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- Who is Damon?
- Bite Sized Entrepreneurship
- Your 3 Steps to Your Full Potential
- Entrepreneurship, Consulting & Thought Leadership
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- About
- Watch His Latest TED Talk
- Learn Your Unique Strength in 3 Questions
- Who is Damon?
- Bite Sized Entrepreneurship
- Your 3 Steps to Your Full Potential
- Entrepreneurship, Consulting & Thought Leadership
- Book Damon to Speak
- Listen to Damon
- Join the Side-Hustle Boot Camp
- Get 1-on-1 Time with Damon
- Put Damon's Toolbox to Work
- Follow Damon Online
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Who is Damon?
Damon Brown helps side hustlers, solopreneurs, and other non-traditional creatives bloom.
He co-founded the popular platonic connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year, all while being the primary caretaker of his infant first son.
He now guides others through his consulting, his Inc.com column, and public speaking on platforms like TED.
Damon’s latest book is Build From Now: How to Know Your Power, See Your Abundance & Nourish the World, the follow-up to Bring Your Worth: Level Up Your Creative Power, Value & Service to the World and his best-seller The Ultimate Bite-Sized Entrepreneur: 76 Ways to Boost Time, Focus & Productivity on Your Big Idea.
Get Damon's free coaching as well as special access to the popular bite-sized entrepreneur boot camp!
"The belief that you have to sacrifice yourself to leave your entrepreneurial mark is a myth."
After co-founding and selling his popular startup, Cuddlr, within a year while taking care of his infant, Damon Brown discovered that you can pursue your passion within your current lifestyle.
He calls it Bite-Sized Entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship,Consulting & Thought Leadership
Startups, Journalism & Books
Cuddlr: Co-Founder
(Acquired July 2015)
So Quotable (SoQuo):
Founder, Developer
So Quotable: Capture quotes in real life
- Featured in TED Book "Our Virtual Shadow"
- Quotes shared by TED, Al Jazeera America & other media organizations
Inc. Magazine columnist
Developed the Sane Success column, exploring how ambitious entrepreneurs can thrive without destroying their personal relationships or sacrificing their health.
Also contribute to:
- Playboy Magazine
- New York Post
- AARP Magazine
- Family Circle
- CNN
- Four Seasons Magazine
Book Damon to Speak
The popular speaker is happy to hear about your organization or event.
Here are keynotes he has on deck as well as his upcoming events.
Contact him to share your audience and needs!
PROFIT: How to Create Your True Worth
Creatives often undervalue their services to the market, to their bank account, and to the world. In this inspirational and practical talk, Damon shares the best ways we can joyfully make a living off our craft, create business partnerships worthy of our skills, and truly be of service to others.
(Video courtesy of ASJA Austin: February 3, 2018)
PRODUCTIVITY: The Power of Good Enough
What is the number one killer of innovation? Perfection. With perfection, the key motivation often isn’t having high standards, but being afraid of making a mistake. In this talk, I share the three powerful strengths you get when you let perfection go.
(Photo courtesy of TEDxToledo: September 20, 2018)
ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Why Your Side Hustle Matters More Than Ever
Believe it or not, we already have most of the skills we need to create our passion-driven business. So why aren’t most people pursuing their potentially profitable ideas? They are intimidated by the small gap in their skill set. In this immediately actionable talk, Damon shares how to easily traverse that gap and explains the three crucial strengths every successful entrepreneur possesses. It is an inspiring talk for both potential entrepreneurs and ambitious upstarts.
(Video from Bedroom Kandi V-Conference, August 2020)
PREVIOUS & UPCOMING EVENTS
Current Engagements
- Fireside Chat at McGill University's Speak to Lead: October 15th, Montreal, QC, Canada (Off-Site)
- Speaker at American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA) Conference: September 29th, New York, NY (Off-Site)
- Speaker at TEDxToledo: September 17th, Toledo, OH (Off-Site)
- Speaker at Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Conference: September 12th - 13th, Washington, DC (Off-Site)
- Keynote at Bedroom Kandi V-Conference: August 15th, Atlanta, GA (Off-Site)
- Moderator at Inc./Salesforce's The Big Shift: July 16th, New York, NY (Off-Site)
Previous Events- Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Toledo Main Library: October 9th, 16th, 23rd & 29th, Toledo, OH
- Morning Keynote at Maumee High School (Maumee, OH)
- TED Active (TED Conference, Second Stage, Whistler, BC)
- TEDxToledo keynote (Toledo, OH)
- Colombia 4.0 (Bogota, Colombia)
- Authors! Keynote at Sylvania Library (Sylvania, OH)
- American Society of Journalists and Authors keynote (Austin, Texas)
- American University keynote (Washington, DC)
- Adult Entertainment Expo keynote (Las Vegas, NV)
- Crowdsourcing Week (Washington, D.C.)
- American Underground (Durham, NC)
- Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
- TEDxJackson keynote (Jackson, MS)
- University of California Santa Cruz keynote (Santa Cruz, CA)
- American Society of Journalists & Authors keynote (Austin, TX)
One-on-one Coaching
BENEFITS
Maximizing your productivity, focus & creativity
Built around your schedule
Connect quarterly, monthly, bi-weekly or weekly
Available via email between meetings
RESULTS
Damon delivers for solopreneurs, creatives and side hustlers worldwide and consults for TED, Activision Blizzard & other organizations
CONNECT to have a free session to see if us working together is right for you
LET'S TALK!
Contact Damon for a free 15-minute chat
Schedule online at calendly.com/browndamon or email damon@damonbrown.net
Focused Coaching
$1,111
3 sessions
Focus on one particular issue or challenge
Recommended
Deep Dive Coaching
$1976
6 sessions (11% discount!)
Deeper, long-lasting development
Put Damon's Toolbox to Work
Create your own true path to success as an independent creative, new side hustler, or even as an innovator within an organization. Here are your tools.
The Passive Writer: 5 Steps to Earning Money in Your Sleep9.00 - 14.00Most freelance writers and authors want to add to their bottom line. The problem? There’s only one of you: What you do isn't scalable and susceptible to burnout. Veteran writers Damon Brown and Jeanette Hurt bring their collective lessons from decades of profitable freelancing into this concise volume. Their five-step process will multiply your money from a single story, article, or book into a more steady stream of income. Brown and Hurt's method will show you how to make a better living off of work you’ve already completed and turn your ideas into steady checks even when off the clock.SelectQuantityBring Your Worth: Level Up Your Creative Power, Value & Service to the World9.00 - 40.00How do you create work that brings the respect of the market, the value in your bank account, and the positive influence in the world? Inc. columnist and successful entrepreneur Damon Brown breaks it down in the thoughtful Bring Your Worth: Level Up Your Creative Power, Value & Service in the World. The follow-up to the best-selling series The Bite-Sized Entrepreneur, Bring Your Worth takes the proven methods from Damon’s keynotes and coaching practice and puts them into a strong, focused package perfect for both independents and traditional businesspeople making their best impact.SelectQuantityThe Ultimate Bite-Sized Entrepreneur: 76 Ways to Boost Time, Productivity & Focus on Your Big Idea9.00 - 30.00In this best-selling series, Inc. columnist and success entrepreneur Damon Brown shows the bite-sized steps to start your big idea, side hustle or dream. The Ultimate Bite-Sized Entrepreneur takes the very best of the trilogy and adds exclusive insights and priceless strategies new to the series. It is a tour-de-force of wisdom, from Buddhist monk Pema Chodron to literary hero Steven Pressfield to emotional intelligence pioneer Brene Brown. It all weaves beautifully into Damon's own experience leading the popular startup, Cuddlr, to acquisition while taking care of his first baby full-time.SelectQuantityBuild From Now: How to Know Your Power, See Your Abundance & Nourish the World (Preorder)9.00 - 45.00Available January 28th, 2021
The highly-anticipated next title in the Bring Your Worth series!
Our biggest hurdle today isn’t creating more output, but realizing that accepting our limitations actually improves our results.
Build From Now shows how each and every person has four different resources: Focus, agility, time, and energy.
We have more or less of each, depending on where we are in our lives.
Know your strengths and you’ll be able to be productive, creative & inspired. Forever.
Preorder now in signed paperback and digital.Ships 2021-01.SelectQuantityThe SideHustle Bundle: Ultimate Bite-Sized Entrepreneur, Bring Your Worth & Build From Now(Preorder)25.00 - 99.00Get 3 landmark books for one great price!
Includes:
*The Ultimate Bite-Sized Entrepreneur: 76 Ways to Boost Time, Productivity & Focus on Your Big Idea
*Bring Your Worth: Level Up Your Creative Power, Value & Service to the World
*Build From Now: How to Know Your Power, See Your Abundance & Nourish the World (Available January 28th, 2021)
The two first books are available immediately to ship (paperback) or download (digital).Ships 2021-01.SelectQuantity
