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This week, the special guest on my Willie Jolley Wealthy Ways SiriusXM Show is author of the best-selling book, Unapologetically Ambitious, Shellye Archambeau.

She is an amazing woman who set her sights to become a CEO while in high school, and accomplished that goal quickly. She has gone on to create an incredible list of achievements!

Shellye is the former CEO of MetricStream, a Silicon Valley-based, software company that she built into a global market technology leader. She currently serves on the boards of Verizon, Roper Technologies and OKTA.

In her book, she recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young Black woman, wife, and mother managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO of MetricStream.

Through the tech sector challenges of the early 2000s, this bold and inspiring book details the risks she took and the strategies she engaged to steer her family, her career, and her company MetricStream toward success.

Shellye Archambeau was named the second most influential African American in IT by Business Insider. She was ranked one of the “100 Most Influential Business Leaders in America” by Newsmax and received the NCWIT Symons Innovator Award from The National Center for Women & Information Technology.

In addition to her latest best-selling book, she is the co-author of, Marketing That Works: How Entrepreneurial Marketing Can Add Sustainable Profits to Any Sized Company. She’s also a frequent featured expert on national television such as CNBC and CNN.

Here are 14 lessons gleaned from Archambeau’s life journey:

1. Planning is the key to her success and planing should not be a one-time thing. It must be a part of your lifestyle.
   
   
2. Planning gives your life clarity. It will help you get clear on a way to achieve your goals and get the life you want to live.
   
   
3. Planning takes discipline. Yet, all long-term success is the result of discipline. In health, wealth and relationships…it takes discipline.
   
   
4. Make sure your financial plan lines up with your life plan for both will be important.
   
   
5. The tool that can help any and every one in business is learning how to sell. It will be a great asset over the life of your business.
   
   
6. Cheerleaders are on football fields for they help the team stay inspired. We all need cheerleaders in our lives.
   
   
7. Be willing to go on the belief that others have in you until your belief kicks in.
   
   
8. If you have no one to encourage you, learn to encourage yourself. Use music and motivation to help you get inspired.
   
   
9. To create wealth, you must watch your spending and think about how that money could be used to grow wealth. Take a long-term view of wealth creation.
   
   
10. Money spent today is less money that can be applied to the plan you have made for your future. So, spend carefully and thoughtfully.
    
    
11. In creating a wealth strategy always look for equity opportunities so you can have a piece of ownership of what you are involved in.
    
    
12. When people ask what you do, don’t just tell them your title. Explain the work you do and make sure to share the results you create.
    
    
13. Be willing to ask for help. Asking for help is a strength not a weakness.
    
    
14. Mentors are powerful tools, so make the most of them. Then in return, look for those coming after you that you can help and mentor.

Order Shellye Archambeau's book, Unapologetically Ambitious here.

Listen to this Willie Jolley Wealthy Ways Show interview on the Willie Jolley Wealthy Ways Show on Sirius XM Radio channel 141-HUR Voices this Saturday at 4pm ET, Tuesday and Thursday at 6pm ET. Brought to you by Truist Bank.

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