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Meet Beverly
Beverly Cornell is a North Carolina based founder, author, and podcaster. She is the founder of Wickedly Branded, where she helps women build values driven brands rooted in clarity, confidence, and sustainable growth. With nearly three decades in marketing and branding, her work sits at the intersection of identity, psychology, and lived experience.
The Sound of a Jingle in the Kitchen
Before there were brand frameworks and messaging systems, there was a little girl singing advertising jingles around the house. Beverly Cornell did not know she was studying persuasion. She simply knew she was fascinated by how certain words and melodies lingered in the mind. Something about the rhythm of marketing felt alive to her.
That early curiosity grew into a career in communication and advertising that began in 1995. She entered the industry when branding still lived mostly in print, television, and radio. Over the years, she witnessed the rise of digital platforms, social media, algorithm shifts, and the endless acceleration of online business culture. Through every evolution, one thing held steady for her: a fascination with the science and psychology of buying.
Yet Beverly’s story is not just about marketing trends. It is about movement. It is about motherhood, military life, reinvention, and the quiet recalibration that happens when a woman realizes she has drifted from her own center.
Building a Career That Could Move
Her husband’s military career meant constant relocation. New cities. New communities. New schools. A life defined by transition. Stability was never guaranteed. If Beverly wanted a career, it had to be one she could carry with her.
Freelancing felt like the answer. It promised flexibility, autonomy, and control. She could work from anywhere. She could build her own schedule. She could be present for her family while still nurturing her professional ambition.
At first, it felt expansive. She said yes to everything. Websites. Social media management. Projects she had to research late at night just to understand what she had agreed to deliver. Saying yes felt responsible. It felt driven. It felt like survival.
But survival is not the same as alignment.
Over time, the freedom she imagined began to narrow. The workload expanded. Expectations grew. Clients pulled her in directions that did not reflect her deeper values. The flexibility she sought slowly became obligation.
One night, exhausted and stretched thin, she recognized a truth she could no longer ignore.
“One night, I realized I wasn’t building my dream; I was building everyone else’s.”
That sentence marked a turning point.
The Moment of Reclaiming
The realization did not arrive with fireworks. It arrived quietly, in the kind of fatigue that seeps into the bones. Beverly understood that she had built a business shaped by demand instead of intention. She was talented enough to make it work. She was disciplined enough to keep it afloat. But she was not fulfilled.
Being a military spouse and a mother while building a business added layers of complexity. Frequent moves disrupted community and routine. Caregiving responsibilities filled invisible hours. The mental load of holding a household together during deployments and transitions rarely paused.
There were seasons shaped by serious injury, infertility, adoption, ADHD, perimenopause, and more than twenty moves. Life was not linear. It was layered and, at times, overwhelming.
In the midst of that complexity, Beverly recognized that pushing harder was not the solution. Hustle would not create peace. Expansion would not automatically create meaning. She needed to slow down.
She began asking deeper questions. Who did she want to serve. What kind of work felt energizing instead of draining. What values did she want her business to reflect.
Clarity did not arrive instantly, but it did arrive steadily. She realized she was most inspired by purpose driven entrepreneurs. Wellness coaches. Creative founders. Healers. Women who cared deeply about their work and the communities they served.
These were not clients chasing vanity metrics. They were building impact. They were often brilliant at their craft yet tangled in messaging that felt fragmented or performative.
As Beverly refined her focus, her business began to change. Projects became more intentional. Conversations became deeper. Strategy became less about noise and more about narrative.
She shifted from reacting to demand toward designing a business that supported her life.
Choosing Alignment Over Hustle
The shift was not only strategic. It was philosophical.
Beverly saw a pattern repeating across the women she worked with. Talented entrepreneurs were quietly burning out. They were following business models built around constant output and linear time. They were trying to fit themselves into systems that assumed invisible support, endless energy, and uninterrupted focus.
Many of these women were also carrying caregiving responsibilities, emotional labor, and the mental load of family life. The cost was subtle but steady. Overwhelm became normal. Doubt became familiar.
Beverly’s own experience gave her language for what they were feeling. She understood the strain of holding ambition and responsibility at the same time. She understood the guilt that can accompany rest. She understood the pressure to appear composed while privately unraveling.
Through reflection, she built her philosophy around three core values: Honor, Dynamic, and Fusion.
Honor meant leading with integrity and care for clients, team, and self. Dynamic reminded her that growth is alive and evolving, requiring curiosity and adaptation. Fusion represented the blending of strategy with humanity, logic with intuition, and structure with creativity.
These were not abstract ideas. They were anchors.
Her definition of success shifted. It was no longer about scale for its own sake. It became about alignment.
“Success, to me, means alignment. It’s building a business that feels good to run, creates meaningful impact, and leaves space for a full life.”
That perspective became the foundation of her work at Wickedly Branded.
Creating Wickedly Branded
Wickedly Branded is not built on urgency. It is built on clarity.
At its core is the belief that marketing can be intentional and humane. Beverly and her team guide women through processes that untangle racing thoughts and surface the narrative thread beneath the strategy.
Her Brand Spark Experience, along with other frameworks she has developed, creates space for reflection. Instead of immediately pushing clients into content calendars and sales funnels, she begins with identity. Who are you. What do you believe. What do you want your work to make possible.
This approach is grounded in research, psychology, and narrative theory, yet delivered in a way that feels accessible and human.
The impact is not simply clearer messaging. It is often relief. Clients describe feeling lighter. When a woman understands her own voice and the story beneath her work, marketing stops feeling like performance. It becomes expression.
Beverly’s work helps women cut through noise and reclaim focus. She encourages them to build businesses that support their lives rather than consume them.
The ripple effect matters to her. When a woman becomes confident in her voice, leadership strengthens. Boundaries become healthier. Communities benefit from grounded, thoughtful impact.
She believes marketing done with intention can be a force for good.
Over the years, Wickedly Branded has helped hundreds of women find clarity and grow with intention. Beverly is particularly proud that the company has done so without sacrificing humanity or creativity.
For her, the true achievement is not the number of clients served but the feeling those clients carry when they leave a session calmer and more confident than when they arrived.
Slowing Down as Leadership
One of the most distinctive aspects of Beverly’s philosophy is her relationship with pace.
In an industry that often equates speed with success, she returns to intention. When things feel hard, she slows down instead of accelerating. She reduces unnecessary noise. She treats rest and reflection as part of leadership rather than a reward earned after burnout.
Balance, for her, is not perfect symmetry. It is discernment. Knowing when to pause and when to move.
This mindset is especially meaningful for women navigating layered responsibilities. Beverly does not romanticize productivity. She honors capacity.
Her admiration lies with women who lead with both strength and softness. Leaders who evolve publicly. Leaders who value depth over performance. Leaders who create impact through authenticity rather than relentless hustle.
Her work gives permission. Permission to build differently. Permission to question inherited business models. Permission to define success personally rather than culturally.
The Book and What Comes Next
This year marks a new chapter with the release of her upcoming book, Brand Magic. The book expands on decades of lived and professional experience. It offers a deeper exploration of identity, messaging, and sustainable visibility.
For Beverly, the book is not about authority. It is about accessibility. She wants more women to have language for what they are experiencing. She wants them to recognize that misalignment is not failure. It is information.
Beyond the book, her focus remains on creating tools and courses that make clarity more attainable. She envisions conversations that normalize nuance. Platforms where women can talk honestly about ambition, exhaustion, reinvention, and growth without shame.
The future she imagines is not louder. It is more grounded.
She hopes to continue expanding Wickedly Branded in ways that preserve its humanity. Growth will not come at the cost of care. Visibility will not override values.
Her vision is steady rather than explosive. Sustainable rather than frantic.
A Different Definition of Enough
At the heart of Beverly Cornell’s story is a quiet reclamation. She moved from survival driven yes to intentional no. From reactive growth to aligned expansion. From building everyone else’s dream to building her own.
Her message to women navigating similar crossroads is simple and deeply personal. You do not have to exhaust yourself to prove your worth. You are not behind. You are allowed to design work that supports the life you love.
The little girl who once sang jingles still lives within her, fascinated by the power of words. But now those words are guided by lived experience, shaped by transitions, motherhood, partnership, and resilience.
Beverly’s leadership is not loud. It is steady. It invites women to come home to their own clarity.
In a culture that often rewards speed over substance, she offers something quieter and perhaps more radical: alignment.
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