We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Brooke Young a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Brooke, before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
To be honest, I genuinely fell into what I do! My work is under this umbrella: I am genuinely passionate about helping people create, develop, tell and share their powerful, meaningful stories with the world.
Because I’m multi-passionate, I’ve added services over time as I realized where people needed support in their journey. Flipping between services (and even businesses, as I own two!) is magical because I’m able to exercise different areas of my brain,
Brooke Young: Communication Consulting offers everything from Public Speaking Coaching to PR to Branding Consulting and Strategy. I love what I do. Every day is an adventure in helping people articulate their mission and message, sometimes, for the first time. To be trusted with such important work is an honor.
Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?
When I founded this Business, I had to unlearn doing everything myself.
In addition to my Communication Consultancy, I own a Midwest-Based Character Company (Yes! This is what you think it is! I’m so fortunate to create magic). Drowning in client emails and phone calls, it was necessary to be honest with myself about where other people could help support me.
In my case, that looked like establishing tech-free time blocks, and even days, to help me disconnect from constant correspondence and building a deep level of trust with people around me, including my clients.
We’d love to hear about how you keep in touch with clients.
Whether they are former or current clients, I love to keep in touch. Because of the work I do, I build strong relationships with my clients. I get to know them. Their stories. Their beliefs. The emotions underneath why they do what they do.
When you have those deep conversations, and adore them as much as I adore my clients, I find that it happens naturally. However, I do have a Facebook Group where former, current, and prospective clients spend time networking… and so many wonderful connections have happened in that place!
It’s also great to write a post, and be reminded of so many great people.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brookeeliseyoung/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/468279070891549
- Other: Clients are welcome to reach out to me at brookeeliseyoung@yahoo.com or connect with me via Facebook and Instagram, where I usually check my message requests often.