Have you ever wondered how to turn your passion into action? Nikki Branch, the powerhouse founder of Women for the Culture, gives us an inside look at her journey in our latest episode. From establishing a successful modeling agency to creating a thriving community that uplifts and empowers women of color, Nikki's story is an inspiring testament to what you can achieve when you're driven by purpose and resilience. We dive into Nikki's cultural roots of dancing and laughter, and how these cornerstone traditions have shaped the vibrant entrepreneur she is today.
The profound impact of supportive mom tribes cannot be understated. Nikki gives us a candid account of her transformative experience with Women for the Culture, and how it inspired her to use her gift of connecting people. We guarantee you’ll be captivated by Nikki's infectious enthusiasm as she shares how she has created a platform for underdogs to shine and be celebrated.
Nikki opens up about her latest venture, the Selfish Mompreneur - an online community that encourages mothers to prioritize their self-care. She shares invaluable insights from her motherhood journey, shedding light on the importance of emotional intelligence and being present for your children. Nikki's parting advice is a must-listen for moms navigating the often complex journey of motherhood. This episode perfectly blends inspiration, community-building, and mom empowerment. Tune in and be empowered!
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Have you ever wondered how to turn your passion into action? Nikki Branch, the powerhouse founder of Women for the Culture, gives us an inside look at her journey in our latest episode. From establishing a successful modeling agency to creating a thriving community that uplifts and empowers women of color, Nikki's story is an inspiring testament to what you can achieve when you're driven by purpose and resilience. We dive into Nikki's cultural roots of dancing and laughter, and how these cornerstone traditions have shaped the vibrant entrepreneur she is today.
The profound impact of supportive mom tribes cannot be understated. Nikki gives us a candid account of her transformative experience with Women for the Culture, and how it inspired her to use her gift of connecting people. We guarantee you’ll be captivated by Nikki's infectious enthusiasm as she shares how she has created a platform for underdogs to shine and be celebrated.
Nikki opens up about her latest venture, the Selfish Mompreneur - an online community that encourages mothers to prioritize their self-care. She shares invaluable insights from her motherhood journey, shedding light on the importance of emotional intelligence and being present for your children. Nikki's parting advice is a must-listen for moms navigating the often complex journey of motherhood. This episode perfectly blends inspiration, community-building, and mom empowerment. Tune in and be empowered!
Connect with Nikki Branch on Instagram
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Connect with me on Instagram at Martini Mamas Podcast.
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Speaker 2:Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of the Martini Mama's podcast. Oh my gosh, y'all like thrilled, Like I'm bringing y'all to dumb dumb, you know. And so today, look, I stumbled upon a gem on Instagram and had to get her on the show. Today we have Nikki Branch coming in. Nikki is actually the founder of Women for the Culture, which is a community that uplifts and empowers women of color. Through this community, she's created a safe space for us women to connect, Hello, learn and grow. She's also an empowerment coach, so she's helping women clarify their goals, develop the strategies to achieve them and then identify the obstacles of what holds them back. And y'all know how I'm always about it right Elevate your mindset, elevate your life, hey.
Speaker 3:Nikki. Hey everybody, what's up Okay?
Speaker 2:So, before we get into it, tell us a little bit more about you. How did Nikki become? You know Nikki for the Culture.
Speaker 3:Oh boy, well, I am. I'll go back to when I started my modeling agency. So I just have my first son, devonte. He's 14 now and I just felt a need that we needed to have some more black models out, cause at the time it wasn't, you know, it wasn't that happening and I did really well. So I did the modeling agency for about three years and then I worked with a company called Hair Credible.
Speaker 3:So I worked with Hair Credible and I worked with her for wow, maybe about six or seven years, helped her, you know, rebrand, cause I loved doing marketing, I love just reaching audience and I love to tell a story in that sense, as far as the marketing part and aspect is concerned, and I've helped her with the photo shoots, helped her get into Target, which she is currently in Target now and we just went from there. Then, from that point, her story was just so amazing at the time and she had seven kids and it was just us two doing Hair Credible and she had done some amazing things. She wasn't getting the the attention or she wasn't getting people who were understanding her story or wanting to help her and wanting her to help her reach a new audience, even though you have all these women empowerment and blah, blah, blah, and you know they're doing all these speaking engagements, but if you're not in that circle, you know what I'm saying. You just you just not getting in, you know, for whatever reason, we just got tired of it. So I said you know what?
Speaker 3:I sat at my kitchen table with her. I said I'm gonna create something on my own and we're gonna give the underdogs an opportunity and the chance to be seen. Whether you have 30 followers, 500 followers, you just starting out, whatever it is, we're gonna give you an opportunity to come on my platform and talk to the people and let them know what your business or what your product is and give you an opportunity to tell people. Because we talk all this women empowerment junk but we not really doing it. Like, what's up? I did, went on ahead and did it and here we are. You know, three and a half years later and wow, you know, wow, we're on red carpet. Girls are in LA. I mean, when I say I mean Kirk Franklin, like I mean, I'm just so blown away. Thank you to my team Camille, natasha Diamond, just just, jenae, everybody who's just been a part of Women for the Culture.
Speaker 2:I thank you guys so much, because without them Y'all can go in and actually I'm gonna put it in the show notes as well. But go look at the website for Women, for the Culture. It is a very beautiful curated website for us by us, and the page is so inviting and I mean you'll stay there for a few minutes to come and thank you, I think, because we miss that. Thunder Dogs really do need that type of, we need that voice and we need that shine and we need that light man. Such a wonderful story. We gonna still dabble a little bit. Y'all know what we like to do. Let's go ahead and do Mama Knows Best the vibe check. Are you ready, nicky? I'm ready, okay, so here's your first question which TV mom would you be and why? Rainbow from Blackish, trudy from the Proud Family or Cookie from Empire?
Speaker 3:Y'all wanna know something funny. I'm gonna be honest, please. You want to be honest? This is probably gonna blow y'all away, really, but I don't watch any of those shows.
Speaker 2:I don't watch. Oh, if I had a sound effect.
Speaker 3:It would be like I'm gonna be real. I'm gonna be real because that's what I'm gonna do. I don't really. I'm not really a TV person. Honestly, guys, I'm really gonna disappoint y'all. All I watch is I Love Lucy All Day. I'm gonna be honest with y'all. Oh my gosh, I love Lucy and Cartoon All Day. Or I'm watching the same movies and same shows over and over, and over and over. I really don't do the shows. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:Well, that's your homework. You gotta go find one episode of Blackish. You gotta go look up the Proud.
Speaker 3:Family. I mean, I've seen stuff on social media but I've never, ever watched an episode of any of those shows at all.
Speaker 2:MG. Okay, well, let's continue on. We hope that you can make it through this vibe check. Okay, here's your next question, which might be hard for you. Okay, who would your favorite next door neighbor be? Would it be Shanane from Martin or a Wanda from a living color? She don't know y'all. I'm gonna go with Shanae name.
Speaker 3:No, now I watched me some Martin. Now I could do Martin verbatim on episode. That ain't gonna play me okay, cause I could do some Martin now I ain't stop watching TV. That much Martin I'll do, but I'm definitely gonna go with my girl, shanae name.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's a good one. Okay, All right. And here is the last question. Finish this line. This is lines that mom say I'm not one of your little blank.
Speaker 3:I'm not one of your little homies, friends.
Speaker 2:There you go, ding, ding ding. You know, we good for that.
Speaker 3:I'm one of your little friends. Now I just told my son that maybe about three days ago, watch it, oh man.
Speaker 2:Me. I think today's kids, like their shows, are so much different than ours. You know, but I'm just like, hmm, homie.
Speaker 3:They missing out. They missing out on a Gootroop darkwing duck.
Speaker 2:Y'all missing out like, first of all, I, you know I'm having all my kids look at best of, especially my husband. He is a old school like cartoon. It's like a right of.
Speaker 3:Jim and the Holligan, jim and the.
Speaker 2:Holligan yes. That duckwing duck is mine, that duckwing duck is mine Gootroop was my job.
Speaker 3:Okay, I love Gootroop, the movie, like All of that. All of that, yeah, I'm I'm maybe heading to 39, but I'm just a kid, like I love those movies. I think they're awesome, I think they're so wholesome and, like she said before, they're just so different from once out now, like I feel like I'm watching a kids show and they, you know what, and they keep you young at heart.
Speaker 2:Yes, you know they, they, they truly keep you young at heart, absolutely, absolutely. I know you were talking about women for the culture just really being this organization, just to celebrate the underdog and to give a voice to the voiceless, and it was almost like building your own mom tribe, right? Can you talk to us about the importance of finding a supportive mom tribe?
Speaker 3:It is. It changed my life. It is crucial for you to be around women who understand what you're going through, who have gone through the things that you've gone through, and you guys can come together and support one another. And I think, whether it's a mom tribe or just a women's community, who just women in business, whatever it is you want to get with women who who understand your struggles and who want to help see you win. So that's helping see you, to see you win as a mother. So if you're going through something where I've been in, you know groups and things like that, where, hey, I have this, my kid has this bump, what is this guy? Help me? You know what I'm saying, and they have those type of questions and there's moms who really answer oh, my child had this and oh, it's going to be okay. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da da. This is what you should do, that's what you need and I think it's just so, so important and I think you'll feel so much better to know that you're not alone.
Speaker 2:Has it always been easy for you Like? Have you always had that supportive network around you?
Speaker 3:No, absolutely not. It was very hard to find a community, so that's why I built my own, because if you can't find it, build it. You know what I'm saying. And I built exactly what I was looking for, what I was in need of, and I found it and I'm just so grateful that I did, because it really honestly changed my life.
Speaker 3:It definitely let me see things differently. It gave me the confidence that I needed and the women who work with me today are women I found in my community. Oh, wow, oh wow. All of them, from my publicist to all of the girls who you see on my platform, have been with me pretty much from the start and they all, like canal my publicist, she did a woman to watch and she took over my IG lives for a day and that's how we met. Wow.
Speaker 2:So all of those women are with you now. How did you seek them out?
Speaker 3:Like was it just came to me. We all, really, yeah, like we all. Like They'll hit me in the DM and say, hey, are you looking for writers? Because at the time I was in the beginning I was looking for some writers to you know, right, for the blog, because at the time we were more so a blog, because I was still kind of trying to learn what I wanted to do.
Speaker 3:And Camille came on. I was doing women to watch even from then on, but at the time we were letting them take over our stories for a day, and so people were kind of going around and showing them what they did and talk about their business and how you can book them, so on, so forth, and Camille took it over and somehow we just ended up, you know, just colliding together and just, you know, taking over women for the culture together. And she's been with me ever since, and I mean all through ups and downs, the whole step of the way. Natasha, jenae they've been with me for about three years. Diamond, angie all of these girls have just come in, even Sabrina, who did our website she's done at least four websites for me, for women, for the culture, because we're just constantly Elevating and upgrading and changing, and she's been with me too, so these girls will literally have been with me from the start now Was Nikki who you are today.
Speaker 2:Have you always been that person, even from a little girl? Bring people together.
Speaker 3:I would say you know what? In that sense, I would say yes, because I always like to dance, I always like to make people laugh. That's what we do in our family. We we definitely some dancers like if you turn on some music is the one that popped, and like we we go, okay, right, so that's kind of how we always been. So, yes, bringing people together. And I think as I Became more aware, as I got older and I noticed things, and I noticed things were we're missing or I felt a need for something that I couldn't get. I knew obviously other people felt the same way.
Speaker 2:So that's kind of why I created, but I definitely would say yeah we always hear the saying that our gifts will make way for us and so for you. What do you think your gift is?
Speaker 3:I want to say my gift is helping people see themselves bigger than what they may see themselves as. Like I, from Natasha, from Natasha to Janae none of the girls that I've worked with we're doing the things that they're doing now and I'm like yo, you can do it like. I've always instilled that into them. You know they were nervous going on, even me, you know, nervous I. Few years ago, I would not be doing this with you right now because I was not confident enough and I didn't think my story was worth being told and Camille and the girls were like girl, you got an amazing story, all the things you've done.
Speaker 3:I was probably a million things I missed, you know, during telling my story, but the most important things is is what's happening now women for the culture and all the lives that were changing. We're letting these women come on and Do something that no one else will let them do because they don't have a million followers or they don't have, you know, long and long eyelashes. They don't have a big. You know what I'm saying. And all of that, all of that nonsense. You know, glittery background, which is fine. I have nothing against that. One day I hope to get to that. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3:Some people like, well, you are, but really not you know, because I still want to reach more people and I still feel like I'm just the same person. I work a regular job, just like you do, but I'm going after my dreams and Doing all of these things. I'm trying to make it work, just like you. So I feel like I'm like they play Like like you, like Nikki for the concert. I'm like I just feel like I just I'm just not there as of yet, almost, but not there.
Speaker 2:That makes me think about Pastor. He was online. He was talking about the there and how we always put so much emphasis on getting there that we don't Really settle in and celebrate where we are. That's so true. It is so true and it made me think of you in this moment, because she's like I'm not there and Actually you are there and that's exactly what they be trying to tell me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and and it's hard right, but I think for us we have to stop minimizing ourselves in spaces when we are really actually we being in bold, you know, and especially for a woman like you, because it's like you went out and Basically created the table. You have everybody having a seat at your, at the table that you built and you're sitting in that and that lead seat and so has to you. Yeah, it couldn't have been easy. So was woman for the culture before you became a mom, during you you know be, you know, after you became a mom, like, tell me, about that.
Speaker 3:It was during all of my business. Really, what started my whole love to Wanting to own my own business, or my love to create something special was my son Devante. Because I'm like you know, I don't I don't always want to have to clock in into a nine to five and when I know mentally I can do it, I know mentally I can do much more mentally. You think, okay, just because I'm walking into your establishment, that I'm not good enough to create my own establishment, which I can. You know what I'm saying. So I Always had that mentality. So that's why I've always just created something until something kind of hit for me and women, for the culture just really was it and and it just kind of took off from there. But it was really him who really started my love for it and me wanting to be home with my children and we wanted to have that freedom to be with him all the time who do it for well.
Speaker 2:You know, some people do it for notoriety, but when you're doing it for freedom, it hits different. Yeah, it really does hit different. And so we get to the point where Nikki, for the culture, is on the main stage, right, and especially in this digital age where, like, it's vital to have Like these online communities. But how are those online communities playing a role in? Like, connecting moms? Do you think it's because there's a million and one like groups out there? So how? How do we find the right one for us?
Speaker 3:with women for the culture. I knew who I wanted my audience to be. I dedicated myself and I searched for For that audience and so that's why it always kind of worked for me as far as women for the culture was concerned, because I knew who I was looking for. I was looking for those underdogs. I was looking for business women. I was looking for women who want to connect with me and things like that and who are open to Help another, to see other women win. So that was from the jump.
Speaker 2:Now, were you part of any like mommy groups before women of the culture? No, I.
Speaker 3:Actually, I never was and I didn't even really know anything about it, so that women from the culture literally came off the top of the dome. Like that's kind of how I create things. Like I Just did and I just think of something and I'll call Camille, or I talked to my. I'm like yo, what's about this? Like even my, my fiance is full of mine. Like I literally created the name, the logo here, credible. I knew what the logo was like. It's just. It comes off the door. Like I write nothing down. Like you know how people say oh, I wrote a business plan, right, right, right, I don't do, I have done nothing.
Speaker 2:The same way, I Just people think you'd be crazy, like what my husband be like man. You got the whole business out line like right now, and I don't think that's ever the problem. It's like you're a division area and you're you know this creative, but you have really surrounded yourself, it, insulated yourself with people who are operating in their zone of genius right and and kind of letting them do their thing and it all mesh together. So it started with you and Camille and that other than Sabrina came along, that when you, you guys all came to the table, did you all have shared values or was that something that y'all said you know what, when they all come aboard, I always tell him only positivity.
Speaker 3:I mean pretty much. Even if you go on our social media, if you go on women for the culture, instagram, you immediately get the vibe of who we are, what we represent, what we don't tolerate we have. I don't think I've ever seen really any negative comments on our thing. The only time I've ever seen that is like when we had like we post crush on one time because we were on a red carpet with her and people were just being negative against her just for no reason, and she didn't even say anything out of pocket. So that was just hateful stuff. But other than that, it's always positivity, always love, always just support for one another. So they already knew kind of a sense of what I was doing and that's also telling your brand story. So that's one thing, guys, that you need to be doing is paying attention to who you're following and their brand story. Just take a look at who they represent, like in the messages that they have in their posts and what their bio says and what their website says, and you know if this, if this Organization or this community or if this tribe, fits you on what you're looking for.
Speaker 3:And even with I created a selfish mompreneur on Facebook. I've created that private group. It's still in the early stages. Honestly, guys, I have no idea what I'm doing, because I really wasn't a Facebook. Instagram is my baby, but so I'm learning. But I definitely want to bring that mom, that mom vibe, over to Facebook with a selfish mom, because, as moms, we need to be selfish about our time and we need to be selfish about our self-care and we need to be selfish about our self-love and we need to be selfish in knowing that, okay, it's okay to step away and take care of me for a change and not be just so consumed with being a mother. So, women for the culture is here and a selfish mom Pinoir is there, and I'm really just focusing on that aspect is kind of really getting with my moms.
Speaker 2:So how do you pour into yourself? Talk to me what's a day for making.
Speaker 3:It's a crazy day. It's really difficult, to be honest, to pour into me, but I make it happen regardless of the fact. So, whether it is before they wake up in the morning, whether it's a moment while they're taking a nap, or whether it's getting them to bed and me having my me time, me and my fiancee go out at least once or twice a week, and even if I don't wanna go, he likes to be out on the street. So I gotta go too. So I've no choice but to go. So it's good that he pushes me to do those things, because I'll be in a house all day, because I don't mind it, but I'll be working. I'm constantly just working and working and working all day. So I go and get my nails done or, you know, you gotta go to Target. That's like my safe space and I can all my money in Target.
Speaker 2:That's like everything on the safe space.
Speaker 3:I think, like it's just like I don't know what's in the air in Target or what they're putting through the vents, but yeah, it's serious, like it's not even like a joke, it's a serious. I don't know what it is, cause Walmart doesn't have that air, you know, even though Walmart has sort of the same things. But it's just, the vibe is just different.
Speaker 2:Walmart got that quick vibe like get in, get out. Target got that. Come stroll with me.
Speaker 3:Come stroll my little Starbucks and you know, just cruising through the aisles, you know, yeah, popcorn cause you know, they all have some popcorn in there.
Speaker 2:girl Pizza Hut. Just so much.
Speaker 3:We had actually interviewed with Autism in Black a women for the culture, me and my fiancee once we found out about my son's Iyer and I was just so blown away while we were doing that live of how many people children had autism and it was just black. You know black parents and we don't really have those discussions Right. At least I didn't when I was young, I really didn't, you know, talk to anyone.
Speaker 2:We didn't know what the calling.
Speaker 3:We didn't know what the calling yeah, they're just you know say you know crazy things, you know, while we ain't gonna go there, but you know those crazy words and things like that, I didn't know. We didn't have those conversations. So to see that so many people and so many parents were going through the same things and the covering of the ears and I was just like I was just, that really was my start to wanting to share more, because there were so many women too who didn't know, like the IEPs and so many of the things that you can get and when you talk to other moms, like finding out, I can get a handicap sticker for him so that because he darts off and runs away, so at least if I can park closer, you know it'll be easier. So just little tips and tricks like that when you find your tribe, you'll learn things like that and you'll be able to share.
Speaker 2:That's amazing, I think, being vulnerable to a certain extent, it is hard for just, but I think it's very necessary because people wanna connect with you and I think that that happened through COVID is just like we got used to this and there's like, okay, this is what the new connection looks like. It's not easy, it's not, and I think finding, like you said, finding the right mom tribe is important, but it can be very challenging. And so, and that you know how would you, what type of advice would you give to a mom who is hesitant to reach out? You know, may hear your story, may see someone know you.
Speaker 3:You don't wanna connect to them, but be like nah, I would say baby steps, baby steps, let them know, like a little bit hey, I'm here, because that's kind of how we do women for the culture. It's like when we wanna reach out to someone, you don't just hey, girl, I want you, can you help me with da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da da. That doesn't really fly well, especially if you wanna have a long lasting relationship or actually really build a friendship with a mom or somebody in business, whatever it is. You come with them, you maybe like their stuff and if we're talking about through social media, you like their stuff, you comment, you get to know them. Oh, oh, wow, you know, I think this is awesome what you're doing da, da, da, da, da da. So you do that a little bit, kind of get to know them a little bit. Then, oh, you go to the DMs, have a great day, or da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da da.
Speaker 3:Like you kind of do baby steps and I'm telling you that works every single time, being funny, being who you are. But I think if you just come out raw with the question and wanting this person to share their whole life or experiences or tips with them. It's just, that's just not gonna fly. You're gonna have to kind of warm your way up to them. That's just like great me, honey, date me. You know what? I was just gonna use the bar. Like you can't, just let me take me home. You know what I'm saying? No, just don't work that way. Like you look good, take me home.
Speaker 2:You know, when we're talking about and let me just be clear we're talking about mom tribe, but we're talking about finding your tribe in business and in your personal life right Collaboration and partnership over just it always being a competitive thing. Which is that mentality we you know, just trying to pull yourself up over the next person, not knowing that we can go further if we just did it together. And it's funny that you said like just don't come in there, like and I get that a lot, I get in my DMs, I get people like I wanna be on your show and I'm like I don't even know who you are you know.
Speaker 2:Introduce yourself, please, and lead our life Say hello. Hey, I love what you're doing. I love to connect. Let's connect before we do anything else, because sometimes it might be that shallow connection. I see that a lot is that people have it set up automated where the person is not responding. It's like a mini-chats thing. Who knows the mini-chats? But sometimes we want the real person.
Speaker 2:Thank you, my interaction Well, I am down to my last few minutes here. This one is going to be a good question. I want to know what is a lesson you had to learn in your journey of being a mother that your mom didn't teach you?
Speaker 3:Wowzers. Okay, hmm, that's a good one.
Speaker 2:I think we put a lot of emphasis on us learning you know different things. For me, I had to learn emotional intelligence with my kids a lot more than when we was kids. It was just like shut up, do this, do that. Now I'm more apt to have a conversation with my kid and take the time to explain the why. And when I was growing up, I never got the why. I always got the you do it and go on, you know. And so I had to learn emotional intelligence on my own.
Speaker 3:Say wow, that's a really good question. I'm going to say to be present more. My mom worked a lot At some point. She worked two jobs and so my sister was there a lot and she really, like you know, did the whole thing. You know, we know that where the older sibling kind of helps out with the homework, picks up from school, my mom worked. My mom was out of the house at four in the morning and she wouldn't be back till six. She worked for Deloitte and I didn't really see her that often.
Speaker 3:So maybe I would say to be more present, and I think that could be why, too, that I'm just so like just focused on trying to be home more. So I never really kind of connected it with that until you asked me that question. So that could be why I'm like so adamant about not working for someone and being home with my kids and being more present to where I'm clear-minded, I don't have to worry about clocking into a job and, in a sense, where I have to be there, where I can create my own schedule and still plan time with my kids for a few hours out of the day or whatever it is, and just be a little bit more set of verses walking in when I'm going to sleep and so we really don't, you know, but I think that's probably something and again, I never really connected that until you asked me that question. I had to think really hard.
Speaker 2:Good, that question gets everybody, and they always come to that moment that you just said. Which is man? I never connected it too, and that's how it happens, though. Right, it's like we don't realize how there's a book called what Happened to you, and it goes into detail about how different things in our childhood and how we raise affect how we are and who we are as we become adults. Great read, audible, like that's how I get my books in yeah, what's the name of it again what Happened to you?
Speaker 2:What Happened to you? Yeah, by Bruce D Perry and Oprah Winfrey the conversation of trauma, resilience and healing.
Speaker 3:Audible, huh Audible yeah. At least I don't have time to sit and read a book, Right?
Speaker 2:like that's what I do in a car when I'm cooking, cleaning. But this has been awesome, like really, really good. I appreciate you stopping by.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much for having me and thank you for opening your doors and your audience for Mamas, because we need these conversations and we need to know that there are communities and there are women who really care about us and us growing and us winning and supporting one another, because the Lord.
Speaker 2:Well, and because so many people put like self-care in this box of just taking care of your body, you know, but it's like taking care of you, every part of you, you know, and pouring into your mind, your body and you know, your spirit, just everything, so that it can, like you said, overflow to every aspect of your business, your house, your fiance you know what I mean. Like family partners, you just kind of thrive and when we are saying yes to something, we're saying no to something. So let's say yes to the right things, you know. Yes actually.
Speaker 3:I had a post about that with Shonda Rhimes. That guy, Shonda Rhimes, if you guys ever check out my platform, she said something about that. When you say, when she's saying, when she's going to Grey's Anatomy and she's doing her show, she's missing on the first steps, or you know something that's happening with her kids at home. So as moms, we're consistently sacrificing in some way, shape or form in our lives. So that, are we always there? Absolutely not.
Speaker 2:No, we're not. But we can do better, right, and that's establishing, like you said, those working hours, given ourselves boundaries. Oh, heavy on the boundaries. I need to put that on a shirt. Heavy on the boundaries.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Okay, tell the people how they can stay connected to you. Keep up on what's going on with.
Speaker 3:Nikki for the Culture. Yes, you guys can find me at Nikki for the Culture on Instagram. My website is nickybranch like branchonitreecom, and you can also follow my podcast at Real Talk with Nikki Podcast. Also, you can listen to Real Talk with Nikki Podcast on iHeart, apple and Spotify.
Speaker 2:Well, that is the end of today's show. I hope you enjoyed it. If we're not connected on Instagram, which is my favorite place to hang out, be sure to stop by and say hi at Martini Mama's podcast. Also, if you haven't done so, please follow, rate and review. Higher ratings and higher reviews mean more dope moms can find us, and I keep bringing you fresh mom content that matters Until next Thursday. Be blessed.