My Brand Academy Blog

Here, we provide valuable insights, expert advice, and practical tools to help you build and scale your personal brand.

Whether you're just starting your journey or looking to elevate your influence, our blog offers strategies to unlock your full potential.

Dive in and start shaping the personal brand that will set you apart in your industry!

You already have a personal brand.
The problem is, people are interpreting it differently than you think.

And that’s why your value, visibility, and recognition may not reflect your actual ability.

In 3 minutes, discover how your personal brand naturally comes across, what signals you are sending, and what may be helping or limiting how you are seen.

This isn’t a personality test.

It’s a personal brand archetype assessment built around how people perceive, remember, and trust you.

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How To Build A Personal Brand Without Becoming An Influencer identity-led personal brand personal brand Jun 23, 2026

The Influencer Myth

Somewhere along the way, personal branding became associated with:

  • Going viral
  • Chasing followers
  • Daily posting
  • Attention seeking

That has created a lot of resistance.

Es...

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Your Story Is Your Strategy™ personal brand personal brand archetype personal branding Jun 23, 2026

Most people think strategy starts with a plan.

At My Brand Academy, we believe it starts with something deeper.

It starts with your story.

Because whether you realise it or not, your story has alre...

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Personal Branding vs Personal Marketing: Why Most People Get It Wrong personal brand personal brand archetype Jun 23, 2026

Marketing is how people discover you.

It helps create awareness.

It amplifies visibility.

It puts your ideas in front of an audience.

But marketing is not your brand.

It is simply the mechanism t...

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Which Personal Brand Archetype Are You? brand archetype personal brand Jun 23, 2026

Everyone has a personal brand.

Whether you manage it intentionally or not.

The challenge is that most people don’t know what theirs actually is.

Ask someone to describe themselves and they’ll usual...

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What Is a Personal Brand Archetype? brand archetypes personal branding Jun 23, 2026

 

What Is a Personal Brand Archetype?

 

Everyone has a personal brand.

Whether you manage it intentionally or not.

The challenge is that most people don’t know what theirs actually is.

Ask someo...

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Who Are You Really? Why Identity Is the Foundation of Every Personal Brand authentic personal brand career development identity identity-led personal brand personal brand personal branding personal growth self-awareness Jun 22, 2026

Most people spend years building a career.

Far fewer spend time understanding who they really are.

Yet every decision you make, every opportunity you pursue, every relationship you build, and every ...

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The Components Nobody Sees Are the Ones People Trust Most authenticity career growth credibility influence leadership personal brand reputation trust Jun 15, 2026

 Most people think trust is built through visibility.

The posts.

The presentations.

The achievements.

The moments everyone sees.

But after years of helping professionals, leaders, founders, and f...

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10,000 Subscribers Revealed One Clear Pattern brand identity career growth influence leadership brand linkedin newsletter personal brand personal branding reputation thought leadership visibility Jun 08, 2026

When I started writing The Brand Build, I wasn’t focused on subscriber numbers.

I wasn’t chasing vanity metrics.

I wasn’t trying to become a creator.

I simply wanted to share what I had learned fro...

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Ready. Fire. Aim. Why Action Creates Confidence action career development confidence courage leadership mindset personal brand personal growth self development Jun 01, 2026

Most people have the formula backwards.

They think success looks like this:

Get confident.
Get ready.
Take action.

But in reality, the people who make the biggest progress often follow a completely...

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The Hidden Power of Reframing: Change Your Story, Change Your Future career development confidence growth mindset leadership mindset personal brand personal growth reframing resilience self awareness May 25, 2026

Two people can experience the exact same event and walk away with completely different futures.

Not because the event was different.

But because the story they tell themselves about it is different....

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Write Your North Star Manifesto Before You Build Your Personal Brand brand identity career growth direction leadership north star personal brand personal development purpose values vision May 18, 2026

One of the most dangerous things you can build today is a personal brand without a compass.

From the outside, it may look successful.

You gain visibility.

You grow an audience.

You create opportun...

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Has AI Become the New Ozempic? The Truth Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud ai ozempic personal brand May 12, 2026

Everyone’s using it.

Everyone can see the results.

And yet strangely…

Nobody really wants to admit it.

AI is starting to feel a lot like Ozempic.

Not because they’re the same thing.

But because ...

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