
Elevating Your Brand and Purpose Using Human Design with Stephanie Zhong
06/22/23 • 35 min
Are you feeling like you’re not living up to your full potential because you’re constantly trying to fit into societal norms? In a world that often values conformity over authenticity, it can be hard to embrace our uniqueness and let it be the shining point of our business.
In this episode, brand storytelling coach and human design expert Stephanie Zhong talks about the importance of embracing your unique self in branding and marketing using Human Design as the blueprint. She also shares her personal journey of overcoming shyness and fear of being visible to now becoming a successful brand strategist and coach.
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Stephanie Zhong is a brand storytelling coach, human design expert , and a connector of seemingly unconnectible ideas. In this episode, she explains how she helps mission-driven entrepreneurs own the power of their brand story and their human design type to gain greater success and joy -- by being more YOU.
She brings to her clients more than 20 years of expertise in online media and marketing, for non-profits (including Planned Parenthood and Teach For America), start-ups (including Teach.Org and Work for Humanity) and civic organizations (like the City of Los Angeles).
Through her signature program, Own Your Message, she has also helped founders, coaches and consultants go from being best-kept secrets to undeniable authorities.
Her expertise has been featured in Balance the Grind, ShoutOutLA, Washington Post Express and podcasts such as Square Peg Entrepreneurs, Coach the Coach, LifeForce, and the You Should Write A Book About That podcasts. She’s led brand storytelling workshops at Moxie Camp, SheCatalysts, Prime Time and the U.S. State Department.
Connect with Stephanie
Website: stephaniezhong.com
Book a personalized human design reading: https://www.stephaniezhong.com/book-human-design-reading
Get Unlock Your Creative Code course: https://programs.stephaniezhong.com/unlock-creative-code-course (use code PROVOKECREATIVITY to get it for free)
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Lauren Best is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Provoker of Possibility. She works with Curious Individuals, Creative Entrepreneurs, and Conscious Companies who are ready to explore how they can do things differently in their work and life.
She creates spaces and experiences that share with them the tools to dive into a world of self-discovery and growth where they can unlock an even greater potential inside of themselves using their subconscious minds.
Lauren has collaborated with public and private sector organizations, small businesses and solopreneurs across the globe from Canada to the UK, Netherlands, Australia, The United States and Singapore to help folks move through the noise, envision and come up with new ideas, and create bite-sized plans of action that support their desired area of transformation.
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurenbest_co
Website: https://lauren-best.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenhollybest/
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@laurenbest_co
Free Hypnosis Audio: https://www.lauren-best.com/dreaming-during-uncertainty-hypnosis-audio/
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit possibilitiesinbetween.substack.com/subscribe
Are you feeling like you’re not living up to your full potential because you’re constantly trying to fit into societal norms? In a world that often values conformity over authenticity, it can be hard to embrace our uniqueness and let it be the shining point of our business.
In this episode, brand storytelling coach and human design expert Stephanie Zhong talks about the importance of embracing your unique self in branding and marketing using Human Design as the blueprint. She also shares her personal journey of overcoming shyness and fear of being visible to now becoming a successful brand strategist and coach.
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Stephanie Zhong is a brand storytelling coach, human design expert , and a connector of seemingly unconnectible ideas. In this episode, she explains how she helps mission-driven entrepreneurs own the power of their brand story and their human design type to gain greater success and joy -- by being more YOU.
She brings to her clients more than 20 years of expertise in online media and marketing, for non-profits (including Planned Parenthood and Teach For America), start-ups (including Teach.Org and Work for Humanity) and civic organizations (like the City of Los Angeles).
Through her signature program, Own Your Message, she has also helped founders, coaches and consultants go from being best-kept secrets to undeniable authorities.
Her expertise has been featured in Balance the Grind, ShoutOutLA, Washington Post Express and podcasts such as Square Peg Entrepreneurs, Coach the Coach, LifeForce, and the You Should Write A Book About That podcasts. She’s led brand storytelling workshops at Moxie Camp, SheCatalysts, Prime Time and the U.S. State Department.
Connect with Stephanie
Website: stephaniezhong.com
Book a personalized human design reading: https://www.stephaniezhong.com/book-human-design-reading
Get Unlock Your Creative Code course: https://programs.stephaniezhong.com/unlock-creative-code-course (use code PROVOKECREATIVITY to get it for free)
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Lauren Best is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Provoker of Possibility. She works with Curious Individuals, Creative Entrepreneurs, and Conscious Companies who are ready to explore how they can do things differently in their work and life.
She creates spaces and experiences that share with them the tools to dive into a world of self-discovery and growth where they can unlock an even greater potential inside of themselves using their subconscious minds.
Lauren has collaborated with public and private sector organizations, small businesses and solopreneurs across the globe from Canada to the UK, Netherlands, Australia, The United States and Singapore to help folks move through the noise, envision and come up with new ideas, and create bite-sized plans of action that support their desired area of transformation.
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurenbest_co
Website: https://lauren-best.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenhollybest/
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@laurenbest_co
Free Hypnosis Audio: https://www.lauren-best.com/dreaming-during-uncertainty-hypnosis-audio/
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit possibilitiesinbetween.substack.com/subscribe
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Lauren Best is a Certified Hypnotherapist and Provoker of Possibility. She works with Curious Individuals, Creative Entrepreneurs, and Conscious Companies who are ready to explore how they can do things differently in their work and life.
She creates spaces and experiences that share with them the tools to dive into a world of self-discovery and growth where they can unlock an even greater potential inside of themselves using their subconscious minds.
Lauren has collaborated with public and private sector organizations, small businesses and solopreneurs across the globe from Canada to the UK, Netherlands, Australia, The United States and Singapore to help folks move through the noise, envision and come up with new ideas, and create bite-sized plans of action that support their desired area of transformation.
Links: https://linktr.ee/laurenbest_co
Website: https://lauren-best.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenhollybest/
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@laurenbest_co
Free Hypnosis Audio: https://www.lauren-best.com/dreaming-during-uncertainty-hypnosis-audio/
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit possibilitiesinbetween.substack.com/subscribe
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She creates spaces and experiences that share with them the tools to dive into a world of self-discovery and growth where they can unlock an even greater potential inside of themselves using their subconscious minds.
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Website: https://lauren-best.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenhollybest/
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@laurenbest_co
Free Hypnosis Audio: https://www.lauren-best.com/dreaming-during-uncertainty-hypnosis-audio/
This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit possibilitiesinbetween.substack.com/subscribe
Provoking Possibilities - Elevating Your Brand and Purpose Using Human Design with Stephanie Zhong
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Lauren Best (00:00:08) - Welcome to provoking Possibilities, where we reflect on pivotal life moments, ask thought provoking questions and dream up new possibilities for living a life you love that may be a little out of your current reality. I'm Lauren Best, a certified hypnotherapist and provoker of possibility, and I've created this podcast for people who are curious about exploring new ways of living, who are looking to connect deeper with their bodies, their intuition, th
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