Episode 276 with Precious Williams: Building Resilience and Self-Worth

I'm thrilled to share this episode of the Ready Yet?! Podcast, in which I sat down with the incredible Precious Williams, International Speaker, Best-Selling Author, and Corporate Sales Trainer. We discussed topics like resilience, living life on your own terms, and recognizing your self-worth. Precious shared her journey of overcoming immense challenges, the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people, and the process of embracing your true self. 

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Episode 276 with Precious Williams: Building Resilience and Self-Worth

Erin Marcus: All right, I don't even know what we're trying to do here today, but welcome, welcome to this episode of the Ready It Podcast. And my guest, my friend, my wonderful muse I just love watching you, right? I just love watching you. The amazing Precious Williams. I don't know if I should ask you questions, if I should just let you go.

Erin Marcus: I don't know that it matters. We probably don't, Queen. You know how we do. This is, I'm so happy to share you. Let me put it that way. I am so happy to share you with as many people as I could possibly share you with. 

Precious Williams: I thank you for that, Queen. 

Erin Marcus: So thank you for coming to hang out with me today. And as we get into what a mildly controlled chaos of a conversation.

Erin Marcus: As I was thinking about this today, the two things that just kept coming up for me when I think of you in this moment is, how are these two things combined? Resilience, the resilience that it takes, Not to just survive, that's a thing, but to live life on your own terms. The resilience takes to get to the point where you get to live life on your own terms.

Erin Marcus: And, because to me, there's got to be a way these are interweaving for you. Yep. The worthiness to accept it.

Precious Williams: You went there, Queen. 

Erin Marcus: I already what we're doing. Because the resilience doesn't matter if you don't feel worthy to receive what you're trying to accomplish. 

Precious Williams: And I truly believe that's the process of becoming, right? I'm not in my 20s. I'm not in my 30s. I've had too many years of trying to be, of trying to, I'm the square peg in the round hole.

Precious Williams: And through a series of incredible events, I was pulled out of that and to be in the right places, the right spaces, where I could be rebellious, where I could use my creative talents in a way that the little girl in me always knew existed, just not where I was born or not where I was raised. How does the little girl 

Erin Marcus: learn their word?

Erin Marcus: I just keep, I'm trying to come up with a synonym, and the journalism degree is failing me, right? 

Precious Williams: I'm 

Erin Marcus: trying to come up with a synonym here, because I think there is, and I think you're right, I think there's an age related process, a wisdom related process, external. Honestly, it's, if 

Precious Williams: we're really going to keep it a bean.

Precious Williams: It's going where you're celebrated, not tolerated, and knowing that there are places you're supposed to be, even if you don't know how to get there. So I think of all these Queens, like I was, my newest client is Verizon. And I'll be in the Midwest quite a lot. We've already shot my pitch. But when I tell you, I was thinking back in time, but when I was in St.

Precious Williams: Louis and I knew I was going to college and there were these women that they were over top teens. I was never a debutante. I didn't come from that background, but they were trying to show me what's coming. College the places that I'll be. You remember I was only in St. Louis, Missouri. Education. I went to Spelman and not only was it tough, it was hardcore.

Precious Williams: It was supportive and loving. My professors got the best out of me. Because they knew how to do it. The women I was around, even though they grew up with wealth and going to boarding schools and stuff like that, they embraced me, not as the other, but as a sister who didn't know who she was yet. And they could see it.

Precious Williams: It's the women that did the what is that thing that tells you whether you're a projector or manifesting generator or whatever? Human 

Erin Marcus: design. 

Precious Williams: Yeah. And that's when I learned that I've been operating as a generator when I'm a projector. Meaning I don't have to bulldoze my way into places. And even though I'd heard that it took a few years to understand, Oh, that is why people are attracted to me.

Precious Williams: That is why things are happening in a certain place. And I need to be in alignment with, human design. And I am a projector. It took Kings and Queens to see the magic and the light in me when I didn't think it was there, but they were constantly pouring into me, whether they were coaches, whether they were.

Precious Williams: Classmates, whether they were people at different businesses who, even though I didn't fit the mold, they knew that there was something and open doors cracked them to make sure that I got through. Cause they knew once she's in, she gonna slay and she's going to make me look good. So part of that is who's been pouring into me, even when times got rough and dark and hell is hot, who's pouring into me and just trying to get me to say, Hey, this happens in business.

Precious Williams: It happens in life. You're going to fail. Who's going to be there with you in those trenches and remind you every day, you're not your situation, living your vision, not your reality. 

Erin Marcus: So if you're somebody looking for those people, I think you're absolutely right. Who you are surrounded by matters. And 

Precious Williams: Knowing that they were a gift.

Precious Williams: See, we hang around a lot. I used to hang around a lot of people who weren't going anywhere because I wasn't going anywhere. Making that decision of where do I want to be? That little girl wanted to write the great American novel, host television shows, and have billboards in Times Square. Baby, I'm 45 and had three billboards in Times Square.

Precious Williams: I've hosted a show on Fox Business. I've done a lot of amazing things. But when I look back, it's my grandmother. There she is over there. Not here, but she's over there. There she is grandma precious. She was the first and then all of these women and then also understanding when somebody's season ends up, I can't grow with you.

Precious Williams: And it's not that I look on them with, Oh, you ain't you're not at this. No. We've come to the end of the road. Because there's a jealousy or listen, this isn't going to work. What I had tolerated in my twenties and thirties. I can't in my forties plus I can't bring you around the Kings and Queens and the angels because you're not ready for them.

Precious Williams: And they're gonna question me. I can't bring people into spaces they're not ready for. And remembering it is, Oh my God, I had to get ready. Somebody to see that I was ready to open those doors. So I'm not pushing business cards. I'm not doing this. I'm sitting back and observing. They don't have to know my name until it's time.

Precious Williams: But if I'm in the room, I'm observing. So I don't always have to be, I can just be like, so knowing how to move, but you have watched because of others. Yes, they can crack a window they can open the door, who's walking through, and to know if I'm in here what does that mean, it doesn't drop. 

Erin Marcus: No, you have to hold up your end of the deal on these things.

Erin Marcus: This is what, I think this is wrong for people where they're either they want the mentors and the opportunities, but they're not doing their part, or they're trying to force something to happen. That's not really them. There's so much misalignment. 

Precious Williams: Yeah, I also think some of this is deliberately said in the world and that's why it doesn't make sense.

Precious Williams: So you remember when everybody wouldn't. I want to say everybody, but everyone says they were coaching. You just knew, baby, you can't be a life coach if your life ain't lifin You can't be a business coach if your business ain't businessing. I know it sounds crazy. I know the math ain't math. 

Erin Marcus: It took me forever to call myself a business coach. Because I didn't want to throw my name in the hat with 85 percent of the people who were doing it. 

Precious Williams: Yes. And so I'm a trainer. I got mad respect because I've had some great coaches who really were what they said they were and didn't learn it from a two day course.

Precious Williams: And now they can teach you everything. I'm like, I need you to get yourself in alignment because I can, it's as a pitch, as a killer pitch master, I hear what people are telling me. And I'm also hearing what they're not saying. How long did it take me to realize that I could do that because I didn't trust my gut.

Precious Williams: I didn't trust those things. But again, The things that are told mass market don't really work for specific industries. Don't really work for specific people. Don't really work for, I don't know, C suite, but there are just things that just cause everybody says they can do it. You being on a yacht means nothing to me, baby.

Precious Williams: I got friends who got yachts. That's why you see me on there. I don't have one of my own. I could be in a private jet. It ain't mine, but it's not what I want you to know 

Erin Marcus: about me. It's all this one size fits all. And this is. I agree with you because I call them one size fits all, soon to be obsolete, insta tactic.

Erin Marcus: It has nothing to do with you, your strengths, your goals, your human design, your any of it. But you know if I do this one thing, I'm gonna be a millionaire. It's

Precious Williams: not how that works. You brought up resilience for a reason. And part of the, one of the hardest things for me was to receive the gifts that were given. Yes.

Precious Williams: I sit at tables and no muck. I play my position. It's not the loud mouth. is to offer innovative ways of looking at things. I didn't learn how to speak or have 29 years of professional speaking excellence at 45 years old by regurgitating someone else. I love that AI has been helpful to people. If that's the sum total of your business, great.

Precious Williams: Cause you probably don't interact with people in real life. Cause that doesn't make any sense. However, it's a great tool. I'm sure it is. My thing is I've been blessed. To be able to meet in real life and make small talk and just talk about ridiculousness in addition to business in addition to such things and that only happens because I'm in so many different great environments, like got invited to, um, a resident, the residents of say United Nations, but I'm trying to think what was the name of the place like the British consulate because people know it's a killer pitchmaster and it was a delegate of 15 companies coming from the UK and they're trying to enter the market.

Precious Williams: Why in the world did I receive an invitation and why was I was walking over and this goes back to resilience. I was walking over and I said, five years ago, I would not have accepted this invitation. I would have thought I'm not good enough. I'm walking in like I own the building. And there's a different flair when you walk in with real confidence and no way I belong here.

Precious Williams: And I can feel it in my bones. I can feel it in my spirit. I walk into some of these places. And it is a mystery because I'm not sometimes I'm loud because I know my peeps or I'm just like you want to make somebody interested in you don't be who they think you're going to be. How do you learn that?

Precious Williams: 'cause you did the wrong things before . Exactly. So I know I've made mistakes. I know. I'm not saying, oh, I was always like this, the, no I wasn't. Because I had multiple bites adding an apple in different stages of my life and I've had to fail forward, I've had to listen to people say it's impossible.

Precious Williams: Maybe for you it's impossible, but you know what? I don't even need you to know what I'm about to do. Don't believe me. Just watch. Which means who is around you and who do you need to be around? It's people like, Oh, I just want high net worth clients. And I'm like, yeah, that sounds good to the lay person.

Precious Williams: That sounds awesome. But who are you around them? Who are you around your homies? No, you're being watched in a different way. Can they bring you around certain people? I'm not an entertainer or sports figure as a black woman. I'm a speaker and a business woman. So if I'm gonna be watched and judged, I know how to play the game and there's a game to be played in everything.

Precious Williams: And because I've made mistakes and I still bounce back, that is what resilience can do. And so you do build up that confidence by failure. And also understanding that my people who know who I am, they're always gonna say my name. And as part of the reason that I teach pitching for profit, when it comes to who says your name for opportunities, who just says your name randomly to people and those people magically go look you up and now they're fans.

Erin Marcus: So I have a question, because you mentioned this, playing the game. I'm not of color, but I am female. . Come on. I'm also Jewish, but you usually can't tell by looking at me, I don't 

Precious Williams: know if I can ever tell who's Jewish by looking at, unless you go up a certain close. 

Erin Marcus: There's a little bit of privilege, but there's a little bit of problem.

Erin Marcus: Yep. Yep. And. I think one of the best things, and I see this in you, one of the best things I was taught how to do, and some of it came naturally because I don't dislike people, how do you maneuver through the game without a chip on your shoulder when you know, right? There is the confidence, but if you have a chip on your shoulder, that's not confidence.

Erin Marcus: That's fear.

Precious Williams: Can we just be frank? Can I keep it a bug? Can I keep it clean? I'm not perfect. I'm not. My pictures are perfect. I am not. I'm always a work in progress. So I don't say this to be polyanna or anything like that. There are some people, I feel like I'm always going to have a chip on my shoulder because I remember what they did to me.

Precious Williams: And I know they never saw me getting here. Yeah. Now, how does that play into others? Not at all because I don't have that relationship. 

Precious Williams: So 

Erin Marcus: How do you hold here's the way I'll phrase this to you. How do you hold the acknowledgement that things are not okay and some things have to change. While also maneuvering in that world successfully without the chip on your shoulder that would prevent your ability to do what you need to do.

Precious Williams: That's what I watch you do. This is hard. I feel like this is what God is saying through me. I didn't grow up having gratitude. I didn't grow up being thankful. I grew up very mean. I was very mistreated. So I was always angry at people who loved their moms.

Precious Williams: A lot of people who love their moms and 

Erin Marcus: people, I hear you. 

Precious Williams: I was angry about my father was angry about being mistreated. So for most of my life, most of my young life, I was just in a state of anger and rage

Precious Williams: as I've gotten older. And it's because of that beautiful woman, big, precious, her loving me to life, her believing in my dreams without me saying it, her and my grandfather saying he died today, 20 years ago. He would say, I take a body over you. My girl was like, if I don't like the way somebody speaking to my baby me and you going to see each other outside.

Precious Williams: Mike, they were in their sixties and they were ready to take people out about me. Never cursed me out. Never beat me up. Never anything was just like, that's the golden child. Understand. She going to have people working for you. Who says that at 15 to a 15 year old and everybody else in the hood. Back in the day, my grandma said, I knew who you were when you were born. I knew. So anyway. Gratitude, being thankful and giving people their flowers. Now, I didn't get a chance with my grandparents because they died way before I could truly understand. So it is my mission through whatever I do. I'm not here to embarrass her or to be angry with people.

Precious Williams: The one thing about me aging is also understanding that there are people who told me I'm too old over to heal. I can't do stuff. Oh, word. It's not like a challenge to me. Because now whatever I get to do, other women can see it. Other men can see it. You weren't warned it. It doesn't mean the glow up can't happen at 40 something.

Precious Williams: Let me tell you what else, what I'm thankful for. And this is probably why I don't have a chip on my shoulder with just everybody. I don't know. You don't. We're all struggling with something. I don't care how pretty it looks on social media. It's 

Erin Marcus: a human connection. 

Precious Williams: It's a human connection, but how many people tell the truth?

Precious Williams: And I'm not saying you get blasted everything about your life on social media. That's not what I'm saying. But there are people who feel unwanted and got millions in their bank account. There are P there are women who put on some weight and now they feel like they cannot show up as brilliant and as bright.

Precious Williams: There are men who've been rejected so long that all they can do is watch TV. Watch anything on social media because they can't have it in real life. I refuse to not live my life. I'm going to be outside when I want to be, when I want to be, I don't have to show up to fights. If I'm not engaging with you, you're not fighting with me.

Precious Williams: And if I'm not being interviewed and if I'm not auditioning, you don't have the right to question me. You're not going to be my client. I do not want you to be my client. And yet I can do that tactfully and respectfully. If I want to invite great women and men into the things that I'm doing, it is a privilege, which means it's a privilege to spend time with me, just like it's a privilege to spend time with Queen Erin.

Precious Williams: So who are you playing with your time? If someone disrespect your time, they got to go. If someone does not understand the assignment with which they're being brought in, they put them on the back burner until they understand. And that's part of resilience. That's part of. Sometimes you wanted things so badly that it could not happen.

Precious Williams: In my twenties, if I'd be where I am today, I'd be dead. Thirties, I'd be dead. You're 

Erin Marcus: holding on too tight, right? You're holding 

Precious Williams: on and not being flexible enough to know you're being redirected. Your dream is still going to come true. But it happened in my forties. Yes, I won 13 titles in 2011 to 2013, but my greatest is today.

Precious Williams: I didn't peak in high school. Hell, I'm peaking more now. And I wasn't the valedictorian, Ms. Beaumont, whatever. That was that, that, that was a preview.

Erin Marcus: And there's something, we were chatting, call it in the green room before the green room. The quiet and the calm. And, when you look at this, how do you know, how do you become worthy? So that you can receive. It's through gratitude, like putting all of the things you're saying into these tactical takeaways, right?

Erin Marcus: You become internally worthy by having the gratitude. You become resilient by surrounding yourself with the people who pour into you and then pouring into others. 

Precious Williams: Exactly. Paying it forward 

Erin Marcus: and backward. And the empathy. The empathy, almost, right? What I hear you saying that you do is you start with empathy.

Erin Marcus: You don't have to prove to me that you're going through a thing that I know nothing about. Cause I'm just gonna assume that. Yeah. With empathy. Yeah. Until you prove me otherwise. And then the other thing that you do that's such a huge takeaway is do you, I know from knowing you that you agree there there's things that have to not be happening and there's things that like we know that, but you're, do not wait for the world to change.

Erin Marcus: Go out and change your world. 

Precious Williams: Yeah. And that's what I mean. I had to weed and prune my network. If no one around me believes in me, wrong network. If I'm the smartest tool in the toolkit, I'm the smartest person 

Erin Marcus: in the room, I 

Precious Williams: am in the wrong room. And also, when I was talking about paying it backwards, do you know how many times?

Precious Williams: My friends or associates took me out to eat and I had not a dime in my bank account. Hooray. I'm eating the bare minimum because I all four. Someone say, oh, I, oh, everything's on me multiple times. And the times that they get caught out nine times, eight times, nine times outta 10, I was smooth. But you don't know when to trust that.

Precious Williams: Yeah. So I can be out with someone

Precious Williams: and I'm just gonna pay it forward regardless. They ain't gotta tell me nothing. 'cause I don't know. However, think about all the times I was able to eat, because that might have been my only meal of the day. Because someone just was generous, not even knowing who I was. I had a phone conversation with a great speaker and things haven't been great this year.

Precious Williams: She's actually was in the red and she wanted to attend some of the things I was doing, but she didn't have it. She left me the sweet voice message and I immediately called her and I said, before we go any further, thank you for your candor. Thank you for telling me the truth.

Precious Williams: For many years, this is me. Couldn't afford things, couldn't do things, but I kept my head down because I kept thinking about that song, Stronger. What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. Nothing is impossible or out of reach, but as long as I stay persistent and consistent and look at where I am today. I told her, she's maybe I can take you to lunch or something.

Precious Williams: I said, why don't you let me take you to lunch? I can afford both of us. Because in this moment, we're going to trade, but you're trading positions because after we do whatever we do, I just want to see that there are real people in this world and that is sweet. You don't have any, you still want to pay lunch for me because it's cheaper than whatever ticket.

Precious Williams: Yeah, I cannot allow you to do that. And I thought back to the people who did it for me. And so if I'm out with some of these people, I will. If it's feasible, it's been always 

Erin Marcus: right. Sometimes it is. And sometimes it isn't right. 

Precious Williams: Cause some people go ham. I'm like, but the one thing I don't pay for is alcohol.

Precious Williams: Cause you know, I don't drink. So I don't ever want to be caught up with alcohol. I'm like, that's on y'all. But what I'm saying is I will go back and say, you don't know, remember these? Like you remember, I said, yeah, when you don't have money, you remember a whole lot of things. It's the different, I said, but I want to bless you because you've saved me from looking like a bum in these streets, paying it forward.

Precious Williams: She's struggling and wanting to give up. I said, if you have to get a new revenue source in that form of employment, I don't know who you, I really got to tell people, you 

Erin Marcus: go get that revenue 

Precious Williams: source. You go get that. You, that's what you do. We've all had to do it. I said, I don't, I ain't trying to floss for nobody.

Precious Williams: Especially those of us who have corporate clients and be on some 30, 60, 90, you'd be like, we just can't get that right now. Am I lying? Am I lying? But that's the nature. Isn't that a blessing? Isn't it a blessing to get to that level though? Like you're like, okay, I know when the IRS starts coming after you for old things, you ain't even thought about in years for a company that's been gone since 2016.

Precious Williams: Oh yeah. I ain't want me when I had nothing back then. They didn't know I'm hot. They all love it. 

Erin Marcus: The other thing you're talking about. And I see this in me and I've got to keep an eye on this. Do not treat a temporary situation as a permanent one. 

Precious Williams: And it comes over time recognizing in your 20s.

Erin Marcus: Oh, the best thing about getting older is how much I don't care anymore. 

Precious Williams: I got kicked out of Georgetown University Law Center. Half my life ago, spent five years depressed at Rutgers. Rutgers blessed me with my law degree, I passed the bar on my first try. That was the impetus of, I remember my graduation day, I was walking, and I felt the shame of Georgetown leave.

Precious Williams: I'm in DC three, three, four times in two months. Do you know, when I come to Union Station, there's no anger, there's no bitterness. But I'm coming back twice that age to receive awards or to be recognized. It didn't work in my 20s. I wish I didn't spend five years hating myself. It affected my relationship.

Precious Williams: I felt deep shame, so I couldn't build. At this big age, I live to tell a tale that it ain't fatal. 

Erin Marcus: And 

Precious Williams: maybe that is Recalculating, GPT Recalculating, right? You're supposed to be over here recalculating. Oh, that didn't work out. Oh, G-P-T-G-P-S. I'm sorry. GPS Recalculating. Oh, I we're supposed to get over here.

Precious Williams: Yeah, but you had to be redirected through different ways. I would. I wouldn't wish homelessness, but I'm tell you in my thing, it got rid of a lot of relationships that should never have started. Come on. 

Erin Marcus: We get so attached to a very specific outcome. Instead of focusing, right? Instead of just focusing on what's the next right step.

Precious Williams: Yeah. We put a lot of pressure on young people. 

Erin Marcus: And I mentioned this to you before because we were catching up for a minute and you've got amazing things going on and I'm listening to all the amazing things you have going on and that you're doing. And I got. I got a decade on you. I don't know how that happened exactly.

Erin Marcus: Yeah, girl, they laugh. And I'm listening to you, and I say this to you almost as an inspiration where this only, it only gets better. And I'm listening to all the amazing things that you're doing, and the achiever in me goes, oh yeah. And the new version of me goes, I don't want to work that hard anymore.

Erin Marcus: And learning how to honor. Because the Achiever in me was looking for external approval, by the way. Come on. My, my external approval problem is what drove my Achiever for so long.

Erin Marcus: Yep. And so the beauty and amazingness of getting connected to what do I want, who do I want around me, that intentional building of your life and your business, who do I want around me, how do I want to spend my day,

Erin Marcus: that's when you start to feel the worthiness of getting to do that. 

Precious Williams: And I'm glad we talked about it because I'm 45. And I love peace and calm. Cause life was loud all the time. When I tell you, I appreciate these moments. I think I understand why grandparents would be like, stop pointing that out that house or whatever.

Precious Williams: I get it. Cause I didn't get it before. I get it now. I value, everybody can't come in my house, period. You can't, I don't care how nice you are. Like for me, this is my sanctuary. This is my peace.

Precious Williams: And I can have cool friends, but, and when they let me in their house, I'm, I'm incredibly grateful. But for me, we don't have to do the same things. I open up my heart in a different way, but to be alone and, beautiful spaces and put it all together myself. And now people say, Oh we ain't going to have this housewarming.

Precious Williams: I'm not. The housewarming is having everything put together the way I want from my eyes. Yeah. On stage a lot, I'm in the public a lot. And I'm wondering if I am like extreme extrovert and extreme introvert at the same time. Like when I'm done. I 

Erin Marcus: hear you. 

Precious Williams: The younger person be like, let's go. I'm like this, it's been it's been a long time.

Precious Williams: I'm getting retired now. No, I want to peacefully decompress. Thing. I don't need to be on stage forever. I need. To honor the peace that needs to exist inside of me as much as this is great. And I love my clients. I love meeting audience, but I love all of them. I also value recharging of a battery. It's the older, so we're going to take longer to recharge.

Precious Williams: We need time for self care. 

Erin Marcus: It's also, I think, an elevated version of resiliency. 

Precious Williams: Because, 

Erin Marcus: I know your story, you know some of my story, we've shared this stage before, and there was a fight to survive literally for a very long time for both of us in different ways. And so the resiliency, the gratitude for the strength to be able to do that, and then the gratitude for no longer needing to have to do that.

Erin Marcus: Resiliency is different 

Precious Williams: now. It is. What it teaches you. Yeah, Quinn. It does. And everything doesn't need to be celebrated on social media. As I told you, so I was in NYC last night. And when I got up to leave, I was having such a great conversation with these amazing women. And I said, as much as. Everything looks good online about me.

Precious Williams: I'm more proud that I'm seven years clean and sober off of alcohol. I am proud of the fact that even though I was homeless six years ago less than six years ago,

Precious Williams: I came out of darkness with God's grace and mercy and the right kings and queens and angels leading the way. And it was not always comfortable. It wasn't easy, but that was recalculating. And that was a GPS reset. And that allowed me to finally have the peace to hear him say, like even today, he was like, this is a meeting day.

Precious Williams: There's no business development. There's no sales. There's none of that. You just came back from Denver. Rest the mind. Yeah. Rest the body. You have nothing left to prove. And I could hear it because that peace, internally and 

Erin Marcus: externally. It took me a long time to hear that. Yeah. Girl! And not, I have not.

Erin Marcus: turned on my television in two and a half months. I have not looked online. Now, I do TikTok, but the algorithm is all baby goats and, 

Precious Williams: I am 

Erin Marcus: so vested, it's springtime, there's babies being born at farms all over this country, and I am very vested in a lot of them. But I haven't, I have a journalism degree and I haven't watched the news in two and a half months.

Precious Williams: Boy, that's pretty big. 

Erin Marcus: I had Y'all heard it! It's not To your point, it ain't real. No. It's not real. It's the same 

Precious Williams: stories 

Erin Marcus: Over and over again. How many people can hate and destroy other people? I don't That's not my world. That's not the world I'm engaging in. And again, I am full out aware, I had this conversation, I'm full out aware of the fact that I'm too old to have kids and don't have kids gives me a amount of privilege to not worry about this is true.

Erin Marcus: Let's be clear. 

Precious Williams: And 

Erin Marcus: true. 

Precious Williams: There's no 

Erin Marcus: bake 

Precious Williams: sales. 

Erin Marcus: There's no, I gotta get you up and into the thing. Nope. I don't have to get wrapped up in a sum of the discourse because Of the privilege I have of not being affected by it 

Precious Williams: personally. So there are things I don't need to talk about because they, or just having to respond to everything.

Precious Williams: The power is in not having to. You can scroll through things and not even respond like, Oh, okay. Same old. Okay. The same conversation we've been having for 10 years. Oh, okay. I don't, I can't get invested in that. And also I'm older and these conversations will take you off of your focus. What am I focused on is more important.

Precious Williams: I can do some messing around and giggles and stuff. I cannot watch every Met Gala thing. I get it's cute. And see how I turn out. But I can't be so invested in a celebrity's life. I can't be so invested in every murder, every robbery. Look, I have things to do. I have a purpose in this life and there's some things that do make me angry, but I'm not fighting with y'all on social media.

Precious Williams: Them trick, them Twitter fingers tricking the trigger. You're going to get bodied by a pigeon. B I T C H. I promise you. I'm not. But the best thing is I'm not going to engage. Not because, and sometimes I don't have, I don't have, I don't possess the intellectual, Capacity to have a creative discourse on anything on certain things.

Precious Williams: So I can't talk about everything worldwide. 

Erin Marcus: Why am I talking? Too bad more people don't understand that. 

Precious Williams: I'm like, Oh, you should be talking about, I understand that there are things you want to talk about and your hands are own again. For me, if I don't know, Then there's nothing I don't know enough. Why am I talking?

Precious Williams: You're putting pressure on me to do things you can't even do. And even if you do add to the discourse, what have you really added? We're going on emotions at a certain point. Your emotions will keep you. I have some things I'd be logical about. I have some things I have to parse my way through as a former attorney.

Precious Williams: And if I allow everything to emotionally get me, I would never be in a position I'm in to stand on stages and just compartmentalize it. In this moment, this is what I do. 

Erin Marcus: It puts you in complete reaction mode and out of intention and out of control. And that's 

Precious Williams: how they get you. So they get you. Not paying attention to your purpose.

Precious Williams: I say every morning, there are certain affirmations. I am most prosperous when I'm speaking, leading, and influencing others as I celebrate my life. I am the head and not the tail. God blessed me with a purpose and a path and he will light the way. Money flows, opportunities flow, anything positive flows to me easily and effortlessly.

Precious Williams: My life is golden. Anything I touch turns to gold. I'm resilient, strong, and calm. I'm abundant in all ways. Guard my heart and protect my mind, oh Lord. God is with me and within me, always. Because that's how I have to bring it back into focus. And that's why we are where we are. There's some battles I need to be participating in because it's a, what they call it, peering victory or peering something.

Precious Williams: It's not real. Why are we talking about it? Okay. That's resiliency. That's growing up. That's being mature. And also just certain conversations you don't need to come into. I ain't got nothing to add. What am I talking about? I'll sit and listen and keep it pushing. A 

Erin Marcus: hundred percent. A hundred percent. So one last thing I hesitate to even bring it up 'cause one last thing for you and me is two hours long.

Erin Marcus: But the thing that I am focused on right now, and I know you know yours, what's my intention? What's my desire and what's my drive? So all three, right? My in, my intention in life is to create freedom and space. Mm. My desire is abundance. And my drive is to have an impact,

Precious Williams: so I have to answer that too.

Precious Williams: My intention is to melt the world, so the professional and the personal for women so that they can rafa in all aspects of their lives. The second one, 

Erin Marcus: what's your desire?

Precious Williams: My desire is to be free to think. From a freedom standpoint, and to stay in alignment with my purpose and my path, regardless of what it looks like to others. 

Erin Marcus: What's driving all this? 

Precious Williams: What drives all of this is that little girl who watched her dreams come true and not in the package that they said success comes in.

Precious Williams: And my secondary is my grandmother and my grandfather who saw the best in me when everybody else gave me just courage. I don't want another woman to go through that or to feel when she has a certain age or her skin color or her race, her gender disability or differently able. Use it to your advantage.

Precious Williams: In ways they've never seen. Love it. 

Erin Marcus: Love it. Yes. Love it! Yes to all of it. If people want to continue this conversation with you. What is the best way for them to get ahold of you and find you? 

Precious Williams: Okay, so again, everybody, my name is Precious Williams. I'm the proud founder and CEO of the Perfect Pitch Group.

Precious Williams: Our website is www do perfect pitch group.com on LinkedIn. I am Precious l Williams. On Instagram, we are at Perfect Pitch Group and on Facebook we are Precious Killer Pitch Master Williams. If you do want to take part in some free stuff, go to www.perfectpitchgroup.com. Backslash free dash gifts. You'll get the first chapter of my fifth book, bestseller again rain, making one on one packaging, positioning, and pitching, and also how to make it rain like snow in your business.

Precious Williams: Again, www. perfectpitchgroup. com backslash free dash gifts. Sign up for our newsletter while you're on that site. If you want to keep up with what we're doing. We have we have our newsletter on LinkedIn also called Please. We're 133, 000 strong. Come join. Come get this book. 

Erin Marcus: All those links are in the show notes.

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Precious Williams: do. 

Erin Marcus: Let's not act 

Precious Williams: like 

Erin Marcus: it's 

Precious Williams: our 

Erin Marcus: first. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 

Precious Williams: Thank you, Queen.