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By: Anastasia Tomkin<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s been a lot\u00a0said about the gender pay gap, where women earn less than men for the same position, but there’s not as much coverage\u00a0when the same disparity accounts for race. In the United States, Black women\u00a0earn 63 cents<\/a>\u00a0for every dollar white men make.<\/p>\n

Tashion Macon<\/a>, a marketing and branding executive for award-winning artists such as Usher, Dr. Dre and Pink, decided to stop keeping quiet about it. During the summer of 2020, she reflected on her experiences in marketing and philanthropy\u00a0to write her first book\u00a0Coming in Hot: A Blueprint for Black Women Setting the World Ablaze<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>The book maps out a vision for success in corporate America, speaking to both Black female professionals and to all company leaders, to foster greater equity in the workplace.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe in the importance of Black women,\u201d Macon said. \u201cIt is high time that we’re honored for our contributions and to be unapologetic about how we come into these spaces and places as ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Tashion Macon. Photo: Supplied\/strut AGENCY, Kawai Matthews<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n

Macon said she was inspired by her great grandmother Minnie Holman, who family members affectionately called \u201cMama Holman.\u201d She escaped from the Jim Crow South by \u201cjumping trains\u201d at the tender age of 10 or 11, and ended up in East St. Louis, IL.<\/p>\n

Mama Holman saved enough money from selling sandwiches on roadsides to rent a house in her new neighborhood on a rent-to-buy plan. Young Holman eventually turned the basement into a juke joint, where she ran numbers and sold moonshine.\u00a0\u201cShe was just an industrious entrepreneurial woman, like, she did what she had to do,\u201d said Macon, beaming in remembrance.<\/p>\n

Holman\u2019s basement juke joint was on the Chitlin’ Circuit and was one of the limited places Black artists could perform, she said.<\/p>\n

Macon grew up seeing Tina Turner, Miles Davis, B.B. King and Bobby Womack perform. She recalled pig feet and pickled eggs for sale for patrons, and the whole place\u00a0felt like a scene\u00a0right out of the film\u00a0The Color Purple,\u00a0<\/em>Macon said.<\/p>\n

It was Mama Holman that gave Macon a knack for math as she helped her with small business tasks. The matriarch passed onto her family some invaluable wisdom on the power of ownership, having a sound work ethic and respecting every client no matter where they were in their journey of life.<\/p>\n

Macon said she capitalized on her unique upbringing by becoming an entrepreneur herself, to eventually lead\u00a0Strut Agency,<\/a>\u00a0a communication and strategy firm.<\/p>\n

In her book, Macon tells readers how to get ahead in the corporate world. Her advice for women graduating and entering the workforce is to avoid obsessing over fancy work titles, so that it doesn\u2019t become a hindrance when it’s time to let go.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour title is something you rent, your talent is what you own. And it’s like an apartment. When it’s time to leave, know that you take your talent with you,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

For women looking for a career boost, she advises serving on an advisory board of a nonprofit that aligns with your passions and values.<\/p>\n

\u201cServing in that way gives you access to different dimensions of relationships that are not inside of your corporation,\u201d Macon said.<\/p>\n

In her book, Macon asserts that Black women in the workplace have a gift that she calls their \u201cblaze.” Black women should go into every space with the courage and tenacity to bet on their own blaze, in spite of the existing challenges, including lower pay rates and disparities in Black maternal health care.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we’ve been inundated with the data, and the data can be so daunting,\u201d Macon said. \u201cIt can be dire if we let it, right? I would say that this data doesn’t have to be defining, but it can be directional.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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