Episode 26: BABE CHAT with Lauryn Evarts from The Skinny Confidential on Building Community, Creating Your Own Lane, and Cultivating a Killer Brand While Having Focus and Patience!
Staying focused on your own goals and avoiding comparison with others is essential for cultivating confidence and productivity.
Embracing failure as a learning experience and using it to connect with and help others can lead to personal and professional growth.
Deep dives
Importance of focusing on your own path
It is crucial to stay in your own lane and not get distracted by what others are doing, especially in the age of social media. Utilizing the seven-second rule, where you acknowledge any feelings of jealousy or insecurity for a brief moment and then shift your focus back to your own goals, helps maintain confidence and productivity. By channeling negative energy into productive endeavors and remaining true to yourself, you can cultivate confidence and achieve success.
Embracing failure as a stepping stone to success
Failure is an inevitable part of life, particularly in entrepreneurship and building a brand. Embracing failure and using it as a learning experience and content to share with others can be empowering. Failure should not be seen as a setback but rather as an opportunity for growth. By sharing personal stories and experiences, one can connect with and help others who may be going through similar challenges.
Strategic growth and the power of a niche
When starting a blog or a business, it is important to start with a niche and focus on it. By deep-diving into a specific area, one can establish a dedicated community and gradually expand into other related topics. Patience is crucial in growing a brand, and creating strategic content by incorporating different elements within the niche, like makeup, beauty wellness, prevention, and vulnerability, helps maintain interest and engagement from the audience.
In this episode, Cara sits down with Lauryn Evarts from The Skinny Confidential for a powerful, raw, and inspiring conversation around building a killer brand, believing in yourself, failure, creating community, what its like to work with your spouse, and how to overcome comparison and jealousy. This chat is filled with SO many gems, you’ll want to listen with a pen and paper and take notes!