Erica and India discuss their intentions for the shows Pause on the Play® and Flaunt Your Fire®. After nearly 300 combined episodes, they pause to explore how to use them as continued resources and how to stay in the loop about future projects.

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Keep in touch and find out what we’re up to at pauseontheplay.com

It’s increasingly common for people with traditional jobs to be building their own businesses and brands outside of their regular working hours.

But when you have a traditional job, it can sometimes be difficult to assess how and where to show up publicly. This can be especially true if you work in a field like government or law enforcement.

Officer Kenny Dean joins India to discuss how he started and evolved his social media presence and developed his podcast while actively working in law enforcement.

In this discussion:

• Why Officer Dean felt that it was the right time to clarify and demystify police work for the public
• How he approaches hosting his show while balancing the needs of his department
• Officer Dean’s advice for building an audience while respecting your day job

Connect with Officer Kenny Dean:

• Let’s Talk Law Enforcement Period
• Instagram: @letstalklawenforcementperiod

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• LinkedIn: ​​India Jackson
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

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We’ve been conditioned to show up to work as our “professional” self and leave our personal beliefs behind. But the truth is, values inform every area of our life, so why try to compartmentalize?

Each month in The Pause on the Play® Community we explore one specific way to make your values more explicit. Our curated connections and learning experiences will help you challenge harmful norms, show up as an imperfect ally®, and live in alignment.

Learn more at pauseontheplay.com/community

Fashion is part of everyday life.

Whether you love it and follow the latest trends, or you’re a minimalist with a capsule wardrobe, or none of the above, we all have to wear clothes.

E.K. Powell joined India for a live conversation within The Pause on the Play Community about the lesser-known history of fashion, gender norms, and the role of capitalism in what we think are just preferences.

In this discussion:

• The real history of nail polish and high heels
• How cultural norms about childhood, gender, and color have evolved under the influence of capitalism
• The difference between trends set by people and norms created to sell more product
• How norms of gender and fashion prey on people’s fears

Connect with E.K. Powell:

• Instagram: @whatsgoodenglish
• TikTok: @whatsgoodenglish
• YouTube: @whatsgoodenglish

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• LinkedIn: ​​India Jackson
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

Content Note: This episode includes mentions of gender norms, bullying and hatred.

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Want the ability to participate in conversations like these? Join The Pause on the Play Community.

The Community regularly hosts live conversations and workshops along with Q&As, community conversation, co-working hours, and more, alongside our evergreen library of resources and replays.

Learn more at pauseontheplay.com/community

Resources:

• F.D Signifier - YouTube

Change is inevitable, whether in you, your brand, or the humans who are a part of it.

How we meet change is up to us. How do you honor the life and death cycles that come with change?

Brionna Ned joins India for a conversation about death, rebirth, growth, and change within life and business.

In this discussion:

• How Brionna helps people navigate death cycles and change
• Why Brionna believes it’s vital for people to gain fluency in legalese
• How to tease out the difference between comfort and safety when approaching a growth edge
• How Brionna breaks down overwhelm
• How capitalism and entrepreneurial culture teach us to create boxes and isolate ourselves

Connect with Brionna Ned:

• The Everyday Lawyer
• Instagram: @the_everyday_lawyer, @thesubmissivelist

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire
• LinkedIn: ​​India Jackson
• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

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Get access to more live conversations like these in The Pause on the Play Community. Members are able to ask their questions and share their observations in the chat, as well as get access to the recordings, along with our full library of past workshops and resources, community conversations, Q&A with India and Erica, co-working hours, and more.

Learn more at pauseontheplay.com/community

Being explicit about your values in your business used to be frowned upon, but it’s vital to how you market your brand, how you build your company culture, and how you relate to your clients.

In this replay of a 2020 conversation on Racheal Cook’s Promote Yourself to CEO podcast, Racheal and India discuss infusing your values into all aspects of your business, addressing mindset challenges and fears when it comes to getting explicit, and Racheal’s own experiences with making her values known.

In this discussion:

• How marketing with your values as the starting point helps differentiate your business

• Why it’s vital to understand the ways that consumers are voting with their dollar

• Leaning on your values to guide how you show up in public

• Taking steps to articulate your values

• How leading with your values builds connection and community around your brand

Connect with Racheal Cook:

• Promote Yourself to CEO Podcast

• The CEO Collective

• Instagram: @racheal.cook

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire

• LinkedIn: ​​India Jackson

• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

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Get clear on what matters. From Implicit to Explicit is a framework to get clear on what matters and how it informs the way you live and lead in your workplace.

This 3-hour masterclass helps you evaluate your personal and professional values, how those intersect with your team and your clients, and how those values need to show up in your brand.

Learn more at pauseontheplay.com/explicit

Resources:

• Gingko Public Relations

• ON1E Clothing

Books are powerful tools for learning, connection, evolution, and reconsideration.

From storytelling through fiction to learning about the real lives of others in nonfiction works, books help us reshape our thinking, communicate with the people in our lives, and sometimes just get lost in a really good story.

Erica Courdae joins India to discuss some of the books that have strongly impacted them and how they think about everything from storytelling to gentrification to minimalism.

In this discussion:

• Storytellers who took us on unexpected journeys

• A book that helped us rethink what we know about gentrification

• Reconsidering minimalism and intentionality

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire

• LinkedIn: ​​India Jackson

• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

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Want to learn more about our favorite and recommended books and support Pause on the Play® at the same time? Head to our bookshelf at pauseontheplay.com/books. 10% of every purchase goes to Pause on the Play® to help keep the podcast and our other free resources available. Buying through Bookshop also supports independent bookstores that are vital resources in their communities.

Align the way you shop with your values and vote with your dollars at pauseontheplay.com/books

Resources:

• Pause on the Play® Bookshelf

• Pause on the Play® Ep 98: Weaving Story, Experience, and Humor into the Way You Communicate with Jon Goode

• Flaunt Your Fire® Ep 54: Creating Consistent Curated Content with Jon Goode

Are you more comfortable calling yourself a content creator rather than an influencer?

The word “influencer” has developed something of a negative connotation, but at its core, to be an influencer simply means being someone who is influential to others. If we model actions and behaviors that reflect our values, we can have a positive influence on those who witness us.

Erica Courdae and India dig into being a positive influence and how behavior modeling has been showing up in their lives and decision-making recently.

In this discussion:

• Defining what behavior modeling means for India and Erica right now

• How Erica has modeled confidence and making any day an occasion

• Why India has been giving herself freedom to experiment with her hair and how she shows up

• How to rethink using what you already have to live your life out loud

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire

• LinkedIn: ​​India Jackson

• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

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The Pause on the Play® Community is where brands and professionals create new normals in work and life.

The community helps people connect with values-aligned entrepreneurs and employees, across titles and industries, move from implicit to explicit® values, evolve the way we show up for ourselves and others and grow our influence, together.

Members have access to community discussion, live Q&As, co-working hours, workshops, and our evergreen library of replays and resources.

Learn more at pauseontheplay.com/community

We might think of trends as things that come and go in the worlds of fashion and style, but trends impact the world of work and entrepreneurship as well.

Trends aren’t necessarily negative, but when we follow trends in any capacity without questioning them, it can take us down a path that we didn’t intend to be on.

In a replay of a live conversation from within The Pause on the Play Community, Brooke Monaghan and India discuss what it means to consciously and intentionally challenge the status quo and how to be a responsible disruptor.

In this discussion:

• How being a disruptor is about more than calling out what you’re against

• Why you need to be clear on who your audience really is when you’re challenging norms in your industry

• Why staying in conversation with your community is a key aspect of responsible disruption

• How intentionality and awareness of your audience will inform your content

Connect with Brooke Monaghan:

• Website

• Transcend Your Dichotomy Podcast

• Instgram: @briggsmonaghan

Connect with India Jackson and Flaunt Your Fire:

• Flaunt Your Fire

• LinkedIn: ​​India Jackson

• Instagram: @FlauntYourFire

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This conversation with Brooke Monaghan was a live event within The Pause on the Play® Community. As part of our commitment to accessibility for our global membership, all of our events allow members to submit questions ahead of time, and all events are recorded and replays are available 24/7 as part of our resource library.

Get access to events like these, along with community conversation, Q&As with Erica and India, co-working hours and more by joining the Community.

Learn more at pauseontheplay.com/community

Resources:

• Transcend Your Dichotomy Ep 160. Strategic, Values Aligned Branding with India Jackson

• Transcend Your Dichotomy Ep 161. Sustainable Visibility with Mai-kee Tsang