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Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 202: Workplace Coaching vs. Edge Mover’s Coaching and Why You Need the LatterWorkplace coaching has been used for years to garner performance and results from employees...but it only goes so far. Traditional workplace coaching is limiting, and if you really want to see long-term, sustainable growth and development from your team and business, you need to be an Edge Mover’s coach. Where does traditional workplace coaching fall short and what is Edge Mover’s coaching? I answer these questions in episode 202, the catalyst of a new podcast series: Edge Mover’s Coach. Coaching is one of the most vital skills needed in the workplace, but it’s oft...2025-05-0151 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 199: How to “Own a Room”: 3 Executive Presence PrimersPeople with executive presence are often told they know how to “own a room,” igniting engagement and attention without saying a word. But what does this look like and how can you do it too? Using these three executive presence primers: Be intentional Define the stakes Bring your Brilliant Difference Owning a room isn’t about owning it, but making space for others, which is where intention, stakes, and your Brilliant Difference come into play. Tune into this new Executive Presence 101 episode and elevate your EP at work. Leadership Development Audit Apply...2025-04-1024 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 195: 3 No-Nonsense Rules for Influencing Executives and Senior Leaders (Part 2 of Influence Without Authority Series)If your message isn’t sticking, it’s because you’re not doing these three things. I’ll teach you exactly what these rules for influencing executives and senior leaders are, so people can buy into your ideas. Every. Time. Rule 1: Know your audience. Rule 2: Identify motivators. Rule 3: Plot the transformation journey. I’ve designed this episode as an immersive learning experience so you can see what these rules look like in action right away. Grab your copy of the Influence Amplifier Blueprint, fill it out, and translate the rules into your influence impact at work as I guide you alo...2025-03-1336 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 194: Why is Influence Important in Leadership? Learn From My Doozies (Part 1 of Influence Without Authority Series)You hear it all the time: you need to have influence at work. But why is influence important in leadership and what does it look like done right and wrong? You get to learn all of that from me. This episode sets the tone for a new series: Influence Without Authority. No matter your position—manager, executive, president—your title can change but what no one can take away from you is your ability to inspire. Want to persuade senior leaders to agree to an initiative? You need influence. Trying to gain buy-in for a new process? You n...2025-03-0636 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 193: 10 Strategies to Approach Change and Master Edge Moves in Your Career (Part 4 of Edge Moves Evolution Series)Approaching change and trying something new can be downright scary. But what if it didn’t have to be? It seems society has conditioned people to make change in one full swoop, immediately, seeking instant gratification, and it’s setting up people to fail. Making a big change or trying something new is like going into a polar plunge head-first versus tiptoeing in and getting your body adjusted—it shocks your system. What I’m saying is, your success of managing change and trying something new all comes down to how you approach change. With the right strategie...2025-02-2732 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 192: How to Identify Your Edge Moves (Part 3 of Edge Moves Evolution Series)It’s time to continue your Edge Moves Evolution journey. Get right to the good stuff at 2:26! Thank you for joining Finka for another week and committing to being a transformational leader by actualizing your Brilliant Difference through Edge Moves. In episode 190, she covered what Edge Moves are and how our brains react to threats, newness, and change. Then, in episode 191, she got deeper into Edge Moves by giving you types to think about applying in your role and work. And now, she’s peeling back the layers even more to help you identify what Edge Moves you can...2025-02-2036 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 191: 6 Types of Edge Moves (Part 2 of Edge Moves Evolution Series)We’re back to guide you on your Edge Moves Evolution journey. In episode 190, Finka covered what Edge Moves are, what motivates you to change, what your threat responses are to change, and how you can detect those patterns within yourself. This is a powerful episode to tune into if you want to figure out what keeps you in your comfort zone. But in this episode, Finka shares her own Edge Moves story so you can see what Edge Moves look like at work, as well as the six types of Edge Moves you can make and gle...2025-02-1347 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 189: A Manager’s Checklist for Moving into Senior Leadership (Part 4 of Leadership Mastery for Managers Series)Welcome to the concluding episode of the Leadership Mastery for Managers series on the Your Brilliant Difference Podcast. While it’s not detrimental to listen to the first three episodes before this one, we highly recommend you check them out after so you can connect and apply all your learnings at work. Episode 186: 5 Strategies to Design Your Leadership Growth Pathway Episode 187: Manager vs. Leader: These 7 Skills Will Set You Apart Episode 188: Meaningful Management: How to Lead and Work with Purpose Now, in episode 189, Finka Jerkovic double-clicks on another key finding from the Finka Inc. Career Advancement Forecast: 66% of res...2025-01-3050 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 188: Meaningful Management: How to Lead and Work with Purpose (Part 3 of Leadership Mastery for Managers Series)Welcome to another episode of the Your Brilliant Difference Podcast and part 3 of the Leadership Mastery for Managers series. If you haven't already, check out episode 186 to design your leadership growth pathway and episode 187 to learn about the skills to prioritize to get to your next leadership and career level. In episode 188, I outline how to inject meaning and purpose into your work so you can show up as a transformational leader, not just a transactional manager. This theme also stems from a key Finka Inc. Career Advancement Forecast finding: corporate professionals are burnt out, but they s...2025-01-2341 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 187: Manager vs. Leader: These 7 Skills Will Set You Apart (Part 2 of Leadership Mastery for Managers Series)Welcome to another episode of the Your Brilliant Difference Podcast and part 2 of the Leadership Mastery for Managers series. If you haven’t yet already, check out episode 186 to design your career growth pathway. In episode 187, I’ll be focusing on the seven skills you need in 2025 to help you get to the next level in your career. There’s no doubt about it—a title doesn’t make someone a leader. This is often why, in the workplace, people can pick apart leaders from managers. They carry a certain presence and particular skills that makes them shine from...2025-01-1635 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 186: 5 Strategies to Design Your Leadership Growth Pathway (Part 1 of Leadership Mastery for Managers Series)Welcome back to the Your Brilliant Difference Podcast! While the show paused over the holidays, Finka Jerkovic is back in action with an exciting new series that will help you pave a successful, meaningful pathway for your leadership and career in 2025: Leadership Mastery for Leaders. In this four-part series, she gives you high-level, tangible insights from her recent workplace report, Finka Inc. Career Advancement Forecast: Skills and Strategies to Rise at Work in 2025. In episode 186, she double-clicks on how to design your leadership growth pathway to achieve your workplace/career goals. According to the Finka In...2025-01-0948 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 185: End of Year Review: Your Guide to Reflecting and Setting Intentions for 2025A whole calendar year is 365 days, about 52 weeks, and 12 months. From a high level, it looks like a whole lot of time, yet at the end of every year I find myself saying, “Where did the time go?” It’s already the end of 2024. Year ends can impact everyone differently. While some feel the pressures of things they didn’t get to throughout the year, some celebrate reaching milestones. No matter if you’re anxious, excited, celebratory, or self-blaming, in this Your Brilliant Difference Podcast episode, I guide you through how to reflect on your 2024 year and set managea...2024-12-1948 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 184: Build Your Brand and Credibility with Public Relations: Get the Inside Scoop from PR Pro Abbie SheridanPublic relations can be a powerful tool to help you elevate your brand, thought leadership, and credibility. In fact, it has a key similarity to personal branding. They both involve engaging and tailoring your message so that it best resonates with the audience/public. With personal branding, this is often done through avenues of conferences and social media posts, while PR includes press releases and articles. PR can be a guiding lens to look through for developing your personal brand, helping you know exactly what to say and what not to say. Who better to light the w...2024-12-1225 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 183: How to Present Your Authentic, Confident Voice with Julie JohnsonWhether you’re pitching an idea to leadership, leading a meeting, or delivering a keynote at a conference, they’re all forms of presenting. Within each method, you’re presenting your ideas, guiding other’s ideas, and aiming to inspire action within people. All of it can be stressful. Whether you speak to 5 people,15, 50, or 500, your palms may clam up and suddenly you’ve lost your train of thought, derailing from your perfectly crafted script. But here’s the thing — you don’t need a script to efficiently communicate. What you do need is your authentic, confident voice, which Julie Johnson wi...2024-12-0554 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 176: Your Power Unleashed: How to Get Promoted and Noticed with Kisha WynterYou have ambitious career goals, and you deserve to achieve them. But let’s face it. Getting there and making them happen is easier said than done. Thanks imposter syndrome and self-doubt, to name a few. But in this Your Brilliant Difference Podcast episode, Kisha Wynter, Founder of Wynter Rich Enterprises and Author of debut novel, Your Power Unleashed: How Savvy Women Use Courage to Get Promoted, Get Paid, and Find Fulfillment, teaches you her famous DIVA method and how it can help you get promoted and noticed at work, despite doubt and uncertainty. Wynter Rich...2024-10-1743 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 175: Engineering an Opportunistic and Emotionally Intelligent Workforce with Khristian JonesThere are two important concepts that make the workplace sphere go round: emotional intelligence (EQ) and giving back to the upcoming generations to ensure their success in our footsteps. But how can you lead those younger than you and embed emotional intelligence to create a safe, thriving environment? Khristian Jones will teach you how. As the Co-Founder of the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship and an Interiors Engineer at United Airlines, she’s passionate about diversifying the aerospace industry and opening space for all people. Through the fellowship, she leads and guides students in the aerospace field to ens...2024-10-1040 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 174: Ditch Work Stress for Wellness with Lori Saitz: How to Use Meditation for Decision-Making and Career AdvancementWe live in a world where we’re constantly off to the races. Off to the next project. Off to the next meeting. Off to the next social media post. Off to the next promotion. But when was the last time you slowed down and took a beat? You probably can’t recall, right? You’re not alone, but continuing this way can make it harder to overcome workplace and personal stress, preventing you from excelling in your career. In this week’s Your Brilliant Difference Podcast episode, you’ll learn the tools to turn things around from stress...2024-10-0344 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 173: From Fired to Fulfilled: How to Embrace Your Authentic Impact with Louise TaylorStanding out and embracing your differences isn’t easy, but it’s one of the most beneficial and fulfilling things that can help you grow personally and professionally within your career. Facing her fair share of obstacles and triumphs, Louise Taylor, Founder of FireflyEffect and the Collaborative Author of All Out Impact, explains how she’s persevered to live out her authentic impact despite career adversity. Louise is a passionate, discerning expert with over 20 years of experience as a corporate brand and marketing executive, leader, and entrepreneur. With a keen eye for what makes each business...2024-09-2642 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 171: The ROI of Mentorship with Kellan Brown: How to Build Mentor/Mentee Relationships to Thrive in Your CareerTeamwork makes the dream work. I know it’s an overused saying, but I love it because it’s so true. When we open our horizons, especially in our careers, and collaborate with people of different ages, backgrounds, and experiences, that’s when we make the dream work. That’s when we reach new milestones and hit new goals. Collaborating with others pushes us and tests us, so that we can develop and grow in ways we never thought possible. One of the best ways to collaborate and make your dream work in your career is through mentor/me...2024-09-1242 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 159: Engage Your Engines: 5 Strategies to Get Your Team Invested in Their Roles and Business MissionThe mid-year slump can be real. Leaders and employees within companies, you may be feeling exhausted from already conquering tons of meetings, completed tasks, executed projects, etc. You may be wondering, “How can I put extra fuel in my tank to continue my authentic, best performance?” You can find the answers within this podcast episode. Back in April, I hosted a Workplace Engagement webinar that focused on helping leaders and employees re-engage in their roles, purpose, and mission. I’m opening that door of insight to give you an inside look at 5 strategies that can help you...2024-06-2043 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 156: 5 Lessons I Learned in the First Half of 2024—In a NutshellHow are we already embarking on June? Somehow, two business quarters have flown by. If you feel the same way—like with every blink the end of the year looms closer at a faster pace—then you’ll enjoy this episode. In episode 156, I outline 5 key lessons that I learned in the first half of 2024 that will help make the rest of your year easier and more fulfilling. Tune in to see what’s going on behind the scenes of my business and uncover shortcuts and inspiration nuggets to keep you motivated and performing at your best...2024-05-3039 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 147: Stand Out to Your Ideal Clients Using Your Business’ Brilliant Difference™Knowing what makes your brand different and how to effectively communicate that will help your brand stand out in a saturated market. But your business differentiator is more than the transactional details of your offer and how it compares to competitors; it’s about the transformation, experiences, and value you deliver to your clients. In this episode, we take a deeper look at business differentiators and how you can break through the noise not just by shining apart from your competition, but by communicating your difference and value in a way that builds solid ideal client relationships. 2024-03-2825 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 146: 3 Strategies to Help You Address the Crisis in Leadership ConfidenceDid you know that confidence in leadership is at a decade low? Only 40% of organizations believe their leadership is high-quality, meaning a gaping 60% don’t. This leads to employees who don’t trust their bosses and a lack of purpose all around, leading to the demise of workplace engagement and retention. But not all hope is lost. There are 3 things leaders can start doing today to help themselves and their teams rediscover their value, purpose, and trust. In this latest Your Brilliant Difference™ Podcast episode, Finka Jerkovic provides leaders 3 ways forward to help them navigate the stor...2024-03-2121 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 145: Your Job Title Doesn’t Define Your Leadership — This DoesThe traditional definition of leadership can actually be a doing a disservice to you and your company’s growth. Leadership isn’t just about guiding people and projects. Leadership is about staying committed to your mission when things get rocky. Leadership is about championing positive change and inspiring others. Leadership is about showing up wholly as yourself and taking initiative. In this episode, I debunk the traditional definition of leadership and redefine it to show you that leadership isn’t only limited to your job title. It’s not about what you do, but who you are. Listen to...2024-03-1423 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 144: The Transformative Power of Knowing Your Brilliant Difference™ with Ryan JonesWelcome to the second episode of the Your Brilliant Difference Podcast! If you have yet to listen to or watch the first episode, I highly recommend you do, as I explain everything to look forward to for this new podcast adventure. In this next episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Finka Inc.’s very own Ryan Jones. Working in marketing for 5 years, she joined the team back in June as our Marketing Operations Specialist and was taken aback by how different the onboarding process was, as well as the introduction weeks. She’d never been exposed to a...2024-03-0725 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 143: Welcome to the Your Brilliant Difference PodcastThings sure do look new around here, don’t they? New colours, new logo, and of course, a new podcast title: Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic. Welcome to the first episode! I’m so excited to kickstart my new podcast journey by giving you an inside scoop into the Your Brilliant Difference philosophy and how it enhances personal and professional growth. For 25+ years working in the sales and leadership sectors of financial services, I always felt like I had to change who I was to emulate my worth. Like I was a square peg tr...2024-02-2921 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementEpisode 99: How to Fall in Love with Sales GoalsThis week we’re on episode 99 and I want to talk about sales goals. We're going to talk about what they mean, what they are really are, and how you can use them in a very generative and productive way. With this episode I want you to fall in love with sales goals and stop making them your value and your worth Specifically, here’s what you will learn: Why sales goals and targets are not just about the numbers Why your sales goals and targets are really a demonstration of the impact...2023-02-2226 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementThe Power of the Follow-UpThis week we’re on episode 98 and I want to talk about the power of the follow-up. There are so many opportunities that fall through the cracks because we don’t follow up. Imagine that if every time we fall through on our follow up, we're actually pulling back on the dreams and the goals that our clients are seeking. We are preventing them from happening, because we're not doing our job with the follow up. Specifically, here’s what you will learn: Why you should make your clients priorities your priority Why the follow...2023-02-1414 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Secure More ClientsI’m inching closer to reaching my commitment of 100 episodes! Stay tuned to find out what I have decided and what’s next for the Sell From Love Podcast. This week we’re on episode 97 and I want to talk about growing your business and securing more clients. In the Sell From Love Accelerator program, we are currently in the midst of our monthly Offer a Day week practice where we actively put out offers to our audience. So often we get stuck in the busy work and forget to put ourselves out there so I want...2023-02-0722 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to leverage your business with Fabienne FredricksonWelcome to episode 95. In today's episode, I have Business Growth Mentor, Coach, Speaker & Author Fabienne Frederickson joining me. Fabienne Fredrickson is a powerful catalyst for solo business owners who seek to make the greatest impact they can in their work, while creating certainty in their business and financial security in their lives. The thing that gets her out of bed each morning? She believes that when women make their own money (and lots of it), they experience a profound feeling of safety in their life. That’s when they take up more space in...2023-01-2445 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement3 Tips to Increase your Sales Confidence for 2023Welcome to episode 94. We have been talking about planning this month and today we’re going to dive a bit deeper into how to achieve your sales goals and move forward with confidence. I will be giving my tips on what you can be doing that will help you have more confidence in achieving your 2023 goals. Specifically, here’s what you will learn: How to step into your natural confidence Why discovering and claiming your brilliant difference is the foundational step of loving yourself How to tune into the right frequency by crea...2023-01-1721 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Avoid Sabotaging Your 2023 GoalsWelcome to episode 93. We are in the midst of planning our 2023 year in the Sell From Love Accelerator. We are looking at our goals, breaking them down into quarters and thinking about what we want to achieve, what we want to be and where we want to get to in our sales and revenue for this year. I want to give you some insights on how to get better at planning. In this episode, I talk about the 3 ways in which you can be sabotaging yourself from the get go as you look at 2023. 2023-01-1013 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Set Goals you’ll Actually Achieve in 2023Welcome to episode 92. This is the first episode of 2023! Today we are going to talk about goals and how you can look at 2023 and plan out your sales goals. I talk about my approach to goal setting and how to really get focused and clear on what you’re going to be doing and the outcomes that you want to be creating and generating for your business Specifically, here’s what you will learn: What is the ABC method and how can you use it while planning out your year? Why it’s impo...2023-01-0620 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementMaking money is a good thing with Colleen O’Connell-CampbellWelcome to episode 91. In today's episode, I have Colleen O'Connell-Campbell joining me. Colleen O'Connell-Campbell, lead of O'Connell-Campbell Wealth Management at RBC Dominion Securities. Colleen specializes in building and strategizing financial plans that optimize how entrepreneurs, self-made millionaires, & wealthy families spend save, and share their wealth. She’s the host of the podcast ‘I’m a millionaire so now what?’ and publishes a weekly blog and speaks regularly as an expert in areas relating to wealth management and entrepreneurship. Colleen is on a mission to double the number of self-made millionaires in Canada by 2030 and believes that wealth is a beau...2022-12-2747 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to be a successful HSP Entrepreneur with Louise TaylorWelcome to episode 90. In today's episode, I have Louise Taylor joining me. Louise Taylor helps clients develop powerfully authentic brands. Over her 20+ years as a corporate brand and marketing executive and entrepreneur, her fascination with the power of a brand and its impact on a business’s success has fuelled her desire to help companies become the best and most authentic versions of themselves. As a brand master and Fascinate Certified Advisor, HSP and empath, Louise has developed purposeful programs that guide business leaders to reveal and refine their purpose, values, and differences, so they can nurture a t...2022-12-2052 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to keep your options open – Live Coaching EpisodeWelcome to episode 88. This is a ‘live coaching’ episode! In this episode you’ll hear a coaching conversation with Business Development Manager Sabine Perry. Sabine is the founder of XBODY New Zealand Ltd., the first person to bring Electro Muscle Stimulation (EMS) Technology with full body suits to New Zealand. She has been working with EMS since 2007, trained hundreds of clients personally and owned EMS-Studios in Germany and New Zealand since 2009. She has been on the PT Council of Germany for more than 5 years, been on the advisory board of Europe’s fastest growing fr...2022-12-1355 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to grow your business with SEOWelcome to episode 89. In today's episode, I have Alison Knott joining me. Alison K is a Halifax-based SEO and web consultant that helps small teams convert the curious into clients. She’s an international speaker and educator who's passionate about the intersection of web, creativity and marketing. Her main mandate: to raise web and digital marketing literacy for small but mighty brands putting good into the world! Alison and I talk about what SEO is and why it’s important for us to show up for people that don’t know we exist yet. Spec...2022-12-1345 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to promote yourself with ease and integrity with Lisa BraggWelcome to episode 86. In today's episode, I have Lisa Bragg joining me. Living with the name Bragg, Lisa has had to master the art and science of self-promotion. She’s seen when being too humble has cost international deals and when bragging right has unlocked opportunities leading to untold fortunes. Lisa helps high-achievers of all sorts to be seen, heard and share their value with the world. She delivers keynotes and workshops to international audiences. Her book, Bragging Rights: How to Talk About Your Work Using Purposeful Self-Promotion will be released in 2023. Lisa is the award-winning entrepreneur beh...2022-11-2935 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Grow Your Business Beyond ReferralsWelcome to episode 85. This is a ‘live coaching’ episode! In this episode you’ll hear a coaching conversation with Leadership Coach and Consultant, Kimberly Snider. Kimberly advocates for your success - in business and in your personal life. She is inspired by people's courage, leadership, self-development, adventures and their BIG DREAMS. Kimberly is a "People-Person! She understands Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology and leading a team. She is an activator that makes things happen - turning leaders' and teams' ideas into action. She brings dynamic leadership coaching so great leaders can build flourishing teams. Kim...2022-11-2243 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to choose what is right for your businessIn this episode, we are going to talk about how to make some big decisions. I walk through the process that I've gone through over the past year to make some decisions in my business and provide you some ideas, insights and inspiration to move forward in your business. Specifically, I'm going to talk about the decision process through my book, my business and the clients I serve, and marketing my business. Specifically, here’s what you will learn: What you need to be thinking about right now as you plan for 2023. Why...2022-11-1538 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to deliver a clear and confident elevator pitchWelcome to episode 83. This is a ‘live coaching’ episode! In this episode, you’ll hear a coaching conversation with leadership coach Lisa. Lisa loves what she does and the impact she brings to clients but is having trouble articulating what she does as it’s not tangible. Lisa wants to walk away with an elevator pitch that would give her direction on starting the conversation with people. We talk through what Lisa’s clients come to her for; what have them say yes; what they work through; and the outcome after they work together. Lisa walks away w...2022-11-0838 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to overcome a confidence interruptionWelcome to episode 81. I had the honor of speaking to a number of coaches and consultants over the summer and will be publishing a series of these podcasts over the upcoming weeks here on the Sell From Love podcast. These episodes will give you a glimpse into a particular challenge that a coach, consultant or an advisor is experiencing. In our second episode of this series, I am joined by Heather. Heather is in the dental industry and she is looking to find her passion again with a clear direction of where she wants to g...2022-10-2549 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementThe Work Before the Work with Paul M CaffreyWelcome to episode 80. In today's episode, I have Paul M Caffrey joining me. Paul M. Caffrey is the lead author of “The Work Before the Work“, the critically acclaimed book explores the hidden habits elite sales professionals use to outperform the competition. Paul’s work focuses on professional preparation to help salespeople prospect better, sell more and get promoted faster. Paul is highly educated in the fields of science and business, and has spent the past fourteen years mastering his chosen craft—sales. He is an elite sales professional, trusted by some of the world’s biggest b...2022-10-1850 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementTo Niche or Not To NicheWelcome to episode 79. In this episode we are going to dive a little bit deeper on a continuation from episode 78, where I did a live coaching session with Lori Blatt to help her figure out her niche and who she should be serving. Today I want to change your mindset around niching and help you navigate those potential blocks that happen because of fear. Specifically, here’s what you will learn: The benefits of diving deep in a particular category Problems that can happen when you don’t know where to focus your...2022-10-0435 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementWords that Sell with Copywriter Kate BonnycastleWelcome to episode 76. In today's episode, I have Kate Bonnycastle joining me. Kate insists that "word nerd" is not an insult. She helps her clients remove the roadblocks of writing so they can get on with their purposeful work. Whether the words get stuck in their head, ramble down the page, or come up short on personality. Kate brings Word Power to help clients craft their message & cultivate their style, so they feel confident and proud to share their point of view. Kate and I talk about her journey in writing, the importance being vulnerable a...2022-09-1343 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementLead Conversations that Count with Carolyn EllisWelcome to episode 75. In today's episode, I have Carolyn Ellis joining me. Carolyn Ellis is the award-winning author of Lead Conversations that Count: How Busy Managers Run Great Meetings. She is passionate about helping leaders take meetings and relationships up a notch. Why? Because most meetings aren’t great and the rise of remote and hybrid work post-pandemic is magnifying the problem. As a Leadership Adaptability and Engagement Expert with over 25 years of experience working in complex and changing organizations, Carolyn is passionate about helping leaders create meaningful connections, stronger relationships, and trust within teams so people can...2022-09-0650 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow your past is from holding backWelcome to episode 74. In this episode, we are going to dive a little bit deeper into a continuation from Episode 73, where we talked about making time for those things that are most important to you, especially when life things and other people get in the way of your goals, ambitions, and desires. In episode 73 we specifically talked about the external things we can do, so this week we dive into those internal things we can do to help get more of what we want. Specifically, here’s what you will learn: How do...2022-08-3027 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to create more time for what is most important to youWelcome to episode 73. We've been talking a lot in our Sell from Love Accelerator about how to get stuff done. It’s summertime and a lot of us have created extra space and freedom for ourselves. Then we have these moments where we start to think to ourselves, ‘Am I not committed to my work? Have I lost my zest and interest in my business? Am I lazy?’ In this episode, I talk about what is contributing to these thoughts and what to do when you're in those moments. Specifically, here’s what you will...2022-08-2339 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementBuild a Beautiful Business with Steven MorrisWelcome to episode 72. In today's episode, I have Steven Morris joining me. Steven Morris helps business leaders build unignorable brands, cultures, and businesses through his work as an advisor, author, and speaker. He has worked with business leaders from Samsung, Sony, Habitat for Humanity, Amazon, International Trademark Association, NFL, MLB, and over 250 other brands. Over his 27 years as an entrepreneur, he’s served more than 3,000 global business leaders. His new book is entitled The Beautiful Business: An Actionable Manifesto to Create an Unignorable Business with Love at the Core (published on 11/11/21 by Conscious Capitalism Press). His previous boo...2022-08-1647 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement3 Ways to Get More of What you WantWelcome to episode 71 In today's episode we're going to talk about how to design the future of your life and your business so that it fits perfectly to what you envision it to be. I’ll give you some tips, tricks and how-to’s on how you could create the business the life that you dream of and that you deserve. This episode is inspired by a fabulous book by Dr. Benjamin Hardy called “Your Future Self Now”. Dr. Hardy teaches 7 steps on how to create your future self now and I am going to talk abo...2022-08-0222 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to use your origin story to increase your sales and impactWelcome to episode 70 In today's episode, I talk to you about perseverance and commitment, and diving in and doing the hard stuff to see your idea, your project, your business, and your impact come to fruition. In the Sell From Love Accelerator, we just recently finished our Quarterly Sales Skill Builder session where we focused on four skills. The first skill is focused on practice makes permanent, which means to never stop working at it and owning that mindset. The second skill we talked about is around crafting your origin story and having a Storyselling...2022-07-2621 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement7 Lessons I’ve learned jumping from corporate to being an entrepreneur.Welcome to episode 69. In the Sell From Love Accelerator, we’re currently working on Q3 planning. This involves reviewing Q2 and creating goals and plans for Q3. As I was reflecting on my Q3 plan, I was thinking about what I have learned over the years. What are some of the things that have helped me and some things that have hindered me. In today's episode, I want to share the 7 lessons I’ve learned jumping from the corporate world to being an entrepreneur. I also talk a bit about where I'm going in the future...2022-07-1934 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Plan the Exit from Your Business with Christine NicholsonWelcome to episode 68. In today's episode, I have Christine Nicholson joining me. Christine Nicholson is a multi-award-winning professional business mentor. Christine has been helping businesses in different sectors succeed for over 30 years and, at one point, took over the running of a zoo in the middle of a desert. She was also the UK Business Mentor of the Year in 2021.She has written four books, 5 Minute Finance: The Business Owners Guide to Understanding Your Numbers, What’s Your Profit Score?: Your Fast Track to Business Success, How to BUILD a Unicorn: 5 Steps to a Successful Technology Business and...2022-07-1241 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Win Client Business with Doug FletcherWelcome to episode 67. In today's episode, I have a great chat with Doug Fletcher about the consumer buying journey. Doug Fletcher has 25 years of client development experience in management consulting, and is the best-selling author of How To Win Client Business and How Clients Buy (with co-author Tom McMakin). Doug is a leading U.S. educator on the topic of client development in consulting & professional services. He splits his time between speaking, writing and teaching. In addition to his consulting, Doug also serves on the board of directors of The Beacon Group, a growth strategy consulting firm...2022-07-0536 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to get through the hard stuffWelcome to episode 65. In the last episode of the Sell From Love podcast, I spoke about some of the hard stuff that shows up, like imposter syndrome, and how that could be a sign. I want to take this week’s episode to give a couple more examples of how that resistance could be the way. I speak about my experience, how I have committed to this podcast and what helps me stick through the hard stuff. I also talk about what I have planned for season 4 of the Sell From Love podcast and it’s very exci...2022-06-2114 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementCould Imposter Syndrome be a sign?Welcome to episode 64. In today's episode, I dive a bit deeper from my conversation with Teresa Health-Wareing last week about overcoming fear. I talk about imposter syndrome and self-doubt and how we can not only navigate those moments and be kind and compassionate to ourselves, but how we can also limit them through self-care practices and acceptance. Specifically, here’s what you will learn: How you can use fear to help you know if you’re on the right path What is the contract you could be making with yourself to move forwa...2022-06-0716 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementMarketing strategies to grow your biz!Welcome to episode 63. In today's episode, I chat with Teresa Heath-Wareing all about marketing trends and strategies! Teresa is an International best-selling author, award winning speaker, TEDx speaker, trainer, podcaster and business owner. She is an online business, marketing & mindset expert who works with business owners from across the world, helping them to build a business and life they love. Teresa and I have a great chat about her TEDx talk and how she had the confidence to trust herself to do it and in a way that felt good to her. We also dive into marketing...2022-05-3144 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementA must-have sales skillWelcome to episode 62. In today's episode, I will be talking about the most important skill each and every one of us need in our businesses and in our lives and how it is not only a determinant of your success but also of your happiness and fulfillment. I’ll go through my own experiences in uncovering my strengths and weaknesses and how I work with them to get the results I want. Specifically, here’s what you will learn: Why having hobbies outside of work are so important Why self-awareness is fundamental to yo...2022-05-1729 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to use LinkedIn to bring Human(e) Connections back to MarketingWelcome to episode 61. Today I have Sarah Santacroce joining me. Over a decade of running a successful LinkedIn Consulting business inspired a yearning in Sarah to create a global movement that encourages people to bring more empathy and kindness to business & marketing. As a ‘Hippie turned Business Coach’, Sarah has written two books, hosts the Humane Marketing podcast and works with heart-centered entrepreneurs to question their assumptions when it comes to marketing & give them permission to market their business their way, the gentle way! Sarah shares a fresh perspective and doesn’t shy away f...2022-05-1046 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Differentiate without Disparaging your CompetitionWelcome to episode 60. In today's episode, we're going to talk about an exercise I took our SFL Accelerator members through a couple of weeks ago. It's something that we do every quarter where we spend a couple hours, practicing and learning sales skills and learning how to do them more authentically so they feel good and easy. Selling is a skill. It's not something that we always know how to do. For some it comes a little bit more naturally and for the rest of us, it's about learning how to do it better. And we do t...2022-05-0318 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Make a Plan that Leads to Inevitable SuccessWelcome to episode 58. In today's episode, we're going to talk about planning. In our Sell From Love Accelerator program, we are in the process of Q2 planning. We’re talking about our goals, commitments, intentions, what we want to create, who we want to be, and what impact we want to make in the world. I want to talk about the importance of goal planning and how to create a plan that feels easy and doable, and at the same time, something that you can get excited about. We'll also talk about how you c...2022-04-1927 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to use LinkedIn to Grow Your BusinessWelcome to episode 57. Today I have Mike Freed joining me. Mike Freed began his career in a hunter sales role at Cintas. He relocated to the US as a first-time manager where he fell in love with leadership. After multiple President Club wins with Cintas, he came back to Canada when recruited by Grainger where he stayed 11 years in progressive roles up to Director of Sales Effectiveness nationally. He is currently Director of Sales at Boundary Electric, supporting crypto currency mining. Mike is known for inspiring energy, inclusion, and results reliability. He leads with empathy a...2022-04-1239 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to get your brain to do scary stuffWelcome to episode 56. Today want to continue the conversation from our last episode with Tara Heaton. In this episode, I explore a little bit deeper around how our brain helps us and how it hinders us from putting ourselves out there and doing some of those sales activities that can be a little bit scary. I talk a bit about our old brain’s function on keeping us safe and anchored in certainty and about our new brain’s function that thrives on novelty and likes trying new things. I will take you through a pers...2022-04-0518 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Sell from Love – A Real Life ExampleWelcome to episode 54. On today’s episode, I want to tell you a little bit about what's going on in our farm here and give you an update on how my book writing experience is going. I am also going to tell you about an experience that one of my clients had as she was out there selling from love Specifically, here’s what you will learn: What’s going on in my farm life and work-life How I’m making time for my most important thing (MIT) projects A great example that shows us why se...2022-03-2217 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementThe Advice Ripple EffectWelcome to episode 53. Today I have Julie Littlechild joining me. Julie is the Founder & CEO of Absolute Engagement, a firm that provides innovative technology, tools and guidance to help advisors - and advisory firms - use input from clients to drive profound engagement and significant growth. Julie has worked with and studied successful financial advisors and their clients for more than twenty years and conducts one of the largest investor research studies to examine what clients need, want and expect. She is the author of a popular blog, the co-host of the Becoming Referable podcast, and the...2022-03-1534 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement3 Myths Holding You Back from Having More ConfidenceWelcome to episode 52! Last week on episode 51, Larry Levine and I discussed how when you are selling your products, the biggest differentiator is you. How do you stand out and differentiate yourself? One of the biggest factors is confidence. Today in this episode I want to talk about confidence, some of the myths around confidence and how you can fuel that confidence. Specifically, here’s what you will learn: Misconceptions around confidence How to fill up your bucket of confidence How doing the scary stuff can fuel our confi...2022-03-0819 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow authentic selling will get you more clients with Larry LevineLarry Levine is the best-selling author of Selling from the Heart and the co-host of the Selling from the Heart Podcast. With 30 years of in-the-field sales experience within the B2B technology space, he knows what it takes to be a successful sales professional. Larry helps sales teams leverage the power of authenticity to grow revenue, grow themselves and enhance the lives of their clients. He has coached sales professionals across the world and they all appreciate the practical, real, raw, relevant, relatable and “street–savvy” nature of his coaching. Larry believes people would rather do business with a...2022-03-0136 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementWelcome to Season 3Welcome to a brand-new season of the Sell from Love Podcast. I had some much-needed downtime over the holidays and took some time to think deeply around my business and where I want to move things going forward. I am taking Sell from Love to a new level and I am excited to share the details with you. Today in this episode I also want to provide some insights and tips on annual planning and what you can do to reach your highest potential, fulfill your dreams and help as many clients as you are...2022-02-2218 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow stop wasting money on more courses and coaching.Welcome to episode 49. I don’t know about you, but I love to learn. I love books, podcasts, courses – pretty much anything that can teach me how to be better. But what I’ve discovered is that learning comes with a double edge sword. It’s something that helps propel you forward, while at the same time it holds you back. This past week in our SFL Mastermind we’ve been talking a whole lot about taking courses and when is the right time to upskill and increase your capability in a specific a...2021-12-2229 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHe said it was a “Gift”.Welcome to episode 48. How often have you discounted, or devalued a characteristic, skill, or something different or unique about you? Or have you had an inkling of a talent or ability that came somewhat easily to you only to dismiss it as nothing special and that everyone else must also do this thing you do with the same ease and flow. Or even better, you’ve got this unique ability, and you push it to the side saying you want it to look this way or to be more of that or be mo...2021-12-0733 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow fear is holding you back from more sales.Welcome to episode 47. On the agenda today is one of my favorite topics – fear! I do love talking about fear and the infamous ways it tries to block us from moving forward to share our gifts, services and change we are here to make. Its objective is to keep you safe, however selling can feel a far cry from feeling secure, certain and safe. Needless to say, that four letter word - fear can become synonymous with it’s terror inducing relative – sell. So in today’s episode we’re going t...2021-11-3020 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Get Sh!T DoneWelcome to episode 46. How do you have time for the things that are most important and dear to you. I know working in this covid time with everyone at home and not having space to think or get your work done has been challenging to say the least. Finding time to go pee can even be hard some days. But what if you’ve got some big idea brewing, or a project you really want to dig your teeth into or an initiative you want to start but can’t ever seem...2021-11-2324 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to use your obstacles to get better resultsWelcome to episode 45. In today’s episode I am bringing a little bit of my farm life and how the lessons I learned in my garden can help you in your business. Question for you: Do you get frustrated when you try to do something and after several attempts, are not getting the results that you want? You’re committed to your goals and are taking regular action to connect with clients, post on social, write a blog or share tips with clients but after all your efforts, you still are not growing your...2021-11-1625 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career Advancement3 Mistakes to Avoid to Get More SalesWelcome to episode 44. Do You want a business that fuels your soul while at the same time provides for your family needs and lifestyle dreams? But sometimes the means to getting there isn’t paved with roses. It feels more like thorns. Today in this episode I want to share some of the key learnings I have had transitioning from a 20 + year career in corporate to running my own coaching and learning company. There have been some big misses and I hope to share some of the thorns I got pricked with so yo...2021-11-0221 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementFinding Confidence in the Most Surprising PlacesWelcome to episode 41. Where does confidence come from? It’s something most of us strive for yet struggle with. You need confidence to start a business, write a blog, or share your opinion on social media. We need confidence to speak in front of a crowd and confidence to invite a client to work with us. Some days you have it and other days it’s like it was never there. So how do you get some? Some of that often flighty and temperamental confidence. I believe that...2021-10-1219 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to keep going when you’re afraid.Welcome to episode 40. Selling and marketing yourself, your products and services can be scary. For many it could be categorized as a big stretch and extremely and over the top beyond your comfort zone. You’ve got this thing you want to offer your clients- a course, coaching program, or workshop. You know it will change their life AND at the same time you are worried if anyone will be interested or sign up, you’re struggling to manage the overwhelming fear you are feeling, or you’re flooded with so much doubt you’re...2021-10-0519 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementThe Single Most Important Attribute You Need Sell MoreWelcome to episode 39 and for making the time to learn how you could make selling feel good to you and your clients. Selling is not something you’re contorted yourself to be or do inauthentically, rather it’s a skill you are using to add value to others and make a difference. In this episode you will discover the single most important attribute you need to have when using this skill of selling. When you master this aspect of selling, you will be unstoppable in your ambition and impact. So, what is i...2021-09-2826 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Follow-Through on your DreamsWelcome to episode 38. In this episode I will be talking about how learning to sell from love can change your life! What if you could use selling to not only bring you in more money, but also bring you more happiness, success and fulfillment to your business and life? Selling with love can not only earn more profit in your business, reach more clients, and make a bigger impact but it can also bring you the happiness, success, and fulfillment you deserve. Here’s specifically what we’ll cover in this episode: I sha...2021-09-2125 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Follow-Through on your DreamsWelcome to episode 37. In this episode I want to talk about how to follow through your big dreams. Specifically, here’s what I’ll cover: 1) Find an inspiration point: When you were a kid – what did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a teacher however I ended up working in a bank. I’ll share how I eventually followed through to make this dream a reality even when it wasn’t in my job description. 2) Start before you’re ready: Following your dreams and doing the s...2021-09-1426 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementWelcome to Season 2 – A message from FinkaWe are entering Season 2 here on the Sell From Love podcast. Thank you so much for being here and sticking around. The purpose of this podcast is to share stories of transformation of how to go from selling from fear to selling from love, so you can earn more profit, reach more clients, and make a bigger impact. This first season of 35 episodes has been fun to learn how our guests navigate their selling fears, uncertainties, and doubts. Being afraid or anxious to put yourself out there is not an isolated experience – you’re not the only one. ...2021-09-0812 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementMindset Breakthrough Strategies with Kimberly OlsonMany people fall into the trap that if they just get the right name for their business or service, or the perfect logo, or the impeccable website design, then that will lead them to a successful business they love and makes a difference. Building a business that earns more profit, reaches more clients, and makes a positive impact is more than that. Those aspects of your business are important; however, they are the transactional parts – not the transformational ones that will change you, your client, and the world. Today on the Sell From Love podcast, my...2021-08-1742 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Passionately Love Selling with Annie P. RugglesPerfection, in theory, is a great thing-- but any self-described “perfectionist” knows striving for flawlessness can quickly set you back. For those of us that are naturally hardworking and driven it can be easy to get caught in this perfection trap. It’s good to work hard and want more for yourself but oftentimes this desire to achieve is tampered when you get too caught up in how big your goals are. Imperfectly Ambitious is about balancing your drive to do big things with an acceptance that it’s okay to be yourself. In fact-- yourself is the best thi...2021-08-1048 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementMove Forward by Being Imperfectly Ambitious with Amanda EdwardsPerfection, in theory, is a great thing-- but any self-described “perfectionist” knows striving for flawlessness can quickly set you back. For those of us that are naturally hardworking and driven, it can be easy to get caught in this perfection trap. It’s good to work hard and want more for yourself but oftentimes this desire to achieve is tampered when you get too caught up in how big your goals are. Imperfectly Ambitious is about balancing your drive to do big things with an acceptance that it’s okay to be yourself. In fact-- yourself is the best thi...2021-07-2039 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementCreate Belief Systems That Attract Communities with Patrick HanlonYou don’t buy something because you’re attached to the product. You buy something because you’re attached to a feeling you can associate with the product. People aren’t dedicated to a brand because they love the logo. No-- they’re dedicated to what a brand allows them to believe. Your clients are seeking a specific feeling and experience. If your brand can create belief systems that attract communities, your brand will stand the test of time. My guest today is Patrick Hanlon, author of PRIMAL BRANDING. This ground-breaking book uncovers the root code for build...2021-07-0649 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to Unlock a Power of your Own with Nikki GroomWhat makes you feel confident walking into a new room? For a lot of us our automatic response might feel “feeling prepared.” Feeling like you know everything and can take on anything. And while that sounds good in theory, I’d argue true confidence involves being comfortable with the idea that you don’t have to know everything. I call it the “in the know trap.” This need to be a subject matter expert and read every resource possible can sometimes be a sign of fear. It’s like the fear of failure, fear of being judged or fear of missing...2021-06-2240 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementTame your Inner Critic with Tara-Nicholle Kirke“You’re your own biggest critic” is a maxim we’re all familiar with, but the real question is why. Or more importantly how, do we overcome these negative thoughts and patterns? In my book, Sell From Love, I talk about fear and how universal these feelings can be. The reason we sell from fear goes hand in hand with the reasons we keep ourselves down with that inner critic voice: self-preservation and protection. My guest today Tara-Nicholle Kirke, is a globally-recognized transformation expert, Master Coach and spiritual strategist known as The Inner Critic Coac...2021-06-1552 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementBreaking Money Silence with Kathleen Burns KingsburyPolite people don’t talk about money. Right? Many of us were raised with this adage but haven’t considered the ways this old-school taboo can hurt us in the long run. That’s why today we’re breaking money silence. As a salesperson your beliefs about money play a large role in your results and techniques. How you feel about money will have a direct impact in how much or how little you sell. My guest today us wealth psychology expert Kathleen Burns Kingsbury. Kathleen is the founder of KBK Wealth Connection and host of the Breaki...2021-06-0844 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow to build an offer your clients will actually buy.On today's episode of the Sell From Love podcast I'm sharing my personal sales best practices. Everyone is different and what works for me may not be right for you but these really changed my sales perspective! When it comes to selling from love I have a couple unorthodox approaches that may sound strange to some but I urge you to give these tips a try. Those of us in the content creation space know how overwhelming and building process can be, but these tips help me stay accountable and remove ambiguity from the design p...2021-06-0117 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementUnlock the Secrets to Operational Efficiency with Susan BolesIf you’re an entrepreneur or manage a busy team you know what it feels like to not have enough minutes in the day. What changes would make your business run smoother? Do you need to expand your team and delegate tasks? What about setting up standard procedures operationalize workflows? Answering these questions is the start of unlocking operational efficiency. My guest today is Susan Boles. Susan is a Virtual CFO and Finance and Operations Coach for small businesses at ScaleSpark. She focuses on helping businesses get clear on their numbers and truly understand their inner...2021-05-2541 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementNavigating the uncertainties of sellingThis episode is a vulnerable one. Over the past few weeks, I have been preparing to host a new webinar discussing Sell From Love, and in that process I almost slipped into fear. Today I’m getting personal to discuss my fear triggers and how I’m overcoming them. Business development will always have its peaks and valleys, being aware of what triggers fear can help us come back into alignment. Selling from love doesn’t mean you will never be afraid. But we can break down the various ways fear shows up in our business...2021-05-1820 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementYour Self-Worth is not for Sale.There’s nothing quite as validating, as when you describe a struggle you’ve experienced and someone responds: yes, I know exactly what you mean. Even when if it’s a negative feeling you’re bonding over, you can take comfort in knowing you are not alone. This is a feeling I’ve experienced time and time again while interviewing entrepreneurs and coaches for my Sell From Love podcast. It’s interesting the way the same topics and feelings have come up with my different guests over the past few months! Today I decided to delve a little...2021-05-1125 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementHow I Got Caught Selling from FearLearning to sell from love doesn’t mean being perfect. On today’s episode of the Sell From Love podcast, I’m sharing a personal story about uncertainty, selling from fear—and most importantly returning to selling from love. Fear doesn’t always have to be personal but can be triggered by your environment. Or in my case, triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic last year. Fear and uncertainty in the system can knock us out of alignment but embracing sell from love means learning to recognize this and realign. I reveal the root of...2021-05-0419 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementFind Your Dream Career with Michelle Arpin BeginaDoctor. Lawyer. Teacher. What do you want to be when you grow up? Reports suggest the average person will change careers 5-7 times over the course of their working life. This doesn’t necessarily mean it take 7 tries to find the right job for you, but instead is proof positive that we as humans are constantly evolving. Who you are today is not the same person you were when you started in your career or industry. How are you different? What has changed for you since then? What do you want now? Do you still want the same thin...2021-04-271h 00

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementSet Yourself Free by Setting Boundaries with Lisa Danforth There's Freedom in Limitations.At first glance setting a boundary can sound restrictive and final. But what if I told you that in limiting yourself you can also be liberating yourself. When you set a boundary, you’re not solely closing yourself off, but instead you’re opening yourself up to accept what’s best for you. Every time you say no, you are saying yes to something else. Boundaries demonstrate your value and give you the freedom to change your life. Today’s guest Lisa Danforth, Business Strategist and Leadership Vision Coach. Lisa’s mission is to help people sto...2021-04-2051 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementGet Unstoppable Confidence with Kc RossiOne of the questions I ask before going in to work with a team is “what do you want to learn.” While I’ve definitely seen a wide range of answers in my 10+ years of coaching there is one consistent response: I want to be confident. If you’ve ever tried to sell anything you understand how important confidence can be during the sales interaction. How do you find the strength you need to put yourself out there, ask a client to work with you and buy your services? Confidence. Simple enough, no? “Just be confident” can seem lik...2021-04-1351 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementBecome a Go-Giver to Sell More and Lead with Impact with Bob BurgWhat are you working towards, really? Often in business we lose sight of our end goal and focus instead on strategy, sales, and results. We lose sight of who we are really working for. If focussing on the outcomes is the right thing to do, why can it feel so wrong? The book The Go-Giver validated all of these feelings for me and explained why a revenue-centric model may be stopping you from achieving those revenue goals. My guest today is Bob Burg. Bob is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences where he share...2021-04-0638 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementActivate your Mental Toughness and Reach Optimal Performance with Dr. Haley Perlus“You are your own worst enemy.” This is a saying we’re all familiar with and, if we’re being honest, has been true for all of us at one point or another. It’s human to doubt ourselves from time to time. However, we as humans also hold the power to overcome these negative thoughts. Today’s guest is offering a solution: mental toughness. If the thing getting in your way is your own mental blocks, then only you have the power to conquer those obstacles and achieve your highest goals. Dr. Haley Perlus is a Speaker, Author a...2021-03-3042 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementFind A Way to Sales and Success with David KeeseeWhat do you do when you’re faced with a challenge? We’ve all had to overcome difficult circumstances at different points throughout our lives. Today we tackle facing these obstacles and understanding the purpose they can serve in our journey. In other words… we find a way. My guest today David Keesee has had a roller coaster of a career path. A former pro baseball player turned top Real Estate Agent, today David coaches thousands of high achievers, business owners, military personnel, and professional athletes. His current purpose is helping people perform at their highest level...2021-03-2354 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementDon't Live in a State of Urgency - Bring Change to the World Around you with your Host Finka Jerkovic.With current selling frameworks driving more fear into your selling experience and anxiety into your clients buying experience, it’s no wonder selling feels awkward, uncomfortable, and downright hard. There is another way, a better way. Sell from love is that the way. Imagine a world where you didn’t have to compromise who you were, what you were selling, or who you were selling to. That is the Sell from Love way. Sell from love will teach you how to authentically connect with clients, create solutions that solve their problems and feel good...2020-12-0120 min

Your Brilliant Difference Podcast with Finka Jerkovic: Personal Branding for Career AdvancementSell is not a bad four-letter word with Finka Jerkovic (Trailer).Does it feel like you have to give up a piece of your soul to sell your product, service or expertise? Like you have to contort yourself into the always-be-closing, ‘mosquito-style pesky persistence or fear inducing frameworks, that have been the hallmark of used car lots and real estate brokerages in movies and TV. If you're ready to experience greater meaning in your work, reach the right clients and offer a valuable solution that people need, I can help you. I'm Finka Jerkovic, author, coach and host of the Sell From Love podcast. 2020-11-2702 min