On this episode of the Take Good Care podcast, we’re joined by Courtney Robinson, founder of Image by Courtney. Courtney shares her background, tells us about her business, the process of how she got where she is today, and more!
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Dr. Mironda Williams:
Welcome to Take Good Care podcast.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
An endeavor that grew out of our love for obstetrics and gynecology. Our aim and mission is to serve as a source of vital information, for women of all races, ages, and walks in life.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
I am Dr. Mironda Williams.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
I’m Dr. Deanna Guthrie.
Dr. Karen Greene:
And I’m Dr. Karen Greene.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Welcome to our show.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
Welcome to our show.
Dr. Karen Greene:
Welcome to our show.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Welcome to this episode of Take Good Care podcast. I’m Dr. Mironda Williams.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
I’m Dr. Deanna Guthrie.
Dr. Karen Greene:
And I am Dr. Karen Green.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
And before we introduce you to our marvelous guest who is joining us virtually today, you know I have to have my little fun, so it’s time to say that we are live and on the air. So for those of you taking a look at us on our website or on our YouTube, you will see the visuals in the video.
But today, as you can also see, we are joined by a wonderful guest, Courtney Robinson. And she’s going to share with us just on what she does in terms of profession, but also just who she is, where she’s from, and all the things that led her to where she is today.
Courtney Robinson is the founder of Image by Courtney, which empowers women leaders to step into their brilliance, by aligning their inner values with their outward style. When she sent this to us and I read it, I was like, woo, I like all that. I could probably use a little some of that too.
Courtney works with high-level executives and entrepreneurs to curate a personal brand, that reflects their true purpose and amplifies their presence. Her strategic approach to leadership branding helps women show up with confidence, authority, and impact, transforming their wardrobe into a powerful tool for success, wealth, and lasting influence.
So, Karen, you’re the one who brought this phenom to us. Tell us a little bit about how that even happened.
Dr. Karen Greene:
Yeah, it’s funny because I had thought the same thing when I read your bio. I was like, wow, I need some of that, can she help me out?
I met Courtney at a vision board. A mutual friend of ours, Anika Davis, Dr. Anika Davis, who’s also been on our podcast, had a vision board party almost two years ago. And she spoke about just what she did for women and how they present in the world, and I was just like, wow. And I guess at the time, I wasn’t even thinking on the corporate scale. I was really thinking in terms of younger women, because I often think about, how they present themselves is very representative about how they feel about themselves, but it’s also representative of how others see them. So I was just getting fascinated. So we chatted for a little bit and I said, would you like to come on our podcast? And that’s how the introduction began, and so I’m very, very happy for you to be here today, and I’m excited to hear about all you do.
And I was really interested in, how did you get to this point? Who are you, and how does a person get to the point of essentially branding for women and executives and women in general, and how we show up in the world, which is so important?
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Very important.
Courtney Robinson:
Yes.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Welcome again.
Courtney Robinson:
Thank you. And thank you for the warm welcome and just for the opportunity to converse with you all today.
I don’t know, I get so excited about having these conversations, and for me, you said, how did you even get into this? Really, it was my own path. And a lot of times, we’re able to support other people, but for me, especially other women, from the things that we’ve been through and that we’ve overcome and the transformations that we’ve made in our own lives. And so, that’s exactly what it was for me.
So early on in my career, and this is my 21st year in clinical research, and I’ve done different roles, been on all different sides of the business. Right now, I am an associate director and I manage a global team of people who support and package and label clinical trial materials for all the major pharmaceutical companies. But I started on clinical ordering on the phones. So there’s been this progression, of course, in my career. And how I was able to make that progression was by showing up as the best version of myself.
I had to figure out what that was at each stage, because you guys, as you know through your career, you go through different stage gates. So for me, it was learning how to be visible, in a way that got the right attention, and a lot of that just came from how I decided to show up, how I decided to dress. Because we’re visual, people see you before they hear you, before you have an opportunity to open your mouth, and that’s your opportunity to make an impression. And then when you open your mouth and it matches your expertise, matches your outward expression, then people tend to take you a little bit more seriously. So for me, that’s what it was all about.
And then, as a working adult, I decided to go back to grad school and get my business degree. So I was in a cohort of 50 people, where there were only 10 of us that were women. And I really felt the pressure at that point to learn how to command the space and command attention in a positive way. So it wasn’t just what I said, again, it was how I decided to show up and represent myself.
So that’s how I got into this. I had no intentions. Honestly, I didn’t even know what a personal stylist was. But while I was in grad school, I had a grad school colleague who asked me, do you have a personal stylist, because you always look so sharp? And I said no. And that was really, she planted the seed. I thought, wow, if people see that in me, maybe I can help other women do that. I’ve always been very entrepreneurial spirited. And so when I relocated from North Carolina to Georgia, when I married my husband, and I was looking for ways to connect with other women, I thought the best way to do that is to start a business, right? That’s when I started Image by Courtney.
Well, my business is eight years old, but I’ve been in Georgia for about 10 years. I got a brand photo shoot for myself, and connected with that photographer who’s a well-known photographer in Atlanta, and she and I connected and she said, would you mind styling my VIP clients? And I thought, I would love that. So that’s how I started to gain clients initially was through her. And then once I branched out on my own and started to really bring in other elements, I watched your last podcast, Chaos to Calm, I think it was, and you guys talked about the pivot. So my progression in my career as a stylist and as an entrepreneur, I’ve had to make several pivots. And so, really, I’ve started to lean more into how to support women in their leadership prowess. We know that in leadership, how you show up, it’s very important as well, that’s why tend to focus on executives or higher level women or just women who are looking for growth and motivation and helping them understand what that means, how to make that transformation, but still stay in alignment [inaudible 00:08:08].
Dr. Mironda Williams:
All of this is so rich of what you’re saying, and I think, and we can delve into this a little bit more, and maybe you can go about your process of how, when you meet with your clients and things like that. But especially, in other episodes, we’ve also talked about the struggle, when you’re the other, and when you’re in certain circumstances and you’re in a professional setting, and sometimes you feel the pressure to conform to things that may or may not be representative of your authenticity and who you are as a practice. And I think, as individuals, we really are at a space of discovery of, who are we now at this juncture? I like what you said, these different gates that you go through through life, as a professional, personal individual, for our practice. We’ve gone through different transitions and we’ve also, I think, personally, in terms of style and dress and different things like that, there’s been some changes with that.
And, Deanne, did you have anything? I just want to know, how do you even start?
Courtney Robinson:
How do you start?
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Yeah.
Courtney Robinson:
That’s a great question. And the pivot for me has come to starting to focus more on, what are your beliefs? What are your beliefs, your internal beliefs? But then also, what are your beliefs about yourself?
So starting, it’s really curating or understanding, rather, what your personal brand is. I believe every woman has one. Whether or not she knows how to coin it is something different. But that’s what we figure out together. What are those things?
I have a framework that is built around four pillars, and that’s purpose, poise, passion, and presence. We’re looking into, what are you here to do? What is that purpose? What are you called to do? What are those aspects of your being, whether it’s your professional life or your personal life, relates to how you want to show up? And then, how do you show up in that way? How do you show up in a way that really expresses who you are? What are your passions? And so there are different things in your wardrobe that translate, right? So textures, colors, cuts, styles, all of those things can really be directly linked to what those attributes are that you discover.
So for instance, if I asked one of you to describe your style in three words, could you do that?
Dr. Karen Greene:
My question, I would assume,
Dr. Mironda Williams:
I think there was a question. You asked her question, but she asked us a question.
Dr. Karen Greene:
In three words.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Stalling. I don’t see you have to do it. Think about-
Dr. Karen Greene:
I didn’t think about that. So that’s why I’m stalling by asking that question.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
And we’ll think about that.
Dr. Karen Greene:
Because I imagine that when people come to you, they have this kind of a goal of, I need to be restyled. But do you ever have an instance where you see someone and you look at how they’re coming into the world and you’re seeing how they are, not in a bad way or a bad light, but how do you broach that topic?
And I guess I’m asking as a mother. When you look at a different generation that sometimes doesn’t think it matters what they look like with the way they present to the world. My boys would wear hoodies all the time if they could. A suit is just foreign to them. And I grew up in a time where you wore certain things for certain times. And it wasn’t about styling yourself, it was about how you presented and how people looked at you. So when they said, Jessie’s daughter was seen at such and such a place, but she looked very nice and she was very poised. So you kind of.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Jessie is Karen’s mom.
Dr. Karen Greene:
Yes, that’s my mom. But for the generation, two generations past me, they don’t seem to do that. And so I guess, how do you navigate that world in terms of how they’re coming and presenting themselves?
Courtney Robinson:
Sure. It’s appealing to the emotion. How do you want to be perceived? How do you want to be perceived by others? How do you want to be taken, I think, once someone can really understand that for themselves. But then there’s also a piece of it. It’s…
There have been studies that have been done on this. There’s this term called enclothed cognition, which is really all about dressing for success. It’s all about the way we show up, not only impacts the way others see us, but it impacts our own productivity.
So when you think about this whole thing that we went through with COVID, and how people were in their jammies and different things, how productive were we really, right? But when you put on something, when you put on clothing that makes you feel a certain way, that makes you carry yourself in a certain way, that absolutely impacts how you behave, your behaviors, and how productive you are.
And so, those are the things that I show people. I think you can show them better than you can tell them, like it’s an experiment. Work in your pajamas one day, versus working in something that you really feel you look nice in, and let’s just observe the difference in your productivity, how you are, and also, again, how other people perceive you. We can’t leave that part out. We can’t.
Dr. Karen Greene:
That’s interesting. So my three words would be comfortable, stylish, and relatable. That would be how I… And for me, that’s post-COVID, because I remember when starting at formerly Peachtree City Obstetrics and Gynecology, now Rosa Gynecology, I remember wearing suits and heels every day. And it was appropriate, but it wasn’t that comfortable.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
No, Karen, you hit the nail on the head. I’m still searching with my words. Comfortable is one, and, Courtney, I’m going to have to get you to give me some words, give us some options.
But I remember, when I first started practicing medicine after residency, so I’m in a private practice. At that time, I was the youngest, the juniorist member of the group that I’m with now. And I remember going to some kind of women’s meeting or something like that. So one of the workshops they had at that women’s gathering was someone talking about professional dress and this and other thing. So in our profession, typically, the attending physician or the physician that is the one that’s mostly making the final decisions about things. One of the ways that that is seen, especially in a hospital setting, but also in a office setting, is that you wear a long white coats. You wear a long lab coat, because it’s not just about you protecting yourself from… People in labs wear them because they’re spilling things. But in the hospital and in the office setting, it establishes you as the authoritative figure. And so, I would wear lab coats, but I never liked it. I absolutely never liked wearing a lab coat.
And I remember, at that time, I might’ve been three years in, I mean, it was very early in my career, and the woman who was presenting, and I said something, well, how do you know if I need to stay in the white coat or…? Because again, I was one of the only women in the hospitals that we attended, and of course, being an African-American woman, you don’t want to not be seen as authoritative and competent and all these things. And so I remember that young lady who’s conducting the workshop. She said, you’ll know when you feel comfortable coming out of that coat. And it took a while.
I’m 30 plus, 33, 34 years in the practice, and I would say, probably in the last 10, 15 years, I don’t wear a lab coat because I don’t feel like I need it. I think, by longevity, if nothing else, I have shown that I know what I’m doing in terms of a physician, my patients, my staff, things like that. So I think there are other things, I hope, about me that communicate that sense of confidence and competence and those kinds of things. So I wanted to mention that, but I forgot it.
I like Karen’s descriptions. Comfortable was going to be one of my words. I’m still struggling what my other two may be, but… Honey, and we won’t even talk about the shopping trips that Dr. Guthrie and I just go on.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
Oh my God, the money.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
The money spent. But we wanted to, again, present ourselves, to your point, we’re physicians. We’re in private practice. We’re in these hospital settings. We’re going to these meetings. We have all these things going on. And so we felt we needed a professional look that was feminine. That’s one of my words. I want to be comfortable, but I still want to be feminine. I really hate when I see women not lean into their femininity, because they feel like they need to erase that to show up in spaces where you’re the only woman.
I’m like, I’m a woman, and I’m proud of being a woman, and I like to be feminine. I like girly things. And so probably, comfortable and feminine, maybe a couple of my words, I’m still struggling. So what are some other options of words?
Courtney Robinson:
There are so many.
So for mine, my three words are classic, timeless and feminine. So, like you, I enjoy those more feminine type pieces. There’s everything from… Oh my goodness, I wish I have my… I have a board where I share with clients when they are struggling with words, but there’s so many different words that you can use.
What I say is, first, think about how other people describe you to come up. If someone were to describe you, what words would they say? And then if any of those words resonate with you and they’re really true to who you are, that might be a way to find your words as well. But really, there are so many. Fun. Let’s see. What’s the one? I’ve got a couple of clients who are Bohemian, right? They like Bo- [inaudible 00:19:10]
Dr. Mironda Williams:
That’s me, Bohemian, feminine, comfortable. [inaudible 00:19:17]
Courtney Robinson:
I mean, really, anything you can almost think of. But those become your anchor words. Those become the words that anchor your choices.
So when you’re making wardrobe choices, if it doesn’t align with those words, then you know you’re kind of off the mark. And that’s what keeps us from buying a bunch of clothes that don’t really serve who we are in this season.
And, recognize that your style can change over time. So those words might work for you now, but will they work for you in five years? So, reassess, and again, edit your wardrobe based on-
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Based on that.
Courtney Robinson:
…where you are at that time.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
And I was going to say too, some words are relative, because the word comfortable [inaudible 00:20:04].
Dr. Mironda Williams:
For me.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
Yes. So for me, I wear heels most days, but those heels are comfortable for me. Versus somebody who was always looking, you wear those things all day long? I don’t even think about it. I put them on and I’m gone for the rest of the day. So there’s also a relativity in the word. So if somebody can choose the same word and it can mean different things.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Absolutely.
And too much of what you said is just, it can apply to so many things. So just like you were just saying, once you have a grounding of what your style may be now, it helps you in decision making. What to buy or what not to buy? Or what to purge, is I’m always purging. Getting rid of things that have been in there because I don’t want to wear them. Because that’s one of the things we’ve been looking at, as we talk about in this season, we’ve been looking at going from chaos to calm, and we’ve talked about how we’ve made decisions in our professional lives, as well as our personal lives to help us make decisions.
We’re in a point now where we’re looking at our practice and saying, okay, what do we want? What do we not want? What do we like? What is Rosa now? So what decisions do we need to make to support that? And so what you’re talking about now in terms of even how we dress as individual, professional women still, let’s try to make smart decisions and not waste money and have to purge it. [inaudible 00:21:25]
Dr. Karen Greene:
And I think you actually talk about the clothing of distinction, classes impact your bank account, and Dr. Guthrie talked about how the shopping sprees and the money that was spent. [inaudible 00:21:38] would say more to that, in terms of that aspect of it? And I’m sure it varies from person to person. For the college student or someone just coming out of college, versus the executive, how do you get to the same place in terms of coming in as your authentic self, without breaking the bank?
Dr. Mironda Williams:
That part.
Courtney Robinson:
Right. No, that’s a really good question because I believe less is more. A lot of people don’t understand that, that you really do have to be strategic. You have to be strategic in curating your wardrobe, and that, literally, you could have 21 pieces. Really, honestly, you could have nine pieces and make 27 different outfits.
Dr. Karen Greene:
I’ve seen that on Pinterest. I look at that and I’m like, how does that work? I need someone to step by step guide me through that. [inaudible 00:22:27]
Courtney Robinson:
It’s not about having all the pieces, it’s about having the right pieces. So when you have the right nine pieces, and you know how to mix and match those, that’s how you maximize the use of that. So literally, three tops, three bottoms, and three pair of shoes, and you’ve got 27 different combinations.
So a lot of what I do for my clients, I have an app where I have them put in their wardrobe, take pictures, and I can outfit plan for them, and provide them with options because most of it is just taking away the decision fatigue. [inaudible 00:23:09] if you know what you’re going to do for the week, and you already have pieces that you love, then it should be pretty easy to kind of put things together when you have less. But [inaudible 00:23:20] all the things, it makes it more difficult to make decisions. And who wants to be going through two and three different outfits in the morning, when you can really just know exactly what you want to wear and know that it fits and that you’re confident and you’re comfortable in it? That takes away that decision fatigue, so yeah.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Now, are you located in Atlanta? Or where are you located? What area?
Courtney Robinson:
I’m in Covington.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
In Covington.
Courtney Robinson:
East of Atlanta.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
So as you’re working with your clients, how do you do that? Are they local? Are you able to just… Through the digital world. Have clients from whenever and wherever and all of that?
Courtney Robinson:
Absolutely. I work with clients all over, all over, because a lot of the photographers, many of the photographers that I support, do shoots all over the world. They’re like virtual photographers. So I’ve styled people all over the world. And really, yeah, Zoom is a wonderful thing. FaceTime is a wonderful thing.
Then the app that I use as well really equips us to be able to communicate and share ideas as well. So yeah, it really doesn’t matter where you’re located. The opportunity is there for us to work together and for me to see what you have, again, by dropping your pieces in your virtual closet, and allowing me to kind of assess those and help you determine what stays and what goes, and what should work and what doesn’t work, and equipping you with the tools that you need to make better decisions moving forward, right?
Dr. Mironda Williams:
That’s great.
Courtney Robinson:
You don’t have to… I mean, having a stylist is great, but I really like to educate women so that they feel confident making choices on their own.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
So would you say you work mainly with what a person already has? Or do you ever go on a shopping trip with one of your clients?
Courtney Robinson:
All of the above.
So, I’d like to start at the beginning, which is by looking at what they have and doing a wardrobe edit, so that we decide what you should keep and what you should either donate or throw away. Because some of us are holding on to things that will probably never get back [inaudible 00:25:47]
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
That would be me.
Courtney Robinson:
For whatever reason [inaudible 00:25:49].
Dr. Mironda Williams:
That would be me. Even though I keep purging, I just don’t let it go.
Courtney Robinson:
What about all the clothes with tags on them in the closet, right?
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
Yeah, I have a few of those.
Courtney Robinson:
I mean, we all do that. I even have things that… And a lot of it is because we buy on impulse.
Dr. Karen Greene:
Impulse, yes.
Courtney Robinson:
Or we’re buying for… We feel like we have to have a different item for every event. And all of that is the root of not really understanding your style, and then also not having the right pieces.
So I encourage women, don’t bring a new piece into your wardrobe until you’ve gotten rid of something, because things just continue to build on things that aren’t working, right?
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Karen and I may invest in you [inaudible 00:26:35]. We need intervention. We need intervention.
Let me just pause, but this is a great conversation. Let me just pause again to remind our listeners that you’re taking a listen to Take Good Care podcast. Again, I’m Dr. Mironda Williams.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
I’m Dr. Deanna Guthrie.
Dr. Karen Greene:
And I am Dr. Karen Greene.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
And we’re having a wonderful conversation, perhaps intervention, with Ms. Courtney Robinson, who is a personal stylist, and we came to know her through a vision board party that they both attended, that Dr. Greene and she both attended. And so we’re just talking about her process.
So, is there any goal that you’re currently working towards professionally? How would you like to see what you do now expand or change? What thoughts do you have about that?
Courtney Robinson:
Well, that’s a great question and thank you for asking.
I have started to expand this year, so I just curated a group called the Bold Faith Leadership Lab for Christian Women. And so, I am now supporting women in their career growth and their personal brand, and how both their faith or their faith, their purpose and their leadership all intertwine, and just how to show up as a stronger leader. I really feel that women are great leaders in all the different spaces that we’re in, but we don’t always have the support that we need in terms of how we show up in authority and have greater impact. And so this lab, it’s all about that. It’s all about, not just me teaching, but you having a sisterhood or a group of women around you that can support you and help you through some of those tough things that you go through in your career and as you start to grow.
Yeah, I think that’s the next progression for me.
Dr. Karen Greene:
That sounds wonderful. I like the whole idea of support because, as Dr. Williams mentioned, sometimes, a lot of times, we are the only one. We’re the only one in the room. And we want to speak a certain way, we want to present a certain way because we do feel kind of alone. And then you don’t want to come off the wrong way because we’re speaking too loudly or too quickly or whatever too. There’s always something that we’re too much of.
But in the same instance, we also don’t want to fade into the background because we know we are there for a reason. We have something to say. And just even having that support in our mind because we know these women are behind us, that’s just a wonderful thing.
Courtney Robinson:
That’s a wonderful thing.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
One of the other things you mentioned is that you believe that when women lead with authenticity and align their style with their vision, we’re then able to create a ripple effect of transformation that goes way beyond the surface. Can you talk a little bit more about that and kind of go into some detail, because I love all of that?
Courtney Robinson:
Absolutely. And thank you for pointing that out.
I think that is the crux of this group is really helping women understand that they have so much brilliance to bring to their communities and the spaces that they’re in. And so, how do they get behind that vision and really show up in a way that just pushes greater impact, right? And like you said, a lot of that could be just by learning to present themselves in a certain way. So we look at that executive presence, or we look at, again, those inner values and those core beliefs. How do we show up as that person?
And a lot of women are really afraid to use their faith, but your faith is a strategy for helping you with that boldness and that confidence that you need to show up in those spaces. So I believe that’s what that’s all about, is really having that space where you can be yourself. You can authentically be yourself, but you can also learn the tools and the strategies that you need to elevate, because we all have room for growth, if we’re not [inaudible 00:30:50].
Dr. Mironda Williams:
When you say authentic or authenticity, what does that mean? How would you break that down?
Courtney Robinson:
The freedom to be yourself, to be who you are [inaudible 00:31:07] us really feel like we can be who we are, and so there’s that imposter syndrome that creep [inaudible 00:31:16], that keeps us from really showing up as the person we want to be, because maybe we’re worried about being perceived a certain way or taken a certain way. So it’s really showing up as who you are, standing in that, taking ownership of who I am.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
That’s all great.
Dr. Karen Greene:
It’s like another way of looking at the full armor of God when you come into a meeting.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
You’re really wearing it.
Dr. Karen Greene:
When you show up as your authentic self.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Your genuine self. And the freedom to be who you want to be, I love that, because I think, so many times, we try to fit into another’s definition. Or even if we’re following someone that we admire, even if it’s someone that we have felt mentored by, sometimes we feel like, okay, well, I’ll do it like they did it, or I’ll dress like they dress, or I’ll say it the way they said it because I look up to them and I value them. But that’s them and you still have to find your own voice in terms of how you can still represent and honor them, but through your own voice and what looks right for you. So that’s great. That’s amazing.
Courtney Robinson:
I feel like everyone has their own it factor. You just got to find what it is.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
What it is. What is the it?
Dr. Karen Greene:
Yeah.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
I love that, everyone. And two things, before I forget, can you go back, when we first started the conversation, you said you had your four pillars, yes. Can you repeat that again and just because that was so good, and I normally have my notepad and I forgot it. So yeah, can you repeat that again?
Courtney Robinson:
Yes. So the framework that I support in my four pillars is purpose, poise, passion, and presence. So when you know your purpose and what you’re called to do, and then you know your posture, how you show up in that. And then your passions, all of us have to be passionate about something. That’s what drives us, right? Then I think the presence, your presence is really the culmination of all of those things. Because when you know your purpose and your poise, and understand how your passion impacts your personal brand, then you can have that presence.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Amazing.
Courtney Robinson:
Walk into rooms, and you don’t even have to speak, but people see that you’re there, right?
Dr. Mironda Williams:
You’re there. How can someone get in touch with you? How will someone contact you for services and that kind of thing?
Courtney Robinson:
Sure. So my primary platform is LinkedIn, where I do most of my socialization, but I also have a presence on Instagram. So LinkedIn is Courtney Robinson, and Instagram, it’s @imagebycourtney. And I have a Linktree where you can do all different types of things. You can take my leadership assessment. You can download one of my lead magnets and get into my email community. You can follow me on LinkedIn where I write a newsletter bi-weekly called Executive Style and Success Newsletter, where I just talk about all different, all these things. I just write about it and it’s a wonderful place. I’m also an executive contributor for Brains Magazine. I write a lot of thought pieces, leadership pieces and things of that nature. So lots of ways to connect with me and get in my space and learn more about me and what I do.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Absolutely. Because even though this has been great, and we hope everyone who’s listening and joining in with us on this session, there’s so much that Courtney provides. I just love her wisdom and her depth of thought, and we can’t contain it all into this one podcast episode, so we definitely encourage you all to please connect with her on all of her platforms. This has just been amazing.
In this season of our podcast, we’ve been, as you mentioned one of our earlier podcasts in this series, going from chaos to calm. In your personal world, or even in your professional world, have there been something that stands out to you where you have moved from what may have had a little bit more chaos associated with it to more of a calm existence that you could highlight for yourself personally?
Courtney Robinson:
Absolutely. So for me, it’s been juggling corporate with building a business, right? Because essentially, you’ve got your feet in two different boats, and so balancing all of that was really crazy, and I felt like I was pulled in so many different directions, until I read a book in my Bible study group over the summer, Breathe by Priscilla Shirer, and it just changed my whole perspective on rest, and how to step back, and how to be a better steward of my time.
And so I then started not working on Sundays, because I’ll work all week long, but I started reserving Sundays truly for the Sabbath that it is and not doing a thing. It doesn’t even matter, right? Even my husband knows [inaudible 00:36:57] I’m going to do whatever it is I want to do. That has made the biggest difference in taking the chaos out of my life and making it calmer, because we think that we need all the time, but we’ve just got to be better stewards of our time. So that’s what that forced me to do.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
Yeah
Dr. Mironda Williams:
That’s great.
Dr. Karen Greene:
That falls right in line with all the stuff we’ve talked about and just see now, what makes sense for us. And you can always do things, but does that make sense for you personally as well, professionally. And for you, you realized that that was not making sense at all.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
Anything else, ladies, before we wrap this session up? Courtney, you have anything else for us? You’ve given us so many things that we’re going to start to go-
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
Now I’m going to go home and just…
Dr. Mironda Williams:
The first thing I need you to do is to go on her LinkedIn page, and to follow her on Instagram, @imagebycourtney, Dr. Guthrie, and listeners.
Dr. Karen Greene:
Make me join LinkedIn just to read the newsletter.
Dr. Mironda Williams:
So, thank you again, Courtney. This has been wonderful. You’re just a shining light. We can just really feel your presence and your strength and your depth of thought even in this digital space. It’s really been enlightening and very inspiring.
So we will definitely start to wrap up this session of Take Good Care podcast. As always, we want to bring our audience and our patients resources, not just about your physical well-being and your gynecological health, all that’s important, but that’s only one aspect, and we want to make sure we’re looking at all aspects of who we are, and providing experts and other thought leaders who can help us all as we reach toward those goals. So continue to check us out wherever you get your podcast, Take Good Care podcast. Continue to look for us on our Facebook page. On all the social media platforms, we’re out there as well. And until we meet again, this is Dr. Mironda Williams.
Dr. Deanna Guthrie:
I’m Dr. Deanna Guthrie.
Dr. Karen Greene:
And I am Dr. Karen Greene. Take good care.