The Portrait Show

Mark Currie is a filmmaker & a family friend & an Everton fan & once a football coach

In 1993 Mark created the story The Man Who Was Different which celebrates the importance of difference and being yourself

I first heard about the story in the 2020 lockdown impacting me on my own journey of expressing my inner self outside

I was lucky to have a chance to sit down with Mark to hear about the story in his own words

Mark shares a behind the scenes view of the story why he first wrote it and how it is still relevant today

Originally a script he wrote to help himself he self published it into a book and now turned it into a film to spread it even further

Now Mark is using his story as a vehicle to inspire the next generation & beyond sparking conversations about difference and embracing creativity

Reinforcing the message within people that we are all special and we all have value to express

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Learn more about → The Man Who Was Different

See Mark's Film Studio → Catapult Films

Had a Friday night out with Tim Keiff in Bradford

Tim is a Design Leader & a Father & a good mate of mine

When I freshly graduated in 2014 I was lucky to join and become part of XD the experience design team Tim started & led within DAZN (called Perform at the time)

Two blokes in a pub on a Friday night we reflected back on the 10 years since how a Friday night was then vs how it is today

Sharing how life has grown us with the essence that it is okay to just be yourself

Simon came over for a cup of tea to talk about being the first guest on a podcast whilst being the first guest on the podcast

Simon is the author of ‘Reframing Marketing’

We met cold water sea swimming at IceBreakers Simon commissioned me to create their portrait and a friendship evolved organically since

On the episode Simon shares their story from being a kid in Chichester to sound engineering on Big Brother 7 to now helping people to engineer their marketing to authentically serve the world as themselves

Simon has a lovely smile counter balanced with real honesty and grounded where they don’t shy away from speaking truthfully each time we've spent time together I walk away feeling happy

I got to know the business side of Simon listening to their podcast having gotten to know Simon as a person first I can wholeheartedly say the two worlds feel like the same person

Whilst being a role model to their own book Simon’s approach to doing marketing is like a trusted mate in the know pushing you and having your back and helping you on your way up with robust methods & processes

Simon’s story is one of instinct flowing from one thing to the next throughout life reframing marketing for themselves on the way showing the world how it can be done authentically growing a business supporting others to do exactly that for themselves too

The essence of the conversation is about being you & being more you is only way to grow in a world becoming more ‘artificially’ intelligent

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more from Simon…

Reframing Marketing Podcast → https://open.spotify.com/show/5mOYTssDia4T54ekTKLa3I?si=fcb77d4351614c68

Reframing Marketing Book → https://reframingmarketing.com