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Is This How I Want to Represent My Current Business?

By Nicki Sanders | Aug 4, 2023 | 0 Comments

  If you know me, you know my business had gone from The Teen Toolbox to Packaged For Success to Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting. In my current season of reflection and increasing authenticity, I pondered whether it was time for a rebrand. I wondered if it was time to let go of the Nicki Sanders […]

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Welcome to August 2023

By Nicki Sanders | Aug 2, 2023 | 0 Comments

  August Is: Happiness Happens Month Black Business Month Professional Speakers Month August is also the last full month of summer. It is my “end of year” as September feels more like the new year to me since I’ve worked on a traditional school schedule since 2000. I woke early up on yesterday (August 1st) […]

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Motivation Monday Resource: Try Something New Video Series

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 31, 2023 | 0 Comments

  You’ve often heard (read) me say, “It’s GO Time”. And it IS go time! When I think about transformation, I simplify the steps/concept in my mind with the phrase “GO, DO, BE”. GO = Make a firm decision to move from where you are to where you want to be. Success begins with a decision. Go is […]

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Flashback Friday: Making A Living Without A Job

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 28, 2023 | 0 Comments

  One of my favorite entrepreneurship books ‘Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work That You Love’ is by Barbara Winter. I attended Barbara’s workshop decades ago and recommended her book for years to almost every budding entrepreneur I encountered. Yes, even social workers who are not interested in running businesses of their own […]

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Stay Tuned For What’s Next for Nicki Sanders!

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 26, 2023 | 0 Comments

  As I continue to embrace Nicki unapologetically and live in my authenticity, I realize that even when I was a full-time employee it was my entrepreneurial traits that made me a great employee and leader. ‘The world is my classroom. The world is my office. The world is my playground.’ This has been my […]

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Motivation Monday Resource – See It Loud: The History of Black Television

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 24, 2023 | 0 Comments

  Social Work is Political! Resource: CNN Original Series See It Loud: The History of Black Television Series Trailer ‘Are y’all watching See It Loud on CNN? As centuries of our history is intentionally being rewritten with attempts to erase it, it is even more important that we are the keepers and tellers of our […]

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Revisiting and Refreshing Our Social Work Purpose and Goals

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 21, 2023 | 0 Comments

  As a Social Work Career Empowerment Coach, integrity and transparency are important to me. We talk a lot about procrastination as a form of self-sabotage. Want to know how else my self-sabotage has shown its head over the years? Overthinking, over-researching, and over-planning without taking calculated risks and concrete actions. I’ve given them up! […]

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Prevent Boredom During National Anti-Boredom Month

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 19, 2023 | 0 Comments

The National Anti-Boredom Month was created in the 1980s by Alan Caruba to stop people from ‘moping’ around because of boredom after the Independence Day holiday and before the Labor Day holiday. July heat often forces people indoors and students have not returned to school yet so finding fun things to do can be challenging. […]

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The Social Work Rants Podcast Interview with Nicki Sanders

By Nicki Sanders | Jul 17, 2023 | 0 Comments

  Motivation Monday Resource: The Social Work Rants Podcast Interview with Nicki Sanders I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Bas Morena for The Social Work Rants Podcast. In addition to discussing programs that I helped create in my social work career, we also discussed Nicki Sanders Leadership Consulting services, my intention for how […]

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