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Empower by Example Episode 1 - Jordon Rooney, NFBD www.nfbd.org Jordon Rooney is the CEO of Never Fear Being Different, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA. He specializes in creating personal brands for leaders in non-profit and for profit corporations. He and his team encourage people to live authentically while promoting positive messages through social media. They are turning the traditional marketing industry on its head and using the power of young people’s natural inclination to communicate in order to drive their messages to the masses. NFBD is the home of VlogU, a program that facilitates massive action and learning experiences for high school graduates. This program teaches students how to be financially free, combining impact with influence. At the Rock Family Foundation we are finding real value in contracting with VlogU graduates to run our social media campaigns! If you want to learn more about how these graduates can help YOUR social media and marketing goals, you should reach out to Jordon here. You can also find him on Instagram Facebook Twitter In this episode we analyze how people learn to compartmentalize, and how we can break those patterns that keep us from living our lives as our true selves. We discuss challenging traditional career paths, traditional school models and why you shouldn’t care what other people think about what you are doing. We ask what if we become active participants in the movements we support from the sidelines, and muse over how when you challenge the status quo people will call you crazy until it becomes a trend to support you. We challenge you to note the difference between impact and sustained impact. Bringing yourself back to your personal “Why” and sitting still. How to get back to feeling and stop thinking. We discuss the value of being in your own body and removing the stigma of self help. Music by Buscrates: Instagram