Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black. Our guest on this episode is career and workplace expert Dan Chabelle, who is partner and research director

at Future Workplace and the founder of both millennial branding and workplace trends.com.

Dan is also a bestselling author whose newest book is called Back to Human,

how great leaders create connection in the age of isolation. Dan, it's so nice to talk to you

today. Thank you so much for being on our show. Really excited to be here with you. Thank you so much for

having me. Talk to us a little bit about your background and how you became an expert in millennials and

personal branding. Oh, wow.

So we want to go really far back.

My first job was when I was 13.

My first internship was in high school, cold calling.

During college, I had seven more internships, eight leadership positions on campus, and good grades.

And then I had my first business I started, which was a website consulting business

and design business back sophomore year of college.

And then I worked for EMC Corporation, which is now EMC Dell.

I went from product marketing to online marketing.

And then I created the first ever social media position back in November 2010.

Sorry, 2007, a long time ago.

So this was back in the early days when there really wasn't too many social media corporate position. So I had to come up with a job description, if you can

believe it. Now, most companies have people who work in social media, usually into the marketing

or PR departments. And so I was just kind of inventing it back then and vetting the position.

And it was based on what I was doing outside of work, which is focused on personal branding.

So between October 6th and March 14th, I started a blog called Personal Braining Blog. I started a magazine called

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