#106 - Taking business advice from Bruce Lee, with Rainer Berak

05/07/21 • 41 min

How does Bruce Lee inspire a company with over $500M under management? And where does social action find its place in venture capitalism?
Rainer Berak, operating partner and managing director of Project A Ventures, has all the answers. Having worked from FIFA to Adidas, and as proud members of Leaders for Climate Action, Rainer is a fount of ideas. His company, Project A Ventures, is an operational VC company which helps companies to fix any possible blind spot they may have.
Rainer talks to us today about the agility that makes his company thrive. He tells us about his business philosophy, modelled directly around Lee‘s famous words “Be water, my friend”, and describes his vision of climate action and diversity.

Tune in to hear more about Lena and Oliver talking with Rainer about:

· How to build an authentic, non-engineered approach to communications

· How Project A Ventures commits to social action

· How Rainer tailors personal branding strategies to each founder he works with

· How in Covid times, thought-leadership has never been easier

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Did you enjoy this episode of SLACEO? Let us know what you think on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also email me at [email protected].

If you want to learn how to build an unignorable personal brand in 30 days, check out my latest book Unignorable on oliveraust.com.

Tune in to hear more about Lena and Oliver talking with Rainer about:

· How to build an authentic, non-engineered approach to communications

· How Project A Ventures commits to social action

· How Rainer tailors personal branding strategies to each founder he works with

· How in Covid times, thought-leadership has never been easier

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Did you enjoy this episode of SLACEO? Let us know what you think on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also email me at [email protected].

If you want to learn how to build an unignorable personal brand in 30 days, check out my latest book Unignorable on oliveraust.com.

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#105 - Making the magic of personal branding happen, with Oliver Aust & Dawn Barson

“Personal branding is what people think or say about you when you’re not in the room. It makes sense to care for our reputation, in order to get the recognition that we deserve”, says Oliver Aust, leading European expert on personal branding.

Today, in this special episode of Speak Like A CEO, Oliver goes in depth about his philosophy around personal branding, with marketing expert Dawn Barson. Oliver tells us about the 4Ms of personal branding, taken straight from his Unignorable System – Mindset, Motivation, Message, Method. Giving us insights into golden rules of personal branding, he takes us on a journey to marketing ourselves in order to become truly unignorable.

Dawn Barson, who is a business mentor to coaches and 7-figure entrepreneur, gives us precious insights as well into business strategies, into the art of consistency, and in finding your niche.

They also exchange thoughts and feelings about their inspiring journeys as entrepreneurs, with all the right advice for aspiring CEOs and communicators.

Tune in to hear more specifically about:

How to move past your psychological barriers about personal branding
How to grow your audience with Oliver’s ACES system
How to keep your audience engaged in interested in your message
How Dawn helps fellow entrepreneurs reach their first 6 figures milestone.

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Did you enjoy this episode of SLACEO? Let us know what you think on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also email me at [email protected].

If you want to learn how to build an unignorable personal brand in 30 days, check out my latest book Unignorable on oliveraust.com.

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#107 - Becoming the Tesla of the fashion industry, with Anna Franziska Michel

Tech is the fashion industry’s new avant-garde, and Anna Franziska Michel is its ambassador.

Anna Franziska Michel is the CEO and Founder of Yoona, an AI-based technology that creates “objective fashion design”, or in other words, design that is proved to sell based on data. “This is a total revolution”, she says. “By creating optimal designs, we reduce time, cost, as well as waste – which allows us to use that time to explore our own creativity”.

If designers don’t tend to listen to techies, they listen to other designers, which is why Anna Franziska is the perfect ambassador for her brand – as she is a designer by profession, and a machine-learning specialist by practice. As a winner of several awards, an international CEO working with high-flying clients, and a visionary backed by investors such as TechStars, she wants Yoona to be the Tesla of the fashion world – and something tells us that she will succeed.

Tune in to hear Lena and Oliver talking with Anna Franziska about:

· How she got top notch clients on her side

· Her plans for Yoona’s international expansion

· Her vision for the future of fashion

· What kind of communication helps build strong bonds of trust

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Did you enjoy this episode of SLACEO? Let us know what you think on our Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also email me at [email protected].

If you want to learn how to build an unignorable personal brand in 30 days, check out my latest book Unignorable on oliveraust.com.