Build a personal brand that actually sticks
The Personal Branding Academy is the month-by-month membership that opens a new module every two weeks, covering your point of view, your publishing rhythm, the email list you own and the offer you sell from it. The pace is the point, because it's slow enough to actually publish what you learned before the next thing lands.

We don't teach you to post more. We teach you to build something that keeps working after you step away from the screen.
— Coach Shayla and Coach Carlton, Powerful Messages
Founding member pricing
There are 25 founding spots in the Personal Branding Academy. Use the code FOUNDING15 at checkout and you'll get 15% off your first month. When the 25 are taken the code stops working. There's no countdown timer and no deadline we'll quietly extend.

What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Define the one thing you're known for, your ideal audience, and the point of view that makes your content unmistakably yours
- Build three to five content pillars so you always know what to say and never start from a blank page again
- Develop a repeatable weekly publishing rhythm you can sustain on just a few hours with no team
- Grow an email list you own by moving the right followers off the platform and onto your list consistently
- Repurpose a single idea into five platform-ready assets without it reading like a copy-and-paste job
- Launch and sell at least one offer directly from your content without turning your feed into a commercial
How it works
How the membership runs
Nothing in The Personal Branding Academy is a pre-recorded video you watch and forget. Every lesson is written live around your subject, your schedule and what you published last.
Your one thing and your pillars
You name the one thing you want to be known for, then build the three to five pillars you'll publish from.
A new module every two weeks
Every two weeks a new module opens, which is enough room to put last week's lesson into the feed before the next one arrives.
Your list and your offer
Your list grows off the platform where you own it, and one offer gets sold straight from your content.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
12 modules · 51 lessons

Decide What You're Known For
Defines your one thing, your ideal audience, and the point of view that makes your content unmistakably yours.
- 1.1What You're Actually Known For (Free Preview)Included
- 1.2Your Ideal Reader, Viewer, or ClientIncluded
- 1.3Your Point of ViewIncluded
- 1.4Your Brand StatementIncluded
- 1.5Your First Published PieceIncluded
Your Content Pillars
Builds three to five repeating themes so you always know what to say and never face a blank page.
- 2.1What Pillars Actually DoIncluded
- 2.2Choosing Your Three to Five PillarsIncluded
- 2.3Mapping Pillars to Your Point of ViewIncluded
- 2.4Building Your Idea BankIncluded
- 2.5Publishing Within Your PillarsIncluded
Fix the Front Door
Optimizes your profile, bio, banner, and pinned content so a new visitor knows exactly what you're about in four seconds.
- 3.1The Four-Second TestIncluded
- 3.2Writing a Bio That Does the WorkIncluded
- 3.3Banner, Photo, and First ImpressionsIncluded
- 3.4Pinned Content That ConvertsIncluded
Hooks
Builds a personal bank of proven opening lines so your first sentence earns the rest of the read every time.
- 4.1Why the First Line Decides EverythingIncluded
- 4.2The Hook Formulas Worth KeepingIncluded
- 4.3Writing Hooks in Your Own VoiceIncluded
- 4.4Building Your Hook BankIncluded
Formats That Fit You
Helps you choose the content format, writing, video, audio, or carousel, that you'll actually sustain long-term.
- 5.1Format Is a Sustainability DecisionIncluded
- 5.2What Each Format Asks of YouIncluded
- 5.3Choosing Your Primary FormatIncluded
- 5.4Publishing in Your Chosen FormatIncluded
Batching
Teaches you to produce a month of content in one focused session so you're never creating under deadline pressure.
- 6.1Why Daily Creation Burns You OutIncluded
- 6.2Planning a Month of Content in One SittingIncluded
- 6.3Running Your First Batch SessionIncluded
- 6.4Scheduling and Staying ConsistentIncluded
Repurposing
Turns a single strong idea into five platform-ready assets without any of them reading like a copy-and-paste job.
- 7.1One Idea, Five AssetsIncluded
- 7.2How to Adapt Without Just CopyingIncluded
- 7.3Building Your Repurposing SystemIncluded
- 7.4Repurpose Something You've Already PublishedIncluded
Growth
Separates what genuinely grows an audience from what only looks like it does, and adds collaboration as a real lever.
- 8.1What Actually Moves the NeedleIncluded
- 8.2Vanity Metrics vs. Signal MetricsIncluded
- 8.3Collaboration That Grows Both SidesIncluded
- 8.4Your 90-Day Growth PlanIncluded
Engagement and Community
Turns passive followers into an active audience who replies, shares, and genuinely remembers you.
- 9.1The Difference Between Followers and an AudienceIncluded
- 9.2Writing for a ResponseIncluded
- 9.3How to Engage So People Remember YouIncluded
- 9.4Creating Content That Gets SharedIncluded
From Followers to Email
Moves the right people off the platform and onto an email list you own so your audience is never at risk.
- 10.1Why You Don't Own the PlatformIncluded
- 10.2Your Lead Magnet, Done SimplyIncluded
- 10.3Writing the Welcome SequenceIncluded
- 10.4Growing Your List From Your ContentIncluded
Making the Offer
Teaches you to introduce and sell one offer through your content in a way that feels natural, not commercial.
- 11.1What an Offer From Content Looks LikeIncluded
- 11.2Designing an Offer That Fits Your AudienceIncluded
- 11.3Seeding Before SellingIncluded
- 11.4Writing the Sales PostIncluded
- 11.5Publishing and Reviewing Your First OfferIncluded
Reading the Data
Teaches you to review your content numbers quarterly, cut what isn't working, and double down on what is.
- 12.1The Only Metrics That Matter for Your BrandIncluded
- 12.2Your Quarterly Content ReviewIncluded
- 12.3Adjusting Without Abandoning Your SystemIncluded
- 12.4Your Brand One Year From NowIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
The consultant who's invisible online
She does great work and her LinkedIn looks abandoned, so this membership gives her a brand as credible as her expertise.
The coach just starting out
He's clear on what he offers but not how to talk about it publicly, and this membership gets him positioned and publishing before bad habits set in.
The creator stuck in the posting treadmill
She's been posting inconsistently for years and needs a system of pillars, batching and repurposing, so content stops feeling like a constant emergency.
The professional building a side presence
He wants to grow a thought-leadership platform alongside his day job, and the membership's low-time-requirement system makes that actually possible.
The expert with an audience but no list
She has followers on the platform but no email list she owns, and the membership's lead-magnet and welcome-sequence modules close that gap.
The service provider ready to sell from content
She wants her content to bring in clients without her feed feeling like a commercial, and the offer module shows her exactly how to do that.
What you get inside The Personal Branding Academy
One subscription, $49 a month, covers all of it for as long as you're a member. That works out to about $1.63 a day.
- 12 modules and 51 lessons, with a new module opening every two weeks, which is enough room to publish what you learned before the next one lands
- An AI coach inside every lesson that knows the material and knows where you are in it, so you get an answer in the middle of the work
- The community, where you post what you're stuck on and hear back from us and from other people publishing on the same schedule
- Both of us. Coach Shayla and Coach Carlton are in there reading and answering
- New lessons added as the platforms change, at no extra cost
- No contract and no minimum. You can cancel from your account any month
Seven days to decide
You can read a whole lesson before you pay us anything, so you already know how we teach before you join. Then take your first week inside The Personal Branding Academy. Watch the lessons, work with your coach, post in the community, do the work. If it isn't right for you, email us within 7 days of joining and we'll refund your first month. You don't have to explain why and there's no form to fill in. There's no contract either, so you can cancel from your account any month after that.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher

Coach Shayla and Coach Carlton
If you've been meaning to get serious about your brand for longer than you'd like to admit, we're not going to make you feel bad about that. Building a personal brand while running a business, serving clients, or holding down a career is genuinely hard. It isn't hard because you're lazy or unfocused. It's hard because nobody handed you a real system, just a lot of advice about posting more and being authentic, which doesn't tell you what to do on a Tuesday morning when you're staring at a blank draft.
That's the gap we built this membership to close. Not another course about mindset or algorithms. A structured, practical path through every piece of a working personal brand, starting with the foundational question of what you're actually known for, and ending with a brand that has a clear point of view, a publishing rhythm you can hold, an email list you own, and at least one offer that converts from your content. Every module builds on the one before it, and nothing in here is theoretical busywork.
Here's what we want you to understand about how this works. The curriculum doesn't ask you to post every day, chase a viral moment, or perform a version of yourself that's exhausting to maintain. It asks you to get clear, then get consistent, then get strategic, in that order. You'll build your content pillars so you always know what to say. You'll learn to write a hook that earns the read. You'll run a batch session and schedule weeks of content in one sitting. You'll set up a lead magnet and a welcome sequence and actually start growing a list. And when you're ready, you'll launch something without turning your whole feed into a sales pitch to do it.
We know the objection sitting in the back of your mind: I've tried to be consistent before and it didn't stick. That's a fair thing to bring with you. Here's the thing, though. People don't fail at consistency because they lack discipline. They fail because they're trying to be consistent about something they haven't fully defined yet. When you don't know exactly what you stand for, who you're talking to, or what a good week of content even looks like for you, showing up feels like guessing. The work in the first few modules takes the guessing away, and after that consistency gets a lot more natural, because you're not reinventing yourself every time you sit down to write.
If you're a creator, coach, consultant or professional who knows visibility matters for your business but keeps stopping and starting with nothing to show for it, this membership was built for you. Come build the real thing, one piece at a time. We'll be here every step of the way.
— Coach Shayla and Coach Carlton
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