Stop Shrinking and Rise with Cassandra Crawley Mayo – Ep.391
What happens when you accomplish everything you set out to achieve, yet still feel like something deeper is calling you forward? In this episode of Wickedly Smart Women, host Anjel B. Hartwell welcomes Cassandra Crawley Mayo, bestselling author, dynamic speaker, and podcast host who made history as the first African American woman to hold every corporate leadership role she has held.
Cassandra also shares the lessons she learned after becoming a bestselling author, including how to develop discernment when opportunities and offers begin coming your way. She explains why building a personal board of directors can help women navigate entrepreneurship without trying to do everything alone.
This conversation is especially meaningful for high-achieving women who have spent decades building successful careers but know there is something more they are meant to do.
What You Will Learn:
- How being the first African American woman in multiple corporate roles shaped Cassandra’s leadership journey.
- Why achieving a long-held retirement goal does not necessarily mean your purpose ends there.
- How to recognize the internal barriers that can keep you from pursuing your next chapter.
- Why recognizing what is holding you back is an essential first step toward change.
- How to interrupt limiting patterns and embrace what your experiences have taught you.
- Why building a personal board of directors can make entrepreneurship more sustainable.
- How mentors, coaches, financial professionals, attorneys, and spiritual advisors can support your growth.
- Why discernment becomes especially important when success attracts new opportunities and offers.
- How women can avoid scams and costly mistakes when investing in their businesses.
- Why trying to do everything yourself can recreate the burnout you experienced in corporate.
- How to recognize when your successful career is no longer aligned with your deeper purpose.
- Why living with regret can be more painful than taking the risk to pursue a more authentic life.
- How to move from looking successful on the outside to feeling fulfilled on the inside.
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