
BRANDSTALK #158
Adele Bernard
TRANSITION CLARITY
TRANSITION MENTOR
Your Brand Isn’t Built, It’s Remembered. It’s Already in You.
What if your brand strategy is failing because you’re branding from your head, not your heart?
You’re not just creating a brand. You’re rediscovering one that’s been there all along, waiting to be seen, felt, and lived.
This isn’t your typical branding blog. It’s your permission slip to throw out the rulebook and walk yourself home to who you truly are.
Welcome to a soul-aligning episode of BrandsTalk. I sat down with Adele Bernard, an intuitive transition mentor and energetic alignment guide, to explore the truth we rarely hear:
“You can’t build an authentic brand if you’re disconnected from your authentic self.”
Adele’s message is clear: until you know who you are, no brand strategy will stick. No message will land. No audience will truly connect. Because energy doesn’t lie.
🔸Let’s Talk Energetic Branding.
Most people approach branding like a checklist:
✔ Colors
✔ Fonts
✔ Messaging
✔ Website
✔ Strategy
But Adele challenges us to go deeper. So deep, it bypasses the brain.
“The head is where your conditioning lives. The lies. The stories. Your true brand lives in your heart.”
You’re not here to perform. You’re here to remember.
🔸Bullet Truths:
- Your heart holds your authentic blueprint. Your brand lives there, not in a mood board.
- If it doesn’t resonate within you, it won’t resonate with others.
- Stop branding from the outside in. Start branding from the inside out.
🔸You Are the Brand. And That’s the Real Work.
Branding isn’t separate from who you are. It’s an expression of who you are. When you step into your truth, everything aligns: your visuals, your message, your leadership presence.
“If you don’t know who you are, your brand will never work.”
This is not about clever copy or trending colors. It’s about energetic coherence.
“Who you be is what people feel.”
🔸The World Is in Transition. So Are You.
Adele doesn’t sugarcoat it: we are living in a time of massive transformation. Geopolitical shifts. Cultural awakenings. Identity breakdowns and breakthroughs.
“We asked for this. This moment. This awakening.”
In branding terms? Old frameworks are crumbling. Strategy without soul is dead.
Welcome to the “Age of Aquarius” in astrological terms —where community, compassion, and truth reign supreme.
🔸The Fifth Dimension of Branding
We also explored a powerful paradigm shift:
The fifth dimension isn’t spiritual fluff. It’s where duality dissolves and your truth becomes your compass.
Here’s what that means in branding:
- No more right/wrong. Just aligned or misaligned.
- No more striving. Just being.
- No more chasing clients. Just magnetizing them through resonance.
It’s radical. It’s rebellious. And it’s exactly what today’s leaders need.
🔸The Myth of “Professional Identity” — Crushed.
Adele reveals the heartbreak of societal conditioning. Especially in how we push people into false personas in order to “fit in.”
But that conditioning? It stifles brilliance. It silences soul. And it kills authentic branding.
“You’re a tree. But the world tells you to sit at a desk all day. No wonder you feel out of place.”
This is especially true in professional transitions: career pivots, leadership changes, brand reinventions. If you’re feeling stuck, it’s likely not because you’re doing it wrong; it’s because you’re trying to do it someone else’s way.
🔸Visibility Requires Vulnerability
Why do so many brilliant leaders still feel invisible?
Because being seen means being vulnerable.
And vulnerability? It scares the hell out of your conditioned mind.
“Being your authentic self means putting your soul on the big stage, and your head might not be on board.”
But: when you finally show up fully—flaws, fear, and all, you give others permission to do the same. That’s how true influence is born.
🧘♀️ Grounded Brands Are Built with Breath
Let’s talk about a branding tool that costs nothing and transforms everything: breath.
Adele shared a simple but revolutionary practice:
- Every hour, pause for three deep belly breaths.
- Breathe in—let your belly expand.
- Exhale with force—pull your belly to your spine.
- Do this before meetings, client calls, or high-pressure moments.
“Breath clears energy. It grounds you. And grounded energy is authentic energy.”
Breathing connects you to presence. And presence is your brand’s most powerful marketing tool.
🔸 The Illusion of the Outside World
“Everything outside of us is an illusion. The only truth is our inner knowing.”
Now take that in.
You’re not here to prove. You’re here to be. You’re not here to seek external validation. You’re here to radiate internal coherence.
In a world obsessed with performance, Adele’s wisdom invites a radical pause. To turn inward. To trust the whisper instead of the noise.
“Every time somebody points their finger to judge, it’s their insecurities, ’cause three fingers are pointing back to them.”
🔸Branding Is Intuition in Action
Whether you call it gut instinct or divine guidance, intuition is strategy. Adele calls out the masculine corporate conditioning that ridicules “woo” wisdom, only to repackage it as “business sense.”
It’s all the same:
- That feeling in your gut when a decision is right? Intuition.
- That sense a color doesn’t “feel like you”? Intuition.
- That urge to pivot even when the spreadsheet says stay? Intuition.
Real leaders listen to it. Real brands are built on it.
🔸 One Soulful Practice to Anchor It All
I asked Adele for one grounding ritual to help listeners reconnect with their essence. Her answer was simple and beautiful:
“If you can’t get to the forest, visualize it. If you can’t reach the ocean, imagine it.”
Your energy doesn’t need a plane ticket. It just needs intention.
Close your eyes. Smell the salt air. Hear the birds. Breathe into the silence. Return home to yourself, where your brand already lives.
🔸 Final Soul Truths to Brand By
Let’s wrap with some raw, uncomfortable, and liberating truths from the episode:
- Your brand is not your website. It’s your energetic footprint.
- Authenticity will cost you comfort, but it will buy you freedom.
- If your strategy feels hard, your soul might be screaming.
- People don’t buy products, they buy presence.
- Vulnerability is your visibility strategy.
- Breath is your baseline. Use it. Honor it. Trust it.
- This is the age of alignment. Not hustle.
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Get in touch with Adele Bernard:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelebernardtc/
- https://www.facebook.com/transitionclarity
- https://www.intragram.com/beranrd_adele
Time Markers:
00:35 Discovering Your Soul’s Blueprint with Adele Bernard
01:23 The Journey of Personal Alignment
03:36 Energetic Alignment and Branding
07:56 Navigating Deep Transitions
16:25 Authenticity and Visibility
24:31 Breathwork and Grounding Techniques