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Manicka Thomas | Marketing Strategist

Cheers To Designing a Social Work Career You Love 🥂

DYC Phase 1

DYC Phase 1

$19

/Month

A monthly membership for social workers who are ready to stop feeling stuck and get clear on what a fulfilling and highly paid career in Social Work looks like


If you've ever felt any of this, you're in the right place:

✔️ "I know I have high value skills, but I feel lost. I know where I want to go, I just need better support to there there."

✔️ "I'm doing all the 'right' career moves in my role — and none of it is getting me to the pay I want."

✔️ "I work on the committees, I take on the extra work, but I keep being passed over for roles I know I'd be amazing for."

✔️ "I can see what I want for my career, I've just never actually sat down and written out the plan to make it happen."

✔️ "I have a master's and years of experience, and I know the value I bring, it's just hard to put in words."

✔️ "I know if I had the right support, my career would take off in the next few years."

🙅🏾‍♀️ Here's the truth no one in our profession says out loud: you were trained to plan, advocate and problem solve for everyone except yourself.

📝 You can assess anyone else's needs, strengths, and goals in minutes.

📝 You build case plans, set direction, and help other people get unstuck for a living.

But no one ever sat you down and asked:

🤔 What do you want our of your Social Work career?

🤔 What do you value in an employer?

🤔 What's the value you bring to your work and

🤔 How can you actually get paid more to do it!

And the best advice people keep giving you is you need to be paid, "your worth."

But here's what nobody tells you...

Getting paid "your worth" is a myth and "your worth" doesn't earn the high paying job offers you want...

but better positioning your value to the company? That's the thing that actually does!

🤔 But how can you position value you've never even named?

That's where everyone gets it backwards and where Design Your Career begins.

💰 Design Your Career, is a career clarity membership that teaches you how to make your value lead, so the numbers on your paycheck finally follows.

Everyone tells you to fix your LinkedIn profile and start applying for jobs first.

🤔 But how do you move in the right direction when you've never defined what you actually want, what you value, or the value you brings to an employer that they will pay top dollar for?

Design Your Career is where you get clear first, so you stop feeling defeated and frustrated seeing jobs you want to apply for, but not knowing how to express what you bring to the role that will make YOU the stand out candidate. ✨

This all starts with clarity.


Everyone online hands you tactics...

🏃🏾‍♀️ Grab this list of high paying jobs.

🏃🏾‍♀️ Add these words to your resume.

🏃🏾‍♀️ Do this to your LinkedIn profile.

🏃🏾‍♀️Apply, apply. apply!

😩 So you do it, and you end up busy, drained and still feeling like you are spinning your wheels...

because no one is giving you clear mentorship and direction.

So if you're tired of feeling stuck, like you're not living up to your full potential or like you made a mistake by getting a Social Work degree,

you have to make sure you don't skip the only step that actually makes ALL the other steps work.

  1. You can't target the right roles when you haven't defined what "right" means for you.

  2. You can't position your value when you've never named it for yourself.

  3. You can't recognize a "good opportunity" — or a wrong one — without a compass to measure it against.

  4. You can't apply for the highest paying jobs when you don't understand the culture or the values of the company.

This is why you keep spending months searching for roles that were never value-aligned, because no one ever helped you get clear on:

  • What you actually want from your career (not what you're "supposed" to want)

  • What you value, and what matters most to you in your work and your life

  • The specific value you bring — your real, nameable strengths and expertise

  • The direction worth moving toward before you spend a single hour applying for higher paying jobs

That's not a job-search problem. That's a clarity problem. And clarity is the foundation everyone tells you to skip.

That is until now... 😏


✨Introducing Design Your Career✨

The myth-busting "get paid your worth" membership that shows you exactly how to make your VALUE impossible to underpay.

This isn't a one-time course you buy, half-finish, and forget. It's a strategy-driven clarity experience that deepens as you grow and evolves as your direction does. Design Your Career is an ongoing room you stay in — so every time your career shifts, you have a place to come back to as your compass.

Design Your Career is the space where social workers get clear on who they are, what they want, why this work matters, and the value they bring — before they make another career move.

🚫 No more second-guessing your decisions.

🚫 No more getting stuck in toxic Facebook groups with jaded and unhappy Social Workers...you know the ones!

🚫 No more fishing for answers from people who no longer have a love for the profession.

In DYC, you work with a seasoned Clinical Social Worker with over 15 years of experience who LOVES this profession and doesn't mind if you pick her brain! We work together to design your direction first, so every step after it is aligned and intentional — and it's all built around the DYC Framework.

🔥 THE DYC FRAMEWORK

DESIGN — Design Your Professional Purpose Statement The heart of the whole experience. Get crystal clear on who you are, the value you carry, and the purpose that anchors your career. This is the foundation everyone skips and the reason their job search never feels aligned. When you can name your value, you can finally lead with it.

PLAN — Define what you actually want, your values, your priorities, and what truly matters to you in your career. Not the goals you were told to have. The ones that are yours. This is where a vague desire to have what you want, becomes a clear direction to get it.

EXECUTE — Move with intention instead of desperation. With your purpose and goals defined, you make decisions from clarity, choosing aligned opportunities and saying no to the ones that aren't, instead of chasing everything and hoping something sticks.

PIVOT — The skill almost no one teaches: knowing when and how to move...because now you have a compass to measure against. When it's time to step up into leadership. When it's time to move toward a higher-paying, better-aligned role. And when it's time to get out of an environment that's draining you. Pivoting isn't leaving social work, it's navigating it on your terms. This is what you'll come back for again and again, and it's exactly why this is your membership experience.


🔥 WHAT'S INSIDE

Here's what you get every month inside Design Your Career:

🎓 Live Monthly Workshops & Trainings Real sessions — not passive webinars — that walk you through the DYC Framework step by step: defining your purpose, naming your value, clarifying your goals, and reading your career with intention. You leave each one more clear than you arrived.

🎤 Office Hours & Live Q&A Coaching Bring your specific situation — your purpose statement, your "is this the right direction?" moment, your crossroads — and get direct coaching from me applied to your Social Work career, not generic career advice.

📑 Clarity Tools, Templates & Frameworks The exact worksheets and templates that take the guesswork out of getting clear: purpose statement builders, values exercises, goal-mapping tools, and decision frameworks you'll use every time your career shifts.

🤝 A Private Community Built for Accountability Get clear alongside other ambitious and driven social workers who get it, people doing the same deep work, sharing direction and encouragement. Not a noisy social media group; a curated room of professionals serious about designing careers they actually want.


WHO IT'S FOR

Design Your Career is for you if:

⚡You're a social worker who senses you want something different — but can't yet name what

⚡You're tired of feeling stuck and doing all the "right" moves that never lead to the pay or the opportunities you want

⚡You've never actually defined your values, your goals, or the value you bring

⚡You want clarity and direction before you spend more energy job searching

⚡You want ongoing support as your career and clarity evolve

It's probably not for you if:

❌ You want to complain about the Social Work profession but not develop a plan to find success within it

❌ You already have total clarity on your direction and are looking for more tactics

❌ You want someone to hand you a job instead of helping you design your own path

❌ You're not willing to do the honest, reflective work clarity requires


❤️ THIS IS THE SHIFT DYC CREATES

Where you are now: Lost. Stuck. Directionless — even if your résumé looks great from the outside. You're doing all the "right" moves and none of them feel right. You watch other people who seem to have it figured out and quietly wonder if you're the only one who doesn't. You're not even confused, exactly. You're treading water, waiting for a sign, waiting to feel ready — and exhausting yourself going nowhere.

Where you'll be: Grounded. Guided. Intentional. You know what you want, what you value, and the value you bring — and you can say it out loud without flinching. You stop measuring your path against everyone else's because you're finally rooted in your own. Career decisions stop feeling like guesses; you hold each one up against your purpose and you feel confident in your decision making. You move with direction instead of dread.

This is not about having objectives and having a list of to-do's.

📈 It's about having direction. That's what changes when you design your career on purpose instead of letting it happen to you — and instead of waiting for permission to designing the career you want.


🫱🏾‍🫲🏾 JOIN DESIGN YOUR CAREER

Every month you spend feeling stuck, lost, and unsure of your direction is a month of energy you'll never get back — and clarity is the one investment that makes everything after it easier.

Get clear first, and you stop wasting years building a career you were told to have, instead of the career you said you wanted.

$19/ month — cancel anytime. or

$109 for 6 months


FAQ

Is this a job-search or resume program? No. Design Your Career is about the step that comes before any of that — getting clear on who you are, what you want, and the value you bring. Most people skip straight to applying and wonder why nothing feels right. This is where you build the foundation that makes every future move aligned. If you are in need of resume or job search help that would be through the other programs I offer, Ramp Up Your Resume and Jump Start Your Job Search.

I don't even know what I want yet. Is that a problem? Not at all — that's exactly who this is for. You don't need to arrive with clarity. You come to build it, with the framework, the coaching, and the community to guide you.

Is this about leaving social work? No. Design Your Career is for social workers who want to stay in the field and navigate it with intention — including moving into leadership or more aligned roles. The "pivot" we teach is about direction, not abandoning your calling.

Why a membership instead of a one-time course? Because clarity deepens over time and your direction evolves as you grow. A membership gives you a place to keep coming back to your compass every time your career shifts.

Do I have to commit long-term? No. It's month-to-month, cancel anytime. Most members stay because clarity is something you return to, not something you finish once.


Stop trying to get paid your worth. Worth is inherent. Pay is a negotiation.

Let me show you how to position your value so employers compete for it.

You've helped everyone else get clear on their direction.

It's time to design yours! ❤️

I'm Ready To Design My Career

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