LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza Licht
Aliza Licht
268 episodes
21 hours ago
How do you build your personal brand and succeed in your career? Award-winning marketer and personal branding expert Aliza Licht has the answer. Join her solo episodes or conversations with dynamic guests every Wednesday on Leave Your Mark. Whether it's professional advice, brand strategy, or newsworthy workplace trends, Leave Your Mark delivers insider perspectives while they're hot. As the bestselling author of Leave Your Mark and her latest book ON BRAND, Aliza provides essential insights and motivation for succeeding in today's working world where the lines are blurred between what's personal and professional, and the most important thing you can have is a strong sense of self.
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How do you build your personal brand and succeed in your career? Award-winning marketer and personal branding expert Aliza Licht has the answer. Join her solo episodes or conversations with dynamic guests every Wednesday on Leave Your Mark. Whether it's professional advice, brand strategy, or newsworthy workplace trends, Leave Your Mark delivers insider perspectives while they're hot. As the bestselling author of Leave Your Mark and her latest book ON BRAND, Aliza provides essential insights and motivation for succeeding in today's working world where the lines are blurred between what's personal and professional, and the most important thing you can have is a strong sense of self.
Inside Gwyneth Paltrow’s Boss Era, Brand Drama & Biohacked World with Amy Odell
LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza Licht
45 minutes
3 months ago
Inside Gwyneth Paltrow’s Boss Era, Brand Drama & Biohacked World with Amy Odell
Gwyneth Paltrow is more than an Oscar-winning actress. She is a wellness mogul, a branding mastermind, and one of the most polarizing women in Hollywood and beyond. But how did she go from red carpet royalty to CEO of a global and controversial empire?
In this episode of Leave Your Mark, I’m joined (again!) by New York Times bestselling author Amy Odell, whose new book Gwyneth: The Biography pulls back the curtain on the strategy, ambition, and missteps behind one of the most talked-about careers in pop culture.
We explore Amy's extensive research process that took three years and included interviewing over 220 people. Amy shares insights on Gwyneth Paltrow's life, her hotly debated and influential persona, her ventures with Goop, her leadership style, and the controversies that follow her.
We also delve into the implications of Gwyneth's influence on the wellness industry and her uncanny ability to reinvent herself while maintaining a strong personal brand.
We dig into:
- Gwyneth as a boss and businesswoman
- The backlash that became part of her brand
- How she built Goop into a cultural force and what it cost her
- What Amy learned from reporting on one of the most image-controlled women in the world
Plus, Amy shares her own career journey from journalist to biographer, what it takes to profile powerful women, and the surprising lessons Gwyneth's story offers for anyone building a brand or navigating their own reinvention.
This episode is equal parts Hollywood tea and hard-won career advice. You do not want to miss it.
00:00 Introduction and Welcome
00:28 Introducing Amy Odell and Her Work
01:20 Amy's Career Evolution and Writing Process
05:00 Challenges of Writing Unauthorized Biographies
06:44 Gwyneth Paltrow's Influence and Brand
16:13 Gwyneth's Leadership Style at Goop
23:31 Gwyneth's Media Strategy
23:47 Goop's Controversial Products
24:40 Gwyneth's Leadership Style
25:30 Challenges at Goop
26:43 Working with Founders
29:40 Gwyneth's Reinvention
33:53 Nepo Baby Debate
36:11 Harvey Weinstein Relationship
38:02 Public Perception of Gwyneth
41:10 Conclusion and Reflections
LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza Licht
How do you build your personal brand and succeed in your career? Award-winning marketer and personal branding expert Aliza Licht has the answer. Join her solo episodes or conversations with dynamic guests every Wednesday on Leave Your Mark. Whether it's professional advice, brand strategy, or newsworthy workplace trends, Leave Your Mark delivers insider perspectives while they're hot. As the bestselling author of Leave Your Mark and her latest book ON BRAND, Aliza provides essential insights and motivation for succeeding in today's working world where the lines are blurred between what's personal and professional, and the most important thing you can have is a strong sense of self.
