BBY Show S9 Ep7: Reading from other perspectives

Welcome to Building Brand You™, the podcast that helps you accelerate your success by unlocking your greatest asset – you.

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Books allow us to see the world from diverse perspectives, broadening our empathy and insight into the experiences of others.

“People often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passerby as they might in a store window, and that such display need will be taken so seriously once the moment had passed” - Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

"Loneliness is a human invention. Trees are never lonely...Trees harbor no such illusions. For us, everything is interconnected." - The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak.

FEATURED BOOKS:

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Racing-Rain-Garth-Stein/dp/0007281196

 

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

https://www.amazon.com/Klara-and-The-Sun/dp/0593318188

 

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Island-of-Missing-Trees/dp/B08XQYM5JV

ABOUT KYM HAMER:

Kym Hamer is an international leadership, visibility and impact coach, a personal branding expert and serial entrepreneur, and the creator of Building Brand You™, a methodology helping organisations, teams, and individuals to build visibility and reputational rigor as essential building blocks for delivering sustained value. 

In other words, accelerating results by unlocking your greatest asset - YOU!

In 2020, just one year after launching her business, she was nominated by Thinkers360 as one of the Top 100 Women B2B Leadership influencers and is currently in the Top 15 Personal Branding and Marketing Influencers in the world. For 4 years running Kym has also been one of Thinkers360's Top 10 Thought Leaders on Entrepreneurship and in 2023, was recognised as one of their Top Voices for 2023 globally.

Kym is the Founder & CEO of Artemis Futures International, a Founding Board Member of the Customer Experience & Service Association Middle East, and co-founder of CXSA Group Ltd.  She has been part of the faculty with Homeward Bound Projects, a global initiative reaching 1.8 billion people, equipping women and non-binary people with a STEMM background to lead conversations for a sustainable future. She voyaged to Antarctica in 2023 for 19 nights delivering the immersive component of the HB programme for more than 170 women, and was Faculty Lead for Homeward Bound’s 8th leadership cohort.

In between all of these things, you'll find her curled up in a corner with her nose in a book.

 

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