AJ Vaden

AJ Vaden is the Co-founder of Brand Builders Group, international speaker, million-dollar consultant and host of the Influential Personal Brand Podcast. Over the last 10 years she has been a part of founding, launching and building a very successful 8- figure coaching business, a multi-million-dollar consulting business, and a 7-figure speaking business. Along with her company Brand Builders Group, AJ has been featured in Inc, Success Magazine, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, Forbes and was recently named as one of the Top 5 Personal Branding Speakers of 2019. Today, she uses her expertise and unique talents to both streamline back-end operations as well as creatively engineer the company’s front-facing personal brands.

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-Kindsey

Today I am so excited to announce a very dear friend of mine - AJ Vaden is the Co-founder of Brand Builders Group, international speaker, million-dollar consultant and host of the Influential Personal Brand Podcast. AJ we cannot thank you enough for spending so much time with all of us on the balanced girl I loved everything of this episode learning how to make a personal brand so impactful and strong thank you for all of your tips and wisdom a lot all things we learned what to do and what not to do and how to really build trust when you build your personal brand.

-Key Points-

NY resolutions – help people know who I am not what I have done, share less of what I do and more of who I am
Passionate about personal brand = reputation (what people think when they think of you)
Be known for what you want to be known for
What’s most important to define personal brand – build personal brand strategy
What is a personal brand – formalization and digitization of your reputation
Personal brand:
- What you want to be known for/remembered for?
- Who do you want to be known by?
Most important – consistency
Know your audience and train audience what to expect from you – schedule, show up on regular basis
Platform specific content – create content for the specific platform, it has to be unique.
Your brand is your job – there is a schedule, it is defined, be intentional
Most important tip – don’t care about how many followers you have but how many email subscribers you have
Use social platform to build email subscribers
The best thing about podcast is you learn so much
Comfort is what keeps you away from your calling – how to jump out of comfort zone? Losing everything was humbling and necessary, why as I was so comfortable to go towards my calling
Comfort returns as we step into our calling
Life mantra comfort will always hold you back as you are comfortable as there are not enough reasons to try something new