Jessica Zweig - Overcoming Inauthenticity

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Bob Goff

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Jessica Zweig is an award-winning entrepreneur and one of the nation’s most preeminent personal branding experts. As the Founder/CEO of SimplyBe. Agency, Zweig’s visionary work in defining and enhancing personal brands has gained her many notable accolades, including being named one of Crain's Chicago's 2020 Most Notable Entrepreneurs, one of Inc.’s Top Digital Marketer to Watch in 2017, a Personal Branding Expert by Forbes, and one of the Chicago Tribune’s Top 10 Entrepreneurs to Follow. Zweig also received a Stevie Award® “Female Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2018 and 2019. Zweig is also the host of The SimplyBe. Podcast, one of the Top 20 Marketing podcasts on iTunes. Guests of the show include NYT best-selling author Candace Bushnell, global peace ambassador Prem Rawat, and designer Rebecca Minkoff to name a few. Zweig’s highly anticipated debut book, “Be. A No Bullsh*t Guide to Increasing Your Self Worth and Net Worth by Simply Being Yourself” will be released in February 2021, with Sounds True Publishing (Macmillan).

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Producer : Tatave Abeshyan

Producer & Co-host : Scott Schimmel

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0:00.0	Welcome, everybody, to another episode of The Dream Big Podcasts with Bob Goff and
0:13.3	friends.
0:14.3	I'm your host, Gajamel.
0:15.5	So excited to have you for another episode.
0:18.0	You know, as we're coming up in life, sometimes without realizing it, the dreams that we start
0:22.7	pursuing, whether it's career dreams or the big ambitions we're pursuing with our lives,
0:29.2	you know, without even realizing it, we find out later on in hindsight that those dreams
0:34.5	weren't ours, but somebody else's, maybe classically, it's our parents, the expectation
0:39.7	they have for us, whether they were spoken or unspoken.
0:43.2	We just kind of start to blend what I want with what they want, because the need that
0:49.3	we have to be accepted, to please others, to be impressive, to find the acceptance that
0:56.6	we've been looking for from the people that matter the most to us.
0:59.8	Those things are so strong, those polls are so huge for many of us.
1:05.2	It's not until later that we can look back and kind of almost say, what was I thinking?
1:09.8	Now, for me, early in my 20s, I wanted to be, if you ask me, if I was honest, I would
1:13.7	have said, I want to be a mega-church pastor now, why would I want to be a mega-church
1:17.3	pastor?
1:18.3	I mean, in hindsight now, it seems crazy.
1:20.2	That's so far beyond me.
1:21.8	It's not who I am.
1:23.8	It's not really anything to do with my skill set.
1:26.4	But the world that I was in and young and college ministry, I just kind of set my sights
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