Off Mic: Life After Radio

In this final episode for season 1, some hard-won personal wisdom, then some firings and f--kups.

What do you enjoy more from these episodes - the career insights, or the war stories? Let me know!

00:00 Intro
00:39 Mary-Lou and the corporate restructure
03:05 Geoff Fisher's light-bulb moment
06:31 Matt Schichter's last radio job
07:50 Cecelia Ramsdale on grief at work
10:26 Simon Kennedy on quitting Nova
13:09 Kerryn Marlow's last radio job
14:34 Be careful what you put on tape!
16:59 Alex Dalrymple's swearing rock star
17:48 Stephen Walter's cart disaster
18:47 Taking a breakfast show off air 

For this episode, I've collected some bits from our interviews so far - all around a couple of themes.

One is the skills that people in radio pick up that could make them indispensable in other industries. And the other theme is upsizing those skills with continued learning.

What do you enjoy more from these episodes - the career insights, or the war stories? Let me know!

00:00 Introduction
01:10 TRANSFERABLE SKILLS
01:14 Matt Whittemore
04:48 Stephen Walter-Gerrard
08:06 Mary-Lou Stephens
09:57 Geoff Fisher
11:38 FURTHER EDUCATION
13:01 Kerryn Marlow
14:09 Alex Dalrymple
15:13 Matt Schichter
18:20 Next episode!

Kerryn Marlow is a business owner based in Melbourne, Australia.

In her radio days she was on air in music and talk shows, and was a producer and program director.

These days, she owns and runs a B2B marketing company, and an online SMS platform. 

00:00 introduction

02:28 What got her interested in radio

03:24 First radio job

10:43 Moving to larger markets

14:06 Where Kerryn and Andy worked together

15:42 Being a talkback host

18:12 Leaving her last radio job

20:09 First work after leaving radio

22:29 What a workday looks like for her now

23:03 Skills Kerryn picked up in radio the she still uses

24:04 What Kerryn misses about radio

25:36 Radio nightmares

26:46 Fortune Cookie

Simon Kennedy is a voice artist, comedian, keynote speaker and author based in Sydney.

After starting as an announcer, he had a very unique position, writing comedy imaging.

These days, you'll hear Simon on promos for ABC-TV throughout Australia.

He's also the President of the Australian Association of Voice Actors (AAVA).

Now we didn't touch on this in our chat, but Simon wrote a book in 2014 about an atrocity that shook the all world, but took someone precious from him.

It's a story about his road from an awful place.

It's called 9/11 and the Art of Happiness and I can't recommend it highly enough.

Geoff Fisher is a corporate & government communications coach based in Canberra.

Before that, he was a radio pro, taking the well-worn road from community radio, to small town commercial radio, then moving to larger markets.

After a big light-bulb moment prompted by his young son, he left radio and realised that his skillset was ideal for communications, coaching and change management.

After a brilliant and very unique career, Geoff and his wife have just retired from full-time work.

But now in his spare time, He's taking on radio from a very different angle.

Alex Dalrymple is a video editor, writer, producer and voice artist based in Sydney, Australia.

His radio background includes working on the iconic Andrew Denton breakfast show on Triple M Sydney.

His career dipped in and out of radio, both on and off air. He went to work at two other big breakfast shows, then was part of the video revolution in radio.

These days he enjoys waking up at a sensible hour with a stable job out of radio, and he gets to drive awesome cars around as part of his YouTube channel, Four Wheels and a Seat - https://www.youtube.com/@4wheelsandaseat

Cecelia Ramsdale is a voice actor based in Melbourne, Australia.

Behind the mic, there's not much Cec hasn't done, narrating TV shows, voicing commercials, playing cartoon characters, and reading audiobooks.

Cec also has made podcasts of her own, including No Books Book Club and the Wellness Collective - and works on app-based radio station Broad Radio, a station for women by women.

The podcast version of Get This is available here - https://throwawaydrakey.podbean.com/

And you too can have the Marsland 5000 - https://apps.apple.com/au/app/the-marsland-5000/id331073739

Matt Whittemore is a Senior Media Advisor in the New South Wales Government's Department of Customer Service.

These days.

His broadcast media career took him from small town radio to major-market talkback to breakfast television.

In this episode we'll hear about great bosses (and bad ones), the disappointing time he met media icon Glenn Wheatley, and what life looks like for him now.

Matt Schichter is a filmmaker based in Glasgow, Scotland.

In Canadian radio, he was an announcer and music director, before he took his skills across to the screen - acting, producing and directing.

He's also one of the world's first podcasters, he started in 2003 before the word podcast was invented.

Mary-Lou Stephens is a best-selling author.

She's written Australian historical fiction novels "The Last of the Apple Blossom" and "The Chocolate Factory" and a memoir "Sex, Drugs and Meditation". All of them have received rave reviews from the media and fellow authors alike, and her latest work, "The Jam Maker" is out now.

But Mary-Lou spent quite a bit of time behind the mic, both on stage singing and playing in bands, then at radio stations 2TM, Mix Townsville and on ABC Radio in Queensland's Sunshine Coast. 

For more info about Mary-Lou's books go to http://maryloustephens.com.au/