Quit Your Day Job With Dan Brophy

Today I’m chatting with Jan Fran: journalist, commentator, writer and host of the SBS nightly news show, The Feed.    We have a practical chat about how to define and grow a personal brand. For many, this concept is still a bit on the nose, but it interested me to talk to Jan about it because she’s not an ‘influencer' - she’s a current affairs journalist - and yet she still needs to think about how to represent her work and elements of her personal life and process via social media in order to define her personal brand so as to best reach her audience.   We talk about how she got her start and the importance of not just waiting for someone to give you an opportunity to do the thing you love - which for Jan meant moving to Uganda and shooting and producing her own documentary series.    This conversation offers great insight for anyone looking to get into journalism - or any sort of self-authored media gig.  It highlights the importance of creating opportun