There’s this interesting dance that many millennial and Gen-x women entrepreneurs learned to master. A quiet shuffle between celebration and silence. A calculated pause before hitting “post.” A tug-of-war between “I’m proud of this” and “but what will they think?” And I get it. We’re told to show receipts, but not too many. To “be transparent,” but don’t make anybody uncomfortable. To be an example, but never a target. So what happens when success finds you? When the overflow you prayed for finally arrives? When the sacrifice starts to pay off? Do you go loud? Do you go low? Do you hide the very story that could spark someone else’s shift? Here’s a truth social media hides: You don’t have to expose every dollar or every detail to share the beauty of your testimony . You don’t have to trade in your boundaries for a branding opportunity. There is a way to be powerful and private at the same time. Here’s how. Share the Transformation, Not the Transaction Let’...
Fall is approaching and Pretti Talk is back! We're back with a sharper point of view, a bigger editorial vision and a few new characters in the room. Including one who happens to be artificial intelligence. Meet Persephone. Percy, for short. She's Pretti Talk's new AI content sommelier. Her job is not to replace the humans behind Pretti Talk. Quite the opposite. Percy helps us find the good stuff. She'll be popping up to share Pretti Talk news, recommend stories about Black women building interesting things, spotlight conversations worth having and let you know when something new has landed on the site. Think of her as the friend who always seems to know what everyone should be reading. But Percy isn't the only thing we're introducing. We're also launching a new copy writing service called Pretti Fixes. We have been watching what AI is doing to the internet. The speed is impressive. The volume is impressive. The sameness? Eh. Not so much. There's a ver...