Your Personal Branding Gal💕 | Keynote Speaker, Consultant & Mentor | B&T Women in Media Finalist | Mental Health Advocate

I'm here to disrupt the LinkedIn platform with refreshing content and uncomfortable truths from a first gen Asian Australian millennial. 

I wear a lot of different hats - keynote speaker, social strategist at DDB and personal branding expert. But my heart passion comes down to one focus - content creation. And I wish I start sooner. Growing up I was always told that I would never make it as a creator and I would never make it in the world of social. But here I am, challenging every 'no' I was ever told and sharing my story to inspire others to start chasing their dreams. 

And if you've made it all the way down here, let's keep the good vibes flowing:
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Rosie Chong

We’re only 6 weeks into 2026 and I’ve already achieved one of my biggest goals. 🤯

I landed my first travel brand deal! 

Outside my 9 to 5 I am a lifestyle content creator which not only helps with my day job working at Melbourne Social Co but has been a really great way to increase my confidence within my personal brand. 

Although I’m not labelled as a travel creator, I love sharing my authentic experiences with my audience and this was a great way to challenge my creativity and put my experience running photoshoots to good use. 

My goal for the brand partnership:
💡Think about what my audience want to see
💡Create shareable content with good cut through  
💡Capture premium but relatable content 
💡Build out the beginnings of my travel portfolio for opportunities 

Sometimes saying yes to something outside your comfort zone leads to the best outcomes. 🚀

Rosie Boccamazzo

The 9 to 5 Personal Branding Gal💕| #1 Aussie Personal Branding Creator

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Today I was reminded why I do what I do. 🔥

At the end of last year, I lost my love for LinkedIn and pretty much stopped posting altogether. Today, I was in a room surrounded by so many people that I actually met through personal branding and my LinkedIn. It was surreal! 

Being in the room reminded me of my love and passion for LinkedIn, as well as the importance of connection. It showed me you can meet some incredible people just through a personal brand. It reminded me the power your personal brand can have, and that showing up and putting in effort can mean so much more than just your job title. 

It was so fantastic to celebrate the launch of KIC's new long form newsletter The Ritual, thanks for getting me in the room Nicole Maycroft!💕

And this is your reminder, that there's a reason you're building your personal brand, there's a reason to show up. Don't let the self doubt take over.

This is a metric you need to be keeping an eye on.👀

When you start creating content, most people think that the most important metric is reach, engagement or the number of connection requests. But the metric you need to really be keeping an eye on his profile views. 

Why? 

These are people who are actively going out of the way to learn more about you and your business. These people could become clients are mental even lead due to your next career move.🚀

Don’t get me wrong it’s still important to track reach and engagement, but if you’ve been neglecting profile views you’re seriously missing out.

What's the best performing format on LinkedIn? 👀

Well you're not going to like my answer. 

The format that gets the most engagement and most reach is going to be a format that not only can you execute week after week, but also a format that your audience becomes familiar with.

💡If you love talking to audiences - video might be for you 
💡If you're a fantastic storyteller - try long form 
💡If you're straight to the point - stick with short form

The real secret to getting great reach is consistency and clarity in your content and your personal brand.

How long should you spend writing a piece of content? 🤔

Most of my posts I write and edit under 5 minutes. No that's not a typo. 

I've never been great at pre-scheduling content, even though this is my number one piece of advice if you're trying to build a powerful personal brand. I write my best content in the moment. 

And I know a post won't be worth sharing if I cannot create it in under 5 minutes. But that doesn't work for everyone. 

💡Some will spend an hour editing the perfect video.
💡Others will spend 10 minutes writing a text post. 

There's no right or wrong answer. 

At the end of the day, if your post is giving value to your target audience, then you know you've got a good post, whether it takes you 5 minutes or an hour.

I need to do more of this... 🤯

This afternoon I ran a virtual personal branding 101 session! This is one of my favourite training sessions to run - and honestly I forgot how much I love being able to share my experience with others so they can upskill and take charge of their own personal brand! 

2026 is the year people need to take personal branding seriously.
💡If can land you your dream job
💡It can double your earning capacity
💡It can teach you unparalleled confidence 
💡It can connect you with your dream mentor 

Thanks to Utkarsh Manocha for having me in! 🚀

PS if your team or community are keen to learn more about personal branding slide into my DMs 👀

Sometimes getting started is the easiest part of building personal brand. 🤪

I started my personal branding journey over five years ago and in the last 6 to 12 months I’ve struggled with consistency and finding a passion and purpose with my content. 

The bottom line is I know I love LinkedIn. I love personal branding. And I love being able to help inspire others and teach them ropes so they can capitalise on the power of a personal brand. 🔥

The biggest battle any creative will face is burnout and the marathon of content creation. 

I’ve been fighting this battle for months and the biggest thing that got me out of a rut was finding a renewed “why”. 

💡The why behind creating
💡The why behind building 
💡The why behind connecting 

So remember that creativity comes in ebbs and flows. Sometimes you can have a little fun with a personal rebrand 👀

This is one of the most powerful skills you need in building a personal brand.👀 

It’s knowing how to sell yourself. 

Part of the power of creating a personal brand is that it can walk into a room before you enter it yourself. But when you finally enter the room physically, you need to be able to match the powerful personal brand you’ve curated online.

Learning how to quiet the self-doubt and captivate a room with your confidence and authenticity can take time to perfect. I found that creating content on social media whether for my 9 to 5 or as a freelance content creator, has been the biggest way to improve my confidence. I’ve learned how to hold the attention of my audience no matter how big or how small. 

What’s your secret to finding your confidence? 👇

Niall Cleaver

Documenting the journey of crafting a timeless coffee cup brand | CEO & Founder of Cupsly

My story isn’t about a polished entrepreneur. My journey hasn’t been traditional. I left school without an English qualification, uncertain of what the future held. 

That failure shaped me, it forced me to think differently, fall into business, and ultimately embrace creativity, resilience, and the belief that change is possible, even when doubted. Fast forward to today, I’m growing and scaling businesses while sharing the real lessons that come from it.

Founder

Are you struggling to grow an engaging community for your business or personal brand.

Stop right there, I think I have you covered ⬇️

This is me (Niall), I'm a 22-year-old who is fascinated by growing communities in the online space. Actual communities that have meaning and purpose. 

The services we provide at Social Library 

➡️ Personal Branding (LinkedIn)

➡️ Guidance & support consulting


Drop me a message to discuss your social media strategy, review how well your current socials/posts are doing, and research how we can build your community and gain you more followers and leads.

or you can email us @

hello@sociallibrary.co.uk

Tomorrow is going to be the day we remember at Thistle...

The day we get the whole team together and announce our next chapter.

Some of you may have seen, but over the past few months, we've been planning, working and executing on the next chapter of Thistle.

And tomorrow we get to share this with the team.

These days are among the most influential and exciting times for an organisation; it's when everyone aligns on clear objectives. Everyone together, understanding the direction we're moving in.

Tomorrow can't come quickly enough!!!

More content on this very soon.

Growing @thistlescientific and sharing the lessons while I do

Execution will humble you in more ways than advice ever could.

And this, by far, has been my best realisation.

It's actually scary how much advice is in the world we live in. And normally, it's not the correct advice. The truth is, advice that will improve your business is hard to come by because everyone is sharing an opinion online.  

But there's one thing that beats any advice:

Saying you'll do something and actually doing it.

In my teens, I told myseIf was going to go all in on business, and that meant learning many things I once never knew. How? Real experience.

Less talking, more doing.

I didn't have a background in marketing, I learned.
I didn't have a background in brand, I learned.
I didn't have a background in R&D, I learned.

And here's what I found out...

When you start facing real situations, real problems, and real outcomes, you quickly see who’s telling the truth and who isn’t.

You learn who to trust.

Advice has its place. But execution is what changes things.

In my first few months in business, I avoided speaking up...

And it’s because I didn’t want the conflict of upsetting anyone.

Yesterday, I sent a text to a friend and business partner about trying something slightly different. I couldn't fully explain it; I just had a gut feeling about a certain situation.

Within the hour, we were both on a Zoom call talking it through.

It hasn't always been like this for me. When I started in buisness I used to hate that feeling. I hated being honest about how I felt, mostly because I didn't want to upset anyone.

But over the years, and spending more time in this environment, I've seen that the best results come when everyone speaks up. When people:

Have the conversations.
Have the openness
Have the honesty

That's exactly what happened yesterday.

She didn't shut the idea down. Instead, she encouraged it. Both thankful that each of us had been honest and straightforward from day 1. That's how the best business relationships are formed. Not holding onto an opinion but leaning on them and discussing them openly with your team.

These are the best kind of relationshipsI want to be around.

It’s time to look ahead to the future.

Next week, we announce the rebrand to our team.

In the past few decades, we've evolved and made a lot of progress, but now it’s time to serve the future and the direction we’re heading as an organisation.

We want to become even closer to the researchers changing the world. The next phase of our journey will allow us to do this. 

Next week it's the start of this journey...

What if I told you... I don't post every day to grow my brand.

I hear the same advice here all the time:

"Post more"

And it makes you feel like it's the only way to grow your personal brand as a founder or someone working to grow or scale a business.

But I've learned something different. Build your business first because that ultimately gives you the content ideas that actually make your brand.

The struggles
The achievements
The new hires you made

That's the content that's actually engaging.

Stop posting every day with the hope that a piece of content will hit. Just document the situations you've been through, and you'll be surprised how many people find this style of content engaging.

That's what makes it worth the read.

Build first, then document.

I’ve just landed back from a week in the mountains.

And it reminded me how easy it is to forget what really matters.

I know I talk a lot about business because it's something I'm passionate about, but let's be real, it will never be as important as family. 

Scaling a business takes a lot out of you, early mornings, late nights, and missing certain celebrations. It's honestly brutal sometimes. 

Because it never stops!!!

You always have something that needs implementing, changing or improving, but what I've realised is that time away with your family allows you the space to think, enjoy and realign. Never take this for granted.

Honestly, had the best couple of days... now super exctied to get back and execute on the plan we've set out over the past couple of months.

The most important skill of an entrepreneur is to do the basics first.

I used to fight this idea because it sounded too simple.

Sticking to a routine 
Doing the things you promised.
Being open-minded to the problems. 
Interacting directly with your customers.
Executing the plan you set out with your team.

It really is simple!!! 

At the start of this year, I told some of my closest friends what I was going to do. Less talking and more just focusing on what creates the moment. 

And I can already feel it. It hasn’t been anything out of this world, it's just been staying focused on what matters most in the buisness. And normally, these are the tasks you repeat.

You've got to understand that most people will dislike doing the basics over and over again, becasue it can become boring and not fun. But these are the tasks that create the difference that changes your life and business. 

It may be boring, but it works.

3 years ago, navigating a merger, improving systems, and building a stronger foundation.

Since then, Thistle Scientific has grown year on year, hired across multiple countries, and deliberately focused on scale. Why?

Equipping scientists around the world requires collaboration, obsession, and teamwork. It’s understanding what will help each researcher improve the work they’re doing.

But there’s an even bigger reason…

Scaling allows us to support even more researchers, and the better support they get, the more impact their work can have on the rest of the population.

Any researchers here... would love to chat with you.

One of the best decisions I've made as a 25-year-old growing a biotech business was to... spend time with people who have already done it.

Not people who're trying to sell you something.
Not people who shut down your ideas every five minutes.

But the people who have lived and breathed the problems you are facing.

The real operators. And what I've noticed is that they don't try to sell you online they are heavily focused on real outcomes. They have this credibility where they've been there and done it. You can just feel it!!!

So, if you're going to surround yourself with successful people:

Do your due diligence
Ask the important questions
Don't waste your time and especially theirs.

That's where real change is created.

Evean, now I've got so much to learn and it's so important to remember that the moment you think you've understood it all will be the moment you stop making progress.

"TEST THE LIMIT"  that's what our rebrand was built on.

When we started to plan our rebrand, we didn't view ourselves as successful. We saw ourselves as a challenger brand. A brand that wanted to do things differently from others in our industry.

This was our starting point.

From the first conversations I had with our team, they were all open-minded to it and wanted to be aligned on the bigger picture, but there was something I noticed more special. 

They all wanted to be a part of it.  Contributing, debating, and just being fully curious. Through my years of learning business, I've noticed that one of the best traits in any business is the team being curious. They like to get stuck in. And here's what I've seen:

They adapt quickly to problems and solutions.
They build better products and services.
They spot opportunities others ignore.
They make better decisions.

Being curious is lethal (in a good way)

There's something special about being around an open-minded team. A team that wants to play an even bigger part in this journey. It's pretty cool.

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