Creative Entrepreneur & Marketer 🍗 Social media: 94,500+ followers 🍗 MD of Chubbiverse: spreading giggles through rainbow farts + meme culture (6.2 billion giphy views)

From a KFC checkout chick to an award-winning marketer and digital entrepreneur - my journey proves that messy action beats perfect inaction every time.

Here's my story (the short version):

I started as an interior designer but the 9-5 wasn't for me. Switched to being a street artist (that's how I became "String") - won grants, created art, and was broke. Everyone said to give up, but I kept moving forward.

Then, people started asking me about marketing and social media. I went all in on LinkedIn, creating content that cut through the noise. Built a social following of 100,000+, became a LinkedIn Top Voice for 4 years straight, and discovered my sweet spot: helping smart people build their personal brand through strategic + authentic content.

Today, I run The Trusted Voice (TTV), where we help entrepreneurs, founders, and professionals transform from invisible experts into powerful online authorities. 

Our PACE Framework has helped members 3X their visibility and consistently land opportunities through LinkedIn.

What I'm known for:
🍗 Building engaged product and communities that drive real business results
🍗 Turning expertise into influence through strategic content
🍗 Creating frameworks that simplify complex marketing and sales concepts
🍗 Helping professionals find their voice and own their space

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My product + service include: 
1. Consulting on marketing or business (see my featured section to book a paid session, 
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String Nguyen

There was a time I stayed quiet.
In meetings, I’d bite my tongue.
Online, I’d overthink and never hit publish.

I thought my voice didn’t matter.
That someone else was already saying it better.

But here’s what I’ve learned since:

🍗 Your voice isn’t meant to sound like everyone else’s.

🍗 People don’t just connect to information, they connect to perspective.

🍗 Silence doesn’t build trust, but sharing, even imperfectly, does.

Now I rock up and show up.
Not because I have it all figured out.
But because every time I share my story, someone else feels seen.

✨ And that’s the real power of showing up…

Your voice can be the spark that makes someone else believe theirs matters too.

Digital Entrepreneur & Marketing Coach 🍗 Social media: 100K followers 🍗 Helping smart people with easy marketing and content tips

2025 taught me a few things.
Not loudly. Not dramatically. But clearly.

Here they are 👇

1️⃣ Motherhood rewired how I work
I didn’t “balance” work and life. I faced reality. Energy became the constraint, not time.

2️⃣ Alignment became a strategy
Forcing outcomes created stress. Alignment and simplicity worked better.

3️⃣ Energy > productivity hacks
Decision fatigue mattered more than hours worked. Protecting energy became the real leverage.

4️⃣ I shifted into operator mode
TTV stopped being creator-led and became system-led. Direction and structure beat doing everything myself.

5️⃣ Systems replaced hustle
If it couldn’t move without me, it wasn’t a business.

6️⃣ Working with people unlocked scale
Coaches, facilitators, support... progress sped up when I stopped being the bottleneck.

7️⃣ AI became infrastructure, not a trend
Used well, AI reduced cognitive load and protected energy. It didn’t replace my voice — it amplified it.

8️⃣ Clarity beat cleverness with AI
The winners weren’t louder. They were clearer.

9️⃣ Relationships beat reach
Fewer posts. More conversations. 
Recognisable names > anonymous metrics.

🔟 Sustainable growth is built, not chased
Reach gets you seen. Relationships get you remembered.

1️⃣1️⃣ I integrated identities instead of reinventing myself
Founder. Operator. Mum. No dramatic rebrand required.

1️⃣2️⃣ Subtraction created momentum
Letting go made room for better systems.

1️⃣3️⃣ Conviction replaced opinion-collecting
Less reacting. More deciding.

1️⃣4️⃣ Durability became the metric
Not virality. Not speed. What holds up over time.

2025 wasn’t about doing more.
It was about building things that last.
If this resonates, you’re probably playing the long game too.

📸 Photograph by Ksenia Belova 📸

People remember brands for the weirdest reasons.

For me?
It’s fried chicken 🍗

Not because I planned it.
Not because of strategy.

But because memorable brands have a talking trigger.

If you’re building a personal brand and feel invisible online, this is usually what’s missing:

🍗 Something human.
🍗 Something specific.
🍗 Something people can’t unsee.

You don’t need to be louder.
You need to be more you.

Save this if you’re working on your personal brand.
Follow for content + brand building tips.

You're good at what you do. Really good.

Years mastering your craft. Clients love your work once they find you.

But being brilliant isn't enough if people can't find you.

The loudest voices online aren't always the most experienced. They're just better at positioning themselves as the go-to choice.

Here's what works: 𝗣.𝗔.𝗖.𝗘.

🍗 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – Can someone describe what you do in one sentence? If not, you have a positioning problem.

🍗 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 – Are you speaking to everyone? That's speaking to no one.

🍗 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 – Are you showing up where your people actually are?

🍗 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 – Are you building relationships, or just hoping people notice?

Most experts assume their work speaks for itself. 
The people winning aren't necessarily better, they're just positioned better. More clearer.

Where are you stuck?

Reply with P, A, C, or E and I'll send you a quick fix for that step.

I was invisible for years and I was good at my job.

I'd have ideas. Good ones. 

But I'd sit there, heart racing, saying nothing
I told myself my work would speak for itself.

It didn't.

When I quit my 9-5, I had no choice. 
No boss to vouch for me. No team to hide behind.

I had to be seen or fail.

So I did a content challenge. 
Post every day. 
Face the fear. 

Deal with the imposter syndrome head-on.
And something unexpected happened.
I actually enjoyed it.

Now I work with hundreds of experts and entrepreneurs who remind me of past me. 

Brilliant at what they do. 
Terrible at talking about it.

And here's what I've noticed: AI hasn't fixed this. 

If anything, it's made the inner crisis louder. 
More comparison. More "everyone's doing it better."

That's why I built The Trusted Voice.

Not to help people post more. 
To help them find the inner voice that makes posting easier.

Because visibility isn't about volume. 
It's about finally letting yourself be seen.

If this is something you need help with, follow me for more tips on content and branding.

Are you using Claude Code? OMG I'm a fan.

So I was on a road trip, thinking I will chill over the December break, but I ended up becoming besties with Claude Code.

No bootcamp. No CS degree. No developer on call.

Just me, Claude Code, and a baby who doesn't care about my shipping schedule.

Three weeks later? 8+ internal tools built.

Here's what I learned:
🍗 You don't need to write code.
🍗 You need to clearly describe what you want.
🍗 That's the skill. That's the unlock.

I wrote the full story...
What I built, what broke, and 5 tips for non-developers who want to try this.

You can read it more here: https://lnkd.in/gcU2Ccrt

I didn’t find confidence in business.
I found it on a climbing wall.

I started bouldering as an adult.
No ropes. No safety net. Just grip… or fall.

At first, I overthought every move.
The wall felt higher when people were watching.
I’d hesitate, second-guess, stall.

Then something clicked.

You don’t climb by waiting to feel ready.
You climb by committing to the next imperfect move.

Sometimes you fall.
Sometimes you surprise yourself.
Either way, you learn fast.

That changed how I build everything now:
🍗 how I post
🍗 how I test ideas
🍗 how I use AI
🍗 how I ship before things feel “done”

Most people think confidence comes before action.

It doesn’t.

Confidence shows up after you move.

That’s why I’m big on messy action.
Not as a mindset.
As a practice.

The version of you who’s doing the thing already exists.

They just don’t wait anymore.

Most experts don’t have a content problem.
They have a clarity problem.

They post tips.
They post “value.”
They post consistently.

And still… nothing lands.

No saves.
No DMs.
No “hey, I saw your post.”

That’s because people don’t remember tips.
They remember who something is for.

This video breaks down:
• why being helpful isn’t enough
• how to stop sounding generic
• one small shift that helps people recognise you

No hacks.
No trends.
Just a repeatable way to stop being invisible and start being referred.

If you’re building a personal brand and want it to actually work, this one’s for you. 🍗

Comment PACE if you want the framework I use.

Your content sounds junior
So, you post consistently. You share insights. You know your stuff.

But nothing. Silence. Zzz.

Here's what's happening: Smart doesn't convert. Relatable + Clearness does. (Hint: ugly selfie works)

Most experts post like they're writing a textbook. 
Meanwhile, their audience is thinking: "Why should I care?"

Your content talks AT people, not TO them.

It's like tuning a radio. If you're not on the right frequency, all they hear is static no matter how good your message is.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆:

1. Reflect their pain.

❌ "I help businesses grow their online presence."
✅ "You post content and nothing happens — despite your experience."

2. Show life after.

❌ "I'll fix your content strategy."
✅ "Leads slide into your DMs from yesterday's post."

3. Name what they're losing.

❌ "You need better content."
✅ "Your thinking is sharp. But your content makes you look junior."

Does that make sense?

You don't need more content tips. 
You need a system that makes your content connect.

LIAM DARMODYᵍᵐ

Personal Brand Strategist & Networking Coach → I help entrepreneurs, executives & teams build brands to attract clients, talent & opportunity | Family Man | Connector | AI & Blockchain Bull | Hot Sauce Aficionado🌶️

I help founders, entrepreneurs, and executives build businesses by becoming trusted, visible, and referenceable in their space. My work sits at the intersection of personal brand strategy, go-to-market execution, and AI-enabled operations. I help people understand how to show up across LinkedIn, search, and AI-driven discovery and how that visibility turns into real opportunity over time.

Currently, I'm working with Brandi (mybrandi.ai), helping companies understand how they show up inside AI-generated answers and recommendations, and how brand visibility, trust, and demand are increasingly shaped by systems they do not directly control.

Seeing this shift up close has changed how I help individuals and teams show up online.

A core part of my approach is what I call Voice Enablement with AI.

Instead of writing for people, I teach them how to use AI to think, draft, and create content in their own voice. Most clients stop writing from scratch and start editing instead. Content creation becomes faster, more consistent, and still unmistakably human.

How? Because we are using your actual voice!

What I help with most often:

• Founder and executive positioning and LinkedIn profile strategy
• Personal narrative clarity for humans, AI systems, and decision-makers
• Relationship-based networking and social selling without pressure tactics
• Using AI to streamline content creation, engagement, and workflows
• Measuring what actually matters in brand and go-to-market efforts

Alongside my advisory work, I take on select fractional go-to-market and operations roles, supporting teams during growth, transition, or strategic realignment.

I’m known for helping people:

• Clarify what makes them meaningfully different
• Build trust before asking for anything
• Turn visibility into opportunity over time
• Turn chaos into organized chaos ;)

I call this manifesting serendipity.

It’s not luck. It’s intention, consistency, and showing up in the right conversations long before you need something. It's being in someone's orbit often enough that you become the first person they think of when they need your product or service. 

It's about being top of mind. 

Outside of work, I’m a husband, a dad of two, an early-morning lifter, and a proud hot sauce aficionado 🌶️. 

If you’re building a brand, a business, or your next chapter, I’d love to jam with you. 

Hi5, 
LD

Founder

I help executives, founders, and their teams build magnetic brands that attract clients, talent, and opportunity on LinkedIn. 

My services include: 

My services include: 
- Profile Optimization
- LinkedIn feature training
- Core content strategy
- Ghostediting (ask me about it)
- Content performance analysis 
- Sales Navigator training

Liam's Brand Stand was born out of my passion for personal branding and belief that LinkedIn is the ultimate platform for professionals and organizations to manifest serendipity and unlock opportunity.

This passion started as a fascination that turned into a hobby, then to a side hustle, and now, my full-time focus. I started creating content and being more intentional about building my brand here in January 2020 and since then I've amassed 35,000 followers and my content has garnered ~23,000,000 impressions, ~600,000 reactions, and ~100,000 comments. 

Completely organically.

Pretty crazy, especially when you consider I'm just a suburban dad who took to LinkedIn as a way to have conversation with other adults while cooped up in my house with my wife, a toddler, and an infant during a pandemic. 

That's the kind of opportunity that exists on LinkedIn and I'm on a mission to help more people experience it for themselves. 

If you're interested in doing so, visit: 

liamsbrandstand.com to learn more 
-or- 
calendly.com/liamdarmody to book time with me

Thanks for stopping by! 

Hi5, 
LD

LIAM DARMODY

Today I stepped on the scale & clocked 278lbs. 

I know that sounds like a weird flex, but I have not been in the 270s since August 2016.

Nearly 10 years. 

When I started my business in August 2023, I was 347lbs. 

I couldn’t walk a mile without running out of breath.
I couldn’t walk upstairs without the same.
I feared my kids asking me to play because I knew how hard that would be for me. 

I had spent the better part of 30 years using food as medicine to heal wounds from childhood, which started at A&D burgers in Mississauga, Ontario. 

I decided enough was enough. 

Joined a gym.

Started with 3x per week, which was all I could do back then. 

Then 4x per week. 
Then 5x per week.
And now 6x per week (sometimes ;)

it's the hardest thing I've ever had to do, not just because of how challenging the physical workouts are, but because it hasn't garnered massive results overnight.

I've been an all or nothing kind of guy since the beginning of time and I've started and stopped trying to lose weight many times before.

I wanted three months of hard work to magically undo 30 years of unhealthy habits.

It doesn't work like that.

I'm at the point now where the scale doesn't even really matter that much to me because I've realized that which really matters is that I'm showing up in that gym every weekday.

putting in the work to be healthier.

day by day.
Week by week.
Month by month. 
Year by year. 

I may still be round but I'm in the best shape of my life. 

And it feels amazing.

My advice to anyone who has struggled with weight loss is to try this: 

1) Find a gym with coaches & classes. Expert accountability and community are massive motivators. 

2) Go 3-5 days per week for 3 months. Non-negotiable. 

3) Meal prep. Every Sunday I throw 4 lb of ground chicken, a bag of hash brown potatoes, and 15 eggs on a blackstone flat top and make a meal for myself that has 100 g of protein. That's breakfast after the gym every day. 

If you do that, you will notice a change in yourself, not just on the scale but mentally. You will start to believe that you are capable of things you never thought you were capable of. 

And that will motivate you to keep going.

I’m still on my journey. I’ve got a long way to go, but I have zero doubt that I will get there now. 

And that is something I haven’t felt ever before. 

It’s liberating as hell. 

Good luck. 

My DMs are open if you ever want to jam about it.

I’ve got to go carry both of my kids up the stairs now, and I’m proud to say I won’t be winded. 

Hi5,
LD
🌶️

Personal Brand Strategist & Fractional GTM Operator helping founders build their businesses with LinkedIn & AI 🌶️ Hot Sauce Aficionado 🌶️

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HUGE NEWS! 

My incredible wife Megan Bailey Darmody has a new job! She’s swapping floral fragrances, petals, and stems for wax, wicks, and fragrance sticks by joining CandleScience to lead performance marketing. 

CandleScience is one of the largest suppliers and educators in the candle making industry and I am so excited for her (and to have more candles around the house…;)

Megan is an absolute boss and I’m so proud to be her husband. She inspires me every single day. 

Please join me in congratulating her on the new role!

Hi5,
LD
🕯️

Brand Strategist and Fractional GTM Operator helping founders grow their businesses with LinkedIn and AI • Hot Sauce Aficionado 🌶️

This is not okay. 
This is not what America is supposed to be.
This is not what “law enforcement” looks like. 

This is not “the land of the Free”
This is not “the Home of the Brave” 
This is not “one country, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all”

This is barbaric.
This is cowardice.
This is fear mongering. 
This is absolutely devastating.

This is the execution of an American citizen exercising his unalienable constitutional rights. 

And it’s f*cking unacceptable.

I am astounded that this continues to happen with seemingly zero repercussions. 

What are we doing? 
How did we get here?

And most importantly, how do we stop it? 

I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on politically, if you are willing to stand by and watch this without speaking up or taking action, you’re not my kind of people. 

Political differences are acceptable—appreciated, even. 

Staying silent as American citizens are murdered by masked “men” beating their chests and brandishing weapons to fuel their bravado is not. 

My heart goes out to the families who have been impacted by these devastating displays of government overreach. 

I cannot begin to comprehend your pain and nothing I say could possibly fill the void left by such a tragic loss.

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t say something. 

I will never forget this image. 

Especially not at the polls.

☮️&❤️

This one's for my fellow dog owners... 

The other day, a weird triangle box showed up on my doorstep while I was working and when I opened it, I found this AI-generated portrait of my dog, Lucky DarmoDoodle, looking far more classy and refined than is reality. 

Turns out my wife found this site called Vogue Paws that will turn any photo of your hound into a portrait worth framing. 

This is not an ad for that service, I just think it's cool. 

I'm curious...

Do you have a pet? 

Hi5,
LD
🌶️

Dear Leaders, 

Please stop putting random hour-long meetings on people's calendars without context. 

Sincerely, 
Everyone who's ever worked for someone else.

Underrated life hack: 

Make others feel seen, heard, & understood.

Too many people think that all you have to do is show up a few times per week on Linkedin, write a few posts, and start drinking from a lead firehose. That doesn’t work here anymore.

5 years ago it may have, but not now. 

Building your brand/business on Linkedin requires so much more than simply publishing content.

Linkedin is a signal farm and your ability to pay attention to and engage with those signals is what determines your success here. 

I view it as a funnel exercise.

Once you see it that way, you can’t unsee it. 

I always say that Linkedin is the world’s largest CRM, and the leads are already built in and pre-qualified for you (if you build your network right). 

This is the Linkedin Signal Funnel. 

Do you view it this way, too? 

Hi5,
LD

graphical user interface, text, application

Today I went for a 30-minute walk and talk where I actually held my iPhone up to my ear the entire time like it was 2007. It was weird. Do not recommend.

I bet I’ve said “I wish I knew how to code” hundreds of times over the last two decades. I definitely have had no shortage of app ideas. 

I’ve been hearing so much about vibecoding and dabbled a little bit, but never built anything that actually worked on my phone.   

Until last night, when Sitting in front of the TV watching football, I vibecoded my first functional mobile app using ChatGPT and Claude Code.

I:

-> installed Node.js
—> used it to run Expo from the terminal
—->used Expo Go on my phone to preview the app

Things I knew nothing about prior. 

And in 2 hours I coded a functional MVP of an app I’ve been thinking was a good idea since becoming a father. 

It ain’t pretty (yet), but it’s functional. 

And I’m feeling pretty proud of myself, not to mention I really enjoyed the whole experience. It’s kind of like solving a puzzle.

All in my native tongue. 
No programming knowledge necessary. 

What a time to be alive! 

I’m curious… 

Have you used AI to build any software yet? 

Hi5
LD
🌶️

Are you a generalist or a specialist? 

I spent the better part of the first twenty years of my career feeling pretty insecure about the fact that I was more of a Swiss Army knife than a specialist. 

I was genuinely surprised when I would get new opportunities with higher titles because we've been taught to believe that you don't climb the ladder unless you have a very specific set of skills and scope. 

But being a generalist has always been my natural motion. I’ve always been too curious and too fascinated by too many things to just focus on one. 

These days I see articles about how “the future belongs to generalists” and companies are focusing on cultivating T-shaped talent—people with depth in one area and breadth across many others. 

I'm excited about this narrative and a lot more comfortable embracing that jack-of-many trades moniker nowadays than ever before.

Excited about the future.

I’m curious: 

Do you consider yourself more of a specialist or generalist? 

Hi5,
LD
🌶️

P.S. this post started as a comment on Conor Grennan’s recent post about generalists. Go follow him for fantastic AI thought leadership content.

I don’t know about you, but I’m seeing a lot of new faces viewing/following/connecting these days and for the most part they are exactly the types of people I generally want to be talking to:

Founders at tech companies
Fractional executives 
Executive coaches 
Marketing folks
Comms folks
Ops folks
AI folks 

Come to think of it, that is a lot. I guess I like to talk to a wide variety of people, but regardless, I’m seeing a lot more of them and I like it. 

I think LinkedIn’s new 360Brew AI system is brewin! 

How’s LinkedIn treating you these days? 

Hi5,
LD
🌶️

I just crossed 300,000 words whispered through Wispr Flow 
(apparently that’s the equivalent of three books!) 
Over the last six months, I’ve dictated an average of 103 words per minute, across 79 different apps. Slack. LinkedIn comments. Emails. Texts. Notes. Everywhere.

Wispr Flow is the best tool I found in 2025. 

It’s one of those special products that revealed a problem I didn’t realize I had—I didn’t realize how much mental load typing created until I didn’t have to do it anymore.

Same way Uber changed how I thought about taxis.
Same way Tesla changed how I thought about driving.

Once I stopped typing and started thinking out loud, everything just felt so much more natural.

With AI, I can dictate stream-of-consciousness thoughts and let the machine do the cleanup. The result is faster output and more authentic writing. I’m no longer switching modes from “thinking” to “typing.” 

I just think and talk. 

That’s a massive unlock.

I’m usually an early adopter with a pretty high bar, which means I moves on quickly from most new products I try. 

Not this one. 

Wispr Flow is now core to how I work.

If you want to try it, you get 2,000 words free. Fair warning though… there’s a very good chance you’ll end up paying the $15/month.

(Sorry, not sorry)

Check it out here and get in flow!!!! 

👉 https://lnkd.in/epMgJFez

Hi5,
LD 
🌶️

P.S. Not a paid partnership. I just genuinely love this product!

It's now been a little more than three years since ChatGPT launched on November 30th, 2022. And it's so wild how much AI is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. 

I started using ChatGPT the day it came out and was a paid user within a week.

Then Claude hit the scene and I started using that. 
Then Perplexity. 
Then Gemini. 
Then Grok. 

ChatGPT's first mover advantage is strong in my case, which gives it an unfair advantage over the others because I do use it as my default for most things. 

I like Claude better for writing. 

I'm intrigued to see how much market share Gemini is gaining though I haven't really committed much time to using Gemini myself.  

I don't really mess with Grok. 

I know some people who are all-in on one thing. I know other people who use different LLMs for different purposes. I think I fall into the latter bucket but ChatGPT remains my primary for most things. And I struggle to balance usage across all effectively. 

I'm now at the point where I might be looking for that thing I did the other day and having to check multiple LLMs. 

One of my goals in 2026 is to streamline my AI stack and focus on deciding which one is really the best one for me all-around rather than defaulting to ChatGPT because it's been around for me the longest.

And so, I'm curious...

If you could only use ONE of the major AI LLMs going forward, which one would you pick? BONUS POINTS for telling us why in the comments. 

The author can see how you vote. Learn more

If I had to pick just two social networks to spend time on, it would be Substack and LinkedIn. 

Why? 

Because they're pretty complementary to one another and most people on Substack link to their LinkedIn profile, you can easily find and follow in both places. 

Admittedly, I spend more time on LinkedIn than I do Substack right now, because I’ve built a larger and more engaged following here. But I plan to increase the time I spend on Substack significantly.

Why? 

Because Substack lets me build a more direct, owned connection with my audience and because it’s a much better platform from a usability standpoint. 

It’s like Substack has gone to all the other socials, taken notes about what sucks, and built the solution. 

I’m increasingly starting to view the two this way: 

Linkedin is where you build your personal brand. 
Substack is where you build (and monetize!) your personal media empire. 

Linkedin is top of funnel.
Substack is middle of funnel. 

Going forward, I’m: 

Incredibly bullish on Substack. 
Incredibly bullish on LinkedIn. 
Insanely bullish on the two of them paired together. 

Are you on substack? 

Drop your link below if so. 

Here’s mine: https://lnkd.in/eEZA6RHN

Hi5,
LD
🌶️

“DAD!! Stop using ChatGPT to play Monopoly!” 

Whoops.

You had one job…

I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve gone to an ATM in the last 365 days. Today was one of those rare visits (to get money for babysitter tonight, which is literally my only use case for cash anymore), and of course…

Looking for a job in 2026? Read this. 
 
On Thursday January 8th, my good friend Angie Callen, PCC, MJSC and 25 of her closest career coaching friends are hosting the 2026 Job Seeker Summit, a FREE virtual event showcasing expert advice from globally-recognized career coaches, resume writers, recruiters and... 

Somehow me. 

Fun fact: my first foray into Linkedin coaching was in 2009 when I launched TalentFish Consulting on a mission to help jobseekers cast a wider net. It was after a layoff and I thought: "teaching people how to network their way into their next opportunity sounds fun... let's do it!"

Only it was short lived because I networked myself into a new job shortly thereafter and didn't have time for side hustles. 

But the principles I taught then are even more valid today and 2026 is going to be a big year on Linkedin, so you might as well jump into some of these sessions to learn from those who know it best. 

The 2026 Jobseeker Summit starts at 9am MOUNTAIN time on Jan 8th and here's the lineup: 

9AM: Event welcome + resume AMA
10:30: Resume Breakout Sessions
11:30: Interview AMA: Real talk on Modern Interviews
1:15: Job Search AMA: Beyond the Boards
2:30: Job Search Breakout Sessions
3:30: AI Panel: From ChatGPT to CareerGPT (this is the one I'm on!)
4:15: Mindset Panel: Bounce Back & Burnout Recovery

Hear from 25 different career coaches, resume writers, and recruiters. 

For free.

Don't pinch yourself. It's true. 

Whether you're looking for a new job or not, the things you'll learn at the Job Seeker Summit are worth the time and price of admission (remember, it's FREE). 

Pre-register for access to giveaways during the day and ALL recordings from the event here: https://lnkd.in/eeGfPgdG

See you there! 
LD
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Unexpected benefit of taking two weeks off of LinkedIn: “it can only get better from here” 🤪Happy to be back. I love this place.

After 14-days of kids being home for the holidays, Megan Bailey Darmody and I decided it was high time for a bit more structure around the things our kids do around the house. 

We’ve tried fridge lists and white boards, etc, but they never really stuck, so I enlisted the help of Google’s Gemini to help me create a master tracking sheet that is more interactive and satisfying than a simple checklist on a fridge. 

Here’s how it works:

- Kids aren’t allowed on iPad on weekdays, unless it’s to update their to do list. This will happen on my iPad or with Mom or Dad’s phone. 

- Each day they complete 💯 of their tasks, they unlock 20% of their weekend iPad time allotment, reflected by a green progress bar atop their tasks and a big “TOTAL EARNED” tracker.

- If they hit all 5 days, they unlock a celebratory badge and all of their iPad time. 

The beauty of this is that I created it entirely with the help of Gemini. The formulas are definitely more complex than anything I knew how to create myself but it was able to tell me what I needed based on the inputs that I was giving it. 

And of course it also gave me a prompt I can use for building a prototype app in Lovable.  

(Stay tuned for more on that front)

What a time to be alive.

Parents, I’m curious… 

How has AI helped you improve around the house?

Hi5,
LD
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Appreciation post for founders who value operations & core operating principles: 388 impressions. Post about ATM not functioning: 10,000 impressions. Checks out. 

Remember: exciting or frustrating as they may be, impressions are not the metric that matters most on Linkedin. Far from it. 

Fill your network with active people who might be interested in seeing your content and post about: 

Who you are
What you know
Why you're here
How you help

Start conversation with those who show interest

Consistency & patience compounds over time.

One day that 388 impression post might bring in a opportunity. 
Or maybe the 10,000 impression post does it.

The point is: 

When in doubt, zoom out. 

It's not about the performance of each individual post. 
It's about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. 

We're building personal brands here, folks, and those last as long as we do (and beyond), so don't let short-term frustration prevent long-term success. 

How do you handle ups and downs? 

Hi5. I'm rooting for you, 
LD
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