The Existential Challenges of Self-Promotion

Virtual Business Chat: The Existential Challenges of Self-Promotion
Presented by the NASW Freelance Committee
Date: Thursday, Sept. 4
Start time: 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
Event access link: https://www.nasw.org/virtual-events-auditorium (NASW member login required)

This month’s NASW Freelance Committee virtual meetup will be a business chat on self-promotion. To speak on the topic, volunteer event hosts Jennifer Huber and Ellen Kuwana have invited Christie Aschwanden, an award-winning author, journalist, podcaster and public speaker.

Making something is fun, but promoting it can be a stressful chore. During this meetup, guest speaker Christie and moderator Ellen will discuss the existential challenges of putting something you’ve created out into the world. How do you encourage people to discover it without feeling like a marketing shill? How do you handle the disappointment of realizing your friends and family members don’t want to read/watch/listen to your new creation? How do you handle bad reviews? And why is it so much easier to promote someone else’s work? Christie will also provide practical tips on how to promote yourself.

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Invited speaker
Christie Aschwanden
https://christieaschwanden.com/

Speaker-provided bio:
Christie Aschwanden is author of the New York Times bestseller, "Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery," co-host of "Emerging Form," a podcast about the creative process, and host and producer of "Uncertain," a podcast from Scientific American. She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for the Washington Post. Her work has appeared in dozens of publications, including the New York Times, Wired, Smithsonian, Slate, Popular Science, Discover, Science, and Nature. She’s received fellowships from the Santa Fe Institute, the Carter Center and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting. She lives in Colorado.

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