Ep 348: Marty McDonald – Audacious Vision – Building Legacy Beyond the Bag
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If you're serious about building a business that outlives you, you need more than a solid offer—you need audacity, alignment, and a vision that refuses to shrink. In this powerful episode, I sit down with Marty McDonald of Boss Women Media to unpack what it really takes to evolve from brand builder to legacy leader. We’re talking corporate sponsorships, funding partnerships, building authentic community, and how to scale without losing your soul. If you’ve ever wondered how to expand your platform while staying true to your values, this episode is the blueprint. It’s not about chasing visibility—it’s about creating undeniable value. And if you’ve got a calling that feels too big for where you are now? Good. That means you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.
This is your invitation to stop minimizing your vision and start positioning it for massive, audacious success. If you’ve been playing small, waiting for permission, or silently doubting whether you can build a multimillion-dollar legacy—this conversation is your wake-up call to get in motion, get resourced, and get seen. blueprint for creating the kinds of connections that fuel your legacy, not just your next launch.
Get your Move to Millions Podcast notebook ready—you’ll want to take notes on the lessons packed into this incredible conversation! Listen in to discover:
✔ How to evolve your vision beyond your personal needs and build a movement that outlives you
✔ The one decision that will move you from overlooked to overbooked with corporate sponsors
✔How to use storytelling to attract brand partnerships and secure major funding without compromise
✔ And so much more
This episode is a call to shift from transactional goals to transformational impact. It’s a call to lead movements, not just businesses—and to let your vision evolve into a blueprint that liberates others. Whether you’re scaling a company or a calling, this episode will stretch your faith, expand your mindset, and equip you to build a brand that cannot be ignored.
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- You might not know exactly where everything is going to come from—but do you have a vision? Because nobody can unsee once they see.” – Marty McDonald
- “It didn’t happen until I started telling myself the story that it was possible.” – Marty McDonald
- “You can be the most talented person in the room—nobody cares if you don’t show up for yourself.” – Marty McDonald
- “We’ve never capitalized off our community, and we never will. Our focus is creating real change, not extracting profit.” – Marty McDonald
- “I want more women building something sustainable for generations. I’m solving for how we get in front of the line, not behind it.” – Marty McDonald
What part of my vision have I been playing down or waiting to be validated?
- Who benefits when I fully step into my audacity and serve at scale?
- Have I made the mistake of making my business all about me instead of about the movement?
- What relationships, resources, or rooms do I need to be in to expand my reach?
- What’s one bold move I can make this week to show up for my vision?
Move to Millions Wisdom Questions:
Favorite Quote: “The biggest risk is not taking one.”
Book that Changed Everything: The Alchemist Paul Cuelho
Tool Marty Swears By On Her Own Move to Millions: Slack
How to Connect with Marty McDonald:
- Website: https://www.bosswomen.org
- Marty’s Forthcoming Book: Audacious https://www.amazon.com/Audacious-Guide-Building-Career-Deserve/dp/154600940X
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/martytmcdonald/
Personal brand website: https://drdarnyelle.com/
Company website: https://incredibleoneenterprises.com/
Move to Millions website: https://movetomillions.com/
Marty McDonald [00:00:00]:
Just embrace your journey today. Just embrace where you are today and take one foot in front of the next, in front of the next, in front of the next and just keep going. And I know it sounds cliche, but I couldn't even imagine my life today. And I can't imagine what my life is going to be in three to five years from now. But if I don't keep going, I'm never going to know that it exists for me.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:00:29]:
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Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:01:39]:
I am so excited to welcome you back to another episode on the Move to Millions podcast. Today I have a guest that's about to blow your mind. Oh Em G. I am so excited to introduce you to a power player and on a mission for women and specifically those of us women of color. I am Talking about Marty McDonald, the founder of Boss Woman Media. Listen, like many of us, she just wants to live her best life and go after her dreams and decided to do so after leaving an 11 year corporate career with various Fortune 500 companies. She took an idea based on a connection and turned it into a movement including the Multi City Black Girl Magic Tour, the annual Boss Woman of the Year Summit, and the loyal community of more than 200,000 women. Marty's plan is to continue to expand the growth of the community of women that she is building and to help them to empower one another through connection, networking and workshops.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:02:46]:
Y' all, this conversation is exactly what you need for such a time as this. So I want you to grab your Move to Millions podcast notebook, your favorite pen and a warm beverage as we jump into my conversation with Marty McDonald and I'll see you on the other side. Marty McDonald. Oh, I have been waiting for an opportunity to Chat with you. I am so excited to welcome you to the Move to Millions podcast. How are you today?
Marty McDonald [00:03:15]:
I am so good. I appreciate you having me on.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:03:19]:
Well, listen, any woman that is all about the business of black woman is all right with me. You know, I mean, like, I'm kind of joking, but also very, very serious. Right. I think that it's time, it's long overdue, that we get our shine and the world gets to see what our greatness is. And the fact that you have championed this cause and created this amazing organization that is galvanizing black women at a higher level is very, very exciting. So I just want to honor you, give you your flowers and say, I see you and thank you.
Marty McDonald [00:03:56]:
Thank you. I appreciate that. In a world that sometimes says that our story is not enough, in a world that doesn't see us, in a world that can make us feel like, do we even exist?
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:04:16]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:04:17]:
It is my purpose, and I know this, to make sure that we are seen and that we are resourced. I hope that that's exactly what I am fulfilling every day when I am marching forward. And it is hard work.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:04:34]:
Oh, yeah, absolutely. There's a lot to contend with. Right. I mean, but I think it is so important. And I'll be honest and transparent. Right. I am obviously a black woman, and I never, like, purpose my work to be exclusively for Black women. However, 90% of the people that I work with are women who look like me.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:05:00]:
And I get excited about the fact that I get to work with these black women and I get to help them get their businesses to seven figures. And that wasn't my initial impetus. Right. So when I think about the work that you do, when I think about the BO Collective, which is another organization that is, you know, purposed specifically for us, I just get excited that we do have forces to be reckoned with and champions for change that are out here doing this work. So let me ask you. I only wrote one question down in preparation for our time today. I was like, listen, we gonna start here, and then we gonna see where the wind blows us. Cause I know no matter what, it's gonna be amazing.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:05:38]:
But the question I wrote down was simply this. Tell me about the moment that you realized that we needed your organization, that we needed to do it. Like, what was going on in your life? What had you just experienced? What finally made you get fed up and say, listen, enough is enough? And I don't know that you got fed up. I'm just imagining some of the happenings that might have been occurring that gave you the power, the confidence, the courage even to put a stake in the ground and say, listen, this is who I am, this is who I be, this is what I'm doing. Like talk to us and tell us a little bit about that.
Marty McDonald [00:06:15]:
Yeah. I first want to say, before I answer your question, similar to you saying you never set out for your work to be for black women. Right. I believe that my message at a time such as this is for all people, right. To experience. Right. I just so happen to be a black woman. Right.
Marty McDonald [00:06:38]:
That have had experiences that may not necessarily be the exact same as a person who doesn't look like me, but does not look like me, does not exempt them from having experiences. And I think that if we can set our minds on, we all have experience, experiences as a collective, that the thing that embodies us and brings us together.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:07:07]:
I love that.
Marty McDonald [00:07:08]:
When, when I first started Boss Women Media, first of all, let me just say this, it wasn't called Boss Women Media.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:07:14]:
Okay?
Marty McDonald [00:07:15]:
Boss Women who Brunch. Right. And what's happening in my life at that time was I was on the brink of turning 30. There was something unsettling in my spirit. I wanted more. I didn't know what more existed like. I didn' know what that even looked like because someone had told me what success was prior to me entering into the workforce. Someone had told me being successful meant you go to college, you get a good job, maybe you go back to school, you get your MBA or your master's and you work hard for others to justify that you are good enough to be here.
Marty McDonald [00:08:00]:
We'll get promotions along the way to sit at tables and seats.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:08:04]:
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Marty McDonald [00:08:26]:
I was trying to follow that as the blueprint. Why was I trying to follow that as the blueprint? Because I didn't have one. Because instead my life was not even set up for me to go to college. I come from a single parent household where government assistance was definitely not foreign for us. I know what it felt like to go to bed hungry. I know what it felt like to have a mindset of lack and scarcity. Money was such an interesting object in my house and it felt like it was so hard to ever get money and to keep money felt like an unknown task for me. Let me follow the blueprint of other people who may look like me telling me that this is the pathway for you to be successful.
Marty McDonald [00:09:19]:
Right. And so I remember there were two things that happened. I had just went to this networking event that felt so black, blue and gray. When I say that, I mean everybody in there had on black, blue dresses, gray dresses, no color.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:09:41]:
Very corporate.
Marty McDonald [00:09:44]:
Right. And I remember going into that space thinking is, this is how I move my career forward by connecting with these people. There's no connection point. There's no realness to this. This feels so transactional. And then I actually went to another conference probably six months later. And it was a women's empowerment conference for millennials. And it felt very different.
Marty McDonald [00:10:15]:
It felt fun, it felt lively, but it did not look like me. And I remember using that as my North Star. Create this for people who look like me. Men, we deserve a space like this. And that was what my marching orders were. I could feel it. I mean, every day I woke up so motivated around this task of creating this space. I just needed it.
Marty McDonald [00:10:46]:
I know. I knew other folks needed it. Right. Like that was such my passion at the time. Man. I can just. I can. As I'm reminiscing thinking about it, like, that's all I thought about.
Marty McDonald [00:11:00]:
I worked every day and every night to figure it out while I was working my full time job.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:11:06]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:11:06]:
And what made me take the exit and bet on myself was it was timing that met timing.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:11:16]:
That was it.
Marty McDonald [00:11:17]:
It was timing that intersected with timing of me being fed up. I had just worked on a project at my corporate job and that project did not go over well. And I was so sick of being in an environment where I wasn't told any type of affirmation on being good enough. And I was like, I just gotta exit this. This. I just. This feel is not filling me. And I'm just gonna go do Boss Women Media at the time.
Marty McDonald [00:11:50]:
Boss Women who brunch. I'm just gonna go. I had my first conference in that January. I quit my corporate job. December 1, 2017. I went and did my first conference at the end of January. I took my 401k out to pay for and I had the likes of Nicole Kane, Marsha Barnes, Mahisha Dillinger, Kayla Walker, Rachel Lindsay, all come and speak and pour into this 250 woman crowd of this space that I wanted to create.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:12:29]:
Wow. And you created your first conference at 250 women. That is amazing.
Marty McDonald [00:12:35]:
Yep.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:12:35]:
So good.
Marty McDonald [00:12:36]:
Yep. And the rest is history. It was all. Everything was off to the racist from there.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:12:42]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:12:43]:
Yeah.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:12:43]:
That is amazing. So amazing. I love. There's a couple of things that you said between the things that you said that I just wanted to pull on for a second. Cause I know that our listeners, they are familiar with wanting more but not being sure what it looks like. Right. Many of them right now who are in their businesses full time are wanting more from their businesses, but they don't know what it looks like. They.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:13:04]:
They don't necessarily have an outlet. They or they haven't first given themselves the permission. Right. Because wanting more, desiring more is innate. It's natural, it's as real as your name. But it could go against everything you were taught to believe as you were raised. And so there's this dichotomy, there's this fight that is likely happening. And I imagine you said you weren't a stranger to the mindset of lack and scarcity, that it was hard to get money and to keep it felt like an unknown task.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:13:37]:
I think a lot of people know that, feel that, have lived that. But. Or. And in spite of all of that, you went to that event that felt light, that felt airy, that gave you the energy that you needed, and you turned that into your North Star and that became your blueprint. And without, I imagine this is what I'm thinking in between, but certainly correct me if I'm wrong, without knowing how to do all the things, but just with the courage and the North Star you got moving. I always say, Marty, God will give you more while you're moving than he ever will if you stand still. And so you started moving.
Marty McDonald [00:14:24]:
I want to say that he will give you more while you're moving than you will when you stand still until he tells you to stand still.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:14:33]:
Touche.
Marty McDonald [00:14:34]:
Right on that piece.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:14:36]:
Yes, yes.
Marty McDonald [00:14:38]:
Very often.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:14:39]:
Very true. Yes. Thank you for that add on. I like that. And then you said, I decided to bet on myself. Once you got fed up, once you got frustrated. And I even love, you know, because I did the same thing in my journey. I emptied out my 401k as well and still ended up filing bankruptcy.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:14:59]:
But they know my story. We here talk about you and your story in order to produce this amazing first conference which today has turned into Boss Woman Media. I think it's amazing. So the one thing as you were talking that popped into my head, and I want to get your spin on this, and I think we hear it all the time, and I think we hear it so much that it can start to sound cliche, is you Know, don't wait to get a seat at the table, create the table. And I feel like that is what you have done. And so for the woman who's listening right now, who knows what it is like to want more, who wants to contend with her upbringing and stay, step into the energy and the movement that feels like home for her. And in order for her to do that, she can't wait for someone else to invite her to the table. She needs to create it.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:15:46]:
What would you say to her?
Marty McDonald [00:15:47]:
There's so much I would say to her.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:15:49]:
But first of all, say it all, girl. Say it all.
Marty McDonald [00:15:51]:
I would say, do you see? I think that something incredibly powerful around having a vision, right? You might not know exactly where everything is going to come from, but do you have a vision? Because nobody can unsee once they see. And I think that is the most powerful piece to this. Can you see what it is that you want to build? And if you can see it, that is all you need. And I want you to stay standing in seeing the vision. You don't have to have the resources, you don't have to know the context. You do not have to know the people who are going to say yes to you yet. I just need you to know that you are standing so strong in your vision and nobody can waver it. I believe that it's so biblical, right? The Bible talks about having a vision.
Marty McDonald [00:16:46]:
If you don't have a vision, the people perish, right? And so for me, I could see it before I ever knew anything that was going to happen.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:16:59]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:16:59]:
My second point to seeing it is taking the motion forward, right? It's once you see it, what motion can you take forward on it Today you got to be okay with it being big or small, Right. It might not be newsworthy today. Right. But what motion can you take forward? And for me, on that first event, as we're sitting here talking about it and I'm just reminiscing on it because it's interesting how you can want more along the way and more and more and more. But that first event, I remember getting a check for $500 from a sponsorship. And I thought in that moment, I did not know that that was actually my revenue generating plan either. Right. I thought it would be ticket sales.
Marty McDonald [00:17:54]:
But we all know that if anybody who creates events, that there has to be multiple streams of revenue from it and not one singular way. When I got that 500 check, in an instant, I thought someone wrote me 500. Someone can write me 5,000. If I got 5,000 I could get 50. If I could get 50, I could get 500,000. I didn't know the pathway forward, but I knew this one. Yes. Was going to lead to more checks.
Marty McDonald [00:18:28]:
Right. That if I continue to build the programming and the people that fit, that would lead me to bigger opportunities. And it was never me leading with what the check size was going to be. I was so focused on the people and the programs. And so that's what I would tell that person. Right. That is sitting there trying to figure it out. Right.
Marty McDonald [00:18:55]:
And then along the way of my journey, right after I really solidified my vision, after I understood what it meant to show up for myself every single day when I didn't want to, when I didn't know how to, when it felt hard, when it felt happy, and you wanted to kind of embrace in the happiness of it. I'm gonna be honest, I didn't know how to do that. I just kept going in all of it. Right. And there were assigned people that came to me along the way, people that I absolutely did not know, how they knew me, how I could be positioned for them. Folks who endorsed me in rooms that I've never stepped into.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:19:42]:
Right.
Marty McDonald [00:19:43]:
And from that happening, it gave me space and opportunity to do that for others.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:19:49]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:19:49]:
I think that there's also something really significant about having a vision. Right. And having it not for yourself.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:19:58]:
Mm. I love it. For a multitude of reasons. Right. First of all, like you said, vision is the precursor to everything. And it is in vision that we really do get life. And if you can see it before you see it, then you will get to experience it. And that's what.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:20:15]:
What is living out. What I love about your vision is that it wasn't static. It was ever evolving. You got the first $500 check and was already seeing the $5,000 check, and then seeing the $50,000 check and knowing that there were things you could do that would produce the half a million dollar check. So the vision wasn't static, it was evolving. And I think that that's an important lesson for. For every person who's listening. I mean, granted, this.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:20:45]:
This show is called the Move to Millions podcast. So our listeners are working diligently to experience their first or next seven figures without having to hustle and grind for that. And I think a key message is the evolution of the vision. As you evolve, as you become more, the vision, too, must become more. And I like that. As we just figure out the next action to take, or to use your words, the next motion that we need to Produce right after seeing the vision, feeling the vision, believing in the vision, deciding that we are pursuing the vision is what's going to lead to all of the additional steps. The fact that you didn't necessarily have the resources, didn't need to know where they were coming from. I tell our clients all the time the how is God's job.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:21:36]:
Don't do God's job just like you don't want him doing yours. But be resolute, be fully convinced in your own mind of the vision, intentional about the vision, but detached from how the vision will manifest. And I think that's what you've shared with us, is that start and how that has become what is today. And I imagine, and you will, I'm sure, tell us if I'm wrong, that them checks are not $500 anymore. The reviews are in. Move to millions. The proven framework to become a million dollar CEO with grace and ease instead of hustle and grind is a best seller with thousands of copies sold. We are raising a generation of million dollar CEOs.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:22:23]:
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Marty McDonald [00:22:32]:
That'S it. Right when that five hundred thousand dollar check came. Yeah, Wasn't too far from the beginning. Yeah, wasn't too far. But it all happened. It couldn't have happened if I stopped. It couldn't have happened if I've given up after. Yeah, the nose.
Marty McDonald [00:22:53]:
It happened with consistency. It happened with having the assigned folks along the way. It happened. I didn't make it about myself. It happened in spite of me ever being able to see it from the beginning. And I think that sometimes we're telling ourselves a story that it won't happen. And it really didn't happen until I started telling myself the story that it was possible.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:23:29]:
That's good. Okay. You just said something that made my antennas go up. And so I want to take a little side detour and talk about this. You said I didn't make it about myself. Now we've got different schools of thought out there, right? We've got the one school. And I have said this, you know, secure your mask before you're helping the others that are on the journey with you. Right? We, we've all heard that.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:23:54]:
We've heard the Zig Ziglar. If you help enough people get what they want, then you will get what you want. So what is the bridge between the two? Because if you didn't make it about yourself like you were the impetus of why this even started, because you were frustrated and you were fed up, so it was about you. So how did we flip the script to not make it about you in order to see a bigger vision and open up the possibility for you to do this work and to galvanize these 200,000 black women that you've had the pleasure of bringing together and giving them access to resources and community to support, edify and uplift their own individual visions? Like, I just don't want anybody to be confused or unclear about when it's about them versus when it expands. I would just love to hear you walk us through how you made that shift. Because it did start because you were fed up.
Marty McDonald [00:24:51]:
Yeah, it started because I was fed up, but it was never about me.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:24:56]:
Break that down for us.
Marty McDonald [00:24:57]:
I believe that I was the vessel to be able to create this space where folks could feel seen and be safe. I mean, my God, our company has been the strategy of DEI for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies. I got companies and CEOs talking about black girl magic and companies that are 10% black and 90% everything else.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:25:25]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:25:26]:
So that didn't. That did not start from the place of it being about me. It had to start. Start from a place of being a resource for other folks to be able to see themselves in. Right. To understand that there was something there that they needed. And, oh, by the way, no company was going to give me a check from the perspective it was just one me.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:25:51]:
That's good.
Marty McDonald [00:25:51]:
Beauty of it was that it was multiple people that we had created and carved out this space where we showed data, that there was a need in the marketplace for hundreds of thousands of women. Right. And then that's what made the reaction become an opportunity. Right. So when I say it hasn't been about me, there have been some lessons in that, too. Right.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:26:21]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:26:22]:
Let me. Let me just be clear. Sometimes, to my detriment, it hasn't been about me. And I've put others on and. And folks have gotten hundreds and thousands of dollars off of my back as well that didn't necessarily see that bigger picture, that it wasn't supposed to be about them either. Right.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:26:41]:
Got you.
Marty McDonald [00:26:42]:
But I don't regret any of it because simply, I understand that the reason why I continue to still stand, I continue to still be endorsed by God is because it is not about me, but I am the face for boss. People know Marty from it. Right. But they also know my heart, posture, and my posture is to make sure that women get the resources that they need, that I get to be the soldier that walks into the corporation to be able to say these are the resources, these are the tools, this is the programming that I need shoe company to back and be a part of. So then I then go back and lift as I rise.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:27:29]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:27:30]:
And so sometimes I agree with you from the perspective of put your mask on before someone else's. Right. That's how you save more people. Right. But then from that perspective of we also know that there are a ton of impostors out here saying that they're delivering for folks and they're not delivering anything but what they want.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:27:52]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:27:52]:
The backs of. And let's be clear, boss, women media ain't never capitalized off of our community and never will. Because I, my stance is I want to deliver resources for us to change as a community. I want more women who are seven figure women, eight figure women who are building something so sustainable, sustainable for generations to change. I was just talking to somebody about this and saying, you know, sometimes I think, man, why is our community in some ways behind? Why are we always last? Right. And then there's not many of us in spaces and places. Right. That's the thing that keeps me up at night.
Marty McDonald [00:28:38]:
I'm trying to figure, solving for how do we have more? How do we get in the front of the line, not behind the line. Right.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:28:47]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:28:47]:
How do we create equity? Right. How do we create not just equity for ourselves, but for our children's children. Right. It's the blueprint that we were not naturally taught. Right. And so if you're doing it just for yourself, it's not going to be sustainable. It has to be create. You have to move and operate from a space where it is beyond you.
Marty McDonald [00:29:15]:
And that's how stain for the future.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:29:18]:
Yeah, I love that. And I, I agree. I think, you know, it can start about you. You can be the impetus, but it has to very quickly grow beyond you. It has to be bigger than you like, because I feel like. And you, you tell me if you agree or disagree, if it's just about you, it's going to get old and we might lose the motivation. Right. Because we can get complacent.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:29:43]:
We know complacency is devastating, but our comfort zones are also just that. They're a place where we feel comfortable, where we feel safe. And in order to lead a movement and to galvanize people for whatever the cause, you have to become comfortable, not necessarily being safe, which means it has to be bigger than you. And I feel like often the reason the entrepreneurs and small business owners that come into our community that Desire to get their businesses to seven figures and haven't been successful yet is because they haven't expanded their vision. Their vision hasn't evolved beyond their own needs. Now listen, I get it. You are gonna buy the car, get the house, go get the Gucci belt, get the Lubies. You're gonna do all those things when the money starts showing up.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:30:32]:
Never wish as a podcast episode comes to. To an end, that we could spend more time together. Well, I want to make sure that you know about our free community on Facebook. If you are a millions minded entrepreneur who wants to go from millions on your mind to millions in your bank account, then we should spend more time together. Get all the details you need to join us in our free Facebook community at Move to Millions group.com. and that's cool, but eventually I hope you start to realize that you got to put more in you than you put on you and actually create an environment for that money to live longer through creating generational wealth vehicles and leveraging your business for that. But it is a come up at first, right? And I'm just grateful that you recognize.
Marty McDonald [00:31:19]:
It'S a come up when you ain't never had it before.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:31:22]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:31:23]:
And there's something to that, right?
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:31:24]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:31:25]:
Let me let you know those things are fading. The. The b. The Gucci bag gonna go out of style. And then you go.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:31:31]:
Exactly. Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:31:33]:
Like it's not sustainable. Right?
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:31:36]:
Sustainable.
Marty McDonald [00:31:36]:
I would rather. Let me trade the Gucci bag in for some. Some lamb. Right. Something that can exist beyond me. Right?
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:31:45]:
That part right there. That part right there. Like I bought a Christian Lubiton bag which I don't even carry. I should probably sell it because it. I have the GM and it sinks in the middle. And I'm like, I spent too much money for this bag to not be sturdy enough for me to carry it out in the streets. So instead of buying another one, I took $10,000 and I bought Louis Vuitton stock when it split a couple of years ago. I'm like, no, let me get some ownership.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:32:08]:
I don't just want to be carrying the bag. I want to have ownership. Because that is how we change generations. Right? So yeah, I agree with that 100%. I think that is such an important thing. I can't believe our time is almost up.
Marty McDonald [00:32:22]:
Really. This has been so powerful.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:32:25]:
It's been so powerful. I want to do two things. Typically whenever I have a guest on, I like to ask them three wisdom questions that really helps to ground the conversation because often we don't talk about Things that could be really relevant for someone's business. Right. Because I don't necessarily drop strategy after strategy after strategy because it's so much more than the strategy. So I like to ground the interview and, and some things that'll help their professional success library. So we'll do that at the end. But just before that, I want to just give you the floor if there's anything ruminating in your spirit.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:33:01]:
Again, the listeners of this show, by and large are women, women of color. They are professional women. They've got JDs, PhDs, MBAs. They are well educated and they are running businesses that are doing, you know, mid six figures. And they know that they're called to millions. They know that the millions are their birthright and they are looking for the edification, the empowering and the equipping that is necessary to help them to continue to build. So with that in mind, is there anything that's sitting in your spirit that you'd like to be able to share with our listening audience?
Marty McDonald [00:33:41]:
Well, first of all, I want to say I'm coming out with a book and I'm going to say I'm going to give a plug on the book that's dropping this fall that I'm really excited about. But I want the listeners to know that it's called a journey for a reason. Right. There's no such thing as overnight anything that doesn't exist. It's a myth. Take it out of your head. When I first started Boss Women Media, I was 32 years old. That was when I did it full time.
Marty McDonald [00:34:09]:
Right. I didn't have, wasn't connected to the right folks, didn't know the resources that I needed, all the things. Right. And then as I continue to evolve, I had my first child, then I continued to evolve. My second business, I had my twins. Right. There's been so many levels and stages to me building this. And now we're at this stage where I know that people are desperate for community, but outside of them being desperate for community, people just want to be seen.
Marty McDonald [00:34:41]:
And I want to give folks an opportunity to be seen. Right?
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:34:45]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:34:46]:
And so our programming is really focused on this six and seven figure founder and this corporate leader and connecting these two together. Right. I believe that there's so much power in that relationship, connecting. I say all this to say, just embrace your journey today. Just embrace where you are today and take one foot in front of the next, in front of the next, in front of the next and just keep going. And I know it sounds cliche, but I couldn't even imagine my life today. And I can't imagine what my life is going to be in three to five years from now. But if I don't keep going, I'm never going to know that it exists for me.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:35:32]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:35:32]:
And so I've met all the folks, we've hired all the people, we've had all the speakers. Right. I've seen inside the world and outside of the world. Right. The secret to any of this is just moving forward with the vision that you see. That is it. And you can only see your vision. That's it.
Marty McDonald [00:35:55]:
Nobody else can see what you see and it can't be duplicated when you see it.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:36:00]:
Yeah.
Marty McDonald [00:36:01]:
So trust that. And my new book, Audacious is a whole bunch of the stories that I've experienced, the lessons that I've learned. There's a bold guide for people to know that the life and the career that they want exists for them. This book is for preorder right now. It comes out in October, October 14, pre order. Incredibly important specifically for black authors. And I just need communities to support my pre order launch. It's in all the places, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Walmart, Target that you can go pre order it.
Marty McDonald [00:36:42]:
We'll do a book tour in the fall. Hopefully people can come out in the book tour. But this book is the the book that I needed 10 years ago. It is.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:36:52]:
I love that.
Marty McDonald [00:36:53]:
I know that folks are going to see themselves in and the actions to take. And one of the things that's my superpower is pitching and being storytelling. And this book tells you how you position your story, how do you storytell and how do you make it where a brand sees themselves before they see you and want to react.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:37:16]:
Okay, awesome. Well, we'll definitely make sure we get all the details and put that in the show notes for the episode. So I'm excited for Audacious. I'm definitely going to go and pre order my copy. All right. So to our wisdom questions that we round out the interview with. So I want to ask you, I'm going to tell you what they all, all three of them are and then you can give them to me as you see fit. I want the quote the book and the tool that has been absolutely essential to you on your own Move to Millions.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:37:49]:
Quote the book, the tool, the book.
Marty McDonald [00:37:52]:
You are a badass. It was the first book that I read when I first started. It was the confidence tool that I needed. I needed to the two things that at that time I needed was the confidence and the mindset shifting Because I had never seen it before, and that book gave me just that.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:38:11]:
Yeah. Love Jen Shinchero.
Marty McDonald [00:38:13]:
Love it. The quote, you can be the most talented person in the room. Nobody cares if you do not show up for yourself. Is the tool that you need every single day.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:38:28]:
I love that.
Marty McDonald [00:38:29]:
And the tool, the tool that changed everything for me. When I left out of corporate, I was very broken by the story that they had told me in corporate, and so I took some time to lean into my skill set by volunteering at my church, and they affirmed me through the places that they lacked, and I was able to deliver my superpower that changed everything for me. That woman who might be sitting in a bad environment, that's telling her she's not good enough, she's not smart enough, that she doesn't belong here, needs to go lend her time in an environment that can nurture her for a season, that's going to equip her for exactly what is up for her next.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:39:19]:
I love that. I love that. Thank you so much for being here, Marty. This conversation, it invigorated me. I'm so excited, so excited for the work that you were doing. I'm excited about the book, and I'm excited about our listeners understanding the significance of evolving the vision. I think that's gonna be really, really powerful for them. So thank you so much for being here, and we'll see you guys next time.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:39:45]:
Take care. Was that not amazing? Oh, my gosh. You don't even have any idea how many notes I have. I'm gonna highlight some of the favorite things that she got into in the conversation, but there was so much. What I think I love the most is that she's very much like us, right? Having experienced her fair share of lack of and scarcity, but deciding to move in her vision and the abundance of that vision and allowing the vision to evolve. So many different things I have highlighted on my paper. She said, we deserve a space like this. Ooh, I love that.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:40:26]:
And she said, one yes will lead to more checks, and if you show up for yourself, that'll make the difference. That will make the difference. And while she was the impetus of starting this movement, she didn't make it about herself. She made it bigger than herself. She said her mission was about lifting as she rises. And I am so excited that she has done all that and more. If you want to stay connected to Marty, we've put all our deets in the show notes. We're going to put the link for her new book, Audacious.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:40:57]:
So that you can go and get yourself a copy because at the end of the day it's about standing strong in your vision. All you need to do is see it even if you don't yet have the resources for it and then get into motion. Because as you move as I say and she added on to God will give you more while you're moving if you stand still until he tells you to stand still. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did and I cannot wait to see how it's to going going to make a difference on your own Move to Millions. I'll see you next time. Take care. Thank you for joining me for the Move to Millions podcast. If this episode has impacted you in any way, would you please take a moment and rate and review? Doing so helps us to deepen our impact and expand our reach around the world.
Darnyelle Jervey Harmon [00:41:51]:
And if you are ready to start your very own Move to Millions, I highly recommend that you order your very own copy of my brand new best selling book Move to Millions the proven framework to become a million dollar CEO with grace and ease instead of hustle and grind. You can get your copy and our bonuses [email protected] until next time. Remember, millions are your birthright and to access them you need only Move. I'll see you next time.
