Stephanie Brown | Building a Career at Nike & Apple, Brutal Feedback & Using AI to Land the Job

In this episode of Can I Buy You a Coffee?, Ebony welcomes back ⁠Stephanie Brown⁠, the marketing career coach and one of the very first guests to ever sit down on the show back in 2024. 

After eight years at Nike and a stint at Apple, Stephanie now coaches marketers all over the world. From London to Germany to her home base in New Zealand and her growing list of clients here in Australia, helping them land the roles they never thought were possible. In this episode, she shares the strategy, the mindset, and one career-defining piece of feedback that changed everything.

In this episode, we cover:

• How to land the job that looks "impossible" on paper 

• The power of playing the long game in a world that wants everything instantly

• What AI actually means for marketing careers 

• The honest truth about working for big global brands like Nike & Apple

• Generalist vs specialist: which marketing path is right for you, and why the order matters

• The brutal piece of feedback that almost cost Stephanie a Nike leadership role — and how she turned it around

• How to separate hard feedback from your identity

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