Dorianne St Fleur founded Your Career Girl to create a safe space for upwardly mobile, professional women of color to get honest, open, and transparent career support and guidance. She is a high-performance coach and a visibility strategist who primarily works with black women who are high achieving and ambitious and want to get clear on what the possibilities are in their career. Dorianne works with her clients through coaching, facilitating mastermind sessions, and leading training workshops geared toward helping women of color stop self-sabotaging and navigate toward their desired career path gracefully.

Dorianne joins me today to discuss why she started Your Career Girl back in 2015, how it helped her set professional goals for herself and why she focuses her advice on women of color specifically. She shares her experience of working both in consulting and in corporate America during her career, including in leadership roles at Google and how she managed to juggle her full-time job and developing Your Career Girl and find a balance and flexibility in her career. Dorianne also emphasizes knowing your worth, knowing your value, and asking the tough questions in order to achieve your career goals.

“Success is inevitable - the only variable is time. We will all be successful If we get clear on what we want and we are consistent in making it happen.” - Dorianne St Fleur

 This week on Paychecks and Balances:

●      Why Dorianne believes you can have it all as a woman in business, just not all at the same time.

●      Why negotiation is a critical skill, some of the areas where people miss out on the opportunity to negotiate, and how not to leave cash or benefits on the table.

●      How to avoid guilt and focus on self-care, and women can create space to prioritize their mental health and well being without dropping any career balls

●      Dorianne's philosophy on avoiding mediocrity and striving for excellence

●      The practical steps Dorianne took before leaving her corporate job to take Your Career Girl full time and how she prepared to make the leap into entrepreneurship

●      Where Dorianne's achievement orientation comes from and her family's attitude to work

●      How Dorianne manages money, saves, and still prioritizes activities she enjoys

●      Dorianne's rule of thumb when asking for a raise

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●      Your Career Girl on Twitter

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