As an entrepreneur you must build a personal brand and here's how. Unless you hire someone you must become a media company of one. I discuss how to do that in this episode with my guest, Larry J. Namer.

Larry J. Namer is a media entrepreneur and co-founder of E! Entertainment Television, the groundbreaking network that helped redefine how entertainment and pop culture are covered around the world. His career spans more than 50 years across cable television, live events, new media, and international entertainment.

Succeeding in Hollywood long term is a rare occurrence; I seek out working actors and Hollywood Personalities that have “made it” in Hollywood on a big scale and interview them for this podcast to give business advice to today’s entrepreneurs.

If they can make it in Hollywood you can make it as an entrepreneur!

We dive into topics including:

● Larry’s origin story in the Hollywood media world.
● The difference between an audience and a community and how to build your own community.
● Once you build it how to foster and grow a community of like-minded people.
● The importance of having your own podcast to reach and stay in front of niche communities.
● How your brand and community grow each other as you grow your media footprint.
● The importance of social impact and why it should become part of your personal brand.
● The obligation Larry believes media personalities have to address some aspects of social impact.
● How to build a successful media brand and not end up as just a blip on the public’s radar.
● Ways to build deeper relationships with your community.
● How to market your community and grow it after you’ve created it.
● What entrepreneurs can do to create meaningful interactions with their communities.
● Larry’s definition of a “successful” personal brand and how to know when you’ve been successful with personal branding.
● How to be accessible to your community and not put yourself on a pedestal.
● The importance of staying in one lane with your personal brand and not diversifying too much.
● How to know what media channels to embrace when you’re building your personal brand.
● How to attract audiences and build communities across generational gaps.
● The importance of building a support system for and great team around your personal brand and how to do it.
● How to keep on keepin’ on during the rough times in your career and life.
● How to know which media trends to embrace.
● The one thing, above all else, that you need to do to become a media company of one.

…and more golden nuggets of advice!

When tough times hit it can be hard to maintain a successful mindset. Your inner critic can take over along with a host of other negative things. I discuss strategies to maintain a successful mindset in those situations with my guest, Dajuan Johnson.

This is a show featuring insider advice from Hollywood for today’s entrepreneurs. Working actors make up less than 10% of the actor population.

They have to deal with rejection, network, brand themselves, market themselves, sell themselves, and more. Today’s entrepreneurs have to do the same things.

If they can make it in Hollywood you can make it as an entrepreneur!

My guest, Dajuan, is a working television actor, certified life coach, and founder of Think Bigger Coaching. Best known for his seven-season run as Detective Rondell Pierce on Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, DaJuan currently recurs as Detective Noah Oakley on NCIS: Origins and has appeared in shows including Grey's Anatomy, 9-1-1, Narcos, Suits, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Disney's Electric Bloom.

Through Think Bigger Coaching, he helps actors build the mindset and skills to book more consistently and create lasting careers.

We dive into topics including:

● Where does a successful mindset begin?
● Why your inner critic, or “gremlin”, exists and how to overcome its voice in your head.
● How and when to change course in your life.
● The need for agility and how to adapt to negative situations quickly.
● Why traditional positive self-talk doesn’t always work and what to do instead.
● How to recognize when you’re not in alignment and course correct.
● Why there’s no such thing as balance and how to manage negative situations in your life.
● How to shift your mindset to avoid downward spirals.
● The power of gratitude and how to practice it in your life.
● The meaning of “vibration” in your life and how to raise yours.
● How to deal with and overcome rejection.
● How to develop your self-worth and build stronger fortitude.
● How to build and foster a supportive community around yourself to lean on during tough times.
● What to do to clean out negative influences when you find them in your community.
● The one thing, above all else, that you need to do to maintain a successful mindset during tough times.

…and other golden nuggets of advice!

Success often calls for advances in your personal and professional lives; from time to time you’ll need to reimagine and reinvent yourself. Sometimes it’s chosen; sometimes it’s forced. Either way you need success strategies to deal with it. I discuss some with my guest, Natalia Castellanos.

We dive into topics including:

● Natalia’s origin story in the world of reimagining herself.
● The importance of self-awareness and how to develop yours.
● Where the journey of reimagining yourself begins.
● How to realize what parts of your life you can influence and then take control of them.
● Why you need to be a lifelong learner to have success throughout your life.
● How to embrace change when it happens to you unexpectedly.
● Strategies to successfully reimagine or rebrand yourself.
● The power of observation and how to use it for self-reflection and changing yourself.
● Why baby steps are the key to getting to the top of the mountain.
● How to know when you’ve successfully reimagined yourself and you can stop (for the time being) reimagining yourself.
● How to know when it’s time to reimagine yourself again.
● Why you need to remind yourself that you have to plant the seed and then let the flower grow.
● The difference between forced and chosen reimagining.
● How to deal with both annoying and constructive criticism.
● How to keep on keepin’ on during the tough times.
● The one thing, above all else, that you need to do to successfully reimagine yourself.

…and other golden nuggets of advice!