Embrace the No: How Seeking Rejection Can Amplify Your Brand

Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with Liz Mosley, where we are talking all about the challenge she set herself to receive 100 rejections in her business, what she learned and why embracing rejection is important for your brand! Liz Mosley is a graphic designer with over 15 years experience and now specialises in creating creative branding and animated GIFS for small business owners. She also hosts a podcast called Building Your Brand and teaches courses showing people how to create their own branding and GIFS if they don’t have the budget to outsource it.   KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST Overcoming embarrassment and shame in personal and professional growth The concept of "failing forward" and how it can help you learn from your mistakes and move forward quickly Practical tips on how to pitch to be a guest on a podcast and what you need to consider   LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Connect with Liz on Instagram Download Liz's Rejection Challenge Trello Template Listen to Liz's podcast 'Building Your Brand' Check out Liz's website Connect with Teresa on Instagram, LinkedIn or Facebook   Transcript Teresa: Hello and welcome to this week's episode of the Your Dream Business Podcast. How are you doing? So we are back with another interview. I don't know if I'm going to like bring back some solo ones. I will at some point. I just go with the flow and see how I feel. But at the moment, I'm really enjoying the interviews and I'm loving having some of these people on, which is awesome. So today I have the very lovely Liz Mosley, who is a graphic designer with 15 years experience, and she now specializes in creating creative brands and animated GIFs for small business owners. She's also the host of a podcast called Building Your Brand and teaches courses, showing people how to create their own branding and GIFs. It's a, there's an interesting story cause I was on her podcast, but we'll get to that later. Liz, welcome to the podcast. Liz: Thanks for having me. It's nice to be here. Teresa: My pleasure. So let's just start with the, I was on your podcast and you asked me to do something very unique on your podcast. Didn't you? Liz: I know I really loved it and it was such a popular, popular episode, but yeah, I asked you to basically come on my podcast and coach me, which I think we were both a bit scared about cause you were scared that you would. You would coach me and everyone would be like, what's she even doing? And then I was scared that I, I have like a tendency to overshare. So I was scared that I treated like a therapy session...