Shared Diversity by Sina Port - Business, Branding, and Womanhood

However you might define the term "modest", we have all at some point negotiated whether we should show ourself on camera or on photos.   

How can I create a personal brand AND be modest? I was negotiating for a long time whether I want people to know my name or see my face when I create content. But nevertheless, I was trying to build a strong personal brand. So how can YOU create content without showing your face?  In this video, I show you the most effective content forms to create a brand without being on camera. 

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Feeling overwhelmed by the amount of content others post? Social Media takes just too much of your time? Are you thinking of how people could come up with so much to talk about?

Inshallah leave a comment: What's the audience, the one person you would like to serve?  

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How can I train my personality to level up myself and my brand? 

Today I'm talking with Nilly who's a trainer for Peak Performance and Personality Development about how you can become more effective, build your brand and leave REAL impact.

We covered:

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How to overcome the fear of failure and rejection and Ramadan mindset hacks to set better goals.

Afraid of risk, to jump into a new project or commit to a goal? Today we're covering how to get rid of insecurities with realistic, actionable habits that help us to set goals and achieve them, both in business and in private. Especially as we're starting into a new year, Ramadan 2019 is approaching to test us on our goalsetting abilities.

It's never really "easy", whether we are looking to grow in our career, establish a business or independence as a Muslim woman.

Wearing hijab, praying at work, building your brand on social media are legitimate fears just as having a main and a side hustle, raising children or moving to another country could be other sources of pressure. But apart from bigger fears, there are also day-to-day situations which can make us feel desperate and fearful. 

Amina from the Book Nomad podcast shares with us how she developed the skill to overcome the fear of failure. 

We are covering actions steps on:

As Ramadan is starting, we are also covering topics of

Inshallah, we would love to hear from you: How do you overcome the fear of failure in your life?

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Inshallah leave a comment: What is YOUR strength that you should spend all day developing?  

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Today we're talking about a MAJOR tip to help you structure your day to be more productive and successful.   Many time we are told we should focus on our weaknesses and work to turn them into our strength. 

Holla if you’ve heard this before: “Find out your weaknesses and make them your strengths. Girl, you need to balance your skills so in the end you are good in everything.”  

Well, I believe this is NOT the way you should live your life (and research backs me up). Especially when you think about the time you have in a day. I’ve been struggling a lot to understand how I should prioritize my day to get the most out of it. 

Especially when I was doing things that didn’t come natural to me, I often felt exhausted and defeated.   Focusing on your weaknesses kills your energy! So that you feel exhausted and unproductive all at once, although you’ve been working hard on yourself.  

In this episode I’ll give you the 5min fix on how to my should actually spend your day. 

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You get easily distracted from the competition? Wondering how to compete effectively? This episode is all about crushing your competition. How?

By focusing on your personal brand.  

We will cover what is personal branding and why it is important!  

Leave your comment below: What are you struggling with right now in your brand?

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Just ask yourself the question: When have you compared yourself the last time to your competition and do you really know how to compete effectively? Comparison is so normal it happens to all of us if you are small or big if you are in the first stage of your business or very much advanced in what you do. You just compare yourself and you think I don't know how I can really level up to their level. How come they are crushing me and it can be really frustrating. The first takeaway I would give you is: Creativity doesn't come through competition. Actually competition kills creativity most of the times. That's because we don't have the focus on ourselves we have to focus on the people that we think are better than us and it really doesn't help us to look at what makes us unique. So the next point is branding really helps you to overcome that. Why? Because branding is your reputation and your reputation matters, because it can crush your competition. It doesn't matter if your competition has ten years more experience than you or has 100,000 more clients than you or followers it really matters what is your reputation.

What do they say about Maryam doing photography or what do they say about Zeynep delivering any kind of service? Whatever you are doing it's really not about how much experience you have and that is going to crush the competition. But what do people tell about you? And most importantly what do they say about you behind your back? You want people to talk about you and your business your brand in the best way possible! 

So how can you really create a stunning reputation something that holds on for years and might even overlive you?

Three ways:

1. What is your purpose? 

What is the purpose of your brand? What is the WHY behind what you do? Why are you doing what you're doing? Why do you want to add value to your audience? That's the most important in many ways why do you want to add value to your audience and what is really the purpose behind what you started.

Is it because you wanted to leave a mark for your audience? Is because you wanted to make their lives easier? Is it because you wanted to just solve one specific problem for them? A lot of times it's a combination of these three but you need to know your WHY what's the purpose.

2. What are your characteristics? 

What are the characteristics of your brand. That could be really: What is your personality like? Are you adventurous are you emotional are you funny are you relatable. That are the characteristics of your brand as well. So what are the kind of characteristics and values you want to be known for you can kind of think about 1-3 characteristics that you want people to repeat when they introduce you and your brand 

Three is the most important and the whole line of things that you need to create a reputation is:

3. Execution.

You need to execute 1. and 2. you need to execute your purpose and everything you do and you need to execute your characteristics execution can come through the products and services that you create. Through the content that you create around these products and services and around your brand. 

Purpose + Characteristics + Execution = Your reputation

M asked "How can I be innovative? What can I do when my business idea already exists?" 

It's ShareTimeTuesday when You share your questions and I answer them! If you have a question, feel free to send me a tweet with #sharetime to @sharediversity or fill up the form on https://sharediversity.com/, we will keep all your questions anonymous! 

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COMMENT BELOW: 

1. What crazy idea have you had but you thought no-one needs it? 

2. What is your USP, your unique characteristic that no one can copy you in? 

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Ever heard someone saying - "You just have to come up with this one idea, this innovation, and you’ll make it big." ? It's not that easy, but I'll share with you what you can ACTUALLY do to make your ideas work (even if they already exist a thousand times!) 

Actions Steps: 

1. Realise, ideas won't make you a legend 

2. Calm down and breath 

3. Focus on one particular market that is not catered to yet 

4. Realise your USP is you 

And last but most importantly: 

Know that Allah has given you this idea so you can make something out of it, so it leads you to something incredible so it will further your talent and ambition Keep creating, keep disrupting, keep inventing new things out of your unique personality. 

🖤 Inshallah, if you’re interested in more videos about how to set yourself up for success in business, how to focus & achieve more of what REALLY MATTERS,

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You want to find a fitting mentor, get in touch with the best collaborators or be confident to connect on networking events:

I've put together a quick guide for you to keep your values and convince people of your talents. This is made for you especially sister! The episode will make you understand how to network effectively while keeping your modesty, communicating confidently and leaving a positive impression on anyone you meet.

Leave your comment at https://wp.me/p9Smx2-pB:

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Our topics:

2. How to be a good listener

3. Leaving a positive impact

4. Networking with men

5. Being honest

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Salaam!

One of the most common questions I get asked is,

Setting goals? Wondering how to organise the new year? In today’s Shared Diversity episode I’m sharing a simple 3 step process that helps me set goals for the new year (or any new phase of your life!), plus a great tool that we use in our team to make sure that we meet our visions and keep creating!

1) Which signs have you seen on yourself?

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There is a very big difference between goals and visions. You can set visions in the long term, but to be able to achieve success, you have to define your goals in a measurable & timely way.

How can you organise your goals effectively so you can avoid failing with your to-do lists and truly achieving success? Grab the guide on consuming vs creating. What content should you consume and how can you create more, continuously? Download the pdf here: https://sharediversity.com/create-vs-…

You have to lead yourself to success.. But more importantly, you have to lead others. Find out your strengths and capabilities by writing down what you are happy to do and what people praise you to do regularly. This way, you will gather the right people around you who will contribute to your growth.

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Salaam!

Disclaimer: This episode was a lot of fun! So be prepared to laugh!

Ikhlas is a writer, storyteller and digital media strategist, with a passion for religion, culture and education. She's also the creator & co-founder of the Identity Politics Podcast a podcast on race, gender and Muslims in America.

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Top skills and attitudes to make it in media and reach your communities

Ikhlas discusses with us How you can make it as a female founder starting to grow an online presence. As the founder of one of my favourite podcasts, she also shares her top tips to get into podcasting, find a co-host and build a team. As both wives, media marketers and founders, we talk about how to balance marriage and ambitions, and how to upgrade your productivity! 

Make sure to listen till the end to find out the Top skills and attitudes to make it in media and reach your communities!

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