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# Carly Vivian on LinkedIn

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Join now Articles by Carly Bold Strategy Isn't Enough Nov 12, 2024 Bold Strategy Isn't Enough Many leaders instinctively turn to bold strategic moves in uncertain times, hoping that technical expertise or a… 9 4 Comments The Delicate Balance of Communicating During Change Jul 30, 2024 The Delicate Balance of Communicating During Change In times of significant organizational change, leaders must navigate the delicate balance of delivering precise… 16 16 Comments The Ultimate Career Reinvention Playlist - Making Your WorkLife Sing Mar 5, 2024 The Ultimate Career Reinvention Playlist - Making Your WorkLife Sing Looking for a new job is not career reinvention. But if your career feels like a track on repeat, it might be time to… 16 6 Comments Leading Through Complex Issues: One Bite at a Time Jul 27, 2020 Leading Through Complex Issues: One Bite at a Time I wish I had a nickel for every time someone has asked me in recent months; “What can I do to help?” or “How can I… 13 5 Comments Turn Emotion into Energy Jun 28, 2020 Turn Emotion into Energy So, what do we do now? We all know the moment, 8:46 moments to be specific, and lest we not forget the many similar… 23 4 Comments Moment | Movement | Marathon: What’s Different This Time Combating Racial Injustice Jun 22, 2020 Moment | Movement | Marathon: What’s Different This Time Combating Racial Injustice Will protests and calls for change fade as it has so often before? For many black people, the death of another black… 70 11 Comments A leading cause of broken culture... Mar 25, 2019 A leading cause of broken culture... What happens to organizational culture when a major change or negative news hits the airwaves? Job security is… 10 1 Comment How To Be A Superhero​ Nov 6, 2017 How To Be A Superhero​ Superheroes have them - why not you and me? Discover how to bring out your superpowers. In a previous article, I let… 8 2 Comments What Are You Committed To? May 22, 2017 What Are You Committed To? Every day we're bombarded with things that can grab our time, energy, and attention. Goals, dreams and good intentions… 5 1 Comment How To Have The Best Day Of Your Life Apr 30, 2017 How To Have The Best Day Of Your Life Have you ever gotten up in the morning and felt like your day was going to be crappy? Maybe you were in a bad mood or… 39 2 Comments Show more See all articles Activity 6K followers Posts Comments Reactions No more previous content Carly Vivian reposted this Report this post Carly Vivian reposted this A Second Act is not one decision. It is three different kinds of work. Here is where most people start. Your First Act is ending, or it already has. You look ahead and try to name the next thing. The momentum kicks in fast. You take the expertise you already have and decide to consult. Or you start shaping a business around something you care about. Or you see something online that looks interesting and profitable, and you sign up for the course that promises to teach it. None of these paths is wrong. The problem is where they begin. Every one of them opens with the same question. What do I want to do next? It feels like the obvious question. It's the wrong place to start. Before you decide what comes next, you have to understand what actually created your First Act success. Not what you did. Not the titles, not the companies, not the line items on your resume. The patterns underneath all of that. What did you see that other people missed? What did colleagues consistently come to you for? What came so easily to you that you never counted it as a skill? What conditions let you do your best work? What was the real engine of your success? When you look at those structural elements, you can start to see where that engine belongs next. Three kinds of work build a Second Act that holds: Discover. What created my First Act success? Design. What should I build next? Develop. How do I make it real? Most people start at Design, run it straight into Develop, and skip Discover completely. That is why it gets confusing. It's also why so many Second Acts stall, or come out looking like a lightly edited version of the First. A Second Act should not begin with choosing the next thing. It should begin with understanding the person who will create it. public_profile__posts 11 4 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian Carly Vivian 6d Report this post Carly Vivian shared this A Second Act is not one decision. It is three different kinds of work. Here is where most people start. Your First Act is ending, or it already has. You look ahead and try to name the next thing. The momentum kicks in fast. You take the expertise you already have and decide to consult. Or you start shaping a business around something you care about. Or you see something online that looks interesting and profitable, and you sign up for the course that promises to teach it. None of these paths is wrong. The problem is where they begin. Every one of them opens with the same question. What do I want to do next? It feels like the obvious question. It's the wrong place to start. Before you decide what comes next, you have to understand what actually created your First Act success. Not what you did. Not the titles, not the companies, not the line items on your resume. The patterns underneath all of that. What did you see that other people missed? What did colleagues consistently come to you for? What came so easily to you that you never counted it as a skill? What conditions let you do your best work? What was the real engine of your success? When you look at those structural elements, you can start to see where that engine belongs next. Three kinds of work build a Second Act that holds: Discover. What created my First Act success? Design. What should I build next? Develop. How do I make it real? Most people start at Design, run it straight into Develop, and skip Discover completely. That is why it gets confusing. It's also why so many Second Acts stall, or come out looking like a lightly edited version of the First. A Second Act should not begin with choosing the next thing. It should begin with understanding the person who will create it. public_profile__posts 11 4 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian Carly Vivian 3w Report this post Carly Vivian shared this "Nobody told me it would feel like this." She didn't mean the workload. She meant the loss. She ran Sales. She drove the number. For years, that was the whole job, and she was very good at it. She knew what to do every morning when she sat down. Now she's in her Second Act, running her own thing, and the focus is gone. But not because she lost it. Because she can't afford it anymore. She has to think about operations. Production. Cash. The website. The thing that breaks at 4 PM and nobody else is there to fix it. Sales is still in there somewhere, the part she really loves, but it's now one of fifteen things competing for the same hour. And what I notice, with her and the women I work with, is how much it costs them. I'm not talking about the hours. It's the loss of the one place she felt most like herself. The skill that defined and drove her First Act is still her best skill, and she barely gets to use it. People assume the hard part of a Second Act is learning the new things. Often, the harder part is grieving the old depth, the thing you could do in your sleep. You go from being the best in the room at one thing, your specialty, to being only adequate at ten different things. That trade is real, and nobody warns you about it going in. The work isn't getting the focus back. It's deciding which version of it you protect, on purpose, and letting the rest be good enough. public_profile__posts 16 10 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian Carly Vivian 1mo Report this post Carly Vivian shared this 😳”When did you give up on your dreams?” This message is like a kick in the gut for far too many people. And it absolutely doesn’t have to be this way. Md Ishaq Mohiuddin💎 Md Ishaq Mohiuddin💎 6mo Carly Vivian shared this I used to work a 9–5. Used to. ⏰ Past tense. Healed. Recovered. Then I rewatched Up in the Air and everything clicked. George Clooney looks at a guy who just lost his job and asks: “How much did they pay you to give up on your dreams?” I felt that, because I already knew the answer. They paid me just enough to stay quiet. Just enough to stay “grateful.” Just enough to forget what I wanted at 18. Bob wanted to be a chef. 🍳 I wanted more. Different dream. Same trap. Losing the job wasn’t failure. It was withdrawal symptoms from comfort. Here’s what nobody tells you when you leave the 9–5: 🔥 The paycheck was the leash 🔥 The benefits were the bribe 🔥 The “stability” was the story you were sold I didn’t quit my job. I quit waiting for permission. And no,this isn’t for everyone. Some people love safety. Some people love certainty. Some people love meetings about meetings. But some of us can’t unsee it once we see it. If this post annoys you, Good. That’s usually the first symptom. Your dream didn’t die. It’s just been sitting in a cubicle. Stop existing. Start building. (Just my opinion.) 🔥🔥🔥 #motivation #inspiration #viral #foryou #trending #millionaire #success #wealth #business #entrepreneur #entrepreneurlife #mindset #startup #hustle #grind #billionaire #movies #cinema #lifequotes #successquotes #businessmindset #businesstips public_profile__posts 4 Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian Carly Vivian 1mo Report this post Carly Vivian shared this Thank you, Black Leaders Worldwide . Being named alongside this group of women means a lot, and so does being seen by a publication that gets it. I’m grateful. Black Leaders Worldwide Black Leaders Worldwide 1mo Carly Vivian shared this Leaders, innovators, pioneers, educators, entrepreneurs, game-changers, motivators. Here are some of our 2026 Women You Need To Know. Connect with them all on LinkedIn. Sharon S. Lewis Carla J. H. Shay Sutton Elizabeth McCoy, Rest Strategist Lorna A. George Toni M. Shelton., HPT Lashell Jones RDMS-RDCS (FE) Carly Vivian Lenetra King, FACHE Ebony Sykes Adyna K. Pressley Dr. Freadda Mathews, Ph.D. The best and brightest leaders in the world join our exclusive club. To become a Black Leaders Worldwide Club Member, visit https://lnkd.in/gF7M5Jfj to learn more and request membership. Join our LinkedIn group. https://lnkd.in/gS9_CmRB Follow the new Black Impact Magazine on LinkedIn. public_profile__posts 146 38 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian Carly Vivian 1mo Report this post Carly Vivian shared this My friend Wanda Herndon wrote a book, and I'm excited to tell you about it. I've read a lot of books by people who made it, and most of them quietly edit out the part that mattered most. Wanda left it in. 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 is her story. Flint, Michigan. A father who rode a bus out of the Jim Crow South to find work at GM. The dream for a daughter to find an office job, anything but the assembly line. A daughter who took that and became unstoppable, into college, into journalism, and eventually into the rooms at Starbucks where the big decisions got made and no one looked like her. It's the part of the success story most people leave out, but she tells it straight and without the gloss. If you've spent a career as the only one in the room, you already know some of this. Read it anyway, there's still lots to learn and soak in. Then leave a review, because books like this move on word of mouth. So proud of my good friend. ❤️ Wanda Herndon Wanda Herndon 1mo Carly Vivian shared this It's here! Thanks for reading! You can purchase hard copies at ingeniumbooks.com/WORKING . And please write an Amazon review. Best, W public_profile__posts 4 1 Comment Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian Carly Vivian 1mo Report this post Carly Vivian shared this Aaliyah Taylor said something in a comment thread yesterday that I keep coming back to. She was writing about what gets missed when the people in the room have all been shaped by similar lives. I left a comment about what happens after someone with a different perspective gets invited in. She replied with this: "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯, 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘫𝘰𝘣, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘤𝘺𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮." I've been thinking about it since. I work with women at the senior stage of their careers, and I keep watching a version of this. Someone brings a sharper view into a boardroom. The review cycles begin. The version that makes it out the door is the version the room already knew how to make. Nobody flagged the moment it got softened. It just happened. The diagnosis matters. We've been calling it a diversity problem for years. Aaliyah named it as something else. ♻️ Repost if you've watched this happen or it's happened to you. public_profile__posts 6 6 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian Carly Vivian 1mo Report this post Carly Vivian shared this "It's my age, isn't it." She isn't getting interviews. Not a bad one. Not a cold reception in the room. There's no room at all. She applies. The portal says "thank you for your interest." Then nothing. Over and over, for roles she could do in her sleep. Twenty-four years of experience. Which a machine, and the person who set its filters, can read two ways. As depth. Or as a number. Her accomplishments stopped reading as experience. They started reading as a timestamp. By the time she came to me, she'd done everything the advice tells you to do. Tightened the résumé. Added the wins. Quantified the impact. Every line proves she's serious. And every line also tells them exactly how long she's been doing this. That was the problem. She'd run out of things to fix. I told her we're not going to pretend the bias isn't real. It is. She's not imagining it, and no amount of reframing makes it disappear. But here's the part no one says, and it's the part we can actually do something about. When the bias is about age, your accomplishments stop being neutral. The track record you spent a career building and being proud of is the very thing dating you. So the instinct to add more, prove more, list one more win, quietly works against you. So yes, we fix the materials. Lead with who she is now, pull the early roles back, drop the dates that don't need to be there. That part is table stakes. It is also not what gets her the interview. What moves the needle is refusing to keep feeding herself to the filter. The portal is the one room designed to optimize her out, so we stop relying on it. We get her in front of a human before a system gets her first, through people who already know what she can do. And we aim her at the rooms where depth is the asset and not the liability: advisory, fractional, mandate-driven work where they are buying judgment, not screening for your age. You can't out-credential a filter that's reading for a birth year. But you can stop applying where it gets to decide. She's stopped sending the timestamp. And this week, she's got a couple of interviews she's really excited about. I don't think she should have to do any of this. But I'd rather she get the shot than win the argument. ♻️ Repost for the next woman who needs to read this. public_profile__posts 17 8 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian Carly Vivian 1mo Report this post Carly Vivian shared this Does "doing work that matters" still hold up in a job market like this one? Five years ago, I would not have asked this question. It was what you were looking for. It was what made the next step feel worth taking. I think it still matters. But I am hearing people talk about it less. They are putting it beneath things that didn't used to come first. Many of the women I am working with right now are not asking what work matters. The ones in corporate roles are asking what work pays, what work is hireable, what work survives the next round of cuts. The ones building something on their own are asking whether people will pay for this in a market this anxious. "Mattering" used to be what people asked when they had options. Most of the people I talk to right now do not feel like they have options. The desire is still there. But the conditions around it changed faster than the way we talk about it. Maybe the question is not whether "mattering" still counts. Maybe it is what comes above it on the list now, what we are answering first. Or maybe the work is to keep the question alive while we answer the other ones first. What do you think? Do you think work that matters should be a driving factor, or has the ground shifted away from it? public_profile__posts 7 11 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X No more next content Slide to item 1 Slide to item 2 Slide to item 3 Slide to item 4 Slide to item 5 Slide to item 6 Slide to item 7 Slide to item 8 Slide to item 9 Carly Vivian replied to a comment 2d Will Linssen That’s exactly it. The thing you’re too close to name is often the first thing everyone else would. It’s worth asking them out loud. Glad this resonated with you. Carly Vivian commented on a post 2d Congratulations on the research, Ngozi. Five years is how you earn the right to say something this clearly. The fourth move is the one I'd put in bold. Nobody warns you that the power doesn't transfer. You spend years building standing in one room, then walk into the next one unproven again, starting from a floor everyone else skipped. The work doesn't disappear, but the credit for it stays at the door. And the second time you build it, you're doing it tired, because you already know how long it takes. This was never luck and never passivity. It was strategy the whole time, mostly unrecognized. Naming it as a system is what lets the next woman do it on purpose instead of by exhaustion. Carly Vivian replied to a comment 5d Michael Fulton Fair point, and the one way/two way door distinction is the right filter. Reopening everything constantly is churn, not agility. My concern isn't the two-way doors. It's that most organizations can't reopen either kind, because revisiting any decision reads as admitting the first one was wrong. So two-way doors get treated like one-way doors by default. And a lot of decisions get sorted into one-way when they aren't. Not because anyone examined the door, but because getting there was so hard nobody wants to touch it again. No more previous content Carly Vivian liked this Report this post Carly Vivian liked this Chuck Vivian Chuck Vivian 18h Carly Vivian liked this Chocolate for people who think about sugar... CRĀVA® Craft Chocolate: For People Who Think About Sugar CRĀVA® Craft Chocolate: For People Who Think About Sugar Chuck Vivian 8 Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian liked this Report this post Carly Vivian liked this Dr. Shirley Davis Workplace/Leadership Expert, Speaker Dr. Shirley Davis Workplace/Leadership Expert, Speaker 23h Carly Vivian liked this Photo Dump!!!!!! Nearly 60 selfies taken but only 20 shared here. I am energized by getting so many hugs, laughs, and sharing so much adoration for my NSA family and friends who love the business of communications, lifting/serving humanity with our voices, and running a successful business and who understand the struggles, successes, and the setbacks and the importance of supporting one another. Also being a member of the Million Dollar Speaker Geoup always challenges me to expand my thinking and my brand. Im definitely Leveling Up!!!! Having a blast and gaining so much value in the sessions, in the hallways, and over lunch at Influence 2026--- National Speakers Association public_profile__reactions 42 4 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian liked this Report this post Carly Vivian liked this Alex Hormozi Alex Hormozi 1d Carly Vivian liked this Every successful person starts with: 0 revenue 0 subscribers 0 customers 0 fans The only difference between them and everyone else is they actually start. This pic is from almost a decade ago. In our Prius aka our headquarters. I had lost all my money (for the 2nd time) a few months prior. The early days of entrepreneurship things sucked. We ate at 7-Eleven daily. Slept in extended stays. In desperation, Leila and I started a gym licensing model as a Hail Mary. 20 months from launch we hit $4.4M/month in revenue. Fast forward to today: Our portfolio of companies at Acquisiton crossed $250M in annual revenue. We grew our team to 150+ people. We bought our headquarters in Las Vegas. It still feels like early innings. Lots to do. People to help. Products to build. I don’t have a lot of inspirational words... You’d be amazed what you can accomplish if you remove quitting from your list of options in life. Never stop. public_profile__reactions 3,678 576 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian liked this Report this post Carly Vivian liked this Antwone Harris, MBA, CFP® Antwone Harris, MBA, CFP® 4d Carly Vivian liked this One habit has made a bigger difference in my life than most people realize. It's affected far more than just my health. Why Willpower Isn't Enough Why Willpower Isn't Enough 1 Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian liked this Report this post Carly Vivian liked this Mallika S. Mallika S. 1d Carly Vivian liked this She had already built multiple businesses on LinkedIn. I was trying to figure out if I could build one. 2 years ago, I came across Lara 's content. Her posts felt like a masterclass in storytelling. She made personal branding feel simple, practical, and achievable. I didn't know what 'personal branding' meant. I wasn't ready to start sharing my stories. I wasn't sure if anyone would care about what I had to say. But one day, I commented on Lara's post for a resource. She replied and sent it to me. Even accepted my connection request. I almost froze when I saw the DM from her, encouraging me. Fast forward to today, - I'm building the business I once wondered was even possible.. - I'm helping health and wellness coaches and founders build their personal brands. - I'm getting more comfortable with putting myself out there. A big lesson I learned from Lara is to always build a personal brand around your own voice. No matter how many followers you have or where you're starting from. Your experiences, opinions, and personality are what make people trust and remember you. That's something no AI tool or perfectly written post can replace. But even the best voice needs a tiny bit of encouragement sometimes. Lara helped me find mine by showing up when it mattered. Someone's confidence could shift because of one encouraging reply. So, tag a creator who's just getting started and let's tell them we're rooting for them. #kleo3 public_profile__reactions 47 26 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian liked this Report this post Carly Vivian liked this A Second Act is not one decision. It is three different kinds of work. Here is where most people start. Your First Act is ending, or it already has. You look ahead and try to name the next thing. The momentum kicks in fast. You take the expertise you already have and decide to consult. Or you start shaping a business around something you care about. Or you see something online that looks interesting and profitable, and you sign up for the course that promises to teach it. None of these paths is wrong. The problem is where they begin. Every one of them opens with the same question. What do I want to do next? It feels like the obvious question. It's the wrong place to start. Before you decide what comes next, you have to understand what actually created your First Act success. Not what you did. Not the titles, not the companies, not the line items on your resume. The patterns underneath all of that. What did you see that other people missed? What did colleagues consistently come to you for? What came so easily to you that you never counted it as a skill? What conditions let you do your best work? What was the real engine of your success? When you look at those structural elements, you can start to see where that engine belongs next. Three kinds of work build a Second Act that holds: Discover. What created my First Act success? Design. What should I build next? Develop. How do I make it real? Most people start at Design, run it straight into Develop, and skip Discover completely. That is why it gets confusing. It's also why so many Second Acts stall, or come out looking like a lightly edited version of the First. A Second Act should not begin with choosing the next thing. It should begin with understanding the person who will create it. public_profile__reactions 11 4 Comments Copy LinkedIn Facebook X Carly Vivian liked this Report this post Carly Vivian liked this Toykea Jones Toykea Jones 4d Carly Vivian liked this This week, our family is in New Jersey for a very special event for our daughter. 💙 As fate would have it, we were just minutes away from Johnson& Johnson’s World Headquarters. There was no way I could pass up the opportunity to make one quick stop and show off the office where I used to sit and our Credo. Our Credo is a constant reminder that our first responsibility is to the patients, families, and healthcare professionals who trust us. The Credo has helped shape how I think about leadership, quality, service, and doing what’s right. Standing here with my daughter and fiancé was a full-circle moment. One day she’ll understand that behind every career is a purpose, and behind every purpose are values worth living by. I’m grateful for the opportunity to share a small piece of my professional journey with the people who matter most. 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