THE WEIGHT AND THE WAIT™ ASSESSMENT
Holding it all together while waiting for something to change, an opportunity to come, a shift in life, or a breakthrough?
The Weight and The Wait™ helps you distinguish the responsibilities you carry from the delays affecting your goals, opportunities, and transitions so you can determine what requires attention and decide what comes next.
SIGNATURE FRAMEWORK
THE WEIGHT
AND THE WAIT™
From pressure to progress with clarity and strategy.
RECOGNITION
Does This Sound Familiar?
- •You are carrying significant professional and personal responsibilities.
- •An important goal, opportunity, or transition is taking longer than expected.
- •You are still functioning, but the pressure is affecting how you think, decide, or move forward.
- •You are unsure whether something needs to change, whether you need to wait differently, or whether both are true.
The problem may not be that you are behind. You may need clarity about the Weight you are carrying, the Wait you are navigating, and how the two are interacting.
THE WEIGHT AND THE WAIT™ ASSESSMENT AND PRIVATE DEBRIEF
$197
- ✓A private experience that helps you distinguish the responsibilities you carry from the delays affecting your goals, opportunities, or transitions.
- ✓Includes a 15–20 minute Assessment and a Snapshot showing your separate Weight and Wait profiles.
- ✓Includes my review of your responses and a private 30-minute Debrief with me.
THE WEIGHT AND THE WAIT™ PRIVATE STRATEGY SESSION
$997
- ✓A one-time private experience that includes the Assessment, your Snapshot, and one 60-minute Private Strategy Session.
- ✓We use the first 30 minutes to review what surfaced and the second 30 minutes to build your 30-Day Action Map.
- ✓You leave with your written plan already completed. No follow-up sessions or ongoing email support are included.
THE WEIGHT AND THE WAIT™
PRIVATE STRATEGY PACKAGE
$3,500
- ✓Individualized support to understand how your responsibilities and delays interact, determine what deserves your attention now, and build a focused 60-day strategy.
- ✓Includes the Assessment, The Weight and The Wait™ Snapshot, and four private 60-minute strategy sessions scheduled over 60 days. Your first session includes your Assessment Debrief.
- ✓Includes guided questions and support to help you develop, review, and refine your own written 60-day plan.
FOR EMPLOYERS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Any paid option can be sponsored by an employer, supervisor, or organizational leader for a staff member. The participant’s Assessment responses, Snapshot, Debrief, and private sessions remain confidential and will not be shared with the sponsoring organization.
BOOK AND E-BOOK EDITING SUPPORT
- ✓Editing support for authors developing or revising a book or e-book.
- ✓Available separately or for an additional fee when writing a book is part of a client’s 60-day plan.
SIGNATURE FRAMEWORK
The Weight and The Wait™
A faith-aligned framework rooted in the lived experience of a Christian Black immigrant woman carrying visible and invisible responsibilities while waiting on delayed goals, navigating transitions, and facing uncertain timing.
The framework distinguishes those responsibilities, including those shaped or imposed by other people’s expectations, perceptions, scrutiny, and treatment, from delays affecting important goals, opportunities, and transitions.
It helps you understand how your responsibilities and delays interact and identify where you still have influence. It also clarifies where outcomes depend on processes, access, decisions, or timing outside your control, helping you decide what requires attention now.
WHAT YOU CARRY
The Weight
The invisible and visible load of responsibility you carry: professional demands, caregiving, financial pressure, leadership responsibilities, emotional labor, along with scrutiny and burdens imposed by others' expectations and treatment. It taxes your time, energy, attention, and physical well-being.
WHAT AFFECTS TIMING
The Wait
The space between effort and outcome, when a goal, opportunity, or transition takes longer to arrive than the work you've put in would predict. It taxes patience and certainty, often for reasons you did not create and cannot control.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Jarienn A. James
Attorney | Assistant Dean | PhD Student in Sociology
Founder of De Jari Consulting LLC
Creator of The Weight and The Wait™
A framework shaped by professional, scholarly, and lived experience.
Jarienn A. James is an attorney, Assistant Dean, PhD student in Sociology studying the life course and social inequality, and founder of De Jari Consulting LLC.
Dr. Barbara Harris Combs developed "The Weight" to describe the physical and emotional burden Black Americans carry when they are perceived as bodies out of place. Jarienn recognized that she was balancing both this Weight and a Wait as she managed significant responsibilities while waiting for a green card and navigating career advancement. Informed by Dr. Combs's scholarship and her own professional, scholarly, and lived experience, Jarienn developed The Weight and The Wait™ as an integrated framework examining The Weight, other visible and invisible responsibilities, delays affecting goals and transitions, and how they interact.
Jarienn's Christian faith and biblical principles remain visible and integral to the work. The framework is rooted in her lived experience as a Christian Black immigrant woman and also speaks to people navigating spaces not built with them in mind and those who recognize their own experiences in it.
Disclaimer: De Jari Consulting LLC provides life strategy and guided reflection services. It is not therapy, mental-health treatment, or a clinical assessment, and it does not provide legal, immigration, or financial advice. No attorney-client relationship is formed through the website or its services.
CHOOSE WHERE TO BEGIN
CHOOSE WHERE TO BEGIN
Begin with complimentary reflection, take the $197 Assessment, or explore private strategy support based on the level of clarity and support you need now.
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