In this episode, I’m having an open discussion with you about how being authentic to yourself can be a game-changer throughout your personal and professional life, even when the world seems to push back.

While I use LinkedIn as my most recent example, where my tiny following of a few hundred blew up to over 10,000 in under 5 months, without any marketing or advertising campaigns, I applied the same principles of true authenticity and identity that I used during my professional sporting years in the 1990s, university education (with dyslexia), and my entrepreneurship journey since 2002.

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