5 Ways to Kickstart Your Personal BRAND (ep.181)

Are you keen to kickstart your Personal Brand? Not sure where to start? Andrea shares 5 ways to kickstart your personal brand, including helpful advice on how to introduce yourself, articulating your unique value proposition, establishing thought leadership, optimizing your digital footprint, and building a quality network.   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@talkabouttalkyoutube/   CONNECT WITH ANDREA  LinkedIn – Andrea: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreawojnicki/ LinkedIn Talk About Talk:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/talkabouttalk/ Website: https://www.talkabouttalk.com/ Newsletter:  https://www.talkabouttalk.com/newsletter/ Archetypes Quiz: https://talkabouttalk.com/archetypesquiz YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@talkabouttalkyoutube/   TRANSCRIPT   Well hello there!  I’ve got something for you today that I’m so excited to share.  This is a very different episode. You’re going to hear a recording of a LinkedIn Live presentation I did recently. The topic was “5 Ways to Kickstart Your Personal Brand.”    After receiving lots of positive feedback, I decided to turn this into a podcast episode.  If you’re listening in podcast form, you can also watch this presentation on YouTube, where you can see me and my slides and even some people who were in the audience. There’s a link to my YouTube channel in the shownotes. Or just go to youtube.com and type “Talk About Talk.”   Whether you’re listening, or you’re watching – Welcome!    Let’s do this!   Welcome to Talk about Talk podcast episode #181 – “5 Ways to Kickstart Your Brand.” The idea here is to learn about 5 specific, legitimate ways you can kickstart your personal brand development. This whole personal branding thing can be a bit overwhelming. So my suggestion is to listen to these top 5 Ways to kickstart your brand, then choose 1-2 that you can focus on over the next month.  Then maybe tackle a few more.  And suddenly, you’ve developed a personal brand that you’re really proud of.   Before I share the LinkedIn Live, I just want to quickly introduce myself. In case we haven’t met, my name is Dr. Andrea Wojnicki and I’m an executive communication coach at Talk About Talk. Please just call me Andrea. I coach executives like you to improve your communication skills so you can communicate with confidence, establish credibility, and ultimately achieve your career goals.    You can learn more about me and what I do on the talkabouttalk.com website, where you can read about my 1:1 private coaching, small group bootcamps, keynote speeches, and corporate workshops.    On the website you’ll also see several ways to contact me and connect with me. Please connect with me on LinkedIn! After this episode, send me a DM and let me know what you think.  I love hearing from you.    Alright, let’s do this. Let’s TALK ABOUT our personal brands.    LinkedIn LIVE   Okay, here is one thing that is crystal clear to me ironically. since I started coaching folks on their personal brand and reading and thinking about it and writing about it and podcasting about it is that personal branding means different things to different people.    Okay. And so I’m not here to tell you what the wrong definition is, or what the right definition is.