
The Influential Personal Brand Podcast
Build and monetize your personal brand. This show is full of some of the best marketing tips for (aspiring) influencers, entrepreneurs, speakers, authors, coaches, executives, and anyone who wants to get their message out to more people. You’ll learn the strategies and tactics that any service-minded messenger can use to find their uniqueness and separate from all the noise to create more impact, influence, and income. Each episode is hosted by New York Times bestselling author and Hall of Fame Speaker Rory Vaden, and his wife, business partner and CEO of Brand Builders Group, AJ Vaden. Brand Builders Group is trusted by people like Lewis Howes (School of Greatness Podcast), Julie Solomon (The Influencer Podcast), and Chalene Johnson (Build Your Tribe Podcast) to provide personal branding expertise for themselves and/or their audiences.
Latest episodes

Sep 26, 2023 • 44min
Rethink Your Business Development Strategy to Grow Sales with Nikki Nash
If you are looking to grow your business, you do not want to miss this episode! Today, we dive into how you can double your business in the next 12-18 months, and we are excited to have Nikki Nash on the podcast. Nikki is the Hay House bestselling author of her new book Market Your Genius, and she’s also the host of a top-rated podcast bearing the same name as her book, a renowned expert in crafting marketing strategies with a unique focus on empowering fast-growing coaching and online companies, and has a real specialty in helping drive sustainable growth. Today, we dive into the key things you should be doing to take advantage of your current and past clients, tips on having conversations early with your clients regarding their long-term retention trajectory, and unleashing the power of client referrals. Nikki then shares the 5 Top Must-Haves that 7-figure business owners must do to double their business. This episode is a golden opportunity if you're serious about expanding your business, so hit that play button now!

Sep 22, 2023 • 43min
7 Tips for Winning a Lawsuit
After an incredibly insightful conversation with Rebecca Zung about maintaining your integrity and finding practical resolutions while disengaging from a covert, overt, or malignant narcissist, we're excited to bring you this special recap episode. Today, we'll be discussing how you can position yourself for success in a lawsuit by following Rory's 7 Tips for Winning a Lawsuit. These insights have been distilled from the personal experiences and legal challenges that both Rory and AJ have encountered over the years. Tune in to uncover these valuable takeaways and ensure you're well-prepared for potential legal challenges.

Sep 19, 2023 • 46min
How to Negotiate with Narcissists with Rebecca Zung
Rebecca Zung, negotiation expert specializing in negotiating with a narcissist, shares insights on navigating tricky dynamics with narcissists. She discusses the definition of narcissism, their desire for control, and effective strategies for negotiating with them while maintaining your integrity.

Sep 15, 2023 • 18min
3 Tips to Help You Uplevel Your Instagram Game | Chelsea Peitz Episode Recap
Your most important content is the conversations you are having while engaging on your social media platform. Welcome to the recap episode of our conversation with Chelsea Peitz, all about how you can uplevel your Instagram game. Today, we share three tips you can implement to help build your brand by using Instagram as your social media platform. You’ll hear about how knowing how the algorithm works can reward your efforts on Instagram, then we dive into tactical tips to optimize your findability, and finally, we go through insightful tips to create engaging short-form video content! To hear more about the 3 tips to uplevel your Instagram game, tune in now.

Sep 12, 2023 • 1h 1min
Be Better at Instagram — 5 Things You Can Do Today with Chelsea Peitz
Chelsea Peitz, a coach, author, speaker, and real estate veteran, discusses the importance of building an irresistible personal brand on social media. She demystifies the Instagram algorithm, dives into community engagement, and provides tips for optimizing your Instagram profile and bio. She also shares insightful tips for creating engaging short-form video content.

Sep 8, 2023 • 22min
What Questions to Ask to Help You Find Your Why
Resilience, grit, perseverance; why do some people have it, and others don’t? What’s the difference? Consider this a debrief, recap, and summary of the Influential Personal Brand Podcast episode with Bianca Olthoff! Tune in to hear 30 questions to help you find your ‘why’ and create success in your life. This episode is built on three key ideas; what purpose you feel called to in your life, what material things you want to have and what goals you want to achieve, and what kind of person you need to become to make your dreams into a reality. If you are clear on those three questions, you will develop more resilience, grit, and determination. Listening in, you’re sure to be challenged and motivated to pave a new way forward rooted in the clarity of your ‘why.’ Thanks for listening!

Sep 5, 2023 • 32min
How Personal Brands can Develop More Grit and Perseverance with Bianca Olthoff
Bianca Olthoff believes that grit is not something we’re born with but rather that it’s something everyone can build. She is a best-selling author, lead pastor, and speaker promoting perseverance to audiences across the country. She joins us today to share her story of unlikely success, having overcome massive challenges to find purpose and passion in all her current roles. Bianca offers her definition of grit before providing listeners with a path toward becoming more resilient, based on her three easy-to-remember P’s! Bianca and Rory offer biblical examples of building tenacity and reaping the rewards based on the life of Paul. We also touch on the incredible power of pausing and taking a pulse check to ensure that you are truly following your calling. Join us today for an amazingly rich and informative conversation with this inspiring guest!

Sep 1, 2023 • 10min
Do You Need an App? | Josh Hotsenpiller Episode Recap
Just because it’s out there doesn’t mean you need it! That is the essence of our conversation with Josh Hotsenpiller, and today on the Influential Personal Brand Podcast, we are recapping our discussion with the incredible founder and CEO of Juno. You’ll hear all about our discussion and its main takeaways including the very important question you need to ask yourself when considering investing in the amazing selection of technology we have available to us today. For all this and more, tune in now!

Aug 29, 2023 • 42min
Leveraging Technology to Scale Your Business with Josh Hotsenpiller
Join us as we explore the world of AI and technology with Josh Hotsenpiller, founder and CEO of JUNO. Discover the benefits of using AI for community building and streamlining processes, and learn why embracing technology is crucial. We discuss the challenges of building custom apps and the value of listening to customers. Explore how AI can scale business operations and improve efficiency, and find out how you can leverage technology to nurture your community and scale your business!

Aug 25, 2023 • 2h 9min
Eternal Life Part 1: Strategy for Defeating Death
Today's episode is a serious departure from our usual way of doing things, and we are using the inspiring conversation we had with Randy Stocker as a jumping-off point to start an exploration of spirituality, Christianity, and eternity. This episode serves as the first in a seven-part series, that will more than likely continue on a separate feed or platform, but we wanted to introduce it here, and welcome you all to join us on this journey. In this episode, the focus is on death, what comes after, and what your strategy is for understanding and confronting that. The idea here is to use a logical and non-emotional approach to answer some of life's biggest questions, and share some hope for future generations at the same time! This new avenue might evolve into a book to be published in the future, but for now, it felt like the right time to begin this exploration and start asking these questions together, as a community, even if some of our individual answers might be different. So if this interests you at all, please feel free to tune in for this first part of something new and deeply meaningful.