https://simplecast.com Comms from the Shed: interviewing diverse voices on our present and the future. Following a 20-year career in communications, like so many friends, peers and ex-colleagues I found myself working from home 100% of the time. In this series I hear from a range of interesting and diverse voices about their response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, their health and wellbeing, creativity in adverse times, and our shared hopes for the future. en Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:44:04 +0000 Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:44:14 +0000 https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com Comms from the Shed: interviewing diverse voices on our present and the future. https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/21610ccb-fc69-4777-907b-ef04cda40083/1e47e7d9-5d0c-4ddc-8947-86a2da4efea7/3000x3000/thumbnail-img-3185-1.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com episodic Following a 20-year career in communications, like so many friends, peers and ex-colleagues I found myself working from home 100% of the time. In this series I hear from a range of interesting and diverse voices about their response to the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, their health and wellbeing, creativity in adverse times, and our shared hopes for the future. Sam Bleazard no https://feeds.simplecast.com/PwL7KoOI airline industry, airlines, british airways, comms from the shed, communication, culture, drew mcmillan, engineering, government, internal communication, journalism, linkedin, music, podcast, sam bleazard, top 10 podcasts, travel, covid-19, female entrepreneurs, favourite podcasts, entrepreneurs, coronavirus, home schooling, health and wellbeing, dr kirsty fairclough, health, well being, lockdown, prince, lockdown living, pandemic, manchester, gaana, keysha davis, monique hayward, new podcast show, yewande akinola, jo hooper, itunes podcast, new amazon music podcast show, gaana.com, new spotify podcast show, new itunes podcast show, new podcast, virgin trains, glasgow, travel industry, coffee, heathrow, construction Sam Bleazard bleazas@hotmail.com 28b2925a-c2c7-4ba3-892f-43069766fdda Head Chef at 45 Jermyn St., Sam White, joins us to talk about his early life, adventures around the world, in Africa, France and the UK, but also his career in Food & Drink and the Hospitality Industry. Essential listening for dedicated foodies. Training?

“It’s started off quite informally, I left school in Taunton in Somerset not really knowing what to do…I even signed up for the Army but I missed an intake - there was a 6 month wait.

My Dad was a Dairy Farmer, my Mum was a Nurse and a really good cook, and I had grown up on a farm with 3 brothers. I was used to an outdoorsy life, so perhaps I thought time in the army would be an adventure. I was also dyslexic, so in part, am sure this influenced my thinking in some way.

Favourite dishes from Mum?

She makes a good pasta bake! Also cooks a delicious ham in cider with a glaze, served with dauphinois potatoes and a parsley sauce. At Xmas it was a Boxing Day thing with my 3 brothers in tow! Every time I’m back it’s like the first time she’s cooked…she asks for my advice, but also has opinions on food, she takes complete credit for all of my culinary success! (Smile) my main culinary influence…

College days…

I enrolled in college and whilst I was there doing business studies I took a part time job washing pots and pans in a converted cow shed called Pod Shavers. A pod shaver? It’s someone who makes cricket bats. The head chef there got me involved in plating dishes, he was also a College lecturer…so he got me doing more in the kitchen. I enjoyed the environment and working weekends being part of the buzzy atmosphere.

Next steps?

I decided I wanted to be a chef, enrolled in the local College in Somerset, who were training Chefs to work in schools and hospitals, but I wanted to be in restaurants. So at 18 years old I got an apprenticeship at the Castle Hotel in Taunton which had a Michelin Star at the time and it’s where Gary Rhodes and Phil Vickery made their names, it’s always been known for championing British produce and British chefs.

I worked for a Chef called Richard Guest who had worked in London under Jean Christophe Novelli. It didn’t phase me because I didn’t mind working hard or long hours. It was a bit of an old school kitchen, there was a standard and you had to produce to that standard.

I went on to work in a restaurant called Givey Park down in Devon with Michael Caines, it had two Michelin stars…the style of food was classically French. He’d trained with Gordon Ramsey when he was young, it was amazing training, as it taught me discipline. I suppose just like being in the army…it was intense, there were 18 hour days, and you lived onsite.

Being dyslexic at school made me feel that I couldn’t carry on in further education…but I knew I needed to work with great Chefs. While I was at The Castle I did a Chef swap, I went to Normandie in France. It was in the middle of nowhere, I was 20,years old and I didn’t speak any French. I was there for about 6 months. It was a smaller restaurant and it made me realise that I didn’t want my own restaurant. The chefs were the first ones in and the last ones out…I realised that it wasn’t the life for me longer term.

I had a plan in my head, but it went out of the window…I was a bit burned out when I came back from France. There was no structure to my career, I was ducking and weaving at the time. I find that in Hospitality you’re promoted because you can cook…but you might then be a Head Chef responsible for 12 other chefs, put in charge of a budget, responsible for HR, but no one’s ever taught you any of that. Head Chefs react how they’ve been taught. But at Fortnum’s now there is lots of management training, which is great.

Mentor?

Confidence had been knocked out of me a bit early on in my career. My Mum had been a midwife in Africa, and I’d always wanted to go and visit. There was a book called the 50 best restaurants in the world, this was before Instagram, so I ended up sending them a letter asking if I could do work experience (unpaid work) in a restaurant in Cape Town. This allowed me to take in Zambia, Botswana and Namibia as a month long overland trip first (along the way). At the time 8 of the top ten best restaurants in Africa existed along this one strip in Franschhoek Valley, which is a wine region in SA.

It was exciting because at the time SA Chefs could come to the UK and get a visa to work in great restaurants. There were great restaurants there too. In SA the Chefs had worked in lots of different places, and liked mashing up lots of different ideas as opposed to sticking to more formal training that we had been taught. The quality of the produce on their doorstep was tremendously exciting.

I stayed for a year and met my wife Sarah in a youth hostel there, who was from Bromley in Kent! She was travelling the garden route, as I was, so we ended up travelling together. We ended up going to Kenya and also going up Mount Kilimanjaro together. Later I came back to the UK…but I never wanted to work in London, due to the reputation for the intensity those restaurants had. I did a year as Chef de Partie at Scott’s in Mayfair, which had 40 Chefs in the kitchen. Scott’s was good but I wanted progression. A Chef de Partie is the backbone of the kitchen…doing all of the cooking. In London I had a bit more of a social life, hours were more reasonable as it was a big crew.

Mentor?

I was looking for a job after I left Scott’s and took some agency work to go to Monaco and work for Maclaren formula one. A French chef knew I was looking for a job, and he suggested the French Embassy in London. I thought it would be great to look inside the kitchen, I did a trial and got on well with the Chef there. It was a small team of 3-4. Head Chef Gil had been there for 20 years…everything was French and I was the first British Chef they’d employed! We’d watch the French news in the staff restaurant…and I had to prove that I could hold my own. They made fresh baguettes there every morning and I had to make them every day until I got it right. Gil was a great mentor and when I left there I went to work for a chef called Mark Hicks. He was a great mentor to me and an incredibly well connected guy. Any events he would do, I would have to cook for…and he would take all the glory! Every meal I did I was cooking for Mark really. I knew what he wanted and started thinking like him: we ended up having a great relationship and great friendship.

Style of cooking / known for?

Only when I came to 45 Jermyn St. when I started doing my own stuff, did my own cooking style emerge. I was quite happy working for Mark, did great stuff in Malibu and at events all over the world, but unfortunately he went into liquidation due to Covid. When I first came to 45 I was still working to a brief and cooking in that style…it had to be on a white plate, because Mark served on white plates etc. Simon Thompson gave me confidence and brought me out of my shell. We did tastings together and the whole experience built my confidence and signature style.

Signature dishes?

The Beef Wellington is great and the theatre is brilliant. I like the truffle custard that I’m putting on it at the moment. A warm set custard with wild mushroom soldiers and a Parmesan Tuiles, with shaved white truffle. 45 is formal but not too formal, there are no table cloths…so you can dip in, but it still has a touch of class based on the menu and cuisine. The journey we’re on now is one that I really enjoy. Looking at the supply chain, and always considering regenerative farming. My brother is a farmer too. Using small producers in the UK, Mark believed in that and so do Fortnum’s.

Fortnum’s crew along the way? (Flesh out)

When I worked for Mark we did Boardroom events here. I knew Chef Director Sydney, and Julien Lanclume as well. Simon had worked at Caprice Holdings previously so we had crossed paths.

I never wanted to end up in a pub or a small neighbourhood restaurant - there’s nothing wrong with that, but I’ve always been looking for somewhere that offered me growth. Which Fortnum’s have.

Best days at Fortnum’s? (flesh out)

Moving out of Marks shadow has been good. Mark Hicks, Rick Stein Jose Pizarro - 45 is now on of their favourite restaurants…and they are people I’ve greatly admired.

Is it about Bringing talent through?

Yes it is. It’s about growing talent inside Fortnum’s. We have a Chef training programme. Here you have everything under one roof, it’s about freeing up their time to learn. I have a pastry chef in 45 who can go and learn how to make afternoon teas which is another skill. Or go and create a dinner event on our new 3rd floor. There’s no need for them to go elsewhere.

How do you find new talent?

Getting the message out on social media is important, it’s a tool we’ve got to get better using. Show that we’re accessible and giving people a chance. I’ve had CVs and been advised that this person wasn’t for me. I’m a believer in getting them in, because it’s about attitude…and investing in people. When it works out it’s brilliant. I have a young guy called Alfie who is a Commis Chef. He has special needs, he loves cooking and all he ever wanted to be is a Chef. Now he’s running the Larder section. So it can be done, but we need to adapt.

I have a few people who can’t read or write, Alfie records everything in his phone, so technology can play its part within reason. There’s also Baker, who’s been with us for 6 years. He came to us from Sierra Leone, he fled the civil war there, spent six years in a camp in Guinea (separated from his family). He is a success story of Fortnum’s even though he can’t read or write. He is the energy in the kitchen, and we need that. He keeps us going when we get tired.….we are also audited, but we have to embrace technology when developing chefs as well…using audio recordings as a tool too. But also recording training sessions eg how to de-bone a lamb etc.

Jaz who is the Head Chef at 45 - we’ve built something together in partnership which is great. I think I probably give people a bit more of a chance due to my dyslexia, I think the empathy comes from there…

Do you cook at home?

I keep it quite simple at home, I like the pasta dishes our Chefs make … 3-4 ingredients that our Chefs make. A bit of linguini with anchovies Parmesan, that’s delicious.

]]> Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:44:04 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sam White, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/chef-sam-white-talks-about-his-career-in-food-drink-fortnum-mason-and-the-hospitality-industry-Shi3kz3L Training?

“It’s started off quite informally, I left school in Taunton in Somerset not really knowing what to do…I even signed up for the Army but I missed an intake - there was a 6 month wait.

My Dad was a Dairy Farmer, my Mum was a Nurse and a really good cook, and I had grown up on a farm with 3 brothers. I was used to an outdoorsy life, so perhaps I thought time in the army would be an adventure. I was also dyslexic, so in part, am sure this influenced my thinking in some way.

Favourite dishes from Mum?

She makes a good pasta bake! Also cooks a delicious ham in cider with a glaze, served with dauphinois potatoes and a parsley sauce. At Xmas it was a Boxing Day thing with my 3 brothers in tow! Every time I’m back it’s like the first time she’s cooked…she asks for my advice, but also has opinions on food, she takes complete credit for all of my culinary success! (Smile) my main culinary influence…

College days…

I enrolled in college and whilst I was there doing business studies I took a part time job washing pots and pans in a converted cow shed called Pod Shavers. A pod shaver? It’s someone who makes cricket bats. The head chef there got me involved in plating dishes, he was also a College lecturer…so he got me doing more in the kitchen. I enjoyed the environment and working weekends being part of the buzzy atmosphere.

Next steps?

I decided I wanted to be a chef, enrolled in the local College in Somerset, who were training Chefs to work in schools and hospitals, but I wanted to be in restaurants. So at 18 years old I got an apprenticeship at the Castle Hotel in Taunton which had a Michelin Star at the time and it’s where Gary Rhodes and Phil Vickery made their names, it’s always been known for championing British produce and British chefs.

I worked for a Chef called Richard Guest who had worked in London under Jean Christophe Novelli. It didn’t phase me because I didn’t mind working hard or long hours. It was a bit of an old school kitchen, there was a standard and you had to produce to that standard.

I went on to work in a restaurant called Givey Park down in Devon with Michael Caines, it had two Michelin stars…the style of food was classically French. He’d trained with Gordon Ramsey when he was young, it was amazing training, as it taught me discipline. I suppose just like being in the army…it was intense, there were 18 hour days, and you lived onsite.

Being dyslexic at school made me feel that I couldn’t carry on in further education…but I knew I needed to work with great Chefs. While I was at The Castle I did a Chef swap, I went to Normandie in France. It was in the middle of nowhere, I was 20,years old and I didn’t speak any French. I was there for about 6 months. It was a smaller restaurant and it made me realise that I didn’t want my own restaurant. The chefs were the first ones in and the last ones out…I realised that it wasn’t the life for me longer term.

I had a plan in my head, but it went out of the window…I was a bit burned out when I came back from France. There was no structure to my career, I was ducking and weaving at the time. I find that in Hospitality you’re promoted because you can cook…but you might then be a Head Chef responsible for 12 other chefs, put in charge of a budget, responsible for HR, but no one’s ever taught you any of that. Head Chefs react how they’ve been taught. But at Fortnum’s now there is lots of management training, which is great.

Mentor?

Confidence had been knocked out of me a bit early on in my career. My Mum had been a midwife in Africa, and I’d always wanted to go and visit. There was a book called the 50 best restaurants in the world, this was before Instagram, so I ended up sending them a letter asking if I could do work experience (unpaid work) in a restaurant in Cape Town. This allowed me to take in Zambia, Botswana and Namibia as a month long overland trip first (along the way). At the time 8 of the top ten best restaurants in Africa existed along this one strip in Franschhoek Valley, which is a wine region in SA.

It was exciting because at the time SA Chefs could come to the UK and get a visa to work in great restaurants. There were great restaurants there too. In SA the Chefs had worked in lots of different places, and liked mashing up lots of different ideas as opposed to sticking to more formal training that we had been taught. The quality of the produce on their doorstep was tremendously exciting.

I stayed for a year and met my wife Sarah in a youth hostel there, who was from Bromley in Kent! She was travelling the garden route, as I was, so we ended up travelling together. We ended up going to Kenya and also going up Mount Kilimanjaro together. Later I came back to the UK…but I never wanted to work in London, due to the reputation for the intensity those restaurants had. I did a year as Chef de Partie at Scott’s in Mayfair, which had 40 Chefs in the kitchen. Scott’s was good but I wanted progression. A Chef de Partie is the backbone of the kitchen…doing all of the cooking. In London I had a bit more of a social life, hours were more reasonable as it was a big crew.

Mentor?

I was looking for a job after I left Scott’s and took some agency work to go to Monaco and work for Maclaren formula one. A French chef knew I was looking for a job, and he suggested the French Embassy in London. I thought it would be great to look inside the kitchen, I did a trial and got on well with the Chef there. It was a small team of 3-4. Head Chef Gil had been there for 20 years…everything was French and I was the first British Chef they’d employed! We’d watch the French news in the staff restaurant…and I had to prove that I could hold my own. They made fresh baguettes there every morning and I had to make them every day until I got it right. Gil was a great mentor and when I left there I went to work for a chef called Mark Hicks. He was a great mentor to me and an incredibly well connected guy. Any events he would do, I would have to cook for…and he would take all the glory! Every meal I did I was cooking for Mark really. I knew what he wanted and started thinking like him: we ended up having a great relationship and great friendship.

Style of cooking / known for?

Only when I came to 45 Jermyn St. when I started doing my own stuff, did my own cooking style emerge. I was quite happy working for Mark, did great stuff in Malibu and at events all over the world, but unfortunately he went into liquidation due to Covid. When I first came to 45 I was still working to a brief and cooking in that style…it had to be on a white plate, because Mark served on white plates etc. Simon Thompson gave me confidence and brought me out of my shell. We did tastings together and the whole experience built my confidence and signature style.

Signature dishes?

The Beef Wellington is great and the theatre is brilliant. I like the truffle custard that I’m putting on it at the moment. A warm set custard with wild mushroom soldiers and a Parmesan Tuiles, with shaved white truffle. 45 is formal but not too formal, there are no table cloths…so you can dip in, but it still has a touch of class based on the menu and cuisine. The journey we’re on now is one that I really enjoy. Looking at the supply chain, and always considering regenerative farming. My brother is a farmer too. Using small producers in the UK, Mark believed in that and so do Fortnum’s.

Fortnum’s crew along the way? (Flesh out)

When I worked for Mark we did Boardroom events here. I knew Chef Director Sydney, and Julien Lanclume as well. Simon had worked at Caprice Holdings previously so we had crossed paths.

I never wanted to end up in a pub or a small neighbourhood restaurant - there’s nothing wrong with that, but I’ve always been looking for somewhere that offered me growth. Which Fortnum’s have.

Best days at Fortnum’s? (flesh out)

Moving out of Marks shadow has been good. Mark Hicks, Rick Stein Jose Pizarro - 45 is now on of their favourite restaurants…and they are people I’ve greatly admired.

Is it about Bringing talent through?

Yes it is. It’s about growing talent inside Fortnum’s. We have a Chef training programme. Here you have everything under one roof, it’s about freeing up their time to learn. I have a pastry chef in 45 who can go and learn how to make afternoon teas which is another skill. Or go and create a dinner event on our new 3rd floor. There’s no need for them to go elsewhere.

How do you find new talent?

Getting the message out on social media is important, it’s a tool we’ve got to get better using. Show that we’re accessible and giving people a chance. I’ve had CVs and been advised that this person wasn’t for me. I’m a believer in getting them in, because it’s about attitude…and investing in people. When it works out it’s brilliant. I have a young guy called Alfie who is a Commis Chef. He has special needs, he loves cooking and all he ever wanted to be is a Chef. Now he’s running the Larder section. So it can be done, but we need to adapt.

I have a few people who can’t read or write, Alfie records everything in his phone, so technology can play its part within reason. There’s also Baker, who’s been with us for 6 years. He came to us from Sierra Leone, he fled the civil war there, spent six years in a camp in Guinea (separated from his family). He is a success story of Fortnum’s even though he can’t read or write. He is the energy in the kitchen, and we need that. He keeps us going when we get tired.….we are also audited, but we have to embrace technology when developing chefs as well…using audio recordings as a tool too. But also recording training sessions eg how to de-bone a lamb etc.

Jaz who is the Head Chef at 45 - we’ve built something together in partnership which is great. I think I probably give people a bit more of a chance due to my dyslexia, I think the empathy comes from there…

Do you cook at home?

I keep it quite simple at home, I like the pasta dishes our Chefs make … 3-4 ingredients that our Chefs make. A bit of linguini with anchovies Parmesan, that’s delicious.

]]> Head Chef at 45 Jermyn St., Sam White, joins us to talk about his early life, adventures around the world, in Africa, France and the UK, but also his career in Food & Drink and the Hospitality Industry. Essential listening for dedicated foodies. Sam White, Sam Bleazard 00:41:23 Growing up in Taunton in Somerset, with 3 brothers, a Dad who was a Dairy Farmer and a Mum who was a Nurse, Sam White wasn't sure what he wanted to do as a career. Due to his dyslexia he considered joining the Army initially, due to a lack of confidence in continuing in the education system. However he went on to take a course in business studies at College, and following a chance meeting with a Head Chef locally - also a College lecturer - he got an apprenticeship. This was to be the first very small step, which led him on a culinary journey around the world. Sam is now the Head Chef at 45 Jermyn St. - Fortnum & Mason's renowned restaurant, where many of his heroes - some of them Michelin Star Chefs - now come to eat. This is his story. Growing up in Taunton in Somerset, with 3 brothers, a Dad who was a Dairy Farmer and a Mum who was a Nurse, Sam White wasn't sure what he wanted to do as a career. Due to his dyslexia he considered joining the Army initially, due to a lack of confidence in continuing in the education system. However he went on to take a course in business studies at College, and following a chance meeting with a Head Chef locally - also a College lecturer - he got an apprenticeship. This was to be the first very small step, which led him on a culinary journey around the world. Sam is now the Head Chef at 45 Jermyn St. - Fortnum & Mason's renowned restaurant, where many of his heroes - some of them Michelin Star Chefs - now come to eat. This is his story. boardroom events, castle hotel, uk army, baguettes, county cricket, chef richard guest, personal chef, mentors, restaurants, chef training, taunton, 181 piccadilly, army, london restaurant, christmas food, fresh baguette, botswana, somerset, kensington palace, phil vickery, london, franschhoek valley, monaco, michael caines, givey park restaurant, french embassy in london, parmesan, social media, cricket bats, botswana and namibia, chef mark hicks, pod shavers restaurant, guaranteeing success, french embassy, chef de partie, gordon ramsey, formula one, hospitality, suppliers, mums cooking, simon thompson, food and drink podcast, catering college, malibu, bbc saturday kitchen, normandie, supply chain, parmesan tuiles, 45 jermyn street, best podcast on chefs, pots and pans, event chef, fortnum's, tangle taunton, luxury retail, foodies, mount kilimanjaro, regenerative farming, piccadilly, scott’s in mayfair, dairy farm, podcast fortnum & mason, fortnum and mason, best new podcast, chef sam white, chef mentors, food & drink awards, maclaren formula one, training, sam white, jean christophe novelli, empathy, fortnum and mason podcast, search engine optimisation, podcast on food, foodie, michelin star restaurants, 45 jermyn st., culinary success, julien lanclume, chef podcast, search engine optimization, top 10 podcasts, namibia, college, mentor, fortnums, the royal exchange, rick stein, fortnum & mason food and drink awards, foodie podcast, dairy farming, roger pizey, apprenticeship, seo, pasta bake, cricket, shaved white truffle, dyslexia, dyslexia, london restaurants, zambia, gary rhodes, new podcast show, hospitality industry, mark hicks, food podcast no full 29 8ec3430a-a08a-4010-bd8d-de7b6aae46a5 In part 2 Angela Hui discusses food, culture and family, reflecting on life from behind the counter of The Lucky Star Chinese Takeaway in rural Wales. She also shares favourite restaurants and new projects. Essential for foodies and storytellers. Angela Hui PART 2 

INTRO

2mins - The awkwardness of the teenage years, trying to fit in and coming from a place 'where I didn't know who I was...'

6mins30s - We didn't really appreciate where we grew up...'but it was mine and I wouldn't change it for the world...it made me who I am'

8mins30s - Starting to be accepted into the community, keeping a balanced perspective on racism and the sadness of the decline of the Chinese Takeaway.

10mins - Reflecting on the great characters in Wales, and Angela's perspective and reflections on racism.

11mins - Losing the human connection and the fabric of community during Covid-19...and how the Chinese takeaway brought various walks of life together - being 'the after-party for the pub'.

12mins30s - What's so special about Chinese Takeaways...

14mins - Sam's memories of eating Chinese food in Morar and Mallaig in Western Scotland...

15mins30s - Angela's thoughts on Hospitality traditions and memories of eating family meals.

16mins - 'I'm a sucker for steamed Sea Bass...', Angela's thoughts on how to make it.

17mins - Not eating meat, and trying to be a pescatarian..."my parents didn't understand..."

19mins - Chefs and Food authors admired by Angela...different types of food writing, and creating news channels for Hospitality workers who found themselves unemployed.

22mins30s - Angela talks about new projects that she's working on at the moment, including looking at Chinatowns all over the world.

25mins - Being 'unhinged' on social media and sharing updates with a sense of humour...and no filter!

26mins - The last paragraph in the book, 'burying grief...and serving behind the counter one last time...'

27mins - Mapping the remaining UK Chinese Takeaways and Angela's personal favourites.

30mins - Final thoughts and memories of Mum & Dad...

]]> Fri, 27 Oct 2023 07:13:37 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder, Angela Hui) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/angela-hui-part-2-JvsKeHZv Angela Hui PART 2 

INTRO

2mins - The awkwardness of the teenage years, trying to fit in and coming from a place 'where I didn't know who I was...'

6mins30s - We didn't really appreciate where we grew up...'but it was mine and I wouldn't change it for the world...it made me who I am'

8mins30s - Starting to be accepted into the community, keeping a balanced perspective on racism and the sadness of the decline of the Chinese Takeaway.

10mins - Reflecting on the great characters in Wales, and Angela's perspective and reflections on racism.

11mins - Losing the human connection and the fabric of community during Covid-19...and how the Chinese takeaway brought various walks of life together - being 'the after-party for the pub'.

12mins30s - What's so special about Chinese Takeaways...

14mins - Sam's memories of eating Chinese food in Morar and Mallaig in Western Scotland...

15mins30s - Angela's thoughts on Hospitality traditions and memories of eating family meals.

16mins - 'I'm a sucker for steamed Sea Bass...', Angela's thoughts on how to make it.

17mins - Not eating meat, and trying to be a pescatarian..."my parents didn't understand..."

19mins - Chefs and Food authors admired by Angela...different types of food writing, and creating news channels for Hospitality workers who found themselves unemployed.

22mins30s - Angela talks about new projects that she's working on at the moment, including looking at Chinatowns all over the world.

25mins - Being 'unhinged' on social media and sharing updates with a sense of humour...and no filter!

26mins - The last paragraph in the book, 'burying grief...and serving behind the counter one last time...'

27mins - Mapping the remaining UK Chinese Takeaways and Angela's personal favourites.

30mins - Final thoughts and memories of Mum & Dad...

]]> In part 2 Angela Hui discusses food, culture and family, reflecting on life from behind the counter of The Lucky Star Chinese Takeaway in rural Wales. She also shares favourite restaurants and new projects. Essential for foodies and storytellers. Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder, Angela Hui 00:31:37 The awkwardness of childhood, wanting to fit in as a teenager, being accepted and eventually finding herself. In part 2 of this interview Angela Hui charts the journey of her life through food, culture, and a wonderfully unique perspective from behind the counter of The Lucky Star Chinese Takeaway in rural Wales. Essential for foodies, food lovers and story-tellers alike. Angela also reflects on racism, and tells Sam Bleazard that she's proud of where she grew up and loved the characters she grew up around. They also discuss losing the human connection and the fabric of community during Covid-19...and how the Chinese takeaway brought various walks of life together - being 'the after-party for the pub'. Angela also discusses her favourite foodies, being unhinged on social media, and reveals just some of the projects she's been working on since the publication of her successful book Takeaway. The awkwardness of childhood, wanting to fit in as a teenager, being accepted and eventually finding herself. In part 2 of this interview Angela Hui charts the journey of her life through food, culture, and a wonderfully unique perspective from behind the counter of The Lucky Star Chinese Takeaway in rural Wales. Essential for foodies, food lovers and story-tellers alike. Angela also reflects on racism, and tells Sam Bleazard that she's proud of where she grew up and loved the characters she grew up around. They also discuss losing the human connection and the fabric of community during Covid-19...and how the Chinese takeaway brought various walks of life together - being 'the after-party for the pub'. Angela also discusses her favourite foodies, being unhinged on social media, and reveals just some of the projects she's been working on since the publication of her successful book Takeaway. hakka cuisine, hong kong, welsh valleys, growing crops, the chinese cultural revolution, chives, guardian, chinese studies, mahjong, growing pains, sense of self, east asia, chinese recipes, lonely planet, refinery29, article for vice, documenting chinese culture, the guardian, new podcast alert, best podcast for foodies, gal dem, waterstones, teenage diary, shark fin melons, uncle wrinkle, deliveroo, deep fat fryer, angela hui gal dem, wales, identity, sam bleazard, recipe book, growing herbs, chinese takeaways, paperback, angela hui guardian, best podcast on food, chinese takeaways in the uk, hackney community centre, shark fin melon soup, welsh culture, orion publishing, sense of belonging, new podcast on chinese food, huffpost, writer, south east asians, fortnum & mason, new podcast for foodies, comms from the shed, chest freezers, translation, farm, article for the guardian on chinese food, angela hui journalist, orchids, rekki, angela hui, angela hui the guardian, financial times, vice, fortnum and mason, best new podcast, timeout, just eat, growing up, food & drink awards, working hard, huff post, the lucky star, angela hui takeaway, chinese takeaway uk, search engine optimisation, new podcast on food and drink, timeout magazine, the power of chi, sweet and sour sauce, steamed sea bass, chinese takeaway, new podcast on food, uber eats, search engine optimization, journalist, wholefoods, fortnums, sense of identity, lockdown, medicinal soups, food as medicine, childhood, chinese cultural revolution, welsh chinese takeaway, eat well, new podcast episode, podcast on chinese food, gal-dem, seo, green fingers, diary writing, independent, chinese culture, chinese food, best podcast on chinese food, journalism no full 28 b3f6395e-6ce7-4606-b06d-4d9aeafd1866 Love letter to Hospitality businesses? Teenage diary? Recipe book? Journalist Angela Hui talks to Sam Bleazard about the writing of Takeaway and what it was like growing up in rural Wales as a Chinese girl. INTRO

1mins30s - Paperback coming out, being shortlisted for Awards...and writing as the solitary profession.

2mins30s - Delighted by the response 'from such a wide demographic'

4mins - what was the original idea for the book? Multi dimensional approach...from extensive notes and memories taken during the Covid lockdown.

6mins30s - ...feeling very torn on identity growing up in rural South Wales, but also proud of being Welsh.

7mins30s - Helping out in the Takeaway as a teenager, reflecting on childhood and testing recipes with Mum...'an incredibly obsessive cook'.

11mins - 'Wanting to celebrate Hospitality businesses'...memories of a Scottish childhood from Sam.

13mins - Angela's Parents' reactions to her book? "Incredibly proud...but they'll never say the 'P' word."

14mins - Book launch in Hackney Community Centre, why it meant so much to host it there.

16mins - Extract one from the book: quotes from readers, and steamed seabass with ginger and spring onion.

18mins45s - How the book helped Angela understand her own identity with the passing of time.

19mins30s - Regrets over the language barrier, and wishing to know her parents at a deeper level.

22mins - Speaking to her brothers many years on, about how she felt, their responsibilities, and the challenges of working in the takeaway as a young, vulnerable girl...

26mins - Growing Shark Fin Melons...Angela's Mum and her make-shift garden in Wales - why it was so poignant.

28mins54s - 'she grew up in the cultural revolution...she didn't have an education...'

30mins - The health benefits of Chinese soups - 'this soup will cure your asthma!'

32mins - How Chinese families 'soldiered on...not really kicking up a fuss...' - and the cultural dynamic of not wanting to draw attention to themselves.

]]> Wed, 30 Aug 2023 06:22:30 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Angela Hui, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/love-letter-to-hospitality-businesses-teenage-diary-recipe-book-journalist-angela-hui-talks-to-sam-bleazard-about-the-writing-of-takeaway-and-what-it-was-like-growing-up-in-rural-wales-as-a-chinese-girl-sFAyivzC INTRO

1mins30s - Paperback coming out, being shortlisted for Awards...and writing as the solitary profession.

2mins30s - Delighted by the response 'from such a wide demographic'

4mins - what was the original idea for the book? Multi dimensional approach...from extensive notes and memories taken during the Covid lockdown.

6mins30s - ...feeling very torn on identity growing up in rural South Wales, but also proud of being Welsh.

7mins30s - Helping out in the Takeaway as a teenager, reflecting on childhood and testing recipes with Mum...'an incredibly obsessive cook'.

11mins - 'Wanting to celebrate Hospitality businesses'...memories of a Scottish childhood from Sam.

13mins - Angela's Parents' reactions to her book? "Incredibly proud...but they'll never say the 'P' word."

14mins - Book launch in Hackney Community Centre, why it meant so much to host it there.

16mins - Extract one from the book: quotes from readers, and steamed seabass with ginger and spring onion.

18mins45s - How the book helped Angela understand her own identity with the passing of time.

19mins30s - Regrets over the language barrier, and wishing to know her parents at a deeper level.

22mins - Speaking to her brothers many years on, about how she felt, their responsibilities, and the challenges of working in the takeaway as a young, vulnerable girl...

26mins - Growing Shark Fin Melons...Angela's Mum and her make-shift garden in Wales - why it was so poignant.

28mins54s - 'she grew up in the cultural revolution...she didn't have an education...'

30mins - The health benefits of Chinese soups - 'this soup will cure your asthma!'

32mins - How Chinese families 'soldiered on...not really kicking up a fuss...' - and the cultural dynamic of not wanting to draw attention to themselves.

]]> Love letter to Hospitality businesses? Teenage diary? Recipe book? Journalist Angela Hui talks to Sam Bleazard about the writing of Takeaway and what it was like growing up in rural Wales as a Chinese girl. Angela Hui, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard 00:35:58 Angela Hui is an award-winning journalist, editor and author of Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter. Her work has been published in gal-dem, Guardian, Financial Times, HuffPost, Independent, Lonely Planet, Refinery29, Vice, among others. She was the former editor at REKKI and food and drink editor at Time Out. Currently, she's freelance. Love letter to Hospitality businesses? Teenage diary? Recipe book? In part 1 of this podcast, Angela talks to Sam Bleazard about the writing of Takeaway and what it was like growing up in rural Wales as a Chinese girl. Photography courtesy of Kenneth Lam. Angela Hui is an award-winning journalist, editor and author of Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter. Her work has been published in gal-dem, Guardian, Financial Times, HuffPost, Independent, Lonely Planet, Refinery29, Vice, among others. She was the former editor at REKKI and food and drink editor at Time Out. Currently, she's freelance. Love letter to Hospitality businesses? Teenage diary? Recipe book? In part 1 of this podcast, Angela talks to Sam Bleazard about the writing of Takeaway and what it was like growing up in rural Wales as a Chinese girl. Photography courtesy of Kenneth Lam. hakka cuisine, hong kong, welsh valleys, growing crops, the chinese cultural revolution, chives, guardian, chinese studies, mahjong, growing pains, sense of self, east asia, chinese recipes, lonely planet, refinery29, article for vice, documenting chinese culture, the guardian, new podcast alert, best podcast for foodies, gal dem, teenage diary, shark fin melons, uncle wrinkle, deliveroo, deep fat fryer, angela hui gal dem, wales, identity, recipe book, growing herbs, chinese takeaways, paperback, angela hui guardian, best podcast on food, angela hui wales, chinese takeaways in the uk, hackney community centre, shark fin melon soup, welsh culture, orion publishing, sense of belonging, new podcast on chinese food, huffpost, writer, south east asians, new podcast for foodies, chest freezers, translation, farm, article for the guardian on chinese food, angela hui journalist, orchids, rekki, angela hui, angela hui the guardian, financial times, vice, timeout, just eat, growing up, working hard, huff post, angela hui takeaway, chinese takeaway uk, search engine optimisation, new podcast on food and drink, timeout magazine, the power of chi, sweet and sour sauce, steamed sea bass, new podcast on food, angela hui timeout, uber eats, search engine optimization, journalist, wholefoods, sense of identity, lockdown, medicinal soups, food as medicine, childhood, chinese cultural revolution, welsh chinese takeaway, eat well, new podcast episode, podcast on chinese food, gal-dem, seo, green fingers, diary writing, independent, chinese culture, chinese food, best podcast on chinese food, journalism no full 27 c9cc8985-c3f1-4182-831e-f59a6cb33e7e In part 2 of Sam's interview with Sarah Lazenby they discuss why people insights matter, mentoring the next generation and neurodiverse family care. And how tough times at school shaped her outlook and unconventional approach to job interviews. PART 2 - Sarah Lazenby in conversation with Sam Bleazard

INTRO

1min - What communication skills might we have lost in the current landscape? "Keep adapting, and keep very open-minded..."

3mins - The missing insight into our audiences...

7mins - Finding your purpose post Covid-19, crisis comms and Communications professionals having a seat at the table.

14mins - Communicators that you admire?

17mins30 - Board of Trustees for the Sussex Community Development Association - addressing the needs of local people, being a carer and neurodiversity in the family

20mins - What would Sarah's one piece of advice be to any young person thinking of a career in communications?

23mins - Any life lessons gained in your school years? Bullying at school, escaping into drama and first job interviews...

25mins - Tell us something we wouldn't know about you!

]]> Tue, 6 Jun 2023 06:29:12 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sarah Lazenby, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder, Sarah Monk) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/sarah-lazenby-part-2-7VkL52MU PART 2 - Sarah Lazenby in conversation with Sam Bleazard

INTRO

1min - What communication skills might we have lost in the current landscape? "Keep adapting, and keep very open-minded..."

3mins - The missing insight into our audiences...

7mins - Finding your purpose post Covid-19, crisis comms and Communications professionals having a seat at the table.

14mins - Communicators that you admire?

17mins30 - Board of Trustees for the Sussex Community Development Association - addressing the needs of local people, being a carer and neurodiversity in the family

20mins - What would Sarah's one piece of advice be to any young person thinking of a career in communications?

23mins - Any life lessons gained in your school years? Bullying at school, escaping into drama and first job interviews...

25mins - Tell us something we wouldn't know about you!

]]> In part 2 of Sam's interview with Sarah Lazenby they discuss why people insights matter, mentoring the next generation and neurodiverse family care. And how tough times at school shaped her outlook and unconventional approach to job interviews. Sarah Lazenby, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder, Sarah Monk 00:30:50 Sarah Lazenby has an in-depth knowledge of communication and employee engagement, having worked across multiple industries including healthcare, retail, financial services, IT, manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, rail, telecoms and UK Government. She is a Fellow of the UK's Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC); an award-winning writer and editor; winner for Team of the Year in the Communique Awards 2021, and is a Member of the Board of Trustees for the Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) - which runs community based projects aimed at addressing the needs of local people. In this fascinating and funny interview she talks about her love of journalism, how her career began and some of the hilarious stories and experiences she's had along the way. Sarah's depth of knowledge in communications at complex organisations; crisis and issues management; leadership coaching; commercial instincts; and social / digital media skills, have stood her in good stead throughout a colourful life and career. She's also passionate about integrating internal and external communications, to bring campaigns, brands and business strategies to life for everyone. Sarah Lazenby has an in-depth knowledge of communication and employee engagement, having worked across multiple industries including healthcare, retail, financial services, IT, manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, rail, telecoms and UK Government. She is a Fellow of the UK's Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC); an award-winning writer and editor; winner for Team of the Year in the Communique Awards 2021, and is a Member of the Board of Trustees for the Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) - which runs community based projects aimed at addressing the needs of local people. In this fascinating and funny interview she talks about her love of journalism, how her career began and some of the hilarious stories and experiences she's had along the way. Sarah's depth of knowledge in communications at complex organisations; crisis and issues management; leadership coaching; commercial instincts; and social / digital media skills, have stood her in good stead throughout a colourful life and career. She's also passionate about integrating internal and external communications, to bring campaigns, brands and business strategies to life for everyone. employee insights, communication agencies, press release, crisis communication, corporate writing, resilience, hmrc, purpose, neurodiversity, sarah lazenby, dear deirdre letters, love of writing, authentic communication, writing in corporate communications, press releases, hilary scarlett, coaching, harvard business review, building trust in communication, communications career advice, london, millions of readers, social media, levi jeans, kelvin mckenzie, new podcast alert, paddington rail, spotify podcast, flight international news, leadership traits, pilot for howard hughes, pre internet days, work related psychology, line managers, employee value proposition, communications consultancy, typewriters, sports editor, journalistic techniques, it consultants, eastbourne, network rail, jedi knight, singapore, favourite bosses, page 3 girls, joining up your communications, neuro diverse, internal communication, corporate jobs, behavioural change, best podcast on employee communication, cv, people are fascinating, regional news, what makes people tick, kelvin mackenzie, news international, editorial guidelines, llamas, value proposition, isle of dogs, crisis comms consultancy, healthcare industry, tabloid news, engage for change, apple podcast, early experiences in journalism, being collaborative at work, forbes, communication as a profession, employee insight, nosey parker, corporate journalism, howard hughes, podcast on effective communication, best podcast on internal communication, railtrack, best podcast on corporate comms, best new podcast, tabloid journalism, typewriter, nosey, the sun newspaper, favourite line manager, story sharing, nctj, national certificate for trainee journalists, roche diagnostics, oil & gas industry, best podcast on communications, writing, employee communications, alan peaford mbe, working to deadlines, royal mail, alan peaford, search engine optimisation, flying jacket, dear deirdre column, dear deirdre the sun, millennium bug, pre social media age, page 3 girl, press & pr, organisational purpose, search engine optimization, mud wrestling, the rail industry, marketing executive, external communication team, the power of change, is there anything else you think i should know?, pilot, institute for internal communication, supporting your people, change comms, the cabinet office, who what why when and how?, employee engagement, sun newspaper, the sun, employee publications, y2k, new podcast episode, best leadership qualities, journalism disciplines, flight international, local newspapers, being resilient, seo, royal mail group, regional press, roche healthcare, human interest stories, best podcast on employee comms, best stories from journalism days, funny stories, eastbourne advertiser, finding stories, leaders who make you feel that anything is possible, journalism no full 26 231d3bcc-60dd-4e90-a842-9d17b78c70fd Storytelling and the journalistic impulse. Sam chats to his mentor in Communications Sarah Lazenby, about mischief, memories and focusing on what matters in employee communications. Sam Bleazard in conversation with Sarah Lazenby pt 1.

1min30s - '...my heart is in healthcare...'

2mins30s - Investigative journalist at heart? "I was nosey as a child...and always loved writing..."

3mins30s - "Is there anything else you think I should know...?"

5mins - Working on the Eastbourne Advertiser and getting a letter from Levi Jeans in the US - threatening legal action.

6mins43s - "Saving Sarah on the South Coast!" Getting a shot on the News features desk in the '80s...

7mins30s - Queuing outside Kelvin Mackenzie's office...

8mins30s - Editing the Dear Deirdre letter column at The Sun

11mins - Writing in a disciplined way, and being a great Editor

12mins30s - Sarah's funniest stories at The Sun newpaper, "...there were 4m readers at the time..."

13mins30s - Corporate storytelling, and fantastic tales...

16mins - Is there mischief in it at some level?

17mins - Holding up a mirror sometimes...the importance of authenticity and being resilient

18mins - Memories of first corporate roles

19mins - Moving into consultancy and managin crisis comms in the Rail industry

22mins - How has Internal Communications changed over the years as a profession? Behavioural change and the role of leaders...

24mins - Working closely with External Comms teams

26mins - Favourite bosses or line managers over the years?

28mins - A love of mud-wrestling!  

29mins - "I love a leader where you feel that anything is possible..."

]]> Tue, 9 May 2023 05:59:34 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sarah Lazenby, Sarah Monk, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/storytelling-and-the-journalistic-impulse-sam-chats-to-his-mentor-in-communications-sarah-lazenby-about-mischief-memories-and-focusing-on-what-matters-__Gwwchy Sam Bleazard in conversation with Sarah Lazenby pt 1.

1min30s - '...my heart is in healthcare...'

2mins30s - Investigative journalist at heart? "I was nosey as a child...and always loved writing..."

3mins30s - "Is there anything else you think I should know...?"

5mins - Working on the Eastbourne Advertiser and getting a letter from Levi Jeans in the US - threatening legal action.

6mins43s - "Saving Sarah on the South Coast!" Getting a shot on the News features desk in the '80s...

7mins30s - Queuing outside Kelvin Mackenzie's office...

8mins30s - Editing the Dear Deirdre letter column at The Sun

11mins - Writing in a disciplined way, and being a great Editor

12mins30s - Sarah's funniest stories at The Sun newpaper, "...there were 4m readers at the time..."

13mins30s - Corporate storytelling, and fantastic tales...

16mins - Is there mischief in it at some level?

17mins - Holding up a mirror sometimes...the importance of authenticity and being resilient

18mins - Memories of first corporate roles

19mins - Moving into consultancy and managin crisis comms in the Rail industry

22mins - How has Internal Communications changed over the years as a profession? Behavioural change and the role of leaders...

24mins - Working closely with External Comms teams

26mins - Favourite bosses or line managers over the years?

28mins - A love of mud-wrestling!  

29mins - "I love a leader where you feel that anything is possible..."

]]> Storytelling and the journalistic impulse. Sam chats to his mentor in Communications Sarah Lazenby, about mischief, memories and focusing on what matters in employee communications. Sarah Lazenby, Sarah Monk, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder 00:30:33 Sarah Lazenby has an in-depth knowledge of communication and employee engagement, having worked across multiple industries including healthcare, retail, financial services, IT, manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, rail, telecoms and UK Government. She is a Fellow of the UK's Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC); an award-winning writer and editor; winner for Team of the Year in the Communique Awards 2021, and is a Member of the Board of Trustees for the Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) - which runs community based projects aimed at addressing the needs of local people. In this fascinating and funny interview she talks about her love of journalism, how her career began and some of the hilarious stories and experiences she's had along the way. Sarah's depth of knowledge in communications at complex organisations; crisis and issues management; leadership coaching; commercial instincts; and social / digital media skills, have stood her in good stead throughout a colourful life and career. She's also passionate about integrating internal and external communications, to bring campaigns, brands and business strategies to life for everyone. Sarah Lazenby has an in-depth knowledge of communication and employee engagement, having worked across multiple industries including healthcare, retail, financial services, IT, manufacturing, oil and gas, utilities, rail, telecoms and UK Government. She is a Fellow of the UK's Institute of Internal Communication (IoIC); an award-winning writer and editor; winner for Team of the Year in the Communique Awards 2021, and is a Member of the Board of Trustees for the Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) - which runs community based projects aimed at addressing the needs of local people. In this fascinating and funny interview she talks about her love of journalism, how her career began and some of the hilarious stories and experiences she's had along the way. Sarah's depth of knowledge in communications at complex organisations; crisis and issues management; leadership coaching; commercial instincts; and social / digital media skills, have stood her in good stead throughout a colourful life and career. She's also passionate about integrating internal and external communications, to bring campaigns, brands and business strategies to life for everyone. employee insights, communication agencies, press release, crisis communication, corporate writing, resilience, hmrc, purpose, sarah lazenby, dear deirdre letters, love of writing, authentic communication, writing in corporate communications, press releases, hilary scarlett, coaching, harvard business review, building trust in communication, communications career advice, london, millions of readers, social media, levi jeans, kelvin mckenzie, new podcast alert, paddington rail, spotify podcast, flight international news, leadership traits, pilot for howard hughes, pre internet days, work related psychology, line managers, employee value proposition, communications consultancy, typewriters, sports editor, journalistic techniques, it consultants, eastbourne, network rail, jedi knight, singapore, favourite bosses, page 3 girls, joining up your communications, internal communication, corporate jobs, behavioural change, best podcast on employee communication, cv, people are fascinating, regional news, what makes people tick, kelvin mackenzie, news international, editorial guidelines, llamas, value proposition, isle of dogs, crisis comms consultancy, healthcare industry, tabloid news, engage for change, apple podcast, early experiences in journalism, being collaborative at work, forbes, communication as a profession, employee insight, nosey parker, corporate journalism, howard hughes, podcast on effective communication, best podcast on internal communication, railtrack, best podcast on corporate comms, best new podcast, tabloid journalism, typewriter, nosey, the sun newspaper, favourite line manager, story sharing, nctj, national certificate for trainee journalists, roche diagnostics, oil & gas industry, best podcast on communications, writing, employee communications, alan peaford mbe, working to deadlines, royal mail, alan peaford, search engine optimisation, flying jacket, dear deirdre column, dear deirdre the sun, millennium bug, pre social media age, page 3 girl, press & pr, organisational purpose, search engine optimization, mud wrestling, the rail industry, marketing executive, external communication team, the power of change, is there anything else you think i should know?, pilot, institute for internal communication, supporting your people, change comms, the cabinet office, who what why when and how?, employee engagement, sun newspaper, the sun, employee publications, y2k, new podcast episode, best leadership qualities, journalism disciplines, flight international, local newspapers, being resilient, seo, royal mail group, regional press, roche healthcare, human interest stories, best podcast on employee comms, best stories from journalism days, funny stories, eastbourne advertiser, finding stories, leaders who make you feel that anything is possible, journalism no full 25 7050b402-3da3-4219-af28-7327ca49849b Part 2 of our interview with Candid Career Coach, LinkedIn Top Voice and influencer Vicki Marinker. We meet the person behind the professional and talk Tik Tok, karaoke bars, content creation top tips and so much more. Essential listening. Intro to part 2

1min30s - Tik Tok, Employer Brand and recruitment: sharing short form tips and tricks.

3mins30s - Tik Tok as educational platform and search engine.

5mins - Going viral without any followers via the For You Page #fyp.

7mins45s - Being a karaoke enthusiast, early gigs and wanting to be a backing singer 'when I grew up'.

9mins30s - Seeing The Cure, Bananarama, Duran Duran and Prince - serving hot dogs and drinks at Wembley Arena.

11mins30s - Being an introverted exhibitionist, and going for the high notes! "My singing voice has gotten worse, not better"

13mins15s - Side hustles, lifestyle blogs, podcasting, #uglyfood and income streams.

15mins30s - Content creation get easier "...once you open yourself up to it, the ideas come from everywhere!"

19mins30s - "Every like and comment makes a difference to people..." - and the discomfort of showing your face online.

23mins - Career highlights, what makes you feel good, and what you love about what you do..."helping people find fulfilment."

]]> Thu, 2 Feb 2023 07:08:47 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sam Bleazard, Vicki Marinker) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/part-2-of-our-recruitment-special-with-candid-career-coach-and-linkedin-influencer-vicki-marinker-we-talk-about-all-aspects-of-the-job-market-in-2023-including-tik-tok-essential-listening-7O_z05WN Intro to part 2

1min30s - Tik Tok, Employer Brand and recruitment: sharing short form tips and tricks.

3mins30s - Tik Tok as educational platform and search engine.

5mins - Going viral without any followers via the For You Page #fyp.

7mins45s - Being a karaoke enthusiast, early gigs and wanting to be a backing singer 'when I grew up'.

9mins30s - Seeing The Cure, Bananarama, Duran Duran and Prince - serving hot dogs and drinks at Wembley Arena.

11mins30s - Being an introverted exhibitionist, and going for the high notes! "My singing voice has gotten worse, not better"

13mins15s - Side hustles, lifestyle blogs, podcasting, #uglyfood and income streams.

15mins30s - Content creation get easier "...once you open yourself up to it, the ideas come from everywhere!"

19mins30s - "Every like and comment makes a difference to people..." - and the discomfort of showing your face online.

23mins - Career highlights, what makes you feel good, and what you love about what you do..."helping people find fulfilment."

]]> Part 2 of our interview with Candid Career Coach, LinkedIn Top Voice and influencer Vicki Marinker. We meet the person behind the professional and talk Tik Tok, karaoke bars, content creation top tips and so much more. Essential listening. Sam Bleazard, Vicki Marinker 00:27:44 Join us for part 2 of our recruitment special podcast with LinkedIn Top Voice Vicki Marinker, where we talk about the suitability of Tik Tok for recruitment, and as newly discovered search engine. We also talk about her personal life, love of karaoke and her musical past. Tune in as Vicki shares more of her essential insights as we discuss the challenges of content creation online, and how it gets easier with time. Join us for part 2 of our recruitment special podcast with LinkedIn Top Voice Vicki Marinker, where we talk about the suitability of Tik Tok for recruitment, and as newly discovered search engine. We also talk about her personal life, love of karaoke and her musical past. Tune in as Vicki shares more of her essential insights as we discuss the challenges of content creation online, and how it gets easier with time. humble brag, best practice job search, employment advice, the importance of a personal brand, social media top tips, social media influencers, wanted to be a singer, purpose, showing vulnerability, trends in the world of work, be kind, renewal, look at your cv with fresh eyes, multiple interviews, standing out online, being true to yourself, job seekers podcast, finding your purpose, instagram stories, employer brand, podcast on kindness, bbc good food, tik tok for job seekers, 4 day week, interview advice, sharing your story, return to the office, linkedin, candid coaching, ats tracking on cvs, what people say about you when you're not in the room, #linkedin, job search, instagram, duran duran, career advice, challenging job market, feeling vulnerable on social media, agility, discomfort, communications consultancy, channel 4, office working, itunes, best business podcast, dealing with ambiguity, freelancers, best communication podcast, brushing up your cv, communications director, what do you want to be famous for?, sharing opinions on social media, the great resignation, career trends, sam bleazard, the job market, the comfort zone, attracting talent, chief executive officer, great resignation, bored at work, best podcast for recruitment, comms from the shed podcast, recruiters as counsellors, work life balance, dealing with human emotions, #personal brand, internal communication, best podcast on changing career, sense of purpose, multiple careers, cost of living crisis, best new podcast on linkedin, cv, best practice on linkedin, a time for renewal, facebook, best internal communication podcast, influencers, the job market podcast, economic downturn, executive career influencers, negotiating a promotion, marcomms careers, january blues, going through tough times, diversity and inclusion, technology and automation, freelancing, fortnum & mason, internal politics, bbc, career coaching, job search podcast, candidates on tik tok, recruitment consultant podcast, new podcast on linkedin, tik tok tips and tricks, prince, linkedin influencer, tik tok as search engine, linkedin stories, karaoke enthusiast, karaoke, search engine optimisation, search engine optimization, best podcast on careers, storytelling on your cv, bananarama, finding fulfilment, new careers podcast, tik tok tips, best podcast on linkedin, seo, new podcast on communications, helping people, vicki marinker, portfolio careers, podcast on purpose, content creation, purpose podcast, new podcast on careers, living your values no full 24 af8a5568-b53c-4a61-95a6-64d3dc864bea Candid Career Coach and LinkedIn influencer Vicki Marinker took inspiration from her own candidate experiences to help clients with their job search. Join us for this two-part recruitment special on the job market in 2023. Essential listening. PODCAST notes

2mins - January being one of the busiest times of the year for recruiters

3mins - The role of recruiter as therapist, counsellor and advisor - 'has never been a transaction for me' - dealing with human beings and emotions.

5mins - Managing expectations as a recruiter - and the candidate experience

9mins - What is the legacy of 2021 and 2022 from a recruitment perspective?

13mins - The outlook for 2023, candidates continuing to want more, and employers starting to take back control?

16mins - Vicki's advice for candidates entering the market right now

17mins - Recruiters looking at how active candidates are on LinkedIn and social media, telling a compelling story

21mins - The importance of a Personal Brand for professionals and 15 years to be an overnight success

27mins - Vulnerability and being 'bullied, bored and burnt-out'...why it's liberating to make changes in your life

]]> Tue, 10 Jan 2023 07:15:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Vicki Marinker, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/vicki-marinker-mxa9H3Sh PODCAST notes

2mins - January being one of the busiest times of the year for recruiters

3mins - The role of recruiter as therapist, counsellor and advisor - 'has never been a transaction for me' - dealing with human beings and emotions.

5mins - Managing expectations as a recruiter - and the candidate experience

9mins - What is the legacy of 2021 and 2022 from a recruitment perspective?

13mins - The outlook for 2023, candidates continuing to want more, and employers starting to take back control?

16mins - Vicki's advice for candidates entering the market right now

17mins - Recruiters looking at how active candidates are on LinkedIn and social media, telling a compelling story

21mins - The importance of a Personal Brand for professionals and 15 years to be an overnight success

27mins - Vulnerability and being 'bullied, bored and burnt-out'...why it's liberating to make changes in your life

]]> Candid Career Coach and LinkedIn influencer Vicki Marinker took inspiration from her own candidate experiences to help clients with their job search. Join us for this two-part recruitment special on the job market in 2023. Essential listening. Vicki Marinker, Sam Bleazard 00:33:58 Are you looking for a job right now? Are you thinking of changing career? Listen in as I speak to the Candid Career Coach Vicki Marinker, about the jobs market in 2023 (following the resource crisis of 2022), AI CV tracking, being an influencer on LinkedIn and the importance of professional employees developing their Personal brand. It took Vicki '15 years to be an overnight success' and has turned unhappiness - confessing to having been bullied, bored and burnt out it has taken her 23 years to apply all of her knowledge for the benefit of clients. Her advice - 'if you're unhappy move - you're not a tree! You can change and good things can come from that.' We also discuss the importance of overcoming hard times, the challenge in showing vulnerability and why it's important to present yourself as a whole person - not just a successful one. Join us in part 2 when we talk Tik Tok from a recruitment perspective, the importance of Employer Brand, finding your sense of purpose, some of Vicki's career highlights and a slightly mis-spent youth which led to a serious love for karaoke! Are you looking for a job right now? Are you thinking of changing career? Listen in as I speak to the Candid Career Coach Vicki Marinker, about the jobs market in 2023 (following the resource crisis of 2022), AI CV tracking, being an influencer on LinkedIn and the importance of professional employees developing their Personal brand. It took Vicki '15 years to be an overnight success' and has turned unhappiness - confessing to having been bullied, bored and burnt out it has taken her 23 years to apply all of her knowledge for the benefit of clients. 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But also cocktails and the best seats in the house. Mustafa Tumburi - Bar Manager at 45 Jermyn St.

On meeting Mustafa (or ‘Musty’ as he’s known) for the first time, I sit as he makes me a #55 - and I learn that each number corresponds to something to do with the drink..."it's served with a shot of Cachaça, a variant of rum made in Brazil..and 55 is the country code for Brazil."

So I kick off with the obvious question…

What's your history with Fortnum’s?

"I joined in the winter of 2016, and I've been with the company six years. I started as a bartender...so when our Head Bartender moved to another position I took that role. When the Bar Manager left to work on a project with our Hong Kong team, I took over the position of Bar Manager"

How do responsibilities vary between the different bar roles?

"When you're a bartender you have to make sure that the limes are cut just right, otherwise the Bar Manager will have something to say about it...and in that role it's opening and closing duties, plus service. Also learning how to deal with the prep that goes into making all of our lovely ingredients. There's quite a lot to learn as I think there are about 15-16 different homemade ingredients in our menu.”

Once you become the Head Bar Tender it's your job to support the Bar Manager, and start ordering, but also being responsible for keeping the bar stocked. Once you get to Bar Manager you're partly responsible for the success of the Bar, and you have to lead the team, motivate and inspire them.”

Favourite things?

"One of my favourite things about 45 Jermyn St. is that we're very egalitarian when it comes to menu development. So everyone has a go. It doesn't matter if you're a junior bartender or you're a senior bartender, or if you're the Bar Manager, everybody has input into making our drinks.

As Bar Manager - when our people are developing drinks - what I try to do is guide their ideas and try to elevate them, but also ask them if they've tried pairing with other ingredients.”

Have we got a drink that's unique to 45 Jermyn St.?

"Yes! We've got a few. One drink I'd like to highlight...

We've been quite hot on re-use as part of our sustainability drive, so what we want to do is try to figure out any way that we can squeeze the last drop out of any ingredient. A good example of that is The Thicket. A cocktail originally developed for our FIELD restaurant, which we've started developing at 45 Jermyn St. as well. One of our ingredients is Raspberry cordial, and it shows up in our ice cream floats, and in our signature drinks such as our Negroni. 

Previously when we made that we were throwing away a lot of sweetened raspberry seed pulp which was going straight to food waste. So we thought to ourselves - how can we use that again and get some more life out of it? So now, whenever we make a batch of raspberry cordial we split the pulp and half of it goes into a vat for use in our raspberry seed rum. The rest of the pulp is spread out onto silicone and dehydrated, and what we're left with is a lovely raspberry shard that's crunchy and sweet, but it still has some of the sharpness from the berries. We then pair that with amaretto, Peychaud's bitters and Fortnum's Rosé sparkling tea.”

How many total combinations of drinks do you need to be aware of?

"150 classics and 50 or so 'regionals'. For example if you worked in New England you should probably know how to make a Caesar, because everyone has Clam Chowder there. I now like to work to a tight edit of 100 classic cocktails. We have a classic cocktail 'Bible' for the bar, and add to that our menu which currently has approximately 27 cocktails. It was as many as 40 at one point.”

What else might people not know about the 45 Jermyn St. bar?

"Before 45 Jermyn St. was known as 45 Jermyn St. (the bar), it was known as 'The Fountain'. Almost like a 50s style American diner where you could get a Knickerbocker Glory. I believe the soda fountains in the bar were one of the first to feature in London at the time, they were custom made and came from the United States. So it's a very unique and retro feature that still exists and that we're lucky to have. The soda fountains are used for our ice cream floats, which are quite unique to Fortnum's. I'm actually the son of an ice-cream vendor, in fact I come from an ice-cream family. I remember my Dad saying to me - 'do you want to take over the family business?'...and I said, not on your life - I will never scoop a single ice-cream ever again! Flash forward to 2017 and I was back behind this bar doing just that. However my grandparents also owned a Diner when I was a kid, very old-fashioned by today's standards - with venues in London and Suffolk."

"My favourite float for the record, is The Kentucky Morning. We have 2 scoops of Cornflake flavoured ice-cream, which creates a buttery-sweet delicious flavour, we then pour some soda water over that, some Bourbon and then finally add - my favourite ingredient - some Beurre noisette syrup. The end result is outstanding."

What are Fortnum's most commonly ordered drinks?

"Because of our clientele we lean more towards our classics, for example Negronis, Gin & Vodka Martinis and Cosmopolitans too. In terms of our top 10 classics I want all of the team here to be able to execute those consistently. Consistency is the highest indicator of quality, in my view."

 

What's our approach to customer service at 45 Jermyn Street?

"We have our bar regulars and I like to anticipate their requests, know what they are going to ask for in advance. I hear them deliberating about what they're going to have in the background sometimes, so I listen very carefully. Humour goes a long way too, and there has to be a bit of informality to what we do - we're not stuffy and old-fashioned - because people come here to have a good time. I remember my old bar manager saying to me - 'bars are supposed to be fun!'

Page Break

What's the most fun aspect of working in 45 Jermyn St.?

"We once got an order for 16 Espresso Martinis - and we've only got 4 shakers - but it's the kind of challenge we love, and we managed to pull it off. We set up like an assembly line, we were like the Henry Ford of Espresso Martinis! One of the team was racking up glasses, one person getting the garnish, another filling liquids, someone adding ice and someone else shaking. You have to create bartenders with 6 arms! And the serious point is that it's just a wonderful feeling being in a flow state. In order for that to happen, everyone has to be in a good place. No negativity and the bar has to be set and ready."

 

Team culture?

"I'll take a good attitude over experience any day, because technique can be taught...but attitude? That's hard to teach."

 

What is bartending to you - what is your favourite thing about it?

"My favourite thing to do is to turn someone around, from being in a grumpy state when they arrive, setting myself a challenge of making that person like my best friend by the time they leave. And I think I can always do it. When someone's rude it is fear, its fear that they're not going to get what they want - so you do need to kill that with kindness."

 

If someone has never come to 45 Jermyn St. - why should they visit?

"Well they should definitely try the Beef Wellington, the theatre of how we serve it! But it's actually everything about the theatre of this venue, the tastes...but my tip to anyone coming in for a meal would be, to come and see myself and the team at the bar around 6pm (before the meal). Jump on to chair 56 when we're still preparing some of our finishing touches, straining some clarified punch for example."

 

What do you see as the future of 45 Jermyn St.?

“I also want to continue to push the sustainability storytelling...it's a lot of fun to think about the things we can create, which would previously have gone straight into the bin. This also brings me onto our waste citrus vodka, in November and December of last year every single lemon that was used to make lemon juice for this bar was zested first. We ended up with 20 kilos of just lemon skin, and this went into a run of 400 bottles of the Citrus Vodka. So more collaboration with other brands in the future, and doing more with less."

 

Page Break

What's the relationship between the bar and the restaurant?

"We try and keep it as reciprocal and symbiotic as possible. As an example I make a syrup from strawberry leaves. So every morning when Ellen finishes chopping up her strawberries in the kitchen for the Mille-Feuille she brings me a little punnet of green leaves that I store in my freezer until I have enough to make my strawberry leaf syrup."

 

How do you keep up to date with the leading ideas in the drinks industry?

"I stay away from social media, I like the low information diet! But what I do instead is I ask my team to constantly be on the lookout. So Matt our head bartender lives on Instagram, scrolling away, and he shows me cool stuff. If I could pick one publication that I love, on the industry, it would probably be Punch Drink."

 

PERSONAL HISTORY

“I was born in Dagenham, which is Zone 5 greater London, and I went to the same school as the Archbishop of Canterbury and Dudley Moore. 

I went to University and studied music, in fact we're all musicians in the 45 Jermyn St. bar, I play guitar and we have two bassists and a drummer...while one of our team used to play saxophone.

While I was studying music, I also seemed to spend a lot of time in bars and I realised I was a night owl, so I got a job in my student union nightclub initially (in the University of Hertfordshire). 

I had a great time there, and after that I ended living in Cambridge...and got a job in a bar called 12A, owned by a family who were in charge of one of the only independent Italian restaurants in Cambridge. It was a carbon copy of Milk & Honey, and a good place to cut my teeth initially, as I learned the key skills I needed. It was a very cool bar that was open until 4am...it's also where I met my wife! After a year there, my now wife, decided that she was going to study in London so I decided to tag along as well.

I first worked for the Bourne & Hollingsworth Group for about a year as a bartender. There were some cool industry characters at that time, one of those I worked with was Jim Wrigley.

After that I went to work for the Breakfast Group, who have venues such as Opium in China Town. It's in the middle of Gerrard Street above a place called Dumpling’s Legend on the top floor. I then worked in various bars before coming to 45.

Hobbies?

"I love music, and I've written some of my own in the past, but also played in bands. It's hard to find the time nowadays. I bought a tape delay recently, from 1964, it's the same one that The Shadows used. I have a day off on Sunday and I'm just going to be playing surf music all day. I really like buying old lo-fi gear, but in addition I also have a clone of a TB303 Bass Synthesizer which is what all Acid House music was made on. If I can find an old radio station mixing console and have that in my house with all of my musical bits and pieces plugged into it...it could be my control centre! I also have about 11 guitars in my house, my favourite is an SG and my father in law has a Gibson 345, a 1965 edition and I'm hoping to get a Les Paul soon."

]]> Thu, 1 Sep 2022 21:10:23 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Mustafa Tumburi, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/mustafa-tumburi-takes-us-behind-the-scenes-at-45-jermyn-st-p_Vmpw8X Mustafa Tumburi - Bar Manager at 45 Jermyn St.

On meeting Mustafa (or ‘Musty’ as he’s known) for the first time, I sit as he makes me a #55 - and I learn that each number corresponds to something to do with the drink..."it's served with a shot of Cachaça, a variant of rum made in Brazil..and 55 is the country code for Brazil."

So I kick off with the obvious question…

What's your history with Fortnum’s?

"I joined in the winter of 2016, and I've been with the company six years. I started as a bartender...so when our Head Bartender moved to another position I took that role. When the Bar Manager left to work on a project with our Hong Kong team, I took over the position of Bar Manager"

How do responsibilities vary between the different bar roles?

"When you're a bartender you have to make sure that the limes are cut just right, otherwise the Bar Manager will have something to say about it...and in that role it's opening and closing duties, plus service. Also learning how to deal with the prep that goes into making all of our lovely ingredients. There's quite a lot to learn as I think there are about 15-16 different homemade ingredients in our menu.”

Once you become the Head Bar Tender it's your job to support the Bar Manager, and start ordering, but also being responsible for keeping the bar stocked. Once you get to Bar Manager you're partly responsible for the success of the Bar, and you have to lead the team, motivate and inspire them.”

Favourite things?

"One of my favourite things about 45 Jermyn St. is that we're very egalitarian when it comes to menu development. So everyone has a go. It doesn't matter if you're a junior bartender or you're a senior bartender, or if you're the Bar Manager, everybody has input into making our drinks.

As Bar Manager - when our people are developing drinks - what I try to do is guide their ideas and try to elevate them, but also ask them if they've tried pairing with other ingredients.”

Have we got a drink that's unique to 45 Jermyn St.?

"Yes! We've got a few. One drink I'd like to highlight...

We've been quite hot on re-use as part of our sustainability drive, so what we want to do is try to figure out any way that we can squeeze the last drop out of any ingredient. A good example of that is The Thicket. A cocktail originally developed for our FIELD restaurant, which we've started developing at 45 Jermyn St. as well. One of our ingredients is Raspberry cordial, and it shows up in our ice cream floats, and in our signature drinks such as our Negroni. 

Previously when we made that we were throwing away a lot of sweetened raspberry seed pulp which was going straight to food waste. So we thought to ourselves - how can we use that again and get some more life out of it? So now, whenever we make a batch of raspberry cordial we split the pulp and half of it goes into a vat for use in our raspberry seed rum. The rest of the pulp is spread out onto silicone and dehydrated, and what we're left with is a lovely raspberry shard that's crunchy and sweet, but it still has some of the sharpness from the berries. We then pair that with amaretto, Peychaud's bitters and Fortnum's Rosé sparkling tea.”

How many total combinations of drinks do you need to be aware of?

"150 classics and 50 or so 'regionals'. For example if you worked in New England you should probably know how to make a Caesar, because everyone has Clam Chowder there. I now like to work to a tight edit of 100 classic cocktails. We have a classic cocktail 'Bible' for the bar, and add to that our menu which currently has approximately 27 cocktails. It was as many as 40 at one point.”

What else might people not know about the 45 Jermyn St. bar?

"Before 45 Jermyn St. was known as 45 Jermyn St. (the bar), it was known as 'The Fountain'. Almost like a 50s style American diner where you could get a Knickerbocker Glory. I believe the soda fountains in the bar were one of the first to feature in London at the time, they were custom made and came from the United States. So it's a very unique and retro feature that still exists and that we're lucky to have. The soda fountains are used for our ice cream floats, which are quite unique to Fortnum's. I'm actually the son of an ice-cream vendor, in fact I come from an ice-cream family. I remember my Dad saying to me - 'do you want to take over the family business?'...and I said, not on your life - I will never scoop a single ice-cream ever again! Flash forward to 2017 and I was back behind this bar doing just that. However my grandparents also owned a Diner when I was a kid, very old-fashioned by today's standards - with venues in London and Suffolk."

"My favourite float for the record, is The Kentucky Morning. We have 2 scoops of Cornflake flavoured ice-cream, which creates a buttery-sweet delicious flavour, we then pour some soda water over that, some Bourbon and then finally add - my favourite ingredient - some Beurre noisette syrup. The end result is outstanding."

What are Fortnum's most commonly ordered drinks?

"Because of our clientele we lean more towards our classics, for example Negronis, Gin & Vodka Martinis and Cosmopolitans too. In terms of our top 10 classics I want all of the team here to be able to execute those consistently. Consistency is the highest indicator of quality, in my view."

 

What's our approach to customer service at 45 Jermyn Street?

"We have our bar regulars and I like to anticipate their requests, know what they are going to ask for in advance. I hear them deliberating about what they're going to have in the background sometimes, so I listen very carefully. Humour goes a long way too, and there has to be a bit of informality to what we do - we're not stuffy and old-fashioned - because people come here to have a good time. I remember my old bar manager saying to me - 'bars are supposed to be fun!'

Page Break

What's the most fun aspect of working in 45 Jermyn St.?

"We once got an order for 16 Espresso Martinis - and we've only got 4 shakers - but it's the kind of challenge we love, and we managed to pull it off. We set up like an assembly line, we were like the Henry Ford of Espresso Martinis! One of the team was racking up glasses, one person getting the garnish, another filling liquids, someone adding ice and someone else shaking. You have to create bartenders with 6 arms! And the serious point is that it's just a wonderful feeling being in a flow state. In order for that to happen, everyone has to be in a good place. No negativity and the bar has to be set and ready."

 

Team culture?

"I'll take a good attitude over experience any day, because technique can be taught...but attitude? That's hard to teach."

 

What is bartending to you - what is your favourite thing about it?

"My favourite thing to do is to turn someone around, from being in a grumpy state when they arrive, setting myself a challenge of making that person like my best friend by the time they leave. And I think I can always do it. When someone's rude it is fear, its fear that they're not going to get what they want - so you do need to kill that with kindness."

 

If someone has never come to 45 Jermyn St. - why should they visit?

"Well they should definitely try the Beef Wellington, the theatre of how we serve it! But it's actually everything about the theatre of this venue, the tastes...but my tip to anyone coming in for a meal would be, to come and see myself and the team at the bar around 6pm (before the meal). Jump on to chair 56 when we're still preparing some of our finishing touches, straining some clarified punch for example."

 

What do you see as the future of 45 Jermyn St.?

“I also want to continue to push the sustainability storytelling...it's a lot of fun to think about the things we can create, which would previously have gone straight into the bin. This also brings me onto our waste citrus vodka, in November and December of last year every single lemon that was used to make lemon juice for this bar was zested first. We ended up with 20 kilos of just lemon skin, and this went into a run of 400 bottles of the Citrus Vodka. So more collaboration with other brands in the future, and doing more with less."

 

Page Break

What's the relationship between the bar and the restaurant?

"We try and keep it as reciprocal and symbiotic as possible. As an example I make a syrup from strawberry leaves. So every morning when Ellen finishes chopping up her strawberries in the kitchen for the Mille-Feuille she brings me a little punnet of green leaves that I store in my freezer until I have enough to make my strawberry leaf syrup."

 

How do you keep up to date with the leading ideas in the drinks industry?

"I stay away from social media, I like the low information diet! But what I do instead is I ask my team to constantly be on the lookout. So Matt our head bartender lives on Instagram, scrolling away, and he shows me cool stuff. If I could pick one publication that I love, on the industry, it would probably be Punch Drink."

 

PERSONAL HISTORY

“I was born in Dagenham, which is Zone 5 greater London, and I went to the same school as the Archbishop of Canterbury and Dudley Moore. 

I went to University and studied music, in fact we're all musicians in the 45 Jermyn St. bar, I play guitar and we have two bassists and a drummer...while one of our team used to play saxophone.

While I was studying music, I also seemed to spend a lot of time in bars and I realised I was a night owl, so I got a job in my student union nightclub initially (in the University of Hertfordshire). 

I had a great time there, and after that I ended living in Cambridge...and got a job in a bar called 12A, owned by a family who were in charge of one of the only independent Italian restaurants in Cambridge. It was a carbon copy of Milk & Honey, and a good place to cut my teeth initially, as I learned the key skills I needed. It was a very cool bar that was open until 4am...it's also where I met my wife! After a year there, my now wife, decided that she was going to study in London so I decided to tag along as well.

I first worked for the Bourne & Hollingsworth Group for about a year as a bartender. There were some cool industry characters at that time, one of those I worked with was Jim Wrigley.

After that I went to work for the Breakfast Group, who have venues such as Opium in China Town. It's in the middle of Gerrard Street above a place called Dumpling’s Legend on the top floor. I then worked in various bars before coming to 45.

Hobbies?

"I love music, and I've written some of my own in the past, but also played in bands. It's hard to find the time nowadays. I bought a tape delay recently, from 1964, it's the same one that The Shadows used. I have a day off on Sunday and I'm just going to be playing surf music all day. I really like buying old lo-fi gear, but in addition I also have a clone of a TB303 Bass Synthesizer which is what all Acid House music was made on. If I can find an old radio station mixing console and have that in my house with all of my musical bits and pieces plugged into it...it could be my control centre! I also have about 11 guitars in my house, my favourite is an SG and my father in law has a Gibson 345, a 1965 edition and I'm hoping to get a Les Paul soon."

]]> Bar Manager Mustafa Tumburi takes us behind the scenes at 45 Jermyn St. Join us as we talk about sustainability in the drinks industry, ice-cream floats, his childhood and his formative years. But also cocktails and the best seats in the house. Mustafa Tumburi, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder 00:21:53 Something for the weekend? Come with us as we go behind the scenes after hours...for a lo-fi 20 minute chat with Mustafa Tumburi... about Bar culture, cocktails and sustainability in the drinks industry. Something for the weekend? Come with us as we go behind the scenes after hours...for a lo-fi 20 minute chat with Mustafa Tumburi... about Bar culture, cocktails and sustainability in the drinks industry. best new podcasts, drinks industry podcast, podcast, 181 piccadilly, cambridge, punch drink, ice cream floats, london, mustafa tumburi, bourne & hollingsworth group, dagenham essex, brazil, head bartender, the archbishop of canterbury, sam bleazard, cosmopolitan, cocktail, opium in china town, ice cream, espresso martinis, strawberry syrup, university of hertfordshire, nola sheng, retail, 45 jermyn street, ice cream float, fortnum & mason, the thicket, storytelling, fortnums rose sparkling tea, soda fountains, piccadilly, bar culture podcast, fortnum and mason, sparkling tea, jobs in retail, classic cocktails, dudley moore, diamond jubilee tea salon, citrus vodka, amaretto, bar manager podcast, 45 jermyn st., bar culture, jobs in hospitality, drinks industry, cacacha, fortnums, hospitality podcast, sustainability, drinks, soda fountain, raspberry shard, negroni, storytelling podcast, beef wellington no full 22 ca34ac20-ef6e-453b-9a1d-bb21ae3718fb "Take the leap because you'll never be ready!" We speak to Communications consultant, business owner, keynote speaker, Mum, podcaster and self-confessed Lego fan Rachel Miller. Tune in, turn on and Pod-out! INTRO from Sam Bleazard

2mins - My love of LEGO

3mins - Conversations with clients about LEGO mini figures...how to make sure 'everything is awesome'.

5mins - LEGO typewriter

6mins - Blogging for 4 years and going into business for the first time - 9 years ago - while on maternity

9mins30s - Formative experiences in journalism. Straight from Sixth Form in 199

12mins - Favourite podcasts, and launching her own in 2014

15mins30s - Using babyseats as sound-proofing, while recording interviews on her driveway.

16mins30s - What are the most challenging aspects of podcasting?

18mins - Comms bling and 'Podfade'

20mins - "Take the leap because you'll never be ready!"

22mins - Internal Comms professionals - goalkeeper or coach? Rachel tells us why we 'empower people so they don't need us anymore'.

25mins - Personal brand is 'your reputation and promise'.

28mins - What are you known for?

29mins - Favourite podcast that you've recorded? Interviews and lasting legacy.

33mins - Giving structure, and including takeaways for every episode.

35mins - A quirky fact about Rachel...

]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Rachel Miller, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/rachel-miller-in-conversation-with-sam-bleazard-MRB3lZ8J INTRO from Sam Bleazard

2mins - My love of LEGO

3mins - Conversations with clients about LEGO mini figures...how to make sure 'everything is awesome'.

5mins - LEGO typewriter

6mins - Blogging for 4 years and going into business for the first time - 9 years ago - while on maternity

9mins30s - Formative experiences in journalism. Straight from Sixth Form in 199

12mins - Favourite podcasts, and launching her own in 2014

15mins30s - Using babyseats as sound-proofing, while recording interviews on her driveway.

16mins30s - What are the most challenging aspects of podcasting?

18mins - Comms bling and 'Podfade'

20mins - "Take the leap because you'll never be ready!"

22mins - Internal Comms professionals - goalkeeper or coach? Rachel tells us why we 'empower people so they don't need us anymore'.

25mins - Personal brand is 'your reputation and promise'.

28mins - What are you known for?

29mins - Favourite podcast that you've recorded? Interviews and lasting legacy.

33mins - Giving structure, and including takeaways for every episode.

35mins - A quirky fact about Rachel...

]]> "Take the leap because you'll never be ready!" We speak to Communications consultant, business owner, keynote speaker, Mum, podcaster and self-confessed Lego fan Rachel Miller. Tune in, turn on and Pod-out! Rachel Miller, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard 00:38:06 What is it like to start your own business as a communications consultant, going from just a start up, to an advising international business on best practice? Join us for this insightful conversation with Rachel Miller of All Things IC (internal communication), who talks about having the courage to take the leap, following 4 years of blogging and thinking about it, to a love of podcasting and maintaining a successful career as a working Mum. Not to mention a real passion for Lego mini figs! What is it like to start your own business as a communications consultant, going from just a start up, to an advising international business on best practice? Join us for this insightful conversation with Rachel Miller of All Things IC (internal communication), who talks about having the courage to take the leap, following 4 years of blogging and thinking about it, to a love of podcasting and maintaining a successful career as a working Mum. Not to mention a real passion for Lego mini figs! all things ic, linkedin blog, lego mini figs, best podcast for communication professionals, dr kirsty fairclough, best new communication podcast, podcast, linkedin, journalism training, how to start a podcast, communications consultancy, linkedin blogs, itunes, sam bleazard, spotify, internal communication, school of digital arts, shel holtz, simplycommunicate, advice for newbies in internal comms, the power of storytelling in internal communication, fortnum & mason, jiosaavn, interview technique, twitter, storytelling, fortnum's, drew mcmillan, all things internal communication, new podcast, institute of internal communication, best podcast on internal communication, lego figures, rachel miller, lego, search engine optimisation, search engine optimization, manchester metropolitan university, pandemic, employee communication, digital writing, simplyic, seo, consultancy, deezer podcasts, best podcast on communication, starting your own business, gaana, teal, allthingsic, journalism no full 21 67984fec-7a19-486d-8b05-3cc5374b4b7f Ep 20: from Brazil to BR3 - Cadu Gomes delighted his local community during lockdown, emerging as one of South East London's entrepreneurial success stories. The former Designer shares his pride on opening the 'Tap Room'. INTRO

5mins - starting to think about brewing own beer, and starting from the bottom up.

9mins - making the decision to change focus: from Freelancing for drinks brands to  brewing

10mins - making the transition from hiring others equipment to creating new drinks independently  

13mins - raising the funds and making it work financially

14mins30 - delays during the pandemic and starting the business slowly...

16mins - Scaling up the business, and supporting other local businesses

18mins30s - The difference between the initial ideas and the business as it is now? "We started the business from our house...brewing in the kitchen and storing 3,000 bottles in my shed. Friends wanted to move in!"

21mins30s - what's the difference between 'The Tap Room' at BR3 and drinking in a traditional pub?

24mins30s - Examples of 2-3 of your best sellers and how they came about?

30mins - Did it help being a designer? "It was a nightmare! A horrible process."

]]> Wed, 18 May 2022 06:32:01 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (cadu gomes, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-20-from-brazil-to-br3-cadu-gomes-delighted-his-local-community-during-lockdown-emerging-as-one-of-south-east-londons-entrepreneurial-success-stories-post-covid-19-tune-in-to-hear-his-journey-as-he-tells-it-to-sam-bleazard-3f7shUOz INTRO

5mins - starting to think about brewing own beer, and starting from the bottom up.

9mins - making the decision to change focus: from Freelancing for drinks brands to  brewing

10mins - making the transition from hiring others equipment to creating new drinks independently  

13mins - raising the funds and making it work financially

14mins30 - delays during the pandemic and starting the business slowly...

16mins - Scaling up the business, and supporting other local businesses

18mins30s - The difference between the initial ideas and the business as it is now? "We started the business from our house...brewing in the kitchen and storing 3,000 bottles in my shed. Friends wanted to move in!"

21mins30s - what's the difference between 'The Tap Room' at BR3 and drinking in a traditional pub?

24mins30s - Examples of 2-3 of your best sellers and how they came about?

30mins - Did it help being a designer? "It was a nightmare! A horrible process."

]]> Ep 20: from Brazil to BR3 - Cadu Gomes delighted his local community during lockdown, emerging as one of South East London's entrepreneurial success stories. The former Designer shares his pride on opening the 'Tap Room'. cadu gomes, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder 00:41:47 Meet Cadu Gomes, originally from Sao Paulo in Brazil - who now lives in South East London with his young family. Cadu made local people happy, with a new business venture which created a focal point for the local community during Covid-19. Up until relatively recently (pre-pandemic) he was a graphic designer - working for drinks companies and brands such as Diageo, Guinness, Heineken and Strongbow. Now he's the proud owner of the BR3 Brewery, a Tap Room in Beckenham - having discovered a love of the brewing process (working for those brands), he turned a new found skill into his profession. Not only is he incredibly passionate about getting it right, with his design eye he has (perhaps unsurprisingly) also created a fantastic and successful brand. His leap of faith was buying an old lawnmower shop (with some financial help) and with a new sense of purpose he started a business during a difficult period that turned out to be beneficial timing-wise. Importantly he also sees himself as a vital part of a thriving local eco-system, with a Newsagent / local shop on one side of his business and a much loved Tapas restaurant on the other. We're launching our latest episode of Comms from the Shed today (on Wednesday) because tonight is pizza night - when Van Dough will drive their delicious sourdough pizzas round and park nearby. Everybody wins, because they go really well with his delicious drinks, pale ales, stouts and fruit sours - which they only use the best ingredients for. Tune in to hear about his journey pre, during and post pandemic. Meet Cadu Gomes, originally from Sao Paulo in Brazil - who now lives in South East London with his young family. Cadu made local people happy, with a new business venture which created a focal point for the local community during Covid-19. Up until relatively recently (pre-pandemic) he was a graphic designer - working for drinks companies and brands such as Diageo, Guinness, Heineken and Strongbow. Now he's the proud owner of the BR3 Brewery, a Tap Room in Beckenham - having discovered a love of the brewing process (working for those brands), he turned a new found skill into his profession. Not only is he incredibly passionate about getting it right, with his design eye he has (perhaps unsurprisingly) also created a fantastic and successful brand. His leap of faith was buying an old lawnmower shop (with some financial help) and with a new sense of purpose he started a business during a difficult period that turned out to be beneficial timing-wise. Importantly he also sees himself as a vital part of a thriving local eco-system, with a Newsagent / local shop on one side of his business and a much loved Tapas restaurant on the other. We're launching our latest episode of Comms from the Shed today (on Wednesday) because tonight is pizza night - when Van Dough will drive their delicious sourdough pizzas round and park nearby. Everybody wins, because they go really well with his delicious drinks, pale ales, stouts and fruit sours - which they only use the best ingredients for. Tune in to hear about his journey pre, during and post pandemic. community, brewing process, home deliveries, kent house, pale ale, graphic design, van dough pizza, full lockdown, december 2020, packaging design, brazil, graphic designer, focus on family, tap room, renovation, beckenham, sao paulo, sourdough pizza, brewing kit, heineken, comms from the shed, local community, australia, south east london, diageo, beer, br3, guinness, tier 3, travel, best new podcast, clockhouse, fruit sour, tier 1, search engine optimisation, br3 br3w3ry, penge, search engine optimization, family, hops, tier 2, lockdown, br3 brewery, strongbow, corporate brands, seo, taproom, south america, brewing industry, sharing information, head of design, travelling, alcohol no full 20 e9c2e2ba-dff4-41b2-b247-1b2ba7d6a29f Have digital communications marginalised our relationships and sense of community? And how do we improve the workplace experience in 2022 and beyond? We discuss the importance of relationship building, community and humanity with Cat Barnard. Cathryn Barnard is a partner and co-founder at Working the Future, a consultancy helping business leaders to make sense of the future of work and build easy-to-implement, people-centred, future-proof strategies.  

With a previous career in workforce planning spanning three decades, and experience of starting and growing her own successful business, Cat recognises the criticality of human connection in accelerating team engagement and performance.  

As work becomes increasingly underpinned by digital technology, amazing commercial opportunity emerges - blending the best of human AND technology to deliver highly customised client experiences that drive brand loyalty and enhanced success outcomes. 

]]> Tue, 22 Mar 2022 06:13:17 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Cat Barnard, Cathryn Barnard, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/the-future-of-work-with-cat-banyard-8jtycENb Cathryn Barnard is a partner and co-founder at Working the Future, a consultancy helping business leaders to make sense of the future of work and build easy-to-implement, people-centred, future-proof strategies.  

With a previous career in workforce planning spanning three decades, and experience of starting and growing her own successful business, Cat recognises the criticality of human connection in accelerating team engagement and performance.  

As work becomes increasingly underpinned by digital technology, amazing commercial opportunity emerges - blending the best of human AND technology to deliver highly customised client experiences that drive brand loyalty and enhanced success outcomes. 

]]> Have digital communications marginalised our relationships and sense of community? And how do we improve the workplace experience in 2022 and beyond? We discuss the importance of relationship building, community and humanity with Cat Barnard. Cat Barnard, Cathryn Barnard, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder 00:58:45 From her seminal experiences working in Telecomms in Europe to co-founding Working the Future - Cathryn Barnard is a passionate believer in the power of relationships. With the world still recovering from the Covid pandemic, we have seen the outbreak of conflict in Europe, with employees asking what it means for their organisation. But more specifically what are their leaders going to say in response. In this episode of Comms from the Shed we discuss the human need to feel a sense of safety and security, why digital environments may be inhibiting us, and the changing role of communications. "Digital communications have marginalised our relationships and sense of community", Cat tells us. So how do we improve the workplace experience in 2022 and beyond? From her seminal experiences working in Telecomms in Europe to co-founding Working the Future - Cathryn Barnard is a passionate believer in the power of relationships. With the world still recovering from the Covid pandemic, we have seen the outbreak of conflict in Europe, with employees asking what it means for their organisation. But more specifically what are their leaders going to say in response. In this episode of Comms from the Shed we discuss the human need to feel a sense of safety and security, why digital environments may be inhibiting us, and the changing role of communications. "Digital communications have marginalised our relationships and sense of community", Cat tells us. So how do we improve the workplace experience in 2022 and beyond? best podcast for ceos, wellbeing, inclusion & diversity, emotional intelligence in leadership, emotional intelligence podcast, purpose, best practice advice, institute of internal communications, social media, justin timberlake, new york times, instagram, the second mountain, best business podcast, adolescence, best spotify podcast on communication, lean and agile organisations, sense of purpose podcast, best jiosaavn podcast on business, the great resignation, sam bleazard, comms from the shed podcast, best itunes podcast on communication, internal communication, david brooks the second mountain, facebook, best internal communication podcast, organisational change, digital transformation, david brooks, invisible women book, trend intelligence for business leaders, diversity and inclusion, new podcast on digital transformation, best new podcast on business purpose, comms from the shed, career coaching, the future of work podcast, twitter, top 5 regrets of the dying, storytelling, jaron lanier, new podcast on communication, hybrid working, people outcomes, workplace culture, new podcast, cathryn barnard, diversity & inclusion podcast, institute of internal communication, best podcast on internal communication, emotional intelligence, screen fatigue, new gaana podcast, you are not a gadget, cat barnard, future proofing your business, boris johnson, future of work, jesse eisenberg, best podcast on working culture, search engine optimisation, best new podcast on inclusion, best new podcast on wellbeing, internal communications, diversity, best podcast for hr professionals, search engine optimization, best new podcast for c-suite leaders, pandemic, mark zuckerberg, the social network, hybrid work, workplace trends podcast, human resources, sustainability, best podcast on hybrid working, career coach, inclusion and diversity, snapchat, podcast for senior executives, psychological safety, best podcast on digital transformation, seo, inclusion, best podcast on communication, best new podcast on internal communication, bronnie ware, 10 reasons to delete your social media accounts, working the future, testifying before congress, steve silberman no full 19 d78f3c96-5001-414c-ad94-a1e67947bfbd Scotland's pop soul duo Hue and Cry broke into the mainstream with their single 'Labour of Love', and early albums such as Seduced & Abandoned and Remote led to sell out tours. In the 90s they learned to live outside of the major label system, and continued to diversify the way they sold their music and concert tickets while retaining a loyal fanbase. Still reaching out to audiences 35 years on, they are about to embark on both a Piano and Vocal tour, as well as teaming up with Paul Young and T'Pau on the Essential 80s concert run this autumn. Intro - Fortnum's hampers for 80s Pop Stars?

3mins - Grandad's piano

4mins - Talk of the Town and Uncle Bill's record collection

6mins - Mum and Dad at home in the 70s. Mum "delivering 5000 children in her time as a midwife in the town of Coatbridge...she brought most of the town into the world". My father sacked Alan McGee!

7mins30s - Playing in bands at school and Pat joining the band on vocals, and using grants from University to make demos

10mins - Having kids: "we've got the full gambit!"

14mins - debut single 'Here Comes Everybody', and getting signed to a record label in the 1980s

17mins - Scottish Scene and doing Top of the Pops

18mmins30s - Songwriting process between Greg & Pat Kane and where they wrote their most famous songs

21mins - Piano & Vocal: why it's so important

23mins - The 'J' Word

26mins - Kind of Blue

27mins30s - The Remote album

28mins30s - Own label Fidelity and getting dropped by EMI

30mins - selling 350,000 copies, DIY ethic and The Hue and Cry Music Club

33mins30s - Getting through the pandemic and moving house

36mins - 80s tour with Paul Young & T'Pau

37mins30s - Hybrid communication systems and crowds

39mins - Favourite Fortnum's products!

]]> Tue, 15 Feb 2022 07:30:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Gregory Kane, Greg Kane, Hue and Cry, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/hue-and-cry-2VD5HWv1 Intro - Fortnum's hampers for 80s Pop Stars?

3mins - Grandad's piano

4mins - Talk of the Town and Uncle Bill's record collection

6mins - Mum and Dad at home in the 70s. Mum "delivering 5000 children in her time as a midwife in the town of Coatbridge...she brought most of the town into the world". My father sacked Alan McGee!

7mins30s - Playing in bands at school and Pat joining the band on vocals, and using grants from University to make demos

10mins - Having kids: "we've got the full gambit!"

14mins - debut single 'Here Comes Everybody', and getting signed to a record label in the 1980s

17mins - Scottish Scene and doing Top of the Pops

18mmins30s - Songwriting process between Greg & Pat Kane and where they wrote their most famous songs

21mins - Piano & Vocal: why it's so important

23mins - The 'J' Word

26mins - Kind of Blue

27mins30s - The Remote album

28mins30s - Own label Fidelity and getting dropped by EMI

30mins - selling 350,000 copies, DIY ethic and The Hue and Cry Music Club

33mins30s - Getting through the pandemic and moving house

36mins - 80s tour with Paul Young & T'Pau

37mins30s - Hybrid communication systems and crowds

39mins - Favourite Fortnum's products!

]]> Scotland's pop soul duo Hue and Cry broke into the mainstream with their single 'Labour of Love', and early albums such as Seduced & Abandoned and Remote led to sell out tours. In the 90s they learned to live outside of the major label system, and continued to diversify the way they sold their music and concert tickets while retaining a loyal fanbase. Still reaching out to audiences 35 years on, they are about to embark on both a Piano and Vocal tour, as well as teaming up with Paul Young and T'Pau on the Essential 80s concert run this autumn. Gregory Kane, Greg Kane, Hue and Cry, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard 00:40:32 Raised in Glasgow's Coatbridge in the 1970s to a father who worked at British Rail and a mother who was a District Midwife, Greg and Pat Kane were discovered in 1983 after being in various bands as students. As their demo was being played on Radio Clyde, a chance meeting with a manager led to a debut single ('Here Comes Everybody') capturing the interest of record labels in London. The single 'Labour of Love' broke them into the mainstream, and their early albums such as Seduced & Abandoned and Remote led to sell out tours. In the 90s they learned to live outside of the major label system, and have continued to diversify the way they've sold their music and concert tickets as they've retained a loyal fanbase. As lockdown restrictions have started to ease, they are about to go back on the road - both at Pizza Express jazz clubs in their intimate Piano and Microphone show, before joining Paul Young and Carol Decker of T'Pau in the Essential 80s UK tour in the Autumn of 2022. Raised in Glasgow's Coatbridge in the 1970s to a father who worked at British Rail and a mother who was a District Midwife, Greg and Pat Kane were discovered in 1983 after being in various bands as students. As their demo was being played on Radio Clyde, a chance meeting with a manager led to a debut single ('Here Comes Everybody') capturing the interest of record labels in London. The single 'Labour of Love' broke them into the mainstream, and their early albums such as Seduced & Abandoned and Remote led to sell out tours. In the 90s they learned to live outside of the major label system, and have continued to diversify the way they've sold their music and concert tickets as they've retained a loyal fanbase. As lockdown restrictions have started to ease, they are about to go back on the road - both at Pizza Express jazz clubs in their intimate Piano and Microphone show, before joining Paul Young and Carol Decker of T'Pau in the Essential 80s UK tour in the Autumn of 2022. ella fitzgerald, the hue and cry music club, sam sparrow, jamaica street, life in the 1970s, gerry rafferty, the sub club glasgow, hue & cry, london nightclub owner, heaven 17, 1980s music podcast, upright piano, liam neeson, sir richard branson, embracing new technology, bobby henry, piano and microphone, creation records, studio time, talk of the town nightclub, chrysalis publishing, london, swing out sister, best music podcast, british rail, musical memories, hue and cry, fortnum & mason hamper, 80s pop stars, piano and vocal, emi music the royal albert hall, the rolling stones, jazz, remote album by hue and cry, instagram, del amitri, glasgow, piano and vocal album hue and cry, piano, tiger milk album, best spotify music podcast, best new music podcast, truth and love album, massive attack, jerry dammers, controversy, labour of love by hue and cry, neneh cherry, carousel, drummer, the beatles, the human league, latin funk, facebook, the blow monkeys, getting a dog moving house, best gaana music podcast, count basie, fortnum and mason hampers, fragile egos, fortnum & mason, guy on the wall, the beatles rubber soul, fortnum's, fairground attraction, social commentary, bob dylan, mogwai, the beatles revolver, best jiosaavn music podcast, saxophone, liza minelli, matt bianco, the proclaimers, belle and sebastian, fortnum and mason, black lincoln continental, the winning losers, ska, best itunes music podcast, soundtrack of your life, learning the piano, here comes everybody, west side story, coatbridge, wet wet wet, funk, best gaana podcast, chrysalis publishing musical memories, kurt cobain, pocket full of stones, cava recording studio, district midwife, alan mcgee, search engine optimisation, virgin records, warner music, ordinary angel, punk, let her go, search engine optimization, emi records, pandemic, now that's what i call 1980s, rare vinyl records, two tone music, the sub club, circa records, billy sloane's radio show, fortnum and mason hamper, deacon blue, bob marley, bmg publishing, oasis band, soul music, abc, 80s music, best jiosaavn podcast, elton john, oasis band father sacked alan mcgee, labour of love, stumble through the dance, mogway, seo, grandfather's piano, fortnum & mason hampers, talk of the town, dollar william no full 18 9fcf6056-93ef-4d7c-9ed3-2633b2c7284b LinkedIn Changemaker and Executive Career Coach Andrew MacAskill talks to us about the recruitment landscape in 2022. Why are so many talented people still not being hired and have we really lost the human in human resources? We discuss new trends such as the great resignation, #showthesalary, fractional careers and video interviews. We also discuss the importance of knowing your personal brand, having a content strategy on Linkedin and how companies are moving away from traditional hierarchies to a much more fluid model in the world of hybrid working. 1min - role as a LinkedIn Changemaker. "LinkedIn have recognised that they can be a platform for good...driving progressive conversation in the new world of work.”

3mins30s - The recruitment landscape in 2022 - advice for candidates now. "More advertised roles than ever before...but the challenge is that the demand and supply isn’t joining up very well. And hundreds of talented people aren’t getting hired. We need a change in behaviour on both sides.”

5mins - what are candidates saying?

“Experience overall seems to be terrible, they are being treated like a number, machines are rejecting them, with no feedback given - we’ve lost the human in Human Resources”

6mins30s - Salary trend last year for “low-balling”...still the case?  “Companies are losing people at an alarming rate as a result of not looking after their people...” #showthesalary. “We advise candidates to never disclose their salary in negotiations...” but “there is a real movement for more transparency, giving power back to candidates”

9mins - Video interviews. "Video interviews are less personal, more two dimensional and flat, but candidates do have some advantages- if you’re prepared to do the prep and use the situation to your benefit. Part of the problem about face to face interviews are them being a memory test. Why I need to demonstrate an amazing memory to be a Marketing Director?”

13mins - tips for video interviews: “Fundamentally people hire emotionally and then justify logically” “the challenge we have via video is the emotional connection is hampered...and the opportunity to build trust is harder. You need to hit their head, their heart and their pocket - get that hat trick in place! Finish half your answers with a question. Put a bit of rapport in... Hide your own screen, and look directly into the camera. Create a landscape view - to give cues and keep that 2-way flow going.

15mins30s - The great resignation- what does it mean to you? “The great resignation is an American term. It’s less about people resigning and more about how people are re-addressing how their relationship is with work. A lot of people during lockdown spent a lot more time with people that they care about, exercising, just reassessing. I was getting on the 6.30am train and getting to the office for 7.30. The whole thing was a circuit breaker.  Evolution of how we view work , and re-thinking how we spend our time while we’re there, which is absolutely fascinating...85% of organisations - if you believe the data - have moved to remote or hybrid structure, but we don’t have the data to know how effective it’s been."

18mins30s - “The move and trend to fractional careers is fascinating." Developing your career.

22mins - The grieving process around redundancy - is it an emotional trauma equivalent to a bereavement? “It’s always listed at number 3 in terms of personal traumatic life events. It’s the least talked about grieving process in society...I think it needs to have a spotlight on it. And the person being made redundant needs to understand that they’re going to go through a grieving cycle, so they can be kind and considerate to themselves. You will also go through periods where you’re angry, you over analyse the past, your previous employers, you meet with ex colleagues, you track the share price, and you look for cracks to prove they’re worse off with you. That will happen. What’s also therapeutic- in addition to adding structure back into your life - is to find a way to serve others. Take on mentees.”

27mins - The power of community, and forming your networks. “It shows you’re not alone, and it’s about sharing best practice, but supporting others is the best medicine. Whilst redundancies may be inevitable, they should be dealt with much better.”

28mins30s - Personal branding - what are the most important elements and what’s your advice (for the less confident)? “My advice would be that if I can do it - I’m an accountant by trade, with a big shiny head made for radio - then you can do it as well! You don’t have to be a super cool Marketer to build a personal brand. You’ve already got a personal brand! It’s what you’re known for...what you’re good at, what you stand for”

30mins - Confidence building and honing your focus - is it important to be clear? "I got a lot more intentional about what I was posting. I went through a process of personal brand values. Column 1: what are the 3 topics that I’m most passionate about and know more than the majority of LinkedIn users on? 2. What are the three values that I want to stand for, in terms of my voice and how I would like people to view me? 3. My audience - what do my audience want?  + Content strategy, what kind of posts do we want to do?

 34mins30s - What initiatives are you working on in 2022? “Moving from jobs focus, to career focus. Not the same pain in the market now. An increase in career clarity sessions. Also an increase in people setting up on their own.”

36mins30s - Mistakes that people make when they’re trying to build communities online? "They don’t collaborate with the competition - any other organisation that is contributing to your mission have to be taken seriously e.g. ending career based misery. Find a way to cross over with the good people in your space with the same values. People also try and monetise their communities too quickly and in a way that’s inauthentic. If you want to build a business within a community it has to be community first."

40mins - How do you see 2022? “Cautious optimism, but there is still a lot of uncertainty. We can’t predict how it’s going to be in 6 months. And we don’t know what the new hybrid world of work will be...so many variables out there. Need new skills, agility, resilience, dealing with ambiguity - technology and automation will mean that soft skills will become the hard skills.”

43mins - Who has the upper hand now: the candidate or the recruiting company? “Companies are flexing their muscles - but the talent has the upper hand right now. Companies are moving from traditional hierarchies, through the matrix model, to more of an ecosystem model in a more tailored way. Companies will sit in the middle of a more fluid ecosystem.”

46mins30s - Focusing on sleep: the first domino in the wellbeing race.

]]> Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:00:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Andrew MacAskill, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/andrew-macaskill-part-2-65UIbCMH 1min - role as a LinkedIn Changemaker. "LinkedIn have recognised that they can be a platform for good...driving progressive conversation in the new world of work.”

3mins30s - The recruitment landscape in 2022 - advice for candidates now. "More advertised roles than ever before...but the challenge is that the demand and supply isn’t joining up very well. And hundreds of talented people aren’t getting hired. We need a change in behaviour on both sides.”

5mins - what are candidates saying?

“Experience overall seems to be terrible, they are being treated like a number, machines are rejecting them, with no feedback given - we’ve lost the human in Human Resources”

6mins30s - Salary trend last year for “low-balling”...still the case?  “Companies are losing people at an alarming rate as a result of not looking after their people...” #showthesalary. “We advise candidates to never disclose their salary in negotiations...” but “there is a real movement for more transparency, giving power back to candidates”

9mins - Video interviews. "Video interviews are less personal, more two dimensional and flat, but candidates do have some advantages- if you’re prepared to do the prep and use the situation to your benefit. Part of the problem about face to face interviews are them being a memory test. Why I need to demonstrate an amazing memory to be a Marketing Director?”

13mins - tips for video interviews: “Fundamentally people hire emotionally and then justify logically” “the challenge we have via video is the emotional connection is hampered...and the opportunity to build trust is harder. You need to hit their head, their heart and their pocket - get that hat trick in place! Finish half your answers with a question. Put a bit of rapport in... Hide your own screen, and look directly into the camera. Create a landscape view - to give cues and keep that 2-way flow going.

15mins30s - The great resignation- what does it mean to you? “The great resignation is an American term. It’s less about people resigning and more about how people are re-addressing how their relationship is with work. A lot of people during lockdown spent a lot more time with people that they care about, exercising, just reassessing. I was getting on the 6.30am train and getting to the office for 7.30. The whole thing was a circuit breaker.  Evolution of how we view work , and re-thinking how we spend our time while we’re there, which is absolutely fascinating...85% of organisations - if you believe the data - have moved to remote or hybrid structure, but we don’t have the data to know how effective it’s been."

18mins30s - “The move and trend to fractional careers is fascinating." Developing your career.

22mins - The grieving process around redundancy - is it an emotional trauma equivalent to a bereavement? “It’s always listed at number 3 in terms of personal traumatic life events. It’s the least talked about grieving process in society...I think it needs to have a spotlight on it. And the person being made redundant needs to understand that they’re going to go through a grieving cycle, so they can be kind and considerate to themselves. You will also go through periods where you’re angry, you over analyse the past, your previous employers, you meet with ex colleagues, you track the share price, and you look for cracks to prove they’re worse off with you. That will happen. What’s also therapeutic- in addition to adding structure back into your life - is to find a way to serve others. Take on mentees.”

27mins - The power of community, and forming your networks. “It shows you’re not alone, and it’s about sharing best practice, but supporting others is the best medicine. Whilst redundancies may be inevitable, they should be dealt with much better.”

28mins30s - Personal branding - what are the most important elements and what’s your advice (for the less confident)? “My advice would be that if I can do it - I’m an accountant by trade, with a big shiny head made for radio - then you can do it as well! You don’t have to be a super cool Marketer to build a personal brand. You’ve already got a personal brand! It’s what you’re known for...what you’re good at, what you stand for”

30mins - Confidence building and honing your focus - is it important to be clear? "I got a lot more intentional about what I was posting. I went through a process of personal brand values. Column 1: what are the 3 topics that I’m most passionate about and know more than the majority of LinkedIn users on? 2. What are the three values that I want to stand for, in terms of my voice and how I would like people to view me? 3. My audience - what do my audience want?  + Content strategy, what kind of posts do we want to do?

 34mins30s - What initiatives are you working on in 2022? “Moving from jobs focus, to career focus. Not the same pain in the market now. An increase in career clarity sessions. Also an increase in people setting up on their own.”

36mins30s - Mistakes that people make when they’re trying to build communities online? "They don’t collaborate with the competition - any other organisation that is contributing to your mission have to be taken seriously e.g. ending career based misery. Find a way to cross over with the good people in your space with the same values. People also try and monetise their communities too quickly and in a way that’s inauthentic. If you want to build a business within a community it has to be community first."

40mins - How do you see 2022? “Cautious optimism, but there is still a lot of uncertainty. We can’t predict how it’s going to be in 6 months. And we don’t know what the new hybrid world of work will be...so many variables out there. Need new skills, agility, resilience, dealing with ambiguity - technology and automation will mean that soft skills will become the hard skills.”

43mins - Who has the upper hand now: the candidate or the recruiting company? “Companies are flexing their muscles - but the talent has the upper hand right now. Companies are moving from traditional hierarchies, through the matrix model, to more of an ecosystem model in a more tailored way. Companies will sit in the middle of a more fluid ecosystem.”

46mins30s - Focusing on sleep: the first domino in the wellbeing race.

]]> LinkedIn Changemaker and Executive Career Coach Andrew MacAskill talks to us about the recruitment landscape in 2022. Why are so many talented people still not being hired and have we really lost the human in human resources? We discuss new trends such as the great resignation, #showthesalary, fractional careers and video interviews. We also discuss the importance of knowing your personal brand, having a content strategy on Linkedin and how companies are moving away from traditional hierarchies to a much more fluid model in the world of hybrid working. Andrew MacAskill, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard 00:49:36 LinkedIn Changemaker and Executive Career Coach Andrew MacAskill talks to us about the recruitment landscape in 2022. Why are so many talented people still not being hired and have we really lost the human in human resources? We discuss new trends such as the great resignation, #showthesalary, fractional careers and video interviews. We also discuss the importance of knowing your personal brand, having a content strategy on LinkedIn and how companies are moving away from traditional hierarchies to a much more fluid model in the world of hybrid working. LinkedIn Changemaker and Executive Career Coach Andrew MacAskill talks to us about the recruitment landscape in 2022. Why are so many talented people still not being hired and have we really lost the human in human resources? We discuss new trends such as the great resignation, #showthesalary, fractional careers and video interviews. We also discuss the importance of knowing your personal brand, having a content strategy on LinkedIn and how companies are moving away from traditional hierarchies to a much more fluid model in the world of hybrid working. derisory offers, brand, best practice job search, wellbeing, best podcast, resilience, mentors, job offers, social media influencers, be kind, spotify business podcast, #showthesalary, fractional cmo, employer brand, grieving process of redundancy, challenging your inner critic, roi, developing your career, best internal comms podcast, andrew macaskill, socio economic factors, executive career coach, return to the office, linkedin, #linkedin, agility, justify logically, office working, itunes, best business podcast, dealing with ambiguity, low balling, freelancers, best communication podcast, communications director, rushing back to work too early, the great resignation, career trends, sam bleazard, the job market, chief executive officer, great resignation, comms from the shed podcast, suppliers, work life balance, #personal brand, internal communication, multiple careers, cv, rapport, best internal communication podcast, unemployment, executive career influencers, marcomms careers, technology and automation, internal politics, comms from the shed, serving others, soft skills, content marketing, video interview, low-balling, grieving process, linkedin top tips, head of internal communication, best career advice, kindness, personal brand, candidate experience, marketing director, #careers, new trends in the world of work, hybrid working, side hustles, online communities, posting on linkedin, job search top tips, ecosystem, emotional intelligence, return on investment, advice for video interviews, being made redundant, best new podcast, commute, human resource, talent shortage, show the salary, sales, your inner critic, best podcast for communicators, sme market, careers, employee brand, best career advice podcast, d&i, emotional trauma, mentees, side hustle, search engine optimisation, changemaker, networking, networks, internal communications, new world of work, diversity, new skills, search engine optimization, death of the cv, pandemic, retail careers, sustainability, redundancy, inclusion and diversity, finish your answers on a question, linkedin changemaker, fractional careers, contractors, sharing best practice, chief marketing officer, itunes podcast, amazon music podcast, best new business podcast, bloggers, advice for candidates, video interviews, executive coaching, monetize your communities, new trends, psychological safety, youtube, seo, advice on linkedin followers, job hunting, developing more than one career, jobs, inclusion, monetize, circuit breaker, ghosted, linkedin influencers, candidates, hiring emotionally, best podcast on career change, amazon music, agile working no full 17 b368c741-2372-46e4-a5c2-be58a21e146a Wayne Ellington is a choirmaster who was born into a first generation Windrush family in a working class area of North West London. Through seminal experiences with his Church and local community, he went on to sing in the London Community Gospel choir - going on to back artists such as Blur, Leona Lewis, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston. He talks about his heroes and mentors such as Karen Gibson MBE - who led the Kingdom Choir (including Wayne) who sang at the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in front of a worldwide TV audience of over 1bn people in 2018. Multiple interviews, performance anxiety, psychological tests, nerves and a panel keen to know your back story...but this is not a description of someone applying for a leadership role in the corporate world. This is how Wayne Ellington described the process of going through ITVs The Voice as a contestant - an experience which he enjoyed.

]]> Fri, 17 Dec 2021 07:07:11 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Wayne Ellington, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/wayne-ellington-the-voice-of-a-generation-RHhNaaUw Multiple interviews, performance anxiety, psychological tests, nerves and a panel keen to know your back story...but this is not a description of someone applying for a leadership role in the corporate world. This is how Wayne Ellington described the process of going through ITVs The Voice as a contestant - an experience which he enjoyed.

]]> Wayne Ellington is a choirmaster who was born into a first generation Windrush family in a working class area of North West London. Through seminal experiences with his Church and local community, he went on to sing in the London Community Gospel choir - going on to back artists such as Blur, Leona Lewis, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston. He talks about his heroes and mentors such as Karen Gibson MBE - who led the Kingdom Choir (including Wayne) who sang at the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in front of a worldwide TV audience of over 1bn people in 2018. Wayne Ellington, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard 00:47:15 In a fascinating story Wayne takes us through his childhood - born to a first generation Windrush family in North West London - and growing up on the same street as renowned jazz guitarist Ronny Jordan. Through seminal experiences, gained from a combination of his musical family tree, his Church and local community groups, he sang in choirs such as the London Community Gospel choir. During a stellar career he has backed artists as diverse as Blur, Leona Lewis, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston. He talks about his heroes and mentors such as Karen Gibson MBE, who led the Kingdom Choir (which included Wayne), to sing at the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in front of a worldwide TV audience of over 1bn people in 2018. In a fascinating story Wayne takes us through his childhood - born to a first generation Windrush family in North West London - and growing up on the same street as renowned jazz guitarist Ronny Jordan. Through seminal experiences, gained from a combination of his musical family tree, his Church and local community groups, he sang in choirs such as the London Community Gospel choir. During a stellar career he has backed artists as diverse as Blur, Leona Lewis, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston. He talks about his heroes and mentors such as Karen Gibson MBE, who led the Kingdom Choir (which included Wayne), to sing at the Wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, in front of a worldwide TV audience of over 1bn people in 2018. leona lewis, best podcast, ronny jordan, manchester inspirational voices, the royal wedding, prince harry, voice coaching, lcgc, gospel, manchester inspirational voices choir, london community gospel choir, the voice, sir tom jones, poland, joy to the world, royal wedding, j p cooper, noel robinson, bbc christmas, sam bleazard, itv, r l edwards, gospel music, stevie wonder, vocal coach, manchester, the london community gospel choir, jennifer hudson, how to sing, world youth day, choirmaster, itvs the voice, will.i.am, the royal family, olly murs, jazz music, karen gibson mbe, gospel choirs, search engine optimisation, gospel singers, brenda mogoi, under grey skies, vocal advice, kingdom choir, search engine optimization, the kingdom choir, male voices, tom jones, new podcast episode, mtv awards, blur, seo, wayne ellington, brenda okioga, ricky simpson, meghan markle, krakow poland, itv the voice, harlesden no full 16 f3b2d6d4-21cf-4d20-99b3-7fcbd2e5d2cf Catherine de la Poer talks to Sam Bleazard about why emotional intelligence and self awareness matter so much in leadership. INTRO

0-5mins

  • A definition of emotional intelligence
  • Evolving in groups and the safety of a community setting (and the development of social brains)
  • Managing change and change management

5mins30s 

  • Recognising that we have emotions
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy: thought - emotion - action

7mins

  • Getting in touch with ourselves and becoming more emotionally literate
  • Love - only one word for it in English (the power of language)

9mins30s

  • Happiness and contentment vs having negative thoughts (the EQ model, optimism and the power of hope)
  • "I am future oriented"...and not feeling stuck in the past.
  • Thoughts, beliefs and limiting assumptions (about yourself) that are outdated - exposing thoughts and emotions...and challenging yourself.  
  • Stepping away from the baggage of the past - and not getting stuck there.

13mins

  • Psychological safety - and performing better - 'the ability for people to take inter-personal risks in a working environment'
  • Managers should create a climate in a team where it's safe to take risks, where it's safe to speak up
  • How to build trusted relationships? 42% of people leave meetings having said nothing

18mins

  • Thrust into a management position in sales at 22 years old, and not really liking people
  • "A natural people person and connector...kind of like my alter ego."
  • Can you connect with somebody in 10secs - early experience of tele-sales

20mins

  • Leaders at COP26 developing self-awareness

26mins 

  • Attending German language camp in the Black Forest and falling in love

27mins 

  • The teenage brain being very difficult to an adult brain (firing up the neuro-chemicals)

28mins 

  • 'everyone can be a leader...[to] sit in the driving seat of their own life'

30mins 

  • Human therapy - bringing horses into hospital and the power of animals helping people to heal
  • Workplace choirs to break down silos

34mins 

  • Why do you want to be a manager? Are you in it for the right reason, and are people always right for management roles. 
  • Having to learn deep empathy.
  • Promoting the 'winners' with the technical skills, the organisations results oriented people

39mins

  • Leaders and the importance of always displaying great self-awareness

40mins

  •  'to stay alive and vibrant you need to re-invent yourself'

42mins

  •  Listening, integrity and moral courage - the attributes of great leaders

44mins

  • The power differential in traditional organisations and family hierarchies

47mins

  • Reflections on the hybrid world post pandemic - can we be more self-aware and emotionally intelligent?

50mins

  • Thinking about your mission and purpose - new possibilities and dreams

53mins

  • Why does all this matter? 
  • Employee experience catching up with the customer experience in the eyes of investors.
]]> Tue, 9 Nov 2021 07:30:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (catherine de la poer, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/catherine-de-la-poer-ObOmFEHR INTRO

0-5mins

  • A definition of emotional intelligence
  • Evolving in groups and the safety of a community setting (and the development of social brains)
  • Managing change and change management

5mins30s 

  • Recognising that we have emotions
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy: thought - emotion - action

7mins

  • Getting in touch with ourselves and becoming more emotionally literate
  • Love - only one word for it in English (the power of language)

9mins30s

  • Happiness and contentment vs having negative thoughts (the EQ model, optimism and the power of hope)
  • "I am future oriented"...and not feeling stuck in the past.
  • Thoughts, beliefs and limiting assumptions (about yourself) that are outdated - exposing thoughts and emotions...and challenging yourself.  
  • Stepping away from the baggage of the past - and not getting stuck there.

13mins

  • Psychological safety - and performing better - 'the ability for people to take inter-personal risks in a working environment'
  • Managers should create a climate in a team where it's safe to take risks, where it's safe to speak up
  • How to build trusted relationships? 42% of people leave meetings having said nothing

18mins

  • Thrust into a management position in sales at 22 years old, and not really liking people
  • "A natural people person and connector...kind of like my alter ego."
  • Can you connect with somebody in 10secs - early experience of tele-sales

20mins

  • Leaders at COP26 developing self-awareness

26mins 

  • Attending German language camp in the Black Forest and falling in love

27mins 

  • The teenage brain being very difficult to an adult brain (firing up the neuro-chemicals)

28mins 

  • 'everyone can be a leader...[to] sit in the driving seat of their own life'

30mins 

  • Human therapy - bringing horses into hospital and the power of animals helping people to heal
  • Workplace choirs to break down silos

34mins 

  • Why do you want to be a manager? Are you in it for the right reason, and are people always right for management roles. 
  • Having to learn deep empathy.
  • Promoting the 'winners' with the technical skills, the organisations results oriented people

39mins

  • Leaders and the importance of always displaying great self-awareness

40mins

  •  'to stay alive and vibrant you need to re-invent yourself'

42mins

  •  Listening, integrity and moral courage - the attributes of great leaders

44mins

  • The power differential in traditional organisations and family hierarchies

47mins

  • Reflections on the hybrid world post pandemic - can we be more self-aware and emotionally intelligent?

50mins

  • Thinking about your mission and purpose - new possibilities and dreams

53mins

  • Why does all this matter? 
  • Employee experience catching up with the customer experience in the eyes of investors.
]]> Catherine de la Poer talks to Sam Bleazard about why emotional intelligence and self awareness matter so much in leadership. catherine de la poer, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard 00:56:40 Can we be better managers of people? Be more emotionally intelligent? And why do we choose to manage people, are we even in it for the right reasons? Why do 42% of people leave meetings having said nothing? Why do we find it hard to get in touch with our emotions at work, and could being more future oriented help us perform better? These are all questions explored with leadership coach Catherine de la Poer in our latest podcast episode. In a very candid interview Catherine reflects on being thrust into a management position at the age of 22, and by her own admission was someone who 'didn't really like people at that time'. For any self-respecting leader or HR / Comms professional operating in the new world of hybrid working - our conversation is well worth a listen - if you even a passing interest in self-development, self-awareness or emotional intelligence. 'To stay alive and vibrant you periodically need to refresh or re-invent yourself' - Mireilla Guiliano Can we be better managers of people? Be more emotionally intelligent? And why do we choose to manage people, are we even in it for the right reasons? Why do 42% of people leave meetings having said nothing? Why do we find it hard to get in touch with our emotions at work, and could being more future oriented help us perform better? These are all questions explored with leadership coach Catherine de la Poer in our latest podcast episode. In a very candid interview Catherine reflects on being thrust into a management position at the age of 22, and by her own admission was someone who 'didn't really like people at that time'. For any self-respecting leader or HR / Comms professional operating in the new world of hybrid working - our conversation is well worth a listen - if you even a passing interest in self-development, self-awareness or emotional intelligence. 'To stay alive and vibrant you periodically need to refresh or re-invent yourself' - Mireilla Guiliano having an optimistic outlook, cognitive behavioural therapy, the arts, future oriented, community, fast track careers, professor amy edmondson, anthropology, mentors, well being, motivated by emotions, health and wellbeing podcast, purpose, podcast on retail, leadership coaching, podcast on change management, entrepreneurship, coaching, a limiting assumption, employer brand, the english language, challenging your beliefs, traditional hierarchies, corporate coaching, breaking down silos, family structure, using silence, intuitive sales, why do you want to be a manager?, positive mental attitude, meditative, italian language, working culture, getting in touch with your emotions, energy project, spotify podcast on communication, exploration of emotions, relationship management, sam bleazard, creatures of habit, leadership visibility, one word for love, google, self awareness, contentment, leadership, best internal communication podcast, human happiness, leadership best practice, telephone sales, get in touch with your emotions, social brains, leadership culture, positivity, performance review, stuck in the past, leadership podcast, sales careers, inspirational leadership, human connectivity, mental health, leave your emotions at the door, behavioural traits, deep empathy, podcast on building confidence, hybrid working, controlling negative thoughts, compassion, modern leadership, music, emotional intelligence, marketing, cognitive therapy, podcast on mental health, intention, team performance, telesales, employee brand, empathy, side hustle, search engine optimisation, hybrid working culture, latin words, singing, leadership behaviour, new world of work, worldly wise, search engine optimization, pandemic, enabling teams to perform well, challenging the status quo, theatre, retail careers, catherine de la poer, workplace choirs, podcast on hybrid working, best podcast on hybrid working, 21st century thinking, furlough, adapting and evolving, a limiting belief, employee engagement, brand ambassador, best hr podcast, best human resources podcast, emotionally literate, employee experience, psychological safety, eq model, seo, interpersonal risks, inspirational managers, best podcast on communication, self management, older and wiser, we fear change, change management, leadership vulnerability no full 15 6536e9e9-6258-4cec-8776-982ea937ea31 With over 20 years experience working for some of the most prestigious brands in fashion, beauty, fragrance, electronics and home: we talk to Mark Forsyth, Director of Communications at the new UK online start-up Sproutl - dedicated to demystifying gardening, making it accessible and fun for all. INTRO

1min30s - finding out more about Sproutl, and comparing notes on home gardening

5mins30s - why Mark joined a start-up after a varied successful career

9mins30s - Mark on Inclusion: "Diversity and inclusion isn't just something you do for a week or a year..."

11mins - Background on team Sproutl

14mins - How important is social media?

15mins - How to do gardening if you've never done it before...?

19mins - "The person who has helped me most in my career..."

20mins30s - Hybrid working and treating employees like adults

23mins30s - Body image, size normal swimwear and expectations of brands in 2021

25mins30s - Sustainability: what should big brands be doing in this space? "We are in a climate crisis..."

28mins - Start-ups: what's better, and what's been more challenging?

30mins - Side hustles, new puppies, art and house renovations

32mins - Huggy's Disco and Norman Cook

33mins - What's next for Sproutl?

Music by Gavin Calder and Sam Bleazard.

]]> Thu, 28 Oct 2021 06:45:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Mark Forsyth, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/with-over-20-years-experience-for-some-of-the-most-prestigious-brands-in-fashion-beauty-fragrance-electronics-and-home-we-talk-to-director-of-communications-at-the-new-uk-online-start-up-sproutl-x2ayV3Kq INTRO

1min30s - finding out more about Sproutl, and comparing notes on home gardening

5mins30s - why Mark joined a start-up after a varied successful career

9mins30s - Mark on Inclusion: "Diversity and inclusion isn't just something you do for a week or a year..."

11mins - Background on team Sproutl

14mins - How important is social media?

15mins - How to do gardening if you've never done it before...?

19mins - "The person who has helped me most in my career..."

20mins30s - Hybrid working and treating employees like adults

23mins30s - Body image, size normal swimwear and expectations of brands in 2021

25mins30s - Sustainability: what should big brands be doing in this space? "We are in a climate crisis..."

28mins - Start-ups: what's better, and what's been more challenging?

30mins - Side hustles, new puppies, art and house renovations

32mins - Huggy's Disco and Norman Cook

33mins - What's next for Sproutl?

Music by Gavin Calder and Sam Bleazard.

]]> With over 20 years experience working for some of the most prestigious brands in fashion, beauty, fragrance, electronics and home: we talk to Mark Forsyth, Director of Communications at the new UK online start-up Sproutl - dedicated to demystifying gardening, making it accessible and fun for all. Mark Forsyth, Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder 00:34:26 Mark Forsyth is former Global Head of Communications at Yoox Net-A-Porter, and founder of Mark Forsyth Ltd - a strategic Brand and Communications consultancy. With over 20 years experience as a Retail consultant and Comms professional, Mark has spent a considerable time directing global campaigns for some of the most prestigious brands in fashion, beauty, fragrance, electronics and home. He's worked at House of Fraser, John Lewis, Liberty, and is now Director of Communications at online start-up Sproutl, who, with their female CEO Anni Noel-Johnson are backed by Index Ventures - also backers of Deliveroo and Dropbox (amongst others) - and are also supported by ethical investment funds. We talk start-ups, tomato chutney, low ego environments, the joy of dog-walking and so much more. Sproutl is a new UK Tech Startup dedicated to demystifying gardening, making it accessible and fun, inspiring fresh new audiences across the country who may never have planted anything before. We bring the best in gardening from phone to your door for patios, pots, windowsills, and backyards. Music by Gavin Calder and Sam Bleazard. Mark Forsyth is former Global Head of Communications at Yoox Net-A-Porter, and founder of Mark Forsyth Ltd - a strategic Brand and Communications consultancy. With over 20 years experience as a Retail consultant and Comms professional, Mark has spent a considerable time directing global campaigns for some of the most prestigious brands in fashion, beauty, fragrance, electronics and home. He's worked at House of Fraser, John Lewis, Liberty, and is now Director of Communications at online start-up Sproutl, who, with their female CEO Anni Noel-Johnson are backed by Index Ventures - also backers of Deliveroo and Dropbox (amongst others) - and are also supported by ethical investment funds. We talk start-ups, tomato chutney, low ego environments, the joy of dog-walking and so much more. Sproutl is a new UK Tech Startup dedicated to demystifying gardening, making it accessible and fun, inspiring fresh new audiences across the country who may never have planted anything before. We bring the best in gardening from phone to your door for patios, pots, windowsills, and backyards. Music by Gavin Calder and Sam Bleazard. norman cook, bricks brand, rhianna, nrby clothing, podcast for communications professionals, inclusion & diversity, nico mclennan, podcast, best new podcast show, diverse internships, exporters, uk tech startups, spotify business podcast, recruitment, chemical pesticides, work life balance podcast, food delivery, candy crush, companies that thrive and succeed, corporate communications, food, living your best life, fun times, 4 day week, rainbow washing, gaana best business podcast, jiosaavn best business podcast, spotify podcast, simply communicate, nightclub, podcasts about pr, deliveroo, house renovation, best practice communication, waitrose, lucinda greasley, sam bleazard, mister editorial, gardening hints and tips, comms from the shed podcast, work life balance, helen dickinson, internal communication, retail professionals podcast, micro influencers, index ventures, healthy attitudes, mark forsyth, garden inspo, public affairs, books on gardening, food delivery in south africa, selfridges, gardening podcast, anni noel-johnson, influencers, bricks and clicks, retail, press pr, diversity and inclusion, mental health and gardening, social media for engagement, comms from the shed, high street retailers, best new gardening podcast, diversity & inclusion, simal patel, black lives matter, award winning creative, leadership podcast, dog lovers, mental health, new company podcast, hybrid working, side hustles, garden snobbery, best business podcast apple, gardening help, pesticides, internships, four day week, ceo, best new podcast, gardening journey, online startup, treating employees like adults, sproutl, expectations of brands, best podcast for communicators, public relations, east london, rare groove, gardening, vogue, search engine optimisation, physical health, head of beauty, black history month, bhm2021, dropbox, internal communications, retailers, search engine optimization, dj norman cook, hybrid working podcast, retail careers, employee communication, greenwashing, how to start a new company, sustainability, body size, advertising, inclusion and diversity, gardening for people who don't know how to garden yet, importers, vogue magazine, jo hooper, itunes podcast, employee engagement, amazon music podcast, online startups, chief technical officer, female ceo, yoox net a porter, epping forest, pr, seo, swimwear, green washing, peter ruis, habitat business, liberty, john lewis partnership, building new companies, john lewis, new podcast show, mister d, food podcast no full 14 84f838c4-c148-4f25-b278-eb6c7e244ef5 We speak to Mister Editorial - Shaun Randol - who joins us to talk about several years spent at Bloomberg in New York and reflects on his career so far in Corporate America. We also discuss what drew him to employee communication, the lesson he learned from interviewing one of his heroes, and why he will always be a journalist at heart. Hit subscribe for future episodes. Discussion themes for this episode of Comms from the Shed:

  • A new profession called Internal Communication
  • DIY learning in the spirit of a start-up (and why staying behind the scenes appeals)
  • Being a journalist at heart and the power of editing
  • Interviewing Noam Chomsky on political turmoil
  • Mister Editorial, promotion and the importance of mentors
  • Why we increasingly trust CEOs over authority figures - what are the implications for employee comms?
  • Splunk - and what it does
  • Nothing stays internal!
  • Rare & mysterious books
]]> Wed, 21 Jul 2021 05:34:32 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder, Shaun Randol) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/we-speak-to-mister-editorial-shaun-randol-who-joins-us-to-talk-about-bloomberg-a-career-in-corporate-america-what-drew-him-to-employee-comms-interviewing-his-hero-noam-chomsky-and-why-he-will-always-be-a-journalist-at-heart-hit-subscribe-for-future-episod-tuhXsZla Discussion themes for this episode of Comms from the Shed:

  • A new profession called Internal Communication
  • DIY learning in the spirit of a start-up (and why staying behind the scenes appeals)
  • Being a journalist at heart and the power of editing
  • Interviewing Noam Chomsky on political turmoil
  • Mister Editorial, promotion and the importance of mentors
  • Why we increasingly trust CEOs over authority figures - what are the implications for employee comms?
  • Splunk - and what it does
  • Nothing stays internal!
  • Rare & mysterious books
]]> We speak to Mister Editorial - Shaun Randol - who joins us to talk about several years spent at Bloomberg in New York and reflects on his career so far in Corporate America. We also discuss what drew him to employee communication, the lesson he learned from interviewing one of his heroes, and why he will always be a journalist at heart. Hit subscribe for future episodes. Sam Bleazard, Gavin Calder, Shaun Randol 00:47:40 From Fintech blogger to a full time career in corporate communications, Shaun ran and managed a strategic multi channel function for 10 years. In that time he has also created numerous side hustles and publishing enterprises, such as the Mantle and Mister Editorial (which have given him a great deal of personal fulfilment). Join us in the Shed for a discussion on all things Comms, but also a reflection on the spirit of entrepreneurialism that many discovered during the pandemic. From Fintech blogger to a full time career in corporate communications, Shaun ran and managed a strategic multi channel function for 10 years. In that time he has also created numerous side hustles and publishing enterprises, such as the Mantle and Mister Editorial (which have given him a great deal of personal fulfilment). Join us in the Shed for a discussion on all things Comms, but also a reflection on the spirit of entrepreneurialism that many discovered during the pandemic. mike bloomberg, new york city mayor, ceos, airbus, literary critics, working from home, bloomberg, spotify business podcast, stocks, innovator's dilemma by clayton christensen, work life balance podcast, fintech, best business podcast spotify, harvard business review, corporate communications, communication skills, best practice internal communication, podcasts about news media, macro economics, news journalism, gaana best business podcast, rare first edition books, clayton christensen, jiosaavn best new business podcast, mayor of new york city, bloomberg news, relationship management, sam bleazard, mister editorial, internal communication, alice munro, ethan mccarty, corporate leaders, public affairs, multi channel communications, podcast about data companies, newswire, press pr, arts and culture, investigative journalism, comms from the shed, intranet, black lives matter, leadership podcast, breaking news, employee newsletter, news editorial, hybrid working, dow jones, journalism blog, new podcast, best podcast on internal communication, marketing, media, splunk, best new podcast, shaun randol, innovator's dilemma, noam chomsky, magazine editor, employee communications, bloomberg television, search engine optimisation, alice munro author, external communications, internal communications, data analytics, publication deadlines, bloomberg online, podcast on journalism, search engine optimization, company intranet, jiosaavn podcast, employee communication, branding, best new itunes podcast, portland, employee engagement, new york, out of office, learning to podcast, reputation management, seo, newswires, dominoes pizza, magazine subscriptions, honda, edelman trust barometer, emotional attachment, e-newsletter advice no full 13 30790ce7-46a2-436a-bb16-3e10f14ead7e Dr Susie Mitchell, Programme Director for Glasgow City of Science and Innovation tells Sam Bleazard: "innovation is not just about technology you can play with, it's about solving challenges." Join us for a wide-ranging interview which covers the inspiration of her parents, and a major side-hustle in music, which saw her perform at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Music for this episode was very kindly provided by Gavin Calder - Who Wanna Be In The Band? (Funky Weapon remix), and True Funk soldier (Quiet Storm). 

]]> Tue, 29 Jun 2021 06:45:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Dr Susie Mitchell, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/dr-susie-mitchell-in-conversation-with-sam-bleazard-SjKynkzI Music for this episode was very kindly provided by Gavin Calder - Who Wanna Be In The Band? (Funky Weapon remix), and True Funk soldier (Quiet Storm). 

]]> Dr Susie Mitchell, Programme Director for Glasgow City of Science and Innovation tells Sam Bleazard: "innovation is not just about technology you can play with, it's about solving challenges." Join us for a wide-ranging interview which covers the inspiration of her parents, and a major side-hustle in music, which saw her perform at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in 2014. Dr Susie Mitchell, Gavin Calder, Sam Bleazard 00:42:01 After completing her studies in the late 1990s at St. Andrews and The University of Glasgow, Susie emerged with a BA and PHd for Molecular Biology, and Oncology and Cancer Biology respectively. Since then she has worked in the NHS as a Research & Development Manager, worked for Glasgow City Council on Health and Improvement programmes and also for the Scottish Government. She appeared on BBC Radio 4 with Nicola Sturgeon on Woman's Hour and is also passionate about music and the arts, having been a backing vocalist and session vocalist for various artists, including Lewis Capaldi. She performed at the closing ceremony of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014, having worked as part of the organisational team. She became a mum for the first time in 2020 - during the pandemic - and recently joined the Board of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. After completing her studies in the late 1990s at St. Andrews and The University of Glasgow, Susie emerged with a BA and PHd for Molecular Biology, and Oncology and Cancer Biology respectively. Since then she has worked in the NHS as a Research & Development Manager, worked for Glasgow City Council on Health and Improvement programmes and also for the Scottish Government. She appeared on BBC Radio 4 with Nicola Sturgeon on Woman's Hour and is also passionate about music and the arts, having been a backing vocalist and session vocalist for various artists, including Lewis Capaldi. She performed at the closing ceremony of the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014, having worked as part of the organisational team. She became a mum for the first time in 2020 - during the pandemic - and recently joined the Board of the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. edinburgh, resilience, brewing, sir godfrey henry oliver palmer obe, educational psychologist, professor emeritus in the school of life sciences heriot-watt university edinburgh, tinder box coffee, disability, university of st. andrews, sme, women in science, beatson institute glasgow, woman's hour bbc radio 4, science and innovation, jazz, technology, agility, national innovation summit for scotland, the university of glasgow, heriot-watt university edinburgh, gospel music, new family, glasgow international jazz festival, reggae, scottish economy, first black professor in scotland, who wanna be in the band?, gavin calder, scottish government, promoting innovation, empowering workplace cultures, bbc, barley abrasion process, maggie palmer, sir geoff palmer obe, hybrid working, maternity leave, lockdown living, accessibility, culture tech net, glasgow science centre, muriel gray, working mums, having a baby during covid-19, glasgow school of art, nicola sturgeon, lifelong learning, first minister of scotland, science, lewis capaldi, solving global challenges, new working patterns, james brown, international innovation, glasgow city of science and innovation, soul music, phd, glasgow commonwealth games 2014, seo, global science community, glasgow city council, tinder box byres road, systems consciousness, science & innovation no full 12 918c3f33-c96e-461b-bc9d-317611e4b576 Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Gregory Porter in conversation with Sam Bleazard: celebrating food, music and family. The Porterhouse with Gregory Porter (hosted from the family kitchen in Bakersfield, California) - is a new show where the two time Grammy winner celebrates food, music, family and giving back.

Gregory Porter's first two albums — Water (2010) and Be Good (2012) — both received Grammy nominations. In 2013, he released his Blue Note debut Liquid Spirit which quickly grew into a global phenomenon, selling more than a million albums and earning him his first Grammy Award with NPR declaring him “America’s Next Great Jazz Singer.” His 2016 follow-up Take Me To The Alley claimed him a second GRAMMY for Best Vocal Jazz Album and firmly established him as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer-songwriter. In 2017, Porter released the heartfelt tribute album Nat King Cole & Me, and in 2020 returned to his original song writing on the uplifting All Rise, both of which received Grammy nominations. He is also the host of the podcast The Hang, a conversation series featuring his famous friends that explores the musical and creative threads that join us all together.

“Music and food, two things in life I truly love, have always been connected,” says Porter. “The kitchen was actually my home before I ever stepped on stage. Food is not just food, it’s tradition, it’s family, it’s roots, and that’s what music is. When I make a beautiful dish, something that makes people feel good and it brightens their face and lightens their mood, this is the way I think about music. Writing songs and creating dishes have always inspired me.”

]]> Tue, 22 Jun 2021 06:26:34 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sam Bleazard, Gregory Porter) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/grammy-award-winning-singer-songwriter-gregory-porter-in-conversation-with-sam-bleazard-celebrating-food-music-family-giving-back-VNGew4Zk The Porterhouse with Gregory Porter (hosted from the family kitchen in Bakersfield, California) - is a new show where the two time Grammy winner celebrates food, music, family and giving back.

Gregory Porter's first two albums — Water (2010) and Be Good (2012) — both received Grammy nominations. In 2013, he released his Blue Note debut Liquid Spirit which quickly grew into a global phenomenon, selling more than a million albums and earning him his first Grammy Award with NPR declaring him “America’s Next Great Jazz Singer.” His 2016 follow-up Take Me To The Alley claimed him a second GRAMMY for Best Vocal Jazz Album and firmly established him as his generation’s most soulful jazz singer-songwriter. In 2017, Porter released the heartfelt tribute album Nat King Cole & Me, and in 2020 returned to his original song writing on the uplifting All Rise, both of which received Grammy nominations. He is also the host of the podcast The Hang, a conversation series featuring his famous friends that explores the musical and creative threads that join us all together.

“Music and food, two things in life I truly love, have always been connected,” says Porter. “The kitchen was actually my home before I ever stepped on stage. Food is not just food, it’s tradition, it’s family, it’s roots, and that’s what music is. When I make a beautiful dish, something that makes people feel good and it brightens their face and lightens their mood, this is the way I think about music. Writing songs and creating dishes have always inspired me.”

]]> Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Gregory Porter in conversation with Sam Bleazard: celebrating food, music and family. Sam Bleazard, Gregory Porter 00:15:06 What is it like to experience rejection in your career? Even the most successful in their field have experienced it. Gregory Porter is a successful singer songwriter, who began his career in New York as a chef, before he was discovered and got his big break as a musician in his 30s. During the pandemic he returned to cooking, one of his childhood loves, and now presents a new TV show - The Porterhouse with Gregory Porter (hosted from the family kitchen in Bakersfield, California) - where he celebrates food, music, family and giving back. Join us for a Comms from the Shed exclusive where we talk to Gregory about the interconnected nature of all the things he loves most - food, music, acting and presenting. We also discuss the influence of his mother and father on his song writing, the music of his childhood, why New York has been so important to his career, and his special relationship with the U.K. What is it like to experience rejection in your career? Even the most successful in their field have experienced it. Gregory Porter is a successful singer songwriter, who began his career in New York as a chef, before he was discovered and got his big break as a musician in his 30s. During the pandemic he returned to cooking, one of his childhood loves, and now presents a new TV show - The Porterhouse with Gregory Porter (hosted from the family kitchen in Bakersfield, California) - where he celebrates food, music, family and giving back. Join us for a Comms from the Shed exclusive where we talk to Gregory about the interconnected nature of all the things he loves most - food, music, acting and presenting. We also discuss the influence of his mother and father on his song writing, the music of his childhood, why New York has been so important to his career, and his special relationship with the U.K. best new podcasts, brooklyn, blue note club, blue note records, seasoning, playing small venues, halleck vineyard sebastopol california, sebastopol california, bedford stuyvesant brooklyn, bakersfield california, preacher, the hang with gregory porter, 1960 what? gregory porter, jools holland, american footballer, jazz, umusic, poets, all rise, brick house the commodores, best new music podcast, halleck vineyard sebastopol, songwriting, the hang spotify podcast gregory porter, liquid spirit gregory porter, nineteen sixty what?, hey laura it's me, song for my father, the hang podcast, broadway shows, gospel music, stevie wonder, best gaana music podcast, gregory porter, jamie cullum gregory porter, halleck vineyard, grammy award, bakersfield, nat king cole, bbc, native new yorker, love songs, cooking a leg of lamb, bbc music, liquid spirit, the porterhouse with gregory porter, ruth porter mother, all rise gregory porter, horace silver, san diego state university, music, donny hathaway, take me to the alley, overcoming rejection, best itunes music podcast, best new podcast, rag n bone man, song writing, los angeles, harlem, jazz music, no kid hungry, harlem audiences, california, jazz at the lincoln centre, brooklyn sister's place, cooking, church upbringing, brooklyn solomon's porch, growing up in sacramento, sebastopol, dealing with career rejection, gregory porter the royal albert hall, don't stop til you get enough, sister's place, nat king cole & me, the royal albert hall, blue note jazz, soul music, jamie cullum, grammy award winner, new york, the commodores, mahalia jackon, seo, james cleveland, solomon's porch new york club, best new music podcasts, work song gregory porter, st nicks pub new york, citi, wynton marsalis, sound systems no full 11 4d6a85f0-573e-4915-aa8e-f61725916600 Focus on mental health: we talk to the Head of Development at Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich MIND - about the challenges faced by an organisation who have continued delivering vital local services. Charlotte Fletcher talks about the mental health of pregnant women and teenagers during the pandemic, but also dealing with dementia and how important it is for carers to have support. We also look at the importance of the recent local, and London mayoral elections, and what BLG MIND's connection to Rita Ora's hairdresser is. Summary and themes

2mins - Supporting the mental health of pregnant women, and charting how far mental health services have come.

5mins - The mental health of teenagers during Covid-19, dementia support and 5 Ways to Wellbeing

12mins - Local council and mayoral elections - and what these might mean for the provision of services

15mins - Training housing associations and key workers such as nurses and young carers.

19mins - Career path to this point.

22mins - What is the most fulfilling part of your job?

24mins - Inspirational stories - involving pie and mash, and Rita Ora's hairdresser.

27mins - Has the pandemic made us more compassionate? Reflections on the period.

28mins30s - What has been the toughest part about delivering services during the pandemic and digital poverty locally?

30mins - Future MIND initiatives, including a new 3 year strategy to provide a diverse range of services.

34mins - Looking at the spectrum of mental health issues

36mins - How should we all keep supporting each other in the months ahead?

38mins - Home comforts, music and yoga during lockdown.

39mins30s - A quirky fact about you that we might not know?

41mins - Hopes for the future, and thoughts on the months ahead.

]]> Mon, 10 May 2021 06:30:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Charlotte Fletcher, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/focusing-on-mental-health-we-talk-to-the-head-of-development-at-bromley-lewisham-and-greenwich-mind-about-the-challenges-faced-by-an-organisation-who-have-continued-delivering-vital-local-services-charlotte-fletcher-talks-about-the-mental-health-of-pregna-IXLeJi6t Summary and themes

2mins - Supporting the mental health of pregnant women, and charting how far mental health services have come.

5mins - The mental health of teenagers during Covid-19, dementia support and 5 Ways to Wellbeing

12mins - Local council and mayoral elections - and what these might mean for the provision of services

15mins - Training housing associations and key workers such as nurses and young carers.

19mins - Career path to this point.

22mins - What is the most fulfilling part of your job?

24mins - Inspirational stories - involving pie and mash, and Rita Ora's hairdresser.

27mins - Has the pandemic made us more compassionate? Reflections on the period.

28mins30s - What has been the toughest part about delivering services during the pandemic and digital poverty locally?

30mins - Future MIND initiatives, including a new 3 year strategy to provide a diverse range of services.

34mins - Looking at the spectrum of mental health issues

36mins - How should we all keep supporting each other in the months ahead?

38mins - Home comforts, music and yoga during lockdown.

39mins30s - A quirky fact about you that we might not know?

41mins - Hopes for the future, and thoughts on the months ahead.

]]> Focus on mental health: we talk to the Head of Development at Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich MIND - about the challenges faced by an organisation who have continued delivering vital local services. Charlotte Fletcher talks about the mental health of pregnant women and teenagers during the pandemic, but also dealing with dementia and how important it is for carers to have support. We also look at the importance of the recent local, and London mayoral elections, and what BLG MIND's connection to Rita Ora's hairdresser is. Charlotte Fletcher, Sam Bleazard 00:43:12 We talk to Charlotte Fletcher, the Head of Development at Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich MIND - about the challenges posed by an organisation who deliver vital local services. We cover a range of subjects, including the mental health of pregnant women, teenagers during Covid-19, and the Five Ways to Wellbeing. She tells us about dealing with dementia, having to close local support centres because of financial struggles (due to staff wages and building costs), but also how important it is for carers to have support, because they often see their loved ones deteriorate very quickly. We also look at the importance of the recent local, and London mayoral elections, and what that might mean for the provision of mental health services in the UK. Charlotte tells us how she's been able to use skills in Press, PR and Event Management - developed early in her career - to great effect now, and what BLG MIND's connection to Rita Ora's hairdresser is. We talk to Charlotte Fletcher, the Head of Development at Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich MIND - about the challenges posed by an organisation who deliver vital local services. We cover a range of subjects, including the mental health of pregnant women, teenagers during Covid-19, and the Five Ways to Wellbeing. She tells us about dealing with dementia, having to close local support centres because of financial struggles (due to staff wages and building costs), but also how important it is for carers to have support, because they often see their loved ones deteriorate very quickly. We also look at the importance of the recent local, and London mayoral elections, and what that might mean for the provision of mental health services in the UK. Charlotte tells us how she's been able to use skills in Press, PR and Event Management - developed early in her career - to great effect now, and what BLG MIND's connection to Rita Ora's hairdresser is. best new podcasts, yoga, wellbeing, well being, local london services, dementia services, mind, conservation projects in vietnam, dementia, greenwich, rita ora, best new mental health podcasts, mental health foundation, pie and mash, mindful, teenage mental health, bromley, best podcasts on wellbeing, #connectwithnature, mental health, crystal palace park, mental health awareness, mental health awareness week 2021, mindfulness, five ways to wellbeing, podcasts on mental health, mental health podcast, best new podcast on wellbeing, focus on mental health, mental health advice, greenwich council services, lewisham, 5 ways to wellbeing, under represented communities, #mentalhealthawarenessweek, mental health support in london, seo, mental health support staff, rita ora's hairdresser, new mental health podcast, lewisham council services, bromley council services no full 10 5af92e9c-621e-4b16-b58e-9f7c37be36b0 Episode 9: What's it like to go from Corporate Communications into either acting in the West End or Children's TV, or to go from sales and recruitment into crane driving and construction? Join our Career change special part 2 - with Katie Kelleher, Antony Antunes and Kevin Mears - to find out more. Career Change special part 2 - themes & chapters

2 mins - thinking about changing career for the first time (Katie Kelleher).

3mins - selling yourself and gaining the confidence to do so.

4mins - the fear of the unknown, sacrifice and being brave enough to make the jump.

5mins - from John Lewis to acting in the West End (Antony Antunes).

7mins - a parallel career as a scriptwriter and being inspired by the birth of a first child (Kevin Mears).

9mins - the challenge of editing and promoting film scripts in Covid-19.

10mins - what was your big motivation to make a change? (ALL)

14mins - balancing the day job, family life and the side-hustle, plus the benefits of Zoom and no commute (KM).

15mins30s - Entrepreneurial spirit in a time of Covid (Katie Kelleher).

16mins30s - state of the arts (Antony Antunes).

17mins10s - What gets you out of bed and inspires you? (ALL)

22mins30s - Social media: top tips from the panel.

28mins - recruiting a female tower crane operator in a pet shop and women on the tools (Katie).

31mins - advice for anyone thinking about making a career change (ALL).

34mins30s - what was your go to comfort thing during lockdown? (ALL)

42mins - meet and greets in Basildon with Bing! (Kevin)

 

 

 

 

]]> Tue, 20 Apr 2021 07:57:01 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sam Bleazard, Antony Antunes, Kevin Mears, Katie Kelleher) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-9-career-change-special-part-2-with-katie-kelleher-antony-antunes-and-kevin-mears-6LXIIDjA Career Change special part 2 - themes & chapters

2 mins - thinking about changing career for the first time (Katie Kelleher).

3mins - selling yourself and gaining the confidence to do so.

4mins - the fear of the unknown, sacrifice and being brave enough to make the jump.

5mins - from John Lewis to acting in the West End (Antony Antunes).

7mins - a parallel career as a scriptwriter and being inspired by the birth of a first child (Kevin Mears).

9mins - the challenge of editing and promoting film scripts in Covid-19.

10mins - what was your big motivation to make a change? (ALL)

14mins - balancing the day job, family life and the side-hustle, plus the benefits of Zoom and no commute (KM).

15mins30s - Entrepreneurial spirit in a time of Covid (Katie Kelleher).

16mins30s - state of the arts (Antony Antunes).

17mins10s - What gets you out of bed and inspires you? (ALL)

22mins30s - Social media: top tips from the panel.

28mins - recruiting a female tower crane operator in a pet shop and women on the tools (Katie).

31mins - advice for anyone thinking about making a career change (ALL).

34mins30s - what was your go to comfort thing during lockdown? (ALL)

42mins - meet and greets in Basildon with Bing! (Kevin)

 

 

 

 

]]> Episode 9: What's it like to go from Corporate Communications into either acting in the West End or Children's TV, or to go from sales and recruitment into crane driving and construction? Join our Career change special part 2 - with Katie Kelleher, Antony Antunes and Kevin Mears - to find out more. Sam Bleazard, Antony Antunes, Kevin Mears, Katie Kelleher 00:44:02 In part 2 of our career change special we find out what it's like to go from Corporate Communications into acting in the West End and Kids TV and social media, but also what it was like to go from sales and recruitment into crane driving and construction. Listen in to our panel of Katie Kelleher, Antony Antunes and Kevin Mears to hear their fascinating insights and what inspired and motivated them to make the change. In part 2 of our career change special we find out what it's like to go from Corporate Communications into acting in the West End and Kids TV and social media, but also what it was like to go from sales and recruitment into crane driving and construction. Listen in to our panel of Katie Kelleher, Antony Antunes and Kevin Mears to hear their fascinating insights and what inspired and motivated them to make the change. cbeebies, spotify best new careers podcast, war horse, careers podcast, alan partridge, construction, thames tideway tunnel, recruitment, vr headset, corporate communications, english national opera, london, film script, social media, entrepreneur, bbc radio, essex, job search, horrible histories, career advice, acting, bing, disney, intranets, cirque de soleil, crossrail, sam bleazard, internal communication, career, executive search, basildon, side hustle podcast, select plant hire, jiosaavn best new podcast, comms from the shed, bbc, pet shop, acamar films, west end, tower cranes, scriptwriting, websites, best new podcast, commute, career change, sales, career change special, gaana new podcast, careers, tower crane, side hustle, children's television, disney+, entrepreneurialism, best careers podcast, female crane operators, career change podcast, lockdown, engineering, infrastructure, itunes podcast, crane operators, seo, bbc radio 2, laing o'rourke, entrepreneurs, zoom, john lewis no full 9 cb6e732c-e871-434c-8d2c-4b91e985b772 Episode 8: Leo Moynihan has been a sportswriter for over twenty years. He has written for FourFourTwo, the Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Shortlist, ES Magazine and Esquire among others. He is also the author of several books including Three Kings: The Makers of Modern Football, which was shortlisted for the British Sports Book awards Football Book of the Year. His latest - out now - is Thou Shall Not Pass: The Anatomy of Football’s Centre-Half. Episode chapters 

1min - Publishing a book and interviewing in lockdown.

2mins30s - The centre half and their quirks.

4mins30s - Twin loves of football and journalism - keeping it in the family.

6mins30s - Ghosting David Beckham

10mins30s - Gaining respect as a writer and breakthrough moments.

13mins - Premier League football and the response to the pandemic.

18mins - Black Lives Matter in football, is it effective?

21mins30s - What will life be like for football fans in the future?

23mins - Writing I'm most proud of, and the magic of the FA Cup.

28mins30s - Greatest ever moments in football.

32mins - Favourite career interviews.

35mins - Vegan dinners of choice for Premier League footballers?

35mins45s - Writers I enjoy reading.

38mins30s - Stories of Scotland's Gordon Strachan.

40mins30s - Projects in the pipeline and hopes for the future?

42mins30s - Predictions for the remainder of the season: who will win the biggest prizes?

]]> Fri, 9 Apr 2021 06:00:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (leo moynihan, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-8-it-was-so-hot-his-trainers-had-melted-to-the-pavement-leo-moynihan-has-been-a-sportswriter-for-twenty-one-years-he-has-written-for-fourfourtwo-the-sunday-telegraph-the-times-shortlist-es-magazine-and-esquire-among-others-he-has-authored-several-Q1HP1A2o Episode chapters 

1min - Publishing a book and interviewing in lockdown.

2mins30s - The centre half and their quirks.

4mins30s - Twin loves of football and journalism - keeping it in the family.

6mins30s - Ghosting David Beckham

10mins30s - Gaining respect as a writer and breakthrough moments.

13mins - Premier League football and the response to the pandemic.

18mins - Black Lives Matter in football, is it effective?

21mins30s - What will life be like for football fans in the future?

23mins - Writing I'm most proud of, and the magic of the FA Cup.

28mins30s - Greatest ever moments in football.

32mins - Favourite career interviews.

35mins - Vegan dinners of choice for Premier League footballers?

35mins45s - Writers I enjoy reading.

38mins30s - Stories of Scotland's Gordon Strachan.

40mins30s - Projects in the pipeline and hopes for the future?

42mins30s - Predictions for the remainder of the season: who will win the biggest prizes?

]]> Episode 8: Leo Moynihan has been a sportswriter for over twenty years. He has written for FourFourTwo, the Sunday Telegraph, The Times, Shortlist, ES Magazine and Esquire among others. He is also the author of several books including Three Kings: The Makers of Modern Football, which was shortlisted for the British Sports Book awards Football Book of the Year. His latest - out now - is Thou Shall Not Pass: The Anatomy of Football’s Centre-Half. leo moynihan, Sam Bleazard 00:43:57 What is it like to ghost David Beckham? Or publish a book in lockdown? Is it true that the world's best footballers have gone vegan? We catch up with renowned sports journalist Leo Moynihan, who remembers sitting in smoked filled press rooms in his youth, as his father documented a world before the Premier League existed. We also discuss the effectiveness of Black Lives Matter and reflect on football's response to the pandemic. He tells us about his favourite articles, writers and shares some interesting memories - including what it was like to get emotional with England's Terry Butcher, and going to dinner with legendary commentator John Motson. What is it like to ghost David Beckham? Or publish a book in lockdown? Is it true that the world's best footballers have gone vegan? We catch up with renowned sports journalist Leo Moynihan, who remembers sitting in smoked filled press rooms in his youth, as his father documented a world before the Premier League existed. We also discuss the effectiveness of Black Lives Matter and reflect on football's response to the pandemic. He tells us about his favourite articles, writers and shares some interesting memories - including what it was like to get emotional with England's Terry Butcher, and going to dinner with legendary commentator John Motson. spain 1982 world cup, david beckham, match of the day, brazil football team, jordan henderson, times newspaper, gareth bale, fa cup final, best football podcasts, football journalism, patrick barclay, fourfourtwo, everton, virgil van dijk, fourfourtwo magazine, ian rush, terry butcher, aberdeen fc, harry kane, henry winter, john motson, sam bleazard, mark lawrenson, west ham, shortlist, socrates, football, sam pilger, hugh mcilvanney, black lives matter, the times, hereford town, liverpool fc, sir alex ferguson, crystal palace, tottenham hotspur, telegraph newspaper, es magazine, leo moynihan, marcus rashford, bobby robson, zico, ronnie radford, best football books, arsenal, you'll never walk alone, john moynihan, italy, evening standard, hereford fa cup, john barnes, european super league podcast, merseyside, premier league, alex ferguson, seo, ian st. john, private jet, gordon strachan, newcastle united fc, vegan dinners no full 8 3c248d74-4b1a-409b-9453-b7100b512c44 Episode 7: Career coach, Board advisor and founder of Executive Career Jump Andrew MacAskill is on a mission to end our job search misery. Andrew Macaskill  - Career coach, Board advisor and founder of Executive Career Jump - is on a mission to end our job search misery.

1min - the best and worst of Covid-19 and innovation in adversity.

3mins - communities, social media and serving others.

4mins30s - best pieces of career advice and treating the job search like a project.

7mins - ending job search misery: "getting the human back into Human Resources".

9mins - AI and the transactional systems causing problems.

10mins - the 'Etch-A-Sketch' effect.

11mins - Career history, wanting to be a sports journalist and getting to know the language of business.

15mins - Assessment of the job market now and the K-shaped economy.

17mins30s - Advice to people changing careers or setting up their own business.

21mins30s - Are the CVs days numbered?

22mins30s - funniest interview stories and CV mistakes.

25mins30s - What get's you out of bed in the morning?

28mins30s - What's attributes and approaches are helping people to be successful and getting them over the line?

30mins30s - Why do people find it so hard to package themselves up? "Quite often the best candidates have the least amount of practice in interviews..."

32mins15s - Gender differences on Imposter Syndrome, and becoming an MD at 29... - 'qualify yourself in, rather than qualify yourself out'.

35mins30s - Competency based interview questions and E-STAR-Q.

39mins - Comfort in lockdown, running and podcasts.

41mins40s - Strange fingers and swapping girlfriends with Craig David.

43mins - Coaching experiences that gave me the most satisfaction.

]]> Tue, 6 Apr 2021 05:45:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Andrew MacAskill, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-7-career-coach-board-advisor-and-founder-of-executive-career-jump-andrew-macaskill-is-on-a-mission-to-end-our-job-search-misery-KgRc8zgL Andrew Macaskill  - Career coach, Board advisor and founder of Executive Career Jump - is on a mission to end our job search misery.

1min - the best and worst of Covid-19 and innovation in adversity.

3mins - communities, social media and serving others.

4mins30s - best pieces of career advice and treating the job search like a project.

7mins - ending job search misery: "getting the human back into Human Resources".

9mins - AI and the transactional systems causing problems.

10mins - the 'Etch-A-Sketch' effect.

11mins - Career history, wanting to be a sports journalist and getting to know the language of business.

15mins - Assessment of the job market now and the K-shaped economy.

17mins30s - Advice to people changing careers or setting up their own business.

21mins30s - Are the CVs days numbered?

22mins30s - funniest interview stories and CV mistakes.

25mins30s - What get's you out of bed in the morning?

28mins30s - What's attributes and approaches are helping people to be successful and getting them over the line?

30mins30s - Why do people find it so hard to package themselves up? "Quite often the best candidates have the least amount of practice in interviews..."

32mins15s - Gender differences on Imposter Syndrome, and becoming an MD at 29... - 'qualify yourself in, rather than qualify yourself out'.

35mins30s - Competency based interview questions and E-STAR-Q.

39mins - Comfort in lockdown, running and podcasts.

41mins40s - Strange fingers and swapping girlfriends with Craig David.

43mins - Coaching experiences that gave me the most satisfaction.

]]> Episode 7: Career coach, Board advisor and founder of Executive Career Jump Andrew MacAskill is on a mission to end our job search misery. Andrew MacAskill, Sam Bleazard 00:45:44 Join us for this career change special, as we talk about everything from job acquisition burnout syndrome, setting up your own business, and Craig David - with career coach, Board advisor and founder of Executive Career Jump, Andrew MacAskill. Join us for this career change special, as we talk about everything from job acquisition burnout syndrome, setting up your own business, and Craig David - with career coach, Board advisor and founder of Executive Career Jump, Andrew MacAskill. best new podcasts, business knowledge, career history, stakeholder management, ai, sports journalism, recruitment, how to win at interviews, born to do it, situation task action result, andrew macaskill, imposter syndrome, job interviews, social media, linkedin, entrepreneur, resume, job search, craig david, best business podcast, competency based questions, lessons in business, sam bleazard, how to sell yourself, cv, executive level coaching, career, curriculum vitae, comms from the shed, career coaching, new podcast, emotional intelligence, hr, lockdown living, best practice interview technique, best new podcast, interviews, entrepreneurial spirit, careers, best career advice podcast, competency based interviews, executive career jump, entrepreneurialism, end job search misery, human resources, best careers podcast, transactional systems, career coach, executive careers, best new business podcast, artificial intelligence, executive coaching, etch a sketch, communications best practice, seo, starting your own business no full 7 443c0c36-a839-49ae-8bdd-f92344508bac Episode 6: Award winning Engineer, Designer & Innovator Yewande Akinola MBE - from chatting to The Chancellor about sustainable jobs, to binge watching MasterChef and Netflix with her young family, she shares memories of an inspirational childhood in Nigeria. "Women see in colour!" she tells us - listen and subscribe. From chatting to The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, about sustainability and the future of jobs, to binge watching MasterChef and Netflix with her young family. We talk about the changing priorities enforced by lockdown living on Yewande Akinola - an award winning female engineer, who shares memories of an inspirational childhood in Nigeria and her Mum's spicy Jollof rice. We also discuss the connection between engineering, art and performance, and why water will always matter. "Women see in colour!", she tells Comms from the Shed - listen in to our latest episode to find out more.

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1mins20secs - My biggest challenge in the last 12 months

3mins20s - A week in the life of Yewande

5mins - Chatting with the Chancellor about the future of jobs

7mins - Memories of a Nigerian childhood

11mins - Following in Dad's footsteps

14mins30s - Demas Nwoko: Arts, Architecture and the back-garden Ampitheatre.

19mins - World Water: 'I saw the impact the lack of water had in my immediate environment'.

22mins - 3 major construction projects that stick in my memory.

24mins30s - a very tiny amount of Mandarin!

25mins - A newly sharpened career focus.

27mins - What STEM means to me, and the importance to girls and young children.

30mins - My years as a 'baby engineer', being a sponge and coming of age.

32mins30s - Comfort TV and lockdown living.

35mins30s - Hopes and aspirations for the long term.

37mins - Message for women considering construction as a career. "Women see in colour!"

39mins45s - Comparing Mum's cooking and spicy Jollof rice.

42mins - Looking to the next generation for inspiration.

]]> Fri, 26 Mar 2021 06:00:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (yewande akinola, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/episode-6-award-winning-engineer-yewande-akinola-mbe-tMgPOkPy From chatting to The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, about sustainability and the future of jobs, to binge watching MasterChef and Netflix with her young family. We talk about the changing priorities enforced by lockdown living on Yewande Akinola - an award winning female engineer, who shares memories of an inspirational childhood in Nigeria and her Mum's spicy Jollof rice. We also discuss the connection between engineering, art and performance, and why water will always matter. "Women see in colour!", she tells Comms from the Shed - listen in to our latest episode to find out more.

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1mins20secs - My biggest challenge in the last 12 months

3mins20s - A week in the life of Yewande

5mins - Chatting with the Chancellor about the future of jobs

7mins - Memories of a Nigerian childhood

11mins - Following in Dad's footsteps

14mins30s - Demas Nwoko: Arts, Architecture and the back-garden Ampitheatre.

19mins - World Water: 'I saw the impact the lack of water had in my immediate environment'.

22mins - 3 major construction projects that stick in my memory.

24mins30s - a very tiny amount of Mandarin!

25mins - A newly sharpened career focus.

27mins - What STEM means to me, and the importance to girls and young children.

30mins - My years as a 'baby engineer', being a sponge and coming of age.

32mins30s - Comfort TV and lockdown living.

35mins30s - Hopes and aspirations for the long term.

37mins - Message for women considering construction as a career. "Women see in colour!"

39mins45s - Comparing Mum's cooking and spicy Jollof rice.

42mins - Looking to the next generation for inspiration.

]]> Episode 6: Award winning Engineer, Designer & Innovator Yewande Akinola MBE - from chatting to The Chancellor about sustainable jobs, to binge watching MasterChef and Netflix with her young family, she shares memories of an inspirational childhood in Nigeria. "Women see in colour!" she tells us - listen and subscribe. yewande akinola, Sam Bleazard 00:44:42 From chatting to The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, about sustainability and the future of jobs, to binge watching MasterChef and Netflix with her young family. We talk about the changing priorities enforced by lockdown living on Yewande Akinola - an award winning female engineer, who shares memories of an inspirational childhood in Nigeria and her Mum's spicy Jollof rice. We also discuss the connection between engineering, art and performance, and why water will always matter. "Women see in colour!", she tells Comms from the Shed - listen in to our latest episode to find out more. From chatting to The Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, about sustainability and the future of jobs, to binge watching MasterChef and Netflix with her young family. We talk about the changing priorities enforced by lockdown living on Yewande Akinola - an award winning female engineer, who shares memories of an inspirational childhood in Nigeria and her Mum's spicy Jollof rice. We also discuss the connection between engineering, art and performance, and why water will always matter. "Women see in colour!", she tells Comms from the Shed - listen in to our latest episode to find out more. chancellor of the exchequer, african engineering, construction, young woman engineer of the year, university of warwick, stem, innovation, mbe, spicy food, demas nwoko, rishi sunak, architecture, world water day, engineering podcast, arup, university of westminster, visiting professor, innovate uk, engineer, nigeria, africa, yewande akinola, netflix, jonathan mayomi akinola, best new podcast, masterchef, careers, water, institution of engineering and technology, @innovateuk, ibadan, lockdown, engineering, uk young woman engineer of the year, infrastructure, built environment, sanitation, seo, ambassador, laing o'rourke, jobs, designer, jollof rice no full 6 679772be-630e-49c0-8d96-62d53a535f08 Episode 5: Beauty journalist, Brand consultant and former magazine editor Keysha Davis talks to us about community spirit and raising two boys during lockdown, why black hair matters and feeling starstruck by Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry. Beauty journalist, Brand consultant and former magazine editor Keysha Davis talks to us about community spirit  and raising two boys during lockdown, why black hair matters and feeling star-struck by Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry.

Show summary

1min – Lockdown living with two young sons at home, and what matters in life.

2mins30s – Unconventional career route: intern to entertainment at Pride, and Editor at BlackHair magazine.

7mins – switching from print to digital, with feet in both the analogue and digital worlds.

8mins30s – virtuous circle of experience: fashion, beauty and music.

9mins45s – interviewing Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry, my ‘pinch me moment’.

12mins08s – Black hair and hair discrimination: ‘it’s just hair, but it’s our hair.’ Brand responses.

16mins – Instagram and IG live: heroes, heroines, health and beauty.

19mins30s – “MsQuiche”.

20mins – Collective Covid grief and information overload.

23mins – Filtering social media and the ‘hive mind’.

26mins45s – Inspired by, and the importance of, the local community.

31mins30s – Spending quality time and rediscovering your life partner.

33mins – Comfort content, favourite new books and Judi Love’s date nights.

39mins30s – Hopes and aspirations for the future – imposter syndrome, and going out again.

]]> Fri, 19 Mar 2021 06:00:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sam Bleazard, Keysha Davis) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/comms-from-the-shed-episode-5-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-beauty-journalist-and-brand-consultant-keysha-davis-yCmJ6_dB Beauty journalist, Brand consultant and former magazine editor Keysha Davis talks to us about community spirit  and raising two boys during lockdown, why black hair matters and feeling star-struck by Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry.

Show summary

1min – Lockdown living with two young sons at home, and what matters in life.

2mins30s – Unconventional career route: intern to entertainment at Pride, and Editor at BlackHair magazine.

7mins – switching from print to digital, with feet in both the analogue and digital worlds.

8mins30s – virtuous circle of experience: fashion, beauty and music.

9mins45s – interviewing Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry, my ‘pinch me moment’.

12mins08s – Black hair and hair discrimination: ‘it’s just hair, but it’s our hair.’ Brand responses.

16mins – Instagram and IG live: heroes, heroines, health and beauty.

19mins30s – “MsQuiche”.

20mins – Collective Covid grief and information overload.

23mins – Filtering social media and the ‘hive mind’.

26mins45s – Inspired by, and the importance of, the local community.

31mins30s – Spending quality time and rediscovering your life partner.

33mins – Comfort content, favourite new books and Judi Love’s date nights.

39mins30s – Hopes and aspirations for the future – imposter syndrome, and going out again.

]]> Episode 5: Beauty journalist, Brand consultant and former magazine editor Keysha Davis talks to us about community spirit and raising two boys during lockdown, why black hair matters and feeling starstruck by Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry. Sam Bleazard, Keysha Davis 00:43:22 Lockdown living, at home with two sons of differing ages, hasn't been easy for Brand consultant Keysha. We talk to the former magazine editor about: why black hair matters; the switch from print to digital; interviewing Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry; taking conscious breaks from social media, and; the wellbeing to be found in embracing your local community - the real legacy of Covid-19. Lockdown living, at home with two sons of differing ages, hasn't been easy for Brand consultant Keysha. We talk to the former magazine editor about: why black hair matters; the switch from print to digital; interviewing Janet Jackson and Tyler Perry; taking conscious breaks from social media, and; the wellbeing to be found in embracing your local community - the real legacy of Covid-19. best new podcasts, tyler perry, editor, social media, print to digital, covid 19, local community, janet jackson, pride, black hair, black hair magazine, brand consultant, interviews, the cocoa diaries, magazine editor, gaana new podcasts, jiosaavn new podcasts, beauty, judi love, seo, brands no full 5 cf99df04-f715-426c-aa3b-3de732aae6ca Episode 4: We talk to author, businesswoman, entrepreneur and former Director of Marketing & Comms for Intel, Monique Hayward - about balancing multiple opportunities in a time of coronavirus. Inspired by her grandmother's entrepreneurial spirit in the New York of her youth, Monique has published two books: Divas Doing Business and Get Your Hustle On! She shares her thoughts on career opportunities in 2021, the Tech sector, a Hollywood A-lister mentor, and balancing the demands of corporate America while running your own business in a time of coronavirus.

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1mins38secs - My biggest challenge in the last 12 months.

3mins - A new era of career possibility.

4mins38s - Growth of the Tech industry during Covid-19.

6mins30s - A golden age for entrepreneurs, and investing in the downturn. "Your home is your new favourite restaurant".

8mins45s - From South Carolina to NYC - and being inspired in grandma's Beauty Salon.

12mins - Grits and eggs, and being mentored by Morgan.

15mins - Draw on diverse business acumen to balance the side-hustle in corporate America.

20mins - Still learning and trying to stay ahead of the curve.

22mins - Future of work, and the potential recovery in the United States.

24mins10s - An unusual fact about Monique.

25mins45s - a two week spell in McDonald's?

26mins44s - Careers, self-care and what comes next.

]]> Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:00:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Monique Hayward, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/comms-from-the-shed-episode-4-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-monique-hayward-hsXqxwfO Inspired by her grandmother's entrepreneurial spirit in the New York of her youth, Monique has published two books: Divas Doing Business and Get Your Hustle On! She shares her thoughts on career opportunities in 2021, the Tech sector, a Hollywood A-lister mentor, and balancing the demands of corporate America while running your own business in a time of coronavirus.

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Show summary & chapters

1mins38secs - My biggest challenge in the last 12 months.

3mins - A new era of career possibility.

4mins38s - Growth of the Tech industry during Covid-19.

6mins30s - A golden age for entrepreneurs, and investing in the downturn. "Your home is your new favourite restaurant".

8mins45s - From South Carolina to NYC - and being inspired in grandma's Beauty Salon.

12mins - Grits and eggs, and being mentored by Morgan.

15mins - Draw on diverse business acumen to balance the side-hustle in corporate America.

20mins - Still learning and trying to stay ahead of the curve.

22mins - Future of work, and the potential recovery in the United States.

24mins10s - An unusual fact about Monique.

25mins45s - a two week spell in McDonald's?

26mins44s - Careers, self-care and what comes next.

]]> Episode 4: We talk to author, businesswoman, entrepreneur and former Director of Marketing & Comms for Intel, Monique Hayward - about balancing multiple opportunities in a time of coronavirus. Monique Hayward, Sam Bleazard 00:28:53 Author, businesswoman, motivational speaker and formerly the Director of Marketing & Communications for Intel. Inspired by her grandmother's entrepreneurial spirit in the New York of her youth, Monique has published two books: Divas Doing Business and Get Your Hustle On! She shares her thoughts on the Tech sector, a Hollywood A-lister mentor, and balancing the demands of corporate America while running your own business in a time of coronavirus. Author, businesswoman, motivational speaker and formerly the Director of Marketing & Communications for Intel. Inspired by her grandmother's entrepreneurial spirit in the New York of her youth, Monique has published two books: Divas Doing Business and Get Your Hustle On! She shares her thoughts on the Tech sector, a Hollywood A-lister mentor, and balancing the demands of corporate America while running your own business in a time of coronavirus. personal chef, intel, phoenix, entrepreneurship, career advice podcast, entrepreneur, female entrepreneur, south carolina, driscoll, get your hustle on!, google, facebook, brian driscoll, mcdonald's, driscoll cuisine cocktail, beauty salon, amazon, microsoft, tech sector, oregon, harlem, divas doing business, search engine optimisation, search engine optimization, morgan freeman, best careers podcast, portland, new careers podcast, new york, seo, apple, maryland, journalism no full 4 68e0e064-75a9-4737-b302-e63ba8780097 Episode 3: essential listening on fashion. Two years ago Jo Hooper founded NRBY Clothing, whose 'one-mile wear' caught the imagination of women #WFH. Colourful designs and ethically sourced fabrics grabbed journalists and influencers alike. We also look back on her early years as a student in Durham. Ladies fashion, womenswear - Jo Hooper has got the t-shirt. Having already worked with some of the UKs most famous high street brands, she wasn't content to rest on her laurels. Two years ago she founded NRBY, whose 'one-mile wear' caught the imagination of women working from home. We bring Jo's story up to date, but also look back on her early years as a student in Durham. Essential listening for anyone with an interest in fashion.

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Intro from Sam Bleazard

1mins10secs - NRBY Clothing concept.

2mins05s - Japanese 'one-mile' wear, and a trip to the Golden Triangle.

4mins30s - Launching two years ago, surviving and speaking to customers online.

9mins - The rise of the influencer and authenticity.

13mins - The future (and purpose) of the high street, fast fashion and the UK creative industries.

18mins30s - Ethics, supply-chain sourcing and transparency.

24mins - Where Jo's love of fashion began.

28mins - The Tuxedo Princess

29mins - Women who inspired me #IWD2021.

33mins30s - 'A few of my favourite things'

35mins30s - An unusual fact about Jo.

37mins20s - Hope for the future of fashion, and plans for NRBY.

39mins30s - A final thought.

]]> Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:45:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sam Bleazard, Jo Hooper) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/comms-from-the-shed-episode-3-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-jo-hooper-nrby-clothing-7x0BdVUC Ladies fashion, womenswear - Jo Hooper has got the t-shirt. Having already worked with some of the UKs most famous high street brands, she wasn't content to rest on her laurels. Two years ago she founded NRBY, whose 'one-mile wear' caught the imagination of women working from home. We bring Jo's story up to date, but also look back on her early years as a student in Durham. Essential listening for anyone with an interest in fashion.

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Intro from Sam Bleazard

1mins10secs - NRBY Clothing concept.

2mins05s - Japanese 'one-mile' wear, and a trip to the Golden Triangle.

4mins30s - Launching two years ago, surviving and speaking to customers online.

9mins - The rise of the influencer and authenticity.

13mins - The future (and purpose) of the high street, fast fashion and the UK creative industries.

18mins30s - Ethics, supply-chain sourcing and transparency.

24mins - Where Jo's love of fashion began.

28mins - The Tuxedo Princess

29mins - Women who inspired me #IWD2021.

33mins30s - 'A few of my favourite things'

35mins30s - An unusual fact about Jo.

37mins20s - Hope for the future of fashion, and plans for NRBY.

39mins30s - A final thought.

]]> Episode 3: essential listening on fashion. Two years ago Jo Hooper founded NRBY Clothing, whose 'one-mile wear' caught the imagination of women #WFH. Colourful designs and ethically sourced fabrics grabbed journalists and influencers alike. We also look back on her early years as a student in Durham. Sam Bleazard, Jo Hooper 00:41:19 Ladies fashion, womenswear - Jo Hooper has got the t-shirt. Having already worked with some of the UKs most famous high street brands, she wasn't content to rest on her laurels. Two years ago she founded NRBY, whose 'one-mile wear' caught the imagination of women working from home. The colourful designs and ethically sourced fabrics engaged journalists and social media influencers alike during lockdown. We bring Jo's story up to date, but also look back on her early years as a student in Durham. Essential listening for anyone with an interest in fashion. Ladies fashion, womenswear - Jo Hooper has got the t-shirt. Having already worked with some of the UKs most famous high street brands, she wasn't content to rest on her laurels. Two years ago she founded NRBY, whose 'one-mile wear' caught the imagination of women working from home. The colourful designs and ethically sourced fabrics engaged journalists and social media influencers alike during lockdown. We bring Jo's story up to date, but also look back on her early years as a student in Durham. Essential listening for anyone with an interest in fashion. nrby clothing, social media influencers, working from home, one mile wear, social media, sourcing, instagram, sam bleazard, sandhurst, fashion podcast, pixie boots, debenhams, influencers, retail, cornelia smith, online, wfh, japan, supply chain, banana boots, university of durham, fast fashion, pyjamas, royal opera house, online retail, uk high street, drapers, womenswear new podcast, marks and spencer, tuxedo princess, womenswear, online fashion, fashion, ladies fashion podcast, ballet, jo hooper, high street, nrby, india, seo, newcastle, john lewis, we're here to cheer no full 3 070ee678-576d-404c-9919-3c5d44d3ee89 Episode 2: the future of the arts, virtual and live events with Dr Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University. What is the future of the arts, live and virtual events? We put this question to Dr Kirsty Fairclough of Manchester's Metropolitan University. In a wide-ranging interview she also discusses the School of Digital Arts in Manchester, Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, the legacy of 'Mad Men', plus backstage and concert memories of Beyonce, Nile Rodgers and Prince.

Show summary & chapters

1mins22secs - Love for Academia: where did it come from?

5mins09secs - Digital City Festival, virtual events and future live hybrids.

8mins05secs - Arena concerts and memorable backstage moments.

10mins48secs - Showcasing female entrepreneurs, #IWD2021 and AMPLIFYhER - a project supporting musicians in Brazil.

13minutes - Love of books, the legacy of 'Mad Men' and new projects coming up.

19mins15secs - Challenge of home-schooling and moving jobs during the pandemic, teaching online and setting up a school remotely.

23minutes - School of Digital Arts (SODA) and Manchester's cultural scene.

29mins30secs - Deleted scenes (and a cameo in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights).

31mins17secs - Prince: memories and a critical appreciation.

38mins44secs - What we can learn from the Arts and hopes for the future.

]]> Sun, 7 Mar 2021 12:55:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Dr Kirsty Fairclough, Sam Bleazard) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/comms-from-the-shed-episode-2-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-dr-kirsty-fairclough-PGEDuoLE What is the future of the arts, live and virtual events? We put this question to Dr Kirsty Fairclough of Manchester's Metropolitan University. In a wide-ranging interview she also discusses the School of Digital Arts in Manchester, Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, the legacy of 'Mad Men', plus backstage and concert memories of Beyonce, Nile Rodgers and Prince.

Show summary & chapters

1mins22secs - Love for Academia: where did it come from?

5mins09secs - Digital City Festival, virtual events and future live hybrids.

8mins05secs - Arena concerts and memorable backstage moments.

10mins48secs - Showcasing female entrepreneurs, #IWD2021 and AMPLIFYhER - a project supporting musicians in Brazil.

13minutes - Love of books, the legacy of 'Mad Men' and new projects coming up.

19mins15secs - Challenge of home-schooling and moving jobs during the pandemic, teaching online and setting up a school remotely.

23minutes - School of Digital Arts (SODA) and Manchester's cultural scene.

29mins30secs - Deleted scenes (and a cameo in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights).

31mins17secs - Prince: memories and a critical appreciation.

38mins44secs - What we can learn from the Arts and hopes for the future.

]]> Episode 2: the future of the arts, virtual and live events with Dr Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University. Dr Kirsty Fairclough, Sam Bleazard 00:41:26 Sam Bleazard talks to Dr Kirsty Fairclough, who was a lecturer at 21 - having decided she preferred critical analysis of the arts - following her degree in performance and media production. This wide-ranging interview covers culture in a time of Covid-19, the future of virtual (and live) events, the School of Digital Arts in Manchester, Phoenix Nights, the legacy of 'Mad Men', plus backstage memories of Beyonce, Nile Rodgers and Prince. Sam Bleazard talks to Dr Kirsty Fairclough, who was a lecturer at 21 - having decided she preferred critical analysis of the arts - following her degree in performance and media production. This wide-ranging interview covers culture in a time of Covid-19, the future of virtual (and live) events, the School of Digital Arts in Manchester, Phoenix Nights, the legacy of 'Mad Men', plus backstage memories of Beyonce, Nile Rodgers and Prince. peter kay, wellbeing, academia, edinburgh, home schooling, culture, #iwd2021, mad men, manchester arena, covid-19, brazil, the factory, nicola shindler, edinburgh festival, beyonce, school of digital arts, dez dickerson, media production, eric leeds, phoenix nights, manchester, amplifyher, mental health, arts, jenn nkiru, music, prince, soda, minneapolis, coronavirus, musicians, manchester metropolitan university, pandemic, bloomsbury books, nile rodgers, fringe, danny boyle, #prince4ever, seo, laing o'rourke no full 2 01cf5d85-334c-4d21-ae0e-a17c4693d0f9 Episode 1: Managing communications at the world's favourite airline during a global pandemic. We talk to Drew McMillan, leader of the global Colleague Communication & Culture function at British Airways - about the Covid-19 response of the world's favourite airline, pride in their people, what the future holds for travellers, and an early career in Glaswegian coffee...

Introduction from Sam Bleazard

1mins15secs  - Initial reaction to the pandemic and putting measures in place.

3minutes - Pride in keeping supply lines open and the sense of responsibility, in saying goodbye to, and repatriating people.

6mins45secs - British Airways people doing remarkable things.

9minutes - Creating dedicated channels of support.

12mins45secs - Drew on his Colleague and Culture role: 'Today I consider myself more of an HR professional.'

15mins45secs - Changes to the airline industry.

18mins - Early career, first job and lifelong love of coffee.

21mins45secs - Communication lessons and universal truths.

27mins30secs - What can we learn from the airline industry?

31minutes - Hobbies, side-hustles and Drew's unknown fact.

38mins30secs - Hopes for the future.

]]> Sun, 7 Mar 2021 12:50:00 +0000 bleazas@hotmail.com (Sam Bleazard, Drew McMillan) https://comms-from-the-shed-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew.simplecast.com/episodes/comms-from-the-shed-episode-1-sam-bleazard-in-conversation-with-drew-mcmillan-FTDjWfyZ We talk to Drew McMillan, leader of the global Colleague Communication & Culture function at British Airways - about the Covid-19 response of the world's favourite airline, pride in their people, what the future holds for travellers, and an early career in Glaswegian coffee...

Introduction from Sam Bleazard

1mins15secs  - Initial reaction to the pandemic and putting measures in place.

3minutes - Pride in keeping supply lines open and the sense of responsibility, in saying goodbye to, and repatriating people.

6mins45secs - British Airways people doing remarkable things.

9minutes - Creating dedicated channels of support.

12mins45secs - Drew on his Colleague and Culture role: 'Today I consider myself more of an HR professional.'

15mins45secs - Changes to the airline industry.

18mins - Early career, first job and lifelong love of coffee.

21mins45secs - Communication lessons and universal truths.

27mins30secs - What can we learn from the airline industry?

31minutes - Hobbies, side-hustles and Drew's unknown fact.

38mins30secs - Hopes for the future.

]]> Episode 1: Managing communications at the world's favourite airline during a global pandemic. Sam Bleazard, Drew McMillan 00:41:09 We talk to Drew McMillan, leader of the global Colleague Communication & Culture function at British Airways - about the Covid-19 response of the world's favourite airline, pride in their people, what the future holds for travellers and an early career in Glaswegian coffee. We talk to Drew McMillan, leader of the global Colleague Communication & Culture function at British Airways - about the Covid-19 response of the world's favourite airline, pride in their people, what the future holds for travellers and an early career in Glaswegian coffee. wellbeing, purpose, airline, travel industry, nhs, culture, ppe, covid-19, heathrow, glasgow, british airways, internal communication, coffee, future travel, pilots, drew mcmillan, mental health, kindness, world's favourite airline, flights, hr, marketing, communication director, awards, therapy dogs, communication, side hustle, coronavirus, pandemic, repatriation, tinderbox, ewan mcgregor, engagement, seo, airline industry, shallow grave movie, to fly to serve no full 1