How to build a personal brand that actually opens doors with Grace Andrews | Future Self Series Ep. 6

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Each plays a different role in the overall strategy. Uncover new investment opportunities for you at CreativePlanning.com, slash new. What is up, I'm Grace Beverly and welcome back to Working Hard, the podcast shift guidebook on how to improve your own life and achieve what you actually dreamed of doing, because life's too short for boring podcasts and bad advice. What is up and welcome back to Working Hard. If you are brand new here, it is lovely to have you, and if you've been here for a while, you will know that you are blended in the middle of something. Very important, very important for you, quite important for me, mostly important for you in your future, so I'm going to give you a quick bit of context. This episode is essentially part of a series that I am running across my maternity leave. It's called The Future Self Series and the whole thing is built around one idea, which is that the most reliable way to actually build the life you want is to reverse engineer it. But if you've not heard the earlier episodes, I'd actually go back to episode one and start there, because all of this is basically designed very specifically, almost as a free course, to be able to get you from episode one to episode 12. And by the time you're at episode 12, you're going to be very, very clear on what your future is going to look like, and the plan that you have for your every single day. And we've reverse engineered the big internal staff, so your mindset, your identity, your habits, your health. But today, we are turning a little bit outward, and we are going to be talking about how to build your own personal brand. And you might think, "Grace, I don't need to have a personal brand." And to that, I would say, you already have one. Every single thing you've done in your career, every post you've made on LinkedIn, everything you've shared, every platform you're on, every project you're working on, every move in your CV, is building some kind of reputation. All of that is part of your personal brand. So the question isn't whether you have one. The question is whether you are in control of it, and whether it is doing the work for you. I felt so strongly about having this episode in the series, because building a good personal brand is the biggest thing you can do right now to fast track your career. It is the biggest multiplier you can apply to everything you are doing in terms of your income, in terms of your trajectory, in terms of all of this. So if we're looking at your future self, when we're looking at reverse engineering your life, let's look at maybe we can get you there faster. So I've designed this episode for whether you are a freelancer, whether you are building something of your own, whether you are deep in a corporate career, whether you are creating content, I firmly believe that a personal brand is honestly one of the biggest multipliers you can have for your career. And it's not about vanity, it's not about follow account. It is about what happens when an opportunity comes to you, and how to make those opportunities come to you, how to get into the rooms, where those opportunities are even talked about, whether that's like a job or a freelance gig, or even a coffee with a more senior person. My personal brand has now opened up doors for me to co-owned companies, for me to invest in businesses I love, where they would never have been available to the public otherwise, and they've come to me through my personal brand, in terms of what I can actually add, where I might have been doing that work anyway, I might have been doing all of that, and not have been visible enough to be able to be visible to the right people. And this isn't just about like building a social media following, it's not about trying to be a content creator, obviously that is a huge supporter to building a personal brand. But it is about being known. All the things that you want to be known for, and therefore getting the opportunities, that the person who's in the end of your five-year plan, would be given in order to be able to actually get there. And so for this episode, I have Grace Andrews, who's going to be taking you through what a personal brand strategy looks like. So Grace Andrews came into the limelight, when she was brand director at Diobaseo, she obviously built that into a massive, massive podcast. And after building everyone else's brands, she decided to take the reins, and take the leap to build something of her own from scratch. However, I think one of the most impressive things she did there was to make herself incredibly visible. The visibility she brought herself, and her personal brand, as brand director at the Diobaseo, has enabled her to be able to leave that, to be able to build things of her own, to be able to be known for her expertise. I was very pleased when she said yes to contributing to this episode. And as always, within this series, she has given some very specific actionable work for you to do, which is going to be in the newsletter, which will be sent to you tomorrow. If you are listening to this live on the day of release, I will pop the link to sign up to that in the description. So now it is time for me to hand over. I hope you're really into the episode. You already have a personal brand, whether you like it or not. We all have one. Our personal brand is really just another way of saying reputation. Whether good, bad, trustworthy, credible or not, as the old saying goes, your reputation precedes you in every room, every conversation, every job, every relationship. The difference between us all having a personal brand and personal branding is that with personal branding, you're in the driver's seat. Not only are you in charge and building intentionally, it becomes so much more than your reputation. It becomes a business strategy, a magnet that pulls you towards your goals at an unprecedented rate. To be clear, I'm not here to teach you how to become a creator. My name is Grace Andrews and I'm the real to be here as your cover teacher for this future self-series. To explain why and then how, intentionally building a personal brand, whatever your role will allow you to accelerate towards your goals, and reverse engineer your best life. And I've used personal branding to secure every single opportunity in my story. It's kind of like having a secret weapon that feels a little illegal, but everybody has access to it. I guess they just don't know how to use it to their advantage and that's what I'm here to teach you about today. So I'm going to share with you how you can reverse engineer your goals through personal branding to make yourself a magnet for the opportunity that feels so out of reach right now. But look, context is everything. And I want to start by providing a little insight into why I believe a personal brand is no longer a nice to have, but a critical building block for anyone looking to gain attention and ultimately trust. So I want to kick things off where we actually are right now, which unfortunately is in the middle of a bit of a trust crisis. The Edmund Trust Barometer, the world's largest annual trust study, it just published its 2026 findings. And the headline is that society isn't just losing trust in institutions anymore, it's actually siding into something they're calling insularity, which means seven in 10 people now say they're unwilling or seriously hesitant to trust anyone who doesn't share their values, their background, or where they get their information. So trust isn't eroding evenly, it's collapsing inward into smaller and smaller circles of people we already agree with. And it's not just the public that's feeling this. The people running brands are misreading it too. PWC asked business executives how much they think their customers trust them. Then they asked the customers themselves. 90% of executives believe they're highly trusted, only 30% of customers actually agree. That is a 60-point gap. And it's been growing by the way, not shrinking. Now layer on the attention problem because trust and attention are obviously entangled together. We're not just distrustful, we're overloaded. When people are given too much to process, too much content to consume, they don't slow down and evaluate more carefully what they want to watch. They reach for a shortcut. We all do that, we all reach for shortcuts. And the shortcut people reach for when they genuinely can't evaluate everything in front of them is trust and it's trusting in someone specific. Think about it. When you go to a new country and you go to a new city and you have 1,000 choices in front of you for where to eat, what do you actually do? Maybe you go on to Google and you read the reviews. Maybe you search for your AI tool. Maybe you head to your favorite food creator and check their highlights and check for their recommendations. Maybe you go into a group chat and you ping a message asking for the racks there. You reach out to people you trust as a shortcut to making a decision for where to eat when you're overwhelmed with choice. And then we add AI into the mix. AI hasn't just added more content to an already flooded feed. It's managed to crack the exact signals people use to rely on to shortcut trust decisions in the first place. There are now AI generated reviews, recommendations and content that we can't tell what is real and what is not. So people literally don't know what to trust. And so that brings us to today. Trust is being squeezed from two directions at once. Institutional and interpersonal trust are fracturing whilst AI has simultaneously made it cheat to fake the exact signals people relied on to shortcut. their decisions. Which means being a trusted, visible individual right now isn't just nice positioning. It's filling a gap that's opening up faster than any institution can close it, and trust isn't a soft metric anymore. Edelman's own brand research also shows that trust is now as much of a purchase consideration as price and quality. I'm just going to say that again. Edelman's own brand research found that trust is now as much of a purchase consideration as price and quality. So if trust is doing as much work in someone's decision to buy from you, higher you, follow you as the price tag or the quality of the product itself, the real question becomes, how do you actually build it on purpose? Which is where I want to get really precise about what a brand even is. Because I think the word gets thrown around so loosely, it stopped actually meaning anything. So here's the definition that I work from. A brand is the repetition of touch points, and the feelings a customer experiences across them. It's not a logo, it's not a tagline, it's really not what the business says at all. It's the accumulated residue of every interaction someone has with you repeated enough times that it hardens into an expectation. A personal brand is the exact same mechanism wrapped around a person instead of a company. Built deliberately, touch point by touch point to generate three specific things in the person on the other end. That's trust, connection and attention. Which, if you were paying attention a minute ago, are exactly the three things institutions are currently fading to provide a scale. Now I know, I know there are lots of people who talk about personal branding. It's become a bit of an icky buzzword I feel it to, especially on LinkedIn. There will be people who tell you how to write LinkedIn posts using viral frameworks and engagement pods to generate views. And I'm here to tell you that that is platform hacking and certainly not a personal branding. In 2021, Stephen Bartlett hired me as his personal social media manager. Six months later, I became his head of content and then went on to become brand director overseeing all of the content across the brand, meeting millions every day, whilst simultaneously building my audience to 300,000 cross-platform. Neither ever involved viral LinkedIn frameworks. Both required highly intentional strategic decisions based on how we wanted to be positioned and what we wanted to achieve as a business. It was literally never about views. It was about credibility, authority and positioning in order to achieve business outcomes. Which is what the LinkedIn gurus seem to misunderstand. Where they're focused on views and likes, we're out here reverse engineering our goals strategically through content. See the difference? And I'm going to break down with you here today. My easy to follow blueprint to reverse engineer the goals you want to achieve using personal branding. And I know this works because this is the exact roadmap I use myself. At the start of the year, I publicly declared my goal and the strategy I was going to use to achieve it. My goal was to speak on stage this year in the USA. And using my roadmap, I was able to achieve it six months into the year. And I love talking about this topic because anyone can apply this thinking to accelerate their business goals, no matter what they are. Okay, but before we dive into the roadmap, I just want to be clear on one thing. A personal brand is so much more expansive than your social content. Your personal brand is every moment or in brand world language. We'd say touch point, where your desired customer or community experiences you. That could be in person, in articles, in emails, at events, on a panel, your website call costs it literally can be anywhere your customer experiences you. Every single interaction has to ladder up to the same feelings goals and strategy because every great brand is built on repetition. And I'm giving you permission right now. You can go grab a piece of paper and do this exercise right now. Go and put yourself in the center of that piece of paper. So you could put your brand or in this case of yourself in the center of that. And what you're going to do is my map out every single time your customer comes across you. So you can start to get a more top-down view on how expansive that might be and how many moments of interaction you have that you can control. I think you'll probably be surprised how many moments there are in your world that need to be laddering up to this same feeling and this same identity. That gives you a really good perspective to get started. But for the sake of getting to some really clear actions today, we're going to focus on content because it will most likely become the foundation you build up from and it's one of the greatest levers you can pull when it comes to visibility. So your parcel brand isn't all about content but it is what we're going to focus on today. So to get started, we need to build what I call your territory. So this isn't about choosing your platforms yet. It's not about a niche. This is the actual ground you're standing on. The space you're claiming as unmistakably yours before anybody else gets to define it for you. Your territory is built from three things. So number one, who you are. This is not your job title. This is not your platform. The thing you're actually genuinely greater, have experience in and love to do. I'm going to say something a little bit controversial here that the LinkedIn gurus are probably going to come at me for. You actually do require some work to have been done here. You're going to need evidence to claim a territory and build something meaningful and of course to gain people's trust down the line. But if you're at the beginning, the very start of your journey, that's okay too. We all have to start somewhere. Just don't claim to have done something or created something that you haven't because that is where imposter syndrome is going to creep in. Your territory right now will be small and it would make sense to focus on building out your evidence first to expand the territory that you can operate in. Okay, so stage two of building your territory. What do you stand for? That's the question you've got to wash yourself. The beliefs are standard. The way of operating you're not willing to compromise on even when it would be easier to. I guess another way of saying this would be your why, like what drives you to keep going when everything feels like it's against you. You really have to get clear on that to be able to define the area that you're going to occupy with your personal brand. Okay, so we've got who you are and what you stand for and then number three when building your territory. You've got to wash yourself. What don't you stand for? And I can't emphasize how important this is. Knowing exactly what you refuse to be associated with, the shortcuts you won't take, the audience you're not trying to please, the version of success you don't actually want. Understanding that does more to define your brand than almost anything else. Boundaries are brand strategy. Saying what you're not is what gives shape to what you are. It also literally what marks the edge of your territory. Without edges, it isn't a territory. It's just open ground that anybody can walk into and you don't want that. So put those three things together. Who you are, what you stand for and what you refuse to stand for. And that is your territory. That's your foundations. And the reason we have to do that first before we get into the roadmap for building your content is because your territory is the world your roadmap operates inside of. Without it, a goal is just a task floating in open space. With it, every single step you take towards that goal is claiming more ground. So before you go any father, please, please get honest about your territory. Write it down. Go through those three questions and figure out the land that you're going to occupy. And now we can get into the roadmap. Six steps. I'm going to walk you through every single one of them using my own goal, which was speaking in the US. So you can see exactly how this works in real time, not just in theory, which I think is really important that we're getting to actions that you can apply today to get started. Hey, we're Nick and Jack hosts of the best one yet behind every episode. 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Have you been putting off that annual doctor's appointment because you don't want to make the call or maybe you've been meaning to find a new dentist but you have no idea where to start? And Zach Doc lets you search and compare local in network doctors with over 250,000 providers across more than 200 specialties. You can read reviews from real patients, find a provider who feels like the right fit, see actual appointment openings and book instantly. I found a doctor on Zach Doc and booked an appointment in just a few minutes and made the whole process so much less stressful. Download the Zach Doc app today that's Zach Doc, Z-O-C-D-O-C and book that appointment on your to-do list. So let's dive into step one. Step one is getting stupidly specific about the goal. Most goals are way too vague to ever reverse engineer. People are like, "I want more clients, I want to grow my brand, I want to be seen in the next spot." None of that is actually a goal, it's a wish and we can't be building a strategy around a wish, I can't anyway. My goal wasn't to get more visible in the US, it was very specifically to speak on a stage in the US this year. That's a specific outcome, a specific location and a specific deadline. The second a goal gets that specific, something shifts. You can suddenly see exactly who's in charge of giving it to you and exactly what they'd need to see from you first, which leads me very nicely into step two. Find the room not the crowd. This is where most personal branding advice falls apart. People think that audience is as many people as they can reach, and I'm here to tell you the harsh truth that it's not. Your audience for the purpose of this goal is the handful of people who actually have the power to hand it to you. So, using myself as the example, that wasn't 300,000 followers, it was a very short specific list. The people who book stages in the US, the ones who literally decide who gets to speak. So, ask yourself for your specific goal. Who is actually in the room? Not people who might like my content or everyone I can get to see this. It's not a vague audience. It's the 3, 5, 10 people who could genuinely say yes to opening that door for you. So, just to note, in my roadmap, there is no step dedicated to deciding which platforms you need to be on, because ultimately, this is actually determined by this step here, the people you need to reach. You absolutely do not need to be everywhere at all at once, that is an incredibly overwhelming task. You simply need to be in front of the people who need to see you. So, for my goal specifically, that looks like a combination of LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube, because I know that's why the bookers are looking for their next speaker. But, for another goal, it's subsdike and maybe LinkedIn only, for another one, it might literally just be YouTube shorts. So, when people ask me, "Do I need to be on every platform? What platform do I need to be on?" My answer is almost always, "No, and my question back is, tell me what you're trying to achieve, and who needs to see you for that to be achieved?" And then your platforms will be very obvious from that. Step three of the roadmap is reverse engineering what they need to believe about you. This is the step almost everyone skips, they jump straight to the content, and it's the one that actually matters the most. Once you know who's in the room, you have to get honest about what they need to believe about you before they'd ever say yes. So, parsing I call these signals. What are the signals you need to admit to get them to believe you are the person they need for the job they're looking for? Someone booking a stage isn't going to take a risk on a person they've never seen speak, for example. So, what would they need to believe? They need to believe that you can hold a room that you have a clear point of view, not just like a title, that people are actually engaged when you speak, that you have strong opinions and a strong point of view. There are loads of things they need to believe, but you need to write that list for your own goal. What would the person who can hand it to you need to believe about you first before they give you the opportunity? Let me throw in another example. Maybe you're a freelance designer looking to expand your client pool, and your goal is very specifically because we know it has to be specific to book too high ticket health and wellness brands on retainer for the next few months. So, the signals I think you need to admit are experiencing that specific industry, evidence of experience inside industry, innovative ideas, industry knowledge and expertise, and problem solving probably because that's what the client needs. They need you to solve their problems. Remember, this isn't content ideas yet, it's the signal style, which will then allow you to build the content and the formats from there. But that is step four. Step four is all about building content that proves these signals. And honestly, this is where I see 99% of people go wrong. They think they're building a brand because they're posting content. But every piece of content is an attempt on goal, and these people aren't even facing the right direction. They post because they feel like they're supposed to, or because they want to get views and they want to go viral. But there's no line back to an actual goal. Reverse engineering flips that completely. Every piece of content becomes a deliberate proof point against the list you just wrote. Need people to believe you can hold a room, then footage or clips of you doing exactly that need to exist and be visible. Need to be known for a specific point of view, not just a title. Then stop posting generic tips that anyone could say if they took a username away. And stop publicly building one opinion repeated until it's unmistakably yours. Need proof that other people already trust you? Then who you've worked with and what you've already built needs to be visible too. Think case studies and reviews and sharing client feedback. Every touchpoint earns its place because it answers something on the list. I think people are often really surprised when I say that every single piece of content I post across all of my platforms is working towards one of my three to four goals I have at any one time. I don't just post things for the sake of thing because they feel good because I'm excited by a trend. I post very intentional pieces of content because they are moving me step by step towards the goal I'm looking to achieve. And that brings me to step five, which is that it makes the whole thing measurable when you post intentionally. Rather than posting content and assuming likes and views are the metrics for success for every piece of content. It guides you to know what to actually measure because there is so much to measure. When we go into social media platforms, there are so many metrics available to us. And we can very easily be derived by the vanity metrics and the ones we think we're meant to care about. So just for my example of speaking in the US, I was looking at two things very specifically. One was actually comments proving people are engaged with the points I'm discussing, which is great for bookers to see. They want to see that people are engaged with the content I'm sharing and having conversations around it. So success for me was highly engaged comments and conversation in the comments. Secondly, it was DMs and inquiries. If I received a message from someone trying to book me for a talk off the back of a piece of content that I put out for a booker to book me, that is ultimate success. And I can't tell you how many pieces of content might look by generic metrics like they've flopped because maybe the views aren't super high or it hasn't done a hundred thousand likes. But they've resulted in inquiries for talks or consultancy, which is ultimately how I measure business success because that is my revenue driving activity. I've got to know what you're measuring to define if the post or the content has been successful or not. And I promise you nine times out of ten, that metric is not the views. So know for each goal what success looks like and how you're measuring and tracking towards it. So not to get derailed and even disheartened by some of the vanity metrics. So that brings us to step six, which is repeat until it compounds. The least sexy advice out there, but the hard facts that nobody ever wants to hear. You just have to keep going. Remember the definition from earlier, a brand is the repetition of touch points and the feeling someone experiences across them. One great piece of content proving one point on your list does nothing on its own. But the same message showing up consistently across touch points is what turns into a reflex in someone else's mind. You've got to show up consistently to occupy that space in someone's head repeatedly. And that, that occupation of someone's mind, is a thing that eventually gets you chosen. Six months after I said that goal out loud that I wanted to be on stage in the US, I was on stage in the US. Not because I got lucky because I built a very deliberate visible case for why I deserve to be there. Months before anyone in that room ever knew about me, let alone said yes. And maybe that's like the step 6.5 or the bonus point to this blueprint. The people you're trying to reach might not even know they need your services yet. The invisible layer you're capturing in your territory with content is what makes it so unbelievably powerful. And I'll give you a really, really resume example. I don't know why this came to mind when I was planning this episode. But I think what I really want to emphasize is this works no matter what your role is, no matter the industry. So maybe you're a piano tuner. I was trying to think of something that I don't need in my life right now. I don't have a piano, so definitely do not need a piano tuner. You're a piano tuner and you're looking to expand your radius of clients. So your signals are showing evidence of your work through tune for before and after videos maybe. And maybe your territory you occupy is that you always play a very specific song when you know the tuning is done. I don't have a piano, I don't need a piano tuner, but you capture my attention. And then you occupy space in my mind. So if any of my friends have a piano, any of my family, in fact, anyone I see online with a piano, who one day happens to ask for piano tuner recommendations, I'm going to send you their way. Same thing goes, I don't know, roof cleaning. I don't currently need my roof cleaning, but if I saw a series from a roof cleaning company that made, I don't know, roof cleaning into a reality TV episode. And they captured my attention and they got me really interested. Maybe it's like things I overheard on the roof. I'm going to choose you when I need you because I've been caught in your attention trust and connection territory, the land you occupy. You've consumed my brain. It's not always about immediate results when it comes to personal branding. It's about occupying space in someone's brain for when they do need you. And the same goes for me because don't always need a speaker right when I'm posting. But they're always quietly browsing, keeping an eye on people for when they do. That's who I'm creating for. So when the opportunity arises, they choose me. And I run through that roadmap exercise every quarter to track how I'm progressing towards my goals, based on my measurements of success. I then tweak accordingly adjust my goals if they're achieved and reset with the learnings and insights. Because what you don't want to do is keep repeating something if you've tried it for a few months and it's not working. You need to be flexible, innovative and obviously adapt, especially in the world of content where the platforms are constantly evolving too. We started this episode in a trust crisis. Institutions fracturing, attention collapsing, AI making it cheap to fake the exact signals people used to rely on. And on the other side of that crisis, it's in this enormous gap. One that's opening up faster than any institution can close. That gap is your opportunity, not someday right now. Today, while most people are still posting content with no direction, no signals, no territory, just hoping something sticks. You don't need to become a creator. You don't need a viral framework or 100,000 followers or the grabbiest hook in the world. You need your territory, you need a specific goal, you need to know the signals that get you chosen, and you need to build content that proves them on purpose until it compounds. This was never just about the people actively searching for you right now. It's about occupying space in someone's mind long before they ever need you. So that when the moment comes, whether they need a designer or a consultant or speaker or a piano tuner, you're the one name that comes to mind. Six months after I said my goal out loud and created this roadmap to get there, I was standing on a stage in the US that used to feel completely out of reach. And I can't emphasize too enough how many stages in my journey I can refer back to this strategy for creating the open door opportunity that I was then able to walk through. So what I would love you to do today is go back through this roadmap. Start from the very beginning, setting your territory. building that ground out and then work through the robot stages. I promise you once you work through this the content ideas will come flooding. I've worked with so many people who feel so stuck with their content and they feel really directionless and then when you map it out like this their brain and their piece of paper is literally flooded with ideas. It's the same for me whenever I feel stuck I come back to this robot process. I don't want you to just do this exercise and never ever think about it again. I want you to follow it for 90 days and then in 90 days time I want you to come back to it and I want you to tweak and amend, measure and see what's happened because I guarantee it's moved you closer towards your goals than any piece of content you posted this year so far. Because as we know you already have a personal brand whether you like it or not. The only question left is whether you keep living it to chance or whether starting today you finally build it on purpose and turn it into the magnet I told you at the start of this episode it could be. The secret weapon that feels illegal that everyone has access to and that you now actually know how to use. That's the end of our episode. I had to choose so much fun and then you'll cover tea to grace. Thank you so much for having me. It's been such a pleasure. All of my references for more reading, more videos to watch. If you want to dive deeper into this topic we'll be in the working hard newsletter. You can find the link and all of the details in the description for where to find me going forward. I'll see you later. Right I hope you loved that episode with grace Andrews. I have to say it's one of the episodes I've been most excited about within this series and since it's been something I've been thinking about a lot recently I hope you found it as actionable and practical as we really intended it to be so a huge thank you to her for contributing to today's episode and such a big thank you to you for listening to this episode of the future self-series by listening you have supported the podcast and our entire team during my maternity leave. We will be doing a full breakdown of all of the tips and the practical side this week on the working hard Instagram and I also want to send the team my rules for personal brand crafting too so that's all gonna be over on the Instagram otherwise I will see you next week where we're gonna be talking all about resetting your body from the inside out and that you'll be able to maintain from now until you actually reach that future self because you're not gonna get there if your body and your health and everything that you do with that is not carrying you there every single day. Guessing is for game shows not your business. Workday is the enterprise AI platform for HR finance and IT with AI grounded in your context to get work done and done right. It's a new workday. Hey we're Nick and Jack hosts of the best one yet. Behind every episode there's research email spreadsheets and our shared Google Doc the headline hammer with Google workspace with Gemini. 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