Know Your Shift

Anyone with an interest in how Student Accommodation is designed and built throughout the world should listen to Aaron. We need to build more student homes and also affordable ones, but it isn’t that simple.

Aaron Bailey from GSA kindly invited me to record this episode with him at St Crispin’s House in Norwich, Yugo’s brand new residence which has its own fantastic podcast studio.

We talked about a wide range of topics including:

·How Yugo are tapping into the energy and creativity of the students who live with them

·Affordability and the challenges in how to build ‘affordable’ student homes.

·How function wins over style when designing student homes

·How his love of sailing and journey from Ireland at a young age led to him falling into a career in PBSA.

·How he has shifted to working globally and the impact that has had on him and his family.

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As always, I asked Aaron to recommend future guests for me to speak to on the podcast, he recommended Keona Lee from Yugo and Tim Mitchell, we look forward to recording episodes with you both soon.

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This episode of Short Shift, your weekly bitesize clip from the Know Your Shift podcast, is from my conversation with Matt Burton from UPP.

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This episode of Short Shift, your weekly bitesize clip from the Know Your Shift podcast, is from my conversation with Deb Ashby.

Deb has a MASSIVE online following on TikTok & Instagram for her Microsoft Excel tutorials, if you use Excel and don’t follow her, I promise you will learn something that will make your life easier, so check out her videos, plus they look stunning.

But how does Deb deal with Online Trolls? And why it is very different for a woman creating content, particularly in the excel community

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Many of you will have listened to Brian Welsh speak, but never like this.

Brian’s story is so fascinating, we didn’t talk about Student Accommodation hardly at all (Ok maybe a bit)

We talked about a wide range of topics including:

· Brian was so unhappy at University, he had forge a new path, despite what others thought

· How a lucky encounter hitchhiking his way through Europe led to the world opening up for him

· His time as Redcoat at Butlin’s gave him transferable skills and confidence he still uses to this day

· His chance meeting with John Kenny, which began a journey through Liberty living, The Student Housing Company & Nido.

· His attitude towards Brexit.

· What he’s doing now, and what he is about to do next

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As always, I asked Brian to recommend future guests for me to speak to on the podcast, he recommended John Kenny, Kevin redman (round 2 Kev?) and Chris Holloway, we look forward to recording episodes with you all soon.

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Is there a shortage of skilled workers in the construction industry?

And how do we attract more workers into the industry to reduce the risk of late delivered Student Accommodation and Residential Schemes?

This episode of Short Shift, your weekly bitesize clip from the Know Your Shift podcast, is from my conversation with Iain Kirtley from FMB.

We also discuss whether Brexit was a good thing for the construction industry.

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I’ve listened to this episode so many times, and it still surprises me.

Matt Burton from UPP talked to me so passionately and openly, I take something new from it every time, and how it all started because of the TV show Dallas…

We talked about a wide range of topics including:

· How Matt’s tough upbringing drives him to do better for himself and his family.

·  How Matt setup and ran a business in his teenage years, taking on clients from across the world.

· How he was a trailblazer as a Sabbatical officer.

· How UPP are focusing on innovation to create industry leading student accommodation.

· Matt’s ambitions for his career and how he plans to get there.

· Tuition fees and affordable accommodation.

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As always, I asked Matt to recommend future guests for me to speak to on the podcast, he recommended David Duncan and Mark Gilroy, we look forward to recording an episode with you both soon.

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This episode of Short Shift, your weekly bitesize clip from the Know Your Shift podcast, is from my conversation with David Seymour of amber.

David lifts the lid on the ‘Dark Arts’ being employed by some marketplaces, how some are using illegal practices and opens up about Goggle search term bidding.

He also talks about how amber are part of the solution.

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Conversations like this are the reason I started this podcast.

Stewart gave me everything in this episode, so much so I just sat back and listened, I would ask you to do the same.

We talked about a wide range of topics including:

· Stewart’s career in Advertising, and how he transformed industries by getting to know his customers.

·Becoming CEO of CRM Students and building the business with Keith White

· How leading CRM on the front line during COVID left him exhausted.

· The challenges facing the Later Living sector.

· His vision to be the best following a period of reflection.

And what advice he would give to anyone wanting to change direction…

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As always, I asked Stewart to recommend future guests for me to speak to on the podcast, he recommended Martin Blakey and Nenad Manasijevic at TP Bennett, we look forward to recording an episode with you both soon.

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How do we get young people excited about a career in property?

Paddy Allen gives his thoughts to me on this episode of Short Shift, your weekly bitesize clip from the Know Your Shift podcast.

Have a listen on the links below and let me know how you would get more young people interested in a career in real estate in the comments below.

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We All Know Where It’s Coming From: Exposing The Dark Arts of Student Booking Marketplaces.

Although we talk abut a lot more than just that.

I’m delighted to say that my guest this week on Know Your Shift is David Seymour, VP of Global Partnerships at amber.

When I started the podcast, I made a list of people who I really wanted to record episodes with, David was one of the first names on that list.

We talked about a wide range of topics including:

Ø  How David battled mental health issues following his business being taken away from him in Dubai.

Ø  Why he changed his mentality following crises with his children’s health.

Ø  Some of the current issues in Student Housing & how amber want to be part of the solution

Ø  His response to stories about Marketplaces using the ‘dark arts’ to secure bookings.

Ø  How he found his voice in the boardroom. and learned to stand his ground.

And why everyone loves Big Ange…

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As always, I asked David to recommend a future guest for me to speak to on the podcast, he recommended Richard Murphy at iQ, we look forward to recording an episode with you soon Richard.

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