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We've all been on that Zoom call when that one guy unmutes himself and suddenly you hear a litany of heavy breathing, explosively loud typing, background noise, popping and clicking. Maybe we don't want to admit it to ourselves, but we definitely get a certain idea in our heads about somebody who has bad audio on a Zoom call, right?

I think the opposite is true, too. When somebody has really good audio quality and/or video quality, we start to subtly think of that person as being a little bit more professional, a little bit more reasonable...and maybe even having a little bit of star quality to them. It's possible to incept people into getting a more sparkly impression of you - just by paying attention to nonverbal cues like audio quality.

I'm all about doing whatever I can to help you in your careers. So today, what I want to give you is four different recommendations for upleveling your sound quality.

Listen on to find out more!


Links to products I've mentioned in this podcast:
Wired Ear Buds
Wireless Lavalier Microphone
Inexpensive Cardioid Microphone
Higher-End Cardioid Microphone

These are just guides - I encourage you to buy a variety of options from a place with easy returns so you can choose what's truly right for you.

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I’m Cathy Davenport Lee, and I hope today’s episode leaves you feeling inspired and ready to push the boundaries of your creative career.

Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and sign up for Lunchbox Notes—my free encouragement and advice letter for creatives. Stay connected for more insights, tools, and resources to help you thrive. Until next time, keep creating, keep pushing, and let’s move this industry forward together.

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Okay, tell me if this sounds like you. You've recently started a new business and you're trying to get yourself established...and you feel like you're drowning in all the things you need to do to brand yourself.

Setting up a website, getting a logo in place, starting social media accounts...it's completely overwhelming. You spend two hours adjusting a button style on your website, or you generate a hundred different AI logos and hate them all. You can't think of any ideas, and it just feels like you're spending an insane amount of time on these tiny things that don't add up to a complete picture.

If that's you, don't worry! There's nothing wrong with you. Branding for yourself is always the absolute hardest thing to “get right.”

I wanted to share 3 simple tools that I use to help get unstuck when I'm dealing with personal branding.

Listen on to find out more.

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I’m Cathy Davenport Lee, and I hope today’s episode leaves you feeling inspired and ready to push the boundaries of your creative career.

Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and sign up for Lunchbox Notes—my free encouragement and advice letter for creatives. Stay connected for more insights, tools, and resources to help you thrive. Until next time, keep creating, keep pushing, and let’s move this industry forward together.

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When you’re a manager of a team, you’re going to have to figure out how to make sure that the work that needs to get done, gets done. And you’re going to need to figure out how to do that in a way that makes sense - from a budget and a project perspective.

But you also want to make sure it makes sense from a HUMAN BEING perspective.

One of the biggest mistakes creative managers make (imo) is that the second they run into an extensive coverage need, first thing they do is throw their employee’s well-being out the window (usually along with their own). It’s “emergency mode”, all hands on deck 24/7, except that "emergency mode" doesn’t ever end because the requests and projects keep coming and coming.

Curious about how to plan coverage in a financially savvy, effective, and humanely balanced way — even in high-pressure situations? Listen on to find out more.

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I’m Cathy Davenport Lee, and I hope today’s episode leaves you feeling inspired and ready to push the boundaries of your creative career.

Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and sign up for Lunchbox Notes—my free encouragement and advice letter for creatives. Stay connected for more insights, tools, and resources to help you thrive. Until next time, keep creating, keep pushing, and let’s move this industry forward together.

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