Nessa O'Gorman is a global product and marketing strategist who has had several career pivots. From an early career as an interpreter, she moved into marketing and product development, launching Expedia's first loyalty programme across 14 countries. And now Nessa has a new passion - wellbeing as the foundation of sustainable performance in work and in life.

In this episode we talk about:

📣 How to bounce back from burnout
📣 The foundations for a healthy and fulfilling life
📣 Information overload and the trend towards personalisation in marketing
📣 A shocking personal story about the danger of business travel in Russia.

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Lucy Cairncross is the MD of VMA GROUP, the specialist marketing and communications recruitment and executive search firm.

In this special episode of the podcast, I'm bringing you a recording of a Q&A session Lucy and I hosted for our communities of communications professionals, frustrated by the state of the job market and the horrendous application process.

We answered a multitude of questions, including:

📣  Should I be honest with a recruiter about my toxic boss?
📣  How do tap into the 'hidden' job market?
📣  Is gendered ageism real?
📣  What should I include in my cover letter?
📣  How do I answer questions about my salary when I don't know what salary is on offer?

And many more.

If you'd like to find out more about my LinkedIn Unlocked online course, to help you get noticed and get hired via LinkedIn, here's the link. You can get 20% off the cost of LinkedIn Unlocked until 21 November 2024 using the promo code FRIEND20 at the checkout.

Thank you to those who attended for your courage in sharing your challenges. Job searching is brutal and can feel lonely - but you're absolutely not alone in this.

We're thinking of making this a regular thing. If you would like to be invited to the next one, DM me on LinkedIn and I'll add you to the list.

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Louisa Houghton is Head of Communications at VMO2 Business. She is a storyteller and writer at her core. And having worked in the fast-paced world of telecoms for most of her career, she has experienced the speed of change from the inside.

In this episode, we talk about how her mission to achieve harmony between her work life and busy home life, has informed her career decisions.

And also:
📣 The experience of working with people who behave completely differently to you
📣 Knowing when to talk away from a job that isn't working
📣 How it feels to go 'around the world in a week' 
📣 A retro idea for internal communications pros

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Nicole Bearne had a fascinating communications career in Formula 1 and is now a board director at Motorsport UK, and an employee experience consultant.

Working in an organisation with such big budgets and high profile has given Nicole so many unique experiences (bumping into Brad Pitt at work being one of the perks).

Amongst other things, we talk about:

📣 Turning your passion into a profession

📣 The dangers of ignoring the employee (and the candidate) experience

📣 From the glamour of working with the A list to ‘jumping off a cliff’ into self-employment

📣 Organising the most epic leaving do ever, with pyrotechnics, fireworks and flamejets

You can get in touch with me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn.

Nicole’s website is www.comms-exchange.com

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Shan Chatoo calls herself a communications warrior. Alongside her work as a comms professional, she now combines the skill she’s developed in communication, with her passion for weights, to empower women to build mental and physical resilience.

In this episode Shan will inspire you with her epic achievements, and how she picked herself up from her lowest ebb, when she was being bullied at work.

We talk about:

📣 How she developed a no-nonsense, no BS approach to life and work

📣 The amazing mental and physical benefits of lifting heavy, and I mean HEAVY weights

📣 The experience of being bullied at work, which led her to question everything

📣 New beginnings - combining her two passions, and what they have in common.

You can get in touch with me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn.

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Polly Evans oversees UK audio production for the world’s largest interactive audio platform for kids.

She started her career at the BBC, moving into reporting and becoming a TV news anchor.

This episode is about a life and career-changing moment that happened to her on live TV, in front of hundreds of thousands of viewers.

We talk about:

📣 How the worst possible thing can happen, and how she navigated her way through major personal change

📣 Redefining her priorities and rebuilding her career

📣 Putting herself in the path of luck, leading to amazing connections and unexpected opportunities

📣 A terrifying and exhilarating stunt in a bi-plane.

You can get in touch with me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn.

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We're back with series 3, and starting strong with internal communications consultant Olivia Lawson. Olivia's career has had several twists and turns, and a couple of sliding doors moments. 

In this episode we talk about: 

📣 How reading one book can change your life
📣 The impact of having entrepreneurial parents
📣 Being a natural networker who was afraid of LinkedIn
📣 There being no such thing as a wrong job
📣 Whether it's better to be in the fish suit, or to be next to the person in the fish suit.

You can get in touch with me at [email protected] or find me on LinkedIn.

You'll find more information about LinkedIn Unlocked, the self-paced online course to master LinkedIn and accelerate your job search here: www.vickimarinker.com/linkedin-unlocked.

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In this, the last episode of series 2, I talk with Jenni Field, business strategist, author, podcaster and founder of Redefining Communications. We cover a lot of ground in this episode, including corporate culture, the challenges facing the physical workplace and how to future-proof your career in communication.

We discuss:

📣 The role of communicators in establishing a positive corporate culture

📣 How to recruit for culture fit and build a diverse workforce

📣 Toxic cultures - how they develop and what to do about them

📣 Balancing wellbeing and productivity in organisations post-COVID

📣 A pitch to the Queen and a flammable catsuit in a hot air balloon.

If you have any suggestions for guests for my next series, please get in touch at www.vickimarinker.com

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In this episode I talk with Tony Stewart, Head of digital at scarlettabott and self-confessed digital geek, about how to get your digital strategy right in a Covid world.

We discuss:

📣 The 7 fundamental pillars on which to build a winning digital strategy 

📣 How success leads to behavioural change

📣 The technical challenge of ongoing remote working

📣 A great example of using gaming technology to support a business challenge

📣 Being responsible for Boris’s presence on Twitter

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In this episode, I talk with Robbie Sommerville, Director of ESG Communications at Credit Suisse about the impact of COP26 and the evolution of environment and social issues in different regions.

We discuss:

📣 The impact of COP26: moving from the focus on carbon to a more diverse range of environmental topics

📣 Regional priorities across the ESG agenda and juggling those needs in a global organisation

📣 The push and pull of profitability and purpose

📣 Internal engagement as a driver of corporate responsibility

📣 Encouraging leaders to champion diversity, equity and inclusion while avoiding tokenism

📣 Ringing a gong to announce dinner

If you’d like to get involved, please get in touch at www.vickimarinker.com

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