Top 10 Episodes: #9 & #10

 

I have so much to share with you! Starting off with an invitation (I’m excited to see you!) and we’re kicking off our Top 10 summer series.

Over the summer, we’re re-releasing the top 10 Talk About Talk podcast episodes of all time.

If you’re a new listener to the podcast, this is an efficient way for you to catch up on the top episodes. If you’ve been listening for awhile, this is your chance to review the episodes that got the most traction of all 160 episodes to date.

Are you curious which episodes made it to the top 10?

I can’t wait for you to hear them!

Let’s kick off the summer series with some insights from the 10th and 9th most downloaded episodes, plus, of course, your invitation…

 

1. YOUR INVITATION: Free Live Training with Andrea
2. TOP TEN EPISODES #10: Controlling Your Narrative
3. TOP TEN EPISODES #9: Communication Skills for Job Seekers

 

1️⃣ Free Live Training with Andrea

Are you eager to elevate your personal brand?

You’re invited to my upcoming live training, “Strategic Principles of Personal Branding”:

📅 Date: August 7
🕛 Time: 12pm EST
📍 Platform: ZOOM

During this live session, we’ll cover:

✅ The definition of personal branding – what it is and what it is not
✅ The benefits and process of developing your personal brand
✅ 3 important strategic principles to guide your branding efforts

Then I’ll open it up to your Qs… Bring it on!

Ready to shape YOUR personal brand? Don’t miss this opportunity to gain actionable insights and strategies to stand out!

2️⃣ Top Ten Episodes #10 – Controlling Your Narrative

When it comes to your narrative, you can LET it happen or you can MAKE it happen.

I say make it happen.

 

Your narrative is closely tied to your personal brand, whether you’re a young manager seeking to make a strong impression or a seasoned executive looking to refine your image. Your narrative can impact your career trajectory. 

Controlling your narrative is NOT about being manipulative or deceptive.

Controlling your narrative is about three things:

1. Identifying a theme you want to emphasize. Something authentic and true to you.
2. Articulating the theme. Putting words around it. In other words, the literal narrative.
3. Consistently communicating and reinforcing the theme through your words and actions.

We’ve been talking a lot about AGEISM lately. One of the strategies that I suggest to combat ageism is to “acknowledge the elephant in the room.” You could say something like “I recognize that I am the oldest person on the team.  I also have a lot of valuable experience and expertise that our team can benefit from.”

THAT is controlling the narrative!

 

3️⃣ Top Ten Episodes #9 – Communication Skills for Job Seekers with executive recruiter Sharon Mah-Gin

Does Sharon’s name sound familiar? This was the third time I’ve interviewed her for the Talk About Talk podcast! In addition to job-seeking, we’ve also talked about updating your resumé and how to network.

Sharon always brings great energy and generous advice.

One such piece of advice: after every line on your resumé, ask yourself, “so what?”

According to Sharon Mah-Gin, prospective employers want to know what impact you have made and then how they can benefit from hiring you. They will hire you for one or more of these 3 reasons:

💵 To make money
💰 To save money
👍 To solve an issue

To make this easy for a prospective employer, state your impact in a way that’s measurable whenever possible:

• “I saved the firm $4MM in fixed costs”
• “We exceeded our sales objective by 66%”
• “We launched the project 2 weeks early”
• “I doubled the size of the department”
• “We improved our average NPS from X to Y”

Make sure your impact is reflected in your interview answers and in your resumé. Go line by line if you have to.  Then, review it with two words in mind, “so what?” 

This “so what” point is just one of Sharon’s many helpful suggestions. You can learn more in ep. 162 Communication Skills for Job Seekers.

 

There you go – 3 things to Talk About this week:

1. Free Live Training
2. TOP TEN EPISODES #10: Controlling Your Narrative
3. TOP TEN EPISODES #9: Communication Skills for Job Seekers

I hope you’ll follow the Top 10 Talk About Talk podcast episodes. You can listen on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.