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Episode 24: Building Your Brand Begins with You; How to Pursue Your Passion Through Adversity

1h 11m · Eight Hour Grind · 15 Mar 15:00

Have you ever experienced a life altering moment? An accident, a cancer scare, or the sudden loss of a loved one? Suddenly everything that is important comes into focus. Like life has slowed down to a crawl and clarity is the byproduct. Many of you have had these experiences, while others have not, and yet, until you do, you never truly know what is real and what isn't. Who your real friends are, who is going to show up when you're down, answer your call when everything is broken, or show up to the hospital when you're sick or unconscious. 

Today, we were going to talk about what that looks like. When you lose everything, and you've surrounded yourself with people who aren't really in it for you, people that leave you undelivered in your darkest moments. But better than that, we’re going to talk about redemption. How you can rise from the ashes and thrive again. This could be your story, and for our next guest, it is his story. Brian Esposito is a true rags to riches story that could have ended in unfortunate tragedy, but ended up being a wake-up call that has led to new blessings and opportunities. He is the founder and CEO of Esposito Intellectual Enterprises that currently has over 65 entities within it and over 150 joint ventures that have been accumulated around the world over the last 20 years. In 2020, he was named as one of the World’s Top 10 CEO’s. Although these are impressive, he would argue that none of these are his greatest triumph. No, coming back from a tragic and near-death experience put things in perspective and would be his greatest accomplishment to date. 

In this episode we cover the following topics:

📑 How to put together a brand
📑 Leaving your mark in your career journey
📑 Accelerate professionally despite adversity


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