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Shanna Hocking

Shanna Hocking

Founder and CEO of Hocking Leadership; leadership consultant and author of "One Bold Move a Day" specializing in higher education fundraising and advancement

Aug 16, 2026

8:16
And when we started working together, I mean, you know, what's the point at which you had found yourself? You know, I always like to ask, like, you came to me for a reason or reasons, you know, what were those reasons?
8:29
So I mentioned that when I started my business, Leah, that I was everything to everybody.
8:33
I think that's pretty normal when you're running a business.
8:35
You want to make sure that you can actually successfully run your business and you're testing things out.
8:40
And that's what I did.
8:41
And then I niched down in summer of 2023 to focus specifically on universities.
8:50
And then I had the hardest two quarters of my business that I'd had since I started it.

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28:08
Tell me a little bit about
BrentHOST
23:51
And it was like I felt like a LinkedIn, like, demo guy for a couple years there, but it was, you know, people wanted to learn.
23:59
They did.
23:59
They did.
24:00
But I think our profession has been taught for so long that the, the, the mission and the brand is far over anything else.
24:09
And what I saw, and I think you too, was that LinkedIn was an ampl- opportunity to amplify that mission and brand with our own voice.
24:16
And so I'm the kind of person who reads-Hundreds of articles a week, and I was sending them to my friends, and my friends are like, "Please stop sending me articles." But they love me, but, like, they don't want to read the articles.
24:27
And so LinkedIn for me was a chance to just share it with the world, and if someone wanted to read it, great.
BrentHOST
26:18
And so when was the seed planted for your book, One Bold Move a Day?

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