#personal branding

[femmefatalevibe]

Femme Fatale Guide: Signatures To Discover For A Stronger Personal Brand

Personal brand colors (for your outfits, makeup, nails, socials, office supplies/decor, etc.)

Signature aesthetic choices (could you be identified as the woman always in a leather jacket, wearing red lipstick, always wearing crystal hair clips or full ear stacks, etc.)

Signature jewelry pieces

Go-to nail color/shape

Signature drink (alcoholic or not)

Personal sayings you're known for in your social group

Signature scent

Unique talents/hobbies/skillsets (Painting, cooking, computer skills/programming, negotiating, writing, etc.)

Your go-to restaurants, shops, etc.

Signature meals/particular food choices

Signature hostess gifts

Specific leisure priorities (she's the woman you'll always find at the Opera, contemporary art museum, dog park, watching Alfred Hitchcock movies, etc. in her free time)

Areas of life where you give the best advice

Causes/organizations you care most strongly about

Your greatest social competency (Telling the best stories, being funny, asking great questions, making everyone feel welcome and included, negotiating, planning the best trips/parties, being a social connector, etc.)

[axrynic]

Made some custom social media icons for my linktree and I think they turned out pretty nice! It was a fun process to find the best way to balance the recognizable branding, my art, and legibility ☺️ (that being said, bsky pls come up with some better shape language yall make thing difficult)

[seekingikigai]

HATARAKIGAI = work worth doing

Correcting the Venn diagram, NOT a picture of ikigai but it IS a picture of hatarakigai - a very important concept that means WORK WORTH DOING. A key part for most of us in our journey towards a life worth living and our reason for being ❤️ 🌍🧠💰 #SeekingIkigai #ikigai

[mpliego]

I made myself a new logo... I'm really happy with it! :)

[cult-of-artemis-and-athena]

get a fucking life

Stop trying to "re-invent" or "re-brand" yourself. A new aesthetic or "era" will not fix your life. Aesthetics-as-lifestyles is something that seems to have proliferated while people were locked in their houses for 2 years. Not necessarily your fault in all cases. I think I understand where it comes from, but I don't think it's healthy or a helpful way to fulfill the desire and longing for things to make sense.

I'm not saying you can't have aspirations, have role models and inspirations, try new things, have a personal style, or change your personal style.

I'm objecting to the idea that if you curate your life a certain way and gaslight yourself into behaving like a different person, it will fix any of a number of problems that present themselves in your life -- take your pick.

"If I wear certain clothes and eat certain things, I will become An Halthy Gorl (TM)"

"If I wear certain clothes and listen to certain music, I will become An Fartistic Gorl (TM)"

Etc.

Pursuing self-improvement - to become more health-conscious or creative - is not the problem. Pursuing these things in a way inauthentic to your Self is the problem.

Online trends are very neat because they are sometimes grassroots. Sometimes there is, but often there isn't a corporation or a brand behind everything with a motivation to sell you some absolute bullshit. It seems since the trend of "aesthetics" has taken off, however, corporations are jumping on the bandwagon and using influencers to astroturf their products to online trends.

Everyone and their dog, at this point, is onto Shein and their crap, but that's a great example I don't need to over-explain.

With the exceptions of what is astroturfed by a corporation, the origin point of a trend that everyone wants to jump on is often ONE person innovating, taking a risk, and being true to themselves. They may do that thing for years in spite of receiving no clout, being considered a weirdo, or getting shit on for what they're doing.

If you look at why punks wore Doc Martens, leather jackets, or military surplus, or clothes with awkward patches and holes, they all go back to practical reasons. Before punks were punks, lot of them were poor and worked in factories; if they were going to have one nice pair of shoes, it was going to be their work boots, and Doc Martens were the best investment for that purpose at the time.

Leather moto jackets were popular in the 1950s and 60s, after that trend passed, a lot of them ended up in thrift stores in the 70s and 80s. If you're a poor kid trying to look cool, you're going to do the best you can with what you can find in a thrift store.

They had holes in their clothes because they were, again, poor and their clothes were naturally worn-out. Perhaps the rebellion lay in the fact that even poor people did their best to be "presentable" and did not wear worn-out clothing in public if they could help it, but it's not like they were buying pre-ripped jeans from a store for $100.

The people who came after, who made a conscious decision to adopt the punk lifestyle, may have ripped up their pants to still piss off anyone who felt worn-out clothes in public was disrespectful.

Then the media makes movies about punks, and punk music starts getting radio play, and normies get exposed to a romanticized and context-free image of punk that they like, and it's still rebellious enough to piss off their parents. However at this time, there are still "real" punks from the original movement, so one foot is still grounded in reality, so to speak.

Then decades pass and punk has become fully commodified into a cartoon character meme. It's a trope that's been remixed, satirized, and deconstructed by Big Fashion. The bottom tip of the iceberg still exists, but the entry point - from where someone gets into Avril Lavigne or MGK at age 11 and they're shopping at Claire's and Hot Topic (I'm probably showing my age...) - is so far removed. And sometimes, people just fuckin stay there unless it was a phase and they move onto something else.

There's a difference between adopting punk almost accidentally because you went to the skate park and interacted with punks, and starting to skateboard because you just discovered The Ramones and you're checking off the punk checklist: "Put safety pins on my bag, check. Wear a dog collar, check. Next, I gotta get a CBGB shirt and dye my hair purple. I gotta get more piercings, because the more piercings I have the higher that my punk level is."

I'll be the first to admit 13-year old me was the latter one. Now, with 20 years of hindsight, my boomer father was 100% correct to make fun of my pre-ripped jeans and tell me I should buy non-ripped jeans and do chores in them to get rips. In my own defense, however, naturally-ripped jeans often rip in a way that makes them unwearable instead of derelique.

This is not a commentary on how to treat posers, but the poser-like thought process of curating a persona that checks off aesthetic boxes without regard for practicality or individuality. However, it's applied toward being a "clean girl" or "French girl" or "alt girl".

On one hand, "aesthetics" are self-aware in acknowledging their superficiality. On the other, that in itself is a red flag that they're about as attainable and sustainable as the artificial environments and scenarios in media that inspires them.

The only outcome of trying to check all the boxes of a "French girl" aesthetic in Peebles, Ohio is disappointment.

I'm not saying you have to embrace minimalism, but in the wardrobe minimalist community, there is the concept of dressing for your real life instead of your aspirational life.

In a way that men don't, women have a mysterious pressure put upon them to be everything and everyone except who they are. "Unattainable standards" gets thrown around a lot, and it's easy to dismiss as "someone who feels entitled to credit from a result without attaining it" but what's actually being lashed out at is not always the standard itself, but sometimes it's likely the moving of the goalposts once that's reached.

I don't know where this started, and going into the possible historical and cultural genesis of this mindset is out of scope, it's largely an internalization. It's the feminine impulse to disregard twenty people who consistently say positive things or don't care and then hyper-fixate on the one person who made an off-color comment once. How many of those people are in your head?

Perhaps it's true that females, on average, are predisposed to negative emotions and conformity. Perhaps it's true that society systemically conditions girls from a young age to be obedient social chameleons who view themselves in third person. Likely both have something to do with it.

I think women who adopt the persona of being a staunch "man repeller" are just as obsessed with their image and potentially Self-denying as the pick me's who would break their feet in half if someone told them it's what attracts High Value Menz. None of this should be about cultivating approval or revulsion in a social audience.

This issue intersects heavily with consumerism, which is why I invoked the example of early punks. We have to get out of the mindset that we can go on Amazon and, within a few hours, order a brand new personality of new clothes and hobby supplies that will be used for a few months then discarded.

"Just be yourself" is advice that's given lazily, and abused frequently as a cope for not improving, but I believe that's close to the solution. Nietzsche said it better, though: become who you are. This could involve discarding and deconstructing forms of identity that come from destructive and schizophrenia-inducing sources such as mass media, social media, and consumerism and affiliating yourself with timeless identities based in culture, craft, spirituality, the natural world, and immutable personal characteristics and talents.

"Show me the face you had before you were born" -- The Buddha

[gaussmultimedia]

Máster Diseño Gráfico 2021-22. Portfolio de Javier Díaz Valdeiglesias. Fotografías de Laura Flores.

[letsberealgenz]

it doesn't have to be complicated honey

Have you ever catch yourself wondering at times what if I could do it all over again? What if I could make it right this time? What if I could change my life into the way I’ve always wanted it to look like? Aha, if that’s the case. Honey, you’re at the right place.

A special shoutout to social media for accelerating the realm of competition which can really be a blessing in disguise at times. Only if you look at it from a lens of optimism, then you would agree with this.

“Competition is the fuel to your personal growth.”

PERIOD. Do you know why? A lot of whom you are comes back to your personal identity. And I’m a strong believer of you can absolutely change your life at anytime on any given day ONLY if you know how to shift your identity. Now we are talking baby!

I’m going to share with you 3 simple steps (no BS for real) that would help you to rebrand and reinvent yourself completely for good. Let’s go!

Self Reflection

There’s a reason why this is the #1 step for everything that you do in life. If something is going right, you have to reflect. If something is not going well, you have to reflect too. For anything and everything that you do, always consider reflection as a form of awareness.

For this play, reflection can happen in various forms but personally what works best is ask yourself some pretty straight-forward brutal questions which can sound like this.

Am I content with who I am and who I’m trying to be in life?

Is my current personality/attitude/character/identity actually bringing me closer to my goals?

Is my current identity helping me to unlock my full potential?

The goal here is to really spend some time alone and get curious with your own self-image. Because once you do this, then you’re already crossing one of the most difficult phase which is to be aware of your current identity and how it’s actually affecting every decision you had made, you are making and you’re going to make in life.

Do this in the form of journaling because it’s going to be a lot easier and fun. Didn’t I mention this hm?

New Identity

After performing that self-reflection, now you are aware that something’s got to change. You have to create a new version of yourself. Because now it’s time for you to be really clear with who you want to be in life. (YOUR FUTURE SELF)

Get into a state of mind where it’s not just about touching surface level anymore but it’s reaching to the root level. Go really deep by reflecting on your life goals. There’s a reason why I’m mentioning this is because your identity is highly correlated with your life goals.

Whether you like it or not but goal setting is so IMPORTANT only if you are really serious about unlocking your true and full potential. Because once you’re clear with what you want to achieve in life, then it’s easier to design a new character you want to step into. You have to get this step done before moving anymore further!

Support system

It would be pointless if you wake up everyday claiming you have changed but your actions are not speaking enough for you. You have to walk the talk honey. If you are firm with your new identity, you have to make sure you create a set of routine and habits that would highly support your new identity.

For instance if I want to step into the most fit, hot and healthy version of myself. Then I have to ensure that I’m taking the right steps to achieve my new image by working out, eating healthy and just living in a right way right?

Replace the above sentence with the action that you need to take in order to live up to your new identity.

“Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.” ― Samuel Smiles, Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them

That’s the simple 3 hacks that would change your life forever. Let me know once you try this out!

[barbarasegalandassociates]

A-List PR Barbara Segal And Associates

[buildingparadise]

personal branding begins with the ability to think for yourself

key takeaways from chapter 1 of cynthia johnson’s “platform: the art and science of personal branding”

personal branding is about being yourself out loud

we as individuals are different from brands because we have something a product or corporation cannot have - relatability

personal branding takes time! listen to your natural instincts and desires

don’t try to be the next anything - the next naomi campbell, the next steve jobs, the next marilyn monroe; your brand should be authentic, not manufactured or copied

don’t let the haters fool you! personal branding is not a millennial-created phenomenon. it’s about making sure your voice is heard to take control of your own images, reputation, and freedom of thought

challenge the status quo: personal branding is for people who want freedom from being influenced or overpowered by others. think of power as a tool that falls into two different buckets. power as influence which usually involves control (and responsibility) over others & power as autonomy which allows one person to ignore the influence of others to shape their own destiny

check out new series coming! for more key takeaways and stay tuned for more <3

[holinexdigital]

[innohackerspodcast]

Si quieres aprender sobre innovación, Growth Hacking y marca persona, Innohackers pódcast puede ayudarte, te invito a escucharlo, está publicado en todas las plataformas de pódcast y YouTube.

Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur l'innovation, le Growth Hacking et le personal branding, le podcast Innohackers peut vous aider, je vous invite à l'écouter, il est publié sur toutes les plateformes de podcast et sur YouTube.

[femmefatalevibe]

Femme Fatale Guide: How To Gain & Maintain Respect

In your professional and academic life, romantic or sexual enthrallments, social life, or any relationship – most importantly, the one with yourself.

Decide your needs are valid and feel worthy of having these needs met.

Reflect and refine your most authentic core values in every area of your life and then be deliberate in aligning your actions with these values as much as possible.

Be honest about your non-negotiables in every aspect of your life. Establish boundaries with these needs in mind. Then learn to communicate them calmly and assertively to others. Uphold your boundaries when they're tested or challenged.

Approach any conflict, negotiation, or difficult conversation as an opportunity to help both parties understand each other and come away from the interaction with a mutually desirable outcome. Operate out from a place of seeking mutual benefit, not a win-lose mindset.

Depersonalize other people's actions and attitudes. Communicate from a place of empathy and your personal value-add rather than responding to protect your ego.

Be discerning with who and what you let into your life (friends, romantic relationships, professional opportunities, social ties, family members, etc.). See how your value system and ways of communicating/interacting align before diving head-first into an interpersonal commitment. Vet individuals carefully to confirm they'll enrich – not deplete – your overall quality of life.

Take accountability when warranted but don't overapologize. Focus on being solution-oriented, not problem-centric, when dealing with a negative outcome, consequence, or conflict.

When in a disagreement with a healthy-minded individual, encourage an open dialogue and hear their side without judgment before making any type of accusations. With that said, always prepare and know when to walk away from a person, relationship, opportunity, event, etc.

Maintain your health, well-being, and appearance. Prioritize a healthy diet, drinking plenty of water, daily movement/exercise, a full night's rest, mindfulness practices/therapy, a solid skincare routine, hair/beauty maintenance, clean and neat clothes that suit your personal style, etc.

Make time for activities and people you love. Schedule times for hobbies, indulgent rituals, social plans, etc. into your weekly calendar to ensure you're enjoying life as much as you realistically can. Owning your right to enjoy life is the ultimate sign of self-respect.

[luxurypersonalbrand]

🕰️ Exploring the past unveils sacred stories that shape our brand's essence. Understanding where we come from is key to crafting a meaningful future.

🖤Our brand’s journey and its tales connect us with our audience, our incredible community, and creates a bond beyond business.

🌐 Let's build the future together, rooted in the richness of our shared stories.

📖 Tag me in a post where you share a story about the history of your purpose brand. See the info graphics below for examples to get you started.

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Message me to start.

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Lindsey Bryant Branding - Boise, Idaho

@madame.calamity

@lindseybryant.branding

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[seekingikigai]

A video intro from me explaining why I am doing this. I have been disciplined in writing longer form essays on substack, but not yet in the weekly video habit. I'm hoping that if I can get a few more follows, comments or subs that it will give me a motivational boost hehe ❤️ 🌍🧠💰

❤️ What you love, the passions that drive you

🌍 What the world needs, a purpose beyond yourself

🧠 What you are good at, highlighting skills and talents

💰 What you can be paid for, the practical aspect of making a living

[hanantalk]

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently. - Warren Buffett

[serentakdigital]

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