Branding is one of those elusive topics that everyone who is a creative or an entrepreneur talks about at some point in their career, but if you're kind of like us, you probably have a few icky feels around the word--given it's origins around searing cattle (and people) and all. In this episode, we peel back the veil of the first module of the Building Brave Mastermind to explore the three key differences between Brand, Branding, and Brand Strategy and how we can begin to right our relationship to what happens we move our work into the marketplace. 

Also, we're super excited to have Michael Rosenberg, our Strategic Advisor and UX Strategist for the Building Brave Course on the podcast today. We're excited to explore having him on as a cohost now and again, so let us know what you think.

About Michael Rosenberg

About the Building Brave Mastermind 

Building Brave is a 12-week brand strategy intensive for wild-hearted artists and entrepreneurs who long to show up sharing their work without selling out their souls to the internet. We begin our next cohort on December 21. Join us here: www.braveschool.co/the-building-brave-mastermind

There are two different kinds of silence in the creative process: intentional silence and self-silence. Intentional silence can be an amazingly healthy way to take ownership of our voices and dial in to the intuition. Self-silence is a different story.

We were born with this fundamental right to open our mouths at birth and proclaim our presence into space and time with the sound of our voices, yet as we grow through our experiences from childhood to adulthood, we find ourselves shrinking that individual and audacious sound until it is palatable and deemed a worthy fit for the society we have learned to blend in to.

So much of our silence is birthed from a fear of being invalidated. We shrink into self-silence when we fear that we will be admonished for taking up too much space or for doing it wrongly. Self-silence is not the same as choosing to be quiet in order to allow another person to speak. It's not the same as intentionally getting quiet to dial into intuition or to listen. Self-silence is a coping mechanism used to cope with the trauma of being repeatedly rejected, abandoned or ignored.

In this episode we explore self-silence and how we might liberate our voices in the face of systemic oppression. Thank you for listening!

Wonder and Tension are two sides of the same coin. Both allow us pathways into immense amounts of adventure and curiosity. They both call to the voice inside of us to respond.

What does this have to do with the creative process?

Well, everything.

In this episode, we explore what I call the three tenets of the creative process: the voice, wonder, and the very heart of tension.

Liza (Crow Mother) is an Indigenous Woman, practicing as a  Reiki Master Teacher, Tarot Reader and Ordained Minister. Acting in this way as community servant, she is deeply committed to both ecological and community healing on both local and global levels - and with that, deeply committed to social justice and the healing and reparation of BIPOC communities and to the decolonization of wellness.

Human Design might be one of the most impactful and empowering personology systems I've ever taken to date. As a 2/4 Solar Plexus Projector, I have a natural bend toward deep curiosity and learning how systems work from the inside out. In this episode with Kate Marolt, we talk about how embodying our design can allow for more self-loving and self-knowing. We talk about Kate’s journey to embodiment, the ups and downs, and how she now serves as a coach, facillitator, and human design reader, helping people see themselves a little more clearly.

Kate Marolt is a transformational coach, teacher,` and artist who helps smart, driven women all over the world to ditch perfectionism, trust themselves more, and create deeply joyful and fulfilling lives (without selling out their health, relationships, or souls in the process).

She believes that joy is our natural state, and that as you heal your connection with your body, repair trust in yourself and your voice, and learn to live in tune with your natural energy and rhythm, you can truly thrive and find your version of success and fulfillment: in creative endeavors, relationships, body freedom, and purposeful work.

Drawing on her 10+ years of experience as a life coach, movement teacher, energy worker, athlete, visual artist, human design reader, and retreat leader, Kate brings a potent blend of magic and practical focus to the table in the form of deep embodiment work, playful self-discovery, and intuitive healing practices. She supports people via her private coaching practice, group programs and classes, and transformational retreats.

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What were you taught to believe about branding?

"Nothing that has existed so far was the right way for everyone, but there are pieces out there that we can reimagine together." - Adrienne Maree Brown

Erin Telford is a Breathwork facilitator and healer, former acupuncturist, Reiki Master, herbalist and a teacher of David Elliott's Level One Breathwork Healer Training.  Her work guides people to look within, open their hearts and heal their relationship with themselves.  Her group sessions, trainings and retreats empower her clients to connect to their innate wisdom so that they can find the answers they are looking for. 

In this podcast interview, we welcome our brand new resident herbalist and friend, Kat Itz. She is a creative dreamer, a weaver, a dabbler in all things circus. She's a lover of plants, a big fan of giggles, and an enthusiastic student of life. As an herbalist, massage therapist, and yoga and aerial fabrics instructor, Kat strives to facilitate shifts. Toward an empowering sense of wholeness. She believes in the healing power of expressive movement, the gravity of intuition and the transformative magic of vulnerability. 

In this episode we discuss the sheer beauty of getting to mirror the earth in all of her cycles--from life to rebirth, to death and grief. We talk about how our relationships to ourselves, each other, and the earth may nurture our self-trust and sense of bravery. Follow Kat for more musings at www.bigbrightcircle.com and on IG as @bigbrightcircle. Enjoy!

By the time that you hear this podcast episode, we would have been a little bit beyond mercury retrograde and into the shadow period of mercury retrograde, which happens right after all of the chaos ensues, we would be right in the middle of Scorpio season, feeling all the feelings that we are here to feel.

And all of that is important to know because our next podcast guest, Timil Jones, is a wonderful friend, oracle and astrologer at Overflow. You can find her at the Overflow on Instagram, and she has been a friend of the Brave School community since day one. And we're so excited and thrilled to announce her as our community astrologer She, every quarter, we'll be offering us wisdom goodness, advice, guidance on how to move into the next season. The next three months of being. You will hear from her again around the Winter Solstice, where she will share goodness, valuable tips, and wisdom from her heart and her spirit and her connection with spirit to ours.

About Timil Jones

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Welcome to the Brave School Podcast! I'm so excited that you're here. The Brave School Podcast is Narrative Medicine for the Wild-Hearted Artist and Entrepreneur who longs to show all the way up to their creative process without selling out their souls to the internet, capitalism, and the shitty systems that keep brilliant creatives silent and afraid to use their voices.