BBY Show S10 Ep6: Adventure, hope and autonomy with Belinda Gannaway
Release Date: 06/03/2025
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...
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BBY Show S10 Ep6: Adventure, hope and autonomy with Belinda Gannaway
Building Brand You
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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BBY Show S10 Ep5: Ownership & systems thinking
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 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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BBY Show S10 Ep4: What is authentic 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 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 better understand who we truly are. While authenticity is often described as being true to oneself, there are a range of pitfalls that may result from our behaving authentically. Take...
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BBY Show S10 Ep3: From being good to being happy with Pracheta Budhwar
Building Brand You
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. Don't let job titles define you - cultivate a more expansive understanding of who you are beyond your career. ABOUT OUR GUEST: Pracheta contains multitudes and is often called a...
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BBY Show S10 Ep2: Leadership is a choice
Building Brand You
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 our values and showing up with these at our core, builds genuine presence. ABOUT KYM HAMER: Kym is an international leadership and personal branding thought leader, an executive...
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BBY Show S10 Ep1: Personal Branding 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 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...
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BBY Show S9 Ep12: Writing 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 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 of any kind of genre is powerful and allows us to learn from stories and experiences other than our own. Our starting point does not define our future. Explore new reads, revisit old ones,...
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BBY Show S9 Ep11: Where do I belong with Evelyn Forde, MBE
Building Brand You
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 creating an environment where all of our young people are able to feel like they belong. Never underestimate the power of relationships and connections, and engaging in conversations outside...
info_outlineWelcome 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 has transformed companies into "glass box brands" demanding transparency, responsiveness, customer focus, and authentic storytelling, a lesson we can also apply to our own personal brand.
ABOUT OUR GUEST:
Belinda Gannaway is a coach, facilitator and strategist, creating thriving workplace cultures through intentional design and activation. Working with curiosity, empathy, and experimentation, Belinda helps leaders unlock cultural insights and drive meaningful change.
Belinda has 20 years’ experience leading culture programmes aligning innovation with purpose and values. Her clients range from LEGO, the World Wide Fund for Nature, and Jaguar Land Rover, to UK businesses. Her work has won multiple awards for impact. Recognised as one of HR Magazine's Most Influential Thinkers in 2022, Belinda enjoys speaking to audiences around the world, demystifying culture and employee experience. Whether through coaching, speaking or writing, Belinda brings positive energy, as well as practical tools and frameworks to create understanding and inspire change. Belinda hosts a UK network of leaders who are passionate about culture. She is also co-author of the best-selling Employee Experience by Design (Kogan Page, 2nd edition, 2024).
CONNECT WITH BELINDA GANNAWAY:
Email - [email protected]
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/belindagannaway/
Website - fathomxp.com
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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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