In this episode of the Unmistakable Podcast, Nile Livingston and Kristina Hernandez sit down with Dr. Kimberly McGlonn, author, educator, entrepreneur, and founder of Build It Boldly, for a thoughtful conversation about leadership, community, entrepreneurship, and living with purpose during uncertain times.

Drawing from her experience building the award winning social enterprise Grant Blvd and writing Build It Boldly and The Leader's Work, Dr. Kimberly shares lessons on ethical storytelling, sustainable business, raising capital, marketing with integrity, protecting optimism, and leading with moral courage. Together, they explore why community is something we create through action, how to discover your own front line, and why making space for reflection is essential to meaningful leadership.

The conversation also highlights Dr. Kimberly's upcoming Leader's Table Workshop and the creative collaboration behind The Leader's Work, a leadership workbook designed by Creative Repute.

Whether you're building a business, leading an organization, or looking for hope in challenging times, this conversation offers practical wisdom and encouragement to keep moving forward with intention.

Learn more about Dr. Kimberly McGlonn:
https://builditboldly.com

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Topics Covered

• Leadership and moral courage
• Building community through action
• Entrepreneurship and social impact
• Ethical marketing and storytelling
• Protecting optimism in difficult times
• Sustainable business practices
• Finding purpose through service
• Creativity and intentional leadership

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Ashley Gripper of Land Based Jawns joins Kristina Hernandez Eddy of Creative Repute to discuss what happens when a deeply rooted mission needs to be understood by people encountering it for the first time.

The conversation explores branding, visibility, audience understanding, and the challenge of translating meaningful work into something others can recognize, support, and engage with.

From early identity development to preparing for future growth, Ashley shares how Land Based Jawns has evolved while staying connected to its purpose.
This episode is part of What Long-Term Client Partnerships Reveal About Sustainable Growth, a three-part Creative Repute video series featuring Land Based Jawns, ICS West, and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Together, these conversations explore how trusted creative partnerships help organizations strengthen their message, expand visibility, adapt through growth, and build sustainable impact through branding, storytelling, strategy, design, and community-centered work.
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In this conversation, Dana Twyman of ICS West joins Kristina Hernandez of Creative Repute to discuss what happens when internal systems, external messaging, enrollment visibility, and communication all have to evolve at the same time.The conversation explores how website structure, audience clarity, and operational alignment impact the way schools are understood by people encountering them for the first time.Listen now on YouTube, Spotify, and major podcast platforms.

This episode is part of What Long-Term Client Partnerships Reveal About Sustainable Growth, a three-part Creative Repute video series featuring Land Based Jawns, ICS West, and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Together, these conversations explore how trusted creative partnerships help organizations strengthen their message, expand visibility, adapt through growth, and build sustainable impact through branding, storytelling, strategy, design, and community-centered work.

Some work is easy to explain. This isn’t. In episode two of Creative Repute: Unmistakable Podcast, Jane Golden of Mural Arts Philadelphia and Kristina Hernandez Eddy of Creative Repute discuss what it takes to describe and move forward projects that don’t immediately make sense to people, especially as they grow in scale and complexity. From FloatLab to long-term partnerships, this is about how work is shaped, communicated, and carried forward as more people and perspectives come into it.

This episode is part of What Long-Term Client Partnerships Reveal About Sustainable Growth, a three-part Creative Repute video series featuring Land Based Jawns, ICS West, and Mural Arts Philadelphia. Together, these conversations explore how trusted creative partnerships help organizations strengthen their message, expand visibility, adapt through growth, and build sustainable impact through branding, storytelling, strategy, design, and community-centered work.

In this first episode of Up: The Unmistakable Podcast, Nile Livingston, Founder of Creative Repute, Kristina Hernandez Eddy, Marketing Strategist, and Tina Armstead, Project Manager, explore the role storytelling plays in shaping visibility, building trust, and helping organizations move forward with clarity.

The conversation touches on how creative strategy supports clients in uncertain times, why community-centered messaging matters, and how Creative Repute is thinking about growth through stronger systems, service experiences, and client support.

From storytelling and process to innovation and what comes next, this episode introduces the heart behind the work and the direction ahead.

The Unmistakable Podcast is a conversation series featuring leaders across organizations who are reshaping what impact looks like in the modern world. While their public work is visible, the real story lives behind the decisions, processes, and infrastructure required to make that work possible.

On UP, we talk about the upward mobility in business where ideas become systems, systems become strategy, and strategy becomes public impact. It’s the space where clarity is built, tensions surface, decisions matter, and the unseen work determines whether the outcome truly serves the community.

This podcast explores those overlooked layers, the technology that supports accessible communication, the operations behind mission-driven growth, the design systems that maintain organizational consistency, and the strategic frameworks that help leaders make high-stakes decisions under pressure. UP centers development, digital transformation, accessibility, equity-driven technology, data-informed storytelling, and the tools organizations need to operate with clarity and purpose.

Each episode spotlights a leader navigating real constraints: limited budgets, evolving technology, community expectations, and the pressure of public trust. Through honest, grounded dialogue, guests reveal the choices that shaped their visibility, their system design, their community relationships, and their long-term impact.

UP positions Creative Repute as a strategic partner, fluent in design systems, technology workflows, accessibility standards, digital infrastructure, and mission-aligned development.

This is a show about leadership under pressure… and the unmistakable decisions that shape the future.