Morning Cup of Brand Spark
Morning Cup of Brand Spark is your espresso-shot of resonance — now poured slower. In Season 2: The Mirror Conversations, brand strategist Gina Dunn sits down with founders, creators, and leaders over coffee to talk about the truths that burned them into who they are. No scripts. Just fifteen minutes of clarity and real talk about voice, visibility, and becoming seen. ☕ New episodes every Friday (sometimes more!). 🎧 Short enough for your coffee break. Deep enough to change your week. Want to be a guest? Reach out to me (no AI, write to me like a human) gina@ogsolutions.nl
Episodes
15 minutes | Confidence | Presence | Flow
What if confidence wasn’t about being loud — but about being aligned?
In this Morning Cup of Brand Spark conversation, Sara Deacon, martial artist, emcee, and author of Welcome to the Stage, joins Gina Dunn to talk about the discipline of confidence and the art of energy.
They explore:
- How martial arts teaches presence through repetition and awareness
- The energy exchange between a stage and ...
15 minutes | Reinvention | Identity | Clarity
What happens when the title stops fitting and you realize success was never your own reflection?
In this episode, Shelley McIntyre, founder of Burn the Map Coaching, joins Gina Dunn to talk about leaving corporate life, rediscovering identity, and the quiet rebellion of midlife reinvention.
After decades in corporate strategy and tech, Shelley McIntyre realized her success story wasn’t her...
15 minutes | Leadership | Collaboration | Clarity
What happens when “doing it all” stops working?
In this conversation, Sabine Hutchison and Gina Dunn talk about partnership, delegation, and the power of finding your person — the one who helps you see what you can’t alone.
Sabine Hutchison, co-CEO of Seuss+, author of Beyond the Ladder, and founder of The Ripple Network, joins Gina Dunn for a conversation about what it really takes to...
15 minutes | Creativity | Reflection | Art
What happens when your childhood refuge disappears, and creativity becomes your way home?
In this reflective Morning Cup of Brand Spark conversation, Patrick Williams joins Gina Dunn to talk about loss, memory, and the moment creativity becomes remembrance.
When artist and educator Patrick Williams was ten, bulldozers destroyed the woods behind his childhood home, his sanctuary of imagination...
15 minutes | Branding | Creativity | Reflection
What happens when your work defines you, until your body makes you stop?
In this conversation, T. Christian Helms and Gina Dunn talk about illness, creativity, and rebuilding meaning in both branding and life.
After years designing for brands like Jack Daniel’s, Hershey, and Austin Beerworks, T. Christian Helms was forced to confront the ultimate rebrand — his own. When illness took ...
15 min | Creativity | AI | Authenticity
Season 2 of Morning Cup of Brand Spark — The Mirror Season — begins here.
When AI starts speaking your language, do you lose it—or take it back?
In this raw opener to Mirror Season, Gina Dunn and Natalie de Groot talk about buzzword burnout, the fear of losing your voice to algorithms, and the power of reclaiming the words that still mean something.
In this first Mirror Conversation, Gina Dunn si...
The Morning Cup is back - slower, deeper, truer. ☕
In this short prelude to Season 2 of Morning Cup of Brand Spark, host Gina Dunn shares what’s changing and what’s staying lit.
This season, the daily sparks evolve into Mirror Conversations. These are 15-minute coffee chats with founders, creatives, and leaders about the truths they had to burn for before they could really be seen.
No scripts. Just voice, visibility, and vulnerability...
Most founders wait too long to say the sentence that actually starts the spiral.
This isn’t about storytelling. It’s about anchoring. And today’s Brand Spark will help you find the line that holds your whole message in miniature.
Forget the hero’s journey. The best brand arcs don’t follow a myth. They follow truth.
Today we enter Week 2 of Echoflare and look at the three-phase arc that actually creates resonance. It’s not linear. It’s alive. And your clarity begins at the middle.
Start your arc recalibration here: https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
It’s not what you post. It’s what echoes.
Today we close out Week 1 of Echoflare with a quiet but potent reflection: what does your brand sound like when you’re not there to speak it?
The blog is live: https://ogsolutions.nl/why-being-seen-isnt-enough/
Start your brand clarity journey: https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
You don’t need more content today. You need a challenge:
Find one place in your brand where your message is hiding… and bring it to the front.
This is your Saturday challenge to end Week 1 of Echoflare strong. And yes — the blog is live.
Read it now: https://ogsolutions.nl/why-being-seen-isnt-enough/
Do the deeper work here: https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
Before the weekend hits, here’s your Friday Brand Challenge: Find the one line in your brand that carries.
The sentence that actually sparks response, invites memory, and echoes when you're not in the room. Not the fluff. Not the filler. The line.
Need help sharpening it? https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
Under the noise, there’s a voice you’re not using — yet.
Today’s Brand Spark takes us beneath the surface of “loud” content and into the quiet truth of brand resonance. It’s not about shouting. It’s about what happens when your real voice finally speaks.
If you’re ready to find yours:
https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
Just because you’re loud doesn’t mean it’s you.
Today’s Brand Spark slices through the misconception that big energy = strong voice. Because volume can be a costume. But voice? Voice is clarity in your tone, in your timing, and in your truth.
Want help finding yours? https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
Posting daily won’t save a foggy brand.
Today’s Brand Spark is your midweek calibration: content frequency isn’t the same as brand clarity. If you’re showing up every day but still not converting, let’s take a closer look at what you’re actually saying — and how to fix it.
Start with the root: https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
Your audience isn’t ignoring you. They’re confused.
Today’s Brand Spark breaks down what happens when your brand isn’t giving people anything clear to echo. Because if your message is foggy, no amount of visibility will fix it. Let’s talk about brand inputs, resonance loops, and why silence doesn’t always mean rejection.
You made it to the end of Behind the Brand.But confidence? That part never ends.
Today’s final Brand Spark is a quiet exhale and a bold invitation. Let’s talk about what branded confidence feels like — not just how it performs.And if you’ve been listening along? Reach out. I’d love to hear what landed… and what you want more of.
https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
DM me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginadunn/
Your brand isn’t a paragraph. It’s a single sentence that makes you proud to say it out loud.
Today’s Brand Spark is your final Saturday Challenge: write the one line that makes you feel brave, clear, and grounded. One sentence. Full resonance.
Need help shaping yours?https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
You know that moment when someone asks for your link… and you hesitate?That’s not a tech issue. That’s a trust issue.
Today’s Brand Spark is a celebration of that moment when you finally feel proud to share your site, your page, your presence. Because branded confidence isn’t just louder. It’s lighter.
Branded confidence doesn’t just attract.It repels.Today’s Brand Spark explores how aligned brands draw boundaries — with their voice, their offer, and their message.
Because what you don’t say is part of your power.https://ogsolutions.nl/brand-glow-up-audit/
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