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Holding The Door, Owning The Room w/ Brenna Lawrence
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The wildest origin story we’ve heard starts with a liger and ends with a microphone. Brenna Lawrence—VP of Business Development at Brown & Brown, relentless networker, and newly minted TEDx speaker—joins us to unpack how she turned fear into a lever for growth, community, and real change. This isn’t a highlight reel; it’s a field guide for showing up as your whole self and still delivering results.
We dive into how Brenna treats sales as courtship—earning the next conversation by listening more than pitching, and building trust on LinkedIn through authenticity and consistency. She walks through the nuts and bolts of DisruptHR (5 minutes, 20 auto-advancing slides) and how that constraint sharpened her message. With help from mentors, she built a TEDx talk that threads mindset with mission, tackling the stigma around domestic violence and bringing resources straight to the places people will actually see them—bathrooms, break rooms, and industry events. It’s marketing with a heart: meet the audience where they are, repeat the message with care, and make help easy to reach.
We also get practical about culture and leadership. Brenna’s family motto—don’t be a dick—translates to radical candor at work: open communication, clear boundaries, and zero tolerance for energy vampires. She shares how she raises confident kids (ban negative self-talk, praise effort, ask “What do you t
South Carolina Research Authority (SCRA) is a public, nonprofit organization that fuels South Carolina’s innovation economy by supporting technology-based startups, academic research, and industry partnerships. Through funding, coaching, and its investment arm SC Launch, SCRA helps early-stage companies grow, commercialize ideas, and scale within the state’s key innovation sectors.
King & Columbus is a full-service marketing and advertising agency based in South Carolina that helps brands grow through a mix of creative storytelling and data-driven strategy. They offer everything from branding and content creation to media planning, digital advertising, and PR—focused on delivering measurable results across digital, social, and traditional channels. https://kingandcolumbus.com
Title Sponsor: Charleston American Marketing Association
Presenting Sponsor: Charleston Media Solutions
Annual Sponsor: SCRA; South Carolina Research Authority
Quarterly Sponsor: King and Columbus
CAMACast Cohosts: Stephanie Barrow, Mike Compton, Rachel Backal, Tom Keppeler, Amanda Bunting Comen,
Silicon Harbor Hot Take Host: Stanfield Gray, https://digsouth.com
Produced and edited: RMBO Advertising
Photographer | Co-host: Kelli Morse
Score by: The Strawberry Entrée; Jerry Feels Good, CURRYSAUCE, DBLCRWN, DJ DollaMenu
Studio Engineer: Brian Cleary and Mathew Chase
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