Emily D.'s Recent LinkedIn Posts

Age 18: My professor told me I was too shy to study PR. Said I should change course. Age 22: Practised pitching in agency bathrooms. Alone. Terrified. Age 30: First time CMO. Still felt like a fraud. Age 31: Failed my first business. Got made redundant when my boss found out about my side hustle. Age 31 (still):…

I stopped posting every day 3 months ago. Engagement up. Revenue up. Sanity up. Daily posting is making you worse. You're filling space instead of taking it. Saying nothing to say something. And your audience can tell. A personal brand isn't a content strategy. A content strategy treats every post like a sales…

I quit corporate to unlearn everything it taught me. I was always chasing titles. Waiting for someone to tell me I was ready. Then I left, and started unlearning everything. 🟠 That perfection was the price of entry. It's not. My best work came when I embraced scrappy. 🟠 That decisions needed validation.…

I got made redundant in 2022. Best thing that ever happened to me. It taught me I was replaceable. We all are. No matter how hard you work. No matter how many late nights you pull. No matter how indispensable you think you are. Meta has cut 25,000 jobs since 2022. Over 60,000 people in tech lost their jobs in the…

"This is hard" Says the person who keeps raising the bar. "I can't do it" Says the person doing it. "What if I fail?" Says the person inspiring others. The internal dialogue of a founder is brutal. We question everything. We doubt ourselves daily. We wonder if we're good enough. You wouldn't have the ur…

I quit corporate to unlearn everything it taught me. I was always chasing titles. Waiting for someone to tell me I was ready. Then I left, and started unlearning everything. 🟠 That perfection was the price of entry. It's not. My best work came when I embraced scrappy. 🟠 That decisions needed validation.…