Jewel Love, a professional executive coach and founder of Black Executive Men (BEM), discusses proactive strategies to advance career and business success. In his conversation with Elzie, he highlights job performance as just one part of building a successful career strategy, and recommends running an internal marketing campaign and networking outside one's own organization for leverage. He also shares ideas about mindset, motivation, and massive action when it comes to clients.

They then talk about Black Executive Men, which offers solutions by meeting people where they are at while providing money, respect, influence, and impact through unlocking extreme competence and tapping into unlimited job leads with support networks available throughout life.

Learn about the fears that many entrepreneurs face and how resourcefulness can help in finding solutions to challenges when you tune in to this episode. Discover how Jewel and his team strive to create a culture of nepotism in a positive way where people can play the game of winning through networks. With practical tips and strategies, this episode provides a roadmap for Black men looking to succeed in the corporate world.

Episode Highlights

10:42 - We focus specifically on Black men, so I can't necessarily speak for everybody because culturally that might be a little bit different for different communities and different demographics. So, we can get to the ways that it could and should possibly get done, but it comes down to promotions. It comes down to raises. That's what's going on in Corporate America. It's competitive and people are there to make money. I can say period for impact or like, in effect, or dramatic effect. But on one sense of the scale, it's period. That's why people are there. That's the game. That's why the corporation literally exists. Whatever they're selling is secondary. They're there to make a profit. Shareholders know it. Everybody knows it.

16:03 - A job is only a part. It's about a third of your career strategy. It's only a piece of the puzzle and that's table stakes. It's baseline. You have to do your job well to advance. So, that's across the board. Unless you really got a strong nepotism and a strong network going, you can get to all kinds of places unmerited. It happens all the time. So, don't think that you have to be doing this great job to get an advance. You don't. To be plugged into networks is the most powerful way to get ahead, career-wise.

24:33 - To have a coach, to have a psychotherapist or psychologist, to have a process of reflection, where you can really – for some guys, that's journaling. For some guys, it's prayer, etc. For some guys, it's sitting by the ocean or being in nature. Whatever it is that can help you see what's going inside of your own mind with some more clarity and, ultimately, find some resolution or a solution to it, it's going to be an essential part of your growth as an entrepreneur. You are going to be growing. You are a reflection of your business and where it's at. And so, if you want your business to grow, you will have to grow internally. Your identity will actually have to shift to allow you to unlock higher levels of business success as well.

27:35 - So, it's about marketing, and this is what took me years to create. It is so simple now. It's Black Executive Men. Oh, of course. That's easy. I could have thought of that. You could have – we all could have. Of course, that's what you would call it. It's an easy name to come up with. It's not the name that's difficult. It's three words. It's the concept behind it, and it's a framework that allows our clientele to say, "That's for me." Black Executive Men is an aspirational identity. It's what our guys want to achieve. It says nothing about trauma. It says nothing about therapy. It says nothing about coaching even, although you can make a tie, executive-executive coaching, but it doesn't say anything about needing any kind of help. It says full empowerment as a business class, as a Black man in Corporate America.

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