Today we’d like to introduce you to Brandy Miller

Hi Brandy, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?

My path to becoming the co-founder of Path To Connections, a division of Path To Publishing, meanders as much as you would expect from someone who travels a lot. I’m a creative person with a diverse set of interests, but one thing I can remember wanting to be from my teenage years was a bestselling author. It wasn’t until I was 29 that I wrote my first book, though, and I didn’t publish my first book until I was 34.

I published my first book in an effort to get clients for a business that my husband and I started. We were floundering and our only client was giving us less and less business. Neither of us knew anything about how to market ourselves, so I spent time learning and stumbled across a site that recommended writing ebooks.

Publishing that book changed everything for me. The book was titled How to Write an eBook in 40 Days (or Less!) and in that book, I recommended to my readers that they join a writers group. But I’d never been part of one! When I recognized the lack of integrity that demonstrated, I decided to change things. I lived in the small town of Elko, Nevada at the time and partnered with my best friend and the local book store to form one.

From there, I became more and more involved in helping people write and publish their stories. In 2014, I published The Poverty Diaries, which was compiled from my diaries of years living in poverty, as a fundraiser to try and earn my way to my son’s BootCamp graduation. I raised enough to make it there, but not enough to pay rent or enough to make it back home. But he needed me and there was no question I was going to get there.

That December, I came up with an idea for a reality tv show for writers, but I didn’t have the funding to make it work. My initial crowdfunding campaign raised just $5 of the $1.5 million I thought I needed. A year later, I came back to it, this time with a team and a concrete plan. I got on a podcast and met the And I Thought Ladies. They loved the idea and we started working together to make it happen.

A couple of years later, I helped them host an Experienced Writers Retreat in Las Vegas and they invited Path To Publishing’s founder and CEO, Joylynn M. Ross, to teach a session on the business of writing. I knew by the time her presentation ended we were going to be working together, even if I didn’t know how at the time.

Path To Connection came out of the work Joylynn and I have done together over the years. It’s our goal to help small business owners connect to the right people to help them fund their success and grow their business by learning how to leverage their stories to grab people’s attention and get themselves in the spotlight. That’s how I made it to where I am today…co-founder of Path To Connections and the founder of 40 Day Writer, LLC – the brand I started for my writing business.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?

Oh, heck no. There’s been nothing smooth about it. My story’s got more twists and turns than a roller coaster.

There’s been every financial struggle you can imagine, coupled with a lot of challenges to grow as a person and a leader. I tell people all the time that being an entrepreneur is, in large part, not a battle against other businesses or even to get ahead. It’s a battle with all your own insecurities, your biases, your limiting beliefs, and your fears.

Success in business isn’t about your money, it’s about your relationships.That was the hardest thing for me to understand at first. I thought the most successful people were the people who had the most in their bank account. But most truly successful people don’t leverage money to get what they need. They leverage their connections.

And making those connections is about whether you can see clearly what your value is and then present that value in a way that other people understand and recognize. Once you know how to do that, the money actually takes a back seat. It’s only one of many ways to get the things you need. Connections are the most powerful tool you can use to get the things you need in life.

That isn’t to say that money isn’t useful. It’s a tool like anything else. But you’ve got to learn when you need that tool as opposed to when another tool is more useful to you.

Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?

What I’m most known for is helping people get their stories told. Whether that’s a business story that needs to be told or a personal story. It’s what I absolutely love doing.

I bring a fiction writer’s perspective into my non-fiction writing because I know that stories stick with people and help them remember long after the story ends.

And that storytelling can be done in a variety of ways. It can be done with an image, or as a song, or a design, or a book. It can be a brand’s narrative or a personal narrative.

Regardless of how the story gets told, I love getting to the heart of the story and bringing the characters in it to life. I am also known for the insights I bring into the “why” behind “what” people do, and that really helps me write characters that are believable.

What matters most to you? Why?

What matters most to me is bringing people together and helping them bridge the relationship gaps – forming meaningful connections with each other – because that’s what we all crave. Love is something everyone needs, and I want everyone to experience that. Those connections allow society to become a place that’s more welcoming for everyone and make room for love to thrive and flourish.

Stories are a means of bridging those communication gaps. When you understand why someone does the things they do, even if you can’t support what they did, you can empathize with their reasons for it. You can see yourself in them, and that makes it harder to hate them even when you hate what they did. Everyone can make a difference, just by sharing their story.

Pricing:

• Writing Coaching $149 for an hour
• Writing Your Way to a Better Tomorrow $1499 for 7 weekly sessions

Contact Info:

• Website: https://pathtoconnections.com
• Twitter: https://x.com/writerbrandy
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu5XDiHAwCQfbtvHnz00c6w
• Other: https://40daywriter.com