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The creator economy is shifting from brand deals to ownership. In this conversation, Jodie Taylor sits down with Jenee Naylor, founder of 12PM Studios sunglasses, to unpack how she turned influence into equity. They'll break down the shift from monetizing attention to building owned businesses covering capital, partnerships, and scalable brand strategy. Attendees will leave with real frameworks for turning cultural influence into tangible enterprise value.

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Layoffs in tech hit Black workers first and hardest. AI is accelerating that curve. Meanwhile, the professionals landing board seats, advisor roles, and next jobs before the old one ends all share one thing — a public personal brand they built while still employed. But Black corporate professionals are navigating landmines their peers aren't. Compliance reviews that hit harder. HR policies enforced selectively. The respectability tax. The real, rational fear of retaliation for speaking publicly about work. Roxy built Sloefy — a personal branding platform for corporate professionals — because she lived this. In this session she will walk through the Personal Brand Map framework she uses with clients, show attendees how to extract workplace expertise without crossing compliance lines, and leave them with a 30-day plan they can start Monday morning. This is not a "build your personal brand" talk. It's a leverage strategy for a workforce that needs one before the layoff email arrives.

Every team is being asked for more video: marketing, training, internal comms, exec thought leadership, and beyond. The requests keep growing, but the production team doesn't, and most of the work sits in a backlog.

In this hands-on session we’ll take a rough recording to a finished video in real time. Attendees will learn the AI tools in Descript that handle the polish that used to require a professional editor, then use Underlord, Descript's AI co-editor, to apply that same work across a whole project from written prompts. You give the creative direction. The AI does the edits.

Attendees will leave with a repeatable process they can run themselves or hand to their team.