“I don’t come from a well-known family, I didn’t have mentors around me who could guide me on this new path, and I lacked the tools that I needed to grow. I had to build myself up as much as I had to build my personal brand.”

Who said it, and where.

Who said “I don’t come from a well-known family, I didn’t have mentors around me who could guide…”? Isaac Mashman wrote it in Personal Branding: A Manifesto on Fame and Influence, Second Edition (2025), Identity Positioning: A Macroscopic View on Personal Branding.