Optimism, Hopelessness, Helplessness with Denise Hamilton

I’ve been waiting to invite Denise on my show since I first heard her on Clubhouse and this appearance did not disappoint.

We discussed confidence, personal brands and branding, speaking, toxic positivity and Harriet Tubman

Here are my shownotes:

15m – Don’t count them out; It costs you

17m – There’s no resource for humans

17m – “open for business”

20m – If you can’t articulate it simply, you probably aren’t as smart as you think

21m – Experts fold; experts fail because they’re experts in a world that no longer exists

27m – Recommit to optimism – inappropriate level of optimism; there’s a pessimism pandemic; the “lens of lack”

31m – Toxic positivity = FAILURE TO ACT

33m – Shrine: 1. AirBnb, 2. Vicks Vaporub, 3. Obama Bobblehead – common theme: anything is possible

33m – The disappointment of yesterday is not a proxy of the hope of tomorrow

39m – You can’t fix something if you don’t believe you can fix it (in the first place)

41m – Baby bird syndrome

45m – White Men

46m – The power of history

Quote 1: A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.” – Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Quote 2: “[If my services] do not place woman as man’s equal, what do?” – Harriet Tubman

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