Becoming an Influencer

Amanda Jewell Saunders•theamandajewell.com

Your host, Amanda Jewell, takes you inside the mind of a woman in her twenties trying to navigate life. From documenting her career journey, how to make money from content creation, or diving into the struggles of mental health, Amanda keeps it real here on the podcast. Everyone is an influencer in their own right which is exactly why she fosters conversations with inspiring professionals and entrepreneurs that dive into what it takes to be successful and their journey of becoming an influencer.

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Episodes

Getting Your Dream Internship with Afrika-Ira

In this episode, Amanda Jewell sits down with Afrika-Ira to talk about how she got her dream internship with TBWA/Chiat/Day. Afrika-Ira is a recent 2020 graduate from The University of Texas at Austin and majored in Advertising. Amanda and Afrika know each other from taking an Integrated Communication Management course in the Stan Richards School of Advertising. The girls talk about working part-time jobs while in school, graduating in 2020, taking classes online, and why they majored in Adverti...

Jul 29, 2020•57 min

What It's Like Dating an Influencer + Relationship Advice with Cameron Cook

In this episode, Amanda Jewell sits down with her boyfriend, Cameron Cook, on their 2 year anniversary! They talk about everything. How they met, how they stayed together through long-distance, advice for having a healthy relationship, working together as creatives, and so much more. Cameron talks about the perks of dating an influencer, such as free ACL tickets to working with Nordstrom. He also talks about what it was like to date a college girl in another city! Cameron and Amanda give advice ...

Jul 22, 2020•41 min

From Struggle to Forbes with Bree Clarke

In this episode, Amanda Jewell sits down with Bree Clarke, founder of The Iman Project and Lavender + Mint Designs. Bree is a TEDx Speaker, podcast host, and was recently in Forbes for bringing topics of racism to the table through her "On The Table" workshops. In this podcast, we talk about how covid19 has impacted her business, her recent projects with TEDx, her many TV, and media appearances, and how she has been taking care of herself as a Black businesswoman during the Black Lives Matter mo...

Jul 16, 2020•51 min

Advice To Students From a College Professor with Lisa Dobias

Amanda Jewell sat down with her Media professor at The University of Texas at Austin, Lisa Dobias. Lisa answers questions from students and gives advice on those graduating during a pandemic, how to get a job in media, what her journey to success looked like, and how she founded the Texas Media sequence at UT Austin. This is an episode you don't want to miss! This was recorded in May to give you all a timeline of events that were happening when they recorded this episode! If you are interested i...

Jul 07, 2020•35 min

How I Healed From My Sexual Assault

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode talks about triggering topics such as rape, sexual assault, PTSD, anxiety, and more. I have not been true to myself as I promised that I would be the voice for trauma victims if I ever healed from my sexual assault. I have healed and that is why I am sharing my story three years later. Don't ever let anyone take away your truth. We live in a world where people will do anything to invalidate the victim. But, at the end of the day, YOU know what happened and the preda...

Jul 02, 2020•32 min

How To Make Money As An Influencer with Audrey Stowe

Amanda Jewell sits down with full-time blogger, Audrey Madison Stowe. Amanda and Audrey dive into how Audrey started her lifestyle and fashion blog, grew her Instagram to over 80K followers, and how she works with brands to run her blog full time. From affiliate links to influencer marketing agencies, these girls lay it all out on how you can make money from your social media influence. To make things even more fun, Amanda and Audrey both went to the same high school in Plano and then college at...

Jun 24, 2020•50 min

How To Work With Brands With Madison Rae Hildreth

In this episode, Amanda Jewell sits down with Madison Hildreth, also known as MadsRaeFit! Madison is a fitness influencer, TikTokker, YouTuber, 2020 College Graduate, and so on. Madison and Amanda talk about how to grow your influence on TikTok, what it was like to graduate from The University of Texas at Austin in 2020, and how to work with brands! Amanda and Madison are best friends that have worked for Red Bull together and are both boohoo student ambassadors. They talk about each of their ex...

Jun 17, 2020•38 min

Having the "Uncomfortable" Conversation About Race with Yoki Ongwela

In today's episode of Becoming an Influencer podcast, Amanda Jewell had her friend and Dallas creative, Yoki Ongwela, on to have the conversation we are encouraging everyone to have. They dive into the Black Lives Matter movement, the historical oppression of Black people, white privilege, what you can be doing to help, and so much more. I hope this educates you more on what is going on in America and how you can work to become an ally of the Black community. Amanda is so grateful that Yoki agre...

Jun 10, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 3

How To Start a Creative Agency with Jewels Clark

Amanda Jewell has her first guest on Becoming an Influencer podcast, which happens to be her best friend Jewels Clark. Jewels is the founder of How To Be Social, a creative staffing agency. How To Be Social connects brands and companies with the creators they need for marketing efforts and more. Jewels herself is a multi-faceted talent. Not only is she a CEO and a founder, but also an influencer, event coordinator, model, and photographer. She just about does it all- which is probably why these ...

Jun 03, 2020•42 min

What Is An Influencer? Intro to Becoming an Influencer with Amanda Jewell

Becoming an Influencer is a podcast based on the book by Amanda Jewell. Amanda Jewell is a college senior studying advertising at The University of Texas at Austin and when she isn't busy with school she is probably either filming a YouTube video, making a TikTok, writing a blog, or scrolling through Instagram. In other words she is a content creator and influencer. In this episode Amanda introduces herself and this new podcast! She will have special guests to talk about what it takes to be succ...

May 27, 2020•14 min•Ep. 1

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