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Known For What do you want to be Known For®? Known For® helps you define, share and grow your business identity.

When you join us you don’t just network, you learn how to build a brand
that brings clients to you!

07/10/2026

Networking tip: get everyone to write down what they do. Then tell them to chuck it across the pub 😂

About 22 people came along to my first Known For® Pub Club yesterday!

We had pints, coffees, Cokes. Some people didn’t have a drink. Nobody cared.

No standing up for your compulsory 60 seconds while you forget everything you’ve ever done.

We just chatted and shared what we’re working on.

Then I got out paper and pens.

Everyone wrote down what they wanted to be known for at the moment, folded it into a paper plane and competed to see whose went the furthest 😂

Tony Wiltshire was our champion, with Joseph Gamlin a close second. As you can see, we took this very seriously.

But the planes had another job.

Everyone picked up a random one to take home, with the idea of posting on LinkedIn about the person on their paper.

A little introduction to someone else’s business, in front of people they might not otherwise reach.

You know that “what do I even post?” problem? There’s your next post.

I had such a good time. Lovely people, good conversations and a very important sporting victory for Tony. 🏆

01/10/2026

Portsmouth’s unsung heroes deserve a bit of the spotlight 👏

Three amazing women I know, Penny, Mandy and Charlie, have put together this exhibition for Portsmouth 100, celebrating the people and faces of our city.

I popped down today and I’m so glad I caught it before it finishes on Friday. So many brilliant people doing things that deserve to be seen ❤️

I sponsored having her portrait done 👏

If you’re local, go and have a look!

📍 Keppel’s Head Hotel, at The Hard, opposite Portsmouth Harbour station.

22/09/2026

Sometimes being authentic doesn’t feel safe.

And I think a lot of LGBTQ people will know exactly what I mean by this moment.

There’s a difference between hiding who you are because you’re ashamed and choosing not to reveal who you are because you don’t know how someone might react.

I spoke about this, and the bigger cost of performing versions of ourselves, in my TEDx talk.

I’d love you to watch it?

https://lnkd.in/esqqCNgE

10/09/2026

If sales are slow right now, ask yourself this:

Are you actually prospecting… or are you waiting to be found?

One of the biggest things my 20 years in sales and lead generation taught me is that you cannot leave your pipeline to chance.

Yes, I use content to generate inbound leads.

Yes, LinkedIn has brought me a LOT of business.

But I don’t sit around waiting for it.

Every day I look at my pipeline.

Who am I talking to?

What opportunities am I working on?

What proposals are out?

What needs following up?

And if the answer is “not much”…

I go and create conversations.

Prospecting doesn’t have to mean spammy cold messages either.

It can be reconnecting with someone in your network, asking for an introduction, following up an old enquiry, finding potential customers or simply starting more conversations with the right people.

Visibility gets you seen.

Prospecting gets you into conversations.

You need both.

Save this for the next time you look at your sales pipeline and wonder where the next customer is coming from.

TEDx Gosport 2026“What growing up Q***r taught me about connection” I have the tattoo “Courage Over Comfort” on my arm. ...
06/09/2026

TEDx Gosport 2026

“What growing up Q***r taught me about connection”

I have the tattoo “Courage Over Comfort” on my arm. The day that I said out loud that I was a le***an, I knew I could do anything I put my mind to. Since then, I’ve done so much to purposely put myself outside of my comfort zone, and every time I’ve thrived. This process was incredibly hard. But I’m so proud of myself. I’ve absolutely healed a little part of me doing this talk and now I’m going take it all in. I’ve made lifelong friends in this process ❤️

06/09/2026

21 years ago, I was terrified people would find out I was a le***an.

Today, I stood on a TEDx stage and told my story.

That still feels pretty wild.

My talk is about authenticity, connection and the cost of performing as the person you think everyone else needs you to be.

It is a subject that feels incredibly personal to me.

But it is also the work I have been doing for the last four years.

Helping people feel more comfortable being seen.

Helping them show more of who they really are.

Helping them stop performing and start connecting.

Today felt like the natural next step.

I want to take this message onto more stages and into more businesses.

Because if we want people to do their best work, build stronger relationships and actually feel like they belong, they need to feel safe enough to be themselves.

TEDx was a huge moment for me.

But I have a feeling it was also the beginning of something much bigger.

For now though, I am home.

B**r. Comfy clothes. And taking in the fact that I actually bloody did

Jodie Goodchild…Known For® being a proudly Q***r TEDx speaker 🥹

***an

03/09/2026

Anyone else think LinkedIn can make running a business look TOO easy?

Everyone’s growing.

Everyone’s winning awards.

Everyone’s getting up at 5am, drinking a green smoothie, going to the gym and flying off on their dream holiday whilst you’re struggling to make ends meet?

When you are finding it hard, that can make you question what YOU are doing wrong.

I’ve just completed my 4th financial year in business, let me share a bit more about the process…

Running and growing a business is hard.

It’s a constant rollercoaster of emotions.

There is always something to think about.

Something to fix.

Something to pay.

Something keeping you awake at night.

There have been plenty of moments when I’ve questioned everything and seriously considered throwing in the towel and I bet they’ll be many more 😂

Despite the stress, the doubt and the chaos, I’m building something I’m incredibly proud of.

If LinkedIn has ever made you question why you’re finding business so difficult, please know that you’re not the only one.

It is difficult.

And I still wouldn’t change it for the world.

02/09/2026

Low impressions on LinkedIn recently?

You might want to give this one go. And if you liked it, follow me because I share stuff like this all the time!!

01/09/2026

How is it the 1st September? We’ve got 4 months left of 2026. What’s one thing on your list you want to have achieved by NYE?

26/08/2026

Oh you are SPOILING us this week. Another update for premium users!! You’ll not want to miss this one it’s great 👏

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