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

Saw this (Ai) video by AiCandy on Instagram and I couldn’t not share it. Talk about an attention grabbing ad for a video company… though I must say, a tad unsettling to think about. Too soon?

The future is here. Let us pray 

At least we have each other! 

Hi5,
LD
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Brand Strategist & GTM Operator helping founders build their businesses with LinkedIn & AI 🌶️ Hot Sauce Aficionado 🌶️

After 4 different careers in engineering, brand marketing, performing arts and teaching, I felt lost, stuck and unfulfilled. After a 6-month dive into my personal brand, I finally found my greatness and purpose: "Professional Speaker"​

Networking was my first expertise. In 2008, I introduced my own concept of personal branding as a leader and it became my 2nd core expertise. 

In 2011, when I spoke at my first of 5 TEDx talks, I concurrently launched a new social media strategy. Within 6 months got my first speaking gig directly off of Twitter. Now I have over 650,000 followers, was named one of Inc Magazine's Top 100 Leadership speakers and social media / digital connection became my 3rd main expertise. 

I've spoken to half a million people across the world. I've trained 1000's of professionals, including C-suite executives, on how to use the "Power of Connection"​ to be a thought leader through relationship building, content creation, storytelling, & speaking effectively. 

MY SERVICES: 

COACHING
✅ Speaker Mastermind: Speak more, speak better, speak with impact, get paid to speak:  bit.ly/SpeakerProgram
✅ Networking Mastery: Leverage the Power of Connection to transform your career or biz: bit.ly/NetworkingMastery

CONSULTING on Personal Branding, Business & Career Transition, or Brand/Biz Bldg (offered at an hourly rate): 
✅ To book a consulting session, talk, or workshop, reach me directly via private message on LinkedIn or at raehanbobby@gmail.com.

Keynotes: 
✅ Own Your Personal Brand 
✅ Building a Huge Thought Leadership Brand 
✅ Authentic Networking 
✅ Powerful Presentations, Pitches & Storytelling 
✅ Digital Connection via Social Media Content
✅ The Most Important Leadership Skills (Empathy, Communication, Connection, etc)
✅ Entrepreneurship & Business Development 
✅ Learn the NEW LinkedIn 2.0

Workshops: 
✅ Personal Branding Mastery  
✅ Powerful Presentations & Storytelling
✅ Linkedin & Clubhouse integration (IG/Twitter)
✅ Leadership, Teambuilding 
 


Bobby Umar

Most creators ignore this.

Most people think bad design is just ugly.

It’s not.

Bad design is expensive.

It quietly costs you:
• attention (people scroll past)
• trust (you look less credible than you are)
• clarity (your idea gets lost)
• conversions (no saves, no DMs, no clicks)

And here’s the frustrating part:

You can have the best ideas in the room…
but if your content looks hard to read,
people assume it is hard to read.

Scroll.

And it’s painful when that happens.

You know the insight is good.

But the post gets 3 likes and disappears.

Most posts fail because of one simple design mistake:
They make the reader work too hard.

Dense text
No visual hierarchy
No breathing room

Your brain decides in under a second:
“Too much effort.”

That’s why design matters more than people think.

This Thursday inside TLB Club, I’m hosting a masterclass with Talha Hanif: The Cost of Bad Design

📅 March 5
🕓 4 PM EST

We’ll break down:
✅ what actually makes people stop scrolling
✅ simple design rules that improve readability instantly
✅ how to make your content look premium without overcomplicating it
✅ real LinkedIn examples + live teardowns

I can share a few guest spots.

DM me “DESIGN” and I’ll send you the invite.

Quick poll in the comments:
What part of design frustrates you most?
1️⃣ Carousels
2️⃣ Text formatting
3️⃣ Thumbnails

Just drop the number 👇

#LinkedIn #PersonalBranding #ThoughtLeadership

Most experts aren’t rejected.
They’re misunderstood.

Two TEDx talks in two weeks isn’t luck.

It’s clarity.

When John Edward McGraw came to me, he had the expertise.

But expertise isn’t what gets you selected.

Clarity does.

Most speakers apply with:
– 5 decent ideas
– A résumé disguised as a talk
– A message that informs but doesn’t move

That’s why they don’t hear back.

So we simplified everything.

One urgent “why now” idea.
One emotional through-line.
One clear takeaway.
One curator-friendly application.
One confident video pitch.

Then the shift happened.

Within 14 days, John received two TEDx acceptances:

✅ TEDx QueensU — Jan 24, 2026
✅ TEDxUofTScarborough — March 15, 2026

(Yes — TEDx events are independently organized.)

When your idea, story, and positioning finally align,
momentum compounds fast.

If you’ve ever thought about doing a TEDx talk…

What’s stopping you from applying?

🟢 MY UPCOMING EVENTS Week of February 22nd, 2026 – I share my audio rooms, livestreams, and zoom trainings once a week here. You’re all welcome to join. CLICK RIGHT to see them all and use the links below to access. 🔥👇🏾


💻 Mon Feb 23rd, 3pm ET – EXCLUSIVE FOR TLB CLUB MEMBERS “Weekly Business Coaching Support Call” Hosted by Bobby Umar. Learn more about TLB Club and be part of the growing community here👇🏾

LINK: https://lnkd.in/eh6WBsNN

💻 Tue Feb 24th, 4pm ET - LinkedIn Mastery Tuesdays - Are you shaping your personal brand? Join us for a robust discussion on how to best deal with fake LinkedIn profiles. Hosted by Bobby Umar, Melanie Mitchell Wexler, Kenneth Lang, Christopher G. Johnson, and Roy Kowarski.

LINK: https://lnkd.in/eh6WBsNN


💻 Wed Feb 25th, 10am ET - Mastermind Session #1: Authority on LinkedIn. Join Bobby Umar and Richard van der Blom for a 2-hour deep dive into what actually makes a LinkedIn profile work in 2026

LINK: https://lnkd.in/enKS44cV


💻 Wed Feb 25th, 5:30pm ET - TLB Tech Clinic - Hosted by Bobby Umar. Learn more about TLB Club and be part of the growing community here👇🏾

LINK: https://lnkd.in/eh6WBsNN


 🎶Feb 26, 27, 28 at 8pm ET , Mar 6 at 8pm ET, Mar 7 at 2pm & 8pm ET, and March 8 at 2pm ET - Come see me perform in RENT the musical. It’s my first show in 18 years and I’m playing my dream role of Collins.

LINK: https://lnkd.in/eNZ_SYZn


💻 Thu Mar 5th, 4pm ET - TLB Club Masterclass: Importance of Design on LinkedIn (Social Media). Join this week’s TLB Masterclass with Talha Hanif and engage in a meaningful conversation.

LINK: https://lnkd.in/ePsxyHs5



✅ Click right to see all my event details.
✅ REPOST: help spread the word! 🤓

#TEDxCoach #ThoughtLeadership #PersonalBranding


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Hi I'm Bobby! I'm a LinkedIn Top Voice and 5x TEDx Speaker.
I help you land a TEDx Talk GUARANTEED. For Content, Connection and Digital Presence tips, follow me (55.8K followers) AND my hashtag #PowerOfConnection (327 followers). Don't forget to 'Ring My Bell' to get exclusive and immediate access.

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Most people don’t need more activity on LinkedIn. They need more alignment. Because when your profile, offer, and message don’t match… you can post ev

Open article: Build Authority That Actually Converts (Without Losing Your Voice) by Bobby Umar • 4 min read

Build Authority That Actually Converts (Without Losing Your Voice)

Ever been through HELL WEEK? Well mine started today. Every evening for the next 5 nights is full. However, I am feeling very grateful. Here’s why.

1️⃣ I closed TWO high-tickets clients the previous week. So now that's 3 this month. Yay. 💯

2️⃣ Met a sales closer, and will likely try to get him started on my sales calls when he is ready. This will save me time. Will ramp up my FB ad spend when that happens, likely next week. I am so glad to have FB ads that actually work!

3️⃣ That said, I am TAKING A BREAK THIS WEEK because this is the tech week for my new musical Rent, where I am playing my dream role of Collins and the show opens Thursday night‼️ I am super excited for this. 🤩

4️⃣ Month of fasting is tough for energy, but I am booking a 90 min nap daily, since the shows go late and I wake up 5:30am to eat.

5️⃣ I am feeling really grateful this week, including being part of great communities like TLB Club, Musical Theatre, Client Control, LinkedIn Top Voices, HoLT and more. So this is all a WIN-WIN-WIN feeling. 🔥

This week I am immersed in gratitude. I'm excited for our NEW website and my musical RENT. I can't tell you how super pumped I am for all of this. 

Have a great week! 

"No Day But Today" 🎶🎤🥰

HAPPY RAMADAN MUBARAK‼️ As we begin the month of fasting, may it be a time of health, happiness, spiritual growth that brings peace to your heart, ease to your mind, and blessings to your life. 

My favourite aspects of this month include:

1️⃣ Sitting with my family 2x a day for a meal. A rare treat with teenagers! 

2️⃣ The spiritual focus, a constant daily reminder of just being a better person.

3️⃣ Mental mindset improvement that comes with not eating or drinking anything.

4️⃣ The discipline of routine.

5️⃣ Family, food, and feelings. 

Which of these would you appreciate⁉️🤔👇🏾

Wishing all who celebrate a fabulous and fulfilling month.

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I lost my voice. And I lost my confidence.
Weird to admit as a motivational speaker…

But it wasn’t my speaking voice. It was my singing voice.

20 years ago, I was deep in musical theatre.
🟣 Lead roles. Big bravado.
🟢 Even the occasional Elvis impression in my keynotes.

Then I became a Dad. 😍

And I sang constantly with my kids — Raffi, Les Mis, Led Zeppelin.
Home concerts. Car concerts. Dishwashing concerts.

Then something quietly shifted.

My kids got really good. 👏🏾

Nyal landed Harold Hill in The Music Man at 9.
Ryah landed lead roles too — and by 10 her voice was unreal.

They sang all the time at home. Sometimes in effortless harmonies.

And that’s when I stopped singing. 😲

Not because I didn’t want to…
but because I got so immersed in supporting THEM that my own voice went quiet. 

I played tracks, recorded videos, cheered them on, all with a stupid giddy smile. 😁

A year ago, they dragged me to Broadway karaoke. I agreed to sing… and panicked.
I went to the car and practiced several times. (It was “Anthem” from Chess the musical) 

It went well. 

And my kids FREAKED OUT‼️

“Dad… I didn’t know you could sing like that.”
“Why don’t you ever sing with us?”

I didn’t have an answer. 💯

Truth? I didn’t trust my voice anymore.
Some notes were gone. My falsetto was non-existent.

My confidence felt… expired.

Then last fall, I encouraged Ryah to audition for my favourite musical: Rent.

She looked at me and said, “Dad… you should go for it.”

My first instinct was to play it safe and aim small.

But I auditioned.

And I landed my dream role: Collins. 🔥

Even in rehearsals, I kept needing validation:
“Am I any good at this?”

So I did what I tell clients to do when confidence disappears:

I practiced. (A lot)
I asked questions.
I invested in a voice coach.

And slowly… the voice came back.

My falsetto returned. I hit a high A again.
Now I’m aiming for a high B — and when my coach offered an easier alternative, I said:

“I want to go for it.”

My show opens in TWO days!

Maybe my voice cracks.

But I’m not going quiet again.

Because here’s what this reminded me:

Confidence isn’t a personality trait.
It’s a practice.

👉🏾 QUESTION: who in your life is going quiet right now — and what’s one sentence you could say to help them take their first rep?

And if you’re honest… where have you gone quiet lately⁉️

Drop one sentence below: “I’ve been quiet about ___.”
(I’ll read every one.) 👇🏾

You’ve been building alone.
That’s what’s slowing you down.

Most personal brands don’t fail from lack of ideas.
They fail from lack of structure and accountability.

Maybe you’ve thought:
“I don’t have time for another community.”
“I’ve joined groups before that went quiet.”
“I can figure this out myself.”

You could.

But how much longer will that take?

That’s why we rebuilt TLB Club.

Not another noisy forum.
A focused system for visibility → consistency → conversion.

Inside, you get:
✅ A clear roadmap so you always know what to work on
✅ Live workshops that move you forward (not just motivate you)
✅ Action-driven resources built to turn content into conversations

Best for: coaches, consultants, and founders who are serious about building a brand that drives real opportunities.

If you want structure without fluff, this is built for you.

👉 Explore TLB Club here: https://lnkd.in/ebMtEBNi

#ThoughtLeadership #PersonalBranding #CommunityBuilding

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