BBY Show S10 Ep16: Building YOUR personal brand of leadership
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS When you take ownership of your personal brand, you can design for more personally fulfilling work, partnerships and collaborations. Focusing on what's within your control and letting go of what's not leads to more effective solutions and a stronger sense of purpose. Developing your sense of inner self and building your authentic personal brand can be strengthened by embracing simplicity, aligning with your wider aspirations and connecting with...
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BBY Show S10 Ep15: Dare to be you with Astrid Van Wanum, Beth Topolovsky and Susan Teichman
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Authenticity is the foundation of a successful personal brand so raise your hand for opportunities that resonate with your deepest self. Every interaction and action contributes to your brand. Every contact - from social media comments to professional meetings - leaves a trace and reinforces your personal brand. Your personal brand is a reflection of your evolving self. It's not a fixed entity but a dynamic representation of who you are, your...
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BBY Show S10 Ep14: What are you listening for?
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS The foundations for creating executive presence lie in being present - giving genuine attention to what’s in front of you. Being present - free from urgency, distractions and personal agendas - and listening with a genuinely open mind, is both at the heart of building an authentic personal brand, and an expression of your impact and effectiveness as a leader. Being a leader is not about having all the answers but about creating space for...
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BBY Show S10 Ep13: What's your story?
Building Brand You
Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Research shows that authenticity attracts opportunities so owning your personal brand means you are ‘designing for’ more personally fulfilling work, partnerships and collaborations. To fully embrace who you are, learn to acknowledge compliments and positive feedback with grace and openness. Stop squirming and/or deflecting them! Building a personal brand involves ongoing discovery, listening and being intentional about integrating how others...
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BBY Show S10 Ep12: Drawing from within with Nathalie Latham
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 patience and resilience, celebrating every small win and recognising that setbacks are a normal part of progress. Tough experiences help us shed what's not essential, encouraging us to go off...
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BBY Show S10 Ep11: Letting go of control
Building Brand You
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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BBY Show S10 Ep10: Letting go of knowing
Building Brand You
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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BBY Show S10 Ep9: Raise your hand with Susi Knight
Building Brand You
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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BBY Show S10 Ep8: Positioning yourself for leadership
Building Brand You
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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BBY Show S10 Ep7: Where do you go to grow?
Building Brand You
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...
info_outlineWelcome 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 authentically comes with responsibility and judgement.
The significance of collaboration and collective leadership in today's world means that authentic personal branding plays a critical role in effective leadership in teams and organisations.
ABOUT KYM HAMER:
Kym is an international leadership and personal branding thought leader, an executive coach, and a programme design and facilitation practitioner. She is also the creator of Building Brand You™ - a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build reputation, presence, and gravitas. Kym works with leaders - both individually and in organisational development initiatives - to inspire and engage thinking styles and behaviour that achieve results and leave legacy.
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 Top 10 Marketing Influencers in the world. For 5 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders on Entrepreneurship and in 2023, 2024 and 2025, was recognised as one of their Top Voices globally.
She has been part of Homeward Bound Projects faculty since 2020, 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 is currently the Program Design and Faculty Lead for the 10th on-line cohort and was part of the on-board faculty who voyaged to Antarctica in 2023 and 2025, to deliver the initiative’s immersive component.
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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The views, information, or opinions expressed during the Building Brand You™ podcast series are solely those of the individuals involved. They do not necessarily represent any other entities, agencies, organisations, or companies. Building Brand You™ is not responsible and does not verify the accuracy of any of the information in the podcast available for listening on this site. The primary purpose of this podcast is to educate and inform. This podcast does not constitute legal advice or services