Building Brand You
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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 - especially during challenging times and when the future feels uncertain. Nourishing yourself - taking care of your physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, and financial well-being...
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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 entrepreneurial often means letting go of certainty and trusting your inner voice, persisting especially when circumstances are challenging. Viewing the unknown as a blank canvas fosters...
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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 financial independence provides you with the freedom and flexibility to pursue your passions. As you navigate different careers and experiences, understanding that your perceived expertise will...
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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's important to you, and how you will show up to yourself and those around you. Establishing and maintaining clear boundaries around your time and availability for others will allow you to...
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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 undeniable trace on us, shaping who we are every second of every day. Growth isn't always forward or upward; it can be sideways, or even a step backward that creates the necessary space for new...
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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 celebrate your progress. Working autonomously lets you focus on your strengths and attract opportunities that provide the most enriching partnerships and collaborations for you. Social media...
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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 shifting blame, employee trust increases, engagement rises, and team performance improves. Leadership is about taking responsibility for understanding our impact and influence, and being willing to...
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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.
Courage is the root of change, and change is what we are chemically designed to do - from Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus.
FEATURED BOOKS:
Us Against You by Fredrik Backman
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Us-Against-You/dp/1982115548
The Herd by Emily Edwards
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Herd-thought-provoking-unputdownable-must-read-novel/dp/1787634884
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lessons-Chemistry-Novel-Bonnie-Garmus/dp/038554734X
ABOUT KYM HAMER:
Kym Hamer is an international leadership, visibility and impact coach, a personal branding expert and serial entrepreneur, and the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build visibility and reputational rigor as essential building blocks for delivering sustained value.
In other words, accelerating results by unlocking your greatest asset - YOU!
In 2020, just one year after launching her business, she was nominated by Thinkers360 as one of the Top 100 Women B2B Leadership influencers and is currently in the Top 15 Personal Branding and Marketing Influencers in the world. For 4 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders on Entrepreneurship and in 2023 and again in 2024 was recognised as one of their Top Voices globally.
Kym is the Founder & CEO of Artemis Futures International, a Founding Board Member of the Customer Experience & Service Association Middle East, and co-founder of CXSA Group Ltd. She has been part of the faculty with Homeward Bound Projects, a global initiative reaching 1.8 billion people, equipping women and non-binary people with a STEMM background to lead conversations for a sustainable future. She voyaged to Antarctica in 2023 for 19 nights delivering the immersive component of the HB programme for more than 170 women, and was Faculty Lead for Homeward Bound’s 8th leadership cohort.
In between all of these things, you'll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book.
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