Amanda Webb isn’t a pushy person—unless she absolutely needs to be, in which case she’ll keep showing up until she gets what she wants! We go through Amanda’s backstory, from film crew, to hamper-maker, to her current career as a data and analytics consultant, to parse out the strategic moves that helped Amanda to get known.
Read moreS5 EP11: Flying Anyway with "The Queen Bee" Dani Wallace
Dani Wallace defines herself by the feelings of empowerment, joy, and safety she brings to her community—not by her rough upbringing in Preston’s council estates, or her bouts with domestic violence and homelessness. Like the humble bee, she “flies anyway,” and helps countless others to do the same through her event, The Big Festoon, and her work as a speaking coach.
Read moreS5 E10: How I Built My Own Personal Brand
I’m back with a solo episode, giving you the details on how I built my own personal brand visibility from roughly 2016 through the present! From journalist to social media manager to personal branding expert to US-to-UK ex-pat, I’m sharing everything I can recall that helped me to get my name and brand out there!
Read moreS5 E9: Keeping It Real with Teresa Heath-Wareing
Online business building coach Teresa Heath-Wareing brings her joyful authenticity to the pod as she discusses her growth from teaching mums at a play barn to taking some of the world’s largest stages, what she’s learned along the way, how she draws her (generous!) boundaries, and what truly inspires her.
Read moreS5 E8: Ophira Edut's Star is Bright!
From hand-hewn street fashion as a teen in Detroit, to the glossy NYC magazine industry, to her present career as half of the AstroTwins astrology duo, Ophira Edut's personal brand has lived through many different incarnations (most of them in tandem with her identical twin sister, Tali). We go through Ophira's many professional adventures and identify some key threads that have always guided her, as well as attracted the notice of others.
Read moreS5 EP6: Community Christina
Christina Garnett has been called “the mother of #MarketingTwitter”—but how did this CCO (Chief Community/Care Officer) discover her knack for bringing people together? As Christina says in this week’s episode, connection is a calling. And if you’re one of the thousands who’ve benefitted from Christina’s fateful December 2020 Tweet, you know it’s a call she has thankfully heeded.
Read moreS5 EP5: Getting Word-Nerdy with Jess Zafarris
I met Jess Zafarris when she was an editor at Adweek, but it turned out she had a whole second personal brand: as an etymologist! We discuss how Jess built two brands somewhat simultaneously, the growth of her profile as an etymologist and author, and what lights her (and others!) up the most about her work as a “word nerd.”
Read moreS5 EP4: Paul Ince on Becoming BizPaul
How did my good friend Paul Ince become BizPaul? We discuss his humble tech expert beginnings, gaining traction on Twitter, starting (and ending) a business, delegation, the personal element of sales, and what lights him up the most about content marketing.
Read moreS5 EP1: New Season, New Format!
This new season's episodes of "Let's Talk About Brand" are going to be a little different⏤and who better to demonstrate than me? I go through my own personal brand development history, then answer a few key questions about my deeper motivations.
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