In this week’s special bonus episode of Holding up the Ladder, we’re talking value systems and building creative community. I’ll be sharing some of the lessons I’ve learned/am learning over the past 8-10 years building my music production company. I’m joined by my good friend Ramona Harris- she is global head of language services at Hogarth, the world’s leading creative production partner for many brands and agencies including Coca-Cola, Nespresso, Dyson.

She is extremely pragmatic and has a gift for taking bigs ideas and knowing how to practically implement them - I run a lot ideas past her. Hopefully you’ll see what I mean during the course of our discussion. We come from very different worlds but I strongly believe in working with people and having friends who hold similar values but very different perspectives, if done right I think they actually help take you further than if you’re only interacting with people with similar thinking.

And here are the ‘Principles’ for building creative community that we speak about:

1. What are you trying to building, knowing your why
2. Valuing the people you work with
3. Be kind to people
4. Paying it forward
5. Principle of reciprocity
6. Learning when and when not to compromise 
7. Finding your tribe/your community 
8. Just do it!

Guest: Ramona Harris

Title: Building Creative Community - Establishing value systems with Ramona Harris

Links to some of the things we refer to:

Book - Impact Capital by Sir Ronald Cohen

Film - Brooklyn Boheme

Podcast episode about my friend Ian Toothill who inspired principle No. 8, Just do it!

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