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Hey there, I'm Michaela.

I'm an expert on personal branding, medium roast aficionado, and LinkedIn? It's kind of my thing. Cozy up with another cup of coffee, and learn more about how I can help take you, your team, or next event attendees from beginner to all star online with real strategies that work for real people.  

 

 

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You know how some people have a crazy face when they’re at the gym, lifting weights? ✨✨✨ I have the battle look when I’ve been pulling on jeans lately 🤣 ✨✨✨ Can I be totally frank with you? I’ve gained more than just “winter bod” weight over the past few months 🙈. ✨✨✨ Ever since I got the call that my dad had Alzheimer’s, I’ve turned to food to deal with my terrible reality. ✨✨✨ Dad had another fall? Lemme drown my worry in a sugary margarita 🍹(OK maybe more like four) ✨✨✨ He’s being transferred to palliative care? Sounds like a trip to McDonalds is in order! 🍔🍟 ✨✨✨ The days and weeks after my dad died, I didn’t give a damn about vitamins, or protein, or what would give me energy. I mean hell, energy to do what? I could barely lift my head off my pillow. Everything sucked. Junk food became my co-pilot on my binge of self destruction. ✨✨✨ But I don’t regret my choices during that time. Why? Because I did whatever the heck I needed to do to survive when getting dressed and showered was a freaking miracle. My muffin top is a reminder that yes, I made bad choices for my body, but I’ve made it to a point now where I love myself enough to care about saying goodbye to the extra pounds. ✨✨✨ I love myself enough again to be intentional instead of reckless about the things I feed my body and my mind. ✨✨✨ That play doh belly? It’s just a crappy souvenir I have from an awful season of survival mode. ✨✨✨ If you are in a similar place, maybe you’ve battled depression, or experiencing a heartbreaking breakup or divorce, and you have a similar battle face when you put on your fav old Levi’s, give yourself some grace. Be grateful that you’ve done the things that you needed to like the warrior you are and make yourself a promise that today you will stop surviving and start thriving again. ✨✨✨ Or, do what I’ve been doing, and sing “Thank you, Neeeexxxxt!”🎶 every time you change in front of a mirror 😂 ✨✨✨ ❤️ DOUBLE TAP if you feel me on this!
Why can't we host parties for women that create new businesses like we do with new babies? It could be like a baby shower 🤰, except we could play "business plan bingo", "guess the margin", and "don't say you'll get paid in exposure” DOUBLE TAP ❤️ if you agree, and tag the ladies you'd invite to your boss babe shower! 👇 #bossbabes #femaleentrepreneurs #babesunite #communityovercompetition
“I love your confidence! How did you find the courage to share your story?” I was speaking at @niagaracollege last week and a student asked me this question, and tbh, it caught me off guard. ✨✨✨ I mean, yes, I’m confident and own this hot mess express that is my life, but how did I actually get here? ✨✨✨ Did you know that I used to struggle so much with perfectionism that I was anorexic and Agoraphobia? ✨✨✨ There came a point in my life where I knew I would never measure up to my dumb standards. I had love handles, I need clinical deodorant because I sweat more than my husband, and I seem to have a permanent foot-in-mouth disorder. ✨✨✨ I overcame Agoraphobia because I was faced with the decision to either live small forever, or accept my imperfections, but I still didn’t OWN them, you know? I certainly wasn’t strutting around, showing them off like I did when I bought my @louisvuitton Neverfull GM. ✨✨✨ So seriously, WTF happened in the last three years that have transformed me from an insecure hermit to somebody that shares pelvic exam results on IG? ✨✨✨ Then, I realized that my aha moment was after my first talk when I spoke about Agoraphobia for the first time. ✨✨✨ My hands were trembling so much that I could barely hold the mic, and I broke out in hives up to my earlobes. ✨✨✨ I told the audience my story while they were eating a catered meal of prime rib and mashed potatoes. Some people looked up to listen, but guess what happened next?! ✨✨✨ Y’all, they KEPT EATING THEIR DINNER! ✨✨✨ This thing, this deep, dark secret that I can been burdening myself with for so long, the one truth that I thought made me weak and unworthy, it wasn’t even a big enough deal to compete with a freaking slice of beef! ✨✨✨ Once I realized that we are ALL perfectly imperfect, and that my human flaws wouldn’t disqualify me from love, and wealth, and kindness, I think it was that moment that I not only became free to dance like a fool to the beat of my own drum, but to love and accept others that dare to do the same. ✨✨✨ Let’s make some magic on this post. How did you learn to own your story? Or are you still struggling?
Today marks the one year anniversary of me walking away from the corporate world and leaping into #solopreneurship. ✨✨✨ There have been highs and lows, but I’m so dang proud of myself for surviving my first year, and I’d love to share some of the lessons I’ve learned for those considering a new career adventure. ✨✨✨ 1️⃣ Being a great technician (doing great work) isn’t nearly enough. Talent only gets you so far, you’ll need to learn management and entrepreneurship skills whether you like it or not (yes, that might mean work is fun 1/3 of the time 😂) ✨✨✨ 2️⃣ You’ll need a support group. Yes, it’s SUPER awesome to not have to hear about Karen’s grandson’s rash or Bob’s weekend at the cottage at first, but you’ll find yourself yearning for coworkers. We need other humans to thrive and grow. Find others that understand your goals and create a network of people you can call on to vent about your late paying client. ✨✨✨ 3️⃣ There will be incredible moments where you feel on top of the world, and moments when you feel an impulse to start searching for a “real job” on Indeed. ✨✨✨ Working solo is insanely emotional because it’s just YOU, and you’ll need to learn that you RUN a business, you are not a business. Learning the difference will help your mental health. ✨✨✨ 4️⃣ People aren’t all good. Read every line of a contract and set expectations. The amount of companies and people willing to screw over the “little guy” (that’s you) is startling. ✨✨✨ 5️⃣ People aren’t all bad. Don’t let a few weenies make you jaded. Trust your instinct and lean on others when they offer to help. ✨✨✨ None of us succeed alone, we need to be willing to learn from those that are ahead of us, and lend a hand to those that are just getting started. ✨✨✨ What’s the one piece of advice that you wish somebody had told you when you started your business? ✨✨✨ Ps. For those that are like wtf do you do Mick?! Check out my website mickalexis.com to learn more about my #LinkedIn training services!
I’m ready for whatever comes next. ✨✨✨ Yesterday, I got a call from my doctor, and words she spoke felt like a blow to my heart... 👩‍⚕️Endometrioma cyst found during an ultrasound 👩‍⚕️May contribute to infertility ✨✨✨ Infertility. I’ve spent years preparing for this joyous moment when I would finally decide to bring a baby into this world and that phone call lit my blueprint on fire. ✨✨✨ I’m OK though. ✨✨✨ I’m hopeful that this is just the beginning for me, but I’m also surrendering to idea that whatever woman I’m meant to become, I will. ✨✨✨ Regardless of my one delinquent ovary, I am whole, I am a warrior, and I am...probably going to need a bigger house to house all my dogs if this baby thing doesn’t work out 🐶. Does anybody else have an #Endometrioma cyst and/or #endometriosis? I’d love to hear your story! #endo #infertility
I NEVER thought I’d be so happy to see glorious, beautiful pavement and clean geese poop off my car. ✨✨✨ It’s been a chaotic, challenging winter. I lost my dad, I lost my identity as a daughter...and tbh, I often felt like I was losing my mind. ✨✨✨ But in the midst of the frosty flurries and darkened days, I saw glimmers of good. ✨✨✨ The cousins that drove for days to hug me at the funeral. ✨✨✨ The friends that showed up with open arms and uncorked bottle of wine. ✨✨✨ The sunsets and sunrises that showed up when I felt like the world had lost all its colour. ✨✨✨ But today I stood outside in shorts and my morning cup of coffee, and breathed in the air without my nostrils getting stuck together. The sunshine poured over me. ✨✨✨ When my dad passed, all I wanted was to go back to the old me. But, I soon realized that I will never be the old Mick again. ✨✨✨ I cannot deny my loss, I could only surrender the idea of myself that isn’t true anymore and accept the growth that has been thrust upon me. ✨✨✨ And just as I have fully embraced the idea that I will rise stronger, not in spite of this, but because of this, I am reminded by nature, the ultimate truth teller, that a new season will come. ✨✨✨ 🙋‍♀️ if you are SO READY for a new season filled with new life and new possibilities!!!
Do you ever feel like you’re waiting for that magical Disney-esque moment in your career when you feel like “YES, it was all worth it!” ✨✨✨ I definitely did 🙋‍♀️ ✨✨✨ I scrubbed urinals and carpets, worked nights and weekends, waiting for the day that somebody would show up with my other glass slipper. ✨✨✨ I hustled, I worked 7 days a week to impress my bosses. ✨✨✨ One day, it looked like it was finally about to happen. I was promoted and started running my own company. ✨✨✨ THIS WAS IT, Y’ALL! The beautiful office, the prestigious title, I was about to get my princess makeover 👸. ✨✨✨ The only problem? The damn shoe wasn’t even my size! I wanted SO BADLY for it to fit me like a glove, for that moment to be my happily ever after. ✨✨✨ I had no choice but to walk away, to trade in my glass slippers for my beat up converse and build my empire on my own. ✨✨✨ The day after I resigned from my corporate job, after the panic dissolved, I realized that I was still wearing a beautiful gown. My tiara still glistened on the top of my head, and my coffee still tasted like an enchanted potion. ✨✨✨ I realized in that magical moment that what I had been waiting for all along wasn’t a dainty slipper or a charming prince, it was realizing that I had the power within me to be the hero of this story all along. ✨✨✨ 🙋‍♀️ if you are creating your OWN career fairytale!
Yesterday, I got an email from my doctor. They found a minor abnormality during my tests. ✨✨✨ First of all, the word “abnormal” will instantly send an anxiety-ridden worrier into a tailspin. Doctors, can you NOT ever do this?! 🙈 ✨✨✨ “I’m dying! I’ll never have babies! I should Google this, OMG WHY DID I GOOGLE THIS?!?!” ✨✨✨ Lately, after losing my dad so suddenly, I’ve felt a bit like those dogs in that experiment that got shocked over and over, until they gave up, even when no shocks were present. ✨✨✨ I couldn’t control my dad’s death, I can’t control my own body, or the fact that it snowed yesterday in the middle of freaking MARCH. ✨✨✨ I felt the self-sabotage coming on, popping the cork of a bottle of wine and about to order a McNugget meal through @doordash. ✨✨✨ But instead of taking that first sip, I turned to a blank page in my notebook, remembering a story out of Maya Angelou’s book, Letter to my Daughter. When she was feeling hopeless, she was commanded to write down everything she was grateful for until she reached the bottom of the page. ✨✨✨ So I scribbled everything I could think of: 🙏the sunsets over the cornfield in my backyard, 🙏the face offs between my dogs and the squirrel on my roof 🙏 silly voice messages from my friends ✨✨✨ I didn’t just fill the page, I filled pages upon pages. I sat back, marvelled at the words I had written, closed the book, and got back to hustling. ✨✨✨ Life is rocky. There are so many things that absolutely suck that we can’t fix or conquer, and maybe that’s ok, because for every chapter that challenges you, there are novels that could be written about the blessings that surround you every damn day. ✨✨✨ I have no dad, I have no baby, but I have an abundance of gratitude, and these days, that’s MORE than I need to thrive ✌️