The Outvertising Podcast

Joanne Oatts talks to Pete Markey, chief marketing officer of TSB, about the bank's award-winning LGBT network TSB Pride, the importance of being a LGBTQ+ ally and how empathy, listening and understanding are all key to both being a good leader and getting to know your customers. Pete shares key learnings and experiences from his roles at Aviva, Post Office, The AA, British Gas and One.Tel - including 'bottling the magic' of your role models and dressing up as a goldfish - as well performing improvisational comedy for The Marketing Society does Comic Relief earlier this year.

SHOWNOTES

Ryan Heffington Sweatfest Live Dance Party

https://www.instagram.com/ryan.heffington/?hl=en

Lesbian Visibility Week, 20-26th April

Twitter https://twitter.com/LesbianVisWeek

Schedule: https://www.lesbianvisibilityweek.com/whats-happening.html#/

Website: https://www.lesbianvisibilityweek.com/#/

Pete Markey

Pete Markey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermarkey/

TSB National Coming Out Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA94VmpSJ7Q

TSB Why We March: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH7gUeZZuwI

Marching with Pride: https://www.tsb.co.uk/local-pride/midlands/lgbt-birmingham/

The Story of TSB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJzJCd_pwy8

The Marketing Society does Comic Relief: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0joJDJQZmU&feature=emb_logo

Dingbats Improv: https://www.dingbatsimprov.com/

Get in touch with Outvertising

Website: https://www.outvertising.org/news

Email: [email protected] 

Twitter: @outvertising

Insta: @outvertising

Facebook: outvertisinguk

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/outvertising/

The Outvertising Team discuss the challenges of the Coronavirus situation, as well as tips and advice on coping with working from home, social distancing and isolation. Plus hear how different organisations and agencies are helping their teams stay in touch, and what positives we can all take from the situation.

SHOW NOTES:

Sign up for the Outvertising newsletter: https://www.outvertising.org/newsletter

Outvertising Awards: https://www.outvertising.org/awards

Outvertising Members map: https://bit.ly/2QyISm1

NABS advice line:

Available during office hours (9-5:30), call 0800 707 6607 or email [email protected]

DIVA COMMUNITY Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/groups/divacomm/?ref=group_header

Opening Doors London

Donate to help their befriending service for LGBTQ+ Over 50s get online: https://openingdoorslondon.eu.rit.org.uk/appeal/help-us-reduce-isolation

Get in touch:

Email [email protected]

Twitter: @outvertising

Insta: @outvertising

Facebook: outvertisinguk

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/outvertising/

To celebrate International Women's Day, Outvertising's Joanne Oatts speaks to Creative Equals’ Steph Matthews, Chloe Davies, Head of Partnerships myGWork and Polly Shute, Partnerships Director for Diva Media about the challenges LBTQ+ women face from the community and society as a whole. We discuss what more industry networks can do to be more inclusive and supportive to all queer women - and what events like Lesbian Visibility Week will do to improve things for the future.

PLEASE NOTE: The Outvertising Awards event in April has now be postponed until later this year. The D&AD Breakfast Briefing on 18th March has also been cancelled. The awards themselves are still open for entries. Please check our website and socials (details below) for more details and to ask any questions.

SHOW NOTES:

Steph Matthews

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanielmatthews/?originalSubdomain=uk

Bloom UK: https://www.bloomuk.org/

Creative Equals: http://www.creativeequals.org/

myGWork: https://www.mygwork.com/en/

Chloe Davies: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chlo%C3%AB-davies-93181425/

Polly Shute: https://www.linkedin.com/in/polly-shute-9853051b/

Lesbian Visibility Week: https://www.lesbianvisibilityweek.com/

Visible Lesbian 100 https://www.lesbianvisibilityweek.com/visible-lesbian-100---nominate-now.html#/

The Diva Survey: https://www.lesbianvisibilityweek.com/the-diva-survey.html#/

Pride in London 2020 Campaign:

YOU! ME! US! WE! https://prideinlondon.org/

Website: https://www.outvertising.org/awards

Twitter: @outvertising

Insta: @outvertising

Facebook: outvertisinguk

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/outvertising/

Joanne Oatts talks to Outvertising’s Director of Industry Affairs, Guy Duncan. Guy talks about his career working at London’s top advertising agencies - from Leo Burnett to Coley Porter Bell, as well as client side at Coca Cola - in both London and Atlanta. We talk candidly about his experience of living with HIV - and what part President Obama had in helping him fulfil a life long dream. We also hear from Steve Wheen about the upcoming Outvertising Awards.

PLEASE NOTE: The Outvertising Awards event in April has now be postponed until later this year. The D&AD Breakfast Briefing on 18th March has also been cancelled. The awards themselves are still open for entries. Please check our website and socials for more details and to ask any questions.

Outvertising Monthly Social: https://www.outvertising.org/calendar

The Outvertising Awards: https://www.outvertising.org/awards

Outvertising Awards D&AD Breakfast - get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/breakfast-briefing-outvertising-awards-2020-tickets-95324671659

Steve Wheen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-wheen-037408b/?originalSubdomain=uk

Distillery: https://www.wearedistillery.co/

Guy Duncan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/theguyduncan/

https://twitter.com/gdaduncan?lang=en

Terrence Higgins Trust Helpline: https://www.tht.org.uk/our-services/phone-and-post/tht-direct-helpline

National Aids Trust: https://www.nat.org.uk/

Gareth Thomas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Thomas_(rugby)

February is LGBT History month. To celebrate, Joanne Oatts delves into the past with Guy Duncan, Marketing Consultant & Outvertising's Director of Industry Affairs, Lee-Menzies Pearson, Senior Strategist at Collider & co-author of The Outvertising Guide and Anthony Crocker, The Telegraph’s Head of Campaign Innovation & chair of LGBT+ media network IntermediaUK. We talk LGBT ads, TV and media stories of the past; icons & roles models, and what’s changed about the scene - and the ad industry - over the years. Plus our guests get challenged with a LGBTQ+ history quiz…

Show notes: 

Outvertising: https://www.outvertising.org/

LGBT History month:

https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/

Events: https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/calendar/

The Outvertising Guide: https://www.outvertising.org/outvertising-download

IntermediaUK: http://www.intermediauk.org/

Sign up for the Intermedia newsletter: http://www.intermediauk.org/contact/

Outing the Past: https://www.outingthepast.com/

Museum of Brands 20 Feb event: https://www.museumofbrands.com/lgbt-representation-in-the-media/

Fanny & Stella (aka Boulton & Park): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_and_Park

Magnus Hirschfeld:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld

‘Do I Sound Gay?’- documentary recommendation from Lee: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Do-Sound-Gay-David-Thorpe/dp/B017KVEJ08

'This Life' (1996) - currently being repeated on iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00pft4t/this-life

The LGBTQ+ community is twice as likely to suffer mental health problems - which means about half of us will have mental health issues at some stage in our lives. Outvertising Chair Mark Runacus is joined by fellow Outvertising members Gerard Cabral, La Kingsbeer, Lucy McKillop and James Page to chat about queer mental health.

USEFUL LINKS

ELOP

http://www.elop.org/

Terence Higgins Trust

https://www.tht.org.uk/centres-and-services/head-office/connect-counselling

Sarah Crosby – The Mind Geek

https://www.instagram.com/themindgeek/

The Mother Wound

https://www.drmarikovanen.co.uk/healing-mother-wound-part-1-understanding-mother-wound-impact-adult/

NABS Hepline

0800 707 6607

Your Fat Friend

https://www.instagram.com/yrfatfriend/

Outvertising's Joanne Oatts talks role models - with Kat Urban and Jonathan Palmer. Kat is the Co-Director of Training, Development & Wellbeing for Outvertising, as well as the Services Project Manager at NABS - where she project leads many key initiatives, including TimeTo, the Future Leaders Awards and is Chair of NABS's Diversity & Inclusion Board. Jonathan Palmer - aka JP - is Kat's fellow Co-Director of Training, Development & Wellbeing for Outvertising, as well as Head of Social at Vizeum UK, part of Dentsu, where he's also founding co-chair of the Dentsu &PROUD network.

We talk about LGBTQ+ role models, how brands and individuals can get involved in role model training, as well as JP and Kat's own role models - both growing up and in the industry today.

LINKS

Sign up for Role Model Training: https://www.outvertising.org/calendar

NABS https://nabs.org.uk/

Vizeum https://www.vizeum.co.uk/

Bloom Fest https://www.bloomuk.org/bloomfest

For more info on role model training get in touch with Kat or JP - email [email protected] or [email protected]

Outvertising's Joanne Oatts talks to Bloom President and Creative Equals Partnerships Director Stephanie Matthews. They talk about Bloom, Virgin, ITV and other places where Stephanie has worked, and - amongst other things - that Anna Friel kiss!

Bloom https://www.bloomuk.org/

The Exchange

https://www.bloomuk.org/the-exchange

Lady Phyll

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ukblackpride/?originalSubdomain=uk

Stonewall UK article on THAT Anna Friel kiss: https://www.stonewall.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/1994-same-sex-kiss-between-two-women-brookside-builds-first-kiss-between-two-men

ITV Pride / Matt Scarff

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-scarff-a7213b1a/?originalSubdomain=uk

Channel 4

https://www.channel4.com/corporate

London Gay bars that have closed since 2000

https://www.thegayuk.com/gay-bars-that-have-closed-in-london-since-the-turn-of-the-century/

Dawn Airey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Airey

Bloom Podcast 'Naked Truths'

https://www.bloomuk.org/podcast

A third of LGBTQ+ people working in advertising are subject to sexual harassment in the workplace – significantly more than their straight counterparts, that’s according to the #timeToo study conducted in 2018, explains Karen Fraser in this fascinating interview with Joanne Oatts.

Karen goes on to explain that the LGBTQ+ community was also more likely to be harassed more often. And they face multiple barriers to reporting the harassment, including possibly outing themselves in the workplace.

Karen has become a Celebrant and is particularly keen to celebrate love in all its forms, especially amongst the LGBTQ+ community.

USEFUL LINKS

TimeTo timeto.org.uk/

NABS Advice Line: nabs.org.uk/how-we-can-help/advice-line/

NABS Advice line number: 0800 707 6607, 9am-5.30pm on weekdays.

Or email [email protected]

Other helplines available on the TimeTo website.

TUC report: Sexual Harassment of LGBT people in the workplace: tuc.org.uk/research-analysis/reports/sexual-harassment-lgbt-people-workplace

Bloom Network: bloomuk.org/

www.outvertising.org

Outvertising Chair Mark Runacus talks to Joanne Oatts about his advertising career; coming out at Ogilvy; not coming out to clients; workplace LGBTQ+ sexual harassment; being a gay entrepreneur; confusing Matthew Bourne and Jason Bourne; Danny La Rue, Barbra Streisand, Boy George and George Michael; being married but not actually married; and D I S C O!

Useful links: www.outvertising.org

Wax Lyrical - The Advertising Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/wax-lyrical-the-advertising-and-marketing-podcast/id1441342885

DiscCo - The Disco Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/discco/id210837053