NAKETA REN THIGPEN

NAKETA REN THIGPEN

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About

Author of Selfish: Permission to Pause, Live, Love and Laugh Your Way to Joy
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Articles by NAKETA REN

  • Legacy Is About WHO As Much As HOW

    Legacy Is About WHO As Much As HOW

    Dear Brilliant Beauties (and a few brave men), As we step into the heart of autumn, a time of transformation and…

  • The Art of Breakups

    The Art of Breakups

    April is National Stress Awareness Month. To de-stress, we have to look at where our stress is coming from beyond…

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  • How to Practice Self-Compassion

    How to Practice Self-Compassion

    Self-care has been clinically proven to improve your work, life, and relationships. Restated: Taking care of yourself…

  • Healing From Your Soul

    Healing From Your Soul

    Recently, I’ve had the pleasure of sharing space with some incredible humans who have asked me in unapologetic terms…

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  • Balance Boldly Luminaries Edition with Kenya Hunt

    Balance Boldly Luminaries Edition with Kenya Hunt

    In this episode of the Balance Boldly Podcast Luminaries Edition seating with Naketa Ren Thigpen let’s welcome Kenya…

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  • Balance Boldly Luminaries Edition with Ryann Dowdy

    Balance Boldly Luminaries Edition with Ryann Dowdy

    The Luminaries Edition of the Balance Boldly Podcast is a dedication to outstanding WOMEN who inspire, influence, and…

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Experience

Education

  • Bryn Mawr College Graphic
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    ABD. Dissertation on Work-Life Balance to Increase Employee Retention and Decrease Stress Induced Illnesses.

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Licenses & Certifications

  • Andrus Advanced TFCBT

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    Issued
  • Sanctuary Model- Treatment of Trauma

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    Issued
  • Licensed Clinical Social Worker

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    Issued

Volunteer Experience

  • General Committee and Workshop Committee Member

    Breaking the Silence on Mental Wellness: Real Talk Real Solutions

    - 10 months

    Health

    A purposed-driven conference for over 3000 community members and professionals is held in the heart of Philadelphia, PA to create awareness and provide solutions related to the holistic need for mental wellness. I had the honor or participating in the development of the 2014 program and aiding in the selection of the prominent and knowledgeable speakers who would come together and help create awareness on this highly disregarded and often hidden topic.

Publications

  • Selfish: Permission to Pause, Live, Love and Laugh Your Way to Joy

    ThigPro Publishing

    It’s time to redefine… Selfish women get the life they want…

    Are you exhausted from work/life burnout? Do you lack balance, or does love always
    seem to pass you by no matter how hard you try to connect? Maybe it’s time to get Selfish…

    Naketa Ren Thigpen, the #1 Balance and Relationship Advisor in the World, presents a
    book for ambitious women everywhere… In Selfish, Naketa shares her own deeply personal experiences as an ambitious woman who battled dysfunction, trauma…

    It’s time to redefine… Selfish women get the life they want…

    Are you exhausted from work/life burnout? Do you lack balance, or does love always
    seem to pass you by no matter how hard you try to connect? Maybe it’s time to get Selfish…

    Naketa Ren Thigpen, the #1 Balance and Relationship Advisor in the World, presents a
    book for ambitious women everywhere… In Selfish, Naketa shares her own deeply personal experiences as an ambitious woman who battled dysfunction, trauma, abandonment, and toxic relationships… All while growing a family, career, global business, and re-igniting the sparks in her marriage.

    Naketa guides you along her journey, and shares how you can move from breakdown to
    breakthrough. After reading this book, you will:

    • Change the conversation. Redefine the terms used to make so many women play
    small, give birth to your biggest dream, and create your joy!

    • End ‘over-giving’. Quit spreading yourself too thin, and focus on the relationships
    that really matter.

    • Stop believing in false narratives that hold you back, diminish intimacy, and keep you stuck in survival mode.

    • Break the pattern… Re-script disruptive cycles of unhealthy, toxic and energy draining ‘situationships’ that bind your brilliance.

    Selfish isn't a license to be insensitive, egoistic nor inhumane. It’s a movement that
    gives you permission to pause, live, love and laugh through your pain, and find your way
    to joy. A necessary remedy to over-giving and cyclical unhealthy relationships. Learning to get a little selfish is the missing ingredient to holistic self-care and improving mental wellness. You'll gain access to hope, healing, and victory, and shatter the cycles of shame
    and guilt that are keeping you from the life you deserve…



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  • Careerpreneur KickStart: 25 Ways to Subtract Fear and Add Success To Your Business!

    Thigpen's Professionals, LLC

    Careerpreneur Kickstart is for professionals who are also entrepreneurs. This book sets up basic tenants to kickstart you into high gear by removing the excuses that so many of us hide behind when we are simply overwhelmed with work-life balance requirements as professionals and entrepreneurs. Recognizing that professionals who are perhaps still juggling their first love with their entrepreneurial passion, the Careerpreneur Kickstart provides tips and techniques that can be utilized by those…

    Careerpreneur Kickstart is for professionals who are also entrepreneurs. This book sets up basic tenants to kickstart you into high gear by removing the excuses that so many of us hide behind when we are simply overwhelmed with work-life balance requirements as professionals and entrepreneurs. Recognizing that professionals who are perhaps still juggling their first love with their entrepreneurial passion, the Careerpreneur Kickstart provides tips and techniques that can be utilized by those who live in the real world of required flexibility, limited time and the call for strategies that work. Written to motivate those who have begun to walk the road to awesome with the roll out or re-launch of their business. It is intended to empower those who are preparing to launch and just need that one last kick in the keister to get activated. Not intended strictly for newbies, this book is designed to get the longstanding entrepreneurs who’ve seeded and toiled the land busy in their business without consistent ripe fruit to show for it. Full of tips and techniques to get you moving in the right direction, it’s not meant to be a sit beneath your favorite tree on a warm sunny day type of read. If you are ready to go hard or go home, this is the book to kickstart you towards your success.

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Projects

  • LIVE 5am Wake Up & Breakthrough @ThigPro on Periscope

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    A 10-15 minute engaging conversation on the barriers, excuses and challenges that keep you stuck and disallow the focus you crave so you can take your life and business to the next level. The #5amClub will occur Monday-Friday at 5amEST sharp! Replays will be available (but that means you are regulated to watching and are exempt from being heard...)

    If you are unfamiliar with Periscope- it's a Live Stream mobile app that syncs with twitter. In order to watch, engage or follow streamers…

    A 10-15 minute engaging conversation on the barriers, excuses and challenges that keep you stuck and disallow the focus you crave so you can take your life and business to the next level. The #5amClub will occur Monday-Friday at 5amEST sharp! Replays will be available (but that means you are regulated to watching and are exempt from being heard...)

    If you are unfamiliar with Periscope- it's a Live Stream mobile app that syncs with twitter. In order to watch, engage or follow streamers you must download the app and either sync with your twitter account or signup with your phone number. Quick access: https://www.periscope.tv/ to download the app.

    Engage by asking questions or posting comments LIVE during the stream. Show your approval, love and acknowledgement by tapping the screen to share colorful hearts!

    Download- Join- Engage and Jumpstart Your Day with our 5am Wake Up! #5amclub #infuseit

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  • Refocus and Accelerate Intensives and Retreats (RAIR) for Creative Business Leaders

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    One Day Intensives, 2-Day Lock-ins, Organizational Retreats and Advance Programs customized specifically for Creative Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs and Organizations who are ready to accelerate their business from goals to outcomes.

    Special topics include:

    Decreased Productivity
    Priority management
    Communication conflicts (virtual and localized teams)
    Low morale and lack-luster organizational culture
    Boundaries in leadership (between and within)
    Work-life…

    One Day Intensives, 2-Day Lock-ins, Organizational Retreats and Advance Programs customized specifically for Creative Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs and Organizations who are ready to accelerate their business from goals to outcomes.

    Special topics include:

    Decreased Productivity
    Priority management
    Communication conflicts (virtual and localized teams)
    Low morale and lack-luster organizational culture
    Boundaries in leadership (between and within)
    Work-life balance
    Silo gaps
    Price, Package and Sell
    Strategic planning
    Think Bigger

    Business Development Programs (by Title):

    Careerpreneur Experience
    Mogul Minded Intensive
    Careerpreneur Kickstart
    Accelerator 30 Organizational Program
    R&R Corporate
    Aligned Minds Masterclass
    Success Insiders (Virtual Only)

    Obtain information on upcoming intensives and organizational retreats by request at [email protected]

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  • Learn More ➡ Permission to Pause Community- Philadelphia- Quarterly Retreat

    Permission to Pause Community is your preventative Rx in the form of an exclusive retreat offered to a small group of professional women who want time to switch off from their busy lives, relate to themselves by embracing their inner superwoman and relate to other powerful professional women. Building a network is important because it allows you space to breathe. Without it, you risk stifling your creativity and ultimately the ability to achieve your purpose.

    Permission to Pause…

    Permission to Pause Community is your preventative Rx in the form of an exclusive retreat offered to a small group of professional women who want time to switch off from their busy lives, relate to themselves by embracing their inner superwoman and relate to other powerful professional women. Building a network is important because it allows you space to breathe. Without it, you risk stifling your creativity and ultimately the ability to achieve your purpose.

    Permission to Pause Community is NOT another networking event- it's the new way to engage.

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  • Register ➡ Permission to Pause NOW- NYC- Semi Annual Event

    You're an expert in your field and a go-to guru for when problems need solving.

    You can multitask and juggle countless demands on a daily basis.

    You're a professional woman who cares about the tiny details.

    You have the talent and will to make your career into a success.

    Now is your time to take time for you! Permission to Pause is your 90 minute opportunity to Relax, Relate and Release with 19 other professional women who are tired of networking as usual and want to…

    You're an expert in your field and a go-to guru for when problems need solving.

    You can multitask and juggle countless demands on a daily basis.

    You're a professional woman who cares about the tiny details.

    You have the talent and will to make your career into a success.

    Now is your time to take time for you! Permission to Pause is your 90 minute opportunity to Relax, Relate and Release with 19 other professional women who are tired of networking as usual and want to build quality relationships with other high achieving women.

    Permission to Pause is a Quarterly Event in Philadelphia-NYC-DC.

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  • Relax and Release Intensives and Retreats for Women-In-Leadership

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    One Day Intensives and Overnight Retreats tailored to meet the R&R needs of Women In Leadership positions.

    Event topics include:

    Dealing with professional barriers
    Creating peer and tier-specific boundaries
    Personal communication pathways
    Enhancing career confidence
    Breaking through modern challenges of work-life balance
    Learning to refocus
    Developing new realistic ways to rest and refuel

    Intensive and Retreat Themes:

    Preparation for…

    One Day Intensives and Overnight Retreats tailored to meet the R&R needs of Women In Leadership positions.

    Event topics include:

    Dealing with professional barriers
    Creating peer and tier-specific boundaries
    Personal communication pathways
    Enhancing career confidence
    Breaking through modern challenges of work-life balance
    Learning to refocus
    Developing new realistic ways to rest and refuel

    Intensive and Retreat Themes:

    Preparation for Prosperity
    Flip the Fear and Break the Barriers
    Lead with Purpose
    R&R Away

    Obtain information on upcoming intensives and retreats by request at [email protected]

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  • ➡ CLICK HERE: Leveraging LinkedIn Networking Group

    This is the first group of high level networkers to come together from multiple states at the Pyramid Club (Philadelphia) with the expressed intention of leveraging our networks to reach our warm markets via social media and social selling. The goal is to provide each other (as subject matter experts in their respective fields) with the opportunity to build client bases by combining old school networking and new social selling techniques. We are marketing people, not products or services, and…

    This is the first group of high level networkers to come together from multiple states at the Pyramid Club (Philadelphia) with the expressed intention of leveraging our networks to reach our warm markets via social media and social selling. The goal is to provide each other (as subject matter experts in their respective fields) with the opportunity to build client bases by combining old school networking and new social selling techniques. We are marketing people, not products or services, and increasing close ratios and client acquisition. We are networking with a purpose and putting each other in the same room with targeted prospects. It is direct and purposeful by design.
    This is a closed group that meets once a month with the expressed intention of leveraging connections via social media with the intention to build our businesses. We are taking our on-line networking off-line and our off-line networking on-line.

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  • Tune In ♫ Balance Beam Experts Podcast

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    Most women and men who I had an opportunity to connect with admitted they were lacking balance between their personal and professional life, have strained boundaries that are screaming, “I need an overhaul” and notably struggled with their confidence in either their work and/or personal frontier. This made me think about how many other execs, small business owners or entrepreneurs are also dealing with the same issues? So over a year and a half ago, I began to reach out to my network (that's…

    Most women and men who I had an opportunity to connect with admitted they were lacking balance between their personal and professional life, have strained boundaries that are screaming, “I need an overhaul” and notably struggled with their confidence in either their work and/or personal frontier. This made me think about how many other execs, small business owners or entrepreneurs are also dealing with the same issues? So over a year and a half ago, I began to reach out to my network (that's where it always starts) and interview successful men and women who are top tier corporate professionals, thriving entrepreneurs and established small business owners and have a raw and revealing conversation on the how to's, dare not's and unavoidables of balance life and business. Balance Beam is tilted towards the focus of succeeding in life regardless of bank account balances and every expert interviewed shares nuggets on how they've accomplished just that! Watch the monthly podcast via the youtube link above, download on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thigpromedia or subscribe on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/balance-beam-podcast/id1036383518?mt=2

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  • B3 - Building Business with Balance

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    A Micro-Mastermind for entrepreneurs.

  • Building Better Together: Taking Partnership to the Next Level

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    A Night Mixer Engagement for healers and practitioners.

  • Careerpreneur Kickstart

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    A two-day Intensive for entrepreneurs.

  • Coaching & Cupcakes

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    A Pop-Up Micro-Mastermind for entrepreneurs.

  • De-Stress for Success

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    A Simulcast Lunch & Learn for accountants, CPA’s, and CFO’s.

  • Flip the Fear and Break Barriers

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    A Personal Growth Micro-Retreat for women in leadership.

  • From Idle to Awesome (How to Push through Transition and Activate Positive Transformation)

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    For women leaders in transition.

  • Go thru to Get to

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    A Signature Empowerment Engagement for women entrepreneurs.

  • How Men and Women Lead Differently

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    An Intensive for C-Suite, EVP’s, SVP’s and HR Managers of over 50 community and private banks across Pennsylvania.

  • Ignite Your Passion in Leadership

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    An Intensive for bio-pharmaceutical leadership and management.

  • Ignite Your Passions with Attitude

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    An Intensive for women entrepreneurs.

  • Leading Beyond the Walls

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    A Micro-Retreat for all female college seniors.

  • Leading From Your Seat

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    A Micro-Retreat for health practitioners in leadership and management.

  • Mogul Minded - 4 Spheres of Growth and Abundance/Life Audit

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    An Intensive for entrepreneurs.

  • Permission to Balance What Matters

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    A Morning Mixer for healthcare administrators and clinicians.

  • Permission to Pause

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    A Micro-Retreat for women in business, C-Suite, and directors.

  • Positioned to Propel and Prosper

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    A Business Development Micro-Retreat for women entrepreneurs.

  • Power of Boundaries in Business

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    A Signature Engagement for innovators, executives and entrepreneurs.

  • Preparation for Prosperity

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    A Personal Growth Micro-Retreat for professional women.

  • Strategic Agility: Lessons for Leaders

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    An Intensive for women in leadership.

  • What Work-Life Balance Isn’t

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    A Lunch & Learn for C-Suite executives.

  • Who’s Helping the Helper

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    An Intensive for helping professionals.

Honors & Awards

  • Every Day Superhero Award

    Kuumba Health Institute

    An award for "being the love medicine the world needs"

  • Top 35 Women In Business Podcasts You Must Follow in 2020

    Feedspot

    The Balance Boldly Podcast for Ambitious Women In Business (and a few brave men) is Recognized as #8 of the Top 35 Women In Business Podcast to Follow in 2020 by Feedspot.

    About Podcast: On the Balance Boldly Podcast, host Naketa Thigpen talks with ambitious women in business from a wide array of industries about their pursuit of success, how they face business burnout, imposter syndrome, and what work/life (and LOVE) balance looks like for them. Balance Boldly uncovers real solutions to…

    The Balance Boldly Podcast for Ambitious Women In Business (and a few brave men) is Recognized as #8 of the Top 35 Women In Business Podcast to Follow in 2020 by Feedspot.

    About Podcast: On the Balance Boldly Podcast, host Naketa Thigpen talks with ambitious women in business from a wide array of industries about their pursuit of success, how they face business burnout, imposter syndrome, and what work/life (and LOVE) balance looks like for them. Balance Boldly uncovers real solutions to real problems afflicting real people at home and in the workplace.

  • 2014 Best of Philadelphia Business Management Consulting Award

    Philadelphia Award Program

    PHILADELPHIA October 1, 2014 -- Thigpen's Professionals, LLC has been selected for the 2014 Best of Philadelphia Award in the Business Management Consultant category by the Philadelphia Award Program.

    Each year, the Philadelphia Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our…

    PHILADELPHIA October 1, 2014 -- Thigpen's Professionals, LLC has been selected for the 2014 Best of Philadelphia Award in the Business Management Consultant category by the Philadelphia Award Program.

    Each year, the Philadelphia Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and our community. These exceptional companies help make the Philadelphia area a great place to live, work and play.

    The Philadelphia Award Program is an annual awards program honoring the achievements and accomplishments of local businesses throughout the Philadelphia area. Recognition is given to those companies that have shown the ability to use their best practices and implemented programs to generate competitive advantages and long-term value.

  • 2014 Woman of Excellence Award

    National Association of Professional Women- Philadelphia Chapter

    September is recognized as Women of Achievement Month for the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW). Across the nation, Local Chapters have celebrated members in unique ways. The Philadelphia Chapter of NAPW honored five distinguished professional women who are making a global impact.

  • Authentic Servant Leadership Award

    On B.L.A.S.T by Dr. Latisha Webb

    The Authentic Servant Leadership Award is a distinguished honor presented to Kingdom citizens, who are business owners and entrepreneurs, and who may also serve as leaders in the house of God and the community. Naketa Thigpen was chosen as one of 12 hand selected leaders who harmoniously encompass reaching their destiny by knowing their assignment and purpose.

  • Philadelphia NAACP 2013 - 104 Influential Black Women in Philadelphia Honoree

    NAACP

    The National Association For The Advancement of Colored People celebrate
    Black Women for their contributions to the community and the success they have achieved in their business and professional careers. Naketa Thigpen was chosen as one of the 104 most Influential Black Women in Philadelphia in 2013.

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