephens We all get busy, and sometimes we need to STOP... take a moment... and RE-Focus. The RE-Focus Podcast hosted by Angela Stephens will be interviewing various leaders in many different industries including ADHD Coaches, Attorney’s, Surgeons, CEO’s and more… Subscribe today and learn how Executives and Leaders Focus, and then RE-Focus when they face obstacles that can derail their focus independently and with their teams. RE-Focus, The Creative Office creates products that make your life easier. All of their products are created "through the eyes of a child with ADHD" they create products that make your life easier...and help you FOCUS. This podcast is not only for individuals with ADHD and ADD, but rather any individual in life that wants to be more productive and RE-Focus! LEARN MORE AND LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS

Featured: Businesses That Care

Businesses that Care with Julie Ann Sullivan is this week's featured podcast Formerly Mere Mortals Unite (C-Suite Radio) provides skills and techniques so you can discover your superpowers. The result is an increase in success and joy in your life and the lives of those that surround you. You don’t have to be a celebrity to possess these superpowers, but you do have to find them. Businesses that Care aka Mere Mortals will take you from ordinary to extraordinary, from mere mortal to super hero. Together we’ll find simple solutions that create big results. Let’s change the world one person at a time, starting with you! Learn more and listen on Apple Podcasts