Finding Your Worth: Strategies for Career Growth and Advancement with Dethra Giles

In this episode of The Love You More Show, host Willie Moore Jr. interviews business coach and entrepreneur Dethra Giles about career strategies, knowing your worth in the workplace, and negotiating your total compensation package (TCP). Dethra shares her story of going from dysfunction in her childhood home to finding a husband who showed her a new way to communicate without dysfunction. She emphasizes the importance of alignment in marriage and putting your spouse first. Dethra also talks about strategically planning when to be home with kids during pivotal developmental moments versus when she can be on the road building her business. She offers advice to young entrepreneurs to go work somewhere else first and learn real business skills before trying to just make money on social media. The key to career advancement is managing yourself like a business, knowing your value, and negotiating the right tools rather than just chasing money. Dethra pushes people to walk in boldly and ask for what they really want and deserve in terms of salary, benefits, work location, etc. She explains how looking at the ingredients/tools available can help you negotiate creatively, and that it’s important to negotiate your exit when you start a job. Dethra challenges people to stop looking up at what they can’t have yet and instead look at how far they’ve come and acknowledge they are worthy of more.