 Aloha and welcome to At the Crossroads. I am your host, Keisha King, and it's always a pleasure to have you right here with us every Wednesday live at 5. You can find us on thinktechhawaii.com or on the Facebook channel of Think Tech Hawaii. And after the show, you can find me on YouTube. Well, as you know, we are still celebrating Women's History Month. And today we are so excited to bring to you some illustrious women who are doing great things in the world of business. That's right. We have women who are running things. We have today two special guests with us. One in our second guest, our second segment rather, who is leading as a human resources consultant and life coach. We're going to talk to Laura Lund in just a little bit. But our first guest who is joining us remotely is a woman who wears so many hats. I probably would need the entire show to name them all. It is our guest today is the author of this wonderful book, Tijuana Goulson. The title of this book is, Girl, what are you going to do with your money? I love that title. And I love talking to women who make a difference, especially when it comes to the purse strings. So without further ado, we're going to jump right into it and talk to and welcome Tijuana Goulson. Aloha, Tijuana. Aloha. It is so good to have you with us today. Thank you for joining us at the Crossroads. Thank you for having me my pleasure. Oh, wonderful. So Tijuana, before we begin, I receive so much wonderful information from your people. And I just want to kind of run down your long extensive list of businesses and adventures that you are involved in. Here we go. I don't even have enough fingers to count them all. Okay, you have tag consulting LLC where you are the CEO of business coaching. You are the owner and founder of LIPS, L-I-P-S, Ladies Impacting Professional Systems, a business networking group. You have FAMMAT, which is Family Matters Services, LLC, a healthcare company licensed by the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Development Services. You have, is it Gal Gad Enterprises, a commercial real estate investment company? GL Holdings, a division of Goulson and Associates, a real estate investment company. That's a residential real estate investment company. Then you also have the Women's Business Symposium LLC, which is a one day business symposium for women. And we're going to talk about that a little bit later. You have the Sisterhood Divas LLC, G-Management LLC, the Maximized Life Coaching and Mentoring Team, the Max Publishing LLC, Legacy Properties, Elite, a safe ride, all state insurance, and then you're a silent partner with other businesses. How do you do it all? Looks like somebody beat their homework. Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Look, when you're doing it, you don't even realize how much it is. And that's the truth because you're busy doing business. Right. So I thank God for this awesome partners, awesome team members, awesome staff, awesome employees, just people that are out there running and working the businesses and making me look like I'm a star. Well, you are a star. But I want to say, with all that you do, how important is it, and you've already alluded to this, but how important is it for you to have a supportive team and family? Oh, my goodness. Honestly, I could not do this. I couldn't do any of this without a strong supportive team. First, starting with my husband, who just I adore because he follows any journey that I want to see. Any wild idea, any wild dream, that beautiful man is there for the ride. And I just thank God for them. I think that for my children, you know, they're so cute. I just want to grab their cheeks. So adorable little ones on that picture. Those are my grandchildren. Oh, my goodness. They're so cute. I happen to be a man of two. Oh, add that to the list. All of that is what makes me be me. And I hang out with a great group of women that I call the Sisterhood Divas. And they keep me out. They keep me normal. You know, those are my jack-up parts. You know, they're the ones that get me behind closed doors and tell me the truth and jack me up if I act up. Okay. So I believe we have a picture of the Sisterhood Divas. Is this the Sisterhood Divas? Those of my girls right here. That's us at a retreat. We always retreat at least once a year. Wow. I love it. We get together. We just love on each other. Just have a lot of fun. You know, just have some girls time. Okay. I love it. I love it. It's so beautiful. I want to ask... Go ahead. I'm sorry. One of my sister's birthday today. Glendy Holder. I want to say happy birthday to Glendy the day. Oh, you know what? I want to see your face when you say that. Let's take a look. All right. Go ahead and tell her happy birthday. Happy birthday, Glendy. It's your day, girl. You got big five. Oh, you got to do that. You know, you had to do it. You just had to give a shout out because, you know, sometimes... Yeah, I did to my sister. There you go. Well, happy 50th birthday from all of us here in Honolulu, Hawaii. Yay. Congratulations on making that milestone. That's a big deal. So how important is it for you to have a community of women surrounding you? Oh, my gosh. You know, let me just... Let me just back up a little bit and just talk about why I'm so passionate about bringing and connecting and being a part of other women's lives. Okay. It's sad to me because more often than not, I hear women say, I don't do women. I don't... I can't get along with other women. And I'm like, aren't you a woman? I just really don't get that, you know. In every stage of our life, it's challenging enough to do life alone, let alone not to have anyone to confide in. So, for me, you know, I like to reach back to the younger ones. I like to hang out with my girls in my age group. And I like to listen and sit at the feet of some older women. There's a group of older women that I hang out with, too, teacher. I think I might have a picture. Yes. Yes. The little lady that I'm right beside... Well, the two ladies that I'm sandwiched in between, you know, they're 91 and 92 year old. Wow. That's so beautiful. That is amazing. That is amazing. They still drive them, the both of them. And they fancy her and me. That's so special. That is so special. They give me life. I call them my blessed women, building legacies every day with season sisters. I kind of gave them that name. Wow. I love that. Building legacies every day with season sisters. Every day with season sisters. And I get with them at least every quarter. Okay. They come to launch me and a couple of other my girlfriends. And we just sit at their feet and let them tell us and impart wisdom in us. And I think that's so important, you know, because one day, if we're blessed enough, we're going to be their age. That's right. And we're going to be the season sisters that need to reach that generation behind us. So, you know, I just think it's so important to have that energy. You know, I'm a loving husband and I've been working for 27 years, married 27 years, given 31 years. Wow. Congratulations. Thank you. But I can't tell him everything. Right. Something he doesn't understand. Right. It's just some things my sisters just know, you know, about the hormone, you know what I'm talking about. Oh, yes, ma'am. Oh, yes, I do. Well, I don't want to switch gears. Yeah, I was going to say, I don't want to switch gears too much because I want to sit right there for a minute and say that, you know, I understand what you mean about being able to spend time with your sisters with other women and have that type of connection. Do you feel like all of this has helped you in the world of business? Absolutely. Absolutely. Many of my sisters, actually, I would say about half of them have over the last few years become business owners themselves. And I'm very proud of that because I've seen many lives change. You know, that's why I do what I do, especially with business switching, help people realize their dreams and help them with life changing. You know, I just help them with life changing opportunities. So yeah, being a model of my sister is amazing. Okay, all right. So tell me this, I understand, heard it through the grapevine, maybe found it on Google somewhere along the line that you are known as the business magnet mogul. Where did that name come from? Well, it's a part of that branding thing. Okay, so I'm a business owner, have been in business, my husband and I, for a little over 20 years now, how we raise our kids, put kids through politics, you know, at the family. Okay. And the magnet part comes from this opportunity to come into this. I mean, you just give them an imagine how many times we sit down with opportunities to start business. It is so funny, you know, my friends have a joke that, you know, you get with T, you mess around, you get a business. My nickname's T, I'm sorry. That's okay. We actually have a picture of one of, I think one of your clients for your business. Oh, yeah. Yep. That's one of our clients. That's Jennifer of Allstate. Okay. I remember we started back because maybe three years ago and now she has two branches. Wow. Two branches of Allstate. And then you also have Lips. Explain that Lips logo for us as we're looking at that. Lips. I love Lips. Lips stands for, well, let me, let me just give you a little history of it. I had put a, a few years ago, I had put a list on Facebook that I was going to do a give back for the beginning of the year. And I, I offered free coaching and free mastermind session to whoever would take it, right? Okay. And I had them to come meet me at a local restaurant in Newton, in New Virginia. And we just sat down and we asked them, I thought 10 ladies showed up, 10 or 11 ladies showed up to that. And at that time, I called it ladies in need of a push to start. Wow. So I was kind of pushing them into their destiny for the new year, you know, giving them some accountability, trying to break that whole chain of, I want to start, but I never start next thing, you know, January's here again, you know what I mean? Right. So, and we ended up, out of that group, we ended up just really clicking and holding each other accountable. And the group began to grow. So now the ladies have started out of that group. Several businesses have started. So now I changed the name and got a trademark to ladies impacting professional systems. I love it. Every first and third Wednesday, we come together, we mastermind, we bring a special guest in that may talk about, like our last guest was a banker. Okay. And this is a photo here. Yeah, that's what our typical lips meeting looks like. Wow. And they'll come in and talk about something relating to business, something that will help a business owner progress. So now we have a business symposium flier that you have coming up. We have about a minute or so before we need to take a break. Let's talk about that. Yes, yes, yes. I am so proud of the women's business symposium. We're having it in Norfolk, Virginia, which is a great place to have it at the main Hilton main hotel. And the idea of this symposium is to equip women, business owners with the tools that they need to either get started, to get motivated, to get inspired, or to just take their current business to another level. I see. So we're going to have several different panels of discussion. We're going to start off with workforce development, the Small Business Association, the State Corporation Commission. And they're going to start off just talking about, hey, business owners, we're here for you. This is what our offices are here for. So we're kind of going to bridge that gap between the small business owner and the local government. And then we'll have several other sessions, like my session will be Girl, What You're Going to Do with Your Money. And we're going to have Dr. Lynn Richardson and the legendary MC Light. On my panel, we're going to talk about money matters. They also offer a book called Your Man and Your Money. So we'll talk about how to balance your private life and why you're out there making money. We're going to have an all male panel. Okay. I love the sound of all of that. It sounds like it's something that is very, very exciting. And we've shared all of this and still haven't even talked about your book. You're into so many great things. So I tell you what we're going to do. We're going to take a very quick break. We're going to come back. We're going to talk a little bit more about the symposium because I want to talk about it so that I can say a special announcement as well. And then we're going to talk about this book. Girl, what you're going to do with your money? I'll be with your money. I love it. So we will be right back. You're watching At the Crossroads. Aloha. Hi, I'm Rusty Komori, host of Beyond the Lines on Think Tech, Hawaii. My show is based on my book also titled Beyond the Lines and it's about creating a superior culture of excellence, leadership, and finding greatness. I interview guests who are successful in business, sports, and life, which is sure to inspire you in finding your greatness. Join me every Monday as we go Beyond the Lines at 11 a.m. Aloha. Hey, Aloha. My name is Andrew Lanning. I'm the host of Security Matters Hawaii airing every Wednesday here on Think Tech, Hawaii, live from the studios. I'll bring you guests. 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Anything you can do that makes your body healthier and happier is what we're going to be talking about, whether it's spiritual health, mental health, fascia health, beautiful smile health, whatever it means. Let's take healthy back. Aloha. Aloha. And welcome back to At the Crossroads. I'm your host, Kisha King. And today we are talking about women in business. We've been talking with business owner, entrepreneur and author and coach. And the list goes on. Tiwana Goulson. Tiwana, welcome back to At the Crossroads. Thank you for having me back. Yes. So I wanted to touch on something that you mentioned that I thought was absolutely amazing. You talk a bit about women, and you say equipment, as opposed to empowerment. That speaks volumes to me. Can you please elaborate on that for us? Sure, sure, sure. Now, no shade for any women empowerment ladies out there because a lot of my friends, they're doing their thing with the empowerment movement. I also, in the empowerment movement, I motivate and inspire all the time. But the difference between equipment and empowerment is after, for instance, you go to a conference and you get excited, you get motivated, you get inspired, then you go home and you're like, what now? Exactly. Exactly. That's where the equipment piece picks up at. Equipment, we take the tools and we walk alongside the person, the business owner, the lady, and we help them with mentorship, more demonstrational than just motivational, if you will. Okay. Which is your actual coaching style? I've heard you say your coaching style is, yeah, yeah. You lead by demonstration and teach by demonstration. Absolutely. Absolutely. Okay. I love that. That's why I typically work with people locally. Now, as far as motivating and inspiring, I talk to people all over the country, but as far as actual business owners, I do most of my work locally because I'm that coach that likes to go and help you hang the sign up at the store. That's me. I'm sorry, it might be corny, but I like to actually speak. Yes, I love it. Yes. That's why we love your pictures. You know, you're standing right there with that person. And I think that speaks volumes to you as a person as well. You are, have been very successful in all of your businesses. And now you also take the initiative to equip others to be as successful. I think that is extremely selfless and it's just inspirational to witness. Now, to change hats, let's talk about you and this book and other books and series of books that you have coming out. Tell us, what inspired you to write, girl? What are you going to do with your money? Well, first of all, I was raised very modest and no one talked to me about money. Right. I made a lot of mistakes along the way, a lot of mistakes along the way. But the best that I got was, I did see my grandmother's notepad because I was a very inquisitive kid and I was nosy, you know, basically nosy. So I would listen, I would go and I would I would sneak and I would see her write her bills down and check them off. I said, okay, so I guess that's what they have to do. So that was the water down budget. And then my mom used to bulk shop. So that, you know, I said, okay, so if I practice that, I'll keep some money in my pocket. But anyway, that was the extent of it. Okay. So I get a lot, a lot of questions about money in my practice. If that, Tisha, we actually have to start there before we could even go set. Okay. It's an extreme emotional time because most people want to go into business to make a lot of money, you know, but they don't really know how to manage the money that they have. So we have to get through all of that. What do you believe about money? What are you thought about money? What are your feelings about money? And once we get through all of that rubbish, we can deal with, can you manage the budget at your office? That's right. Basically, my friend said I got tired of answering questions, so I put it in a book. Well, I think that's the smartest thing to do. If you start hearing the same questions over and over and over, you're going to go ahead and just put it in a book, sell the book. They can buy the book. The trick is to get them to read it and implement. So even in your writing, you have become a person who equips others to be successful. So before we go, I want to also ask you or talk to you a little bit about Tawanna Goldson, the children's author. What do you have coming soon? Well, what have come out February 14 is you are love there she is at Marvelland, which this is a speak. Let me let me just let you in on the inside that I didn't tell you before. Okay. Marvelland is that character is me at three years old. What? So cute. So cute. Took my three-year-old picture and created Marvelland. Marvelland is a combination of my grandmother, my mom and my daughter and my middle name. Okay. So my grandmother's name is Mary, mom of Valerie, and my daughter and my aunt Annette. So I put it all together and you get Marvelland. Got it. But anyway, Marvelland is a series of self-esteem books for children eight and zero to five. So I was just trying to get to them before they get to school and the kids take on them and tell them everything's wrong, you know. Exactly. Your hair's not right. Your skin's not right. And you know what? I have heard all of that and I have seen that. I know it's real. I know it's real and I know what you're doing is making a difference. And so from all of us here in Honolulu, Hawaii, we want to thank you so much for taking the time to be with us today. I can't wait to see you. I will actually be with you in May at your women's business symposium. So excited. I am excited too. I get the privilege of being one of your media personalities there. So hopefully I'll get to interview you and all the other guests and participants in the panel and spend some time with MC Light and oh, I'm just so excited. But until then, we'll be looking forward. I've read the book. I'll look forward now to getting the children's books to share with my nieces and nephews. We're going to post where others can find your information again, Tijuana. Thank you so much. Happy Women's History Month. And we'll be talking to you again soon. Aloha. Thank you. Aloha. Thank you. For our next segment, we have a wonderful guest who is going to share with us about her business and that is my dear friend, Laura Lund. Hello, Laura. Hi. How are you? I'm doing just fine and so happy that you're here. How are you? I'm good to be here. Wonderful. So tell us, you are also a life coach, but yours is a little bit unique. Please tell us, what makes yours a little bit different? I guess I would say what makes it a little bit different is that I'm kind of just getting started. What has touched my heart is really to work with women who have that deep desire to really want to fulfill their God-designed story and unique purpose that he's given them. And I think that when we do that, so many things can happen. We grow closer to him. We're happy with what we're doing because we're making a difference in the world and the difference in the lives of others, as well as furthering his kingdom. Right. Right. So you have more of a faith-based life coaching practice. Yes. Yes. I'm having to practice that along the way. Yes. Right. Yes. Stepping out and trusting. Stepping out and trusting. Yeah. And that's a continuous process. Yes. Yeah. So how long have you been active in your faith? Oh gosh, active in my faith, I would say young age, you know, back in high school, even younger. But it's just in the last several years that it's begun to really grow and really step into it. Okay. Yeah. So now your mission is to help women find their greater purpose and their greater calling? Their greater purpose, their greater calling, and just having that courage to take that step of faith. Okay. What has that process looked like for you in your own walk? It's been interesting. It's like I have all kinds of ideas that float in my head, but that trusting piece comes to getting it out. Right. And trusting that it's going to be okay. And this is the direction I'm supposed to go. Yeah. Yeah. And I find a lot of times women have those types of questions. They say, what am I here for? It has to be greater than this. You have a background as a human resources professional. So there were times, I'm sure, where you were training and developing others in their careers. Yes. And you too thought there must be more than this. Yes. Tell me about that. I think early on in life, I realized through the different jobs that I've had that some type of service was the area that I wanted to go. And so all jobs have been related to that and helping people to grow and develop, reach their potential, start their stepping stones. And through all of that, I've kind of looked back on history and I can see how everything that I've done is built on bringing me to where I am today. And so it's like just the next piece of my purpose is to continue that, but at a different level. Okay. I understand that. So there is this joy that comes and this peace of mind that comes when you are in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. Yes. Yes. But what about when you're not there yet? What should a person begin doing to help them get in that proper position? To get into that place. I think it's just being persistent, not allowing the thoughts to take over or take those thoughts and replace them with thoughts that, yes, we can do this. We can push through this. We just need to, you know, stop thinking and just do all that. Just do it kind of thing. Yeah. I understand that. And I think the challenge is sometimes you kind of get in this rut. There's this feeling of you want more, you desire more, but you don't know how to go about getting it. Yeah. So as a coach, how do you lead people to that point where they, or better yet, how can people find you so that they can get to that point? How they can find me is if you're interested in coaching and want to have a chat to see a, I call it a story chat to see if this is the direction that you want to go. And we'll talk a little bit about, you know, what it is you desire. And then from there, start talking about a plan through coaching. You can reach me by just simply sending an email to lllund, the number four at hotmail.com. Okay. All right. So if you want to reach out to Laura for coaching, you can do that by going to lllund, the number four at hotmail.com and she will be able to help you with your needs as far as coaching and helping you find direction and purpose in life. All of our shows are meant to empower and equip and educate women, men, children, anyone of all ages, people from all over the world. But as we celebrate women this month, I am so honored and pleased to have all of our women guests who are doing great things in the world of business. And next week, we're going to have women who are celebrating other women. We also have a guest who is an inventor that's going to spend some time with us. And I believe now we're going to have a woman who is in the field of medicine because someone gave us that idea earlier and said that we should definitely talk about women in medicine. So women are everywhere in this world. We are the, actually we are a part of the creators, right? We help others come into this world. We celebrate women all over the world. We celebrate you. We know that many of us find ourselves at the crossroads of life and we're here to equip you so that you can embrace where you are and move from where you are to where you want to be. As always, I thank you for spending your time right here with me. We're always live at five on Wednesdays. You're watching at the crossroads. Aloha.