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Most people introduce themselves like this:
"Hi, my name's Amelia. Nice to meet you".

But if someone wants to:

- Google you
- tag you
- refer you
- find you again

… your first name only is f*cking useless.
There are thousands, probably millions of people with your name. So;

Use. Your. Full. Name.

Why your full name matters (way more than you think):

1. Search

People will look you up after they've met you.
You can't look someone up without both their first and last name.

2. Referrals
Nobody refers you by your job title.
They refer you by your name.

If they only half-know it, they won’t intro you.
They’ll intro someone easier.

3. Trust
Full name = real person.
First name only = “random person”

If I can’t remember your last name, I can’t talk about you in rooms you're not in.

Simple fix:
From today, introduce yourself like this:

“I’m [First + Last]. I help [who] get [result] without [pain].”

And make it match everywhere:

LinkedIn name + headline
URL / handle
email signature (+ = free advertising when people forward your emails)
calendar link
pitch deck / proposals

You' be surprised how many successful people still don't uders

If people can’t repeat your full name, they can’t recommend you.
And recommendations are how you build a profitable personal brand.

And a business.

💜

If we haven’t met, hi hello - my name’s Amelia Sordell. I built the UK's leading personal branding agency (as a mum of 2!) + now I teach founders and their teams how to build a personal brand that generates leads and sales (not just “engagement”). Follow me for personal branding tips + the reality of what it's like to build in public 🤓

I’ve built a $4million business off the back of my personal brand - and helped clients turn social media into their most profitable channel.

I host a weekly free live show. You’ll walk away with:
💜 the stuff that makes people trust you fast
💜 Marketing trends, new platform features + viral posts
💜 social-first ways of communicating your expertise.

Join us for the next one: https://lnkd.in/exRG8GCm

If you find it hard to change your mind without overexplaining, it may be due to a lack of self-trust.

Some people update with their environment. New information comes in, they adjust, they move.

Others socialise the change. They build a case. They check with four people before they can commit.

The difference is self-trust.

Julian Rotter's research on locus of control found that people who believe outcomes come from their own actions perform better under pressure, take on more leadership roles, and make decisions faster.

And people who attribute outcomes to luck, timing, or other people tend toward avoidant or dependent decision-making styles. They wait for validation before they can act.

But here's what the research doesn't capture: self-trust compounds.

Every time you act on your own judgment, and it works, you build evidence that your instincts are worth following.

You start to recognise your own signal when to trust it, when to seek input, when you're operating outside your expertise.

The opposite also compounds.

Every time you override your own judgment to make someone else comfortable, you train yourself to distrust your judgment. Do that enough, and you stop being able to hear what you actually think.

The signal gets buried under "how will this be perceived."

The people who move fast aren't reckless. They've just kept enough promises to themselves that their own voice became one they trust.

Self-trust isn't some abstract concept. It's whether you can change your mind and act on it without making it a group project.

#rajshamani #figuringout

Step 1: Stop paying for ChatGPT Plus ($20/month).

Step 2: Go to ChatGPT Settings → Personalization.

Step 3: Copy Custom Instructions & best prompts.

Step 4: Paste them all into a Google Doc.

Step 5: Download Google Doc as Markdown (.md).

Step 6: Install Claude (app): claude .ai/ download.

Step 7: Get Claude Pro ($20/month).

Step 8: Open Claude → click "Cowork" (left sidebar)

Step 9: Use this guide: https://lnkd.in/gdeEFqB4.

Step 10: Select a folder on your computer.

Step 11: Drop .md file (Custom Instruction, prompts)

Step 12: Copy my prompt to make your personal writing style .md file: https://lnkd.in/eF56s4i8

Step 13: Start prompts with: "Read [your].md first.

Step 14: Create files in Claude (slides, Excel, doc).

I haven't opened ChatGPT in 30 days.

Not because I'm loyal to Claude.
Because I finally stopped fighting my AI.

Full breakdown (free): https://lnkd.in/gdeEFqB4.

I am the 4th person in the world to have over 2 million followers each on LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube.

The first three are Gary Vaynerchuk, Bill Gates, and Narendra Modi.

Here is what took me 6 years to understand about this.

These are not the same 2 million people.
These are three completely different countries.

1/ LinkedIn: professionals, operators, founders.
They want to know: what decisions do you actually make?
What does running a business actually look like?

2/ Instagram: younger India, 23 to 32.
They want vulnerability.
They want to know you failed before you succeeded.
They are watching for permission to try.

3/ YouTube: the depth-seekers.
Excited to learn about personal finance, about careers.
They are not scrolling. They are studying.

When I started 10 years back, I used to think one message across all three was smart. Efficient. Consistent.

Turns out, it is the fastest way to be average everywhere.

Cross-posting the same content to three platforms is like giving the same speech in three different countries and expecting a standing ovation in each one.

The insight:
Your message is not your content.
Your message is how you make a specific person feel seen.

I run three businesses alongside all of this.

1/ WebVeda.com: 490,000 students.
A learning platform turning into India's first subscription model.
2/ India Genius Challenge: 35,000 students across 1,680 cities competing for a Rs 10 lakh scholarship.

3/ Monzy: launching very soon. A tool that solves a problem most Indians with credit cards do not know they have.

The three businesses, like the three platforms, each need a different version of you.

That is the thing nobody tells you about scale.
It does not get simpler.
It gets more specific.

If you think about business like a computer, culture is the operating system. Everything else is an “app.” Finance is an app. Creative is an app. Strategy is an app. But culture is the operating system.

In honor of International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating ALL the incredible women who have joined me on The Mel Robbins Podcast.

There have been so many - I couldn’t even begin to fit them all in a single post. So I wanted to share just a few of the pieces of advice that have genuinely changed how I show up in my own life.

Thank you to Shonda Rhimes, Emma Grede, Dr. Stacy T. Sims, Lori Gottlieb , Hoda Kotb, Danielle Bayard Jackson, ellen langer and ALL the women who have come on the podcast for sharing your wisdom with our community. Your work is changing how people think, lead, and live for the better

I am so grateful for the time, perspective, and inspiration each of you brought to our conversations. The impact of each of your voices reaches far beyond your episodes.

I am so honored to sit down on this podcast with some seriously badass women!

And to women everywhere who lift others up through their work, their friendship, their love, and their strength - the world is lucky to have you.

The more I think about it… the more impossible seems to me!

#ai #humor

You just have to unlearn what dimmed your creativity.