Retaining Your Authentic Voice with Brand Strategist Cathy Schraibman

Retaining your authentic voice

Brandmaker Media’s Cathy Schraibman gives you strategies for retaining your authentic voice.

EPISODE 63) Brandmaker Media’s Cathy Schraibman joins us to give you some important strategies concerning your #authenticity and your #branding.  In addition to retaining your authentic voice, Cathy gives you five actionable steps to help you establish, monetize, and amplify your brand. She also tells us about some exiting new journaling resources she’s designed. (Links below.)  Jon Meyers gets a little riled up somewhere in the middle when in reality we are all in agreement that nothing can even come close to competing with human creativity.  

FunFact:  Cathy has worked on multiple reality TV shows including Top Chef and the Bachelorette.

Jon Meyers and Guest Host Stephanie L. Jones  (“The Giving Gal”) talk about whether on not they have ever sucked on leaves.  One of them has.  Emily Brooks continues her maternity leave.

Additionally, we reference our previous episode with Charlotte Winters where we discuss Liz Gilbert’s BIG MAGIC and perfectionism.  Watch here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exUdNtHEf9o&t

ALSO.. in our final segment, Misty L. Butler has a fun way of sharing with us the great work that CROWNED FREE and TRADES OF HOPE do in rescuing women worldwide out of poverty and some even more traumatic experiences.

ALSO, SPEAKING OF MISTY… She has a new middle grade book, DELILAH’S DILEMMA, which just came out.  You can buy it here:  https://amzn.to/4moIMdX

We also mention… #michaelessany #bambi #inspirational #writingcommunity #journaling

OUR HOSTS GET OUT OF THEIR BUBBLE

Stephanie L. Jones tours Our Daily Bread ministries in Grand Rapids. She then goes to a bookstore and bought the perfect number of books.

Jon Meyers tries a new flavour of ice cream for the first time in his life.

YOU RESPOND!

YouTuber VR2374DH responds to our Little Rascals episode from last summer.  You can watch it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJV5JogwKU8&t

#HEYJONMEYERS

Holland, Michigan

WHAT THE B???

Nina Kaye, Stand Up Guy,  https://amzn.to/43inl5K

WALT DISNEY’S STORY LAND is out of print, but there’s one used copy out there: https://amzn.to/3SApLrs

Jeremy Renner, My Next Breath, https://amzn.to/3FBzGKq

CALL TO ACTION

Write down that one big idea you’ve been thinking about doing, and then write down three action steps you can take to set you in the right direction.

Let us know how it goes by responding in our show notes at writebettertogether.com/podcast, or in the comments here on YouTube, Facebook, X, or Instagram.

THE FINAL ACT 

Misty L Butler hosts us as we play another round of THE PRICE IS NICE or THE PRICE IS HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT or something like that.

To purchase the items she shows here (or hundreds of others) which serve this worthy cause you may go to: TradesOfHope.com/MistyLB and/or CrownedFree.com/MistyLB.

#writingcommunity #reading  #amwriting #creative #selfpublishing  #indiepress

LINKS

Stephanie L. Jones entire catalog:  https://shop.givingyourbestlife.com/

Cathy Shraibman’s Journals: https://www.brandmakermedia.com/journals  

idea space, think space, story space: Use this series of journal-style books to capture your brilliance and sharpen your mind. Put pen to paper and turn your innermost thoughts into purpose, ideas into action and your stories into impact.

Connect with Cathy @Brandmakermedia to learn more about retaining your authentic voice.

https://www.instagram.com/brandmakermedia/?hl=en

Here’s Cathy’s podcast:  BUILD YOUR BRAND

UPCOMING APPEARANCES

JON MEYERS, WRITERCON, AUGUST 29-SEPTEMBER 1, 2025

THE CONFERENCE CENTER IN THE HISTORIC SKIRVIN, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK

JON MEYERS, WRITERFEST, NOVEMBER 21-22, 2025

BELMONT UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TN

https://www.writerfestnashville.com

MORE SOON

LINKS

You can order Emily’s new prayer guide  here:

Pray to Remember: A 6-Week Prayer Guide to Deeper Faith https://emilybrookswriter.com/product/pray-to-remember/

  A SPECIAL PURPLE POMODORO TIMER  

WE CHOSE ESPECIALLY FOR YOU:

You can purchase it here: https://amzn.to/4jn89Lz

  The Mood Octopus  

https://amzn.to/4jTc6I9

OUR LINKS

Stephanie L. Jones entire catalog:  https://shop.givingyourbestlife.com/

Misty L. Jones entire catalog:  https://amzn.to/4jfKKuH

Besides the prayer guide, Emily’s other new resource is: Writing Women: Creating and Describing Compelling Female Characters.

AFFILIATE LINKS

Order our book here:

Emily Brooks and Jon Meyers, WRITE ANYWAY: ⁠https://amzn.to/4erbV3G⁠

Plus, WRITE ANYWAY, is now available on Kindle Unlimited:  https://amzn.to/3ScKS2J

⁠Order Gourmet Desserts shipped straight to your door from Drip Confections… https://dripconfections.com?sca_ref=6525184.0Dv4JzbUdyW7aj.

Our Bookshop…

https://bookshop.org/shop/write-better-together

Our Patreon

https://www.patreon.com/WriteBetterTogether

CONNECT WITH US:

YouTube/@writebettertogether  

www.instagram.com/WriteBetterTogether⁠⁠

www.facebook.com/writebettertogethernow⁠⁠

www.X.com/WriteBetterTgtr⁠

CONNECT WITH EMILY BROOKS:

www.emilybrookswriter.com⁠⁠

www.instagram.com/EmilyBrooksWriter⁠

www.facebook.com/EmilyBrooksAuthor⁠

CONNECT WITH STEPHANIE L. JONES

https://givingyourbestlife.com/home

https://www.instagram.com/giving_gal

https://www.facebook.com/GivingGal

https://www.youtube.com/@StephanieLJones-GivingGal

CONNECT WITH JON MEYERS: ⁠

www.jonmeyersscripts.com⁠⁠

www.instagram.com/FilmicThePage⁠⁠

www.facebook.com/FilmicThePage⁠⁠

www.X.com/FilmicThePage⁠

You can contact David Corbly at OpenDoorCreations.com for all your website creation and/or website upgrading needs.

Although we didn’t mention him in this episode, if you need a copy editor or proofreader, we recommend Brian Baker.  Check out his bio, and you’ll see why: https://go.fiverr.com/visit/?bta=1084778&brand=fiverrmarketplace&landingPage=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.fiverr.com%252Fbbrianwallace%253Fsource%253Dgig_page%2526gigs%253Dslug%25253Aedit-your-resume-cover-letter-and-personal-statement%25252Cpckg_id%25253A1