Building Brand You

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Discovering places and practices that align with your innate spiritual or emotional connection to the natural world can be a source of solace, inspiration, belonging and divine connection. Healing from trauma is a slow, non-linear journey that requires immense...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Letting go of control, certainty, perfectionism, and the need for power opens the door to less stress, more effective solutions and a greater sense of community and collective purpose. Focus on controlling what you genuinely can - your own behavior and thinking...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Shoshin is the Japanese word for the paradox of the more we know, the less we are likely to be open to learning. Letting go of the need for specific outcomes and embracing a beginner's mind creates the conditions for personal and professional development. Being...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Cultivate resilience by raising your hand and pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone. Leadership is about learning to delegate and trust others so that we create empowerment and collaboration rather than keeping control. Prioritising self-reliance and financ...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Personal branding is a powerful tool to help you reposition both yourself and other's perceptions of you in your leadership. Positioning yourself as an impactful leader means prioritising based on a clear understanding of your personal brand - who you are, what...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS We are an ever-changing ecosystem - our personal and professional identities are continuously evolving, requiring us to actively create what's next for ourselves. Every interaction and external stimulus—be it visual, auditory, or kinesthetic—leaves an undeniabl...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Leadership presence is like perfume; it's the scent you leave in a room. Try setting waypoints instead of rigid goals - trying something, reflecting on the lessons and what you enjoyed, then determining your next step -  to foster continuous learning and celebr...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The consequences of your choices go well beyond you. Being aware of the wider systems creates opportunities for us to be responsible for the consequences of both our direct and indirect influence and behaviour. When leaders take responsibility instead of shifti...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Authenticity can be described as a combination of the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves  and others, which shape our identity and actions. The journey to authenticity begins with noticing the stories we tell ourselves and questioning their truth to bet...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Prioritise personal happiness and satisfaction over the external validation of being good at what you do. Take a pause for profound self-reflection and rediscovery. Trust your intuition and listen to your inner 'whispers' when making significant life changes. D...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Being a leader is both about us and it's beyond us. Leadership is a choice you make - that's why personal branding matters. Personal branding is at the core of effective and authentic leadership. Personal branding is choosing who we are amidst chaos - defining...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The first step in building an authentic personal brand is being congruent - that is, being in agreement or harmony - within ourselves. Who we are is not what we do. Because our stories shape our identity and influence our behaviour and interactions, showing up...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS In the final episode of Season 9 - Reading by Design - Kym discusses the impact of reading on personal and professional growth and takes listeners on a whistlestop tour of the 38 book recommendations, and her conversations with four first-time authors. Reading...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS: Creating an inclusive and supportive environment at school means ensuring that all students, regardless of their background or starting point, feel respected, valued, and have a sense of belonging. Regardless where we've started, let's make sure that we're cre...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Individuals in positions of power have both the opportunity and responsibility to use their platforms to create social change, inspire movements, and amplify marginalised voices. Using your position to share your personal experiences and listen to others create...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Fiction helps us see how inextricably linked we are and how we fit into the wider world. Our behavior and our mindset are shaped by the world we live in - by the communities we live in, by the schools we go to, by the things we choose to follow and engage in. C...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS : Remember, time is finite while the list of things you could do in that time is infinite. It's up to you to choose. Make decisions based on how you feel, what you enjoy, and what makes you happy. Say yes to new challenges and embrace opportunities, even if the...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Books allow us to see the world from diverse perspectives, broadening our empathy and insight into the experiences of others. "People often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passerby as they might in a store window, and that such displ...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The small things are the things that matter. Taking care of yourself is crucial for showing up as your best self, both personally and professionally, and for building a strong personal brand. Prioritising your life is about applying systematic discipline whenev...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS: Our legacy is not just what we leave behind, but how we choose to live each day. "My focus is to shine the light on purpose, on fulfillment and curiosity, to empower others, to forge their own paths in life." - Amy Liberate yourself from what you can't control...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Navigating new pathways, learning to simply sit with discomfort, and making choices based on a broader vision for our lives leads to a more fulfilling and meaningful existence. Stepping outside your comfort zone can develop your resilience and adaptability, and...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.     KEY TAKEAWAYS Reading is a valuable tool for understanding ourselves, and our relationship with what we read can evolve over time. There's much more that a book has to give than it's first time reading. Our mindset is a powerful driver of how we experience life, how we exp...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS: Science is everywhere. There is nothing around you that is not science. Making science more inclusive and relevant helps people feel that it is part of their world, rather than something only for the intelligent or elite. "Doing things that feel very difficult...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS What we read shapes us…every contact leaves a trace. Reading of any kind or any genre is a powerful tool and allows us to learn from stories and experiences other than our own. "Both of the books I've chosen for this episode have been life-changing, and instrum...

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Keep on learning, lead with curiosity and stay committed to  a useful and worthwhile legacy that's uniquely yours to leave.  Taking action matters. Choices are not forever so don't be afraid of trying stuff out and moving from one thing to the next. Reframing o...