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PR Not BS
Fiona Scott
112 episodes
4 days ago
I’ve known today's guest for many years, and the first thing I asked Gareth Davis to talk about was his memory of first meeting the Scott family. Gareth first met my son David when he was at Westlea Primary School in Swindon. David was about five or six when he joined Gareth’s martial arts class and Gareth talks about how martial arts can help people/children to learn and move at their own pace. Plus the skills they learn can be transferred into other aspects of their lives, giving them confi...
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I’ve known today's guest for many years, and the first thing I asked Gareth Davis to talk about was his memory of first meeting the Scott family. Gareth first met my son David when he was at Westlea Primary School in Swindon. David was about five or six when he joined Gareth’s martial arts class and Gareth talks about how martial arts can help people/children to learn and move at their own pace. Plus the skills they learn can be transferred into other aspects of their lives, giving them confi...
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PR Not BS
Gareth Davis from UK martial arts to US real estate!
I’ve known today's guest for many years, and the first thing I asked Gareth Davis to talk about was his memory of first meeting the Scott family. Gareth first met my son David when he was at Westlea Primary School in Swindon. David was about five or six when he joined Gareth’s martial arts class and Gareth talks about how martial arts can help people/children to learn and move at their own pace. Plus the skills they learn can be transferred into other aspects of their lives, giving them confi...
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4 days ago
42 minutes

PR Not BS
Lou Muir Sage says if you’ve got a dream – don’t park it!
Today, Lauren is talking to Louise Muir Sage of ‘Something Kind of Woo’, a crystal shop in Royal Wootton Bassett. Alongside crystals, she also sells incense, essential oils, tarot and oracle cards. Plus Lou is a Reiki practitioner and runs Reiki sessions and also Chakra realignment sessions. Explaining what Reiki is and how it works, she describes it as ‘cosmic glitter for the soul’. It’s a form of energy healing that helps to bring balance to people and clear blockages, and many people find ...
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2 weeks ago
27 minutes

PR Not BS
Sandra Stahl talks about how AI is a fantastic efficiency tool
My guest today, Sandra Stahl is from New York, who like me has worked in PR for many years. She has spent her career working in both New York and in various other places around the globe, including London. Sandra talks about how she started her career as an intern while still at university, and at the end of the internship was offered a job. That job, working on research, was at an agency called Research and Forecast - part of a global agency called Ruder Finn. After leaving there, she moved ...
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1 month ago
32 minutes

PR Not BS
John Lewis has a passion for helping others!
For today’s podcast, Lauren is talking to John Lewis, a mindset and performance coach at JL Mindset Performance. After working as a holiday rep, on building sites and owning a courier company, John went into coaching because it was something that he realised he’d always done; helping other people and being interested in others’. He trained and qualified as a performance coach, and has training in first aid for mental health and NLP. He works with businesses, sports teams and individuals to he...
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1 month ago
35 minutes

PR Not BS
Georgina Fuller is challenging stigmas
My guest today is Georgina Fuller who has been a journalist for over 20 years. She mostly writes for national newspapers, like The Times, The Telegraph and magazines. Her subjects are broadly lifestyle topics, including parenting, travel and neurodiversity. Georgina talks about how she started out in journalism, and how originally she worked on business to business articles, writing about trends in the workplace, HR, and interviews, whereas now, being freelance she can write about all sorts o...
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2 months ago
43 minutes

PR Not BS
Gamal Turawa on how being authentic is the key
In today’s podcast, Lauren talks to Gamal Turawa, who prefers to be known as G. G has a fascinating background and story; one that resonates with many others. Born in the early 1960s, his early life was traumatic. He went on to be a policeman, and he was in fact, the first openly gay, black policeman. He had a film made about his life, which won him a BAFTA, and was also a consultant on the drama Mr Loverman, aired on BBC last year, and he has won two more BAFTA’s this year. Overa...
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2 months ago
34 minutes

PR Not BS
Emma Jones: On a mission to make life easier for small businesses
Today’s guest is Emma Jones, the new Small Business Commissioner, so if you are the owner of a small business, this podcast is not to be missed! Before going into details about her new role, Emma talks about starting her own business in her mid 20s, during the .com boom. After reading a book by American, Dan Pink, called Free Agent Nation, and at a time when there was a rise in people becoming self-employed, she launched Enterprise Nation. That business was designed to help people start...
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2 months ago
32 minutes

PR Not BS
Harvey Boddy is helping people to find a place to call home
My guest today is someone who I only met a few weeks ago at a networking group. Harvey Boddy is the founder of HGP Property Deals. Working with his business partner, Jackie Collier, a multi-award winning property investor, they help people to buy and rent properties. They work with properties in Bradford and Leeds, where they do them up and supply them to the social housing market. Only 24, he has been interested in property for the last four years, and after talking to many people in t...
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3 months ago
21 minutes

PR Not BS
Paula Harsley talks about writing as the customer
In today's episode, Lauren talks to Paula Harsley about being a wordsmith. Paula specialises in helping businesses to bring their internal and external business communications to life. Paula worked in banking for many years and then for the Swindon and Wiltshire Growth Hub as one of their business navigators. Following the Covid pandemic and having met many business owners before and then during at online meetings, she decided to set up her business helping new businesses, small and medium en...
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3 months ago
28 minutes

PR Not BS
Liz Perkins gives a voice to the voiceless and holds power to account.
My guest joining me today is Liz Perkins, a journalist who was involved in my No BS Media Summit at the end of last year. Liz is the night news editor on the Sunday Telegraph, but also she often appears on Time Radio, talking about Welsh politics. Previously, she was the night news editor at The Daily Express. She has already had an amazing career, having worked across the world, doing many different things; moderating at the UN and in Davos, plus working in Afghanistan and reporting on the f...
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4 months ago
24 minutes

PR Not BS
Matt Barbour knows that people always want a good story and that will always be the case!
Today’s episode of PR not BS with Lauren, she talks to national journalist Matt Barbour. He has been writing for national newspapers and magazines since he was in his early twenties. He got into journalism on a whim. Whilst at the University of Bristol he set up a magazine, which won The Guardian NUS Magazine of the Year Award. Following the success of the magazine, he was approached by The Times to apply for their graduate training programme. It was an interesting experience, being thrown in...
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4 months ago
30 minutes

PR Not BS
Lewis Steeper shares all about Oliver's legacy
Lauren’s second podcast guest is Lewis Steeper, who along with his wife is the founder of the Oliver Steeper Foundation, following the tragic death of their son in 2021. Lewis shares Oliver’s story, and how he went to nursery as a fit, healthy nine month old baby who later choked while eating his dinner. After being told that all was well and it wasn’t an emergency, Lewis and Zoe arrived at the nursery to find paramedics doing CPR while they were running to the ambulance. Other difficulties e...
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5 months ago
49 minutes

PR Not BS
Michael McEwan is going to prove you wrong!
My guest today is Michael McEwan, a journalist who I’ve recently met on LinkedIn. Michael, a Scot, is a disability campaigner and freelance journalist. He has worked for the BBC, STV and written for many different publications about disability and non-disability care issues. He talks about how as a youngster he wanted to get into media, but didn’t know how and also having cerebral palsy himself it made his journey that much harder. Talking about his school life, time at university and t...
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5 months ago
28 minutes

PR Not BS
Richard Tidmarsh talks recruitment and dogwalking!
Today’s episode of PR Not BS is going to be a little bit different because I’ve handed over to Lauren to interview her guest, Richard Tidmarsh! Richard is based in the Chippenham area and runs two businesses – Casali Recruitment and The Chippenham Dog Walker and Pet Care Services. Casali is a generalist recruitment business who works with a number of businesses both locally and UK wide helping them to recruit for jobs including forklift drivers, call centre staff, welders, stewards for spor...
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6 months ago
22 minutes

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Romesh Jeyaseelanayagam explains how sustainability for businesses = survival
My guest today is a member of one of my networking groups, and I’m pleased to be talking to Romesh Jeyaseelanayagam of The FD Consultant. The FD Consultant is a collective of part time finance director consultants. After qualifying as an accountant, Romesh spent several years working at FTSE 100 businesses. Since 2008 he has either been full time chief financial officer or finance director of several successful businesses. He is passionate about helping businesses grow, which is why he set up...
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6 months ago
35 minutes

PR Not BS
Lis McDermott talks self-publishing and more!
My guest today is my bestie, who I've known for around 15 years, Lis McDermott. Lis is a novelist, poet and writing mentor. As you’ll hear we have quite a lot in common! Lis has recently mentored me to write my second book and she talks about why she finds that weird, as I’m a writer, but also how it works. She talks about what she has learnt about PR and marketing from me and how that has impacted on her as an author as well as how important it is as a small business to be able to build rela...
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7 months ago
36 minutes

PR Not BS
Dane Whitehurst explains how packaging builds an impression and sets a tone
My guest today is Dane Whitehurst, Creative Director of Burgopak, who designs and produces packaging for different brands and products worldwide. The business is all about translating brand values into the ‘wow’ factor. Over the years the company has produced around 400 million of their patented systems! Dane talks about why packaging is important and should be one of the priorities to get in place when you have a new product. Afterall, you spend time developing a product, so why would you no...
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7 months ago
27 minutes

PR Not BS
Lauren Roberts reflects on a year of working with Scott Media
Today we have a very special episode as I sit down and talk to Lauren Roberts who is my stepdaughter and has been working with me in the business for just over a year. We’re sharing the behind the scenes of what it’s like to have a new aspect into our relationship. Lauren joined me as a media consultant and has learnt everything from scratch as what she did previously was quite different before she went on maternity leave. She always wanted to work in the world of media but after deciding to...
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8 months ago
20 minutes

PR Not BS
Gemma Finch talks influencers and social media
My guest today is a fellow PR and marketing guru – Gemma Finch, the founder of Burford Creative. Although we work in the same field, we are not competitors, because of the different areas we live in, the variety of clients we work with, and the fields we tend to interact with. Therefore, we talk about collaboration, and even recognise while talking that there are some areas where we can already collaborate. After sharing how she got into PR and marketing, Gemma talks about how she founded Bur...
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8 months ago
28 minutes

PR Not BS
Janet Shreeve shares that people don’t know they have choices about care
Todays’ guest is Janet Shreeve of Shreeve Care Services. Janet and I have been working together for nearly two years, and it’s been an amazing time. Janet is passionate about her job, and as you’ll hear and although at retirement age, she has no intention of retiring! She strongly believes age has nothing to do with anything, and it’s all about your perspective on life and how you approach it. Janet shares her journey of working in care and how it led her to create her own business at the age...
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9 months ago
26 minutes

PR Not BS
I’ve known today's guest for many years, and the first thing I asked Gareth Davis to talk about was his memory of first meeting the Scott family. Gareth first met my son David when he was at Westlea Primary School in Swindon. David was about five or six when he joined Gareth’s martial arts class and Gareth talks about how martial arts can help people/children to learn and move at their own pace. Plus the skills they learn can be transferred into other aspects of their lives, giving them confi...