A Felt Experience
Some experiences stay with us long after they're over.
A conversation. A photograph. A story. A relationship. A brand.
Not because they were louder. Because they were felt.
Hosted by brand strategist, photographer, and filmmaker Maria Camila, A Felt Experience explores the intersection of identity, visibility, entrepreneurship, creativity, and the human experiences that shape us.
Through conversations with founders, artists, leaders, and everyday people, we unpack what makes someone unforgettable—not just in business, but in life.
This is a place where the parts of ourselves we've been told to tone down become part of our power.
Where we stop performing who we think we're supposed to be and start becoming more deeply ourselves.
Because the brands that last... the businesses people remember... and the people who leave the deepest impression...
aren't simply understood.
They're felt.
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153. "I want a marketing person who is an expert in my industry."
🎙️ Episode 153: “I Want Someone Who Understands My Industry”
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Do I need to understand your industry through and through in order to create assets that help convert clients faster to your world?
No.
I've worked with biotech companies, interior designers, construction CEOs, coaches, therapists, paramedical tattoo artists, real estate agents, and entrepreneurs across completely different industries.
The work translates because marketing principles translate and human connection is universal.
📌 In this episode:
You don't necessarily need someone who knows every detail of your industry — you need someone who can understand why people trust and choose you.
Your client data already tells you a lot about your brand. Pay attention to what people consistently say they love about working with you.
Your stories, personality, values, point of view, and vision can build just as much trust as technical or educational content.
Looking outside of your own industry can help you develop a more definitive point of view instead of repeating what everyone around you is doing.
Leadership is building enough self-trust to follow your own instincts, even when nobody else is validating what you're doing yet.
🎯 The Bigger Takeaway
The secret sauce is always the person.
People aren't only hiring you because you're technically good at your job. There is something about your point of view, how you carry yourself, your values, and your vision that makes someone think, I trust this person enough to hand them thousands of dollars.
Branding is: this is who I am.
Marketing is: this is how I meet you where you are.
And the relationship between those two is where some of your best work can come from.
15 Sept 2026
152. She Invested in Her Rebrand Before She Had the Offer. Here's What Happened 2 Years Later.
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Today I’m joined by my client and friend Brenda Lomeli for a conversation about nervous system regulation, business, ancestry, being Latina, and what it means to approach healing and entrepreneurship through a decolonized lens.
We talk about how decolonizing can be less about becoming a “new identity” and more about removing the shoulds and asking: Who am I underneath what the world taught me I needed to be?
📌 In this episode, we talk about:
Removing the shoulds around success, your body, healing, business, and what you're “supposed” to do.
Why context matters in nervous system regulation — sometimes your body is responding to very real financial, political, cultural, and systemic stressors.
Brenda’s journey from weight-loss coaching into work centered around healing our relationships with our bodies, emotions, and internal authority.
Making space for grief, anger, fear, and disappointment without making yourself wrong for experiencing them.
What business can look like when you stop outsourcing your authority and trust your own voice, stories, medicine, art, and creations.
🎯 The Bigger Takeaway
Maybe the work isn't always about becoming someone new. Maybe some of it is remembering.
Brenda also shares how our Mexico City brand shoot happened before she knew exactly where her work was going. She trusted what she knew was the next step.
Sometimes that's what a brand shoot is: a demonstration of your self-trust.
✨ Connect with Brenda
Follow Brenda on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/brendalomeliofficial/)
Listen to Reclaiming the Body on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2k2EGk1BbuIC7ws5sIuIk5?si=dabd04a80d4d4c61)
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11 Sept 2026
151. The Shame Spiral Every Entrepreneur Needs to Recognize
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When I do a Brand Audit, I look at your website and Instagram and ask: Do you have a clear point of view? Is consuming your content a smooth experience? And is what you do — and the caliber in which you do it — obvious?
Because a powerful brand isn't just about looking professional. It's about making people feel something.
Today’s episode, though, is more of a pep talk.
I was having a whole moment after seeing low engagement on my content. I started comparing myself to other creators, questioning whether I was a good artist, questioning my strategy, and wanting to immediately fix everything.
And underneath all of it, I realized there was something much deeper: the wound of being who I am.
📌 In this episode, I talk about:
The three things I look for when I audit a brand: a clear point of view, a smooth experience, and whether the caliber of your work is actually visible.
Why low engagement can send me into a shame spiral — and my tendency to immediately want to delete everything, revamp the strategy, and fix it.
Realizing that so much of the content people connect with from me is actually very simple: watching me do my work and relating to me and my story.
The vulnerability of being emotional, sensitive, opinionated, particular, an artist, and someone with high standards — and learning not to make those parts of myself wrong.
Why sometimes the answer isn't going into overdrive to prove the shame wrong. Sometimes it's slowing down, letting yourself feel it, regulating yourself, and then continuing to do the thing anyway.
🎯 The Bigger Takeaway
Let other people be wrong about you.
But you don't be wrong about you.
This work is vulnerable. Being seen is vulnerable. Investing in yourself and holding a bigger vision for what you're creating can be vulnerable.
And I simply don't want to build a business where I don't share my story or where I'm not allowed to be who I am.
You being rooted in who you are is so key to the work you're doing. Be there for yourself before you decide to burn the whole thing down.
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