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Happy LGBTQ+ Pride Month! The Lead With Your Brand Podcast is celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month in June. We're not just celebrating the LGBTQ+ community; we're amplifying it with an incredible lineup of guests who are leading with their brands and truly embodying the spirit of their uniqueness and excellence. Along with new episodes will check out our "LGBTQ+ Pride on Brand" collectio...

Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! We are proud to amplify AAPI Voices on the Lead With Your Brand!™ Podcast by celebrating the powerful voices and career journeys of AAPI executives, leaders, and innovators. Throughout the month of May, we’ll be featuring a guest with a fantastic career story to share, all who happen to be of Asian descent. In addition, be sure to check out...

Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! We are proud to amplify AAPI Voices on the Lead With Your Brand!™ Podcast by celebrating the powerful voices and career journeys of AAPI executives, leaders, and innovators. Throughout the month of May, we’ll be featuring a guest with a fantastic career story to share, all who happen to be of Asian descent. In addition, be sure to check out...

This week, Jayzen dives into a crucial aspect of your branding: defining your Tailwind Brand Attributes. That is, those adjectives or descriptors that define the unique feel of your brand. Tune is to learn all about Jayzen’s three step process to start and lead with your three attributes that best reflect your brand. First: Reflect on your unique throughlines and core values. These are the threads...

This week, many of us in North America were treated to one of nature's best shows, a full solar eclipse!  It was truly a reminder of how remarkable and memorable life can be.  It was also a reminder that you have the power to make sure that your brand stands out like a total eclipse in the workplace. Tune in to hear Jayzen’s actionable steps on how to leverage your brand to ensure that the exp...

It’s Women’s History Month! Here at the Lead With Your Brand! podcast, we are amplifying the voices of women during Women’s History Month, and beyond. In addition, be sure to check out LeadWithYourBrand.com/womenonbrand to listen to our collection of shows featuring amazing executives, business leaders and innovators who continue to share their wisdom and move their industries forward. So, celebra...

Today, we're diving into the glitzy world of Hollywood and the Oscars to draw parallels between how movie studios market their films and how you can market the most important production of your life – yourself! Imagine you're a film studio gearing up for the Oscars – the grand stage where the best of the best are celebrated. Your film, in this case, is YOU. Yes, you are the lead actor, the...

Happy Black History Month! We are proud to amplify Black Voices on the Lead With Your Brand!™ Podcast by celebrating the powerful voices and career journeys of Black executives, leaders, and innovators with this incredible collection of shows. Check it out at leadwithyourbrand.com/blackvoices.  I’m sure you’ve all thought about how to “climb the ladder” in your career. The reality is that thinking...

Happy Black History Month and Lunar New Year!  Be sure to check out the special Lead With Your Brand collections, including leadwithyourbrand.com/blackvoices and leadwithyourbrand.com/aapi as part of your celebration! Are you ready for a big slice of PIE in your career?!?  Tune in Jayzen’s lesson rooted in Harvey Coleman’s P.I.E. model that shares his “secret sauce” of how to advance your career....

Welcome to the final week of the #LeadWithYourBrandChallenge! Each week in January, Jayzen is breaking down the Lead With Your Brand system into its five steps. Every Tuesday, listen to the podcast & learn about the next step to build your personal brand and help you toward your next Career Breakthrough!  There are even free downloadable worksheets with each step to help you in the process. Vi...

Welcome to Week 4 of the #LeadWithYourBrandChallenge! Each week in January, Jayzen is breaking down the Lead With Your Brand system into its five steps. Every Tuesday, listen to the podcast & learn about the next step to build your personal brand and help you toward your next Career Breakthrough!  There are even free downloadable worksheets with each step to help you in the process. Visit jayz...

On to Week 3 of the #LeadWithYourBrandChallenge! Each week in January, Jayzen is breaking down the Lead With Your Brand system into its five steps. Every Tuesday, listen to the podcast & learn about the next step to build your personal brand and help you toward your next Career Breakthrough! There are even free downloadable worksheets with each step to help you in the process. Step Three: Refi...

It’s time to Lead With Your Brand…New Year! Welcome to Week 2 of the #LeadWithYourBrandChallenge! Every Tuesday in January, listen to the podcast & learn about the next step to build your personal brand and help you toward your next Career Breakthrough! There are even free downloadable worksheets with each step to help you in the process at jayzenpatria.com/newyear. What if you were to use a b...

It’s time to Lead With Your Brand…New Year! As we start 2024, Jayzen is thrilled to announce the #LeadWithYourBrandChallenge! Each week for the next five weeks, Jayzen is breaking down the Lead With Your Brand system into its five steps. Every Tuesday, listen to the podcast & learn about the next step to build your personal brand and help you toward your next Career Breakthrough! There are eve...

As we close out 2023, we are taking a moment to reflect on Season Four of the Lead With Your Brand! Podcast. Jayzen shares his year-end thoughts on the importance of setting intentions for the new year both in your personal and professional life.  Make 2024 your year for action! Plus, we’ve pulled together some of the best career advice from the last season to help each of you move towards your ne...

This week, Jayzen welcomes Jim Pietruszynsi to the show.  Jim is the CEO of Soulsight, a brand design agency with 30+ years of experience in building emotive brands that move. Jim’s work spans iconic brands and channels, driven by creativity and a deep understanding of human needs. He’s fostered breakthrough innovation through collaboration and honesty. Jim draws inspiration from human truths and...

This week, Jayzen welcomes Major General John L. Gronski (U.S. Army, Retired) to the show. He  is founder and CEO of Leader Grove LLC, a leadership consulting firm and  is the author of two books.  Currently, John is an international and Fortune 500 speaker, leadership trainer, and executive coach taking his celebrated career in the Army and using it to help people become better leaders. John hold...

Not only is Dr Karent Sierra the “Celebrity Dentist” to some of the top talent in the entertainment industry, she has built her career from the ground up as a successful business woman and philanthropist, always knowing the value she brings to the world and leveraging it for the greater good. In addition to her dentistry practice, she is a spokesperson, current co-host of BeLatina on Lifetime and...

Happy Giving Tuesday! In honor of the season of giving, we invite you to make a contribution to the Los Angeles LGBT Center by visiting lalgbtcenter.info/GT23Patria or to whatever organization is meaningful to you. Building on his philosophy that food can change the world, James Tahhan, better known as Chef James, has become one of the most influential Hispanic chefs in America. Born in Venezuela...

In honor of Thanksgiving and football season, we’re sharing one of our favorite past episodes. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Having never worked in sports before, Jen Kavanaugh successfully made the move from entertainment marketing and consulting to now leading marketing for one of the top professional football teams in the world.  Jen is a mission-focused leader and knows how to drive fan...

In celebration of Veteran’s Day in the United States, we’re reaching into the vault to share one of our favorite shows from the first season. Jayzen is thrilled to welcome Val Nicholas to the show as they talk about his start in the US Army and how it impacted on his personal brand and media career. We all pay a premium for the brands that we love. Great brands stand for something and give you a f...

Jayzen is thrilled to welcome his friend and colleague, Traci Saulsberry, to the show . Traci is a master at setting intentions and making them happen in her career.  Being hyper-focused on what she wanted to achieve, she set the intention of working at NBCUniversal while she was still in college.  Fast forward a bit and she went on to be one of the youngest Black executives at the company leading...

Jayzen is excited to welcome Odessa "OJ" Jenkins to the show .  OJ is a force of nature who has made it her life’s work to build equity for women and girls.  She is laser-focused through her work as CEO of Bonfire Women and as the f ounder of the Women’s National Football Conference (WNFC).  She is also noted as the winningest Head Coach in women’s tackle football history. Featured on Fox,...

Jayzen is thrilled to welcome his friend and client, Malaina Matheus to the show.  Malaina started her tenure at Hudson Valley Lighting Group as a coordinator and has continued to grow her career to her current role as company president overseeing the four brands that make up Hudson Valley Lighting Group. She credits her “do the hard work and get things done” attitude as a driver in her career.  I...

Jayzen is excited  to welcome Nick Bond to the show.  As a marketer and CX expert, Nick has an amazing knack for understanding true customer needs, that is the people represented by the data, and using it to create winning strategies for the brands that works with.  He and his colleagues at Apex Scoring System have developed an AI-powered solution that uncovers and quantifies customer desires that...