She Lost Her Job and Built a Business from 2 LinkedIn Posts | Mischa Collins

She Lost Her Job and Built a Business from 2 LinkedIn Posts | Mischa Collins

From The AI Why with Liam Lawson by Liam Lawson

April 23, 2026 · 1h 13m

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Mischa Collins shares her journey from losing her job to becoming a successful LinkedIn creator and entrepreneur.

Two years ago, Mischa Collins was let go from her marketing manager role at a startup. After months of applying to jobs she was overqualified for and hearing nothing back, she decided to stop playing the victim and take control. She posted about her journey on LinkedIn. It went viral. Then she posted again. That went even more viral. From just two posts, she signed three clients and launched her career as a full-time LinkedIn creator. Today, Mischa has grown to over 50K followers in just 18 months, runs a ghostwriting agency, coaches founders on personal branding, and is currently living in a "LinkedIn Influencer House" in Mexico with business partners Corey Blumenfeld and Charlie Hills. In this conversation with Liam, she breaks down exactly what's working on LinkedIn right now, why the algorithm has shifted more in the past month than in her entire time posting, and the specific content formats (infographics and cheat sheets) that are massively outperforming everything else. She also shares the real numbers behind her content: how a single post with a text overlay hit 80,000 impressions while the same post without one got just 5,000. Key Topics Covered How getting fired became…

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