Monica Carter Tagore’s longtime weekly newspaper
column provides commentary on current events, all with a feel for empowerment and personal responsibility. The award-winning column has covered areas of gender and racial empowerment, and provides insight and education on a variety of topics with the goal of helping readers consider issues from a different perspective so they become empowered to create change.
Her personal growth and business-themed articles have appeared in various publications, including Strategies for Living and SB magazine.
Monica Carter Tagore is the author of Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets. Zoom Power provides tools, tips and strategies to help readers achieve important goals. (She also is a bestselling fiction author.)
Monica Carter Tagore's ability to share insight is not limited to the written word. She also is a noted speaker, trained by internationally known speaker Les Brown. She has been a speaker at many venues, including Louisiana State University at Shreveport, Northwestern State University and Southern University at Shreveport. She has given keynote addresses at awards events, graduations and business functions. Her keynotes include Bossier Parish Community College's graduation and the 2007 Athena Awards.
She has been a workshop panelist and/or presenter at events such as the San Antonio Fiction Writers Weekend, the Reading and Writing conference in Atlanta, and Celebration of Women Week.
Monica Carter Tagore is the co-publisher of the Knowledge Wealth Series, and president of RootSky Creative, LLC, parent company of the Knowledge Wealth Series. She has been recognized locally and nationally as an entrepreneur, including being voted one of the Top 40 Under 40 by the Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce and 2007 CEO of the Year by the Disilgold Soul Literary Review Magazine.
Monica Carter Tagore is a founding board member of the Divine Literary Tour, which promotes literacy and authors, while raising money for academic scholarships for needy students.
Monica Carter Tagore, a former journalist, is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi.
column provides commentary on current events, all with a feel for empowerment and personal responsibility. The award-
Her personal growth and business-
Monica Carter Tagore is the author of Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets. Zoom Power provides tools, tips and strategies to help readers achieve important goals. (She also is a bestselling fiction author.)
Monica Carter Tagore's ability to share insight is not limited to the written word. She also is a noted speaker, trained by internationally known speaker Les Brown. She has been a speaker at many venues, including Louisiana State University at Shreveport, Northwestern State University and Southern University at Shreveport. She has given keynote addresses at awards events, graduations and business functions. Her keynotes include Bossier Parish Community College's graduation and the 2007 Athena Awards.
She has been a workshop panelist and/or presenter at events such as the San Antonio Fiction Writers Weekend, the Reading and Writing conference in Atlanta, and Celebration of Women Week.
Monica Carter Tagore is the co-
Monica Carter Tagore is a founding board member of the Divine Literary Tour, which promotes literacy and authors, while raising money for academic scholarships for needy students.
Monica Carter Tagore, a former journalist, is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Monica Carter Tagore began her career as a writer just out of college. But her work has evolved to include much more than writing, though she never strays far from her roots as a sharer of information. Here, read an interview with Monica Carter Tagore, entrepreneur, author and columnist as she discusses how she turned her writing talent into a viable business that has reached thousands. She now is the publisher of the Knowledge Wealth Series, which specializes in personal and business development products and services, including e-books, books, articles, coaching, and workshops.
Q: Your career has changed greatly over the past 10 plus years. How did you go from being a newspaper reporter to being a business owner?
A: I did not set out to become an entrepreneur. When I graduated from college, I was thrilled to be a reporter. My aspirations were to be a reporter and ultimately, an author.
Q: Well, it looks like you've made both those things happen. You've been a reporter and you're an author. So how did entrepreneurship enter the picture?
A: Well, I became an entrepreneur as a way to follow my dream of being an author. I knew I did not want to wait for years (or even very many months) to find a literary agent who would then try to find a publisher who would tell me if my work was good enough to be published. I wanted to be a bit more proactive than waiting around. So I decided to publish my books myself.
Q: So that was the start of your entrepreneurial career?
A: Yes, I formed a publishing company and went about realizing my dream. I self-published two novels.
Q: So you decided not to go the traditional route and find a publisher?
A: Oh, no, I did that, too. The difference is that I did not wait until I had racked up a bunch of rejections before choosing to self publish. I chose to self-publish and then racked up the rejections! On a serious note, I did receive my share of rejections ― as most writers do ― but I stuck to it. I eventually landed traditional publication deals, including the one with Kensington/Urban Christian, which currently publishes my fiction.
Q: So did you abandon self-publishing when you landed your book deal?
A: No, I did not. I was happy to have someone else publish me, of course, but I also wanted to continue to publish some of my own works. By then, I had the entrepreneurial bug, so I expanded the company to include not just the publishing of my own books, but other services. We've even helped other writers publish their works.
And I publish my nonfiction on my own, through our company. We have the Knowledge Wealth Series, which is a line of products created to educate and inspire others for personal and business development.
Q: It sounds like your work has expanded beyond writing.
A: It has indeed. I now use writing as a tool to accomplish what I believe my purpose is ― that of helping people live better lives. I write lots of products to help people meet their goals. I write articles which are published at www.knowledgewealthseries.com and elsewhere. I publish e-books that teach people to do various things, and I write books. I also present workshops.
Q: Your latest book is Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets. Why did you write this book?
A: I wrote Zoom Power because I encounter so many people who desperately crave a better life, but they do not know how to turn that desire into anything more. I am often invited to speak at events or autograph books at signings, and I get pulled to the side by people who ask me how to do the things I do: how to write books, how to run businesses, how to meet lifelong dreams and goals. So I decided to write an easy-to-read practical guide for people looking to get more out of their lives.
Zoom Power includes insight not just from me, but from people I interviewed who are at the tops of their fields. It also includes a Goal Achievement Plan that the reader can use to clarify and achieve specific goals. It's a book I wrote out of a strong desire to help people live happier, healthier, more productive lives. I've been blessed to live my dream, and while I am able to teach people strategies in the interactive workshops I present, I feel this book will allow even more people to learn from me and apply that knowledge to their own lives.
Q: At the core, you have a writing talent. But you've expanded that into so much more. So how does someone turn a talent into a viable business?
A: Turning a talent into a business means realizing your talent is the starting point for your work. Figure out what you are good at and what you enjoy doing. Then see how you can use that to help others in some way. Create a plan for doing that work. Consider how you will fund the work, how you will promote the work, and how you will get customers to support this work.
It's not good enough just to have a talent or just to have an idea. You must also have a plan. And beyond a plan, you must commit to doing the thing you've planned! I've met many people who have desire, but they will not move beyond it. They let fear or uncertainty stop them. If I let fear stop me, I would still be a reporter at somebody's newspaper.
So the answer is: realize your talent, look for a way to serve others with it, create a plan to make the service happen, and then go out and do it!
Q: Your career has changed greatly over the past 10 plus years. How did you go from being a newspaper reporter to being a business owner?
A: I did not set out to become an entrepreneur. When I graduated from college, I was thrilled to be a reporter. My aspirations were to be a reporter and ultimately, an author.
Q: Well, it looks like you've made both those things happen. You've been a reporter and you're an author. So how did entrepreneurship enter the picture?
A: Well, I became an entrepreneur as a way to follow my dream of being an author. I knew I did not want to wait for years (or even very many months) to find a literary agent who would then try to find a publisher who would tell me if my work was good enough to be published. I wanted to be a bit more proactive than waiting around. So I decided to publish my books myself.
Q: So that was the start of your entrepreneurial career?
A: Yes, I formed a publishing company and went about realizing my dream. I self-
Q: So you decided not to go the traditional route and find a publisher?
A: Oh, no, I did that, too. The difference is that I did not wait until I had racked up a bunch of rejections before choosing to self publish. I chose to self-
Q: So did you abandon self-
A: No, I did not. I was happy to have someone else publish me, of course, but I also wanted to continue to publish some of my own works. By then, I had the entrepreneurial bug, so I expanded the company to include not just the publishing of my own books, but other services. We've even helped other writers publish their works.
And I publish my nonfiction on my own, through our company. We have the Knowledge Wealth Series, which is a line of products created to educate and inspire others for personal and business development.
Q: It sounds like your work has expanded beyond writing.
A: It has indeed. I now use writing as a tool to accomplish what I believe my purpose is ― that of helping people live better lives. I write lots of products to help people meet their goals. I write articles which are published at www.knowledgewealthseries.com and elsewhere. I publish e-
Q: Your latest book is Zoom Power: Your Key to Hitting Your Personal, Business and Financial Targets. Why did you write this book?
A: I wrote Zoom Power because I encounter so many people who desperately crave a better life, but they do not know how to turn that desire into anything more. I am often invited to speak at events or autograph books at signings, and I get pulled to the side by people who ask me how to do the things I do: how to write books, how to run businesses, how to meet lifelong dreams and goals. So I decided to write an easy-
Zoom Power includes insight not just from me, but from people I interviewed who are at the tops of their fields. It also includes a Goal Achievement Plan that the reader can use to clarify and achieve specific goals. It's a book I wrote out of a strong desire to help people live happier, healthier, more productive lives. I've been blessed to live my dream, and while I am able to teach people strategies in the interactive workshops I present, I feel this book will allow even more people to learn from me and apply that knowledge to their own lives.
Q: At the core, you have a writing talent. But you've expanded that into so much more. So how does someone turn a talent into a viable business?
A: Turning a talent into a business means realizing your talent is the starting point for your work. Figure out what you are good at and what you enjoy doing. Then see how you can use that to help others in some way. Create a plan for doing that work. Consider how you will fund the work, how you will promote the work, and how you will get customers to support this work.
It's not good enough just to have a talent or just to have an idea. You must also have a plan. And beyond a plan, you must commit to doing the thing you've planned! I've met many people who have desire, but they will not move beyond it. They let fear or uncertainty stop them. If I let fear stop me, I would still be a reporter at somebody's newspaper.
So the answer is: realize your talent, look for a way to serve others with it, create a plan to make the service happen, and then go out and do it!
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