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Brand Evolution Strategy for Female Founders.

The Wickedly Branded® Reader Glossary

Find the words for

what you’ve been experiencing all along.

You are not starting over. You are working with better evidence.

Explore the ideas from the book, discover where you are in the journey, work through exercises at your own pace, gather women for deeper conversation, and return whenever life gives you new evidence.

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Explore The Concepts By Journey Stage

01

Recognize

See what has shaped you.

The Shimmering Thread

/SHIM-er-ingTHRED/

Noun

The pattern connecting experiences, strengths, interests, values, questions, and ways of seeing that may have looked unrelated while you were living them.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, the Introduction; defined in the Appendix A Field Guide

“Teaching English, planning military moves, and running an agency looked like three separate lives until she traced the Shimmering Thread: each one had her translating between people who did not yet understand each other.”

The Tornado of Overwhelm

/tor-NAY-doh uv oh-ver-WELM/

Noun

The larger pattern that forms when responsibilities, expectations, unfinished decisions, outside input, uncertainty, and years of adaptation accumulate around the same finite attention.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 1, the opening chapter of Part I, “When the World Turns Technicolor”

“Between a client launch, a science fair project, and an inbox she kept promising to clear, the Tornado of Overwhelm had her moving all day and choosing almost nothing on purpose.”

The Should Suitcase

/shood SOOT-kays/

Noun

The expectations you packed about what a good mother, wife, leader, or professional is supposed to do, many of them chosen by someone else and never examined since.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 3. Related coined word: shouldspell (should + spell)

“Halfway through unpacking her Should Suitcase, she found a rule from her first boss still running her inbox: answer every email within the hour.”

The Flying Monkeys

/FLY-ing MUNG-keez/

Noun

The outside voices, comparison, criticism, perfectionism, and doubt competing for authority over decisions you once knew how to make.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 4, “Beware the Flying Monkeys,” after the winged monkeys of The Wizard of Oz. Related coined word: votecreep (scope creep + votes)

“She opened the app feeling fine about her launch and closed it twenty minutes later ready to rebuild the funnel, kill the funnel, and start a YouTube channel; the Flying Monkeys had been bus.”

The Vanishing Finish Line

/VAN-ish-ing FIN-ish lyne/

Noun

Success that keeps moving just far enough ahead that reaching it never gets time to register, often because no one decided what would count as enough.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 5, which opens with the Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz

“She hit the revenue goal in March, set a bigger one before lunch, and never once celebrated; the Vanishing Finish Line had moved again.”

Legacy Load

/LEG-uh-see lohd/

Noun

The pressure created when expanded possibility meets inherited responsibility.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 1

“Legacy Load looks like closing a six-figure contract at four o’clock and still being the only person who knows when the dog’s shots are due.”

Capabletivity

/kay-puh-bul-TIV-ih-tee/

Noun

The trap created when competence keeps earning you more responsibility.

Origin: capable + productivity

“Capletivity.”

Outgrownish

/owt-GROHN-ish/

Adjective

A little outgrown, but not entirely. Much of it still works, and you want to live inside it differently.

Origin: outgrown + -ish

“My business isn’t broken. It’s just a little outgrownish.”

Shouldspell

/SHOOD-spel/

Noun

An expectation practiced so long it feels self-evident.

Origin: should + spell

“Answering emails at 10 p.m. felt mandatory until I realized it was a shouldspell.”

Votecreep

/VOHT-kreep/

Noun

A close cousin of scope creep, except what keeps expanding is the number of voices voting on your decisions.

Origin: vote + scope creep

“By the time my cousin weighed in on my logo, the votecreep was real.”

02

Claim

Decide what belongs now.

Inhabitable Success

/in-HAB-ih-tuh-bul suk-SES/

Noun

Success you can actually live inside. It asks whether the business, ambition, visibility, and responsibilities you are building still have room for the person creating them.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 9, “A Business You Can Live Inside”; defined in the Appendix A Field Guide

“For her, Inhabitable Success meant twelve clients instead of thirty, prices that covered the real work, and Friday afternoons back on her own calendar.”

Quick Yes + Sacred No

/kwik YES plusSAY-kridNOH/

Noun

Two decisions that protect the priorities you chose on purpose. A Quick Yes goes to an opportunity you already know belongs in the direction you are building. A Sacred No keeps a meaningful yes from becoming negotiable every time something else looks good.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 6, defined as a pair in the Appendix A Field Guide

“She gave the women’s leadership keynote a Quick Yes and a brilliant male podcast guest a Sacred No, because her show centers women’s voices and that promise was the sacred part.”

Protected Time

/pruh-TEK-tid tyme/

Noun

Deciding what certain parts of your calendar are for before other people start filling them for you.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 9

“Monday mornings are Protected Time for writing, so podcast recordings wait until Wednesday and nobody books a 9:00 a.m. Zoom.”

ARRIVE Goals

/uh-RYVE gohlz/

Noun

A six-question test of whether a goal earns your time, energy, and attention, used before you turn that goal into a SMART plan.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 7. ARRIVE stands for Aligned, Realistic, Resourced, Important, Vision, and Energized

“Before committing to the book, Beverly ran it through ARRIVE Goals, then gave it SMART deadlines: fourteen chapters, one a week, finished by August 1.”

Fuel · Focus · Fade

/FYOO-ul, FOH-kus, fayd/

Noun

A monthly check that sorts your time into what replenishes you, what earns your best attention, and what needs less of your direct involvement.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 9

“In her October Fuel, Focus, Fade, swimming and Sunday dinners went to Fuel, the book went to Focus, and chasing invoices went straight to Fade.”

Glimmers

/GLIM-erz/

Noun

Outside evidence that your work is registering: a client repeats your language, a listener quotes an idea back to you, or a referral comes in for the very work you want to be known for.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 8

“A stranger at the luncheon quoted her line about the Should Suitcase back to her, and she dropped that Glimmer straight into the jar.”

Possibilish

/pos-uh-BIL-ish/

Adjective

Interesting enough to explore and unfinished enough to stay free of deadlines, launch plans, and color-coded task lists.

Origin: possible + -ish

“The retreat idea is still possibilish, and I’m letting it be.”

Winertia

/win-ER-shuh/

Noun

The momentum a series of small, completed wins creates, making the next action easier to trust.

Origin: wins + inertia

“Three small wins before lunch, and suddenly I had winertia.”

03

Be Seen

Let the outside catch up with the inside.

Recognizable Perspective

/REK-ug-ny-zuh-bul per-SPEK-tiv/

Noun

A point of view people can identify as yours in a post, a talk, a client call, or a book, because the beliefs, language, and standards behind it stay consistent wherever they meet it.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 12

“Clients started saying “That sounds like Beverly” before they reached the end of her posts, the clearest sign her Recognizable Perspective was working.”

Body of Work

/BOD-ee uv WURK/

Noun

The ideas, books, talks, podcast conversations, research, and client work that give people repeated access to the same underlying perspective through different forms.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 12

“Her newsletter, her podcast, and her first book looked like three projects until she treated them as one Body of Work, each giving readers a new way into the same idea.”

04

Lead

Use what you have earned.

Ambitionherited

/am-BISH-un-HAIR-ih-ted/

Adjective

Handed down from someone else and mistaken for our own.

Origin: ambition + inherited

“That seven-figure goal? Turns out it was ambitionherited.”

Calm Authority

/KAHM uh-THOR-ih-tee/

Noun

The ability to trust your earned judgment, take responsibility for what is yours to lead, and give other people the clarity, trust, and ownership to do what is theirs without constant performance, control, or proof.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 13

“Calm Authority meant letting her team ship the proposal their way, because it met the standard they agreed on, even though Beverly would have built it differently.”

Transferable Authority

/trans-FUR-uh-bul uh-THOR-ih-tee/

Noun

Authority built into people, documented processes, and ideas, so the judgment you earned keeps guiding decisions when you are not in the room.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 13

“When her lead strategist calmed a nervous client the way Beverly would have, without a single Slack message, Transferable Authority stopped being a theory.”

Impact Beyond You

/IM-pakt bee-YOND yoo/

Noun

The decisions, opportunities, and language other people carry forward because your work or leadership reached them, often in rooms you will never enter.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 14

“A woman she mentored recommended another woman for her first keynote, and Beverly heard about that Impact Beyond You a full year later.”

Generative Leadership

/JEN-er-uh-tiv LEE-der-ship/

Noun

Leadership that builds capacity in other people through trust, credit, access, and opportunity, so the people you lead start deciding, creating, and opening doors themselves.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 14

“Generative Leadership looked like Beverly saying a junior strategist’s name in the room where the contract was decided, then handing her the client.”

Legacy

/LEG-uh-see/

Noun

What keeps helping after you stop being the person doing all the helping.

Origin: Wickedly Branded®, Chapter 14

“Her legacy is the client who now teaches the Should Suitcase to her own team, a decade after the workshop ended.”

When The Language Helps You See Something

The right word can change what you notice.

A glossary can define a term, but the real value begins when you recognize your own experience inside one.
Use these words to name what has been difficult to explain, notice the patterns underneath it, and make sense of what belongs next.

Which Word Do You Need Most This Week?

The right word might be the one that helps you see something differently.

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