TaShan Parks Twyman

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Sometimes, leads get lost.

If no one else tells you, I desire for you to be happy, healthy, wise & 𝓡𝓲𝓬𝓱.

Did you know that Imposter syndrome is a pervasive feeling of self-doubt and inadequacy, often plaguing high achievers despite evident success, especially women?

However, the challenge with imposter syndrome lies not only in its psychological grip but in the stark reality that some individuals may indeed be underqualified.

Let's explore the nuanced landscape of imposter syndrome and its underlying causes

1. The Echo Chambers and Code-Switching Dilemma
The modern workplace demands a level of adaptability that can lead to imposter syndrome, especially among women and minority groups. Code-switching, the act of altering one's behavior and language to fit in, creates a constant state of self-editing. This practice can erode self-confidence over time.

When individuals have to continually adjust their identity to align with workplace norms, it reinforces the idea that their authentic self is inadequate. This persistent modification can lead to feelings of fraudulence and a belief that they are not genuinely capable or worthy of their positions.

2. The Myth of Not Being Good Enough
Imposter syndrome often stems from internal and external echo chambers. These are environments where individuals constantly receive messages—either from themselves or others—that they are not competent or deserving. Women, in particular, are susceptible to these messages, which can hinder their career progression and confidence.

In these echo chambers, every mistake feels magnified, and every success is downplayed. The psychological impact is profound, causing individuals to internalize these negative perceptions and believe that they are not good enough, despite evidence to the contrary. This belief system is a significant barrier to seeking promotions or raises, further perpetuating the cycle of self-doubt.

3. The Reality of True Underqualification
While imposter syndrome can be a mental construct, it's important to acknowledge that some individuals may indeed be underqualified for their roles. Preferential treatment and networking can sometimes place individuals in positions beyond their capabilities. As they advance in their careers, the initial lack of competence can manifest as a persistent feeling of inadequacy.

These individuals may struggle with their responsibilities, leading to a perpetual sense of being an imposter. Unlike those who are merely experiencing self-doubt, those who are truly underqualified must contend with the reality of their limitations, which exacerbates the syndrome.

Imposter syndrome is multifaceted, driven by the pressures of code-switching, the impact of negative self-talk, and, in some cases, genuine underqualification. By understanding these dimensions, we can better address the root causes and support individuals in overcoming these challenges.

Now, more than ever, it is vitally crucial that organizations foster inclusive environments that validate diverse identities and competencies, thereby diminishing the grip of imposter syndrome on talented professionals.

However, let's not leave the ball solely in their courts.
I challenge everyone reading this post, and I thank you for coming this far.

Ask yourself:
Is imposter syndrome an issue I need to address and or correct?
Have I allowed imposter syndrome to fester because of my negative self-talk?
What are some mental shifts and skill developments to mitigate this self-doubt?
What actions will I take today to navigate while healing?

If you resonated with any of the comments above, please share your wisdom on how to successfully navigate life of as (low-key) imposter.

Mothers hold the weight of the world on their shoulders and our future in their wombs.

They possess the beauty, the poise, power, and strength to birth and carry a nation.

Today, let's take a moment and celebrate all mothers; those women who loved us, nurtured us, cared for us, and prayed for us.

Whether biological, adopted, teachers, mentor or friends, a Mom has always been there, guiding us successfully in life.

Take a moment to thank her, and all mothers like her.

Happy Mother's Day

TaShan Parks Twyman

Can I share how I was so wrong about the K. Dot vs Drizzy beef?

I almost missed the forest for the trees because I didn’t follow my own advice.

In true introvert form and fashion, if it doesn’t impact, involve, or is none of my business, we tend to take the J. Cole route.

I’ll add my two cents, post, dip, and then go on to mind the business that pays me.

And, initially, this power battle between two lyrical juggernauts wasn’t a topic piquing my interest.

Nonetheless, for the past two weeks, it has been nearly impossible avoid it.

From Facebook, to Threads, to Twitter (yes, I still and will always call it Twitter, all my news Feeds have been cluttered with random post, lyrical critiques, and a tsunami of thought pieces about Rap Battle of Battles since, well Drake 🆚 ___________ (fill in any of names below)

Again, no shade or rocks thrown…

For me, the level of importance with what either men say or do, doesn’t contribute to nor sn**ch away my peace or collection of my coins. So I was good with my ignorance.

Ironically, I’ve chosen to transitionally shift this position.

Thus, this post, the subsequent content and conversational pieces to follow.

The initial “beef” was reminiscent of the Avengers vs Thanos conundrum, with Drake being Thanos, Kendrick being the Compton Captin’ AmeriKKKa, and Future being Nick Fury. (The reason why we’re all here.)

It took 5011 of nem to plan and plot this clandestine operation, initially, in what appeared to be “beef” solely based on why they don’t “like” Drake??

Really, Drake? (in my Soulja Boy voice)

Yes. Mr 6 God himself.

Drake has shown to be a formidable faux from prior attempts at his reign. From Meek Mill, Ye, Pusha T to personalities like Charlemagne and Joe Budden, he’s shown and proved, he couldn’t be stopped via individual attacks.

They realized, some from personal experience, they were not strong enough to take him down alone.

So in true villainous fashion, albeit humorously ironic, a group of personalities, of which a vast number of people, dislike, despise, or disdain, in some form or fashion, decided to switch up and take on the roles of anti-heroes.

And, superficially (to me) it looked petty, problematic, and anti-profitable, qualities which will disqualify any of my attention or involvement

I texted my bruv Iva Marshon Williams to ask why are these grown men wasting their lyrical prowess?

Did’t they have something better to do, like sell somthin’?

I missed the forest for the trees.

Because the priors, I really tried to avoid adding my two cents at the first whiff of an issue.

☑️ Yes, it’s petty.

✅ Yes, most of the parties involved are perpetually problematic.

💰 But….the profitability caught my eye.

Now, like most people, I’m locked and loaded to this.

I’ll be back later with my full break down of how the Hip Hop Battle of this generation converted the petty, the personas, and the personal into profits.

Make sure “Like”, Follow, and Add to your favorites to see when I’ll be back with the break down.



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Buenos Días Loves 💋

Good Morning Loves 💋

Week Two Loading

𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒔 💋

It’s the First of the Month…
(in my Bone Thugs in Harmony voice)

And after the damage done for Black Friday, Access Black Friday, Pre- (Pre) Black Friday, Cyber Monday+, this check was a needed respite. 🤦🏽‍♀️

And don’t act like you didn’t spend those coins.

The retailers, Shopify, Samcart, PayPal, and them says otherwise.




get a truly receive a bad rap.

However, Mondays are 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 for setting the tone of the week.

Here’s how.

1. 𝑩𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍:
Taking an specific action beyond goals and desire.

Being intentional is being actionable.

▶️ What are you going to do?
▶️ What tasks 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 you complete?
▶️ What are the goals will be accomplished?

2. Qualify what’s 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕:

This can be challenging for most because we all have different values.

Plus, internal importance (personal values) varies from external importance (key components necessary accomplish goals)

▶️ Review and write what’s intrinsically 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 to you. ie Heath, Family, Friends et.

▶️ Pencil in the task, appointments, brunches, dates, calls that lead to fulfilling your personal goals etc 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕.

▶️ Then repeat for work, business, etc

3. 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆 the priorities.
This can get tricky if you’re not clear.

Not being able to differentiate between importance and priorities keeps lost people busy, unfulfilled and always running behind

▶️ Importance = value
▶️ Priority =Sequencing. Order of what should be done and when.

I promise, when you get these down, life becomes so easy.

3. Know your 𝑪𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒚

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

I’m not you going to say much on this.

If you know, you know.

Make it a magnificent Monday loves.

💋

Georgia’s bipolar weather inspired this post.

What something 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 like, 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 like and what it 𝒊𝒔 can be misaligned and or deceiving.

Choices made on the latter keeps us safe, grounded, aligned, and set up for success.

The first two will have you f**k up, sooner or later.

Don’t believe me.

Just walk outside today.

It’s the first day of Spring, yet, it 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 like mid-winter.

Trees have been prematurely blossoming for weeks. However, they’re budding on time today, as they should.

For weeks, plants, trees, and crops, 𝒇𝒆𝒍𝒕 like spring was here, and began blossoming, ahead of time.

Most gardeners are disappointed and farmers are left in precarious situation, and not a good one.

Blossoming for your time starts as an exciting experience, yet, leaves us with minor inconvenience or long term devastation.

𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏 learned…

💐 Sometimes what 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒔 right, right now isn’t 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 for us.

🌺Going with your 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, based on external conditioning, will put you in place to struggle

🥀Global warming is very 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 and got us all the way messed up.

🪷And, there’s a 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 for everything and everyone to blossom, it just might not be right now.

But it’s coming soon.

Welcome to Spring.

💋💐🫶🏾🌺

𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝑰 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕?

I’m in the process of consulting a personal friend.

During our clarity call, we uncovered most of her problems centered around environmental work challenges.

Ablbeit they are cultural, personality based, and incongruous systems, they all have one common denominator: 𝑪𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆

While curating solutions, I realized I’ve been similarly problematic(with others, at times) too.

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒘 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆....

I need a minute to process this.

Can anyone else relate?

What did you think and or feel when you realized you’ve been part of someone else’s issues?

a professional resume writer:

▶️ Preferably, someone who has more than five years of writing copy writing experience in both Corporete and Entrepreneurial spaces.

▶️ Possesses the versatility to write in the native language of the client as well as their own.

▶️ Has extensive experience with optimizing LinkedIn profiles with keywords

▶️ Well verses interview process, communication, and or salary negotiation. This isn’t a requirement, but definitely a plus.

If this is you or anyone you’ve worked with, tag yourself/them below, your website, and how to contact you.

Even if you’re not a copywriter or résumé builder, if you have any of the above experiences, feel free to tag yourself, and brief detail of experience/expertise.

My DMs are open to chat as well.

𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝑶𝒏𝒆𝒔 who feel unloved, under-appreciated, devalued, tired of giving with little reciprocity, and getting the short end of the stick.

𝑺𝒊𝒔, don’t allow these negatives block the blessings you do have.

𝒀𝑶𝑼 are the lover, the lesson, the support, solution, the inspiration, the aspiration, the mentor, the leader, the friend, the framily, the confidant, 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒆 𝑶𝒏𝒆 - so many others need and are waiting for.

Take time and inventory of 𝑾𝒉𝒐 you are, 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 you offer, and the value to bring to others.

Direct your love, light, energy and awesomeness - 𝒅𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒚.

Because who you’re looking for is deeply looking, wanting, needing, and will appreciate your presence, power, and position.

𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒎𝒆.

I’m just waiting on you.

🫶🏾

Environments deeply impact productivity for .

𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝑴𝒐𝒐𝒅,

Let’s shift the energy and 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒕 the flow for this week.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 or 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 people into action or activities is a fleeting, obnoxious, and temporal solution.

Sure it 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔.

But for how long?

It’s now 𝒐𝒍𝒅, 𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈, and 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 to the “𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆" rising culture .

It will continuously attract co-dependent, underperforming followers who are only stimulated into action after being ignited by 𝒇𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 for motivation.

And if this is for you and working for you, do you love.

𝒀𝒆𝒔, you can make a great living from perpetually tapping into FOMO.

But for how long? (rhetorical)

Tap into this new wave of effectiveness, efficiency, connection, over grinding, grit, aggressiveness and fear as catalyst for change.

I’m not saying the latter aren’t effective or that they will not work.

I’m just recommending a new approach that delivers more with less stress, mess, and misery.

🫶🏾

Thank you Senator for coming to the Big City of Rome.

We thank you for working for all of Georgia.

Ready to make you our Senator, again‼️

𝑹𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒆.

August is officially

And anyone who knows me, knows that is more than a hashtag for my business, it’s the mantra for my life.

And for me, it’s important to me to give our 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆 their flowers, referrals, recommendations, support, and most importantly, 𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 for their amazing services.

So I decided to add a public list of my favorite 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑶𝒘𝒏𝒆𝒅 businesses and brands as a resource guide.

For the rest of the month, I’ll be dropping post and tagging different business from a array of industries.

Feel free to tag the name of a person and their business you feel are the 𝒅𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔𝒕 BoB.

And do more that tag, like, or comment, a product, them, or them for their services.

***Drop pics if you purchased from them.
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What’s the first thing on your mind when you wake up? (𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒚)

Is it you?

Your spouse?

You kids?

Your God?

Your business?

I’m trying to see something.
(𝑵𝒐 𝒘𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒓)

If you think you’ll be judged, DM me your response.

xoxoxo

Everyday

Prioritize people who 𝒑𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖.

Let’s normalize and 𝒃𝒆 at peace with making 𝑺𝑰𝑮𝑵𝑰𝑭𝑰𝑪𝑨𝑵𝑻 investments to 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔 quality 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑𝒔.

𝑬𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚.. with women, personally and professionally.

Discovery calls, dates, consultations or services…

There’s an invesment for our time, energy, access, and advice.

This isn’t up for debate nor discussion.

It’s a standard for us, a suggestion for y’all.

De nada

xoxoxo

🍰

Just click the link and call me babe. 💋

Happy Mother’s Day 💋

It takes most people 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 tired of being tired before they will listen.

It’s takes most people 𝒃𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 sick of being 𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 before they will take advice.

…don’t be 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 people

The past week has been 𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒄.

I’ve been intentional, discerning, and discreet with the qualitative and quantitive time, energy, attention, and money with whom, what, and where I invest.

I was blessed to attend two powerful brand and speaking training events that clarified, solidified, propelled my vision to the next level.

I connected to the franns and framily who’ve been constant (and consistent) sources of love, support, and accountability prior, during, and post healing.

I expanding my vision, network, and capacity for more.

𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒇𝒕 happened.

New trajectory loaded.

Y’all coming or nah?

💋