Audacionaire Millionaire: Dee Williams on Exceeding All Expectations

***Trigger Warning*** This episode contains references to rape, childhood sex and adolescent pregnancy. Do not listen if this will damage your mental health.Dee Williams is a powerful force of nature. Listening to this conversation will shock you, humble you, and then have you realize that YOU have so much potential within you. If Dee Williams can achieve her dreams - so can you!Dee was thwarted in her life time and time again, first with a very young pregnancy, then with a manager telling her she couldn’t go any further because she was a woman, then by cancer. Her advice is to refuse to let anyone else define you, because no one else can write your story. Only you can.As someone who runs a staffing agency (among other businesses), this episode has some great advice on how to hire properly and right the first time around. She gives a step-by-step process of how to create a system that maximizes the success of each new hire. If you struggle with hiring, this is the conversation to listen to!Among all her businesses, Dee Williams, “Audacionaire” is on a mission to move unconventional leaders into the center of their “zone of influence” by using hardships as fuel to empower, inspire, overcome, create, and transform. As a Resilience Expert, she is dedicated to helping the slept-on, underrated, underrepresented, and underestimated individuals of the world become CEOs of their own careers. She does this through her course platform creation, consulting and staffing agency.Listen now to maximize your own potential within your business!Notable moments:04:44 – Dee on building an environment for adult learners09:05 – Trigger Warning – Dee describes her young adulthood including mention of sexual violence11:01 – How she got her start in staffing and starting a business13:59 – How the cancer diagnosis shaped her path15:24 – Trigger Warning – Dee on persevering through traumatic events19:26 – The cancer treatments and starting her academy24:20 – How do you hire right the first time?31:46 – Creating a community, coaching and courses42:05 – How to seek out expertise44:57 – On facing adversity in tech as a woman of color48:12 – Get relentlessConnect with Dee!Staffingpreneurs Academy - https://staffingpreneursacademy.com/Reskillify - https://reskillify.com/Dee on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@DeeWilliamsI'd love to help you grow your freelance business! CLICK HERE to set up a zoom call.Take control of your finances and figure out exactly what you need to earn with The Money Mapper. ~This podcast explores the journey to financial freedom through freelancing, remote work, and having an online business, tackling challenges like getting clients, imposter syndrome and burnout, while promoting a growth mindset, confidence, and the ambition to build a remote career with better work life balance, time management, and productivity, all through intentional mindset shifts, personal development, and learning to work smarter, especially when working from home or navigating a career change.~