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Have you ever been working at a job and felt like the work you were putting in wasn’t worth the money you’re making? Or you booked a new client for your business at a rate lower than you liked only to regret it later? Or you’ve been in a meeting negotiating a salary for a new job and you accept their offer when in your gut you know you should have asked for more?
Here’s the thing. As women, we are taught not to “ruffle any feathers” in our workplace. Many of us were raised with this mentality that as long as you work hard, people will notice and you’ll end up getting promoted and make the money you truly desire one day. All you have to do is work hard.
Newsflash! Working hard is a part of an equation to your success, it’s not the key. If you wait for people to notice your work in order to move up the latter then you’ll be waiting forever. You have to learn to open your mouth and ask.
Of course you have to start somewhere but you shouldn’t be at that same starting level for five years. Let’s face it, when it comes to talking about money, it’s hard and uncomfortable but it doesn’t have to be.
You should be able to go into any room, confidently sell your skills and walk out with your desired pay, promotion or client. But no one is teaching us how to do this in school. In my almost 10 years of experience in the industry of business, I’ve learned how to negotiate my way into book deals, powerful relationships, business deals, corporate sponsorships and more. I learned how to produce key events with A-list celebrities and key tastemakers on an extremely limited budget by leveraging and negotiating into the hottest spots all over the country.
No one taught me anything and I had to make a lot of mistakes before I gained the confidence to ask for what I want instead of constantly compromising.
You might want to make more money at work or you want a new job making a new salary or you want to start charging a specific fee for the services you offer in your business but you may fear that you won’t get it. You can do it! All you have to do is leverage what you’re good at in order to make sure that you get what you want.
So you know I got you! I’ve created perhaps the most important class yet on negotiation and getting what you want. I’ve learned that you simply have to change your approach to your relationship with negotiation and follow simple do’s and don’ts to help you build your confidence.
You negotiate on a daily basis because negotiation is simply about all parties involved walking away happy. You might find yourself negotiating not only at work but when buying a home, renting an apartment, returning a pair of shoes, buying a new car or in conflict resolution with your loved one.
So if you can negotiate with your man to take out the garbage or wash the dishes then you can get the check you want too LOL!
Negotiation doesn’t always have to be about money either. Perhaps you may not get the salary you desire but you can ask for more vacation days. You might not get paid for that speaking engagement but you can ask to gather all the attendee emails so you can add them onto your email list.
Here’s a sneak peak into what you’ll learn in the class:
- Gaining confidence in negotiation
- How to discover your value to the marketplace
- Find out what to charge
- Identify skills, assets and abilities to leverage your ask
- How to get repeat clients
- How to kill it in every meeting
- Newbie strategies to get your foot in the game
- How to get the number you want
- Confidence to charge what you deserve
Download the latest audio lesson from our Embrace Her Legacy University, Negotiation 101 and start getting what you deserve!
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XOXO,
Maria I. Melendez
@embraceherlegacy
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I know it’s been some time since I’ve released a new class but that’s because I’ve been working my tail off for months creating new curriculums and programs to equip you with a framework to achieve your biggest and wildest dreams.
But here’s the thing about realizing your dreams that no one is talking about…
It’s hard!!!
I know, I get it. You may not know where to start or you feel like you don’t have the resources, money or right connections. You feel like you don’t have the time because your schedule is overwhelmed or you know you want to be successful but you need clarity on what that means for you. You need to figure out what you really want.
That’s why I’m answering those questions for you in my latest class, Goal Slaying 101: 7 Steps to Achieve All Your Goals! If you’ve been on the “hamster wheel” of life, moving but going nowhere…fast – then this is for you.
There is no way that you can listen to this teaching and not learn several strategies to help you realize each and every one of your goals. You can do this and you can make it happen.
I’ll help you:
- Gain clarity to figure out what you want
- Define your personal success plan
- Realize your life’s assignment
- Apply secret keys to goal setting
- Achieve and define your priority goals
- Get specific with your goals
- How to create a five year plan and stick to it
- Identify hidden resources that you have access to help you
- Identify new methods to help you overcome obstacles
- Create a schedule to help you work on your goals daily
Girl! The goal may be to make more money, go back to school, buy a new house, start your business, weigh an ideal weight, get over a bad breakup, quit your job, pay off debt or to finally get out of your parents house!
You know you want to be in a different place a year from now. Do something today that your future self is going to thank you for. Think about it, you can be on the beach while your online business makes money for you. You can go out to dinner and order what you want instead of what you can afford.You can send off your last check to Sallie Mae and your creditors while checking your credit rating only to see a 750!
You can build that school in India where girls can receive a free education. You can start the organization that You can march down the aisle to receive your MBA from Harvard! You can look at your bank account and have more than enough money to provide for your family without worrying. You can have the man of your dreams as your husband!
This class is part of our Embrace Her Legacy University launch where you’ll have access to dozens of online classes focuses on personal development, goal setting, faith building and realizing your dream. I’ll be sharing more details on this in the upcoming weeks.
Class is now in session! Join the Goal Slaying 101 class and listen with a notebook in hand because you’ll want to take notes!
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This is the BEST interactive worksheet bundle to help you gain clarity of purpose and core values, overcome internal fears that hinder your success, identify your personal mission and create a powerful framework to help you set and achieve your goals!
You must be tired of allowing fear to lie to you and keep you repeating the same cycle over and over again as you look at everyone else around you living their dreams, I know you are. I know it can be totally frustrating not having a clear sense of purpose and have that yearning desire to be successful, happy and wealthy but have no clue where to begin, this is perfect place for you to start.
The bundle includes:
- Identifying Your Core-Values Worksheet
- Your Personal Mission Statement Worksheet
- The Goal-Getting Guide for Legends
- What Are My Fears Worksheet
About each worksheet:
- Identifying Your Core-Values Worksheet: Learn what a value is, how to rank your values, and determine what changes needs to be made to assure your life is a reflection of your values.
- Personal Mission Statement Worksheet: This worksheet is simply about knowing your personal mission in life and empowers you to create your personal mission statement. This will help you identify your values and principles to guide your decision making as well as help you identify who you want to be and what you to achieve.
- Goal-Getting Guide for Legends: A goal-setting guide for women who are on a relentless pursuit of success! Here’s what our Goal-Getting Guide will teach you to:
- A complete framework on how to set and accomplish all your goals, How to gain clarity of the vision you desire to manifest, Implement a 1-year plan to achieve all your personal and professional goals, A framework to make your goals SMART definitive statement, How you can begin working on your goals daily, Time-management tips to empower you to work on your goals effectively, Embrace Her Legacy tips and positive affirmations, How to attach images to your vision, How to discover resources to help you achieve your goals
- What Are My Fears Worksheet: Identifying what you fear is the key to start discovering where any low self-worth or lack of confidence may be stemming from. This worksheet helps you identify those internal fears and empowers you to create an action plan to help you combat your fears.
What are you waiting for girl? Take advantage and do the work!
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When you were 10 years old, you probably thought that you’d have it all together by now right? According to your timeline, you should be a millionaire, on the cover of ESSENCE or Forbes, living in your multi-million dollar penthouse in Tribeca and have the perfect husband with the confidence of Barack and a heart like Noah in The Notebook, and have maybe 1.5 children by now. Well if you been living for more than 20 years than you know that things don’t always go the way you expected.
Bummer right? I know how you feel girl!
I’m totally obsessed with studying the success principles that millionaires and billionaires practice because I want to know, what’s so different about y’all? How can I get a piece of that? I always wanted to know how they got to that level of financial freedom because I’m sure that you’re tired of looking at prices of meals when you’re out for dinner with your girls. You know you want to get that lobster meal but you’re too afraid of being broke so you decide to just have an appetizer and lie to your girls saying that you’re not hungry because you ate before you got there.
Well in my research and on my personal journey of success, I’ve discovered this one common denominator that all wealthy people have. Ready to know what that is?
Wealthy people are ridiculously goal-oriented! A research study by Dr. David Kohl, at Virginia Tech University, showed that 80% of people have no goals. Only 4% of people have written goals!!!! According to the study, the 4% with written goals will make 9x more over their lifetimes than those without goals.
Yes girls, being goal-oriented is that serious and will be one of the most important ingredients to your success.
By now you’re probably like “But Maria, I have goals.” And I’m sure that you probably do but did you know that there may be certain mistakes that you’re making in your goal-setting that’s causing the delay of you achieving your goals? Your ability to answer all phone calls in peace because you’re finally debt free and Sallie Mae isn’t on your tail anymore, or weighing your ideal weight so you can finally rock that 2-piece on your vision board, or ability to make money while you’re sleeping because you finally launched your e-commerce fashion boutique could literally be a few changes in your goal-setting away!
There are so many common goal-setting mistakes that my clients make on a regular basis and what’s tricky about it is that they seem so harmless. However, if you keep making harmless mistakes or you keep doing the same thing expecting different results then you’re going to drive yourself crazy trying to make your goals happen!
So I decided to solve the problem for you and teach you 7 common, but deadly goal-setting mistakes in this audio teaching that you need to avoid making. Because I know that you’re on a budget, I’m on a personal mission to make personal development affordable for millennial women like you and me. You should be darn proud of yourself for actually taking the time to invest into becoming the best you so that you can slay the hell out of your goals! So the class is only $7 – yep you read that right!
What goals have I accomplished you ask? Oh just quitting my high-profile, comfortable job at a record label to launch and grow my business, been featured in ESSENCE, Latina, Heart & Soul and more, launching a leading self-development program for high school girls in the NYC area, having a successful career as a speaker, writing and having my first book published, executive producing a few web series, becoming a brand manager and not losing my mind along the way!
Think about how different your life can be in one year? Bank account looking healthy, you operating as the businesswoman you want to be, working in a career you actually enjoy, attracting wealth. Wealth for me is having options, having health, being financially free, living out your dreams and purpose and having an overwhelming sense of peace and satisfaction that nothing can take away. It’s so possible and you’re so worth it!
Get your notebook ready to take notes, download the class below!
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What do Oprah Winfrey, Maria Melendez (yes that’s me), Bill Gates, Richard Branson and Lady Gaga all have in common? We all have daily, morning success routines! I don’t know about you but it feels good to see my name in the same sentence with billionaires! I know you want the same.
One of the ways I’ve been able to grow Embrace Her Legacy to an organization that provides co-curricular programs, personal development workshops and empowerment resources is that I’ve always remained teachable while I’ve viciously studied and applied success principles to my daily life – which is why I’m so adamant about teaching these proven success principles to you! Learning these principles has enabled me to add additional income streams to Embrace Her Legacy including speaking engagements, empowerment workshops and teaching online classes.
If you want to become a millionaire, you have to first think and act like a millionaire because you attract success by the person you become. You don’t have to chase it, you can make it come towards you. You do that by working on both your personal and professional goals daily. How success you’ll become is hidden in your daily routine.
Don’t you want to adopt some of the same activities that Oprah, Bill Gates or Howard Shultz have in their day-to-day? I know you do!
I want you to take this masterclass and learn how to take advantage of every minute of your day so you can get from where you are to where you want to be. Don’t say you don’t have time because that’s an alibi for mediocrity and I’ll prove it to you in this class. You have the time but you just have to find it. Once you start implementing some of these principles in your daily routine, I promise that you’ll see exponential growth in your lifestyle, wealth, health and productivity.
You’re Going to Learn:
- The benefits of a success routine
- How to apply personal development in your daily routine
- Understand what personal development is
- How to carve out time to work on your personal goals daily
- How to maximize your morning and evening hours to achieve your destiny
- Personal development activities to adopt into your morning and evening routine
- How to use your goals to guide your daily time-management & action steps
- Create the most productive & effective schedule at work
- Ways to strengthen your inner spirit daily
- How to identify & set priorities in your daily task lists
- Implementing a “5 to 9” schedule to help you start working towards your dreams now
Part of my purpose is to help birth the dreams that are already inside of you. We spend thousands of dollars and time on formal education but often times, we find ourselves still empty while sitting at that job that you hate. And the only reason that you’re sitting there is because you need to pay bills and pack back those student loans that you took out just to get that job. Am I right? Well, you were not created to just get a job, pay your bills, have some benefits, go on a few vacations and die.
This class is going to help you consider your aims in life in order for you to realize and maximize your potential to help you build, design and attract a life of abundance, prosperity and success. Learn ways to start working on your dreams now, and be the woman who attracts unstoppable success in her life by creating your personal success routine. Be better and rise to the occasion of your success. It’s waiting for you!
AND – the class is ONLY $7 as part of a new initiative I’m launching in order to make personal development affordable to everyone, that’s cheaper than a day’s lunch!
You can listen to the class at your leisure and you’ll also receive an action steps worksheet to help you apply what you’ve learned. I hope that you enjoy and I promise you that you’re doing the right thing by investing into becoming a better you!
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A few years ago, I produced an empowering web series called, The UnMasked Effect and one of the questions that was asked to me during production was, “What do you fear?” I immediately answered, “I fear going through a wilderness.” Little did I know, God was leading me into the greatest wilderness of my life. I wanted success but I didn’t want to pay the cost get there. I didn’t want to be uncomfortable and I didn’t want to go through anything challenging or frustrating to get what I wanted. I wanted success like a CoverGirl – easy and breezy.
Nope, didn’t happen that way! Truth of the matter is that I needed to not only endure years of wilderness but I had to learn to thrive and triumph in the most challenging season of my life. My character needed to be tested, my faith needed to be strengthen and my endurance needed to be activated.
So I’ve decided to create one of my most personal audio teachings to help you get through whatever it is that’s testing you and trying you. Too many of us are quiet about our challenges and I want to help you thrive in your season of challenges, setbacks, delays as I know what it feels like to have “all hell breaking loose.”
NO one likes to endure a wilderness as they can be challenging, long, painful and will test your faith to it’s utmost capacity! The good news is the after every wilderness is a Promised Land. This 1.5 hour audio teaching is going to teach you faith-based, biblical principles to help you navigate through your wilderness season in order to successfully overcome your challenges. You will learn:
- What a wilderness is and why God allows them to happen in our lives
- How a wilderness prepares us for public performances
- How to overcome a season of “broke”
- Ways to build our character
- How to strengthen and exercise your faith
- Distinguish wrong motives in your heart
- Identify character weaknesses
- Why faith and doubt can’t rule your heart
- How to take back the power of your thoughts
- How to change your thinking about God
- The power of your words
- The importance of calling things into existence and speaking what you want to see
- Maintaining the right attitude in your wilderness
- God’s guidance and love for you in the wilderness
- Ways to start hearing from God and seeking His guidance and wisdom
- Know who you are in Christ and the power that lives in you
- How to live in expectancy of God’s goodness coming to you
- Fear vs. Lies of the enemy
- The power of prayer and praise
Everyone talks about success rarely do they talk about how they dealt with those frustrating seasons where there was delay, setback and challenge after challenge. This teaching is to inspire you and motivate you with the guidance and faith-based principles that you need to thrive in a challenging season so that your faith can be strengthened and you can fulfill the the promise and assignment God has placed on your life!
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