Shaping Success International

Resilience Coach and Empowerment Facilitator

Ministry of Education Sports and Creative Industries

Head of Department of Modern Langauges. Leading a team of 6 persons with curriculum design and training.

High School Teacher

5 Step Side Hustle Blueprint

Want to turn your interests and skills into a profitable side venture?

It's time to identify your passions, strengths, and market opportunities.

I've helped professionals like you discover and develop a clear and actionable 5-week roadmap tailored to each individual to clarify, identify, and launch their side gigs.

Side Hustle Bestie

TGB Digital

Email Consultant

A lot of emails suck,

Hard truth - but it had to be said.

Don't let yours fall into that bucket.

You see, email is a great way to turn a prospect into a lifelong customer and even a friend.

Do it right, and the world is your oyster,

Do it wrong, well the unsubscribe button could become your nemesis.

But,

You don't have to worry about that if you're writing to your ideal prospect and client.

Someone who wants to hear from you and looks forward to that weekly email in his inbox. 

Here;s how I can help:

1. I work with business coaches and entrepreneurs to implement an effective email strategy that combines content, email, and outreach strategies to increase sales.

2. I get you five sales call booked guaranteed and I don't get paid til you do.

3. I audit your email strategy to find the holes and plug them so that your emails perform the way you want.

You choose.

Let's talk.  Schedule a FREE consult right here: https://calendly.com/tasia_barriero/call-w-tasia-gonsalves-barriero

Email Marketing Consultant

Content Writer

TGB Copywriting and Content

There are 1.9 billion websites
And 600 million blogs

In existence online today.

The chances of your prospects just "happening" upon your content is as easy as finding a bag with $100k on a rainy Wednesday evening😁.

Helping your content reach your target audience is my specialty.

Stop spending money on paid ads that don't work.

Or outdated SEO practices that the 90's want back.

Small changes to your content and how it is presented will produce better results over time.

What are some of these changes?

✅ building your authority on social media platforms
✅ answering questions that your prospects have with the right content

Just the tip of the iceberg.

I create content for entrepreneurs which includes email marketing, content audits, and blog post writing.

Let me show you how I can help.

Schedule a FREE call today right here: https://calendly.com/tasia_barriero/call-w-tasia-gonsalves-barriero

I help you identify and launch profitable side hustles in 5 weeks using my S.H.I.N.E. Method.

From a young age, I knew what it felt like to be unseen. 

Circumstances in my early life left me feeling invisible and unworthy, as though I was navigating the world on my own.

While the pain of those experiences could have defined my life, they instead became the catalyst for my transformation.

For years, I carried the weight of my past, allowing it to shape my self-worth and dictate my choices. But there came a moment when I realized that living in the shadows of my past was holding me back from the life I truly deserved. 

I was done being invisible. It was time to step into the light and reclaim my power.

Through resilience, I learned to let go of the hurt that tethered me to my past. I discovered the strength within me to rise above the pain and to wear my crown proudly as the queen of my own story. 

Visibility became my mantra—no longer would I hide behind the scars of my past. 
Instead, I chose to stand tall, to be seen, and to shine a light for others who are on the same journey.

Today, I help women who have faced their own battles reclaim their power and build the resilience needed to thrive. I teach them how to let go of their past, step into their visibility, and wear their crowns with pride. Because every woman deserves to live a life without regrets, a life where she shows up as her true, powerful self.

The women I work with through my coaching programs and events, have been able to
1. Gain a deeper understanding of their inner strengths and the power they hold
2. Learn practical coping strategies and techniques to stay calm and focused under pressure. 
3.  Feel more fulfilled and motivated, with a clear sense of direction and purpose guiding their daily actions and long-term goals.

If you're ready to stop hiding and start thriving, book a call with me here. Together, we'll turn your pain into power and your setbacks into success.

Tasia Gonsalves-Barriero

Jarrod Best-Mitchell

$100MUSD+ in Client Revenue Generated | Helping Individuals Stand Out on LinkedIn | Sales Trainer | Sales Coach | LinkedIn Trainer | LinkedIn Profile Optimization | Social Selling Trainer | Keynote Speaker

Whether you’re a business looking to empower your Sales team or an individual wanting to take your LinkedIn game to the next level, I've been able to make an impact across the Caribbean using my unique combination of Sales and LinkedIn experience. 

OH - I'm also known for my obsession with the colour yellow. You'll see it in ALLLLLLL of my content. 

To learn more about what I do Reach out via LinkedIn visit www.jarrodbestmitchell.com to schedule a consultation and learn how I can help you achieve your goals.


SALES |LINKEDIN | YELLOW

Ambassador

There are 100 Sales AI tools that focus on salespeople.

Humantic AI is the only one that focuses on buyers.

It is a Buyer Intelligence platform for revenue teams.

Top revenue teams use Humantic's Personality AI to identify early adopters, help their BDRs personalize outreach and enable their AEs with vital customer insights for every deal.

Machel Montano winning Road March is a great lesson in Entitlement vs Strategy. 

We saw that he approaches Road March as a strategy. Not just likability. 

Yes, I love Voice's song. But he wasn't just out-strategized, he was outworked by Machel. 

Voice's approach almost reminded me of students coming out of University with their degrees. 

"I have one so therefore I am entitled to a job." 

But then when the real world hits you realise that's just not enough. 

A good song requires strategy to make it win. 

And yes at the end of the day this reminds me so much of sales. 

This is a competition. The ones who work strategically - WIN. It's a science. Not a leave it be. 

You have to honestly ask yourself did Voice do the work? 

And You can say Machel went on every truck. 

Did Voice do it? He was on a few. But Machel wanted this like it was his last breath. 

And I applaud that especially after being in this industry for so many years. 

I can understand you being upset because you're a fan of Voice. But to be upset because Machel worked for it....crazy.

Machel Montano Update: I grabbed this snippet from his press conference because there's an important message here. 

Be Seen. Chase Greatness. 

I think this is resonating with me because my word this year for clients is visibility. 

Machel's focus was on WINNING. 

He didn't enter thinking he was going to lose. 

He was chasing greatness. 

It's sad that he has to defend winning when its clear the rules weren't broken. 

This is a competition. 

I hope everyone who is out there understands one thing...there are people that will always hate the winners. 

And you have to be ok with being disliked. (if you want to be a winner)

As Seth Godin famously said "If you’re remarkable, it’s likely that some people won’t
like you. That’s part of the definition of remarkable. Nobody gets unanimous praise–ever. The best the timid
can hope for is to be unnoticed. Criticism comes to those who stand out."

Congrats again Machel!

If you have the “Open to Work” frame on your profile picture, I need you to remove it. Here’s why.

It puts you at a disadvantage.

When a recruiter or employer sees that frame, some automatically assume urgency. And urgency can weaken your negotiating position before a conversation even starts.

Does that happen every time? No.

But you don’t need “every time.” You just need it to happen once with the wrong hiring manager.

There are better ways to signal availability without lowering your leverage.

First – write a proper post. Not the default LinkedIn template.
State the role you’re targeting. Mention the industries. Lead with achievements and measurable outcomes. Position yourself as someone bringing value, not someone waiting to be chosen.

Second – use LinkedIn’s private Open to Work setting.
List the roles, locations, and work types you’re open to. You can also control visibility so it’s shown only to recruiters using LinkedIn Recruiter.

Bottom line: market your value. Don’t advertise urgency.

So go to your profile picture and remove the frame.

The Learn Grow Invest team loved me so much I got the call for their 2026 Conference!

I'm so excited to be back in Jamaica in April.

This year's conference is focused on my FAVORITE thing....CONTENT. 

Creating content daily has allowed me to provide my services throughout the Caribbean and grow a successful business. 

And the crazy thing is a lot of you reading this still doubt the impact content creation can have on your business. 

Well if you are in doubt myself and many other amazing speakers will be there to not just convince but show you the tools to get started. 

It's so easy to do this now. I don't want you to miss out. 

This is an amazing for you to attend. Tag your fellow Jamaican! 

Grab your tickets here - https://lnkd.in/eAMNk9Hw

P.S. This has me wondering. Should I do a LinkedIn LinkUp Jamaica? Let me know. 

Thank you Jermaine McDonald and Renate McDonald, PMP for the invite 💛

If you don’t talk about your wins, no one will.
And that’s costing you opportunities.

This week someone didn't want to post their new role because they didn’t want to “look like they were bragging.”

Here’s what I told them:
If you’re awesome, you’re awesome.

Visibility is not arrogance. It’s positioning.

Stop downplaying your greatness because of someone else's insecurities.

If you don’t tell the market what you’ve achieved, the market will assume you haven’t achieved much.

Question for you:
What’s one achievement you haven’t shared yet?

Half of this audience scoffed when I mentioned a business owner and that's exactly the response I wanted. 

This business owner creates a ton of content about five videos a day. 

That content allows persons to decide. 

Do I like them or not?
Would I give them my money or not? 
Would I refer them to someone? 

And that's one of the best things for their business. 

Content is a filter. Its like a pre-interview. 
It's your automatic ICP creator. It's a time saver. 

Because when persons decide they dont want to do business with you, guess what? 

Everyone avoids a sucky 30min meeting. 

That's a win win. 

Content done right lets persons pick a side. 

And that's what you want. 

So those inbound leads are even more qualified because your content nurtured them. 

But without it you're spending time you can't get back.

Imagine being at a party and someone comes up to you and says, "Hey, I want to talk to you about life insurance."

And it wasn't your usual culprit. 

The insurance advisor didn't do it. The potential customer did.

That's what happened to Lemuel Stewart at Carnival time. 

Because he was creating content someone who he never expected reached out. 

I call it the invisible Ideal customer. 

They exist and your content got them from latent pain to active pain. 

I'm happy that Lemuel saw firsthand the power of content as a sales professional. More importantly, he isn't one and done. He's already planning to do more and make it a daily habit. 

This is what makes me happy as a Sales Trainer. 

Making this type of impact in an industry that usually has a negative stereotype because of how they train their reps. 

Content is your new business card. 
Content is how you get into your buyer's mind. 
Content is how you can influence their decision. 

If you're a sales manager who understands that content  rings in leads and wants their team trained on it....Send me a DM. Let's talk. 

Yellow Out- I'm Chasing Greatness.

12 meetings from 30 calls.
As an insurance advisor, that is good. 

Today one of my clients messaged me this.

They made 30 calls. Got 12 meetings. That's a 40% success rate. 

We spent most of the time working on the mindset not the script.

The mindset.
They stopped calling to talk about their company and started calling to focus on the person on the other line.

The goal was not to sell. The goal was to understand and qualify. 

Bonus: And this was the most calls they have ever made in a day.

And that matters.
Because clarity creates confidence. 
Confidence creates conversations. Conversations create revenue.

Now imagine if the majority of your team was like this.

What would that mean for your numbers this quarter?

Sales is not magic. It is structure. It is mindset. It is execution.

And when those three align, results follow.

You took the leap and started your business. You've gotten some clients through word of mouth but now...nothing. This happens to many first time entrepreneurs. 

So the last time I was asked this I decided to record. This is the adapted transcript to help anyone get clients repeatedly.

What you are going to read is the transcript between myself and a first-time business owner who was struggling to get clients. They got clients before

Open article: How to Get Your First Client as a Solopreneur: A Simple Step-by-Step Sales Framework by Jarrod Best-Mitchell • 7 min read

How to Get Your First Client as a Solopreneur: A Simple Step-by-Step Sales Framework

There's a hypocrisy problem when it comes to data privacy. 

Someone sent me an article about not submitting your passport to verify your profile on LinkedIn.  

"The data is collected by a 3rd party and sold."

Me: Ok...and?

You mean to tell me you've never submitted a form of ID online to a platform that sold it? 

Congrats for lasting this long in the digital age. 

But I'm 100% sure that you've given your ID to Amazon, Temu, 23 and me for much less. 

And what do they use the data for in most cases? 

To run ads to better sell us stuff? 

Unpopular Opinion: I'm ok with that.

Companies say they want a sales-oriented culture. But they really understand what that means? 

Here's what creating a sales oriented culture actually requires.

Sales Is everyone's job. Admin, Finance, Leadership. Everyone. 

Incentivize everyone. Not just the sales team. Some non-sales perosns can be your best cheerleaders. 

Tie sales behaviors to KPIs.

Pay incentives quickly. Not quarterly. Monthly is best. 

Recognize the rockstars publicly. Coach privately.

Understand that not everyone will be on board. And that's ok. 

Remove the roadblocks. That may require hiring admin or automating processes. 

Leaders - You need to roll up your sleeves and get involved. 

If you do all of this and still see the desired results then you can consider bringing in a sales consultant to help.

A business owner asked me this week, “How much content is too much?” My answer was simple.

If your audience hasn’t complained… you haven’t posted enough.

People have an insatiable appetite for content.
And most of you are starving your market.

If you’re not posting at least once a week, you’re invisible.

Doesn’t matter if you’re a business owner.
Doesn’t matter if you’re a job seeker.

Visibility is not optional anymore.

As an example - D&D AutoWorld and their affiliated accounts post five times a day. Their market is competitive so five times a day allows them to break through the noise. 

So the real question is not “Am I posting too much?”

The real question is: Are you posting enough to even be remembered?

People are going to say I’m crazy for this.

I’m introducing a product that delivers what my main offer does but at a third of the cost. 

On paper, it looks like I’m undercutting myself.
But I’m not.

Not everyone is ready, willing, or able to invest in the full experience. 

That doesn’t mean they don’t need help. It just means they need a different entry point.

So this isn’t about lowering value. It’s about increasing access.

The core offer is still there for those who want the full depth, strategy, and execution for their LinkedIn Profiles. But this new product opens the door for more people to start.

Availability matters. Accessibility matters. 

And I’d rather serve more people at different levels than keep the door closed to those who aren’t ready for the top tier.

The LinkedIn DIY service is available now.

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