Category: Podcast

This is the third episode of a 4-part Special One-Time Series dedicated to my friend Alicia Neubauer who passed away last April from Metastatic Breast Cancer.

In the half a decade I knew Alicia, she championed many causes, but one of them was helping women, and particularly female entrepreneurs feel heard.

In these interviews, I spoke to nearly 50 women about their stories and experiences, their limiting beliefs, their advice for their younger selves, advice for future generations, and how they believe women are changing the world.  Some are coaches, some entrepreneurs, some moms, some personal brands, some faith leaders, surgeons, authors and more!

They are not sad stories. They are stories of hope and happiness and they show how strong humans are. How resilient we are and I feel like I got a Master’s degree in leadership through these interviews. 

It’s important to know in real life, not all people share the same experiences and opinions. So not all of the stories share my same opinions. Some interviews are longer, some are shorter. No particular reason besides time restraints but I encourage you to find these guests after the show HERE in this download with ALL of the guests and their info. 

http://bit.ly/impactfulwomenepisode

IMPORTANT: To donate to the same Breast Cancer Research Alicia continued to raise money for, go to this link and select “More for Stage IV”

GIVE HERE

This is one of the places researching Stage 4 Cancer (the least researched of all Breast Cancer because of how terminal it is)

Enjoy the show! 

Check out this episode!

This is the second episode of a 4-part Special One-Time Series dedicated to my friend Alicia Neubauer who passed away last April from Metastatic Breast Cancer.

In the half a decade I knew Alicia, she championed many causes, but one of them was helping women everywhere feel heard.

In these interviews, I spoke to nearly 50 women about their stories and experiences, their limiting beliefs, their advice for their younger selves, advice for future generations, and how they believe women are changing the world. 

They are not sad stories. They are stories of hope and happiness and they show how strong humans are. How resilient we are and I feel like I got a Master’s degree in being leadership through these interviews. 

It’s important to know in real life, not all people share the same experiences and opinions. So not all of the stories share my same opinions. Some interviews are longer, some are shorter. No particular reason besides time restraints but I encourage you to find these guests after the show HERE in this download with ALL of the guests and their info. 

http://bit.ly/impactfulwomenepisode

IMPORTANT: To donate to the same Breast Cancer Research Alicia continued to raise money for, go to this link and select “More for Stage IV”

GIVE HERE

This is one of the places researching Stage 4 Cancer (the least researched of all Breast Cancer because of how terminal it is)

Enjoy the show! 

Check out this episode!

This episode marks the beginning of a 4-part Special One-Time Series dedicated to my friend Alicia Neubauer who passed away last April from Metastatic Breast Cancer.

In the half a decade I knew Alicia, she championed many causes, but one of them was helping women everywhere feel heard.

In these interviews, I spoke to nearly 50 women about their stories and experiences, their limiting beliefs, their advice for their younger selves, advice for future generations, and how they believe women are changing the world. 

They are not sad stories. They are stories of hope and happiness and they show how strong humans are. How resilient we are and I feel like I got a Master’s degree in being leadership through these interviews. 

It’s important to know in real life, not all people share the same experiences and opinions. So not all of the stories share my same opinions. Some interviews are longer, some are shorter. No particular reason besides time restraints but I encourage you to find these guests after the show HERE in this download with ALL of the guests and their info. 

http://bit.ly/impactfulwomenepisode

IMPORTANT: To donate to the same Breast Cancer Research Alicia continued to raise money for, go to this link and select “More for Stage IV”

GIVE HERE

This is one of the places researching Stage 4 Cancer (the least researched of all Breast Cancer because of how terminal it is)

Enjoy the show! 

Check out this episode!

Lauren’s guest on this episode is Kate Erickson.

Kate has created a well-known personal brand business as the co-author of a transformative journal and community, being a genius systems and workflow expert, a podcaster, and through her and John Lee Dumas’, life-changing, high-end live mastermind weekends.

Kate is the engine at Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award-winning podcast where John Lee Dumas interviews inspiring entrepreneurs who are truly on fire. She also hosts the podcast Ditch Busy and is the co-author of the podcast journal Idea to Launch in 50 Days.

Kate shared her event workflow template with us HERE:

http://bit.ly/katesworkflow

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Lauren and Kate met.
2. Kate’s background and why she pursued entrepreneurship and failed at her first attempt at owning a business.
3. How John Lee Dumas and Kate Erickson started a thriving business.
4. The types of events Kate hosts.
5. How the mastermind events Kate & JLD host are brainstormed.
6. How she creates a sense of intimacy with her mastermind weekends.
7. Kate’s workflow process and why she doesn’t hire an event planner.
8. What she does to maximize productivity at her mastermind events.
9. Some important lessons she’s learned from producing these events.
10. What Kate does to prepare for her events before they occur.
11. Why it’s so important for people to have in-person experiences together.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

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

Connect with Kate Erickson:

Instagram.com/katelerickson

eofire.com

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In Lauren’s latest solo episode, she outlines how she was invited to speak on stages, summits, podcast interviews, and masterclasses. Initially, it was a goal … and then she got to work on making it happen.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Where some of Lauren’s most recent appearances were and who they were with.
2. How Lauren gets in front of audiences without losing sight of who she is and how she does things.
3. Make friends without expectations. Real relationships cannot be forced.
4. Why you should create relationships that are aligned with you and aligned with your values. Lauren created these genuine friendships and business relationships with people she actually cared about.
5. How she showed gratitude online and developed relationships as a peer. 
6. Why she took photos of speakers on stage and sent them to those speakers with no strings attached.
7. How Lauren networked at every networking event she could just to be familiar to people.
8. Why you should never underestimate people and their relationship with their audience.
9. The power that comes from writing down a goal and telling people about it. Make the goal tangible.
10. Slip your goal into conversations with people you trust without expectation and with confidence.
11. What you can do to make yourself recommendable.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

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

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Lauren welcomes her friend Travis Chappell, who is the founder of Guestio, new software that connects high-level guests with high-level content creators.

Travis is also the host of the top-rated show, Build Your Network. In addition to being featured in Entrepreneur, NASDAQ, Yahoo! Finance, and ReadWrite, Travis has also been featured in Forbes as a Top 10 podcast that will change your life alongside Joe Rogan, Gary Vaynerchuk, Tim Ferriss, and others.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Travis met Lauren.
2. Travis shares the details of his Build Your Network Live conference and who the event was built for.
3. Why the event was live versus virtual.
4. How Travis created intentional opportunities for people to connect with one another at his event.
5. How his Facebook group community has fed the success of his brand.
6. Automation sometimes creates fake relationships rather than authentic ones, and providing opportunities for real relationships helps breed success.
7. What Travis believes creates monetization when it comes to events.
8. How Travis’ online community ties into his live events.
9. Why starting with a podcast can lead to building an incredible audience.
10. Setting goals that are astronomically high vs setting a realistic goal that you can push to achieve.
11. How having personal relationships with his event’s speakers enabled him to ask them to speak.
12. Travis shares the number one lesson he learned from putting on a live event.
13. What the future of Build Your Network Live is.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

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

Connect with Travis Chappell

travischappell.com

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In this episode, Lauren welcomes Reggie Rivers, who built his personal brand on the platform of fundraising.

After a career in the NFL and journalism, Reggie decided his passion was helping purposeful organizations raise money. Reggie is a former NFL running back who played six seasons for the Denver Broncos. Later, he discovered his true love in life: serving as an auctioneer at charity galas to help nonprofits achieve their fundraising goals.

He created The Gala Team, The Virtual Gala Team, and Auction Fundraising Academy out of his love for nonprofit fundraising success and continues to grow the impact these businesses have on the community year after year, one event at a time.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Lauren and Reggie Rivers were introduced.
2. His NFL football and journalism background.
3. How The Gala Team was founded.
4. The psychology of creating team-mentality with your audience.
5. The way Reggie trains his auctioneers to make people feel like they’re working as a team for a great cause.
6. What Reggie did to rapidly change gears in order to continue fundraising auctions during an ongoing pandemic.
7. How to create an event that doesn’t look like a typical virtual event and make your fundraising events stand out.
8. Why most nonprofits can benefit from virtual events.
9. What makes perfectionism a killer when it comes to planning.
10. How Reggie is addressing the pandemic during his virtual events.
11. The two tips Reggie would give to struggling nonprofits.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

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

Connect with Reggie Rivers

thegalateam.com

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This is a follow-up episode with Chris Ducker, the UK’s leading personal brand entrepreneur. He’s created the UK’s biggest and best personal branding conference.

Chris is a serial entrepreneur and the author of the book Virtual Freedom and more recently, the book The Rise of the Youpreneur. He’s based in England and owns and operates several businesses with over 400 full-time employees internationally. Chris is a business mentor, a keynote speaker, podcaster, blogger, as well as founder of Youpreneur.com and the annual Youpreneur Summit, which is held in London, UK each November.

This is part two of a two-part series with Chris. If you haven’t heard part one, you can listen here.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How Chris had to pivot when his biggest excitement–the Youpreneur Summit–could not be held as originally planned.
2. Why the event was almost canceled and then went virtual.
3. What happened when sales for the virtual conference didn’t justify continuing on.
4. How the Youpreneur Summit being canceled, allowed Chris time to focus.
5. How adaptability and business acumen contributed to making a painful–but correct–decisions.
6. What piece of advice Chris would offer to help people think about the future.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

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

Connect with Chris Ducker

https://youpreneur.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisducker

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This is PART ONE! This episode was recorded in the spring with Chris Ducker, the UK’s leading personal brand entrepreneur. He’s created the UK’s biggest and best personal branding conference.

Chris is a serial entrepreneur and the author of the book Virtual Freedom and more recently, the book The Rise of the Youpreneur. He’s based in England and owns and operates several businesses with over 400 full-time employees internationally. Chris is a business mentor, a keynote speaker, podcaster, blogger, as well as founder of Youpreneur.com and the annual Youpreneur Summit, which is held in London, UK each November.

If not for the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Youpreneur Summit would be happening right now, this week! It is the UK’s most successful conference and welcomes around 350 people each year who are leaders in their industries.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How the Youpreneur Summit evolved.
2. Who the attendees are.
3. The ins and outs of how Chris put his conference together.
4. How the marketing and monetization of the conference happens.
5. Why Chris set up mastermind elements and cabaret-style seating for his event.
6. How he creates monetization opportunities within a pitch-free event.
7. Why adding a personal touch (P-to-P–people-to-people) has helped bring attendees to Youpreneur.
8. How Chris creates opportunities for social media during the conference.
9. Chris’ advice for organizing a smooth event.
10. What preparing for the event looks like on a personal level as well a professional level.
11. Why he believes face-to-face interaction is so important.

Connect with Lauren V. Davis here:

Instagram.com/Ldaviscreative

Connect with Chris Ducker

https://youpreneur.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/chrisducker

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What a year this has been!

Welcome to the very first episode of my rebranded podcast. This podcast used to be called The Business Event Playbook Podcast and now it is changing to the Real Personal Branding Podcast. Don’t worry, the older episodes won’t go away, but I can’t wait to tell you more about my new direction.

I started the year with my new podcast about the LIVE business event space and the thought-leaders behind the events—  and I found as I was talking to these inspiring entrepreneurs, what thrilled me was the different *platforms* they used to build their profitable personal brands.

What do I mean by platforms? Some use events. Some use podcasts. Some use YouTube. Some use their blogs. Some use the stage. Some use their book launches. I love it all and the amount of episodes with incredible guests I have yet to release ABOUT the business event space is kind of mind-blowing… This theme is not going away but rather being improved as we dig much deeper into personal branding.

You will learn more about me through the context of this show but I am a marketing strategist for leaders, coaches, and entrepreneurs, I also own a brick and mortar record store with my husband in Rockford IL. It’s a unique story which is why it is my vision to not only tell the other unique stories of fellow entrepreneurs but to pull out tactical starting points for you and begin cultivating your own personal brand to become a leader in your community, whether that be an online community or local community.

The Real Personal Branding podcast with Lauren V Davis is your VIP access to thought-leaders, speakers, authors, coaches and the secrets behind how they built their personal brand businesses.

I believe the unescapable magic power you have in your business starts with your relationships first, and then your communication through marketing as the foundation of your personal brand.

I want you to build a profitable personal brand that shows up optimally for your people. Your personal brand and the platform you use to build it, is an essential tool to your personal development and success of your business.

For entrepreneurs who want to build their audience and leadership, there is no better way than through building and marketing your relationship-driven personal brand.

Find me here: https://www.instagram.com/ldaviscreative

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