All right, let's start. Let's start. So, hi, everyone. Um My name is Blessing and I am a student at Drexel University and studying Information Systems.Um I, I see myself as a global citizen,

which I'll talk a bit

about that later on um about like where I'm from, um how I identify myself, things like that. Um But this session is called putting the personal into personal branding. Um So in this session, I'm going to talk through, you know, my experience with personal branding um online as well as offline. So using linkedin to build my personal brand, but also offline trying to carry on that narrative. So I wanted to start off with talking a bit about my story um because I think this will lay like, like a great foundation for everything else that has to come. Um And it will kind of give you a bit of credibility as well as um for what I'm about to say. So I don't know if you guess, but by my

name, my name is

Blessing Aga. I was born in Nigeria. Uh I lived there for just under two years and um after two years, my family and I relocated to Germany. So for the first, I guess, like from the age of 2 to 7 or so, I lived in Germany in Bayreuth, which is a very, a very small city. Um And so I lived in Germany. I, I was brought up as a German. Uh my first language was German. Um And then after the age of like 67, I moved to Scotland in the UK in Edinburgh where I spent 10 years of my life before coming to United States for university. So as you can tell, um, in the past, uh I guess like 21 years of my life, I have lived in four different, completely different places in the world. And so that has really helped me to um understand one like who I am and also what I bring to the table. But yes, Jacqueline, that's my accent. Sometimes you'll hear a bit of Nigerian, sometimes German, sometimes Scottish. So it's a bit of everything. So hopefully you can um keep, keep up with that.

Um But yeah, so, you know, moving around a lot of different countries, I went through an identity crisis because I could never, you know, when people would ask, like, let's say if you're, you're meeting someone new and they're like, oh, so where are you from? You know, sometimes people won't necessarily know by my accent. Um So I would always hate having to go through the entire, like my entire life story. So, you know, I was born in Nigeria, but then I grew up in Germany. But way after that, I lived in Scotland before coming to America. So I went through an identity crisis. I didn't know who I was. Um I didn't know what I really brought to the table. I thought that my, my atypical background was actually disadvantaged until I realized that I could turn it into my advantage. It's something that not everyone could say that they've done. Um, you know, it's one thing to visit a country like on holiday or like vacation, but it's a completely different thing to actually live in a country to set up your foundation there only to move a few years later. Um So that's like the unique perspective that I bring from all of the different countries that I've lived in. And with that, I always like to say that the constant in my life has been changed. I've always, I, I anticipate change.

Um I'm always thinking of, ok, what's next? Am I gonna move? Am I gonna move country? Am I going to move um city? Am I gonna move? Skills? That's kind of just how I've, I've grown up just anticipating change. And so when it comes to personal branding and even professional development, it, it was the last thing on my mind. It wasn't necessarily something that in high school, in the UK or in Scotland. Sorry, I, I thought it was really important. They didn't teach us about that. It wasn't until I came to America that I understood and I realized that, you know, people are really interested in what, you know, what they call internships. I didn't know anything about internships. And so, you know, after living in the UK for 10 years, I moved to the US in the um in the, the last year of high school. So as you can imagine, you know, you're in your senior year of high school, you're not only moving high schools, but you're also moving context, you're moving continent. And so that was really difficult for me because I just thought that, you know, all the plans I had all the grades I, I had acquired all the plans I had to pursue higher education were just thrown away. So I had to basically start from scratch in America.

And so hopefully, you know, through what I go through. Um Sorry, I am hearing the video signal is a little degraded. Ok? Hopefully that picks up. Um But so through, through this experience, um I, I've been able to, I've been able to understand one who I was and, and being able to like build my personal brand on that basis. As Jacqueline said, like my global experience is a superpower, but it wasn't until recently that I actually realized that. So I wanted to share a bit about my linkedin story. Um many of you might know linkedin, it's a professional platform. It's a platform that professionals used to connect, to build their network um and to find opportunities to find jobs. And so I wanted to share about my, a bit about my story because I honestly really, I stumbled upon linkedin. It wasn't something that as a freshman in university, I thought I really needed to be on. I didn't understand why students should even be on linkedin. And that's something I'm gonna talk a bit about later on. Um So in my sophomore year, in my second year of university, I, I did a co op which is basically an internship for six months. I worked at a small start up in Georgia um in the US.

And my task as a second year in college was to teach professionals how to use linkedin, which is a professional platform. I was tasked with that as someone who did not know anything about linkedin um as a student myself. And I saw that as a challenge because I started to think, you know, who am I to teach a professional, how to use a professional platform when I'm barely just, you know, in college and you know, university. And so again, I took that as a challenge. Um and that's how I was able to explore my way to my personal brand because I was curious to, to think of ways to um make that experience better for me. For six months. I was teaching professionals, how to use linkedin. And I, I thought to myself, why can I teach myself to use linkedin? You know, II, I wanted to go above and beyond. I wanted to do more than what my 9 to 5 required of me. So that's how I was able to um explore my way to my personal brand. And as I was able to take the information that I was giving out to um other people to professionals per se, I took, I reeled that information in, I started up um creating content on the platform. I started to up upgrade and update my profile.

Um And that is how I was able to like build uh my, my, my personal brand. And um I like to say that I was able to build a foundation, the foundation of my personal brand based on a gap that I saw on the market. The gap that I saw was that not many students were actually on linkedin. And again, to answer your question, Jacqueline, that's how I was able to doubt the default because the default for me was seeing that linkedin is strictly for professionals. But I, I started to doubt that.

And that's what made me curious about the platform because I thought that, you know, for the most part before you're a professional, you are a student. So why is this platform only for professionals? And how can I create or how can I help foster a pipeline? So that as a student, when you're in college, you're already starting to establish your personal brand. So that when you get into, you know, corporate America or when you get into the industry, it will just be a matter of sustaining, it will be, it will just be a matter of maintaining that personal brand. Um And again, you know, as someone said, personal branding is really important nowadays, it's honestly, it's the currency we're living in a digital world, everything is happening online. So it's important to have that online presence. So I do understand that, you know, a lot of people aren't comfortable with putting their full selves online, which is fine too. Um So yeah, that's how I was able to build a foundation based on a gap in the market. I found that not many students were on linkedin. So I wanted to create a small solution to that problem. Um I was able to create a community on linkedin called students of linkedin, which was there to empower to educate and to expose students to the power of linkedin.

And that was my first introduction to personal branding. I was, I was talking out of experience, I was talking out of theory and I think both, you know, go hand in hand and, and both are just as important. Um So that's like my background, that's the credibility that I wanted to share with you guys before I actually go into this topic. Um So this brings me to the motivation behind this, this um this, this session, again, the session is called putting the personal into personal branding or back into personal branding because I think a lot of people have forgotten about that. And so, you know, as I've been on linkedin for the past 34 years, and as I was able to, you know, like teach other students and even professionals about personal branding and building that online presence. Um I realized one of I realized two problems, one people were, were trying to build upon AAA like foundation of their personal brand that could easily crumble. And two people were thinking about, you know, the way they were thinking about building a personal brand was, you know, on a foundation that was not true to themselves. So again, it could easily crumble.

Um And so this is the motivation behind this, this, this session because I realized that as much as you spray, you know, impressive keywords on your linkedin profile or even on your resume. Um at the end of the day, it's your personality and your character that ultimately reveals itself, it shines through at the end of the day. Um And I realized this um last summer when I was interning at Morgan Stanley. And so I was, I was commuting throughout New York, I was using the metro system and I was, as I was sitting in the metro, I was looking around and I was, I could only see people for who they, they are. I could only see, you know, the person that's wearing a suit, the person that's wearing a dress, the person that's wearing, um, like a, a tracksuit and that's, that's all I could. That's like, that's all I could tell about them. Um, and so at that point I realized that I did not need to know the person's title or their achievements or even their status. The first thing that I see about a person is, you know, like what, how they present themselves. It's about who I see them as it's about who they are. And before I know their title, before I even know their name or their achievement.

So I think where a lot of people have started to understand things in the wrong sense when it comes to personal branding is because they build their personal brands on the basis of their titles, their achievements, their status, what they do rather than who they are. First. I think the foundation is the most important thing. If you, if you, if you build your f if you build your foundation to your personal brand on what you do or the company that you work at, when those things disappear, then people could say that your entire personal brand disappears. And I think with, you know, COVID-19, a lot of people are realizing that a lot of the things that they have attached or they, I they tie their identity to can easily be taken away. So at the end of the day, what are you left with? And that's why I say in that last sentence that um once we look past your title, your achievements and your status, we just see you. It is only you that we see on the Metro. If I see a person in a suit, I can't, I can't assume that they're a CEO, I can't assume that they're even working. I don't know much about them, but it's just them that I see.

So it's important to understand that the who in personal branding comes before the war, the who is the foundation and the what builds upon that. Um So I wanted to break down, you know, the phrase personal branding. Um I think for me to understand certain terms, I need to break it down to like the root words. So, um I'm breaking it down. So first we want to talk about personal, the first definition that I came across when it comes to personal is of affecting or belonging to a particular person rather than to anyone else. And I highlighted the word belonging here. The second definition is of or concerning one's private life, relationships and emotions rather than matters connected with one's public or professional career. Now, again, obviously, I, I can't use the, the word as a definition in itself, but as you can see, um you know, when it comes to talking about all things personal. It's about belonging. It's about, um, your private life. It's about relationships. It's about emotions. It's about you.

The common denominator is you. It's a personal matter. Um, and that's, I think that's what people almost like take away or don't really consider, don't add much weight to when it comes to the equation. That is personal branding. They think it's branding in the business sense.

But when you add personal, you have to realize that it, it's about, you know, your belonging, it's about your emotions, it's about your relationships, it's about your life. And of course, the second word is brand. So branding here, obviously, the def definitions are more to do with like a business context. Um So one, the first definition is that branding is a particular identity or image regarding um or regarded as an asset. And the second one, again, it's more of like a business, business definition. But um branding is a promise to consumers. Now, if you want to think about it in a social aspect, you can say that branding is a promise to the world. It's the promise of your value to whoever you interact with. It's a promise of value to whoever hears your name or whoever buys your book or whoever goes to your website. It's a promise. Um And going back to the first definition, I talk about it being your identity and your image. And it's important to understand what identity and image are identity is who you are, image, who you want people to see you as. So it's important that you know your identity before you try and portray your image. A lot of people who are building their personal brand are are building their personal brand upon what they think people want to see them as not portraying who they actually are to the world.

So I think it's important to understand, you know, the the specific words in their own context. So now as we bring them together, personal branding, I honestly, there's so many, there are so many definitions of personal branding online. So it's important to, again, like as I said, like dissect the words, understand it for yourself and then bring the words together and, and and create definition based on that. This is a definition that I honestly really loved. It says that personal branding is the effort to communicate and present your value to the world. I found that so powerful. And if you take away, you know, some of the filler words, you see um these five words that I think individually hold so much weight, effort communicate present value in worlds. It's about the effort. It's about how determined you are to do something. It's about communicating.

Communicating is communication is an exchange, is an exchange of knowledge. It's an exchange of information present. How do you present yourself to the world? Right? Are you present um value? It's about, um it's about, you know, when you talk about value, it's about what, what can you bring to others that benefits them? You know, and then world obviously, it's, it's understanding things from a larger perspective, from a different perspective and knowing that it's not all about you, it's about, you know, everything around you and how you influence that, how you influence your, your, your, your circle, how you influence the people that interact with you or the people that hear your name or the people that hear your story.

So I like to break down, you know, personal branding into these four categories. Who, what, why and where. So who as I talked about, it's so important to understand who you are. Go back to the roots, go back to your origin, who are you? Because it's important to build your personal brand on this foundation. So that no matter how the trends shift or society changes, you know, you are strong and you're rooted in who you are and you do not like shift with the wind. It's important to know that with your personal brand. Um The second one is what, what do people say about you? Especially when you're not in the room, um your your personal brand, you, you, you can understand when you have a strong personal brand, when your name carries more weight than you know, your actual presence in a specific area. So we see that with a lot of influencers and celebrities nowadays where we personally don't need to know them. But if someone tells me about, ok, Michelle Obama, I don't know her personally, but I know her value and that is um that is the product of her personal brand. The why, why do people say what they say about you?

Again, there are two types of people, there are people who actually know you and there are people who know about you. So it's important to also understand what like where are you putting the weight to, are you putting um weight to the people that actually know you and what they say about you or people that don't you, that don't know you and say things about you. So you need to understand why do people say what they say about you as in respect to your personal brand? Is it because they've had a first, you know, is it because they've had interaction with you? Have they um have they benefited from, you know, 1 to 1 connection or in or conversation with you or is it because they just know of you? Is it because um you, you wrote a book or you did the webinar in which just from hearing your story during your experience, that's how they um were able to relate. That's how they were able to benefit from, from that. And lastly where, so where are you communicating your value? Again, communication is, is a big part of it? This can be seen as offline and online. Um I think the thing that I want to point out here is that it has to be consistent.

You cannot present yourself as this person online. But then offline, you're, you're someone else that just means is that your, your personal brand is, is, is not reliable. How can I trust your online self? But then offline, I, I can't trust you. I don't even know who you are offline. So that's why it's important to think about all these things holistically and understand that our, our, our personal brand is who we bring out. Like it's, it's who we are fully. Like who do you bring out? What and what value do do you bring to the world? So, um I think for me um and my, my s my journey in personal branding, it comes down to these 66 categories which I like to say are some of the key ingredients to building your personal brand. Again, this is, is really focusing on the personal part of it because a lot of things, a lot of what I've seen nowadays is that people are trying to automate, people are trying to create a system around what's supposed to be personal. And as humans, we relate to stories, we relate to people being vulnerable. We empathize with stories, we empathize with experiences. So that's really how I've been able to build my personal brand. And I want to walk through these six categories. Um So pers personality, potential, passion, pain, people, and presence.

Um So as I go through the next six slides, definitely feel free to take a picture or write these questions down so that you yourself can introspect after um the session, you can understand for yourself who you are um personality. I think this is important, very important. Um The question I pose to you guys is what characteristics and qualities make

you you

as you can see, the root word of personality is literally personal. And if you go back to um the definition that I shared ear earlier, it talks about belonging, it talks about life, it talks about relationships, it talks about emotions. So your characteristics and your qualities are specific, they have to be specific to you. So it's important to understand what characters, characteristics and qualities make you, you, this is something that you can think about yourself. But it's also important to ask your friends your families anyone else.

Because again, this is where consistency comes in to play. I could say I'm funny, but you know, the consensus of my 10 friends could say I'm not funny. So it's important to not just rely on who you say you are, obviously, that's a foundation but making sure that what other people say about you is consistent with what you say about yourself. If that's not the case, then you have to understand like what is the disparity what is not connecting and how, and you have to figure out cause honestly, it's your responsibility. So you have to figure out how do you fill that gap? Because sometimes it's just that people don't know you. So again, like your characteristics, your qualities, who are you? What makes you, you, what makes blessing, blessing? What makes Lindsay Lindsay? What makes um Shama Shama? Um So, um yeah, uh let me see and feel free as, as we go through, if you have any questions, um we can have a AQ and a at the end. OK, I talked about personality. The next thing is pain and the question I posed to you is what pain have you experienced? And I'm not talking about physical pain, it could be emotional, it could be mental, it could just be an obstacle or a barrier that you faced.

Um As I told you earlier in this session, the pain for me was having moved to multiple different places in the 21 years of my life. That was my barrier. That was my obstacle that I didn't necessarily know how to overcome. But this is now a story. It's now an experience that I can share with the world. It's the value that I bring because I bring the perspective of my Nigerian self, my Nigerian background, my German background, my British background and my American background. I, that's my, that's the value I bring to the world and that's the that's how I'm able to relate to people. Um So understanding what pain you have gone through and realizing that pain is still part of your purpose in the season that you experience the pain, it might have felt, you know, overwhelming, you might have felt really down, but you got through it and this is a pain that you can repurpose um to, to share your story so that it could help other people or it could prevent other people from going through the same pain.

So it's important to understand that your pain is just as valuable as anything else when it comes to your personal branding. The next thing is your presence. This is so important as I told you, it's uh it's not just about your online presence. Again, your online presence is a currency, but it's just as important to make sure that you're consistent offline. If someone meets me in the street right now, I need to, I need to show them the same personality, the same um qualities I show online. Otherwise people will not trust me, right? Personal personal branding is about a promise. It's about trusting. Um So my question to you is where have you established your presence again, not everyone, not everyone is comfortable being online. That's fine. But, but personally, if I meet you in the street or you know, with your, with your spirits of influence or um on campus or your with your colleagues, what do they say, what do they have to say about your personal brand? What do they say? What do they have to say about you as a person? It's important to understand that your presence also has power. So next is your potential? Um your potential is your, is the capacity or is either having or showing the capacity to be to become something more in the future?

A lot of people, when we think about future, we think five years, 10 years down the line future for me is anything outside of the present or forward from the present? It could be 10 minutes from now. It could be um it could be tomorrow, it could be tonight. Um So I think when it comes to potential, my question to you is have you realized your po your potential? A lot of people do have potential. They don't think so, but they do, it might just be locked up, it could be stored away, it could be pushed to the side, but you have to realize that you do have potential and it's your responsibility to unlock that potential, to realize it and then to, to act from that. Um Again, to go back to my personal experience again, as a student, I thought, who am I to, you know, who am I to teach professionals how to use a professional platform? I had the potential as a student, I am still a student. I'm in my senior year. Um I'm still a student but I, I had the potential. But again, I could have, I could have um I could have not even got, I could not be speaking to you right now if I thought that I didn't have the potential, if I didn't act on the potential. So it's important to understand.

OK, I might not have acted on my potential, but knowing that you have potential is the key to success. Um Another one is passion. Another word that I like to, to interchange with passion is curiosity. What piques your curiosity again, for me when I got on linkedin, um some people could say my passion was to help students, but I was just curious as to why on a professional platform, students didn't feel comfortable to be on the platform or to even reach out to professionals or to alumni.

So that's what, that's what um was my passion, that was what I was curious about. So when it comes to your personal brand, you have to understand that um or you have to think about at least what am I curious about? That's ultimately what's going to drive you. That's what's going to be your fuel to continue building upon your personal brand. Personal branding is not something that you establish. Once you have a linkedin profile, you have a website, you have um you know, like a logo and then that's it, you have to keep watering it, it keep it has to keep going. Um The, the other thing is people, a lot of people try to think, oh, you know, it's personal branding, it's personal. Yes, that is true. But it's also about the people that are surround that you are surrounded by and are surrounded by you. So it's important to ask yourself who needs me and who do I need as a personal brand? Um As someone who's, who's passionate about helping students, I need people to point to me as much as I'm pointing out to people. It has to be like an overflow system. So it's important to know um who needs you? Who is your audience? Who is your target audience? Why do they need you? It has to go back to your why to your curiosity to your passion because that's what will continue fueling you.

Um And lastly, again, as I said, like, who do you need it? You're not just in this world to be by yourself. So to bring this all together, as I mentioned, I mentioned six ps which are the key, the key, um the key ingredients to your personal brand. Um And I've listed them here. So if you want to take another picture, if you wanna take a screenshot, um and I've bucketed, bucketed them into recognizing, communicating and presenting your personal brand. So again, recognizing it's about going back to your roots. Who are you?

Who do you when you look in the mirror, who do you, like, who do you see without where, you know, without talking about your employer or what you've achieved or um how many awards you have? Who are you? It's important to just strip yourself of all of those because there can be a time, there's so many things that just, that just um can easily just fall away, but you're still left with yourself. So it's important to understand like who are you go back to your roots. And ultimately, once you set a foundation on that, you know, that it's steady because you know who you are. And that's ultimately what you're portraying to the world. So it's about understanding your value as well. If I didn't understand that, you know, my, my international experience, my atypical background was my superpower. I could not use that as, you know, the value that I would bring to an organization as I'm interning right now. I'm interning at Microsoft, I told them that as a global corporation, as a global organ organization, the value that I bring to you is a global perspective. I bring 444 countries when I come to you when I sit at my desk every day. So it's important to understand your value. But again, it comes back to recognition. So you need to introspect, communication is important. Um You have to figure out the message that you're trying to, that you're trying to give the value that you bring.

You have to figure out how you want to communicate that it might not be through linkedin. It might not be, you know, through blogs or through written posts. It might be face to face interactions. It might be how you're even interacting with people on the street. It might be how you interact with strangers. It's important to understand what your message is and how you can communicate that to others. Exchange with empathy communication is about an exchange of information. How are you empathizing with people as humans? We're all about storytelling, we're all about um vulnerability. So it's important to understand that. And again, that comes back to your personality, comes back to your passion and lastly presenting. So how do you present yourself to the world? Sometimes people are more focused on their performance or like the performance of their personal brand that they neglect just being present, they neglect that perhaps just a message that they share is enough that maybe they don't need to do a webinar right now. So it's important to understand the ratio and, and the way that you, that you have for both of those. Um One of the quotes that I like is that as we are liberated by our own fears, we automatically we, we subconsciously liberate others. So I think that's important especially um And it reminds me to just use my voice, even if I'm afraid. Again, it goes back to being vulnerable. Um I remember when I was working at Morgan Stanley for my internship.

And II I voiced how my first, my first day on the internship was just, I just felt so overwhelmed and through, you know, sharing that story, so many people came to support me and through um through sharing that vulnerability, I was able to liberate others from that vulnerability to show them that they're not alone.

So again, like recognizing your personal brand, recognizing your story, communicating that message and then presenting that to the world is so important. So ultimately, um with all of what I've just said with the six piece I've mentioned, it's about, it's time right now with everything going digital, with everyone being online, with everyone being behind the screen, it's so difficult to, to make this facade. It's so it's so difficult to um be personal. But I really urge everyone, I challenge you to try to put the personal back into personal branding. It's so important and it's not just about the numbers, it's not just about the, the statistics, but how are you impacting lives? How are you influencing people to be better, to do better, to do more, to be more. It's about the people, it's about the personal. Um So I just wanted to thank you all for, for coming. Um And for listening to this, feel free to um connect with me on linkedin. Um Please, I would love to hear your stories again. I, I, I'm all about the personal connection I'm all about hearing people's story because I think that's really what has made me meet. It's not just about my story. I, I've now understood that. It's not just about me. My personal brand is not just about me. It's about the stories I've heard the stories I've collected from others, whether, whether I share that out or I keep that to myself.

These are all the things that have made me meet. It's the people that I've been surrounded by. It's the pain that I've gone through. It's my personality that makes me unique. So, um I just wanted to thank you again. Thank you for coming here. And I hope that through this session, you challenge yourself to think a bit deeper to dig, to dig down deep so that you can earth who you really are and, and, and present that to the world. Um So we have around seven more minutes. I'm happy to take any questions, any comments that you have um feel free to, to share that in the, in the comments.

Thank you. How often do I

present? So funnily enough. I used to be very shy. Um You know, with moving around a lot and growing up speaking German English was not my first language. I grew up very shy. I didn't think I even had a voice, which is why I really want to urge people that if I could be here, you know, speaking about my story, even sharing my story with people on the street then who are you not to do the same, who are you not to, you know, make the same kind of impact or have the same kind of influence?

Um OK, so someone asked, what is your, what's your major and how do you see your path after graduation? So, um I'm majoring in information systems. I'm currently interning at Microsoft as a program manager. Um I graduate next year and honestly, for me, it's all about exploring um I, I have a lot of different interests. Um So I'm still like exploring understanding, like what field do I want to go in? I am also a person that does not just want to do one thing. So I will not just work my 9 to 5. I'm not just a student. I try to do more because I know that it's more than, you know, my status. It's more than my title. It's more than um than, than where I am currently. Um So the question about many people struggle with public speaking, what helped you to develop your skill for me? I had to and I know it, it sounds cliche, but I had to just start. Um I, I never saw myself as a public speaker. I never even, you know, thought that this is something that I wanted to do until III I understood the power that my voice had and I had to start small. I didn't say you know, I wanted to be a public speaker and I want to speak to thousands of people.

It started with just speaking in front of my class, like actually picking up my hands and saying, OK, I want to answer this question or speaking up in a group project or presenting to a class or presenting to a student organization. I had to start small because I realized is that if I could not be trusted with a small crowd of maybe five people, then I can't be trusted with 500 people. So I had to start small. I had to practice and just not put so much pressure on myself. And for me as such a shy person, um I see public speaking as even just speaking in class. Um So I hope that answers your question. Um Do you have any videos on youtube? So most of my videos are on, on linkedin actually, and I do have a youtube channel, but I only have video, one video there. Most of my videos are on in on linkedin. Um II I interview other people. I actually had a session in my linkedin live about personal branding and digging down to the roots. Um So please feel free to even message me, I can send you a few videos um and any other resources that could be helpful to, to the university. Um So one question I see here, some people think they do not have a story to tell or do not have an interesting background. What advice do you have for them?

So, again, something that I felt a lot of pressure for was feeling like I needed to have an interesting story. Now I told you about my, my different backgrounds. Would you believe me if I told you that I did not think that that was an interesting story, but a lot of people that hear, you know, my different interests or my different backgrounds or the different places I've lived, they're like, wow, like you're so unique. I did not think so. So when I realized that if I didn't think that I had an interesting background, what about other people? So for me, it wasn't necessarily putting the pressure on myself that, oh, I, I need to have a, a fabulous story one that wows people. I just started to share the different experiences. I've had, I talked about my experiences in kindergarten in Germany. I talked about how I had to learn how I had to force myself to learn English, um, from, from, you know, speaking German for all of my life. So it's not about, it's not about putting so much pressure on yourself to say, oh, I don't have an interesting story. You just have to share your experiences. It's not, it's not your responsibility to, to tell people that you have an story. It's the audience is whoever receives that story that can decide if it's interesting or not, but don't put that pressure on yourself to say that I need to have this, I need to have that.

Just share, just share your story, just share your experience, just share what you have gone through again. As I said, it's your personality that comes through at the end of the day, share your quality, share the pain that you've gone through and that's ultimately what brings your story.

Um Yes, I do coach. Um I do hold sessions, specific sessions on personal branding on linkedin. So please do message me on linkedin. I would be happy, I would be happy to share your story, to hear your story and to help you in any way that I can. Um we have two more minutes. So let me see what other questions I can get to. Um Yeah, so not necessarily a question, but I guess I could comment about using personal branding to look for a job that is, I have had six internships in the four years. I've been in college. It has all been because of my personal brands. It is all not necessarily i in like a an official way, but it's just how I've been able to carry myself, how I've been able to understand the value I have and how I present myself in my interviews in my applications. So it's important to understand that your personal brand is not just, you know, an official thing that you say that you have because you have a linkedin account. It's just who, it's who you are. As I said, it's not about what you do, it's who you are. So when it comes to looking for a job, you have to present who you are, what you can bring to the table.

Thank you. Thank you guys.

Um ok, there's one more minute, but just to close off. Thank you so much for, for joining this session. And again, please do reach out to me. Um You can see my name. Blessing Agami. I'm happy to talk with anyone. I'm happy to book a session with anyone. Please do reach out. Let me know what you enjoyed from the session so that I could also get feedback and, and see what I can do better. But I really appreciate you guys. Um Thank you for the comments. Thank you for engaging and, and I, I hope that you will continue to foster that personal, you know, into your personal branding. So, thank you so much.