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Joseph Rudd

One of the most underrated career skills:

Being respectful to everyone in the room.

I was raised to treat the janitor the same as the CEO.
And it's a lesson that's carried me through my career.

It might sound simple.
But it often gets overlooked.

And yet, being polite, respectuful and empathetic of everyone else (regardless of their role or postion) goes much further than most realise.

✅ It builds trust with colleagues.
✅ It creates opportunities with mentors.
✅ It shapes your circle of people.

Because career growth is built on trust.

3 simple lessons to carry forward:

1/ Value every role.
↳ A title doesn’t define a person’s worth.
↳ Show equal respect at every level.

2/ Listen before you speak.
↳ Everyone carries a story you don’t know.
↳ Be curious about their perspective.

3/ Actively make an effort to show kindness.
↳ Small acts of respect cost nothing.
↳ But they’re remembered for years.

It's not about being perfect.
It's about making small, conscious efforts.

When you do that:

Colleagues turn into mentors.
Bosses became advocates.
Peers became friends.

Respect costs nothing.
But it can shape your whole career.

What's a small act of respect that stood out to you?
Let me know if the comments 👇🏻

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building founder’s & Executive’s brands on Linkedin

Most coaches, consultants, and small B2B founders are stuck on LinkedIn.

They’re posting.
DMing.
Commenting.

Trying to be everywhere, but still not seeing steady leads.

The truth?
They’re putting in hours without a system that turns it into sales.

What usually follows:

- Chasing DMs that never go anywhere
- Posting more just to avoid being forgotten
- Paying ghostwriters or agencies who keep the audience and results when they leave
- A pipeline that dies the second you stop showing up

It’s exhausting. No time to sell. No space to scale.

There’s a simpler way.

I build AI-powered LinkedIn sales systems for coaches, consultants, and small B2B founders.
They run in under 30 minutes/day, work in your voice, and stay inside your business after setup.

In the last 2 years, I’ve helped 50+ clients:

- Add 3–7 extra sales calls/month
- Generate $40M+ in new opportunities
- Grow an engaged audience that actually converts

Recent results:

- Career coach → 10 qualified leads in the first week after launch
- SaaS founder → $300K in new opportunities in 6 months
- Agency owner → Six figures in the first year

If you want a LinkedIn system that brings in leads without living on LinkedIn, send me a message with “AI” and I’ll walk you through it.

Yashvardhan .

My barber asked me what I do for a living last week and I said I write LinkedIn posts for founders.  He looked at me like.... 


I just said I sell air for a living. 

Then he goes people pay for that? and I said yeah good money actually. 

He went quiet for a second and said so what you're like a rapper but for business guys. 

Honestly that's the best description of ghostwriting anyone's ever given me. 

I'm not even mad. That's exactly what it is.

building founder’s & Executive’s brands on Linkedin | Founder PAROX MEDIA

People don't trust social proof on LinkedIn anymore and honestly, can you blame them?

Screenshots of revenue dashboards that could belong to anyone, testimonials that sound like they were written by a copywriter because they were, just hit 6 figures with a laptop on the beach photo.

This was supposed to build trust. 

You show your work, let results speak, let other people vouch for you so you don't have to beat your own chest. 

But the more people faked it the less real proof worked and now when someone posts a genuine testimonial from a client whose business actually changed, it gets the same tired scroll and the same yeah sure buddy energy.

The people doing great work aren't the ones paying the price here, their work still speaks. 

Social proof isn't dead either, it never will be. 

But what builds trust now looks nothing like what it used to. 

It's not the polished screenshot or the formatted testimonial anymore, it's how you talk about your work when you're not trying to prove anything. 

The ordinary, unfiltered, almost boring specifics that no one would bother making up.

I've spent hunders of hours studying what makes personal brands actually convert into revenue and it comes down to one structural element most people ignore,

Narrative consistency, meaning every post, every comment, every story ladders up to one central belief that your audience starts adopting as their own.


Not content consistency. Narrative consistency, there's a difference.

Posting every day means nothing if Monday you're talking about hiring, Tuesday about mindset, Wednesday about AI, and Thursday about cold outreach. 

That's not a brand, that's a content mill with your face on it.

The founders I've worked with who actually generate inbound from LinkedIn all have one thing in common. 

You could read any 5 of their posts picked at random and walk away with the exact same understanding of what they believe and who they help. That's not an accident, that's engineered.

When I build a founder's brand the first thing I do isn't write posts. 

I sit with them and figure out what is the one narrative they want to own. What's the worldview they want their audience to absorb over 30, 60, 90 days of reading their content. 

Once that's locked in everything else becomes easy because now every post has a job. 

Every story has a purpose, every comment reinforces the same belief.

Your audience doesn't convert because they liked one post. 

They convert because over weeks of reading you they started thinking the way you think and then buying from you felt like the obvious next step.

That's narrative consistency, that's the craft.

The amount of founders who think changing their headline to Helping X achieve Y is a personal brand strategy is genuinely concerning.

You grabbed that format from some viral LinkedIn thread in 2024 and thought cool positioning done, it's not. 

It's the same template every other founder in your space is using word for word. 

The guy running a 200 crore business and the guy who started last Tuesday literally sound the same on a profile visit.

But to be honest, your headline doesn't matter that much anyway.

Seriously, six words at the top of a profile, that's what you're spending your energy on? 

Meanwhile your last 20 posts say nothing, no opinion, no stance, nothing that would make someone reading them go oh this person actually thinks differently.

That's the gap, not the headline. The stuff underneath it.

I've had founders come to me with the most generic headlines you've ever seen and their inbound is insane because their posts do the actual work and then there's founders who've A/B tested their headline fourteen times and still hear crickets because their content is just noise.

Nobody ever DM'd a founder saying your headline really spoke to me, that's not how it works.

People binge 3-4 of your posts, something clicks, and then they reach out. 

The headline had nothing to do with it.

Figure out what you actually want to say, the headline is the least interesting problem you have right now.

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