Month: July 2021

Today on The Real Personal Branding Podcast, John Lee Dumas, host of the award-winning podcast Entrepreneurs on Fire, is Lauren’s guest. His podcast has more than 2,500 episodes, 1 million+ listeners a month, and he brings in a seven-figure annual revenue. In each podcast episode, he talks about exactly how they do this month-by-month, while building a personal brand. John Lee Dumas recently released a new book called The Common Path to Uncommon Success.

Lauren talks to John Lee Dumas about how he launched his book, why he thinks other entrepreneurs have been lying to you, and he shares a few impactful stories from the book.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Why John Lee Dumas is on fire about health and wellness right now.
2. The fork in the road that caused him to realize that other entrepreneurs were being lied to by experts in their fields why he chose to pivot away from that.
3. The 17 core foundational principles that successful entrepreneurs share, why they work so well as a roadmap to success, and the one principle that matters the most.
4. John Lee Dumas’s advice for overcoming self-limiting beliefs and how you can reframe your mindset about making money with your business.
5. The three steps he took to attain testimonials for his book launch and how he wove his personal brand into it.
6. The one common myth about being an entrepreneur that he’d like to debunk.
7. The one piece of advice John Lee Dumas would give you to create uncommon success.

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eofire.com

instagram.com/johnleedumas

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In this episode, Lauren welcomes Brian Fanzo to the show. He built an incredible personal brand on the platform of digital futurism, but he started out in the corporate world. Brian Fanzo talks to Lauren about how he takes future concepts and adapts to them early. They also talk about how to transition from a corporate lifestyle to being a full-time, successful, sought-after speaker, entrepreneur, and personal brand, and lastly, how to embrace who you are called to be and make it a part of your personal brand.

Brian Fanzo is a dynamic at translating the trends of tomorrow to inspire change today. His customized and personalized programs showcase real-world stories and examples of forward-thinking people and businesses. He teaches companies of all sizes how to leverage technology in real-time in order to engage their customers at the right time, and he has a true gift for bringing people together online and offline. Brian Fanzo has worked in 76 countries, and he has been highlighting his passion for change, collaboration, and technology for so many years.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Brian Fanzo’s background story and how he became a digital futurist.
2. The thing that helped him the most while he was building his personal brand and how to create your own unique personal brand while still working a day job.
3. Why self-awareness is a tool you can use to help you analyze future trends and use it in your business and personal brand.
4. How he fought social media burnout and learned to show up as himself on social media.
5. Brian Fanzo’s suggestions for what to do when you feel stuck.
6. Why he doesn’t settle for failure and how he learns from his mistakes.
7. His prediction for Clubhouse and how he’s using it to continue building his personal brand.
8. Why the things we do online will never fully replace the things we do in the real world.

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Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

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Connect with Brian Fanzo

https://www.isocialfanz.com/

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In this solo episode of THE REAL PERSONAL BRANDING PODCAST, Lauren explains how often you should be posting to social media and why all of the tips surrounding how often to post to social media may not be right for you or your business. Instead, consistency is key. Lauren gives us three steps for getting started and the LDC goal equation you need for social media.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Why we desire fast results but they may not yield the greatest reward for your brand or business.
2. How to find your business goal for social media and optimize it.
3. Why posting consistently is the secret sauce–not the number of posts.
4. Lauren’s advice for choosing a habit to measure and why quality matters over quantity.
5. Decide on a period of time you will measure your goal for and how you want to assess it.
6. How the big picture for your social media affects how you grow your business and sharing your gifts with the world.
7. Why your goals need to be attainable and reasonable.
8. The LDC goal equation for measuring social media results.

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Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

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Today’s guest is Kim Doyal. Kim Doyal is a content-planning expert, and she really cares about getting to the heart of the realness of an entrepreneur and bringing it forward. She’s an entrepreneur, a coach, speaker, and podcaster. She’s also the co-founder of the Content Creators Planner, and she’s built her lifestyle personal brand business through content marketing, podcasting, email marketing, and a commitment to just showing up.

Kim Doyal has a unique story and was widowed in 2003. She had two small children, and after finding herself in a new place as a single mom, she began diving into her business and started building a business that supported the quality of life that she wanted for herself and for her family.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. What led Kim Doyal to start her business in 2008 after being widowed in 2003.
2. How she created a thriving business while the economy was tanking and why she was determined to make it work.
3. The first steps every entrepreneur needs to start creating content and why showing up as yourself is key.
4. How you can stop overthinking content and realize that everything can be content for your business.
5. Why Kim Doyal says just showing up is a secret to success and your story is a part of that.
6. What an engaged audience can do to propel your business forward.
7. Her recommendations for staying on top of what’s going on in your industry.
8. Why people subscribe to her newsletter and what you can expect from it each week.
9. The advice she would give her younger self-knowing what she knows now.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

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Connect with Kim Doyal

https://contentcreatorsplanner.com/

https://kimdoyal.com/category/newsletter/

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In the latest episode of The Real Personal Branding podcast, Sean Osborn joins Lauren for a candid chat about how Sean has built a personal brand on the platform of thinking big.

If you’re feeling stuck, this is the episode for you. Sean is a mindset strategist and coach who specializes in taking people to the next level.

He spent more than 30 years developing his Thinking Big model and truly understands what the power of shifting your thoughts can do.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Sean overcame his rough start and changed his outlook to move forward in life.
2. What you can do to change your programming and change your beliefs to stop feeling stuck.
3. Why knowledge builds belief.
4. How continuous learning contributes to success.
5. Self-awareness leads to knowledge about yourself.
6. What motivates Sean to get up in the morning and how he overcomes imposter syndrome.
7. Sean’s tips for what to tell yourself when you’re struggling and you need to move past it.
8. What autosuggestion is and how you can use it to retrain your thought process.
9. How your thoughts about money may be affecting your ability to have more of it.
10. The top three skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur.
11. Sean’s challenge to Lauren’s listeners.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

https://www.facebook.com/groups/understandsocialmedia

Connect with Sean Osborn

https://thinkingbig.info/the-podcast/

https://www.instagram.com/thinkingbigcoaching/

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