THE WEIGHT AND THE WAIT™ ASSESSMENT
Understand what you are carrying, what is affecting your timing, and what deserves attention now.
For professionals navigating significant responsibilities while important goals, opportunities, or transitions take longer than expected. Identify your Weight and Wait patterns and understand how they interact.
SIGNATURE FRAMEWORK
THE WEIGHT
AND THE WAIT™
From pressure to progress with clarity and strategy.
THE WEIGHT AND THE WAIT™ ASSESSMENT
- ✓A $197 private experience that helps you distinguish the responsibilities you carry from the delays affecting your goals, opportunities, or transitions.
- ✓Consider how the two are interacting and identify what requires your attention now.
- ✓Includes the Assessment, a personalized The Weight and The Wait Snapshot™, and a private 30-minute Debrief.
THE WEIGHT AND THE WAIT™ PRIVATE STRATEGY SESSION
$997
- ✓A one-time private experience that includes the The Weight and The Wait ™ Assessment, Snapshot, a 90-minute Assessment Debrief and strategy session, a written Strategy Summary, and a client-developed 30-day Action Map.
THE WEIGHT AND THE WAIT™
PRIVATE STRATEGY PACKAGE
- ✓Individualized support to understand how your responsibilities and delays interact, decide what requires attention now, establish up to three priorities, and build a clear 60-day strategy.
- ✓Includes a private 90-minute Debrief and strategy session, three additional private sessions scheduled across up to 60 days, and guided questions and support to help you develop your own written 60-day plan.
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.
While completing a PhD course, Jarienn encountered Dr. Barbara Harris Combs’s concept of “The Weight,” which describes the physical and emotional burden Black Americans carry when they are perceived as bodies out of place, a burden other bodies do not have to bear.
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.
Drawing on 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 to shape progress, decisions, and the life course.
Through The Weight and The Wait™ Jarienn helps professionals understand how what they carry interacts with what is delaying them. She helps them identify where they have influence, decide what requires attention now, and move forward with clarity and strategy.
Jarienn’s Christian faith and biblical principles remain visible and integral to the work. In her words, “I never would have made it without my faith.”
The framework 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 coaching and consulting services. It does not provide legal advice, and no attorney-client relationship is formed through the website or its services.
FROM PRESSURE TO PROGRESS
Begin with The Weight and The Wait™ Assessment.
The $197 experience includes The Weight and The Wait™ Snapshot and a private 30-minute Debrief.
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