Season 7, Episode 12: How to Celebrate Pride On Brand! : A Special Collection of LGBTQ+ Executive Conversations

About this episode

Jayzen Patria celebrates Pride Month by amplifying the voices of LGBTQ+ leaders and discussing the importance of personal branding.

Happy Pride Month! In this special Pride Month episode of the Lead With Your Brand Podcast, Jayzen celebrates and amplifies the voices of LGBTQ+ leaders, executives, creatives, advocates, and changemakers from the Pride On Brand collection. But before diving into these powerful conversations, Jayzen opens with an important reminder: you have a brand, whether you realize it or not. The real question is whether you are consciously and strategically leading with the brand you want, or are you allowing others to define it for you? Jayzen shares a personal story from early in his career, when he realized that others were assigning a brand to him based on only one part of who he was. At first, it felt light and fun. But over time, he began to understand that the perception being created was not necessarily the brand that would help him move into the next level of leadership. It became a powerful “aha” moment: when you do not put your own brand forward, people will create one for you. This episode brings that lesson to life through a powerful Pride Month clip reel featuring LGBTQ+ leaders who have turned their identities, lived experiences, values, and visibility into sources of…

People in this episode

Host: Jayzen Patria

Topics covered

• LGBTQ+ leadership
• personal branding
• authenticity at work
• career breakthrough
• Pride Month

Keywords

• Pride Month
• LGBTQ+ leaders
• personal branding
• authenticity
• leadership superpowers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pride On Brand

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