Remote, Hybrid, or Stuck? ColorComm’s CEO on Advancing Your Career in Any Workplace
Brown Ambition
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4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Brown Ambition, Mandi sits down with Lauren Wesley Wilson, founder of ColorComm, for a powerful conversation on career advancement, entrepreneurship, and building a recession-resistant business. Lauren breaks down what it really takes to secure major corporate partnerships and why brands like Google and Delta Air Lines partnered with her not just because of a great idea, but because of consistent execution, responsiveness, and results.
We also unpack:
- How to navigate layoffs and take control of your job search
- The hidden politics of remote and hybrid work
- Corporate sponsorship strategy for entrepreneurs
- The realities Black women founders face when pivoting in today’s economic climate
- Why sustainability in business is not “selling out”
If you’re navigating a career transition, building a brand, or looking to grow a business in a shifting economy, this episode is your masterclass in playing the long game.
Gems from This Episode
- Visibility is strategic, not accidental.
- Influence inside companies is often hidden.
- Corporate partnerships are built on trust and execution.
- Sustainability is not betrayal.
- You can expand without abandoning your core.
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| 0:00.0 | Where do you want to work? |
| 0:01.7 | Not what's out there, not what's available. |
| 0:03.5 | Where do you want to work? |
| 0:04.8 | Who do you know at these companies? What is available? What are the jobs out here? Understand from the time that you start, minimum, it is going to take about six months. Now, good. It could take four months, but about six months. If everything, that's half a year. So if you start three months after you get let go, you're looking at getting employed nine months from now. |
| 0:25.9 | Treat applying to a full-time job like a full-time job. |
| 0:29.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:31.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:39.8 | All right, welcome back Brown Ambition. |
| 0:45.7 | I am so excited to be here with my guest, the esteemed founder of ColorCom conference and colorcom, period. |
| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the show, Lauren. |
| 0:48.8 | How are you? |
| 0:49.7 | I'm well. |
| 0:50.5 | Thank you for having me on. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm excited to do this. |
| 0:52.9 | I love when I have to Google to see if a guest |
| 0:54.6 | has been on before because I feel like I have spoken to you a couple of different times. Oh my gosh. This is your first time. It is my first time. So thrilled. Thanks for being here. And congratulations on the paperback release of your book. What do you need? A national bestseller. How does that feel? It feels great. I'm excited that it's finally out. |
| 1:12.3 | I know we were talking that I pushed this back a couple times, but it's finally here. So I'm glad. |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah. So how do you mean, when you first wrote the book, and I know I read it when it initially came out, |
| 1:23.6 | I think I might have told you that you were promoting your book, and that's what introduced me to colorcom and the conference and made me book my flight to L.A. that year. And I was like, oh, I want to be there. So it's wonderful what you've built. But I did wonder, because the book is really centered on, you know, career strategies and mentorship. It's been a couple of years since it's been out. What do you think you would include now |
| 1:46.5 | if you were going to do like a little extra chapter or an epilogue? Well, you know, this book, |
| 1:51.3 | for me, I feel like it's an evergreen book. Like it could take you 10, 15 years from now |
| 1:56.5 | in terms of you can constantly refer and go back to some of the principles or just core principles |
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