The Instigator Series: Ditch Your Baggage with Jennifer Boykin

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: The Instigator Series: Ditch Your Baggage with Jennifer Boykin
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 00:51:42
• Published: 2013-11-05 09:00

This week, we're unveiling the speakers of our first in-person event, The Instigator Experience. Our second instigator, Jennifer Boykin, is a snarky midlife reinvention specialist. Here are the highlights from our chat:

• How Jennifer's Writing Got Published in The Washington Post 
• An Amazing Story About Recovering from the Loss of a Child
• Why Everything You Work On Is Iterative
• Figuring Out Your Personal Seeds of Greatness
• The Importance of Making Decisions that Feed Your Soul
• Why You Shouldn't Compare Your Insides to Somebody Else's Outsides
• The Importance of Trusting Your Intuition
• Why You Need a Permission Slip for Making Mistakes
• How Writing Content that Makes You Uncomfortable Elevates Your Game
• Actions Jennifer Took to Create Her Own Blogging School
• How to Build Iteration into Your Business and Co-Brand
• Identifying What You Want Your Legacy to Be
• Why You Need to Surround Yourself with the Best People
• The Key to Standing Out as a Speaker

Some Tweetable Quotes and Insights Include:

• Stay in touch with your really awesome sense of intuition and grow that (Click to Tweet)
• There's  a real danger in comparing your inside to other people's outsides  (Click to Tweet)
• You have to be willing to look butt ugly in a public way  (Click to Tweet)
• Society is a fickle mistress (Click to Tweet)
• Your life gets better when you get up and do something (Click to Tweet)
• We plan for the future and don't live in fear of it (Click to Tweet)

Jennifer Boykin has more than 25 years in branding, sales, and marketing leadership. She spent her life doing what was expected of her, and now she's not. You can follow her on twitter @Jennifer_Boykin. If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter.