The Influential Personal Brand Podcast

Today on the show we welcome two legends who use their voices to change lives every day, Les Brown and his daughter Dr. Ona Brown. Les has been voted one of the top 5 motivational speakers on the planet by Toastmasters International, and also holds both CPAE Hall of Fame and Golden Gavel awards. Dr. Ona Brown is a world-renowned international speaker herself, as well as an expert in personal and professional transformation.

This episode serves as a recap of the ground which renowned influencer Chalene Johnson covered in her recent conversation with AJ. If you want to learn how to be unique, visible and disruptive as an influencer, you should definitely tune into that episode.

Today we welcome Chalene Johnson onto the show, where she schools us on some strategies and her journey to major success as an influencer. After much trial and error, Chalene has learned that reputation is really a mixture of integrity and visibility, and our conversation flows around how to build these. She makes the point that influencers should not try to replicate others.

This episode serves as a recap of the wonderful recent conversation we had with bestselling author, Jon Gordon. If you haven't yet listened to that full interview, do yourself a favor and go do that! In this recap, AJ and Rory each highlight three points that stood out to them from Jon's words. We cover getting yourself out there and promoting your work comprehensively, how to get booked for speaking gigs and why to possibly write a book before you have a deal!

In this great episode, we are so lucky to welcome our friend, author, speaker and all-round massively inspiring individual, Jon Gordon! He is here to share with us his own pragmatic and magical way of thinking about sharing your truth with the world. He talks about getting a major deal with a publisher without so much as a book proposal, gives some tips towards building a career in public speaking and how he has amassed the following that he now has on social media.

On this special edition of the Influential Personal Brand Podcast, we are diving into a debrief, recap, and summary of our most recent interview with Jay Bear. Jay is a seventh-generation entrepreneur and author of six New York Times best-selling books. He is one of the most forward-thinking people in the world of personal branding is and also the founder of Convince and Convert Consulting, a digital marketing advisory firm that helps some of the most iconic brands such in the world to gain and keep more customers.

On today’s episode, we are joined by friend and digital marketing pioneer, Jay Baer to talk about the reality of building a personal brand. Jay is a seventh-generation entrepreneur and also the author of six New York Times best-selling books. He is also the founder of Convince and Convert Consulting, a digital marketing advisory from that helps some of the most iconic brands such as the United Nations, Hilton, and Nike, gain and keep more customers.

This episode is all about giving you the best of our recent interview with the awesome Gretchen Rubin who has multiple New York Times bestselling titles! If you’ve ever wondered how authors manage to hit that enviable list, this episode will give you the most important thoughts from our talk, including the main considerations such as the timing of your launch, building your email list and why preselling is a must.

On today's show, we are so happy to welcome bestselling author, world-renowned speaker and all-round inspiring human, Gretchen Rubin! Gretchen has sold more than 3 million books and had her work translated into 30 different languages. Despite having multilayered success in different fields, it is writing that really helped her breakthrough as a household name. She has so much wisdom and experience around writing, approaches to media coverage, collaboration and beyond and it is such a treat to be able to share all of this with you!

On this recap episode, we bring you all the highlights from our great conversation with former football player, Trent Shelton, who has gone from pro athlete to building an amazing personal brand with almost 11 million followers on Facebook! What stood out from our conversation with him is his authenticity and some of his best practices include his absolute consistency in showing up for his audience and his daily personal engagement with his community.