Don’t Build Businesses. Build Personal Brand Projects Instead!

This one is aimed squarely at you, my little ‘personal brand-based’ founder darlings — in other words, the current and aspiring content creators, consultants, coaches, freelancers, creatives and knowledge-based founders of the Internet.

Over a series of five podcasts (because brevity ain’t my strong point), I’m going to break down for you everything I know about how to set a personal brand based business for big fun, big freedom and BIG money.

In this episode, we're starting strong 🥃 

I'm covering how to set yourself up as a personal brand based business the right way from the start to feed and fuel MULTIPLE, DISTINCT NICHES..

.. in a way that doesn’t bore you to tears, destroy your soul and keep you trapped in a box that feels like the online equivalent to maximum security prison for your happy, creative, multi-passionate little soul.

Episode Show Notes

00:00 The importance of finding your niche
00:34 The cold hard truth about personal branding
01:37 Projects over businesses
02:24 Understanding personal brand-based businesses
04:29 Personal brand-based business vs. traditional business
06:30 What is a personal brand?
08:00 What are business interests?
10:23 Examples of personal brand projects
16:52 Conclusion and next steps

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