Category: Podcast

Today’s guest on the podcast is Joseph Bojang. Joseph Bojang has built a business in paid digital marketing and SEO, and he always digs a little deeper into everything he’s doing to ask himself, “Why does this work the way it works?”

Joseph Bojang helps companies generate leads on demand, and he’s worked with everyone from multibillion-dollar corporations to mom-and-pop shops. He’s figured out some of the key ways to think differently about marketing so that you can get results and successfully repeat the process. He shares with us how you can have your next marketing breakthrough, why he believes people don’t get the marketing results they want, and how to get unstuck in your marketing.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Joseph Bojang became a digital marketing entrepreneur after working in nonprofits for several years.
2. What it takes to become unstuck and the steps you can take today to have a breakthrough.
3. Why you need to have a mindset open to critique, find solutions, and innovate.
4. How alignment in your personal brand prevents you from being canceled.
5. The reason your marketing isn’t getting results.
6. The steps you can take to find your message and convert your target market.
7. Joseph Bojang’s surprise at the community on YouTube and Instagram, their interaction with his brand, and how authenticity has helped engagement.
8. How researching entrepreneurship is impacting his mindset about business ownership.
9. Why achieving efficiency and organization has helped Lauren within her business before she attempts to scale it further.
10. The reason he wants to debunk the myth of “lambros” and “boss babes” because it leads to a lack of boundaries between business life and personal life.

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On this episode of The Real Personal Branding podcast, Lauren welcomes guest Connie Pak to the show. Connie Pak is the owner of Tuckdin Marketing, a digital marketing and consulting agency. She’s been an entrepreneur and business owner for over 10 years and understands the pains and frustrations that individuals and companies face when working to create an effective and successful online presence. She has built an agency that focuses on creating efficient and automated marketing systems that deliver bottom-line results.

Connie Pak’s passion is helping clients scale and grow their businesses to levels they never thought possible and bringing their visions to life with focused marketing strategies, customized for their needs. She calls California home and loves finding new, delicious, hole-in-the-wall places to eat and spends every free minute going on adventures with her husband and two sons.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Connie Pak became an entrepreneur and why she was drawn to the digital marketing industry.
2. The types of clients she serves and how she discovered who her ideal clients are.
3. Her perspective on the Facebook ads changes, why she believes Apple made this change, and what it means for marketing.
4. What entrepreneurs can do right now to create a new marketing strategy in the face of Apple’s privacy changes.
5. Why branding and consistency are so crucial to your digital marketing strategy.
6. How Connie Pak stays on top of the ever-changing landscape of marketing.
7. Her advice for building your first Facebook ads marketing strategy.
8. The most common myth around Facebook ads she wants to bust.

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instagram.com/conniejpak

facebook.com/conniejpak

youtube.com/channel/UCuZ948Pbc5MDIWWt2iAJHrg

On this episode of The Real Personal Branding podcast, Lauren welcomes Carrie Gottschalk to the show. She is a highly recognized influencer with the social media industry and has been at the forefront of the social media revolution for 13 years, paid social media marketing for five years, and has managed over $15 million in ad spend. Her clients include companies like Shari’s Berries, Wyndham Hotels, and TEDxMileHigh.

Carrie Gottschalk has a business in the U.K. as well as in the U.S. She is highly experienced in e-commerce, direct response, and performance marketing. In this episode, she’ll help us understand the big picture of what happened between Apple and Facebook, what this means for both the end-user and the advertiser, and what you can do right now to formulate a new strategy for your business if you’re using Facebook ads.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Carrie Gottschalk became an entrepreneur and how her business has grown and changed over the past year.
2. What her business does, who her clients are, and what her goals are for their businesses.
3. The reason Apple updated iOS with new privacy features, how it affected digital advertising, and what it meant for marketing practically speaking.
4. Why Carrie Gottshalk believes this advertising change happened, why it was going to happen anyway, and the reason it is a positive change for users.
5. Her tips for what you should be doing right now to create an effective digital marketing strategy.
6. Her thoughts on this new era of privacy and why it creates a better experience for the consumer.
7. What she does to stay on top of current data and the future of her industry and how you can apply it to your business.
8. One common myth about the Facebook ad change that Carrie Gottschalk would like to debunk.

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instagram.com/carriegottschalk

Today on The Real Personal Branding Podcast, Lauren welcomes guest Emily Hirsh. She’s a leading digital marketing strategist, a young entrepreneur, and founder of Hirsh Marketing–one of the fastest-growing digital marketing agencies responsible for over $105 million in client revenue generated. Emily and her team of experts work with top-level influencers, game-changing entrepreneurs, and they grow their businesses and generate massive revenue using her revolutionary Hirsh process, which she breaks down for Lauren in this interview.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Emily Hirsh’s journey to entrepreneurship and her successful business, Hirsh Marketing, and how it was built from personal experience.
2. The psychology behind Facebook ads and why marketing is all about creating an experience for your customers.
3. What a marketing funnel is, what it means, and how you can use it to help grow your business.
4. Why she is intentionally building her personal brand, why it’s important to her business, and why you need to build your own personal brand.
5. Emily Hirsh outlines the steps you need to take to become an authority in a particular space.
6. The myth of the “overnight success” and the reason it doesn’t exist.
7. Emily Hirsh’s process for identifying your potential customers and how you can use her process for reaching those customers.
8. The people who have been most important to her as she’s built her business and how they’ve supported her in unique ways.
9. How she stays on top of current data and the future of her industry and how you can apply it to your industry.
10. Emily Hirsh’s biggest surprise in the last six months and how it affected her business.

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Connect with Emily Hirsh here:

hirshmarketing.com

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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Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

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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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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.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

facebook.com/groups/understandsocialmedia

bit.ly/rpbpodcast

bit.ly/morefromldc

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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.

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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:

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Connect with Sean Osborn

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

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

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Today’s guest is Breonna Queen. She is a go-to when Lauren wants to learn more about video. She teaches video but has also built her entire personal brand on the platform. In this episode, you’ll learn how to get comfortable showing up on video, what to do to grow your YouTube viewers on the granular level, and how Breonna repurposes one video into several pieces of content and creates all of her content for months within a two-hour video shoot.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Breonna Queen transitioned from social media management to video production.
2. Why you need to create content that allows your audience to see you as a problem solver.
3. The top three reasons people avoid being on video and how to overcome your fear of it.
4. Popular does not equal profitable and what you can do to increase visibility, create sales, and break through the noise.
5. How you can intentionally repurpose content and video on different platforms and some of the tricks Breonna Queen uses to work smarter instead of harder.
6. The one thing you can do to organically grow your audience and serve them well.
7. Why you need to be consistent and strategic with all of your content.
8. Breonna Queen’s best practices for creating video content that works.
9. How you can battle a negative mindset and why you should be intentional about who you follow.
10. Her biggest business surprise in the past year.
11. The video myths she most wants to be debunked.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

facebook.com/groups/understandsocialmedia

Connect with Breonna Queen

youtube.com/breonnaqueen

instagram.com/breonnaqueen/

breonnaqueen.com/subscribe-to-podcast/

breonnaqueen.com

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