How To Craft A Killer Personal Brand Story (And Make Amazing Clients Flock To You)

Lena Sesardic
7 min readAug 25, 2021

There’s a lot of fluffy content out there about how to craft a personal brand story. And I haven’t seen enough people use principles and frameworks from building startups to build personal brands.

So here’s a comprehensive post on how to think about and craft the best personal brand story that’ll make you forget how to send a cold email.

Alright, let’s get into it!

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What’s a personal brand story?

It’s a way for you to describe why you do what you do to your target clients. But not in the context of you and your Instagram picture — perfect like. Rather, in the context of your target clients’ problems and challenges.

And what drives you to keep going despite feeling, at times, feeling like ripping your hair out.

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Your personal brand story is a tool that helps you:

  1. Differentiate yourself — your personal story and the way you tell it are unique.
  2. Make yourself more relatable — your personal story makes you real.

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Lena Sesardic

Product manager turned content marketer writing about product management, entrepreneurship & marketing.