Fearless Branding with Robert Friedman: Strategies for Standing Out in a Crowded Market

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Bleav + Anika Jackson

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5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Robert Friedman is renowned for his ability to help businesses articulate their unique identities and connect meaningfully with their audiences. His journey into the world of branding is not just a professional trajectory; it is a narrative of exploration, discovery, and a relentless pursuit of understanding what makes brands resonate with people. His innate curiosity about the fundamental question of why people buy shaped his path. This inquiry drove him to seek deeper insights into the emotional and psychological drivers behind consumer decisions, a theme that would become central to his work.

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0:00.0	Your clients hire you as much for who you are as what you do.
0:05.5	And your ability with intention to define it and express it in a way that that really resonates with your people, that is transformative.
0:19.3	Step into the world of success with your brand amplified, the ultimate podcast designed to
0:25.2	unravel the intricacies of thriving businesses. I'm your host, Onica Jackson, and I'm on a
0:30.8	mission to uncover the stories, strategies, and secrets that have propelled entrepreneurs and business
0:36.5	leaders to success.
0:40.6	This is a very rare interview where I sought out my guest via LinkedIn.
0:48.2	Robert Friedman, fearless branding, love what you do.
0:52.8	And branding is something that I think a lot of people don't really
0:56.6	understand what it is. They don't understand how to use it effectively. And they don't understand
1:00.7	that it's really the base of everything else that you do for your marketing, your advertising,
1:05.4	just general awareness of your brand. So thank you for being on your brand amplified.
1:10.9	Hi, pleasure. It's good to be here. Yeah. So talk about your career a little bit and what led you then
1:16.2	to start your own agency because you started out in the agency world, the big guys.
1:21.7	Yeah, exactly. I did. So when I graduated from college, I was interested in the fundamental question, what makes
1:30.6	somebody buy something? It's just like, what's going on on the inside and how can a brand
1:36.6	or a business connect with them? And that's still really what motivates me today. So I started
1:43.1	out, as you said, big guys. It was an agency called Darcy Macy
1:46.4	Spenten Bowls, kind of like, you know, the madmen kind of experience. It was in the 80s, and I was
1:53.1	in account work. Then I moved to a small agency where we were kind of a hybrid agency slash marketing
2:00.7	consulting firm, and we were responsible for all the market research and product development concepts.
2:06.5	And it was super interesting.
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