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Yet another Season draws to a close as Jack and Ellan are joined by another two listeners;  

Ashleigh Reed, a final year Events Management student at the University of Huddersfield, and Hannah Jarvis, a 2019 event graduate from the University of Chichester. 

Reviewing Season 4’s six guests, there was much laughter as we explored the different roles and characters featured. We love hearing from our listeners and inviting them on as guests - next time it could be you?

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Our final guest of season 4 is Steve Taylor, Director of Internships for the Department of Sport & Entertainment at the University of South Carolina. Steve talks to us about the joy of nurturing students and watching them develop a passion for working in events. Steve takes students all over the world to work at a wide variety of sporting and entertainment events and he believes humility and a sense of urgency are vital to success. 

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We chat this week to Sabrina Meyers, who tells us about how she became a social media and content marketing specialist within the global events and hospitality industry. 

Raised in Singapore, educated in Australia and with a career taking her to Europe, Sabrina entertains us with her story and offers some valuable advice to those wanting to succeed in the events industry. 

Hold onto your hat though - she’s a bit of a whirlwind!



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We’re joined this week by Charlie Mussett, an events and safety project manager with over 25 years’ experience managing and delivering televised mass events. After spending many years working on The Great North Run and its many regional counterparts (including Ethiopia), he is currently teaching a new generation of events professionals as well as consulting on many other differing event projects. 

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Join us as we chat to wedding planner, Megan Gillikan, in North Carolina, U.S.A. Along with running a successful wedding planning business for luxury clientele, Megan is also a podcast host (“Weddings for Real”) and founder of “The Planner’s Vault”, an online site for wedding planners in the first five years of running their business. Listen to Megan as she shares some of her favourite moments, along with some of the wisdom she has learned, much of it the hard way, from her experiences in the industry.

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We’re joined this week by Dom Stokes, Head of Live Events for Sheffield City Trust. With a background in events spanning more than 30 years, Dom takes us on his journey, explaining that you’ll have the “best time of your life” in events, and why you have to “live it, love it, breathe it”.  He also quotes T S Elliott, denounces apple sauce, and fancies himself as a young Robert Redford.  Listen now to find out why.

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We kick off Season 4 with the amazing Fay Sharpe, founder of Fast Forward15, co-founder of leading venue finding and event production company, Zibrant, (which we sold to BCD in 2016)  mentor, mother and self-confessed workaholic. Fay dreamt of becoming a millionaire by the time she was 30 - did she make it?

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For our Season 3 Finale, Jack and Ellan are joined by two lovely listeners, Jan and Lisa, to review the season’s guests whilst also celebrating International Women’s day. This episode is longer than normal, mainly because Jack is in the company of three women with a lot to say.  

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Dan Assor talks to Jack and Ellan about his career running successful, large consumer and trade shows. Whist recording, Dan was preparing to embark on a 24-hour live vodcast to raise funds for the industry’s mental health and well-being charity, EventWell.

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Founder of the Smyle Group, Rick Stainton joins Jack and Ellan this week. Hear how a broken neck and failed events business didn’t stop him building a successful global creative agency and founding the influential and widely-recognised One Industry One Voice campaign.