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Episode 136: Overcoming Rejection When You're Pitching Yourself

Rejection is part of the deal when you put yourself out there — for a stage, a promotion, a client, or a new direction. In this episode, Kimberly breaks down what makes rejection different when you're the one being pitched, why it's rarely actually about you, and gives listeners a simple three-question tool to use the moment a no lands.

In This Episode:

• Kimberly shares her own experience of pitches that didn't land

• The Rejection Reset for processing a no in real time

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Kimberly Brown sits down with Jasmine Garrett — Account Director at Adobe, President of the National Sales Network South Florida chapter, and rising professional speaker — for a candid conversation recorded live inside The Visibility Shift coaching community. Jasmine shares what it's really like to build a speaking career from the inside out: starting with internal company panels, learning to bet on herself, and beginning to figure out when and how to charge for her expertise. This one is for every professional trying to grow their visibility without blowing up their career in the process.

We're going deep on:

• How Jasmine's speaking journey started — from being tapped to represent Salesforce on a virtual panel to realizing she had a monetizable skill
• The moment she knew she needed to start charging (hint: it involved a multi-day workshop request that stopped her in her tracks)
• How she decides which speaking engagements to pitch for and which ones to accept — and why purpose and ROI drive the decision
• The nuances of co-branding and protecting your platform when you're employed at a large company
• How she builds her talks — from research and storytelling to branded leave-behinds that protect her intellectual property
• Her rehearsal process and why she swears by bullet-point talk tracks over full scripts

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In this episode of Your Next Move, Kimberly sits down with Elle Petrillo — founding member of Brand Builders Group and former speakers bureau executive — for a candid, no-holds-barred conversation on what it actually takes to build a speaking career. Recorded live during The Visibility Shift Intensive, this conversation goes beyond motivation and into the real mechanics of getting booked, setting fees, and showing up with a brand that commands the room before you ever open your mouth.

In This Episode:

• Elle Petrillo shares her origin story: getting fired, going through divorce, and rebuilding her identity from scratch — which became the foundation for her personal branding philosophy
• The three reasons every speaker should pursue a speaking engagement: brand building, lead building, or income generating
• Why you should always ask for a client's budget before naming your fee — and how Elle has turned a stated $2,000 budget into a $10,000 booking
• The scrappy, low-cost ways to build a speaker kit and demo video that actually gets you booked
• Kimberly opens up about her own speaking fee journey — and why she's still working up to the number Elle keeps pushing her toward
• Why entrepreneurship doesn't have to mean going full-time, and the real story behind Kimberly's 10-year runway before leaving corporate

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