Many women aren’t aware of how default modes of being may hurt rather than help us. This is part of the powerful work I do with clients in my Unveil Your Brilliance signature program. Here’s an example of leadership transformation in action.

Your personal brand is a blueprint for how you want the world to see your business. Many entrepreneurs overlook this process, because they jump right into the design of the logo and collateral materials, wrongly assuming that these alone are their branding. But your brand is the foundation upon which your business is built. It’s an integral aspect of your business building and a secret weapon for your marketing.

I get very jazzed about helping women with their career transition, leaps, pivots, or reinvention. I know the power in our stories so in this post I share a very fast-tracked version of my professional journey to make a point about pivoting. My biggest lesson? Don’t go it alone.

Communicating your brand as a business owner is only as effective as your ability to connect and engage with your target market. Here are four strategies that can help you connect and communicate with confidence.

Discover the 5 pillars of creating a memorable and impactful business brand. When executed using this foundation, your brand will resonate on an emotional level with your target client or customer, so much so that they are drawn to you and your offerings and become champions for your brand.

As a professional, business owner, coach, or leader, your brand represents your Who and your Do. When those two aspects of yourself are fully integrated into your brand, the result is transformative and magnificent because it will represent the best of who you are and what you bring to the table. Here’s what you can expect working with a brand strategist.

As a purposeful woman desiring to craft a brand with impact, your brand’s voice conveys a large proportion of your brand’s persona so it is important to use a voice that matches the overall personality of your brand. Here are six questions you need to consider as you craft your brand.

Visualization is the process of creating a vivid mental image of a future event. Cognitive scientific research indicates that since the brain doesn’t know the difference between a real memory and an imagined one if you envision something vividly enough, your mind perceives it as something real that you’ve already experienced. This is why many celebrated athletes, such as Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Jack Nicklaus, and others successfully use visualization to level up their game. And so can you!

Without your Why You lose your way. Many small businesses fail in their marketing or messaging because they do not have a clear understanding of their Why—their reason for being. Understanding your Why is critical to ensuring that your product or service is well-differentiated, it informs how you articulate your brand’s value, and it enables you to tap into the core emotional connection your brand has with its customers.

Many newbies think personal branding is all about their social media presence and website design. While these are certainly important aspects of your marketing and branding, the heart of your personal brand is about you—your entire persona. It includes your personality, strengths, values, beliefs, experiences, and your own image. Here are six personal branding checkpoints.

Personal branding is still a concept that is misunderstood among women who are new in the quest to carve a niche for themselves. But it is a critical component of marketing, as it informs your messaging and is the heart of your identity as a professional or business owner. Make sure you build it on a solid foundation.