On brand with … with Deborah Ogden

I was fortunate enough to be invited to be a guest of Deborah Ogden on her ’On brand with…’ podcast. Deborah is a personal branding expert and can be found here.

Over 50 minutes had a wide ranging discussion which covered career paths, company culture, business sales and Impostor Syndrome, and even lego!

Click below to listen to it.

If you want to jump to certain points in the interview the timings are below;

2.00 – my accidental career path

4.00 – accidental start up business journey

9.30 – early years company growth

10.30 – taking on your first member of staff

12.30 – school buses, lego and whiteboards

13.00 – creating a company culture

20.00 – how the sale of the business came about

23.30 – the hardest part of the sale

26.00 – risk v reward in running a business

29.30 – what happens after a business sale?

33.00 – how I became a Business Sounding Board 

34.40 – what does a Business Sounding Board actually do?

37.00 – Imposter Syndrome and unrecognised strengths

39.00 – creating a new identity and picking up new skills

40.30 – talking to the ‘right’ external business advisor

43.00 – why wouldn’t you help someone? 

47.30 – the benefits of organic career paths

51.40 – authenticity and the beauty of unsubscribes 

If you found the above useful then you can also see and hear more of my discussions, interviews and webinar appearances here.

WHAT NEXT?

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