Branding expert Ashia Amavé shares how showing up as your full, authentic self serves community.

For our last episode of Season 3 — wowza! — we sit down with personal brand expert Ashia Amavé. She shares why it’s important to both your career and your community to show up as your whole self and blows our minds by describing the personal brand as your story with context. 

We also discuss getting the most out of boring jobs (psst — networking), the way persistence pays off and the importance of merging or blending your skills, jobs and interests rather than keeping them siloed.

Finally, we stand in awe as she describes repeatedly cold calling Gayle King for some face time. Spoiler: she succeeds. We’re now two degrees from Oprah, folks.

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It’s hard out there for an entrepreneur — but it doesn’t have to be hard and lonely. That’s the perspective of our next guest, Laura Zug, who works tirelessly to help her clients strategically and organically build community. In short, she helps people find, communicate and nurture their biggest fans.

In this episode, we dig into the many aspects of community building, including how community building has become the buzzword du jour and the way it requires slow and organic growth to succeed. 

Laura also shares her favorite communities for community builders (meta!) like Talkbase (she loves their founders, Tiffany Oda and Klara Losert) and the Communough community, started by consultant Yurii Lazaruk. 

Finally, Kelsey asks Laura about a rumor she heard, and Laura reveals the news. (Spoiler: It involves fellow community expert Bri Leever.)

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Valerie Gangas, author and founder of Juniper Holiday + Home on creating experiences through hospitality and community.

Simply put: Valerie Gangas is a powerhouse. She owns and runs 50 — soon to be 100! — short-term rental properties through Juniper Holiday + Home, and she’s also penned two amazing books on life, empowerment and spirituality. (In Deep Shift should be on everyone’s nightstand.) 

So, we’re thrilled that Val sat down with us on the latest episode of “No Surprises.” We discuss blending her love of hospitality and real estate, finding and creating moments of magic, and how watching Chip and Joanna Gaines ultimately led Valerie to start her business. 

She also teaches us about Culture Index and discusses the importance of bringing in specialists early in your business-building journey. 

Finally, after Kelsey asks the age-old question, “did it involve goats?” we learn that this animal lover once saved a deer from a fence. What can’t she do?

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