“5 Things You Should Do To Become a Thought Leader In Your Industry” with Jodie Davis

Get Out There. After you do the work, people will want to find you. Of course, I’ve made it easy for them by putting myself out there. My appearances on HGTV and A&E and ultimately my best-selling book were due to becoming known in the world of rubber duckies via my footprints on the internet.

As part of our series about how to become known as a thought leader in your industry, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jodie Davis. Hatched a different kind of chick, Jodie’s inner muse tested this world this way and that. She didn’t quite fit in anywhere — until a boyfriend’s intended insult became a gift of clarity. For him, “You live in a rubber duckie world,” was a put down; for Jodie it was the crystalizing moment. She booted the boyfriend and set about letting her rubber duckie muse call the shots, to create her own world, her “It’s Rubber Duckie World!” Who knew her first crafting book would become into thirty-four books and, even more surprising, that with all of her success as a name in quilting and crafting her best-selling title would be Rubber Duckie!, which sold 230,000 copies with Running Press…