Inside this issue:

The realization that changed how I understand my gift, my work, and what it actually means to help someone find the words.

I thought my gift was giving people the words.

When I started Brandywine Communications in 2020, I wrote for people.

I would sit down with someone, listen to what they were trying to communicate, ask questions, do the research, and then go away and write the words for them.

One of the most consistent things people have told me throughout my life—not just in business—is:

“You gave me the words for something I didn't know how to say.”

For a long time, I understood that pretty literally.

I'm a writer; words are my thing. You know what you mean, but you can't quite figure out how to say it. I can.

So, I give you the words.

Except the longer I did this work, the more I realized that wasn't quite what was happening.

I wasn't giving people their ideas, experiences, realizations, expertise, or the consciousness that informed how they saw the world.

They already had that.

Maybe I'd structure their language. Sometimes I made something convoluted clear. Sometimes, I could hear somebody reaching toward something they hadn't fully articulated yet and help them follow the thought until we found it.

But I wasn't creating the meaning.

I was putting language to something that was already there.

After I paused Brandywine, had my baby, and eventually found my way back to the business, I knew I wanted my work to become more than writing for people.

I became less interested in being the person who could write something better than you could and much more interested in that moment when someone hears language that accurately reflects something they've known all along and goes:

There's something sacred about that moment to me.

I feel literal chills when someone shares that the thing that existed internally finally has language to be expressed externally.

That matters in business, too.

I've met business owners who are superb at what they do and still struggle to communicate exactly what they're doing.

Their clients know they're valuable. They get results. But ask the business owner:

What transformation are you creating? Why does it matter? How do you help the next person understand what your existing clients have already experienced?

And suddenly, the language gets harder to find.

It's not because they don't understand their own work.

Sometimes you're so close to what you do—and carrying so much intuitive knowledge about how you do it—that you've never had to interpret it.

That's where my work changed.

I don't only want to interpret your work for you and hand you the words anymore.

I want to help you interpret your own work.

To recognize the transformation, notice the story, find the through-line between what you know, what you've experienced, and what you've created.

Then we articulate it.

That's how I eventually found language for what I have become: Brand Messaging Strategist.

This is how I understand it:

• Brand is the identity.
• Messaging is the language we use to communicate that identity.
• Strategy is how we put that message into action—where it needs to go, how it needs to be delivered, and what we need it to do.

I used to give people the words. Now, I help people understand what they're trying to say.

That is how this work evolved. This is now how I assist your work evolving.

Did you read yourself in this?

If you know there’s something in your work that you haven’t quite found the language for yet, let’s talk.

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Peace and love,

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Brandywine
Founder, Brandywine Communications
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