Open Chest Newsletter: Why do people resonate towards me when they don’t know me?
“Selling isn’t about how good you are at your skill. It’s about how great you are at communicating the outcome your skill provides.” ~ Raj Girn, Confidence Coach, Consultant & Mentor | Founder, The Open Chest® Confidence Academy Hi Friend, There is this notion in the professional arena that people (clients/potential clients) will pay more to hire […]
Open Chest Newsletter: I don’t want you to miss this . . .
“Let me tell you how my confidence today is born from yesterday’s insecurities . . .” ~ Raj Girn, Confidence Coach & Founder, The Open Chest® Confidence Academy Hi Friend, People (esp. women of diversity) often ask me where I got my confidence from. My answer? I built my confidence from breaking down a long list of […]
The Power of Branding to Market a Niche Business: A Real Life Success Story, With Avani Modi Sarkar
Raj Girn: My guest today is the co-founder of Modi Toys, Avani Modi Sarkar, who has an interesting story about how she and her partner took an idea to meet a personal need and built a successful business around it. Modi Toys, founded in 2018, is a family owned South Asian cultural toy and book […]
Open Chest Newsletter: How holistic leadership can bring in more dollars to your bottom line . . .
“Knowledge = Power. Action = Empowerment. Knowledge + Power = Holistic Leadership.” ~ Raj Girn, Founder, The Open Chest® Confidence Academy Hi Friend, There’s something so palpable about “holistic leadership” that I want to talk about today, because gone are the days when leadership was a top-down reality. Today, the bottom dictates what happens at the top. […]
Branding & Marketing: Why doing this one thing can change how people see your worth . . .
“Seek validation from your consumer and you’ll automatically build brand authority.” ~Raj Girn, Founder, The Open Chest® Confidence Academy Hi Friend, I want to share something this week that I feel we need to be more honest about when it comes to our personal relationship with it, and that is this whole idea around “validation.” Social media is […]
How to Use Virtual Events to Market Your Business, With Naomi Parness
Raj Girn: This week, our focus is branding and marketing, where I’ll be chatting with the multi-award winning journalist and storyteller and co-founder of KPW Communications, Naomi Parness, in an episode entitled How to Use Virtual Events to Market Your Business. Naomi’s extensive 20-year career in media has seen her tenure on CTV in Canada, […]
Media & Communications: There’s a story in you that’s greater than you think!
“The greatest stories are those written in experience.” ~ Raj Girn, Founder, The Open Chest® Confidence Academy Hi Friend, Have you ever been told that your lived experience isn’t big enough to impact anyone, or you yourself don’t feel that anyone would benefit from the journey that you have been on? Then this missive is for you! […]
How to Create Your Most Powerful Story for the Win, With Darryll Stinson
Raj Girn: This week’s focus is Media and Communications and I’m pleased to welcome to the show my friend Darryll Stinson, a TEDx speaker, the founder of Second Chance Athletes and a self-professed suicide survivor and mental health advocate. Darryll will be chatting with us today about creating your most powerful story for the win. […]
Mindset & Clarity: The most important message I’ll share this year . . .
“My 2021 Takeaway: I learned that what’s scarier than trusting the disruptive thinkers that expand your limits, is not trusting your decision that you should.” ~Raj Girn, Founder, The Open Chest® Confidence Academy Hi Friend, Sit back . . . this is gonna be a loooong one . . . I’m back after a 2-month hiatus […]
Money Mindset for the Win in 2022, With Pam Malhotra
Raj Girn: Hey, everyone. Raj, again here. I’m back at it with Season Two of my podcast ‘The Transform Your Confidence Show.’ For those of you who are here for the first time, thank you for stopping in. This is a weekly professional development show where I bring industry experts to discuss important insights, strategies […]
