2025 Fox Talks: Ignite Your Brand: From Social Media to the Winner’s Circle

Description

Growing with confidence takes grit, resilience, and the ability to adapt — online, at work, or in life. In this engaging joint session, Emily and Amanda bring together two unique perspectives to help you shine.

Emily will share how to turn social media from an overwhelming task into a simple, effective tool for connection and visibility. Amanda will draw lessons from the racetrack to show how resilience, alignment, and personal branding fuel long-term success. Together, they’ll offer practical strategies and relatable stories that inspire you to strengthen your presence, build authentic relationships, and embrace challenges as opportunities.

Key Takeaways:

• Quick, simple actions to confidently grow your social media presence.
• Practical ways to build a personal and professional brand that aligns with your values.
• Strategies for finding the right audiences, clients, or advocates who support your goals.
• Tools to reframe setbacks and failures into opportunities for growth.
• Access to resources and communities to keep learning beyond the session.

Presenters:

Emily Schwartz - Owner/Founder, Wholehearted Health with Emily

Emily Schwartz, is owner and founder of Wholehearted Health with Emily. Through personalized DNA-based nutrition and business coaching, she guides women in creating energy, confidence, and income without burnout. She does this because she’s lived the burnout cycle—working hard, doing all the right things, but feeling exhausted and misaligned. She realized she couldn’t keep sacrificing her health, time, or calling. Her faith led her to a better way. Now, as she grew her family through adoption, she’s more passionate than ever about helping other women and families rise—body, mind, and spirit. She believes we are all given unique gifts, and with the right tools—like DNA-based nutrition and aligned mentorship—we can steward those gifts and create a life we don’t need to escape from.

Amanda Van Den Elzen - Founder, BetterWork

Amanda Van Den Elzen is a tech-savvy learning consultant and the founder of BetterWork, a professional development consultancy focused on helping people and teams thrive in the age of AI. She’s known for translating complex technology into simple, usable tools for everyday work, and for designing learning experiences that actually stick.

Amanda has trained hundreds of professionals on emerging platforms like ChatGPT and Microsoft Power Platform, always with a focus on practical, tech-forward learning that empowers people to grow. Her passion lies in helping others build the skills they need to succeed, one team and one breakthrough at a time.

Outside of her consulting work, Amanda supports her family’s professional motorsports team with marketing strategy and sponsor management. The lessons she has learned in the fast-paced world of racing, from branding and partnerships to bouncing back after setbacks, now fuel her unique perspective on personal and professional development, which she shares in The Racer’s Guide to Personal & Professional Development.

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