Feb 15 • Business Help & Strategy
If It’s Working, Why Haven’t You Claimed It?
They wrote Lyda Newman out of history.
And some of you are letting the market write you out in real time.
Every time you pick up a modern hairbrush, you’re using technology redesigned and patented by a Black woman in 1898.
And most people don’t even know her name.
Lyda D. Newman.
She was a hairdresser.
She saw a problem.
She engineered a better solution.
And then she did what many brilliant women refuse to do.
She protected it.
She secured a U.S. patent.
In 1898.
As a Black woman.
That wasn’t just innovation.
That was ownership.
Because without ownership…
Your brilliance becomes someone else’s revenue stream.
And I need you to hear me clearly.
Some of you are creating proprietary frameworks.
You are getting your clients results.
You are building methodologies that actually work.
But you’re not naming them.
You’re not positioning them.
You’re not protecting them.
And then you’re shocked when someone repackages your ideas with better marketing and calls it revolutionary.
Lyda understood something most experts still don’t.
Innovation gives you leverage.
Protection gives you power.
Positioning gives you influence.
And influence opens doors that talent alone never will.
She didn’t just invent a brush.
She built credibility.
She leveraged that credibility into leadership in the suffrage movement.
She turned expertise into platform.
That’s the move.
Not just working hard.
Not just being brilliant.
Not just being visible.
Ownership.
Some of you don’t need another certification.
You need to formalize what you’ve already created.
You don’t need more followers.
You need to claim your methodology publicly.
You don’t need more applause.
You need intellectual property.
Innovation without ownership is exposure without protection.
Ownership creates authority.
Authority creates wealth.
P.S. If you’re ready to stop playing small and start positioning your brilliance at the level it deserves, get on the waitlist for Black Women Sell Live 2026. The room is different. The energy is different. The results are different.
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If It’s Working, Why Haven’t You Claimed It?
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