Shay ☀️ Rowbottom

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Seriously though,

Gary is amazing! 🤩

When I first stumbled across his content, I'll admit... I didn't like it.

I was in a very depressive & dark place back then, and wasn't receptive to his messaging. 😞

Sometimes all the “hoo-rah!“ in the world isn't enough to pull someone out of a deeper limitation they're battling.

Thankfully, I did pull out of it. 🙏

& Gary was still there, making even BETTER content by now!

Gary is the master of telling it like it is. No BS, no sugarcoating, just the raw, cold truth.

I'm proud to say I have a little Gary V on my shoulder now, dodging my bad business decisions.

Kudos to all the people like Gary, who use their platform to reach back down & pull others up. 🙌

Because I'm such a fan, I decided to make a video in his honor.

Thank you Gary for all the lessons throughout the years! ❤️️

You are a true leader & I look forward to meeting you one day.

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Thanks ya'll, now let's CRUSH this week! 💪

#Shayshine ☀️ #GaryV

When I was 23 years old I quit my job.

It was terrifying.

I literally felt like I was dying, and had so much fear around failing as an entrepreneur.

From the day I quit that job, I got pushed more and more out of my comfort zone.

But there was this voice in my head always reminding me to “just do it!”

even though I was terrified.

Faith in this voice, this idea, and this future is all that kept me going.

By age 24, I ended up getting a half a million dollar investment. Less than a year later.

The lesson?

Don’t wait for fear to leave before you make your moves.

It never will.

I was terrified quitting that job

and I was terrified getting that investment.

Learn to be comfortable with fear, and push forward regardless.

That was 5 years ago now, and I’ve had several businesses since.

Some successful, some not.

Each experience challenging, each experience granting me an opportunity to learn, and gain a deeper awareness of myself.

I don’t have rich parents.

I don’t even have a college degree.

All I had was a belief in myself, and in the end...

that was all I needed.

Today I live in Florida, my dream state.

I feel peace.

It feels like I made it.

I look out at the beautiful ocean each day and think,

Damn.

I’m so glad I quit my job.

MY NEW HOUSE!!! 😍🔥🔥

Dreams do come true... two years ago I took a chance on a LinkedIn trainer one of my sales guys met at a networking event.

He said, “I really think you should talk to this guy Shay- he says LinkedIn is where it’s at!”

I rolled my eyes.

I was a Facebook girl- I thought LinkedIn was for “old people” and job seekers.

I hired the trainer anyways, revamped my profile, and started making videos.

Fast forward two years later and my life is but a dream.✨

Thank you LinkedIn, for changing my life. For saving my soul. For reminding me who I am. For showing me my worth again.

I’m no longer the lost little girl I once was... hell no. In fact I’m a GROWN A$$ BUSINESS WOMAN AND THIS IS MY HOUSE!!! I DESERVE IT! 😫🙌🏻

Love you all SO MUCH. 👏🏻 Thanks for riding with me. 🙏🏻

The fun is just beginning 😋🏡

#Grateful

You don't have a content creation problem.

You have a shame problem.

I wish I could take credit for being “such an amazing marketer“ like people say I am.

I'm good, I know.

But really, I don't know a lot.

I don't know paid ads. I don't know SEO.

I don't know email or SMS campaigns.

I don't know websites, or funnel building.

I've never even taken a course on copywriting.

I stay in my lane and I know my expertise:

Top-of-funnel, organic, newsfeed-based, video marketing.

That's it.

Can I take a look at the rest and give my opinion?

Sure.

But I'm really no expert, and there's a lot of people more experienced than me across the board when it comes to digital marketing.

So, you might wonder...

how'd a 28-year-old college dropout w/ a rough past wind up so successful?

Because in the end, it's not about marketing.

It's about shame.

My success on this platform started with a video I released admitting I struggled with depression.

I was 25, and had 5,000 connections at the time.

I was terrified to release this post. It was too vulnerable, too shameful, and I sensed my business partners would be very disappointed.

In the end, it was the right move to upload.

It's the first time my page here exploded.

Posting that video changed my life.

The post blew up, and people were messaging me for weeks afterwards with their stories about depression, and how they feel like they can't talk about it.

How they feel like it brings too much shame.

In the end, this is where my “marketing“ magic began.

I got so much positive reinforcement from this video (including business deals, mind you) that it was in that moment I began to develop the muscle of releasing my shame to the public, and feeling okay about it.

My business partners hated my vulnerability, and grew to resent the success of my blog.

In the end, that was okay too. Because God was pushing me in another direction.

I left.

I started a LinkedIn marketing company, where I began to coach professionals on how to make videos, and attract leads like I do.

I still thought I was just teaching “marketing“ - ha!

It took some time running this new business on my own, to really identify the pattern.

Client after client that came to me for help with videos, didn't actually need help with marketing.

They needed help being themselves.

Any one of my clients could at any point google “how to make videos“ or “how to write headlines“ for free, but for whatever reason...

chose to give me their money instead.

So, what was really going on here?

I started to figure it out.

People felt ashamed to be themselves on camera.

& me?

They saw how I'd broken through that shame, and they wanted a piece of that sweet, sweet liberation they saw in my content.

I get it now.

Marketers are a dime a dozen.

Anyone out there can help.

But when it comes to teaching people how to break through shame, and be who they really are on camera?

I'm your frickin' girl.

Most women don’t feel safe with men anymore.

We lie to ourselves and pretend we don’t want a dominant guy, because that makes us weak as women.

The truth is-

women deep down do want to surrender.

There’s nothing more liberating than to experience a healthy man who you can trust enough, to completely let go with.

So why does it seldom happen?

Because men like this don’t exist anymore.

We’ve been brainwashed to believe “traditional” gender roles are somehow wrong.

There’s truth in that, yes, women haven’t always had it easy.

There’s truth in that, women haven’t always been respected. Or equal. Or taken seriously. Or given the same opportunities as men.

But, there’s also truth in that…

we never needed to do everything that men can do in order to be happy, whole, and fulfilled.

We just needed their support.

Today’s age of men think that “support” is being passive, agreeable, and feminine, so women can instead take charge.

A lot of men simply standby and don’t speak their truth, get assertive, or step into their power because they don’t want to be seen as “that guy” with toxic masculinity who doesn’t respect women.

They’re wounded, and therefor can’t handle rejection. They desperately want to fit in. So much so, they’ll sacrifice their own sacred masculine energy, a gift from God, to fit in with the PC climate.

Most men, today…

are beta.

& most women, today…

have been conditioned to think that that’s safer.

Oh, but how we have been fooled.

“Why do so many women date a**holes?”

Because at least narcissistic men are assertive.

Controlling? Manipulative? Soul shattering?

Also yes.

But just a taste of that dominating force from a man is something women crave so much today, they’ll find themselves in toxic trauma bonds w/ guys who don’t actually love them.

So, you tell me…

why do you think women don’t feel safe?

Because they’re either with beta dudes, who can’t protect them and they know it.

Or narcissists, who feed off their feminine energy for their own selfish gain.

Relationship after relationship,

disappointment after disappointment,

heartbreak after heartbreak…

why should we trust men?

In today’s age, it’s safer to simply become men ourselves.

But then again,

that’s why so many women aren’t happy.

We’re constantly trying to be masculine, because there’s so few men left to allow us the safety to surrender and be who we really are inside:

Feminine.

A healthy man will use his assertion for good, not evil.

A healthy man will know when it’s time to take charge, and know when it’s time to sit back.

A healthy man will be present, protective, and listen to his woman.

A healthy man won’t use his power to manipulate you.

He’ll use it to empower you.

Unthreatened by your strength, unwavered by your divine, radiant, and powerful feminine energy.

Masculine energy isn’t about manipulating women,

it’s about providing them with a safe container to be feminine again.

Know the difference.

❤️ NEW PARODY ALERT! ❤️

I wrote this song for my Valentine...

And while most people spend today with their spouses, their significant other, and the one they call “the one“...

I decided to channel all my Valentine's Day energy into a love song written for none other,

than LinkedIn. ❤️

Thank you to this crazy, beautiful, perfectly imperfect platform for all the gifts you've granted me over the years.

When I got on LinkedIn I was 25 years old. I had less than 4k connections, and had never posted a video here.

By age 27, I was a self-made millionaire.

From LinkedIn. ❤️

Thank you to my connections, my clients, and my incredible followers for making all this possible over the years. I couldn't have done it without you, and I'm eternally grateful for the opportunity on this platform.

It granted me a freedom and an independence I used to never think was possible, and forever changed the course of my life.

My love, my LinkedIn. ❤️

If you'd like to apply for a call w/ my team to learn more about how we can help you reach the right people on LinkedIn to grow your business, click the link in the comments. ⤵️

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone! Please share this video if it made you smile. 😌

❤️ #Shayshine

I am proud to be an American.

I couldn't always say that.

In my youth I grew to hate America, largely because of what had been fed to me in college about how awful, oppressive, and shameful of a place this is to be.

Does America have a rough history?

Absolutely.

It's important we learn from our past, and understand multiple perspectives.

That being said-

we do also get to ask ourselves WHY so many influential structures, (like higher education for example), have chosen in the past 10+ years to focus more on what's inherently WRONG with this country...

then on what to be grateful about here.

When you really sit and talk to a lot of college educated people, you'll find that many of them don't actually LIKE America.

I get it, and I used to be one of these people.

Rather than exploring perspectives outside of this country, and really taking a good hard look at the options...

we've chose to spend our energy focusing on the negative.

If people truly spent time researching what goes on in other countries, I think they'd find no matter their race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion...

they'd much rather be, more than anywhere else, right smack dab here-

in the middle of America.

Freedom can be taken in the blink of an eye.

This is a lucky place to live.

Again, are there things that need fixing?

Absolutely.

But the reality is- whatever you focus on, you'll find.

When we choose to focus on why we're VICTIMS of this country, guess what happens?

Everything in our reality is going to start reflecting that back to us.

Every news story is going to headline that.

“Victimhood is hot right now“ is the message the news channels are receiving.

I'm a marketer - I get it.

Give the people what's selling.

But for the sake of our children's children, and the generations after us... I invite you all to really, deeply ask yourselves...

is this really what we want?

A country full of spite, hate, and division?

Always focusing on what we DON'T have, rather than the endless opportunity this country provides for us?

I'm a woman.

I was taught in college about all the ways this disadvantages me.

Does being a woman have its challenges?

Of course.

But would I want to be a woman in ANY OTHER COUNTRY than this fine land right here?

Heck no.

I came from a rough past. An abusive home.

I dropped out of college.

I rose up and made a name for myself regardless.

I picked up a camera, I learned how to edit video, I believed in myself, and I stayed focused.

Today, I'm a 29 year old millionaire.

I am the American dream. & no-

it's not just because I am white.

It's because I believed I COULD DO IT, and again...

whatever you focus on, you'll find.

I focused on the opportunity I DID have. I focused on the good in my life. I focused on the vision I wanted for myself, and lo and behold-

I got it.

God bless this country. God bless the dream. God bless our people.

God bless the USA. 🇺🇸

When I was 23 years old I quit my job.

It was terrifying.

I literally felt like I was dying, and had so much fear around failing as an entrepreneur.

From the day I quit that job, I got pushed more and more out of my comfort zone.

But there was this voice in my head always reminding me to “just do it!”

even though I was terrified.

Faith in this voice, this idea, and this future is all that kept me going.

By age 24, I ended up getting a half a million dollar investment. Less than a year later.

The lesson?

Don’t wait for fear to leave before you make your moves.

It never will.

I was terrified quitting that job

and I was terrified getting that investment.

Learn to be comfortable with fear, and push forward regardless.

That was 5 years ago now, and I’ve had several businesses since.

Some successful, some not.

Each experience challenging, each experience granting me an opportunity to learn, and gain a deeper awareness of myself.

I don’t have rich parents.

I don’t even have a college degree.

All I had was a belief in myself, and in the end...

that was all I needed.

Today I live in Florida, my dream state.

I feel peace.

It feels like I made it.

I look out at the beautiful ocean each day and think,

Damn.

I’m so glad I quit my job.

You are SO powerful.

Perhaps not in the way we think of when we say someone is a powerful person.

Your power is in your ability to choose how to react.

Your power is in your ability to take steps in the direction of your dreams.

Your power is in your ability to choose the type of life you want to live.

We give our power away every time we.

Let others tell us who we are and what we should do with our lives.

Look for approval outside of self.

Try to be loved and approved by everyone.

Play the victim.

Never give away your power or let others take it from you.

It is your divine right and gift as a powerful creator of your reality and life.

Stay powerful my friends!

Do you struggle with giving away your power?

Let me know in the comments below.

Today is my 30th birthday.

A little strange to leave my 20s behind. Somehow while you’re in it, it feels like it will last forever.

Every decade is a chance to reflect, but I can’t help remember turning 20 & laugh at the comparison.

10 years ago I lived in a dump in Madison WI. My friends threw me a surprise party. I remember it like yesterday.

(Especially the hangover the next day, lol)

What a carefree time. So young, nothing to lose, and certainly nothing much to reflect back on yet.

30 feels different.

I’m far from Wisconsin now. None of those friends exist anymore. & really... that 20/yr old version of me doesn’t exist anymore either.

At age 20 I dropped out of college to pursue my music career.

By 21 I moved into my first solo-apartment on Brady St, MKE.

At age 22 I met my twin flame and embarked on the most painful, beautiful, challenging years of this entire decade.

By age 23 I had quit my music to work for him full time & learn video.

By age 24 I became his partner and together we got our first half a million dollar investment.

By age 25 I was managing over 30 people in a 8,000 sq ft office, doing big deals for companies like Petco, Yahoo, & more. (25 was also the year I got on LinkedIn!)

On my 26th bday, I passed 26,000 followers on LinkedIn. I was starting to find my voice again after years of a disempowering career, and relationship. I sold my shares & started a LinkedIn company. I also did ayahuasca and remembered my childhood trauma that year. 26 was pivotal.

By age 27 my contract with my twin flame was complete. He flew away, and I embarked on the most painful, heartbreaking, yet soul-recovering time of my entire 20’s. Starting another business entirely solo in a brand new town, Miami.

By my 28th birthday, I had made my first million.

At age 29, I reconnected with most of my family after being estranged most of my 20s. I learned the power of forgiveness and found inner peace beyond what I thought imaginable even just a few years ago.

Age 30, day 1, I sit and reflect on how beautiful, badass, and divine this past decade really was for me.

I have no regrets.

I used to look at my mid-20s when I was with my twin flame as such a dark & twisted time. I spent 4 tough years completely losing myself, in order to find myself again before my 30s.

I know I’ve spoken a lot on here about my ex and how toxic he was, but I can’t help but look back today with nothing but a smile and gratitude.

The whole experience set me up to have my own business, to love myself deeper, and to never let a man treat me that way again.

I have love for my family, love for every past relationship that made me the woman I am today, and most importantly,

a love for myself I never even realized was missing, had it not been for this beautiful decade of experiences.

Thank you, LinkedIn, for watching & supporting me as I grew up in my 20s. I was really so blessed to have you.

This next decade will be a whole new energy...

Hello 30.

#Shayshine ☀️

Growing up I was told I was “too much.“

“You're too loud.“
“You just want attention.“

The number of times I heard this growing up.

I even had an uncle who'd shut up me & my cousins because it was “too much silliness.“

“This is too much laughter!“ he'd say. “Stop it!“

Whoa 😳 - someone got disconnected from their inner child!

Back then I couldn't understand why he wanted us to be more serious.

After all, we were just kids!

Now I've learned that people who've been conditioned away from their natural, playful selves, will often shame others for it.

It's not that being playful or “extra“ is actually harmful.

It's that seeing you in that state reminds them of that part of themselves they killed long ago.

What if this whole concept of “becoming more serious as you get older“ is actually part of the problem?

What if children... free, creative, and silly, are actually the ones we should learn from?

My hyperactivity was never something I wanted to let go of, but I felt that I had to fit in w/ the world.

I was prescribed with Adderall but didn't like it. It made me a zombie.

Dare I say this but, there is NO SUCH THING as “ADD“ - it's called children need to play more!

We were not designed to sit at desks.

At 14, I started using Cannabis. Which helped me be more “chill“. But in the end, I was self-medicating not for my own benefit,

but for the benefit of making others comfortable.

So I killed my own child. I enrolled in college, started working office jobs, and smoked more & more pot to deal with a lifestyle that deep down...

simply just wasn't me.

In college, I'd meet a girl who was even goofier & more “extra“ than I was.

Most people in the dorm found her “weird“ and pulled me aside to “correct me“ when I began hanging out with her.

I didn't listen...

I finally realized ENOUGH! 😖

Enough.

You guys go be “cool“ on your own. Maybe I don't want to fit in.

I don't care who's threatened by my silliness, my child-like creativity, my BIG energy & my BIG personality!

THIS IS ME!!

& if you can't handle it, that is YOUR PROBLEM to work through.

Not mine.

We live in a society where the only way to keep it afloat, is to collectively agree to a certain level of SERIOUSNESS as acceptable past a certain age.

Psh... give me a break.

Most adults are depressed.

Adderall, Zoloft, Prozac.. the list goes on & on.

Enough with the drugs.

We're medicating ourselves to fit into a world not designed to suit the human spirit.

That's why people need drugs.

Tell a Shaman you are depressed. They will ask:

When did you stop dancing?
When did you stop singing?
When did you stop laughing?

Damn.

We left it behind in childhood, & we never looked back.

This is the prescription we need.

To anyone reading this who's been bullied & outcasted for having “BIG“ energy...

go laugh, go sing, go dance.

Go be free & let them call you “TOO MUCH!“

Don't let anyone steal your shine.

Ever.

After all,

they're probably on drugs anyway.

📣❗️HIRING SALES PEOPLE❗️📣Do you know a salesperson looking for a job? Please click “like“ then TAG THEM BELOW so they see this post!

I am looking for an experienced salesperson who can help with selling my LinkedIn marketing services. - and can start ASAP! 💥

A little more about me... but if you're on LinkedIn then hopefully you already know! ☺️

A fun company with a LOT of potential. Growing and expanding rapidly! We are content experts- businesses hire us in a variety of ways to ultimately achieve one thing:

MORE LEADS & GROWTH THROUGH LINKEDIN! 🙌🏻

Perks of working here include:

Learning more about marketing so you can apply it yourself, company support in growing your own LinkedIn profile, you can swear and wear whatever you want. ✌🏻

(can be remote, if in Miami even better!)

INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLY:

✅ Email info@shayrowbottom.com
✅ Subject line “Sales Position“
✅ Include your resume
✅ Link to your LinkedIn profile
✅ A little bit about you!

My team will be sifting through these throughout the next week... we can't wait to find our next LinkedIn sales rockstar! 🤩

Thanks everyone, please like & share with anyone you know who might be interested.

Here's to more growth in 2020! 📈 😃 💪🏻 Woo! 🔥

Ha! I did not see that coming... 😍 adorable. ❤️️

#Shayshine ☀️ #inspiration
#family #fathers #daughters #love #feelgood #happiness #laughter #positivity #parents #children

I am on a mission to market HEALING to the world.

Thank you Yahoo for the feature! 😍 It is so surreal still to see people inspired by my work and my story.

The work is far from done.

When I got into business, I wanted to learn video because I saw a lot of money to be made in video. I never thought the real project was going to be finding myself, and healing from my childhood wounds.

We hear a lot in the business world about what's “in demand“ and where there is a “need“ to fill in the market.

Naturally, where there is demand, where this is a need...

a booming business will follow. 👌🏻

So, what will it mean when the world finally wakes up enough to realize, the biggest NEED we've had for a long time is actually...

Healing. 🌱

You were not born to suffer. You were not made to pay bills, and party on the weekends until you die.

I'm so proud to be part of the movement of healing, and bringing honesty, transparency, vulnerability, and true joy, back into the planet.

I'm here to market HEALING to the world!!

That's my purpose, thank you all for showing me that. 🙏🏻

Thank you Yahoo for the beautiful write-up. Link to full article below ⤵️

*WHY YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR TEAM!* 😩

Simple answer, because you're not a real leader. You like the status it affords you, the respect it renders you...

but you never really took the time to figure out what makes a leader successful long-term. ⌚

Since scaling my company, hands down one of the most valuable skills I learned in business is how to be CANDID!

I'd watch others gossip & complain about their co-workers, their subordinates...

Hm... 🤔

It got me thinking...

Okay, new rule for Shay:

Anytime - and I mean ANYtime! - I get the urge to go complain about someone to someone else... EH! hold it right there - NO! Go and talk to that person DIRECTLY! 👉

It's 2019 and some people still haven't figured out that complaining about a problem doesn't solve it. 🙃

Go communicate with your team. Learn how to be candid.

Solve it.

I cannot express the growth I experienced once I instilled this rule. 🙌

I'd catch myself ready to go complain to HR - and then I'd ask, “You know what, is this a situation I can handle myself?“ In most cases, the answer was YES!

The truth is... I was too chicken to try. 😰

Being candid gets easier, gossiping gets harder. Choose your pick..

Be a real leader. 👊

Who has an experience with this?

Tell your story below! ⬇

#Shayshine ☀️ #candid

Can anyone get success in social media?

Yes. Because the MORE you have had to overcome, the more you can do.

So if you're struggling, take heart. Only the hard stuff is worth doing. And if you're falling behind...its normal to feel upset.

But you can still do it.

And you'll be better than you would have been without the pain.

Getting help is great, too.

For more resources, check out my LinkedIn bootcamp!

#Shayshine #entrepreneur #business #success
#content #digitalmarketing #LinkedIn

Did you give up on your childhood dream?

I did, & at first it crushed me.

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be Britney Spears.

I didn't quite happen.

BUT-

That's actually GOOD!

As attached as I was, I understand today how that would not have been an ideal route for me at that time.

My level of self-awareness has increased 10 fold since the days of being a starving artist in Milwaukee, rapping at dive bars & waitressing to make ends meet.

I trusted my gut one day when presented with a job to create video content for blogs online, & just like that I left my dream of being a singer behind to learn...

digital marketing. 😳

The rest is history!

Always remember, look to the future.

Don't dwell on how things didn't work out, find the blessings in what HAS happened for you! 😃

Life is precious, and it's our duty to give it our all during our limited time here.

In the words of one of my favorite rappers,

“If I must go and die at 27, at least I know I died a legend.“

-MGK, 27

27 is the best year yet!

I'm a fighter, & I'm gonna keep on fighting. 👊

🔹

Thank you to everyone who's been supporting my journey. I am truly blessed to know you all! 🙏

🔹

What dream did you “give up on“... to find a better one?

Tell us below! 👇

🔹

#Shayshine
Shay ☀️ Rowbottom

I was demoted from the company I founded.

Never in my life did I feel so wronged, humiliated, and at rock bottom.

My investors said I had to “prove myself“ if I wanted to get my seat back at the table.

I thought, “WHAT!?“ ~*pRoVe MySeLf???*~ I founded this whole damn company!

It was clear to me they had made up their mind- and I was crushed.

As hard as it was to walk away from the first company I built, my baby... I knew I didn't deserve this.

I left, but the deep unresolved wounds of “not being good enough“ were triggered that day.

I started to face how depressed I really was.

Shattered.

Sick.

Suicidal.

I was sick of feeling like a victim.

So, I decided to go try Ayahuasca, a powerful plant medicine from the Amazon.

One effect of these plants is they can bring up repressed memories-

and that's exactly what happened.

My intention going into the ceremony was “Why do I feel like such a victim?“

The medicine showed me.

For the first time in my life, I actually understood the source of my wounds. So now, I could finally start to dismantle them.

& today? 😏

A completely transformed individual.

Thank God I hit rock bottom! 🙌🏻

What was your “Rock Bottom“ moment?

15 months ago, I gave up Cannabis.

I've had many addictions in my life. Vices I've turned to. Things to keep me sane, keep me going.

As my higher-self called on me these past few years to throw them all away, I found myself left in a state of complete vulnerability, doubt, and worry.

I always thought I knew about the word “surrender“ - and I always felt a close connection with God, but the true meaning of the two together never quite hit me like it has now.

Tune into this week's newsletter to hear about how my painful addiction with weed, sex, and men that controlled me in my 20's is quickly evolving into a sober life of learning the bible and trusting what He has for me.

When we can no longer control everything, when our ego falls, and when the situation crashes around us...

there's only one way to turn.

#Shayshine ☀️

How is covid affecting our kids?

I asked very special little friend, Kiki, and this is what she shared with me! ☺️

I released a video last weekend about how homeschooling might become more common now since a lot of parents (and kids!) find it in better support of nurturing a child’s spirit, than traditional schooling nowadays.

Thanks Kiki for your insight. Sometimes, all we need is a bright and bubbly 8-year-old to put things into perspective. ☺️

What do you think?

Are your kids loving quarantine... or are they ready to get back in school?

Let us know down below! ⤵️

#Shayshine ☀️ #covid19 #education #homeschooling #families #children #parents #coronavirus

Confused about LinkedIn?

One of the most common questions I get asked here is:

“Shay- I don't get it... how do you make money through LinkedIn?“

Today, a lot of businesses and professionals struggle to create content on social media that ACTUALLY moves the needle.

That actually does anything!

Hence why so many give up or see social media as useless.

I have a unique experience working online.

For years I was the top video supplier to some of the largest, most established pages on Facebook.

I learned how to make videos that go viral!

2 years ago when I came to Linkedin, I saw there was few taking advantage of that here.

I applied all the principles I learned in Facebook video marketing and POOF-💥

TONS OF LEADS!

LinkedIn organic content brought me engagement, profile views, and most importantly...

lots, and lots of inbound messages. 🤑

Did you know that I have still never ran one paid ad, or done one direct-messaging campaign on Linkedin?

Yup - that's because organic content WORKS!

Create your own [FREE] lead hose - but you have to know how.

Message me on LinkedIn to learn how to grow your business with LinkedIn video! 💪🏻 You deserve your own platform.

If I can do it, anyone can.

Who do you know needing help w/ LinkedIn?

Tag them so they see this! ⤵️

📣*TURN YOUR SOUND ON!*📣

This is for everyone who's leaving behind something toxic in 2018! Can I get an AMEN to all the lessons & blessings we gain with each year? 🙏

The saying “New year, new me!“ gets a bad rep, but the truth is...

we DO become new people EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR!

In fact, if the people around you AREN'T changing much year-to-year, it might be time to assess your relationships. 🤔

Surround yourself with people who'll make you better in 2019. People who motivate & challenge you.

A good friend is someone who'll call you out on your bullshit, not someone who condones your lack of productivity. 📚

Who will you be surrounding yourself with in 2019 to amplify business & personal growth?

Tag them below! ⬇️

And special thanks to my girl Mary for this feel-good classic... big mood for 2019. 🎵💁

MAY IT BE YOUR BEST YEAR YET!

Cheers & Happy New Year #linkedinfam 😄❤️️🎉

Keep shining on! ☺️

#Shayshine ☀️
#Newyearseve #newyears2019 #2019 #newyearsresolution #goals #progress #boundaries #goodinfluences #rolemodels #mentor #womeninbusiness #entrepreneur #businessowner

This happened 15 minutes from my house.

100 people missing...

1:30 am last night, unexpected condo collapse in Surfside.

life is short.

Hug your loved ones. Keep them close.

Live every day like you're going to DIE, because guess what?

You are.

& I know we all like to think it's not in the cards for us PERSONALLY to have something tragic like today's events in Miami happen...

we all like to think we've PERSONALLY got til we're 80 or so and on our death bed...

plenty of time to start living courageously, right?

Wrong.

If you knew you had 100 days to live - what would you be doing right now?

Think about it.

Like really... really think about it.

Got it?

Good.

Go do that now.

My heart goes out to all the families involved in this tragedy.

Developing story, article linked in comments. ⤵️

Any of my Florida peeps have any other updates? Drop them below.

Have you ever clicked on a profile and wondered...how are they growing so fast?! How do they get so much attention on their content? Luckily, I'm going to share what no one is talking about.

Here are the three questions you need to ask yourself:

- Profile: Is it optimized? Are you using your Featured section to reduce friction between you and those who may be interested in your services?

+ Solution: Drop a link to your website! A booking link or a qualifying sheet.

Content: Not sure what to post?

+ Solution: Try title-generator.com! 700 content ideas, for free, with plenty to fit whatever industry you may be in.

- Community: Although creating great content and having an optimized profile are a must, so is having an active community of individuals that engage in your content.

Why?

The way the LinkedIn algorithm works is that it rewards those that get high engagement on their content. So how do you get more engagement? Give more engagement!

+ Solution: 30 minutes before you post, go to your last post and comment back to anyone you may have missed.

Then, leave 5 comments on big accounts with high exposure.

Additionally, 5 comments on content that has zero engagement.

Big 5 - law of reciprocity, if you’re lucky.

Little 5 - value the engagement more, higher probability they reciprocate.

Either way, they’re all getting notifications and when it’s your time to post, hopefully they'll leave a like and comment!

Watch the video for even more LinkedIn updates!

Are you getting shadow banned by LinkedIn?

Here's how to find out. ⤵️

If you typically get “x“ amount of engagement per post within the first hour, and one day you upload a post and get a small, small fraction of that-

you can pretty much assume, no matter how crappy the content, something's not right.

I know my audience by now, and I know that even on “off days“ where my content doesn't pop as much, there's still gonna be a guaranteed amount of followers who come out for it.

So! You can imagine my surprise when I uploaded this image of me on a jet (my first private flight!) and found time and time again upon upload... it went nowhere in the feed!

Needless to say, I was very frustrated. 😡

What's the point of flying on a private jet if you can't look cool about it?

Thankfully, with help from a few LinkedIn friends, I figured out what the issue was!

Watch the full video to learn about how I got “Jet-Legged“ on LinkedIn 😅 and about how you can spot an Ai-censored post on your own uploads in the future.

What about you?

Have you ever been shadow banned or shut down?

Share your experience below! ⤵️

#Shayshine ☀️ #LinkedIn
#Content #DigitalMarketing

❌ *WHY BEING WRONG IS DOPE* ❌

Is anyone still doubting at this point that we as a society, collectively, are on a mass level...

A bunch of wounded and unhealed individuals? 😬

Signs that someone has not dealt with their own trauma/done their own healing:

▪️ Reactivity / quick to anger
▪️ Overly sensitive
▪️ Inability to look at things critically
▪️ Irrational
▪️ Blaming others / victim mentality
▪️ Controlling
▪️ Close-minded / unwilling

...look familiar?

Mental illness is steadily rising.

Physical illness is steadily rising (linked to mental).

Childhood illness is steadily rising.

We need to ALL start taking 100% accountability for what's not working in society. The healing work starts from WITHIN- (as painful as that is for many to admit...)

You want to heal the world?

Work on yourself.

Be willing to be wrong.

For most of us, being WRONG as a child was oh-so shameful. We'd do anything to avoid that shame again.

We grow up unconscious to our dire need to be RIGHT!

We don't teach enough in society about trauma, shadow-work, locating wounds, & healing them.

In short, we're all just a big soup of unhealed children. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Stop shaming people who think differently than you.

Stop calling people “sheep“.

America, go home and meditate.

#Shayshine ☀️

Sad but necessary update,

I decided to cancel my podcast.

I deeply underestimated the toll it would take on me to come forward.

This experience opened up another can of worms for me. I fell back into darkness I thought I was fully liberated from.

But on the bright side,

I just gave myself an opportunity to become even stronger.

I know in my heart this is what I'm meant to do - expose the uncomfortable TRUTH! 🙌🏻

Not just about my life, but about the false reality we live in collectively.

This first part is more about me, but if you click the link below to the full episode, I discuss what's happening to social media, and where the world is headed.

Trust in God: everything happens for a reason.

Trust that the TRUTH always comes to light, no matter what.

It's on us to be strong enough to face it. Because, I know too well, that many will be too scared to swallow it, and will fight to the death to continue to live in their cushy, albeit false, reality.

Enough.

& on top of ALL THAT...

I'm just super busy guys. 😅 (lol)

I need to prioritize, and I need to protect what I've built.

Click the link below for the full episode to learn more of what I mean by that. ⤵️

Thank you to all my supporters, guests, and fans for supporting this show.

I'll be back.

Taxes suck.

I wish someone had taught me about this sooner.

Why so confusing?
Why didn't we learn any of this in school?
What if I get it wrong?
Am I going to go to prison?

Adding TAXES to my wish list of education reform, along with several other much more important things I could have used.

But hey, that one time I practiced the recorder all year to ultimately still be annoying AF with a bunch of kids at the end of year play-

yeah, that was worth it.

... #Taxes

Thanks, Jonathan Palmar for the education. 😅

Tag someone who gets it! ⤵️