It’s one thing to talk about becoming a celebrity in your field. It’s quite another to actually begin the process. But to make this valuable to you – and to make becoming a celebrity an authentic goal- we must first desensitize ourselves to the very word “celebrity.”  The best place to start is to re-focus away from Hollywood or the Big Apple and turn it inward, toward yourself, your product, service, or expertise, and your industry.

Celebritizing yourself from the ground up brings to mind two of my favorite domestic goddesses turned celebrities: Julia Child and Erma Bombeck. I point to these two iconoclastic women because we’re talking about specific industries, and these two virtually created their own. I suspect that you and I have a starting line much farther ahead than theirs was at the time of their burgeoning success. Read more on Are You Ready to Celebritize Yourself? →