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This week on the Hello Frances podcast, Shantelle welcomes guest Diane Fraser with the Emerald Coast Science Center. Diane talks about the importance of discovering wonder and why it’s crucial to ask questions. By being curious and asking questions, you ignite your willingness to be able to learn something new which in turn brings you joy.

On this week’s Hello Frances episode, Shantelle welcomes guest and friend, Director of the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance, Alison McDowell. In this episode, Shantelle and Alison discuss the CBA’s partnership with Walton County for the “All Hands on Deck” campaign. Anyone can have a “hand” in helping sustain and maintain our environment, you just need to get out there and get involved. Alison talks about how you can participate, the importance of our waterways, and more! To learn more about the CBA, visit their website.

Our Frances Roy team members join Shantelle on the microphone this week to reminisce and celebrate 5 years of FRA! The team shares their favorite and earliest memories with the organization, what they consider to be their biggest accomplishments over the years, the biggest challenges, and how the agency has evolved. We think you’ll be surprised about what doesn’t make our list of proud accomplishments.

A few of our favorite memories include our team retreat, our annual Creativity for Change events, our Enneagrams in the Workplace initiative, and more. Listen to the full episode to look back on the past five years of success with our team. We want to know… what’s your favorite FRA memory? Let us know on our Facebook page!

Shantelle vulnerably shares her experience through her entrepreneurial journey thus far. Frances Roy Agency is soon celebrating five years in business, and to honor the milestone, Shantelle discusses 5 of the biggest lessons she’s learned along the way. Some are snippets you’ve heard us say time and time before on the podcast, and some are revelations she had more recently. Listen to the full episode to learn the five biggest lessons she’s learned in owning a creative agency over the last five years.

If you’ve been a long-time listener of the Hello Frances Podcast, you may remember when Shantelle shared four lessons last year when we celebrated four years in business. If you missed that one, listen here and discover what lessons have evolved and which ones still stand moving into year six! Thank you, as always, for listening to the Hello Frances Podcast. We look forward to many more years of business, and we can’t wait to chat with you again next week!

We conclude our generation podcast series with baby boomers as our guests. Those that are between 55-73 years of age fall into this category and are stereotypically known for being workaholics, slow to adapt to technological advances, and resistant to change. Our guests Lori Leath Smith, publisher and editor of Life Media, local realtor Gail Pelto, retired and former CEO of the Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation Marcia Hull, and Area Director of N2 Publishing Phil Madden discuss these stereotypes and more in this week’s episode.

Our guests each share one word to describe their generation and expand upon their age group’s characteristics that made them choose that word. They discuss the best ways to market to their generation and prove that many traditional communication outlets are still desired by certain demographics. Our guests explain how they use social media in both businesses and socially and share the role these platforms play in their lives.

As we close out our generation series, our guests also share similarities they’ve seen among their era as well as younger generations. We’re seeing a pattern emerge among all generations that we all may have more in common than we tend to think. Listen to our Baby Boomer podcast and all of our other episodes in the series today wherever you get your podcasts!

We continue our generation series with Generation X guests. This group includes those born between 1965-1980 and is the largest spread of years, but the smallest group in terms of population. Our guests this week include previous podcast guest and local photographer Sean Murphy, Director of Sales at Pursell Farms Kelly Galloway, Shantelle’s first best friend Amanda Nord, and Shantelle’s husband and FRA co-owner Greg Dedicke.

Shantelle and our guests start off the episode by sharing how they would describe their generation. As the group of individuals that were analog children and digital adults, this generation has not only been through a multitude of changes, but they have been the leading force behind many of our world’s technological advancements.

Our guests also share their favorite ways of finding out about new products, the progress in the technology world that has been most memorable, and advertisements that they remember from childhood that has stuck with them throughout the years (we think you’ll be surprised by a few of these)! Listen to this episode and our episodes on Millennials and Generation Z now wherever you listen to podcasts.

Our episode featuring Baby Boomers will drop next week!

FRA team members Hillaree Durso, Janae Erickson, Kelsey Doar, Jodie Warner, and Rinn Garlanger chat about their generation on this week’s episode - the Millennial generation. Defined as those born between 1980-1994, this generation is known for being tech-savvy, family-oriented, and team-oriented in the workplace.

Our millennial crew shares both positive and negative common stereotypes about their age group, including some they agree with and some they would argue. They discuss how to best appeal to their generation with marketing strategies and their viewpoint on their positions in the workplace. Lastly, they share the biggest technological advancements of their time, life-changing world events they’ve experienced, and more.

We think you’ll enjoy the similarities and differences we’ve uncovered in our generation podcast series so far between Generation Z and Millennials. We will have Generation X guests take the microphone next week, so tune in to learn how to best market to, connect with, and communicate with this often forgotten era.