{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Making It with Jess Ekstrom","title":"Making it to a Linkedin Top Voice with Selena Rezvani","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1961,"description":"Have you ever held onto an idea so tightly — workshopping it, perfecting it, protecting it — that you never actually put it out into the world? Have you ever wondered if the path to finding your voice is less about getting it right and more about just getting it out?Selena Rezvani didn't get to where she is by waiting for an invitation. She got there by writing a typewriter-typed appeal letter to save her college education. By cold-emailing CEOs she had zero connections to. By showing up on TikTok in her forties and going viral in ways she never saw coming. A Wall Street Journal bestselling author, LinkedIn Top Voice, and one of the most sought-after voices on quick confidence and modern leadership, Selena has built her entire career on one foundational belief: you have to be your own vocal champion, because nobody else is going to ask on your behalf.But this episode goes deeper than the highlight reel. Selena gets raw about her recent journey with PMDD — a diagnosis that rattled her foundations and forced the woman who teaches confidence to find her own footing again. She talks about what it's like to be the student of what you teach, why she believes passing the ball is always a longer game than dunking it, and why keeping the promises you make to yourself might be the most underrated confidence-builder there is.Tune In For:The \"seed a forest\" strategy — why going viral has nothing to do with the perfect post and everything to do with volume, iteration, and surpriseDon't tell yourself no before they do — Selena's take on stop overestimating everyone else and underestimating yourselfThe typewriter appeal letter that changed the course of Selena's life — and the lesson about self-advocacy she's been teaching ever since\"Go after the whales\" — the business school professor who told Selena to pitch the CEOs she was sure would say no, and why so many of them said yesWhat PMDD is and what it felt like to navigate a destabilizing health diagnosis while being the person...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UeJn2_qX0SbHd9je8M1i3xYiHk_fwyHMoyDCBRs8oF8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mNTBk/MGE4MGJlZWNlNDM5/ZjAxOTM5MzA2ODI3/MzUwMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}