Ignite Your Confidence with Karen Laos

Tell Your Story with Strategy with Brielle Cotterman

Episode Summary

When Brielle Cotterman nearly lost her life, it changed her perspective on everything. It lit a fire to rise from domestic abuse and change the world. Her tool to accomplish this? Stories. Brielle is in the business of uncovering and highlighting stories to make her clients shine. Today she shares how she does this and why leading with your story is so important. Brielle explains what draws people to one person over another and how to channel the science behind it to elevate your mission. Listen and be inspired to know your why and explore ways to make news happen, versus waiting for news to happen. There’s a big difference between the two!

Episode Notes

Tangible Takeaways:

• Be courageous and share your story. You have a story worth sharing even when you believe your life isn't interesting enough.
• The first step of sharing your story is identifying your breakthrough story. What was the turning point?
• Know your why, and own it. Show how your why has shaped your story and who you are today.
• Understand the cycle of abuse, and be aware that it's not simple to "just get out of it" - women leaving an abusive relationship have a 70% chance of losing their life. Leaving requires strategy.
• You can't sit back and wait for something newsworthy to happen. You have to make the news! Look at your life from that lens will help build your story.
• When building something new, embrace falling down as part of the journey. It's not about not falling. Progress is all about getting back up.

About Brielle:
Brielle Cotterman is a TEDx Speaker, Publicity Expert, and Celebrity-Maker. She has spent the better part of the last decade helping clients to craft and scale Dream careers to 7 figures and beyond by leveraging their personal stories and passions in order to create speaking tours, author award-winning books, procure media placements, and inspire the millions of people that need to hear their story. She is a survivor of attempted murder and domestic violence and an advocate for a world where intimate partner abuse is not tolerated and survivors are met with empathy. 

Her clients are regularly featured in Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fast Company, Martha Stewart Living, InStyle Magazine, NBC, CBS, and many more! She is a graduate of Indiana University in Bloomington, a World’s Grand Champion Equestrian, former National Spokesperson for multiple charitable organizations, and 2019 Epic Award Nominee from the National Association of Women Business Owners. 

Brielle has been married for just over a year to the love of her life and owns & operates a show horse breeding farm, where she lives with her husband, three children and many, many animals!

Connect with Brille:

Website: https://breakthrubrands.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brkthrubrands/  

About me:
Karen Laos, Communication Expert and Confidence Cultivator, leverages 25 years in the boardroom and speaking on the world’s most coveted stages such as Google and NASA to transform missed opportunities into wins. She is fiercely committed to her mission of eradicating self-doubt in 10 million women by giving them practical strategies to ask for what they want in the boardroom and beyond. She guides corporations and individuals with her tested communication model to generate consistent results through her Leadership Presence Keynote: How to Be an Influential Communicator.

Connect with me:
Website: https://www.karenlaos.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenlaosofficial 

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My book “Trust Your Own Voice”: https://karenlaos.com/book/

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