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Own Your Impact
#74: The Spark Lives on Stage: Tricia Rose Burt's Resonant Orator Story
If something isn't working in your thought leadership, the explanation most people reach for is effort. They assume they need to try harder, show up more consistently, or commit more fully to the format someone told them would work. What they rarely consider is that the format itself might be the problem.Tricia Rose Burt is an award-winning storyteller who spent years on stages with The Moth, trained storytelling for corporations and private equity firms, and hosts the podcast No Time to Be Timid. She also spent years writing a memoir that never got picked up...
2026-06-24
39 min
Own Your Impact
#73: The Room Reflects: Why You Can't Find Your Signal Alone
I believe getting clear on who you are and being able to hear yourself from the outside are two entirely different things — and the second part requires other people. You can do all the inside work in the world, and you will still need a room to show you what you can't see from in there.Last episode I told you I was heading to Craft and Commerce and I was going to try something — I'd been practicing how to introduce myself, and I said I would return and report. This is the report. For the first day...
2026-06-17
14 min
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#72: Felt Resonance: Carrying Your Signal Into Every Room
I believe the most powerful voices in any room are never the loudest ones. They're the ones who know their resonance well enough to carry it through the door and trust that it will land for the people it's meant to reach.This episode is built around a concept I call felt resonance, and it starts with me describing a 20-year-old video of me singing at a vocal beauty boot camp. In that clip, you can hear the moment the sound locks in — when my posture, breath, and alignment clicked into place and the note stopped being so...
2026-06-10
15 min
The CEO's Heart for Service | Scaling Business Without Compromise
The Power of Authentic Resonance in Business Growth with Macy Robison
What if the reason your thought leadership isn't landing has nothing to do with your ideas — and everything to do with the way you're wired to share them?Macy Robison, founder of the Resonant Thought Leader Conservatory, has spent years behind the scenes launching New York Times bestsellers, building massive platforms for other thought leaders, and serving as senior director of StoryBrand's certification program. But somewhere along the way, she kept hitting the same wall — brilliant experts stuck not because they lacked ideas, but because they were forcing themselves through someone else's playbook.
2026-06-09
53 min
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#71: The Humble Hero Trap: Hiding Isn't Humility
I believe the experts who have the most to give are often the ones giving the least publicly. Not because they don't care, but because they care too much about their integrity to risk being mistaken for someone hollow.This episode is about a failure mode I see constantly in the work I do with experts, consultants, and thought leaders. I call it the Humble Hero Trap. It's the pattern of backing away from visibility because the loudest, emptiest version of it has poisoned the whole category. If you've ever watched someone with a tenth of your...
2026-06-03
12 min
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#70: Your Genius Doesn't Need More Room: It Needs the Right Edges
Freedom is not always the gift we think it is. The open field — every direction available, no fences, no paths — is where the most talented people freeze. What actually gets you moving is an edge to push against and a direction to commit to.At 22, teaching eighth graders in Columbus, Ohio, I gave my students total creative freedom on a songwriting project — any style, any key, any length — and every single one of them froze. Two class periods later, not one song was finished. So I came back the next day with constraints: 12 measures, key of C, treble c...
2026-05-27
20 min
Own Your Impact
#69: The Masterclass: Why Group Is Not the Discount Version
The room you practice in should resemble the room you perform in. A thought leader does not build for one person — they build for a room. So at some point, the room is where the real development has to happen.There is a belief most people have absorbed without examining: one-on-one is the premium option, and group is the discount version. The expensive tier is bespoke, VIP, the real thing. The group program is what you settle for if you cannot afford the real thing, or on the offer side, what you create when you want more re...
2026-05-21
19 min
Own Your Impact
#68: IP Doesn't Come Before the Work: It Comes From the Work
Your intellectual property is not something you invent before you start. It is something that emerges while you are already doing the work — and the difference between experts who build powerful frameworks and experts who stay stuck waiting for their big idea is not intelligence or creativity. It is attention.There is a widely held belief about how thought leadership gets built: first you create the framework, then you build content around it, then you make offers, then you find an audience. It sounds logical. It almost never works. Not for the people who build something that ac...
2026-05-14
15 min
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#67: The Competence Trap: What It Costs to Keep Doing What You're Good At
The most dangerous obstacles in building a thought leadership business are not the ones that fail loudly. They are the ones that keep working well enough to justify continuing.This episode starts with a confession. A little over a year ago, I left a full-time role I had held for years — work I was genuinely good at, work I was proud of, work that other people valued enough to invite me back to in bigger, more visible ways almost immediately after I left. Those invitations were not traps set by bad actors. They were real opportunities extended by...
2026-05-07
15 min
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#66: Your Archetype Is a Starting Line, Not a Ceiling
The archetype assessment is not a sorting hat. It is a compass. And a compass tells you where to begin, not what you are allowed to become.Something has been coming up on strategy calls and in DMs, and I want to address it directly. People take the assessment, feel that first wave of relief — that moment of finally being seen — and then turn to the archetypes they did not score high in and start building walls. A wisdom writer score that feels low gets read as permission denied for the book. A low resonant orator score beco...
2026-04-29
19 min
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#65: Flipping the Mic with Cassandra Shea: Part 2 — State of the Union and Defining Resonance
A framework does not become real until someone holds you accountable to living it. That is what this episode is.This is part two of my conversation with Cassandra Shea. If you have not listened to part one yet, start there — we covered the origin of the archetypes, the copy-paste trap, and the Marsha Method, a principle I named publicly for the first time. In this half, Cassandra does what she promised at the top of our conversation: she gives me a real state of the union. We talk about how my commercialization model went from on...
2026-04-24
25 min
Own Your Impact
#64: Flipping the Mic with Cassandra Shea: Part 1 — The Origin Story and the Marsha Method
The clearest frameworks are not built from a desk. They are built in rooms, in dialogue, with people who trust you enough to show you where your thinking still has gaps.This episode marks two firsts for Own Your Impact: our first guest, and the first time I am not the one asking the questions. Cassandra Shea — executive coach, client, close friend, and someone who has also coached me through some significant moments in my own business — flips the mic and takes me through a conversation I could not have had with myself. We start at the begi...
2026-04-22
40 min
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#63: Teaching Reveals the Truth: One Year of Building in Public
The thing that makes a framework trustworthy is not how long it stayed hidden before you shared it. It is how many real people it helped while you were still refining it.This episode is a one-year look back at how the Resonant Thought Leadership Framework has evolved since this podcast launched in April 2025. I walk through the real timeline: from the original formula of Essence times Expression equals Core Resonance, to the development of the Thought Leader Archetype Assessment, to the Four E's (Essence, Experience, Expression, and Embodiment), to what the full system looks like now...
2026-04-09
19 min
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#62: The Right Fix: Why Diagnosing Source vs. Signal Changes Everything
If you've been showing up consistently, doing the work, and still not getting the results you expect, the problem probably isn't your effort. The most costly mistake thought leaders make is applying a signal solution to a source problem — and when that happens, working harder only makes the misalignment louder.In this episode, I introduce a diagnostic question I've been using more and more with clients: Is this a source problem or a signal problem? Using the analogy of an instrument and the sound wave it produces, I walk through how Core Resonance is made up of tw...
2026-03-25
16 min
Own Your Impact
#61: Your Frequency Is Your Starting Point: How to Build From the Right Direction
Where you start matters more than how hard you work. When you begin building your thought leadership from the wrong direction for your frequency, the friction you feel isn't a discipline problem or a strategy problem — it's a starting direction problem. And once you know the difference, everything changes.In this episode, I introduce an idea I've been teaching inside my group containers and coaching calls for a while now but haven't yet named on the podcast: your frequency isn't just a description of how you're wired — it's scaffolding. It narrows infinite possibility down to a workable star...
2026-03-18
13 min
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#60: Why Your Four E's Multiply (And What Happens When One Is Zero)
Most thought leaders assume that if they're doing enough of the right things, results will follow. But there's a principle hiding inside the Four E's of Core Resonance that changes everything about how you diagnose what's actually off — and it has nothing to do with working harder or trying a different tactic.The Four E's don't add up. They multiply. That distinction matters more than almost anything else I've taught about Core Resonance, because it means that even if three of your four E's are strong, a single misaligned or absent E collapses the entire equation to ze...
2026-03-11
15 min
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#59: Send the Signal: Why Your Voice Matters More When the World Gets Loud
The most dangerous response to a noisy world is silence. When the environment feels chaotic, uncertain, or charged with real stakes, the pull to go quiet can feel like wisdom, but it almost never is. The people who most need what you know are not looking for more volume. They are actively scanning for a clear signal in the middle of all of it, and if you stop sending yours, they will never find it.In this episode, I share something personal: I almost didn't record this one. The world felt loud in a way that made...
2026-03-04
15 min
7-Figure Leap with Dustin Riechmann
The Copy-Paste Trap That's Keeping You Invisible with Macy Robison
Dustin sits down with Macy Robison, creator of the Resonant Thought Leadership Assessment, to explore why brilliant people with incredible ideas struggle to be heard in the marketplace. Macy, a former StoryBrand Senior Director and choir teacher, reveals how most entrepreneurs fall into the "copy-paste trap" - trying to force themselves into someone else's business playbook instead of building strategies aligned with how they're actually wired. Through her groundbreaking work on thought leadership archetypes, Macy demonstrates how understanding your unique blend of 10 distinct archetypes can transform everything from your content creation to your offers. Dustin opens up about his...
2026-03-03
57 min
Business Origin Stories for Entrepreneurs, Coaches, and Leaders
105: Find Your Frequency: How to Cut Through the Noise Without Copying Anyone Else with Macy Robison
Send us Fan MailIf you’ve ever looked around online and thought, “What’s working for everyone else, and why doesn’t it work for me?” this episode is for you.In this conversation, Amy sits down with Macy Robison, a longtime friend from the StoryBrand Guide community, to talk about why so many experts get stuck chasing shiny strategies and how to come back to the way you are actually wired to lead.Macy helps experts and thought leaders transform their wisdom into resonant thought leadership that feels authentic, creates im...
2026-03-03
40 min
Own Your Impact
#58 Source and Signal: The Anatomy of Your Thought Leadership Operating System
I believe your thought leadership can never outperform the instrument it's coming from. When the source is clear and the signal matches, resonance happens naturally. When one half is missing or underdeveloped, even the best strategies won't land the way they should.In this episode, I unpack the anatomy of what I introduced last week: the thought leadership operating system. I reveal how the Four E's of Core Resonance naturally divide into two halves that map onto how sound actually works. The first half is source, made up of your Essence (how you're wired) and your Experience...
2026-02-25
24 min
YOU Matter, in Business
E66 Leadership Through Heart, Not Hierarchy: The Collaborative Authority Advantage
Welcome to another episode of You Matter in Business! In this episode, we're flipping the script on traditional leadership and exploring what it means to lead through collaborative authority—using wisdom and values instead of hierarchy and control.What You'll Learn:Why "I don't know, let's figure it out together" is one of the most powerful leadership statementsHow to build authority through lived experience rather than titles and credentialsThe collaborative leadership advantage for professionals 40 and aboveHow to lead authentically without pretending to have all the answersWhy younger generations are hungry for collaborative, not controlling, leadershipKe...
2026-02-25
14 min
Own Your Impact
#57: Stop Fixing the Surface: The Operating System That Makes Everything Else Work
I believe that most experts aren't failing because they chose the wrong strategy. They're struggling because they're running powerful strategies on an operating system that was never fully installed, or worse, one that was built for someone else entirely.In this episode, I unpack a pattern I see with nearly every thought leader I work with: brilliant people investing in great programs, solid tactics, and proven strategies that still don't produce the results they should. I use the metaphor of a phone's operating system to explain why Core Resonance sits at the center of everything I teach...
2026-02-18
15 min
Own Your Impact
#56: Resonance Is the Mechanism: The Real Science Behind Authentic Thought Leadership
The people you're meant to serve are already out there, already tuned to your frequency. The question isn't whether they exist. It's whether the signal you're sending is clear enough for them to find you.In this episode, I go deeper into the science behind everything I teach and make the case that resonance isn't just a metaphor for authentic thought leadership. It's a methodology. I revisit the story of the piano key and the snare drum from my early teaching career, but this time I unpack what actually happens after a signal goes out into the...
2026-02-11
24 min
Own Your Impact
#55: Strategic Subtraction: Why Your Archetype Results Tell You What to Stop Doing
The most powerful decision you can make in your thought leadership journey isn't adding another strategy to your plate. It's removing the ones that were never aligned with your genius in the first place. When you stop performing competence and start operating from your actual zone of genius, your business gets simpler, more profitable, and more sustainable.In this episode, I challenge a pattern I see with so many thought leaders who have taken the archetype assessment: they experience that moment of recognition, feel seen by their results, and then go right back to saying yes to...
2026-02-04
17 min
Own Your Impact
#54: Wrong Operating System: Why Most Content Advice Fails Experience-Led Thought Leaders
I believe that the way you naturally create transformation is the key to how you should build your thought leadership platform. When the advice you've been following was designed for someone wired completely differently than you, the problem isn't discipline or effort. It's sequence.In this episode, I discuss the Four Frequencies, a framework that reveals why so many brilliant experts struggle to create content, build IP, or finish their courses, not because they lack ideas but because they're following a content creation pathway designed for a completely different type of thinker. Drawing from real client stories...
2026-01-28
19 min
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#53: Send a Clear Signal: Why Clarity Creates Movement
I believe the most powerful thought leadership doesn't come from better tactics or louder messaging. It comes from closing the gap between who you are and how you're showing up. When that gap exists, even if you don't realize it's there, people can feel it. Something feels off, and they don't move forward.In this first episode of 2026, I share a personal revelation that changed how I see my own work. After watching my son's band create a launch video with crystal clarity about who they are, I realized something was missing in my own thought leadership...
2026-01-22
13 min
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#52: Direction Over Destination: Planning Your Thought Leadership Year Ahead
You don't need to see the entire path to start moving. You just need to know your direction. When you have clarity about where you are headed, decisions get simpler. Not easy, but simpler.In this final episode of 2025, I build on last week's conversation about thought leadership as an infinite game and offer you a practical framework for thinking about the year ahead. I share how I am approaching my own next moves: writing a book, building a certification program, expanding my visibility, and going deeper on the archetypes and the four Es. Not because I...
2025-12-31
17 min
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#51: Start Before You're Ready: How Teaching What You're Learning Reveals the Truth
Waiting until everything is perfect is often just fear wearing a mask. The thought leaders who create lasting impact are not the ones who figured it all out first. They are the ones who started before they were ready and let the teaching reveal the truth.In this episode, I pull back the curtain on how the Resonant Thought Leadership System evolved over the past year. Not as a victory lap, but as a case study in what happens when you commit to teaching what you are learning, even when it is still taking shape. I walk...
2025-12-24
26 min
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#50: Visibility and Vulnerability: Why Your Message Must Matter More Than Others' Opinions
I believe the only real failure in thought leadership is not getting it wrong or sharing an imperfect idea. The only real failure is choosing not to share something that could help someone because you are worried about being judged for it.In this episode, I explore a pattern I keep witnessing across conference rooms, author calls, and client conversations: smart, capable people with genuinely important ideas staying invisible longer than they need to. Not because they lack expertise or do not know what to say, but because they are afraid of being seen by the people...
2025-12-17
15 min
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#49: The Infinite Game: Why Sustainable Thought Leadership Requires a Different Kind of Planning
The most sustainable thought leadership is built by people who understand this work is an infinite game, not a race to an exit. When you plan your year from that foundation, everything changes about the decisions you make.In this episode, I share what emerged from a recent accelerator session where we mapped out the Resonant Thought Leadership System for each participant. The same snapshot exercise produced completely different strategic decisions for each person because their constraints, timelines, and goals were unique. One person needed revenue in 90 days. Another was finally giving herself permission to pursue her...
2025-12-10
16 min
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#48: Three Types of Thought Leadership Brands: Choosing What You Actually Want to Build
One of the most important strategic decisions you can make as a thought leader is choosing which type of business you actually want to run, not which one you think you're supposed to build. When you design your business around your genuine desires instead of external expectations, you create something that feels like a playground rather than a prison.In this episode, I share a framework from marketing expert Julie Chenell that completely reframed how I think about building a thought leadership business. Julie outlines three distinct types of brands: personal brands (where you are the brand...
2025-12-03
37 min
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#47: The Scalability Trap: Why the Path to Leverage Runs Through Unscalable Work
I believe the path to scale runs directly through unscalable work, not around it. The experts who eventually build leveraged income streams and systematized businesses are the ones who first did the messy, manual, high-touch work that taught them what actually creates transformation.In this episode, I explore one of the most common patterns I see with brilliant experts who stay stuck: they're so afraid of building something unscalable that they never build anything at all. They research, strategize, and wait for a scalable solution to reveal itself while other experts with less experience are testing things...
2025-11-26
22 min
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#46: The Swiss Army Knife Trap: When Your Competence Becomes Your Prison
Your competence doesn't have to be your prison. When you're good at everything, you risk becoming valuable in ways that drain you instead of energizing you.In this episode, I share a deeply personal story about finding myself three hours deep in implementation work when I was being paid for strategy. I was exhausted, not from hard work, but from doing the wrong work. I call this the Swiss Army Knife Trap, and it's where brilliant strategists get stuck executing, gifted facilitators exhaust themselves being the only one who can deliver transformation, and talented creators bury themselves...
2025-11-19
19 min
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#45: Archetype Strategy Calls: Moving from Self-Awareness to Strategic Action
Knowing your archetype gives you a compass. Strategic guidance helps you confidently navigate your unique path forward.In this episode, I pull back the curtain on the archetype strategy calls I've been offering over the past few months. Many of you have taken the free assessment, attended a workshop, or heard me introduce the archetype framework at a keynote. You've discovered your primary archetype and maybe felt seen for the first time in a while. But then you get home, look at your business, and aren't quite sure what to do with that information.The...
2025-11-12
18 min
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#44: The Bigger Pattern: How the Four Frequencies Reveal Why You Build the Way You Do
Your archetype isn't a limitation. It's your strategic advantage. When you understand not just your primary archetype but the deeper frequency patterns beneath it, you stop fighting your natural wiring and start building thought leadership that feels energizing instead of exhausting.In this episode, I reveal why your secondary archetype scores aren't just interesting data points. They're clues to how you're specifically wired to express yourself and build your business. I introduce the Four Frequencies framework, a deeper layer of understanding that shows how ideas actually emerge and develop in your brain based on your unique archetype...
2025-11-05
22 min
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#43: Your Natural Advantage: How Each Archetype Sells, Markets, and Creates Differently
I believe there is no universal formula for sales, marketing, or content creation that works for everyone—and when you try to force yourself into someone else's system, you're working ten times harder than you need to. The exhaustion you feel isn't a sign that you need better tactics; it's a signal that you're building against your natural wiring instead of with it.In this episode, I get deeply practical about how your thought leadership archetype transforms the way you approach the three most critical activities in your business: sales, marketing, and content creation. I walk through al...
2025-10-29
28 min
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#42: Resistance as Wisdom: When Your Body Knows Before Your Brain Does
I believe the most powerful data you have about your business strategy isn't in the analytics dashboard—it's in your nervous system. What if your resistance to doing certain business-building activities isn't laziness or lack of discipline, but actually your wisdom protecting you from the wrong path?In this episode, I explore the hidden cost of copy-paste strategies and why forcing someone else's success formula into your business doesn't just fail to work—it actively destroys your momentum. Through my own story of trying (and failing) to build an online course before I was ready, and my clie...
2025-10-22
25 min
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#41: Smart People, Wrong Strategy: Why Intelligence Keeps You Stuck in Business
I believe the most dangerous moment in building your thought leadership isn't when you lack skills—it's when you're executing brilliantly on strategies designed for someone else's wiring.In this episode, I explore why smart, capable experts stay stuck building their businesses. It's not because they lack discipline or strategy. It's because their intelligence actually works against them. They can see all the possibilities, execute almost any approach, and assume when something doesn't work that they just need to try harder. Through real client examples, I reveal how understanding your thought leadership archetype unlocks a completely different ap...
2025-10-15
20 min
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#40: Platform to Connect: Move Beyond Dazzle and Build Digital Presence That Serves
Your platform isn't about you—it's about the people you serve and the transformation you guide them toward. The most powerful platforms don't impress people into working with you; they help the right people recognize that you understand their challenges and have the exact wisdom to guide their transformation.Most thought leaders approach platform building backwards. They start with design trends, aesthetics, or what looks professional. But I've found that the most successful platforms aren't built on what looks impressive—they're built on a single powerful question: Am I building this to connect with people, to hide from...
2025-10-08
16 min
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#39: Strategic Decision-Making: Building the Muscle That Transforms Your Thought Leadership
The price of entrepreneurial freedom is the weight of constant decision-making. When you develop systematic approaches grounded in who you are rather than what everyone else is doing, decision-making transforms from overwhelming to empowering.In this episode, I address one of the most draining patterns I see in my client conversations: decision paralysis. As the "chief deciding officer" of your business, you face countless choices that can either build momentum or leave you stuck in analysis. I reveal why keeping your options open—while it feels safe—can actually kill your progress faster than making an i...
2025-10-01
23 min
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#38: Embodiment: The Catalyst That Transforms Strategy Into Magnetic Authority
People can sense when you're taking your own medicine, and they're naturally drawn to thought leaders who authentically practice what they teach. The difference between having brilliant frameworks and creating magnetic influence isn't perfection—it's the consistent embodiment of who you say you are.In this episode, I reveal why embodiment is the often-overlooked fourth component of my 4E Framework that transforms the other three elements—Essence, Experience, and Expression—from theory into authentic authority. Through real client examples and stories like Dr. Benjamin Hardy's decision to turn down a collaboration with Tony Robbins to stay aligned with h...
2025-09-24
13 min
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#37: Marketing for Thought Leaders: Why Smart People Struggle with Simple Systems
Your analytical mind that serves you brilliantly in creating expertise can actually work against you in marketing if you let it build complexity instead of clarity. The most successful thought leaders don't have the most sophisticated marketing systems—they have the clearest core message and the simplest way to share it consistently.In this episode, I reveal why brilliant experts often create marketing systems so complex they spend more time maintaining them than serving clients. Drawing from Billy Broas's compelling book Simple Marketing for Smart People and his cautionary tale of the NASA-designed brewery that nearly burned hi...
2025-09-17
19 min
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#36: Belief-Building Marketing: The One Question That Transforms How Prospects See Your Expertise
Most experts approach marketing backwards, focusing on what they can do instead of what people need to believe. When you understand the single question that cuts through marketing confusion, you stop trying to convince people and start helping them recognize why your expertise matters.In this episode, I share the transformational story of Joe, a carpet cleaner who went from broke to running a million-dollar business by asking one simple question. I reveal why traditional marketing advice keeps smart people stuck in tactics instead of addressing the real issue—and introduce the belief-building approach that makes everything do...
2025-09-10
17 min
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#35: From Framework to Action: Using the Four Es as Your Diagnostic Tool and Strategic Compass
Understanding a framework and applying it strategically are completely different skills. The Four Es of Core Resonance—Essence, Experience, Expression, and Embodiment—aren't just a one-time assessment you complete and move on from; they're an ongoing navigation system for every decision in your thought leadership journey.In this episode, I show you how to transform the Four Es from theoretical knowledge into practical application tools. Through real client examples, I demonstrate how to use this framework both as a diagnostic when something feels stuck or misaligned, and as a strategic compass for making decisions that energize rather than...
2025-09-03
21 min
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#34: The Four E's of Core Resonance: Building Authentic Authority That Lasts
Your most sustainable thought leadership doesn't come from a simple formula—it emerges when four interconnected elements strengthen each other over time. After working with dozens of experts who felt stuck despite having clarity on their essence and expression, I discovered that authentic authority requires a more complete framework.In this episode, I reveal why I evolved from the original Core Resonance formula (Essence × Expression = Resonant Impact) to what I now call the Four E's of Core Resonance. Through real client examples from my Resonant Thought Leadership Lab, I demonstrate how brilliant experts can know exactly who...
2025-08-27
17 min
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#33: Permission to Scale: Why Brilliant Experts Stay Small and How to Change That
The biggest obstacle to scaling your expertise isn't a lack of strategy or systems—it's the story you're telling yourself about what scaling means and whether you're allowed to want something bigger. When you understand that what you call humility might actually be fear dressed up as virtue, you can give yourself permission to steward your gifts at the scale they deserve.In this follow-up to last week's exploration of The Science of Scaling, I address the deeper mindset barriers that keep generous, transformational guides playing small when the world needs their expertise most. Through the lens of...
2025-08-21
21 min
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#32: Simple Systems Scale: What Benjamin Hardy's Research Reveals About Resonant Thought Leadership
The most dangerous assumption in thought leadership isn't that you need to be perfect before you start—it's that scaling your impact requires you to remove yourself from the transformation you create. When you understand that simple systems scale exponentially while complex systems stagnate, you can build platforms that amplify your highest contribution rather than dilute your distinctive value.In this episode, I share profound insights from Dr. Benjamin Hardy and Blake Erickson's new book The Science of Scaling and how their framework serves thought leaders better than traditional business scaling advice. I reveal why impossible goals ar...
2025-08-13
26 min
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#31: So You're a Research Innovator - Now What?
Your ability to translate complex research into practical wisdom isn't just valuable—it's desperately needed in our evidence-light, opinion-heavy world where hot takes masquerade as expertise. The most trusted thought leaders don't choose between academic rigor and practical application; they bridge that gap by maintaining credibility with both researchers and practitioners who need evidence-based insights they can actually use.In this final episode of our thought leadership archetypes series, I explore the Research Innovator archetype—those thought leaders who excel at investigating evidence and forming opinions based on data rather than gut reactions. Through examples like Angela Duck...
2025-08-08
18 min
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#30: So You're a Visual Thought Architect - Now What?
Your ability to translate complex concepts into clear visual frameworks isn't just a nice skill—it's a superpower in our increasingly complex world that should be the foundation of your entire thought leadership approach, not a supporting element. The most transformative thought leaders don't hide their natural visual thinking abilities; they leverage them to create immediate comprehension that years of written explanations could never achieve.In this episode, I explore the Visual Thought Architect archetype—those thought leaders who naturally think spatially and excel at organizing ideas into visual frameworks, flowcharts, and models that create instant understanding. Thro...
2025-08-07
14 min
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#29: So You're a Principled Practitioner - Now What?
Your greatest credibility doesn't come from credentials or theoretical knowledge—it emerges from the transparent documentation of your personal implementation journey, including both successes and failures. The most trusted thought leaders aren't those who teach the most topics; they're those who embody the principles they share and refuse to teach beyond their lived experience.In this episode, I explore the Principled Practitioner archetype—those thought leaders who have a natural experimental mindset and feel energized by being their own best case study. Through examples like James Clear's years of personal habit experimentation before writing Atomic Habits and Tim...
2025-08-06
14 min
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#28: So You're a Category Creator - Now What?
Your most powerful thought leadership doesn't come from improving existing approaches—it emerges when you have the courage to create entirely new paradigms that others can't even imagine yet. The greatest danger for naturally contrarian thinkers isn't being wrong about their revolutionary ideas; it's abandoning their unique perspective to follow proven formulas that will never showcase their true genius.In this episode, I explore the Category Creator archetype—those thought leaders who instinctively question assumptions everyone else accepts as truth and feel energized by creating new paradigms rather than incremental improvements. Through examples like Seth Godin's creation of p...
2025-08-05
11 min
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#27: So You're a Wisdom Writer - Now What?
Your greatest insights don't come from speaking off the cuff—they emerge through the deliberate act of writing, where your mind can explore complexity and reveal layers of meaning that faster-paced communication simply cannot capture. When you force yourself to show up live or create quick video content, you're asking a pianist to express their musical genius through painting.In this episode, I explore the Wisdom Writer archetype—thought leaders whose ideas develop most fully when they write them down, who naturally express nuance better in writing than speaking, and whose thoughtful voice creates deep connection on the...
2025-08-04
18 min
Own Your Impact
#26: So You're a Strategic Advisor - Now What?
Your greatest strength isn't learning to be more vulnerable—it's recognizing that your intellectual rigor and sophisticated problem-solving abilities are exactly what executive-level clients are seeking. When you try to compete with personality-based content, you're abandoning the very expertise that makes you irreplaceable in the boardroom.In this episode, I explore the Strategic Advisor archetype—thought leaders who excel at untangling complex organizational challenges that have stumped others. If you think analytically, feel energized by messy problems, and create magic at the whiteboard by mapping out systems in real time, this episode reveals why your approach is your...
2025-08-01
15 min
Own Your Impact
#25: So You're a Digital Learning Architect - Now What?
Your greatest teaching gift isn't in creating quick tips—it's in designing comprehensive learning journeys that systematically move people from confusion to transformation. When you try to compete in the world of bite-sized content, you're fighting against your natural genius instead of leveraging it.In this episode, I dive deep into the Digital Learning Architect archetype—one of the most powerful but often misunderstood approaches to thought leadership. If you have natural teaching ability with what I call "professor energy," if you think in learning journeys and see curriculum where others see chaos, this episode is for you...
2025-07-31
17 min
Own Your Impact
#24: So You're a Transformational Guide - Now What?
Your greatest impact comes through deep personal connection, not mass systems. When you try to scale by removing the very thing that makes you extraordinary—your ability to see what others miss and provide exactly what each person needs—you diminish both your energy and your effectiveness.In this episode, I speak directly to the Transformational Guides among us—those naturally gifted at creating profound personal shifts through individualized guidance. If you've been told you need to build courses and scale away from personal delivery, this conversation will free you from misaligned advice that fights against your natura...
2025-07-30
20 min
Own Your Impact
#23: So You're an Experience Facilitator - Now What?
Your most powerful work happens in moments that can't be captured in static formats, and trying to force your genius into traditional content creation is like trying to bottle lightning. When you create transformation through carefully designed group experiences and real-time facilitation, the conventional advice to "systematize your process" or "build an online course" doesn't just feel wrong—it diminishes the very magic that makes your work irreplaceable.In this episode, I explore what it means to be an Experience Facilitator—the second archetype in my ten-part deep dive series on the Resonant Thought Leadership System. If you...
2025-07-29
17 min
Own Your Impact
#22: So You're a Resonant Orator - Now What?
Your most powerful thought leadership doesn't come from forcing yourself into someone else's expression mode—it emerges when you honor how your brain naturally processes and communicates ideas. When you try to build influence through methods that fight against your authentic strengths, you're not just making things harder for yourself; you're diminishing the very thing that makes your voice magnetic.In this episode, I dive deep into what it means to be a Resonant Orator—one of the ten thought leadership archetypes I've identified through my work with experts who want to systematize their influence. If you're some...
2025-07-28
14 min
Own Your Impact
#21: From Understanding Your IP to Acting On Your Archetype
Your archetype isn't a limitation—it's your strategic starting point for building thought leadership that energizes rather than exhausts you. When you align your platform with your natural strengths instead of forcing yourself into someone else's mold, everything becomes sustainable.I believe the most dangerous trap in thought leadership is trying to build influence using expression modes that drain your energy. In this episode, I address the most common questions I receive from people who've taken the Thought Leadership Archetype Assessment: "Now what do I actually do with this information?" and "Does this mean I can't pu...
2025-07-24
16 min
Own Your Impact
#20: Finding Your Natural Way to Share Expertise
Your transformational IP isn't valuable because it follows someone else's formula—it's valuable because it emerges from your unique way of seeing and solving problems. Just like a photographer who forces themselves to use a lens that doesn't match their natural vision will create work they hate, thought leaders who force themselves into teaching containers that don't align with their natural orientation will struggle to create content that feels authentic and impactful.In this episode, I share a pivotal realization from teaching my Resonant Thought Leader Lab and public workshops: the order I was teaching transformational IP de...
2025-07-16
13 min
Own Your Impact
#19: Build Like an Architect, Tend Like a Gardener: The Living System That Transforms How You Build Thought Leadership
Your thought leadership isn't a static structure you complete—it's a living ecosystem that evolves with you. When you understand this fundamental truth, you stop forcing linear progress and start working with the natural cycles of depth and visibility that create lasting impact.In this episode, I share a major evolution in how I teach the Resonant Thought Leadership System, born from real-time observations in my group accelerator program. While the five components remain essential (Core Resonance, Content, Central Platform, Connection, and Commercialization), I've discovered they don't unfold linearly. Instead, they operate like a living tree—with root...
2025-07-09
16 min
Own Your Impact
#18: Clear Voices in Chaos: When Your Voice Counts Most
Your voice matters most when the world feels most uncertain, and moral clarity matters more than viral reach. In a time when public influence is often about persuasion rather than principle, we desperately need voices rooted in truth, not just charisma without grounding.In this episode, I explore what it means to be a clear voice in an overwhelming world, where too many confident-sounding voices leave us feeling manipulated rather than grounded. Drawing from my experience as a choir teacher who believed there was always a place for willing singers, I share three practices for developing the...
2025-07-05
12 min
Own Your Impact
#17: From Information to Transformation: Why Your Ideas Need a Container
Your breakthrough isn't in creating something new—it's in mining the gold that's already in what you're saying. You are already sharing brilliant insights; you just need better containers to hold them.Too many thought leaders get stuck sharing information when what their audience really needs is transformation. The problem isn't that you don't have valuable insights—you do. The problem is that you're sharing them like raw ore instead of refined gold. In this episode, I explore why containers matter more than content and reveal the four essential components of transformational IP that create lasting change rath...
2025-06-26
20 min
Tales From The Lane
Episode 71: From Stage to Strategy: Macy Robison on Leading with Strengths
Get your copy of my new book, Beyond Potential: A Guide for Creatives Who Want to Re-Assess, Re-Define, and Re-Ignite Their Careers, today at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or wherever books are sold. In this episode of Tales from The Lane, I'm joined by thought leadership strategist Macy Robison—creator of the Resonant Thought Leadership System™ and former Senior Director of Certification for StoryBrand. Macy has seen too many brilliant experts burn out trying to copy someone else's content strategy. So she helps high achievers do something radically different: lead with their strengths. Together, we explore the mi...
2025-06-23
49 min
Own Your Impact
#16: The Questions That Won't Let You Go: Finding the Authentic Motivation That Sustains Lasting Impact
Your most powerful thought leadership doesn't come from chasing what looks strategic—it emerges from the questions that already consume you, even when no one's paying attention. When you build your platform around problems you genuinely can't stop thinking about, every component of your system becomes energized rather than exhausting.In this episode, I reveal why so many thought leaders burn out despite initial success: they're building on surface-level motivations that collapse under pressure. Through real client stories, I demonstrate how to distinguish between what you think you should care about and what authentically drives you. I in...
2025-06-19
13 min
Kat Walks 🍃
On Retiring HR Sucks
HR Sucks is gone. Dunzo. Finito. I talk about the pressure of content creation, why I took a step back from social media, and how I rediscovered my voice through a voice memo and a walk. I also dive into the Thought Leader Archetype quiz that helped me make sense of why nothing I was trying before felt quite right. If you're a business owner, a people manager, a mom—or all three—I think you’ll feel seen in this story.What You’ll Hear in This EpisodeThe weather shift that sparked a mindse...
2025-06-18
20 min
Own Your Impact
#15: Not Your System: Why Copy-Paste Strategies Backfire and How to Find Your Authentic Path to Influence
The most dangerous trap in thought leadership isn't following bad advice—it's following good advice that doesn't fit who you actually are. When you try to execute someone else's plan instead of building one aligned with your authentic voice, you create dissonance that cancels out your impact rather than amplifying it.In this episode, I explore why so many experts feel like they're constantly swimming upstream with their thought leadership, despite following proven strategies. Through real client stories, I reveal how the copy-paste approach to building influence leads to exhaustion instead of expansion, and why you...
2025-06-11
20 min
Own Your Impact
#14: Desire as Compass: Why Your Biggest Dreams Reveal Your Greatest Contribution
Your biggest desires aren't something to apologize for—they're your most reliable compass for creating meaningful impact. The thing you're afraid to want out loud is probably pointing you toward your greatest contribution to the world.This week, I had a string of conversations with brilliant clients who all struggled with the same thing: giving themselves permission to want what they actually want. One said, "I just don't want to take up too much space." Another confessed they felt "completely blocked" when it came to claiming their own ideas. A third told me, "It just doesn't feel hu...
2025-06-05
20 min
Own Your Impact
#13: Resonance Over Reaction: Why Authentic Consistency Beats Viral Moments
The most dangerous moment in your thought leadership journey isn't when you face criticism—it's when you abandon your authentic voice because the world isn't responding as quickly as you expected. What looks like overnight success is almost always the result of years of consistent effort that no one was paying attention to.In this episode, I explore why consistency in your authentic approach is the foundation of all lasting thought leadership impact. Drawing from real examples like James Clear's years of writing before Atomic Habits became a bestseller, I reveal how real gr...
2025-05-29
30 min
Own Your Impact
#12: Paradigms vs. Practice: The Revolutionary Power of Rewriting Rules and Living Principles (Resonant Thought Leadership Archetypes - Part 5)
Your most powerful thought leadership doesn't come from imitating others—it emerges when you amplify your authentic voice and add deliberate strategy. The most transformative thought leaders don't just participate in conversations; they fundamentally reshape them by either challenging what everyone accepts as truth or by embodying principles so deeply that their lives become their message.In this final episode of our thought leadership archetypes series, I explore two revolutionary approaches to creating impact: the Category Creator and the Principled Practitioner. Whether you instinctively question assumptions that others take for granted or find yourself naturally testing ideas th...
2025-05-24
26 min
Own Your Impact
#11: Visuals vs. Research: How Clarity Creators Transform Complex Ideas Into Impact (Resonant Thought Leadership Archetypes - Part 4)
Your natural mode of expression is the key to sustainable thought leadership. When you align your content creation with how your brain naturally processes and communicates ideas, you unlock a level of authenticity and impact that feels energizing rather than exhausting. Forcing yourself into expression modes that fight against your natural genius is the fastest path to burnout and diminished impact.In this episode, I continue our exploration of thought leadership archetypes by examining two distinct patterns that create clarity from complexity: the Visual Thought Architect and the Research Innovator. While these archetypes operate differently—one through vi...
2025-05-21
21 min
Own Your Impact
#10: Connection vs. Analysis: Discovering Your Natural Path to Creating Transformation (Resonant Thought Leader Archetypes - Part 3)
Your business model should energize you, not drain you. When your approach to sharing expertise aligns with your natural strengths, thought leadership becomes both impactful and sustainable.In this episode exploring the Resonant Thought Leadership System's archetypes, I dive into two distinct patterns of expertise: the Transformational Guide and the Strategic Advisor. These archetypes represent completely different approaches to creating impact - one thriving through deep personal connection and individualized guidance, while the other excels through analytical problem-solving for organizations. By understanding which pattern naturally aligns with your strengths, you can build a thought leadership platform that...
2025-05-13
21 min
Own Your Impact
#9: Systems vs. Moments: The Power of How You Naturally Create Transformation (Resonant Thought Leader Archetypes - Part 2)
Your greatest impact comes when you stop resisting your natural strengths and embrace your authentic expression archetype. When you understand whether you're built to create comprehensive learning systems or facilitate transformative moments, your thought leadership becomes both more powerful and more sustainable.In this episode, I reveal the stark differences between two powerful thought leadership archetypes: the Digital Learning Architect who thrives by creating structured educational journeys, and the Experience Facilitator who excels at orchestrating transformative group experiences. Through examples like Amy Porterfield and Michael Bungay Stanier, I demonstrate how recognizing your natural archetype can free you...
2025-05-07
29 min
Own Your Impact
#8: Stage vs. Page: Exploring the First Two Thought Leadership Archetypes (Resonant Thought Leader Archetypes - Part 1)
Trying to become a thought leader using someone else's expression style is like trying to sing with someone else's voice – it will always feel forced and drain your energy. Your natural mode of expression isn't just a preference; it's the foundation for sustainable impact.I believe successful thought leadership comes from aligning with your authentic expression mode, not forcing yourself into someone else's template. When your approach to sharing expertise flows through your natural strengths, your impact grows while your energy remains sustainable.In this continuation of our exploration of the Resonant Thought Leadership System, I...
2025-04-30
28 min
Own Your Impact
#7: Thought Leadership Archetypes: Finding Your Natural Expression Pattern
I believe that just like music has distinct genres, thought leadership has specific archetypes—and finding yours is the key to creating authentic impact. Most aspiring thought leaders make the critical mistake of forcing themselves into someone else's mold, leading to frustration, burnout, and that nagging feeling of inauthenticity.In this episode, I reveal why many thought leaders struggle unnecessarily by fighting against their natural expression patterns instead of leveraging them. Building on our exploration of the Resonant Thought Leadership System from last week, I introduce ten distinct thought leadership archetypes and explain how und...
2025-04-22
24 min
Own Your Impact
#6: Aligned Commercialization: Building a Business That Energizes
Your business model should energize you, not drain you. When your approach to making money aligns with your natural strengths, thought leadership becomes sustainable.Too many experts create powerful content first and only later wonder how to monetize their expertise. This approach often leads to financial stress at precisely the moment when your thought leadership should be taking off, or worse—adopting business models that feel inauthentic and draining.In this final episode for our launch week exploring the Resonant Thought Leadership System, I reveal why commercialization is the crucial fifth component that en...
2025-04-18
23 min
Own Your Impact
#5: Strategic Connection: Building Relationships That Authentically Amplify Your Message
Most thought leaders waste time on exhaustive networking when what they really need is strategic connection. The right relationships with the right people can exponentially extend your reach without draining your energy.In this episode, I reveal why traditional networking advice often leads to burnout rather than breakthrough, and introduce the fourth component of the Resonant Thought Leadership System: Connection. I explain how your connection strategy acts like an amplifier that extends your voice beyond your immediate reach to audiences you couldn't access on your own.I break down the three key...
2025-04-17
20 min
Own Your Impact
#4: Building on Solid Ground: Why You Need a Digital Home Base You Actually Own
Your social content disappears in a day, but content on your central platform appreciates in value over time. Stop building equity for someone else and start creating digital assets that truly belong to you.In this episode, I share the cautionary tale of "Elena," a coach who woke up one morning to find her Facebook group of 15,000 members completely gone—five years of work, connections, and content vanished without explanation.I reveal why this scenario is all too common and introduce the third component of the Resonant Thought Leadership System: Central Platform. Le...
2025-04-16
19 min
Own Your Impact
#3: Beyond Frameworks: The Four Essential Components of Transformational IP
Random content builds awareness, but structured intellectual property builds authority. The most powerful IP isn't created—it's excavated from your lived experience and structured to serve others.In this episode, I make a confession: for years, I believed the secret to successful thought leadership was having a slick proprietary framework with clever acronyms and beautiful diagrams. I was only partially right.I reveal why frameworks alone aren't enough and introduce the complete Transformational IP Framework—the four essential components that make your wisdom accessible, implementable, and memorable. Learn why starting with frameworks some...
2025-04-15
20 min
Own Your Impact
#2: Finding Your Authentic Voice: The Physics of Personal Resonance
Like an opera singer who can be heard over a full orchestra without a microphone, your authentic voice naturally cuts through the noise when you find your unique core resonant frequency.In this episode, I dive deep into the foundation of all effective thought leadership: Core Resonance. Drawing from my background in music education, I share a transformative experience witnessing opera singers project without amplification that forever changed my understanding of influence and impact.Discover how successful thought leaders like Brené Brown don't compete with the noise—they find their unique frequency gap...
2025-04-15
17 min
Own Your Impact
#1: Why Your Brilliant Ideas Aren't Being Heard (And the System That Changes Everything)
Why Your Brilliant Ideas Aren't Being Heard (And the System That Changes Everything)In a world where over 7 million blog posts are published daily, why do some voices rise above while others—despite their brilliance—fade into obscurity?If I could sit down with every expert, leader, and change maker struggling to gain traction with their ideas, this is the conversation we would have. And it might challenge everything you've been taught about building influence.In this inaugural episode of Own Your Impact, I introduce the Resonant Thought Leadership Syst...
2025-04-15
10 min
Own Your Impact
Welcome to Own Your Impact!
In this trailer episode, consultant and strategist Macy Robison introduces the "Own Your Impact" podcast and the Resonant Thought Leadership System—a comprehensive approach designed to help experts transform their knowledge into platforms of purpose and influence. If you're tired of creating endless content without seeing meaningful results, this podcast will show you why your ideas don't need more luck or volume—they need a system.Subscribe to "Own Your Impact" to learn how to turn your expertise into lasting influence and impact.Connect with Macy:Website: macyrobison.comInstagram: @macyrobisonLinkedIn: Macy Robison
2025-04-09
02 min
Rapidly Rotating Records
Nuts About RRR # 1,258 August 25, 2024
Welcome to Glenn Robison’s Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t not tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and ’30s. Do you know who these fellows are? They’re The Harmonizers Quartet and you’ll hear them start off the second segment of this week’s show with “I Was Born In Michigan.” They also recorded as The Singing Troubadours and you’ll also find out the names of the members. We’ll be celebrating two birthdays this week, those of Malvin Franklin and Pinkey Hunter. In other segments we...
2024-08-26
59 min
Rapidly Rotating Records
A “Mow ’em Down” Edition of RRR #1,249 June 23, 2024
Alec Templeton Welcome to Glenn Robison’s Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t not tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and ’30s. Do you know who this fellow is? He’s pianist Alec Templeton who became popular on radio in the US for his talent in playing serious classical music, but also for his satirical parodies of the classics. You’ll hear one of them, “Mendelssohn Mows ‘Em Down” in the fourth segment of the show. We’ll be celebrating two birthdays this week, those of Ben Quillian and G...
2024-06-24
59 min
WELCOME. | a CEDAR HILLS 5th WARD podcast
Neal & Macy Robison
This week I had the opportunity to sit down with Neal and Macy Robison to learn more about their story - how they met, ended up in Utah, some of their hobbies and interests, and how they are currently contributing to the Cedar Hills 5th Ward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-06-23
43 min
Live Full Work Fun Podcast
Building Your Dream Business Using the StoryBrand Framework: Insights from Macy Robison
In this episode, host Gayla Scrivener had the pleasure of speaking with Macy Robison, the Director of Certified Guides for StoryBrand. Macy Robison is responsible for equipping hundreds of StoryBrand marketing guides and agencies worldwide with the necessary tools and training to build their dream businesses. With a master's degree in education, over 5 years of experience as a StoryBrand marketing guide, and more than 20 years as a teacher and branding coach, Macy has assisted numerous clients in creating marketing collateral that tells a story and converts customers. As a marketing and personal brand strategist, she has played...
2024-01-10
44 min
The Creator's Adventure - Course Creation, Entrepreneurship & Mindset tips for Creators
#79: How to Use Narrative Marketing to Boost Sales with Macy Robison
Macy Robison is the Director of Certified Guides for StoryBrand where she helps equip hundreds of StoryBrand marketing guides and agencies across the globe with the tools and training they need to build the business of their dreams. As a marketing and personal brand strategist, she has been responsible for helping clients launch New York Times best-selling books, reach millions of followers across their social media platforms and email lists, and produce podcasts with a combined 4.5 million downloads.Learn more about Macy: http://macyrobison.com
2023-08-29
34 min
The Social Strategist
RR How to create a clear brand with Macy Robison
Struggle with knowing how to talk about your business in a way that gets people interested? Today, Michelle interviews Macy Robison, Storybrand expert, about how to speak so your audience understands. Get Macy's free guide here: https://uplightcreative.com/stumbling Keep up with Michelle on ig here: https://www.instagram.com/iammichellegifford/
2020-11-24
35 min
Rapidly Rotating Records
RRR 78RPM Show – July 3, 2016
Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. Rapidly Rotating Records 78RPM Show – July 3, 2016 Once again, on this week's brand new show there are no birthday tributes…oh, wait, yes there is. That of the good ol' US of A! So, in addition to some appropriate tunes to get you ready for the Fourth of July celebration, we will be playing favorites, we'll get the (musical) boot, and we'll...
2016-07-03
00 min
Rapidly Rotating Records
RRR Show – July 6, 2014
Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. I hope all of our listeners here in the US had a safe and sane 4th of July holiday. The 4th of July might be past, but patriotism shouldn't be confined to a few specific days a year, so this week it's a special Independence Day edition of Rapidly Rotating Records. The 4th of July is a time for parades, fireworks...
2014-07-07
00 min
Rapidly Rotating Records
RRR Show – June 22, 2014
Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records," Glenn Robison's weekly, one hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's brand new edition of Rapidly Rotating Records, we're going to celebrate last week's transom.org Traveling Radio Workshop which was held right here at KISL by having an entire show about radio! Radio songs, radio bands and radio personalities. It's radio, all radio and nothing but radio. If you were unable to tune in to the listening party l...
2014-06-22
00 min
Talking Space
Episode 536: All You Need To Be a MAVEN
On this episode of Talking Space, we talk about the successful launch of MAVEN on its way to Mars, and look at some amazing facts behind the mission, including cost. We then discuss the successful launch of 29 satellites at once from the Wallops Flight Facility. We then discuss some little known info about theMorpheus Lander. On our second and final trip around the table, we listen to a question asked at the MAVEN press conference by a reporter from the Travel Channel and try and answer it about NASA. We then look at how robots are playing a role i...
2013-11-26
1h 00
Rapidly Rotating Records
RRR Show – October 13, 2013
Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. On this week's "good enough" edition of the show we're going to celebrate the birthdays of Gerald Marks and Jack Shilkret, find out what "Madame" is up to, and you'll find out some things you didn't know you didn't know. My favorite record on this week's show is "I'd Walk A Million Miles (To Be A Little Nearer To You)" by Gerald Marks Hotel T...
2013-10-14
00 min
Rapidly Rotating Records
RRR Show – June 16, 2013
Welcome to "Rapidly Rotating Records", Glenn Robison's weekly, one-hour radio program of "toe-tapping music from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and 30s", broadcast Sunday evenings at 6:00 PM over KISL FM 88.7 Avalon. This week's show is all about radio, radio bands and radio personalities and is dedicated to the participants in the Transom Traveling Radio Story Workshop, being hosted by KISL. Transom channels new work and new voices to public radio and public media and you can find out more about the organization at www.transom.org. Given Catalina's radio history, which goes back to 1903 and...
2013-06-17
00 min
Rapidly Rotating Records
Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – 21 August 2011
Welcome to Glenn Robison’s Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and ’30s. On this evening’s show we’ll celebrate National Radio Day and the birthdays of a number of different artists and composers. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: August 15…Happy BirthdayComposers born on August 15 include: Sidney Clare born in 1892 Composer Harry Akst was born in 1894 Ted Snyder was born 1881 Lyricist Ned Washington was...
2011-08-22
1h 00
Rapidly Rotating Records
Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – 5 July 2009
Welcome to Glenn Robison’s Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and ’30s. On this evening’s show we’re going to celebrate the birthday of the good ol’ US of A. The 4th of July is a time for parades, fireworks and American Tunes, and here are all three. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Fireworks Fireworks – The New Yorkers American Tune – Paul Whiteman / Austin Young I Love a Parade...
2009-07-06
00 min
Rapidly Rotating Records
Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – 6 July 2008
Welcome to Glenn Robison’s Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and ’30s. On this evening’s show, we’ll play a guessing game, fulfill a request, go to the beach and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: Guessing Game This past Wednesday evening, I had the great pleasure of attending the final screening of this years “Last Remaining Seats” film series, sponsore...
2008-07-07
00 min
Rapidly Rotating Records
Rapidly Rotating Records 78 RPM Show – 9 March 2008
Welcome to Glenn Robison’s Rapidly Rotating Records, bringing you vintage music to which you can’t *not* tap your toes, from rapidly rotating 78 RPM records of the 1920s and ’30s. On this evening’s show, we’ll celebrate the birthdays of Irving Kahal, “Hutch”, and Florida, do some whispering, and listen to this past week in recording history. Enjoy the show! Here’s the complete playlist: Segment 1: FloridaMarch 3 in 1845, Florida became the 27th of the United States of America. Florida Stomp – Fletcher Henderson Florida Bound Blues – Bessie Smi...
2008-03-10
1h 00