Building your LeaderBrand - Personal Branding, Digital Marketing, Sales, Leadership & Entrepreneurship for Expert Business Owners & Executives.
Bob Gentle Personal Branding & Monetization Coach
Building a business around your personal brand comes with its unique set of challenges, but it’s also an opportunity to create massive impact. Join Bob Gentle as he sits down with leading Entrepreneurs, Consultants, Creators, Leaders and Marketers from around the globe to uncover the strategies behind their successful Personal Brand Businesses. You’ll hear real stories of what it takes to thrive in today’s market—without the fluff.
This isn’t just another podcast about business success. Every guest is a trailblazer, redefining traditional business models and discovering innovative ways to deliver value, scale their brands, and make a lasting impact—all while building wealth and influence through the power of their personal brands.
From up-and-coming entrepreneurs to industry veterans, every episode opens a new window into the dynamic world of expert business owners, creators, and leaders. Each conversation offers fresh insights, actionable takeaways, and the inspiration you need to continue your journey as both a business leader and a person.
About Your Host:
Bob Gentle is a globally recognized Personal Brand strategist, coach, and the driving force behind AmplifyMe, helping expert business owners scale their brands and businesses worldwide. He’s also the creator of the Personal Brand Business Roadmap™, a step-by-step guide to starting, scaling, or refining your expert business. Download it for free at amplifyme.agency/roadmap.
Tune in to Building Your LeaderBrand, rated in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally by ListenNotes, and discover how you, too, can lead with impact and grow your personal brand into a powerful business.
This isn’t just another podcast about business success. Every guest is a trailblazer, redefining traditional business models and discovering innovative ways to deliver value, scale their brands, and make a lasting impact—all while building wealth and influence through the power of their personal brands.
From up-and-coming entrepreneurs to industry veterans, every episode opens a new window into the dynamic world of expert business owners, creators, and leaders. Each conversation offers fresh insights, actionable takeaways, and the inspiration you need to continue your journey as both a business leader and a person.
About Your Host:
Bob Gentle is a globally recognized Personal Brand strategist, coach, and the driving force behind AmplifyMe, helping expert business owners scale their brands and businesses worldwide. He’s also the creator of the Personal Brand Business Roadmap™, a step-by-step guide to starting, scaling, or refining your expert business. Download it for free at amplifyme.agency/roadmap.
Tune in to Building Your LeaderBrand, rated in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally by ListenNotes, and discover how you, too, can lead with impact and grow your personal brand into a powerful business.
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Jul 28, 2019 • 39min
How to launch a new agency the right way, with Brandon Birkmayer
Brandon Birkmayer is pretty new to building his own agency business and his personal brand but he’s charging really hard and a great role model for just getting it done. He’s worked in agencies on some really big accounts and in this episode he takes me through how he’s finally going it alone.
About Brandon
Brandon Birkmeyer is a seasoned marketing strategist, an up-and-coming writer, author, speaker, podcaster, and business coach who works with entrepreneurs and small business owners to help them build brands that matter and businesses that thrive.
Brandon has advised and directed brand strategy for top FORTUNE 100 companies including Walmart, Apple, Wells Fargo, and Coca-Cola. In 2018, he launched Brandon Brands, a marketing consulting firm based in Los Angeles, California. He also produces and hosts a branding and marketing show called "Brands On Brands On Brands" which relaunched last week as a "new and noteworthy" business and marketing podcast on iTunes.
Links and mentions :
Brandon's website : https://www.brandonbrands.com/
Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
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Jul 21, 2019 • 43min
What are you the best in the world at?, with Tom Martin
What are you the best at - I mean the very best at? This is the question that’s Driven Tom Martin to discover a very specific and profitable niche market for his most valuable and marketable skills.
About Tom
For the last seven years Tom Martin has been running the YouTube channels of some of the world's biggest TV brands and some of the world's largest media companies.
Links and mentions :
Tom’s website : http://channelfuel.co
Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
Please take a second to rate this show in iTunes. ❤ It will mean a lot to me.
Jul 14, 2019 • 42min
Build a powerful personal brand with what makes you angry, with Mike Kim
"Marketing isn't about closing a sale - it's about opening a relationship". Mike Kim is a podcaster, educator, marketer, coach and a consultant and is also one of the smartest and funniest guys I know. In this episode Mike shares what makes his business work and you’ll quickly find out why he’s my go to podcaster.
Links and mentions :
Mike’s website : https://mikekim.com/
Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
Please take a second to rate this show in iTunes. ❤ It will mean a lot to me.
Jul 7, 2019 • 45min
For a better business, just make better decisions, with Chris Marr
Chris Marr is the founder the Content Marketing Academy. I’ve been a follower of Chris and a consumer of his content for years so I was really pleased to spend some time getting to know him, his business and most strikingly his, philosophy for life and work.
About Chris
Multi award winning Entrepreneur Chris Marr believes content marketing is the only way to set business leaders free from the world of mediocre interruption marketing.
Chris is the Founder and driving force behind CMA, the UK’s largest membership organisation of its time.
He is raising the bar on talent curation, leadership, personal development, and community building. His pioneering work has changed the lives of hundreds of businesses, all through the power of Content Marketing.
Links and mentions :
Chris’s website : https://www.thecontentmarketingacademy.co.uk
Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
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Jun 30, 2019 • 39min
Everything you need to know about LinkedIn Live, with Ian Anderson Gray
Ian Anderson Gray has triggered my jealousy like nobody else has recently because he’s got early access to Linkedin Live. I’ve been watching his streams and I’m delighted to have him back on the how to tell us what we can expect when it rolls out the the rest of us.
About Ian Anderson Gray
Ian helps entrepreneurs to level up their impact, authority and profits confidently by using Live Stream Videos. He's the founder of the Confident Live Marketing Academy and Seriously Social - a blog focussed on social media tools and live video. He's an international keynote speaker and spoken at conferences around the world including Social Media Marketing World. He's got a passion for teaching and making the techno-babble of live video and social media marketing easy to understand. He trained as a professional singer and lives in Manchester with his wife and two kids.
https://iag.me/
Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
Please take a second to rate this show in iTunes. ❤ It will mean a lot to me.
Jun 23, 2019 • 37min
Exactly how to grow a strong digital agency, with Jason Swenk
My guest this week is the agency coaching legend, Jason Swenk. Jason has written the book on, growing and selling digital agencies and now focuses on coaching and advising high growth digital agencies around the world. He shares some fantastic advice so settle in for this masterclass on digital agency ownership.
About Jason :
Jason has literally written the book for growing an agency from nothing to an 8 figure agency. He is one of the most sought out advisors to agencies in the World, by showing them an 8 system framework that worked for growing his agency, working with brands like AT&T, Hitachi, Lotus Cars, and eventually lead to selling his agency.
Links and mentions :
Jason’s website : https://jasonswenk.com/
Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
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Jun 16, 2019 • 48min
The road to success is never a straight line, with Varvara Laylyagina
Varvara Lyalyagina is a true trailblazer in her native Russia. She’s done an amazing job of building her online business over many years and has pivoted, niched and adapted as her own skills and personal brand have grown. She’s living proof that the best route to success is never a straight line
About Varvara
Varvara Lyalyagina is a founder of Start Blog Up (startblogup.com). She works with Russian speaking creative entrepreneurs and teach them to spread the word about themselves by building their platform.
She's is a leader of emerging community of Russian-speaking creative entrepreneurs Studio (startblogup.com/studio), that is functioning as a membership site. In April 2019 Studio celebrated a 1 year anniversary and currently there are 130 members inside.
Varvara graduated the Saint Petersburg University as a journalist, worked in journalism and PR and had a 10 year career in Procter & Gamble human resources. She created her first blog in 2002 and in 2014 launched a blog Home Where You Want to Come (hometocome.com) that helped her to leave corporate world and start her entrepreneurial journey.
Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
Please take a second to rate this show in iTunes. ❤ It will mean a lot to me.
Jun 9, 2019 • 41min
How a clean headshot can change your life, with Laura Pearman
Laura Pearman is a photographer but she’s taken a very interesting route to market and done some really creative things in terms of business model along the way. The digital marketing consultant and entrepreneur spectrum is very broad and Laura shows us, as you’ll find out, that at the end of the day - you are at the heart of it all.
Laura's Instagram: @lpearmanphotos
Laura's ROI Checklist,: http://bit.ly/ROIBobGentle
Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
Please take a second to rate this show in iTunes. ❤ It will mean a lot to me.
Jun 2, 2019 • 32min
How to build, market, monetise and grow the business of you, with Chris Ducker
This week I’m joined by none other than Chris Ducker. Chris is a very successful guy. He has several businesses, has written two best selling books and runs the UK’s best - I’m saying that - conference for online business owners. In this episode Chris walks us through what his world looks like now, how we wrote Rise of the Youpreneur and tells me all about his upcoming conference ( Youpreneur Summit ) in November.
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Links and mentions :
Youpreneur summit website : http://bit.ly/youpreneursummit19
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Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
Please take a second to rate this show in iTunes. ❤ It will mean a lot to me.
May 26, 2019 • 41min
Why you need to jump on Linkedin video right now, with David Kilkelly
David Kilkelly is an educator turned video strategist turned once more to educator. David has had a fascinating journey and in this episode shares a lot of value about both video and video marketing strategy, but also his particular area of passion surrounding LInkedin video. If you want to reach the B2B market and power up your personal brand this is a *must listen* episode.
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Links and mentions :
David's website : www.blinkback.co.uk/linkedin
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Visit the show website at www.bobgentle.com
Download > 7 Keys to unlock success in your digital agency : Free download @ www.bobgentle.com
Follow on Instagram and Twitter @bobgentle
Join the Gravity Agency Facebook Community : https://www.facebook.com/groups/533887233740170/
Please take a second to rate this show in iTunes. ❤ It will mean a lot to me.
