1116: How to Take Control of Your Career with Confidence with Kimberly Brown

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Kimberly Brown shares practical steps on how to take charge of your career and steer it with intention.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The framework for improving your reputation

2) How to cultivate relationships that advance your career

3) How to identify and amplify the one thing that makes you stand out

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— ABOUT KIMBERLY —

Kimberly Brown is a globally recognized career and leadership strategist, bestselling author, and international keynote speaker. As the founder and CEO of Brown Leadership®, a premier learning and development firm, she helps mid-career and senior professionals amplify their brands, accelerate growth, and drive performance. Her bestselling book, Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning Into a Career You'll Love, has empowered thousands to take control of their careers with strategy and confidence.

She also hosts the Your Next Move Podcast, where she shares actionable insights on career advancement. A trusted expert, Kimberly’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, CNBC, NPR, and more. Find her online at kimberlybonline.com and brownleadership.com and follow her (@kimberlybonline) on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

• Book: Next Move, Best Move: Transitioning Into a Career You'll Love

• Website: BrownLeadership.com

• Website: KimberlyBOnline.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Past episode: 686: How to Make Your Next Career Move Your Best Move with Kimberly Brown

• Past episode: 1054: Maximizing Your Pipelines and Funnels of Opportunity with Kara Smith Brown

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0:00.0	I believe in there being an element of happiness and love for your job because we spend 40
0:14.1	plus hours a week at work every single day.
0:15.8	So if you don't like it, I'm pretty sure your life kind of stinks too, because we can't make up that big of a block of time.
0:23.7	So start with what brings you joy?
0:26.0	What are you excited about?
0:27.3	What comes easy to you?
0:28.8	What are your strengths?
0:55.1	That's Kimberly Brown. She's the founder and CEO of Brown Leadership, a premier learning and development firm, where she helps mid-career and senior professionals amplify their brands, accelerate growth, and drive performance. Her best-selling book, Next Move, Best Move, transitioning into a career you'll love, has empowered thousands to take control of their careers with strategy
0:59.9	and confidence. So you'll learn, one, the framework for improving your reputation, two, how to
1:06.0	cultivate relationships that advance your career, and three, how to identify and amplify the one thing that
1:12.0	makes you stand out. And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways,
1:16.6	I'll recommend you sign up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter found at awesome at your job.com.
1:21.8	I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now here's Kimberly.
1:33.2	Kimberly, welcome back. Thank you so much for having me.
1:38.0	Very excited to be here again. Well, I'm excited to chat. We're talking about reputation and legacy. Could you start by sharing what do you think is the top mistake most people make when they're thinking about
1:46.9	building reputation? I think there's two sides. I think the first big mistake folks make is that
1:52.7	they think reputation is just tied to execution. And I think earlier on, I think folks are just really
1:58.5	focused on task execution. I got A, let me finish it.
2:02.0	Okay, now we're going to do the next thing. Now we're going to do the next day. And they don't
2:04.7	think about the personal side of their reputation, how people feel when they're around them.
2:10.0	And then I think the other side is exactly the opposite. Some people think that their personality,
2:14.5	that the relationship can supersede not doing great work. But I think
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