Tamara Jackson

We are at beaconship.co, not com, beaconship.co.

You will see right there on the homepage, a link to take the scorecard.

And what's beautiful about it is you don't just see the results on a screen.

You are going to get a PDF where all of your results are summarized and you will have that action plan, not only for yourself, but so that you can share it with those that you lead so that now you can paint a picture of the vision

of what you want to accomplish in the coming months and years.

Yeah, so right now I am really excited to be focusing on helping leaders actually refine their pitch.

So right now, all across the country, there are events held where founders have an opportunity to share their venture.

They do typically a very short presentation.

We're talking somewhere between four and five minutes.

And they've got to capture the heart of their venture and their ask in that short time frame.

So it's been really fun to actually work with a group of leaders here in Charlotte, take the journey with them over several sessions, help them to refine what it is that their venture is really about in a way that's going to be compelling to investors and donors, and then be able to translate that into a pitch deck that they can then use not only for events locally here in Charlotte, but across the globe.

And what's been amazing is how just giving them some guidance and direction, just helping them to understand the scorecard that they're being evaluated against has helped them to be able to get more clear and to not only capture it well in writing and their pitch deck, but in how they present it.

And one of the things that I will share, Mick, that I want to underscore for the audience is get comfortable with your ask, whether you're looking for investors or donors.

One of the things that I see being the area where people really struggle is getting comfortable asking for money or asking for connections or asking for help.

And I think that points to a challenge that we can often have as leaders is

Sometimes we are really great at leading and pouring into others.

But what I'm learning and really focused on teaching others is we also have to be good receivers.

And being able to ask is a part.

It's a part of that.

It's the first step to being able to receive.