Build your Brand
With Cheryl McCants
Make the Invisible Visible™
Each episode strengthens brand visibility, supports business marketing, fuels personal branding, and drives sustainable business growth with practical marketing tips that help owners enhance communication, expand influence, build resilient brands, and boost authenticity.

Ep. 149 Season 5: Groundwork for a Budding Business
How to Start a Healthy Business: Planning, Market Research, and Mentorship for Growth
Under May’s theme of Blooming Business, CherylMcCants shares how entrepreneurs can lay the groundwork for a healthy business before it blooms.
Using gardening as a business analogy, this episode exploresthree essentials for sustainable growth: a clear business plan, strong market research, and guidance from the right advisor. Cheryl also highlights Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins as a success story in testing ideas, learning the market, and building with intention.
If you’re starting or strengthening a business, this episodewill help you prepare the ground for growth.
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Ep. 148 Season 5: Reasons for Reset
Why Business Owners Need a Quarterly Review, Goal Check, and Strategy Refresh
In this episode of Build Your Brand with Cheryl McCants: Make the Invisible Visible™, Cheryl explores why the start of a new quarter creates the perfect reason for reset.
Under April’s Spring Cleaning theme, this conversation looks at what business owners need to review, realign, and refresh before small issues turn into larger ones. Cheryl breaks down the value of checking performance honestly, adjusting goals to match current realities, and refining strategy so your business can move forward with sharper focus.
This week’s Data Drop highlights how easily small business owners can mistake motion for progress when they stay buried in the day-to-day. This week’s Success Story looks at Ayesha Curry’s Sweet July and how thoughtful growth requires ongoing review, refinement, and intentional resets.
If your business needs more clarity, better alignment, and a stronger strategy for the quarter ahead, this episode will help you make the invisible visible.
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Ep. 147 Season 5: Cultivating Fresh Voices
How Brands Build Trust Through New Perspectives and Authentic Storytelling
In this episode of Build Your Brand with Cheryl McCants: Make the Invisible Visible™, Cheryl explores why cultivating fresh voices strengthens marketing, deepens trust, and helps brands connect more authentically with the people they serve.
Under April’s Spring Cleaning theme, this conversation looks at how businesses can make room for new perspectives through social media, guest takeovers, and mentorship. This week’s Data Drop highlights why consumers often trust creators more than brands, and this week’s Success Story examines how Adobe’s Diverse Voices initiative helped underrepresented creators gain visibility, support, and opportunity.
If you want your content, campaigns, and storytelling to feel more relevant, more human, and more impactful, this episode will help you make the invisible visible.
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Ep. 146 Season 5: Purposeful Earth Month
Eco-Friendly Business Tips and Authentic ESGCommunication
April is Earth Month, and it is the perfect time to take afresh look at how your business operates.
In this episode of Build Your Brand with Cheryl McCants:Make the Invisible Visible™, Cheryl explores three practical ways to make your business more eco-conscious and communicate that work with credibility: reduce waste, use plain language, and show your progress.
This week’s Data Drop highlights the environmental impact ofdigital activity, including emissions and water-intensive data-center cooling. The Success Story turns inward, featuring Impact Consulting Enterprises’ own sustainability journey — from completing AstraZeneca’s Lead in Sustainabilityprogram to receiving the Inclusion Award for its Action Plan and pursuing EcoVadis certification.
If you want to align sustainability, visibility, and trustin a more authentic way, this episode will help you do it.
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Ep. 145 Season 5: The Tax Man Cometh
Smart Tax Planning Tips for Business Owners
Tax season does not have to catch you off guard.
In this episode of Build Your Brand with Cheryl McCants:Make the Invisible Visible™, Cheryl shares three practical ways businessowners can approach tax conversations with more clarity and less stress: thinkquarterly, understand the basics, and stay transparent.
You’ll also hear this week’s Data Drop on how much timesmall businesses spend managing federal taxes, along with a Success Story thatshows how the right CPA relationship can support long-term growth.
If you want to move through tax season with more confidenceand better preparation, this episode offers timely guidance.
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