Making it to a Linkedin Top Voice with Selena Rezvani

About this episode

Selena Rezvani shares her journey to becoming a LinkedIn Top Voice and discusses the importance of confidence and self-advocacy.

Have you ever held onto an idea so tightly — workshopping it, perfecting it, protecting it — that you never actually put it out into the world? Have you ever wondered if the path to finding your voice is less about getting it right and more about just getting it out ? Selena Rezvani didn't get to where she is by waiting for an invitation. She got there by writing a typewriter-typed appeal letter to save her college education. By cold-emailing CEOs she had zero connections to. By showing up on TikTok in her forties and going viral in ways she never saw coming. A Wall Street Journal bestselling author, LinkedIn Top Voice, and one of the most sought-after voices on quick confidence and modern leadership, Selena has built her entire career on one foundational belief: you have to be your own vocal champion, because nobody else is going to ask on your behalf. But this episode goes deeper than the highlight reel. Selena gets raw about her recent journey with PMDD — a diagnosis that rattled her foundations and forced the woman who teaches confidence to find her own footing again. She talks about what it's like to be the student of what you teach, why she believes passing the ball is…

People in this episode

Host: Jess Ekstrom

Guest: Selena Rezvani

Topics covered

• confidence
• leadership
• personal development
• mental health
• entrepreneurship

Keywords

• LinkedIn Top Voice
• confidence
• PMDD
• entrepreneurship
• viral content
• leadership
• self-advocacy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wall Street Journal, LinkedIn, TikTok

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