Jayzen Patria
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Career stories turned into sharper personal brands.
Lead With Your Brand!™ pairs energetic career coaching with interviews from leaders across technology, media, entertainment, brands, organizations, and more. The show treats personal brand as a working career system: clearer stories, sharper positioning, better examples, and less hiding behind the default corporate mold.
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Lead With Your Brand!™ is a brisk career-development show about turning professional experience into a visible, memorable personal brand. It is not quiet self-reflection. Jason Patria pushes guests toward the moments, phrases, stories, and decisions that made their work easier for other people to understand. The show’s core question keeps returning in different forms: is a professional showing up as a commodity, or as something distinct? Recent episodes move through technology leadership, luxury insights, employee communications, disaster response, film media, Disney Imagineering, and commercial leadership. The range is wide, but the frame stays consistent. A guest’s career path becomes evidence for a larger lesson about positioning, authenticity, audience, or opportunity. Matt Brooks talks about AI as a thought partner only when it is fed real career data, feedback, and examples. Malinda Sanna describes research, luxury consumers, and a selective approach to understanding brand audiences. Emily Chang’s episode centers on knowing what fits, what does not, and why leaping into unfamiliar territory can still work when supported by people who believe in the leap. Kalia Waits-Smith brings the conversation back to the pressure to conform, including the professional costume of sameness that can hide what is organic and true. Cliff Holtz offers a vivid story about the American Red Cross brand carrying trust before anyone knows the person behind the wheel. Dave Karger’s career story shows how one live segment can become a long-running source of identity and opportunity. Bob Gurr’s appearances bring personal brand down to simple, concrete proof: the rides, the work, the stories, the conversation starter. The show is strongest when it translates these moments into usable career language. It likes formulas, filters, elevator pitches, target audiences, and brand foundations. It also likes big analogies. Starbucks versus ordinary coffee is the recurring shorthand for the whole worldview. The advice can feel theatrical, but it stays focused on practical visibility rather than vague motivation. It is built for ambitious professionals who want to be more deliberate about how their work is recognized. The best fit is someone who enjoys leader interviews but wants each story converted into an action step, a positioning question, or a sharper way to explain value. Lead With Your Brand!™ makes career identity feel less like a bio and more like a strategy that can be practiced.
Made for: Ambitious professionals, leaders, founders, and career changers who want clearer language for their value, audience, strengths, and next move. It especially suits listeners who prefer practical coaching through leader stories rather than abstract career theory.
What sets it apart: The show filters every guest story through personal-brand mechanics: elevator pitch, audience, authenticity, proof points, and career breakthrough. Its mix of brand strategy, media examples, and energetic coaching gives familiar career advice a more branded, action-oriented shape.
Are you ready to Lead With Your Brand™ to your next career breakthrough Welcome to the podcast that showcases exceptional career success stories through personal brand journeys from entertainment, tech, media, and more. Each episode, Jayzen Patria explores how successful leaders rise above by having a super-premium brand that drives their career forward, and you’ll get plenty of inspiration and practical tools to help you lead with your brand everyday as you drive towards your next career breakthrough.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Executive career stories become practical lessons in reputation, visibility, feedback, and turning individual strengths into recognizable professional value.
Lead With Your Brand!TM treats career progress as a problem of making value visible. Jason Patria uses executive and founder interviews to connect personal positioning with practical career decisions.
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AI works best here as a mirror, not a shortcut.
Lead With Your Brand! treats AI as a working tool for career thinking, not a shortcut. The episode's main point is plain: stronger output starts with real source material, like verbatims and feedback, and AI does its best work when it helps sort patterns and tighten the brand…
A concise founder story about premium brand research, selective recruiting, and persistence.
Jason Patria steers a conversation centered on Melinda Sanna's path from Emory University and an early run at Coca-Cola to building Look Look as CEO and founder.
Branding begins with deliberate personal signal and grows into a story that sticks.
Matt Behrend treats personal brand as a visible discipline: dress, appearance, health, speech, energy, and movement all help shape the signal people receive.
Career growth here depends on naming your value and asking for help, not just doing the job well.
Career growth is framed as something that usually takes more than keeping your head down. The advice is plain: know what you want, know your value, say it out loud, and ask for help when the next step matters.
Branding is presented as a practical system for shaping emotional connection and turning identity into repeatable action.
The episode treats branding as a practical way to build emotional pull, not just a logo or a slogan. Jason Patria and Jamie Schwartzman make the case that love, loyalty, and repeat attention can come from a clear brand filter and habits people can actually recognize.
Career power without apology.
Career confidence with a leadership edge.
Career clarity with backbone.
AI needs real inputs.
How do you get inside luxury buyers' heads?
This episode explores how to build a career audience through personal branding, featuring insights from Emily Chang on embracing the unknown and leveraging support for professional success.
This episode features a conversation with Kalia Waits-Smith about building an authentic personal brand by embracing unique life experiences rather than conforming to traditional professional expectations.
Cliff Holtz, President & CEO of the American Red Cross, shares a powerful story about a spontaneous donation during the LA wildfires that highlights the trust and impact of the Red Cross brand.
A personal branding expert interviews a movie critic about how his TV appearances led to career breakthroughs.
An interview with a former Disney employee sharing lessons learned from working with Walt Disney, framed within a career and personal branding podcast.
This episode features an interview with legendary Disney Imagineer Bob Gurr, discussing how to build a personal brand through storytelling and career achievements.
This episode reflects on 2025 and offers career advice on embracing the future and perseverance, featuring insights from host Jason Patria and guests on personal branding and success.
An interview with independent journalist Georgia Fort about her career breakthrough moment covering the Derek Chauvin trial.
Host Jayzen Patria discusses the importance of owning your personal brand and being authentic to achieve career breakthroughs.
The host shares a personal story about his father's role in the Starbucks-HMSHost licensing deal, then introduces the podcast's theme of personal branding for career success.
Host Jayzen Patria interviews tech executive Suzette Yasmin Robotham about her career journey and personal branding strategies.
A podcast exploring career success stories through personal brand journeys, with host Jayzen Patria interviewing leaders from entertainment, tech, and media.
Jason Patria opens by pressing the coffee-versus-Starbucks idea.
A podcast host interviews a guest about her successful blind launch of a brand, generating $1 million in first-week sales through social media curiosity.
Host Jayzen Patria explores how successful leaders use personal branding to advance their careers, with insights from various industries.
She makes a simple case: career growth starts when you say what you want out loud.
A podcast about using personal branding strategies to achieve career breakthroughs, featuring interviews with successful leaders.
The episode centers on brand as emotional connection.
A podcast exploring career success stories through personal brand journeys, with this episode discussing leaping into the unknown and self-awareness.
This episode kicks off season six by encouraging listeners to make 2025 their year for career breakthroughs through personal branding leadership.
A podcast exploring career success stories through personal brand journeys, with this episode discussing the vulnerability and learning process of building a brand.
This episode features Marion Hargett discussing how embracing discomfort and having supportive leadership leads to career breakthroughs and growth.
This episode features a best-of conversation with Congressman Mark Takano about leading with authenticity and personal branding in politics and career success.
Host Jayzen Patria introduces the podcast and discusses the importance of personal branding for career breakthroughs, highlighting Hispanic Heritage Month.
The host introduces the podcast's theme of leading with your brand for career breakthroughs, shares an anecdote about a 65-year-old man pursuing his dream, and sets up an episode celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride Month.
Host Jayzen Patria interviews LGBTQ+ leaders about their career success stories and personal branding journeys.
A personal branding expert interviews a professional who started as an unpaid intern and built a career in news, sharing insights on leading with your brand.
A transgender man shares his experience leaving a beloved company due to lack of belonging, introducing the theme of personal branding for career success.
Host Jayzen Patria interviews leaders about their personal brand journeys and career breakthroughs, with this episode featuring a story about learning sales prospecting from his father.
Host Jayzen Patria introduces the podcast's theme of leading with your personal brand for career breakthroughs, sharing a personal anecdote about asking for opportunities despite being told he wasn't qualified.
Host Jayzen Patria interviews leaders about their personal brand journeys and career breakthroughs.