o, we’re live at the MAVO 2018 Conference on Sunday, towards the end, and I’m joined by Celia Siegel. Tell me about your business, and what brings you to a conference like this.
You know, I came here to talk about my favorite thing, branding. So I did a talk on branding, and how to use that to catapult your business as sort of a superpower, an extra thing on top of all of your other talents, how much it can put you on the map, voice over-wise. And then I’m doing a breakout session today with a group of 12 people, and we’re really going to dig in and try to really nail down each individual’s brand through some exercises that I do, and listening to people’s demos, and we’re going to workshop it as a group.
And people will walk away with a really good sense of how to platform themselves and talk about themselves.
Great. Now, what sessions have you attended other than your own? Have you gone into any rooms and poked your head in?
What’s impressed you so far?
Oh my gosh, everybody’s been so great. So I’ve never been to MAVO. It’s my first MAVO, so I was so excited Val asked me to come, and I didn’t know much about it.
Everything I’ve been to has been amazing. It’s very, a lot of great animation stuff here. So, Kari Wahlgren, it’s been so fun to meet her.
She’s actually at the agency that I worked at when I was in Los Angeles. So we just missed each other. So we have a lot of people in common, and she’s just fabulous and so giving.
All of the talent here are raving about how much she’s connecting with everybody and really sharing and giving. Sarah Sherman’s been a wealth of information from the casting director perspective. And they did something together from the talent perspective, casting director perspective.
I just came out of Rachel Naylor’s session on networking, and I feel personally jazzed. I love coming to these things as an entrepreneur just to learn for myself and get filled up for myself in my business. So hers was amazing.
I showed my schedule in front of me. I’ve been doing tons of great stuff and great talent here. People are sponging it up.
So what would you say is your biggest takeaway now that we’re two-thirds of the way through the conference? Well, I’ll give you an example. I just had JJ Surma here talking about it, and we talked about how the down-to-earthness of the presenters is so evident that people are really willing to share what they’ve learned and not in an aggressive way.
They’re really willing to have that communal aspect. That’s what I’ve been impressed with, and JJ thought that as well.
Yeah, no, I would agree. It’s a small conference, which I’ve been so excited. And I love the big, busy conferences are so exciting and stimulating, and you’re bouncing.
And I was like, oh, 104 people. I’m gonna get to meet everybody, talk to everybody. And it does, it feels like a really casual sort of cocktail party, office party, where everybody is connecting.
So there is a really nice, even plane. And the sessions are small. So yeah, it seems like everybody is talking to the presenters, and everybody’s being really sharing.
Johnny Heller last night was just saying, you know, I’m here to work. I want to connect with people, and give people what they came for. So yes, I would agree with that.
Yeah, I like that feeling as well. We both been to Rio Atlanta, and sometimes you get to the bed at night, or sometimes the next morning, and you think, it’s like Vegas. Your head is spinning, or WobbleCon right now is going on.
But here, I actually went home last night because I live nearby Baltimore, as we talked about, and brought my kids back for the program with Sarah.
Oh, fun!
Yeah, they’re having a great time. But I got home and fell right to sleep, and it was like a normal night, which sometimes is just nice.
Yeah, no, it’s got space between things, but you’re not bored. So there’s like a just enough, it’s a just about right. Now I feel the same way.
It’s fun to be overstimulated after talking to 700 people in a day, but it feels like your own wedding. I got like 45 seconds with everybody. So yeah, this has been great.
Tell our listeners where they can find you if they want to hire you for their branding.
Great. So I have a website, celiasiegel.com, and I have examples of a lot of the branding work that I’ve done, testimonials from people who’ve worked with me. And yeah, my email’s there.
You can connect. I do a free 15-minute consultation. I can help just kind of comb over your current branding, or if you’ve got questions about the business or branding or what that might mean to you, totally look me up and we can pop you in my calendar.
All right. Well, thanks so much for joining us and enjoy the rest of the show. Thank you.