S5:E180🎙️ LIVE with Dawn-Nicole McIlwain, L.H.D. (h.c.)

S5:E180🎙️ LIVE with Dawn-Nicole McIlwain, L.H.D. (h.c.)
🌟 YOUR TIME TO SHINE! 🌟
Mark your calendars for another powerful conversation on the Leadership & Success Podcast with Coach BZ! Season 5 | Episode 180

📅 Date: Monday, August 31, 2026
⏰ Time: 8:00 AM PT (San Francisco, CA) | 11:00 AM ET (Fort Mill, SC)
📍 LIVE on LinkedIn → RSVP & Join the Discussion

🌟 Meet My Guest
Dr. Dawn-Nicole McIlwain is an award-winning CEO, TEDx speaker, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and founder of ProcuraFind®, a supplier-development and business-connection platform.
Her work centers on something every leader eventually confronts: Are you prepared to recognize your value, embrace your purpose, step into the right rooms—and claim the opportunities you've worked so hard to prepare for?
Her journey has taken her through seasons of building when the recognition wasn't there, persevering when doors didn't open, and ultimately transforming preparation into visibility and impact.
And that journey is at the heart of her latest book:
📚 Your Time To Shine: From Confirmation to Claiming What’s Yours
Dawn-Nicole challenges readers to move through four transformational stages: Dimming → Building → Claiming → Shining. Her message is especially powerful for professionals, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and late bloomers who know they were created for more but may still be waiting for the opportunity, recognition, or results to arrive. 
One of my favorite ideas from the book says it beautifully:
“Shining is not fame. Shining is alignment.” 

💡 What You Will Learn…
✨ How to lead when your vision is bigger than your current circumstances
✨ Why seasons of invisibility may actually be seasons of PREPARATION
✨ How leaders unknowingly dim their own light
✨ Why the difficult “lonely middle” is often where leaders are truly built
✨ How to stop waiting for external validation and start believing in what you already carry
✨ The difference between confirmation and claiming
✨ Why sometimes not everyone can go with you into your next season
✨ How to stop asking for permission to become the leader you already know you can be
✨ Why success, recognition, and visibility are not necessarily the same as SHINING
✨ How Dawn-Nicole's journey from being underestimated to becoming an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and CEO can help us navigate our own seasons of growth
✨ And we'll explore a question every aspiring leader should consider:
What if the title hasn't caught up with who you have already become?

💬 JOIN THE CONVERSATION!
🗺️ Where are you tuning in from? Drop your city, region, or country in the comments!
🙏🏽 What is one thing you are grateful for today?
💬 Got a leadership, entrepreneurship, purpose, procurement, or networking question for Dawn-Nicole? Post it below — we will answer as many as possible LIVE!
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👇 YOUR TURN
➡️ What are your three biggest takeaways from this episode?
➡️ What's one leadership insight you're applying this week?
➡️ Where in your life or leadership have you been waiting for permission when it may be time to start claiming?
➡️ Tag a colleague, entrepreneur, junior officer, emerging leader, or teammate who needs to hear:
Your time has not passed.
Your preparation has not been wasted.
Stop dimming. Keep building. Start claiming.
🌟 YOUR TIME TO SHINE IS NOW! 🌟
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