Product @ LinkedIn | Author of “Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” | “PM Learning Series” Host | Sharing insights about building products and leading innovative teams

👋 Hello! I’m Shyvee—a forward-thinking product lead who combines creativity, human psychology, and AI to build thriving communities and drive impactful product growth.

Previously a Product Lead at LinkedIn and instructor with LinkedIn Learning, I now focus on driving product growth and adoption while activating professional communities on Microsoft Teams, empowering people to connect, collaborate, and future-proof their careers. With a unique passion for community-building and hands-on AI learning, I’ve created a global, multi-disciplinary community that supports individuals while fueling product adoption and growth along the way. Learn more: https://AICommunityLearningProgram.substack.com/about

Throughout my career, I’ve engaged over 100K followers, reaching 40M+ views. My PM Learning Series has featured esteemed guests, including cofounders and CPOs from leading Silicon Valley startups. As President of the Kellogg Alumni Club in San Francisco, I’m a frequent speaker and have influenced digital strategies at organizations like VMware, Disney, Cisco, YMCA, Toyota, HSBC, Telstra, and other Fortune 1000 companies.

My superpowers lie in strategic thinking, innovative problem-solving, and data-driven storytelling, all grounded in a deep understanding of user psychology and enhanced by AI. I leverage AI for rapid prototyping, automating go-to-market workflows, and building high-impact solutions that resonate with users and drive real business outcomes.

I’m also the coauthor of the Amazon bestseller Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI, a practical guide for integrating AI into product strategy, featuring over 150 examples and 30 case studies. Learn more: https://a.co/d/btmnJfu

Shyvee Shi

Breakroom Buddha

Career CoPilot is the AI-powered career acceleration platform that helps job seekers close the education to employment gap, and employers builder smarter talent pools.

✅ For Job Seekers: Personalized AI coaching for resumes, interviews, and career strategy—available 24/7.

✅ For Colleges & Universities: A workforce readiness tool that matches students to opportunities, enhances career services, and bridges the gap between education and employment.

✅ For Employers & Hiring Teams: AI-driven candidate pre-qualification, reducing hiring friction and building a smarter talent database.

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PROVEN IMPACT
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🎉 1,400+ Personalized Career Strategy Sessions
🎉 580+ AI-Powered Resume Optimizations
🎉 200+ AI-Driven Career Mapping Sessions 
🎉 90+ AI-Driven Mock Interview Sessions
🎉 Strategic Partnerships with Metro-Atlanta Schools

The Future of Job Search & Hiring is AI-Driven. Career CoPilot is Leading the Way.

Founder | Career CoPilot - aicareercopilot.com

Breakroom Buddha operates as a career education media company, think tank, and a AI career literacy consultancy designed to help high-level thinkers re-think how they approach work and life.

Breakroom Buddha's career and professional development ecosystem provides AI-powered tools, and customized workshops to help professionals, corporate employees, and entrepreneurs succeed in their careers and businesses.


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Our Offerings
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+ AI Career CoPilot: An AI-driven platform that guides users through their career paths and prepares them for job market success. Get started at aicareercopilot.com

+ Custom Career Literacy Workshops: A series of workshops and career coaching sessions that help individuals and organizations navigate the evolving professional landscape, with a focus on AI integration into career planning and personal brand development.

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Workshops, Guest Lectures, Conference Panels
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Award-Winning Workshop Facilitator, who has been trusted to lead 50+ workshops, conference panels, and guest lectures for partners like:

+ ColorStack
+ PowertoFly
+ Black Girls In Media
+ Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta
+ Google Women Techmakers
+ Girls Who Code
+ The University of Georgia
+ New York University
+ Diversity Cyber Council
+ Morning Brew
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Email to Book: dejawhiteva@gmail.com

AI Career Consultant | Workshop Instructor

Students of The Game Podcast

Students of the Game is a podcast where Coach White and Deja White engage with current and former athletes to uncover the invaluable life lessons learned as student-athletes, from high school through college, to the pros, and then their transition into the workforce.

Podcast Host - Students of The Game

Independent Consultant

TL;DR: Connect businesses with their communities through a blend of in-person and digital marketing initiatives. I assist on a project by project basis. Please contact for details.

Fractional Marketing Consultant | Community Builder

TMRW Sports

TMWR Sports is a new tech-enabled golf league founded by Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, and Mike McCarley. Launching Jan 2025

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Served as the right hand to the League's Digital Director (Chief of Staff like role), leading critical functions in Email Operations and Revenue Operations as the league’s first Marketing Operations Generalist. 

Key contributions included:

+ Developed Comprehensive Operational Frameworks: Established Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all CRM and Email processes across 7 distinct team brands.

+ Structured Digital Revenue Operations: Created SOPs for digital revenue workflows, optimizing processes for all incoming partnerships and enabling seamless integration of ad placements, sponsorships, and promotions.

+ Implemented Ad Trafficking & Quality Assurance Protocols: Built foundational processes for ad trafficking, including brand logo placement on team pages, video content, and other media, enhancing quality control.

+ Strategic Team Development and Advisory: Advised on organizational structure and growth, providing insights into talent acquisition and drafting high-level job descriptions to build an efficient, results-driven team.

+ Vendor and Partnership Management: Managed relationships with external agencies responsible for developing technical assets, such as native players, mobile apps, and proprietary email templates, to ensure tools met operational and brand standards.

Founding Operations Manager (Marketing & Digital)

TL;DR: Act as the critical link between sales, product, and marketing teams, ensuring that our workforce readiness and development products are effectively and accurately marketed to B2B and B2C markets.

+ Founding member of the Marketing Knowledge Management team.

+ Leverage feedback from account executives to pinpoint Workforce product information gaps, resulting in the development of comprehensive brand & sales enablement toolkits. 

+ Simplify the sales process by improving product copy and messaging on the official ACT website, product one-sheets, sales decks, and sales emails; this eliminates product knowledge barriers and accelerates sales deal closures.

+ Orchestrate Workforce product knowledge workshops for internal teams, significantly enhancing product comprehension and fostering cross-departmental collaboration.

Product Marketing & Knowledge Management (Workforce)

Cox Media Group

+ Managed the day-to-day digital operations (social) and frontend development (websites) for big and small moments across 14 Cox-owned stations. 

+ Sole writer for 99 Jamz's "50th Anniversary of Hip Hop" celebration article.

+ Co-led research and copywriting for a first-of-its-kind trivia podcast across multiple markets.

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Digital Content Lead

Morning Brew

+ Founding team member of Morning Brew's culture & corporate social responsibility function.

+ Maximized a $22k budget to develop a slate of robust quarterly programs for 300+ employees and corporate giving initiatives in NYC.

+ Co-wrote monthly company-wide corporate communications related to corporate donation updates, volunteer opportunities, and community awareness initiatives.

Culture & CSR Leader | Employer Branding

☕️ Clients: Mailchimp, Think!, StackAdapt, BambooHR, Wistia, Bolt

☕️ Wore Multiple Hats: integrated marketing, branded content, brand partnership marketing, and sales enablement

TL;DR: Led brand strategy and creative strategy on major campaign pitches with Fortune 500 companies (i.e. Intuit) and growing start-ups (i.e. Bolt). Developed original concepts & campaign positioning, led campaign research, built bespoke marketing campaigns, built insights-driven creative briefs, and translated it all into impactful sales assets (sales enablement).
 
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+ Founding team member (B2B Creative Strategy). Created B2B integrated marketing processes, SOPs, and sales enablement assets from scratch.

+ Grew Morning Brew's revenue for 15+ B2B & B2C newsletters and unique IP (events, podcasts, creators, and merchandise), in a competitive media market by $2MM (new and returning business) in just 1 year.

+ Tapped to moderate 1:1 sponsored thought leadership chats during Morning Brew's inaugural Retail Brew Summit conference.

+ Successfully positioned brands (from Fortune 500 to start-ups) to our 18M+ Morning Brew readers by connecting the dots between market research, business goals, and audience data.

+ Conceptualized one of the quickest pitches to IOs the team had ever experienced within my first month on the job.

+ Revitalized and established new brand strategy, positioning, creative strategy, and content/integrated marketing campaigns for the newly launched B2B franchises.

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Senior Creative Strategist, B2B & B2C Products

Warner Bros. Discovery

📸 Wore Multiple Hats: marketing operations; email marketing; lifecycle marketing; ad operations; channel marketing; and digital marketing strategy

📸  Brands Managed: 
- Sports Brands: PGA, WNBA, NBA, NCAA, BR Live, Bleacher Report, E-League
- Entertainment Brands: Boomerang, FilmStruck, Adult Swim, TruTv

TL;DR: Developed and executed efficient and scalable marketing operations processes that facilitated the simultaneous launch of 1900+ marketing templates/year (including emails, landing pages, and push notifications) for 11 major entertainment and sports brands.

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Digital Marketing Specialist (WarnerMedia)

2020 - 2021: BE Communications Team

Collaborated with ERG leads to build out and launch monthly newsletters in support of the Black Professionals at WarnerMedia. Brainstorm new initiatives, events, and activities that promote and celebrate the Black Professionals at WarnerMedia.

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2020 - 2021: Corporate Social Responsibility Council

Served as program manager and the direct point of contact for volunteer participants and community organizations for designated company-sponsored community initiatives.

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2018 - 2020: Girls Who Code @ WarnerMedia (Campus Counselor)

Facilitated off-campus "field trips" and on-campus networking events (meet and greets, job shadowing experiences, etc.) for the Girls Who Code @ WarnerMedia summer cohorts.

Employee Engagement & Social Impact Leader

Kept fans plugged into our slate of Sports & Entertainment brands across the web, connected devices, mobile apps, and live video players by building:

+ Marketing Processes & SOPs
+ CRM Campaigns (Email Marketing)
+ Content Landing Pages & Lead Generation
+ Digital Advertising Databases (Display + Pre-Roll, Mid-Roll, Post-Roll Ads)
+ In-App Messages / Push Notifications

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+ Trained and managed new hires: Developed onboarding curriculum (written guides, videos, crash course sessions, etc.), monitored their comprehension of the materials, and guided them throughout the learning process.

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Digital Marketing Coordinator

+ Mastered a variety of marketing automation and customer relationship management (CRM) platforms (i.e. Braze, Harmony, Oracle Responsys) to develop email and cross-channel marketing experiences that delivered value, promoted loyalty, and increased brand awareness for dedicated consumers.

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Tools: JIRA, Asana, Office 365, Google Ad Manager, FreeWheel, Confluence, Titan, AdValidation, Stensul, Oracle Responsys, Braze, Sailthru, PostUp, Harmony, StrongView, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premiere Rush), Excel, Wyng, Leanplum

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CRM, Ads & Marketing Operations Trainee (Turner Broadcasting)

Uber

TL;DR: Joined the inaugural class of Uber Design interns, and wore many hats: Creative Operations, Production, UX Research, and Content Strategy.
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UX Research + Content Strategy: Conducted interviews with Uber Team Experts to improve copy and design for Uber's Center of Excellence (COE) employee resource webpage. Leveraged these insights to redesign the entire COE Hub for a key employee engagement campaign.

+ Creative Ops: Collaborated with senior production designers to ingest, index, and deliver creative assets for paid media marketing channels, web advertisements, and corporate communications

+ Production: Worked with creative producers to re-imagine company-wide initiatives (i.e. company training videos, brand story assets, landing pages) that bridged the gap between driving partners and corporate employees. Released this content to 22K+ corporate employees.

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Tools: JIRA, BaseCamp, Confluence, Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Premiere Pro), Sketch, G Suite

Brand Communications | Creative Marketing & Center of Excellence

Peabody Awards

Selected and judged submissions as an inaugural Peabody Student Board Member (Digital Content), hosted on-campus events for students, and served as a production assistant at the NYC Peabody Brunch and Official Awards ceremony.

But wait... there's more: Presented THE Peabody Award on stage + hosted a red carpet segment on Snapchat + escorted awardees in and out of press interviews.
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Board Member | Brand Marketing

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ABOUT DEJA
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I've been called a "powerhouse," "connective tissue," and a "vibe." 

My Current Mission: Help 1 million professionals align their purpose, potential, and profession by 2030 using AI.

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With over a decade of experience working with Fortune 500 companies and startups like Uber, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Morning Brew, I've mastered the art of blending Marketing and Technology (MarTech) to drive meaningful impact—building engaged communities, fostering interaction, and transforming creative ideas into measurable results.

I now bring this expertise and energy to Breakroom Buddha, where my mission is to empower professionals and organizations to achieve their career and business goals through AI-driven professional development workshops and AI tools like the Career CoPilot (Learn More: aicareercopilot.com).

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WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU
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🧠 AI-Driven Career Development: Lead career development workshops and AI literacy trainings. (Book a workshop or training here: breakroombuddha.com/work-with-deja/)

🧠 Enterprise AI Career Solutions: Integrate Career CoPilot's AI Tools into high schools, workforce development agencies, colleges, and corporations. (See career copilot in action here: https://breakroombuddha.com/job-search-resources/)

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PARTNERSHIPS
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Reach out for:

🤝 Workshop Facilitation
🤝 Panel Talks 
🤝 Corporate Training
🤝 Career CoPilot Enterprise Solutions
🤝 Sponsored Content

💥 Speaker Media Kit & Inquiries: breakroombuddha.com/work-with-deja/

Deja White

Very early in my career, a thought popped into my head:

“When you work on things you don’t own, you’re focused on making someone else’s dream a reality.”

Of course there are real pros to working for someone else...benefits, getting paid to learn, building a network...

BUT that doesn’t mean your dreams go on pause or that you stop building what belongs to you.


My early "ownership" years were all centered around content. Now, I’m deep into building tech and IP systems as ownership (those scale!) And as I keep building in this new era, I’m realizing I’m a mashup of two very specific groups: the founders (the vision people) + the builders (the ones who bring it to life).

After reading & listening to hours of founder & builder stories, I started to notice a pattern, especially for people who build outside the system.

Here’s what it looks like:

🧠 Pattern #1: Your job is your first investor.

The job you’re trying to quit so you can finally start your founder journey... IS literally your VC/first check/your seed funding. Don't quit!

So many founders took this exact route, and it’s still one of the most logical paths.

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🧠 Pattern #2: Ignore the noise, most people don’t understand early ideas.

The hate for “AI wrappers” and “AI vibe coders”... It's a pattern and noise to slow you down.

Let’s be so for real..We all use tools that are technically wrappers. (White-labeling exists for a reason 🥴.) And plenty of “professionally built” products are still a nightmare to use.

If someone built something people *actually* use, and prefers using it over texting a chatbot all day, then what are we even talking about?

Builders: ship it and let the market decide.

People who don’t understand the vision today will understand it later… or not at all. Either way, that’s not your problem.

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🧠 Pattern #3: This is how outside-the-system founders actually build...

👷🏾‍♂️ They don’t build fast & always build with what they have. Flashy moves drain resources. Quiet consistency keeps the vision alive.

👷🏾‍♂️ They’re almost always early and understand the world needs time to catch up. Being early can feel like being “behind,” but usually it’s the opposite.

👷🏾‍♂️ They know it always takes longer than expected. “Overnight success” is a myth. Ten years of chipping away seems to be the real timeline for most builders.

👷🏾‍♂️ They don’t quit, they adjust, and pivot. When progress is slow, they change the timeline, not the vision.

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Every dreamer is a builder. And everything you believe in is valid, aligned, and worth building. Just take a beat, align your resources, and don't let the noise slow you down.

Now… go build.

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Picture:  I spent months in an accelerator and earned $$ to keep building. You can do it too. 👀

☕ Déja White

Future of Talent Architect | AI Assisted + Identity-Centered Career Pathways | Workforce Ecosystem Strategist

choosing to interview on ABC because it's one of the only stations allowed in prison is INSANE!!!!! 

How many of us play chess like this? 👀

The Jobfather™️ - I help people get offers they can’t refuse. – on a mission to help 500 Black people get new jobs in Tech. - 457 and counting.

View Jermaine L. Murray 🇯🇲🇨🇦’s profile

Every once in a while, 50 Cent does something that makes me go "Oh, I see why his enemies shot him 9 times." and this weekend it was the Diddy doc on Netflix that had me in shock.

Watching it had me thinking about more than the documentary. It made me look at how much nonsense people swallow at work because they don’t want problems, don’t want to rock the boat, or don’t want someone retaliating against their livelihood. 

Most people don’t act on their grievances. They eat them so they can survive.

Meanwhile, there are managers on LinkedIn posting about empathy, leadership, and psychological safety while they’re quietly destroying the people who report to them. They call it coaching, feedback, or holding a standard. Their staff call it surviving the week.

I had a manager berate me for an entire shift, then ask if I wanted to join them for drinks. When I didn’t play along, he told me not to take it personal. That it was “Business.”

Business is personal. My income is personal.
My mental health deteriorating because of a toxic workplace is personal.
What your bias or incompetence does to my life is very personal.

Some of the managers who follow me have done real damage to people, and they scroll through LinkedIn liking posts about accountability as if nobody remembers what they actually did.

Many of you are lucky that the average person doesn’t have the drive, resolve, or pettiness of someone like 50 Cent. 

Because if they did, a lot more careers would be exposed instead of quietly endured.

50 Cent agreed to do an interview with ABC News about the documentary because it’s one of the few stations allowed in prison. He wants Diddy to see this. 

He's never even worked under Diddy and he's going this hard at him. 

Clearly, the rest of us are not hating to our full potential and I think a lot of toxic employers should be thanking God every day for that. 

Maturing is choosing peace.

But you can still respect someone who commits to being petty and refuses to pretend otherwise.

Michelle Obama said "When they go low, we go high".
50 Cent said "When they go low, I'm going to hell". 

Stay Dangerous.

I've done every single thing that Jade mentioned, and I'll continue to do it when I know someone is looking for a new role.



But one thing I've noticed when I do these things, is that job seekers FUMBLE the opportunities when they finally get that introduction, coffee chat, interview, etc. 

Here's some advice so that when you 
do get what you're asking for, you are PREPARED and you don't EMBARRASS yourself or the person who made the connection for you.


🫩 Have your professional documents in order (resume, cover letters, portfolios, thank you notes, references, etc.) If you're actively looking, you should already have these in order anyway. (here's a resource to help you get and stay prepared: https://lnkd.in/g7hS7ra6)


🫩 Know the ask and know your why! Yes you need a job, but what kind, which industry, what problems can you solve (and do you have proof), and why are you even interested in this industry/role? Have an answer that is NOT about money. (career clarity resource: https://lnkd.in/gED5eeMm)


🫩 Learn how to hold a conversation! it's not all about you. Be curious about the professional that you're connecting with and their journey, ask about their company/it's values & the problems they solve, ask about the industry (especially if you say you want to spend a part of your career there). (view 21 coffee chat questions here: https://lnkd.in/g7yD6t9V)


🫩 And for the love of all things that are good. Don't do things for the money! You will eventually hate it and strongly dislike the life that you're living if you do. (read: ex faang employee breaks the golden handcuffs: https://lnkd.in/gDqrbGUK)



💡The secret career formula =
pursue things you're curious about + matches the skill sets that you CURRENTLY have (not ones you aspire to have) + solves a REAL problem that a company/person/industry currently has (so that you're not begging for someone to give you a chance). Then you get paid to learn and explore + you naturally advance your skill sets. (build your own dream role here: https://lnkd.in/g2uxRv_C)



Why did I write this: A big piece of the job search is having AGENCY! You have to put in the work to know yourself and be extremely honest with what you can do and what you can not do. What type of experiences you want in your career and what type you don't. No one likes their time wasted! And if someone is giving you a life line, show up with pride! 

I've introduced professionals (especially young professionals) to people in my network before and they were not prepared. I promptly received a full report on how unprepared they were too... 🥴

It's almost 2026. You have a ton of resources at your fingertips! Use them! Use the resources I included above to get started.

☕ Déja White

Helping Gen Z design their dream careers | TEDx Speaker | Early Talent Employer Branding Consultant | Gen Z @ Work Expert ft in Forbes, CNBC Make It + more | Career & Lifestyle Creator @theninthsemester (250K+)

Want to help a job seeker in your life? 

✔️Make introductions.

✔️Open your network to them. 

✔️Send them roles that they may be interested in. Don’t know what? Check their LinkedIn page they most likely posted what they’re looking for. 

These simple actions can change the trajectory of their job hunt. 

Stop asking “How can I help?” - just start helping in whatever ways you can.

It's funny how life works... I used to get in trouble for talking too much in class. And maybe rightfully so sometimes, I shouldn't have been talking about Pretty Little Liars and trying to convince the football team to watch it in English class 😩🤣


But now I spend my days doing exactly that… and people actually listen!


I love when someone messages me to tell me they dove into one of my content rabbit holes and forgot they were even scrolling. That’s the magic of storytelling done right.

If you’re enjoying what I share here, explore my other spaces:

🌐 Website / Blog: Breakroom Buddha
Where it all began. I dive deeper into the same ideas you see here. It's long-form explorations of how we work, live, and play. Plus a little more BTS on my own journey.

breakroombuddha.com

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📰 Newsletter: Abundance Mindset by Breakroom Buddha 
It’s evolved over time, but its heart remains the same: expanding how we think and live. I focus on three pillars: career spotlights, career & life design, and anti-brain rot mind expansion. It’s a peek inside my brain and an invitation to elevate your daily consciousness.

https://lnkd.in/dqUr4WjT

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🎥 YouTube: Breakroom Buddha
Think of it as a personal coaching session with me. Every video is a lesson. If I’m posting, I’m teaching or coaching.

https://lnkd.in/gr46jtcs

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🎙️ Podcast: Thrive Now
Too many people are operating at half their potential. My mission is to get you running at 85–100%. You already have the resources you need to elevate your life and achieve your goals, I sit down with experts to show you how to use them better.

Listen on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gxGwn6zn


Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/g82Zbx69

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