MAGNETISM OVER MIMICRY.
I help founders and thought leaders align their personal and professional brands so they show up congruently —
supercharging their resonance and impact.”
Mirror, Mentor, Strategist
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Mirror, Mentor, Strategist
Traction, Language, Insight
Jo Starling doesn’t coach. She reveals.
For over two decades, she’s worked alongside founders, creators and leaders to help them see themselves more clearly — then act from that clarity with conviction and calm.
Her work is built on lived experience, creative strategy, and an uncanny ability to name the thing under the thing. Clients don’t come to Jo for frameworks — they come for traction, language, and insight they can feel in their bodies.
She’s known for her grounded, story-led presence and her rare capacity to make people feel both deeply seen and powerfully capable. It’s not about confidence. It’s about resonance — the sense that you’re finally aligned with who you already are.
Professional Speaker
Igniting Epiphanies
Jo Starling is a storyteller and strategist who specialises in lighting the wick on insight. For thirty years she’s moved between agency rooms and tidal flats, honing a blend of craft and empathic intuition that makes the ordinary feel profoundly insightful. Jo’s work isn’t about new tactics; it’s about new seeing. In her talks she uses vivid stories and pointed reframes to disrupt assumptions, catalyse mindset shifts, and a-ha moments that stick. Audiences don’t leave with a checklist — they leave with a changed lens, a clearer question, and the energy to rethink what they thought they already knew.
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Watch For Coming Titles
Jo Starling writes and teaches at the junction of craft and lived experience. Sign up for release alerts and early excerpts for titles in the pipeline, including Beyond The Barb.
LAUNCH ALERT:
Brandyou: Human Intelligence in the Age of AI is newly available in paperback and for kindle/readers through Amazon and IngramSpark. For more information, click here.
TRUSTED BY
A gift, before anything else.
I found a sixteen-year-old manuscript in a box last week. Dusted it off. Read it back. Turned it into a short guide for founders who suspect their business might be more fashionable than it is original.
It's free. It reads in one sitting. And it will leave you with a question you won't quite finish thinking about.
— Brandyou —
Human Intelligence in the Age of AI
In the age of social media, we’ve nowhere to hide. Our personal profile is scrutinised against our business brand. Every LinkedIn post. Every Instagram story. Every interview, every bio, every “about us” page.
When our identities don’t align, it’s easy to splinter under pressure.
What if there’s another way?
There is. Brandyou reveals it.
HOOKED:
How To Lure Clients Who Actually Want what you’re Selling
If you’ve ever cast your line into the business world — only to reel in nothing but “maybes,” tyre-kickers, or silence — this course will change how you fish... and how you close.
Whether you’re a seasoned marketer or just sick of “spray and pray” tactics, Hooked teaches you a smarter, sharper way to attract, engage, and land your ideal clients — using the same principles that hook the biggest fish.
Because marketing and fishing?
They’re the same game.
Different species, same psychology.
AlignedAF
AlignedAF isn’t about performing a personal brand.
It’s about becoming the clearest signal of who you were born to be.
This transformative, app-based course is your personal frequency tuner — guiding you to uncover the traits, patterns, and promises that define you… and dial them in until the noise falls away.
No more distortion.
No more masks.
Just signal integrity.
Inside AlignedAF, you’ll shed inherited scripts and performative layers, calibrate your unique frequency, and show up with resonance — across every platform, pitch, and post.
At your authentic frequency, congruence becomes magnetic.
Because when you align who you are with how you show up — the world can’t help but listen.
And when your personal brand is AlignedAF, all your business brands blossom.
CANVASTIC MAKEOVER
Canva is incredibly powerful and has the capacity to save your business tens of thousands of dollars in design agency fees.
But it’s still just a computer program.
In the hands of someone with skills, it’s a sensational asset. However, many businesses find that their designs — while better than they used to create with traditional software — just aren’t cutting through or looking as slick as their competitors.
Having a Canva subscription hasn’t replaced the need for a creative to drive it...
What if I could change that for you?
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