You’ve seen brands with a wild sense of humor on social media — Slim Jim, Wendy’s, Little Caesars — and thought, “Who the heck is running this account?”
Well, what if we told you it might be someone who once debated paint shades with angry customers at Lowe’s and later cleaned her old middle school for fun?
In the season premiere of a completely rebranded Scaling the Wall, host Will Brooks kicks things off not with a tech bro origin story, but with a creative misfit who zigzagged from cinematography to architecture to memes… and somehow landed at the heart of cybersecurity.
Amanda Smith (aka Mandasia if you’re LinkedIn-savvy) doesn’t just post for a living; at Phin Security, she talks to herself online professionally, builds a brand voice that hits like a punchline, and admits trade shows terrify her (but she goes anyway).
If you’ve ever felt like you don’t fit the mold, like you’re allergic to corporate red tape, or like your creativity is being crushed under “approval workflows”, then this episode might just hit home.
And yes, we do ask the awkward questions, including what “I don’t know” really means when you say it in front of a stranger wearing a conference badge.
“I feel like the average person when they hear cybersecurity, they’re just like, ‘firewalls or something’? It sounds like really mysterious and scary and you have to super-smart to do it,” Smith explains in the episode. “But being in it, there’s so many different elements to it. I’d never heard of cyber insurance, I wouldn’t have known that existed.”
👉 Tap in to hear how one content queen found her voice, her niche, and a place in an industry she didn’t even know existed.
This isn’t just a career story. It’s a lesson in creative survival — and why you don’t need to code to conquer cyber. Maybe the wall you think you can’t scale might just be made of cardboard.
🎧 Ready to dive in? Catch the full episode of Scaling the Wall wherever you tune in.
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