The Influential Personal Brand Podcast

In this week’s special recap edition, we revisit our conversation with Dorie Clark, a consultant and sought-after keynote speaker who teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School. Dorie is also a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Reinventing You, Entrepreneurial You, and Stand Out, along with her most recent title, The Long Game: How to be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World. Rory shares his top three takeaways from their interview and reflects on how Dorie’s lessons can help listeners weather difficult periods in their life and business. Tune in for key insights into conquering adversity and what envy can teach you about what you want! 

Today’s guest has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and recognized as the number one Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Gold-smith Leading Global Coaches Awards. Dorie Clark is a consultant and sought after keynote speaker who teaches executive education at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School, as well as the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Reinventing You, Entrepreneurial You, Stand Out, and her most recently released title, The Long Game: How to be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World. In this episode, Dorie shares her insight and expertise with listeners about how to play the long game. We dive into how long the long game actually takes, practical applications for long-term thinking in your daily life, and how to stay motivated along the way, and Dorie leaves us with some poignant advice: there are no “wrong goals.” You can pivot at any time! Tune in today to learn more from remarkable storyteller and global entrepreneurial inspiration, Dorie Clark!

In this week’s special recap edition, we revisit our conversation with David Glickman, a phenomenal public speaker and a master of crafting incisive humor. Tuning in you’ll hear Rory share his top three takeaways from their interview as he takes a moment to consider the art of humor. Discover why anyone can learn how to delight their audience with funny observations and misdirection and why that’s so empowering. You’ll also learn about the five C’s of observation and gain insight into why they’re such effective tools for winning over your audience. Tune in today for a comprehensive recap on how to master the skills for humor in public speaking and much more! 

Humor is a wonderful part of being human, but it doesn’t need to be limited to comedy specials or social occasions, it can also be an excellent tool for elevating your speeches and for connecting with your audience members. No one knows this better than David Glickman, who has helped countless people write funnier speeches. David is a Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker, Corporate Entertainer, Humor Speechwriter, and author who first started out in show business. During his earlier career, he worked with big names like Steve Martin and Ellen DeGeneres, and also owned a chain of comedy clubs earning him years of experience and insight into the art and science of humor. Tuning in, you’ll hear why David believes that anyone can learn how to be an expert at humor and some of the most useful tools that you can use to inject comedy into your presentations. Discover the rule of three, how to spot an opportunity for a callback, as well as the difference between evergreen humor and customized humor, and how to use each accordingly. We also make a note of what type of humor to stay away from and how to use observation, audience frustrations, and pop culture references to connect with your audience. Be sure you tune in for a wealth of applicable tips, priceless insights, and much more! 

This week we revisit our eye-opening conversation with Jeff Goins on how to find your big idea and create your unique take on it. Rory and AJ share their top three takeaways from their conversation with Jeff Goins, the best-selling author of five books including Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age and The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do. Tuning in, you’ll hear Rory and AJ discuss some of Jeff’s most incisive insights, including the twenty percent rule and why you need to sell the idea of a book, rather than the book itself. Tune in today for this quick and insightful recap! 

Thanks to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, putting a book out into the world is easier than ever. But just because something is easy to do, doesn’t necessarily mean you should do it. This week on The Influential Personal Brand Podcast we are joined by one of our favorite long-time part-ners Jeff Goins. Jeff is the best-selling author of five books including Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age and The Art of Work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant to Do. Jeff has spent over 15 years in the marketing and publishing space, and in that time has developed a masterful intuition for what works and what doesn’t, especially when it comes to choosing which ideas to pursue and how to implement them. Tuning in you’ll hear Jeff explain why good ideas don’t necessarily result in good books, how to find the perfect balance between the familiar and the absurd, and why you can only sub-vert expectations once you’ve fulfilled them. Our conversation with Jeff is filled with remarkable insights that will give you a renewed appreciation for the art of storytelling and the Olympian ef-fort involved with writing a great book. Make sure you tune in to hear it all!

In this week’s special recap edition, we revisit our conversation with Brendan Kane, author of Hook Point: How to Stand Out in a 3-Second World and One Million Followers: How I Built a Massive Social Following in 30 Days. Rory and AJ share their top three takeaways from their conversation with Brendan, including several simple actionable steps on how to drastically increase your following. Tune in to hear the best of the best from this content-rich interview with Brendan Kane! 

Growing a following on social media requires a multi-pronged approach, and it’s not always easy to tell what actions will yield the best results. Here to help us make sense of the current social media landscape and gain valuable insight into how to navigate and master it, is Brendan Kane, author of One Million Followers: How I Built a Massive Social Following in 30 Days. Brendan describes himself as an outside-the-box thinker who empowers brands to scale, expand and accelerate their businesses and influence. In our conversation with Brendan we discuss his approach to branding and delve into the key tenets of his new book Hook Point: How to Stand Out in a 3-Second World. Tuning in, you’ll hear Brendan describe the importance of a varied distribution model as well as a breakdown of how to institute a robust process that will elevate your presence on social media. We discuss the biggest obstacles that brands face when they get stuck, no matter the size of the company, and how to use research as a tool for transforming your approach. You’ll also learn about the relationship between attention, algorithms, and how to engineer virality. You won’t want to miss this information-packed episode from a leader in the field. Make sure you tune in to hear it all! 

In this week’s special recap edition, we revisit our conversation with Jasmine Star, who has built a highly influential personal brand and is known for her amazing, practical, fun, and inspiring content. The instinct to be liked is a natural human desire, but often we end up playing down parts of our personality to adapt to what we think other people want us to be. Not Jasmine Star. As Rory and AJ share their top three takeaways they reflect on Jasmine’s lessons on being your authentic self, why lukewarm followers aren't powerful, and why she’d much rather have people fall in love with who she truly is, rather than a carbon copy of what she thinks people want her to be. To hear more insights from this inspiring conversation, tune in today! 

We are so happy to bring you today's conversation, with one of the best people to follow on social media, right now! Jasmine Star is known for her amazing, practical, fun, and inspiring content, and her journey serves as such a powerful lesson in how to build an influential personal brand and become a mission-driven messenger! We get to hear from Jasmine about the important points on her path, how she made the big decision to drop out of law school, buy a camera, and follow her passion. We also get into the details of her latest project, Social Curator, how it can help you, and why Jasmine is so excited about this avenue. As we often say, we love when good people win, and our guest's story is a shining example of that happening! To hear all about the permission of imperfection, why repelling is as important as attracting, and the three things that all strong entrepreneurs do, listen in with us!