Creative Smart Talk

CST 05: A Unique Take on Personal Branding with Asha Boston

CST 04: The State of Social Media w/ Chasity Copper

In this episode, Nia talks to her good friend Chasity Cooper of Wine With Chas and newly minted Co-founder of the Well Space about the State of Social Media. Social media isn't going anywhere, we need to begin using it intentionally to avoid overwhelm and crippled. Chasity and Nia walk you through how to do so while having a fun conversation. Enjoy!

CST 03: How to leverage your feelings in business w/ Janel Martinez

In this episode, Nia is joined by Janel Martinez, founder of AintILatina and co-founder of 20/20 Shift. They pick up on a conversation started in their DMs on Instagram about leveraging your feelings in business. Janel drops some incredible gems on women's intuition, how to use it in your business and your careers, and the powerful combination of intuition and data. Forget all the conventional advice about your feelings in business and professional settings. In fact, the future belongs to th...

5 Tips for Successfully Negotiating a Raise

Every professional comes to the point in their career when they must negotiate a higher salary, but it can be nerve wrecking.

How Mistakes can Prepare you for Success

Experience is the toughest teacher, but learning from your mistakes is the best thing you can do for yourself.

10 Life-Changing Books that will Give you a Confidence Boost

Books can be one of the most powerful resources for guidance and reassurance in your life.

10 ways to build your confidence at work

Building your confidence in the office for some can take years to master, if you aren’t intentional about your professional growth.

5 Ways to Stop Imposter Syndrome from Killing Your Confidence

You just may suffer from Imposter Syndrome—and it’s killing your confidence levels! Here are a few tips on how you can combat it.

5 Ways to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others

Fight comparison on your journey to success is easier said than done. 

The Difference Between Confidence and Arrogance

hat is the real difference between confidence and cockiness?

5 Powerful Confidence Boosting Exercises

Having confidence is highly important in this modern day era especially with technology.

5 Ways to Increase your Emotional Intelligence

When we are aware of our own emotions, we can better understand others and show compassion. EQ is said to be the number one determining factor in your success.

5 Ways to Measure Your Emotional Intelligence

It’s critical when communicating with people, to be aware of things such as tone, body language, and facial expressions because they all play a role in EQ. But how can you improve your emotional intelligence, if you don’t how you’re doing now?

Emotional Intelligence, the Key to Personal & Professional Success

The secret ingredient to those positive impacts is possessing a strong hold on your Emotional Intelligence— the ability to identify and manage your emotions and connect to the emotions of others.

10 of the Most Admirable Black Women of the Past Year

In honor of International Women's Day, Creative Smart Girl is putting the spotlight on some of our favorite shining stars of the past year: 

EQ vs. IQ, Which is More Important?

Jessie may not be smart IQ-wise, but she has a higher EQ than you.

Emotional Intelligence is the New Love Language

How can you relate emotional intelligence and the love languages? 

5 Strategic Ways to Win at Office Politics

Office politics is one of those things that everyone has to deal with, no matter where they work. Just because the company culture is great, doesn't mean politics aren't in play. 

10 Things to Never do at Networking Events

In a social-media driven world, there also seems to be an emphasis on the importance of face-to-face meetings.

Podcast Episode 02: What is emotional labor?

What is emotional labor? A topic rarely discussed but impacts women on a daily basis. Nia is joined by creative strategist Narsha Njoya to dig in on how they've both experienced emotional labor. As a business owner, mother, and wife, Narsha knows just how much it takes to maintain emotional wholeness. She shares her insights. Plus Nia shares the highlight of the week.

5 Ways Entrepreneurs Should be Using LinkedIn

LinkedIn has become one of the most popular social media sites for professionals of all ages.

5 Little-Known Secrets to Building a Loyal Social Media Tribe

The only way to obtain a strong feeling of support or allegiance from your social tribe and prospective customers is to be of value to them.

Understanding the Difference Between a Mentor and Sponsor

A mentor is a person who helps or guides someone else in a certain area or topic that they have a great amount of knowledge in.

Introducing Creative Smart Talk

Creative Smart Talk is your guiltless accountability partner, where failure is celebrated, where we make space for women who are passionate but exhausted some days, where we affirm your ability to succeed, where we provide actionable advice without overruling your innate abilities. It’s about success defined by emotional wholeness. Smart conversations with creative women. Here, we serve each other. We laugh. We rant and we might even cry.

Millennials, What Ever Happened to Romance?

Being a single millennial can seem like a death sentence but if we used our technological savviness in cooperation with traditional dating methods, maybe all hope wouldn’t seem lost after all.Millennials, what ever happened to romance? 

5 Truths About Networking you Need to Know

Although the traditional concept of networking still holds weight, as you step into your new internship or job, don’t show you’re newbie hand by making common rookie networking mistakes.

5 Networking Tips to Build Authentic Relationships

Relationships make or break every aspect of our lives.

Why Building Great Work Relationships is the Key to your Success

You want to build a brand and rapport with your abilities. This trail is critical to building relationships because people are always going to want to work with you.

Three Rules for Becoming Friends with Co-workers

It's true that we have to be selective with who we choose to be friends with, but this is especially true when it comes to befriending coworkers. 

5 Top Project Management Tools for Small Business and Freelancers

Project management is easily becoming one the most sought-after skills in employees of all industries. 

5 Habits to Quit for a Better Work Ethic

It’s almost impossible to properly execute your vision if you don’t have proper planning tools, and a strong work ethic.

10 Ways to Start your Morning Routine for a Productive Day

The way you start your morning sets the entire tone for the rest of your day.

Living & Breathing #BlackGirlMagic: 5 Tips to Feeding a Better You

Being in your #BlackGirlMagic mindset can get daunting. Here are five tips that can help you bask in all its glory. 

How to Create a Daily Action Plan to Achieve your Goals

Why You should plan your days and not years to reach your goals

5 Ways to Prepare for a Busy Week on Sunday

Busy weeks are some of the hardest to conquer, and we all have them. However, a busy week doesn’t have to be a high-stress week. Busy doesn’t imply stress unless you allow it.

5 Useful Things you Can Accomplish in 20 Minutes

We often wish that we had more time in a day, but we would have enough time in a day if we knew how to use it wisely. 

Three ways to balance your day job and side hustle

How will you integrate your day job and side hustle to save time? Here are top three important tips on integrating both to save time.

The DIY Guide to Performing a Website Audit

Website audits are usually something that’s conducted by a digital marketing professional or web developer, but if you don’t have the funds to hire a freelancer, think of this as you DIY guide

Why Freelancers Should Measure Client Satisfaction

Whether you’re getting large contracts with prominent companies or you’re doing work for family friends, keeping your clients satisfied is the only way you can make consistent income.

5 KPIs Every Blogger Should be Tracking to grow their blog

Being a successful blogger and online entrepreneur is all about learning how to do more than write and post – you have to think like a digital marketer. With

5 Tips to Achieve your Goals Before the New Year

We all have goals we are trying to accomplish in life and these tips will help us in making them come true.

Three reasons you should track your wins throughout the year

Every new year brings an abundance of new goals, dreams, resolutions and definitely new accomplishments.

5 Ways to Set Realistic Goals for your Business

It’s the end of the year and you have goals that you need to accomplish before January. How are you going to get things done?

10 Black-Owned Non-Profits Making a Difference

On average, a dollar only stays in the Black community for no more than six hours, based on an NAACP report. 

5 Ways to Keep Self-Reflection From Being Negative

Negative self-reflection causes stress and the cycle can be vicious if we don’t work at stopping it in its tracks.

10 Black Women who are Social Entrepreneurs you Should Know

Social entrepreneurs are unique in that they see a problem in society, and use entrepreneurial means to create a business that will help bring social change. 

6 Black women who are always giving back

African-Americans give 25% more from their income than their white counterparts, but somehow the charitable work that is done by affluent Black Americans isn't always shared with the world. 

The 5 best company-sponsored scholarships

About 50% of companies with at least 500 employees offer scholarships as a benefit for their employees and their children. 

5 Ways to Give Better Gifts This Year

Now that the holidays are here, we can start practicing what we tweet by putting our money where our mouth is and give more deliberately this holiday season.  

3 Ways to Give Back Without Spending Money

If you want to give back to your community, but you’re struggling to find time to help, or are flat out broke, here are a few creative ways to give back when you can’t afford it.