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What if you could revolutionize your sales tactics and make your LinkedIn profile as captivating as a magical Quidditch match? Join us for an illuminating conversation with social selling expert Timothy Tim Hughes, author of "Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers." Tim shares his whimsical yet effective strategies for making business profiles stand out, the importance of authentic social engagement, and how injecting humanity into business interactions can create meaningful connections. We also explore the mutual connections that have shaped our journey, from the Influence Radio Network to the inspirational Donna Koundé.

Tim opens up about his personal stories and the significant life events that have shaped his career and philosophy. Discover how the song “London Calling” by The Clash inspired his move to London, and learn about his forays into the IT industry, which began with a critical interview at STC (now Fujitsu). You'll hear about his love for cycling and running, and how these activities provide him with both physical and metaphorical movement that fuels his success. This episode also examines the outdated nature of traditional marketing techniques, the shift in communication preferences, and the timeless value of Tim's cherished vinyl record collection.

In the closing chapters, we uncover the profound impact that acts of kindness can have, inspired by Tim's late father’s legacy of unsung heroism. From co-founding DLA Ignite to his mission of leveraging social media for positive change, Tim's journey is a testament to the power of helping others and staying true to one’s purpose. We also highlight the unique format of the Good Listening To Show and Tim's heartfelt praise for the meaningful conversations it fosters. Tune in for an episode filled with insights, personal anecdotes, and heartfelt stories that will inspire and motivate you to rethink the way you approach social selling and human connection.

Tune in next week for more stories of 'Distinction & Genius' from The Good Listening To Show 'Clearing'. If you would like to be my Guest too then you can find out HOW via the different 'series strands' at 'The Good Listening To Show' website.

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How does a cancer diagnosis transform into a global health movement? Join us as we welcome Raphaela Reeb Ilgenfritz, Creative Director of UK Health Radio & Health Triangle Magazine & Presenter of 'Stoma4Life' Podcast, to share her incredible journey alongside her husband, Johan Ilgenfritz. From Johan's battle with cancer to the creation of UK Health Radio and Health Triangle Magazine, their story is a combined beacon of resilience and community strength. Learn about Raphaela’s unique name, her background in graphic design and how she turned the tsunami of a Bowel Cancer diagnosis into a mission to uplift and inspire through health-focused media.

Raphaela opens up about her life's defining moments, from her South African upbringing to her long career in Air travel, and the profound experiences of living with a colostomy and facing a recent cancer diagnosis. Discover her happy places, the transformative power of meditation, and the role mindfulness plays in her resilience. This episode offers an intimate glimpse into Raphaela’s life, celebrating the artistic passions and family values that ground her, while also emphasizing the importance of gratitude and living without regrets.

In an emotional and empowering segment, Raphaela discusses the best advice she has ever received and highlights the significance of capturing life stories creatively. She introduces us to Caroline Bramwell, an inspiring fellow Ostomate and Triathlete, who will continue the legacy of Storytelling. Reflect on your own journey as you listen to Raphaela's candid reflections and gain insights into how the Good Listening To Show can help you memorialize your own unique life experiences. Don't miss this heartfelt episode, and be sure to subscribe for more transformative stories.

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There's a Good Book in All of Us. How About Some Help from "The Good Listening To Show" in Writing Yours?

If you've always wanted to write your Autobiography but you've always got a bit STUCK then maybe The Good Listening To Show and 'Good Books: Autobiography' can help: Using the unique storyscape of the Show with me Chris Grimes as your host, together we'll get in to the '5-4-3-2-1' of your Life Story in 'The Clearing' (or 'serious happy place' of your choice) and get you on the open road of telling the-story-behind-the-story of being YOU!

Get in touch if you'd like to find out more. You can contact me via the www.thegoodlisteningtoshow.com or email me at chris@secondcurve.uk

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Delighted to welcome creative and comedy legend Vic Llewellyn to The Good Listening To 'Clearing' to talk about all things being Vic, castle building, writing, creativity & random squirrels!

Vic is a theatre maker, writer, actor & chewed bread sculptor! Funny, educational & inspiring on the outer limits of creativity.

You can also 'watch/listen' to Vic's episode here:

https://vimeo.com/722189063

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More about Vic:

John Victor Llewellyn Williams, aka Vic Llewellyn, is a delightful, deadline-driven dramaturg, who wants to be remembered for what he has done rather than what he was called. Yet his name itself is interesting. He was called Victor after Victor Silvester, the world champion ballroom dancer who also sold literally millions of records as a band leader from the 1930s onwards. 

The name Llewellyn comes from the Nurse, who was present at his birth, which he sees as something of a miracle in any event - on two counts. First, his father survived a potentially lethal booby trap explosion in Egypt in World War 2. Secondly, his grandfather was a genuine Foundling - abandoned on a Bucher’s doorstep as an unknown  newly born baby! Happily, grandfather, father and the young Vic Llewellyn all survived and thrived, although Vic himself was turning 30 before his natural creativity got into overdrive. 

He was taught to be a Clown by the one and only Philippe Gaulier and remains inspired by Gaulier’s teachings to this day. Vic met his future wife Emma while working with Tom Clark from the then famous Clark’s shoes’ family. 

Vic is inspired by art, books and music. Even if a book is not to his liking, if he has started it, he will always finish it, optimistically hoping to find the rare pearl amid the encircling dross. 
Likewise for him, there is no such thing as ‘background music’ in the curious world of Vic Llewellyn. 

With a brother called Alex who is 9 years older than him (another miracle!) Vic was naturally way ahead of his peers in his liking for Jimi Hendrix and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band. One of Vic’s schoolboy nicknames was Mature Alex! The theatricality of that band appealed to him. 

As well as writing and performing, Vic now has his own live radio show and is totally unworried if “no one’s really listening “! Art is its own reward. Applying a Profit and Loss metric merely demeans it. 

Vic agrees with Eleanor Roosevelt’s assertion that critics are habitually overrated and adds his own delightfully idealistic idea that “Everyone’s got this beautiful thing inside them!” The challenge, Vic suggests, is simply to find where you belong as early in your life as possible.

Reg Starkey UK Health Triangle Magazine

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Welcome to the Clearing for a special "Leadership Reflections" Episode,  the wonderful 6’ 5 Scottish man-mountain of entrepreneurial flair & generosity and a truly 'Great Scot': Russell Dalgleish  😊  Chair & Co-Founder of the Scottish Business Network.

Russell's lifelong, blazing 🔥 passion is helping other people to succeed in business and in his high-achieving career he’s helped thousands of them. Could YOU be next?

Russell Dalglish is a Scottish serial entrepreneur and network builder extraordinaire. So if you need help in your business too, then do not miss this show!

Many generations of entrepreneurs, directors, business managers and executives of all shapes and sizes have hugely benefited from his extensive business wisdom and proven track record of success.

What Russell says about himself:

The first thing people notice about me is ‘me’ because I'm a unique character and a natural performer who’s happy to speak up for what I believe (the fact I'm 6’ 5” and Scottish helps too).

My true passion, my “why”, is to help others to succeed.

The career I have followed has allowed me to develop a truly global mindset, an inner capacity to “do the right thing” and resilience which has allowed me to accept both success and failure as simply milestones on my journey.

I know how challenging it can be to lead, how lonely it can sometimes feel and how important it is to ask for help. I also know how difficult it can be to reach out and admit we can’t do everything. Don’t worry you’re not alone, we’ve all felt this way.

I have been fortunate to experience success in my career and recently was listed as one of the top 100 most influential entrepreneurs in the UK (No. 67) https://bit.ly/2OiscPc.

If you are unsure if I can help you then please drop me a note at russell@exolta.com and let’s schedule a call.

More about Russell:

Consciously committed to helping others, by any measure, Russell Dalgleish is a great Scot.
6’5” in his tartan socks, Russell can trace his family back well over 400 years! (Ancestry, eat your heart out.)

Russell is an extraordinary Scottish success, both personally and professionally. He believes in the big vision. Why else would he be the pioneer investor in an award-winning feature film, no fewer than 9 years in the making?

Clearly patient, this is an honest, entrepreneurial family man, driven by the power of purpose. ‘Have laptop, will travel’ Russell is an international digital nomad who has helped develop a global network of Scots, which is now over 10,000 strong, in no fewer than 76 different countries.

A decent human being, he is an unashamed technophile, who is willin

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A reunion here in "The Good Listening To" Clearing, 34 years later after we both 'hacked our ways into the thickets of life', having trained together as actors at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School!

"So Richard, what's it like to Fight Direct and keep correcting Robert DeNiro? How was it working with Brad Pitt on the set of "Troy"? And how did you end up being Michelle Pfeiffer's Stunt Double in "Stardust"?" 

To answer this and all the usual other questions, Ladies n' Genmin please welcome to the Good Listening To 'Clearing', internationally renowned Stunt Coordinator, Fight Director & Master at Arms for the Film & TV, Richard Ryan, currently Fight Director for Netflix's "Vikings Valhalla".

Richard was mentored in his early formative training by the great Henry Marshall, who handed on the glorious title of "Master at Arms at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art" to Richard as his successor. Richard was subsequently also mentored by perhaps the greatest Film Fight Director of all, William Hobbs.

William Hobbs fight coordinated all of the best sword movies in the 70's-90's, including the iconic fight, regarded by many as being "the greatest sword film fight ever filmed": The sword fight and final 'battle to the death' between Liam Neeson & Tim Roth in "Robroy", with John Hurt & Brian Cox looking on.

Tune in next week for more stories of 'Distinction & Genius' from The Good Listening To Show 'Clearing'. If you would like to be my Guest too then you can find out HOW via the different 'series strands' at 'The Good Listening To Show' website.

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Please welcome the "Queen of Valuable Content" Sonja Nisson, recorded as a special LinkedIn LIVE 'Brand Strand' Episode of the Podcast. 

'Brand Strand' is where I wrap an episode of the podcast - with its strong and established Storytelling construct - around a particular company or individual, to help amplify their company or personal brand.

In a nutshell Sonja Nisson "helps people unlock what they want to say in the world of business".

In the kelp beds of Sennen Cove in Cornwall for her Clearing (as a wild swimmer & 'happy mermaid'!) Sonja tells us the 'story behind the story' of her curation of  "The Land of Content":  "What if the land of content was an Island? What would we find?!"

Listen up to learn more about the "Bay of Quick Wins", Foggy Bottom", "Shit Creek" & "Lonely Crag"!

More about Sonja:

"If you are going through a business identity crisis and are keen to get your message and communications approach sorted, she can help. Her clients are founders and leaders with expertise and ideas to share, and most often, a website they're frustrated by and finding it hard to move forward on. 

Sonja helps you get clear on your story - who you are and what you do as a business - using research and feedback as a mirror to align your thinking and find a confident way forward. Working together, you'll craft a unique message, website and valuable content strategy that lands with those you want to influence, driving you and your business to reach your full potential. 

- Co-author of Valuable Content Marketing, how to make content the key to your business success - the first UK book on content marketing, published by Kogan Page 2013, 2015. 
- Alongside her independent consulting work, she runs the "School of Valuable Content" with co-author and friend Sharon Tanton. They run courses and writing clubs to help people create the valuable content they need to power their businesses. 

- She believes that the quest to create valuable content is a great catalyst for a more customer-centred approach to business and marketing. 
- She's increasingly curious about the role of listening in business and in life. She'd love to unleash a listening revolution in the business world. Imagine the radical change that would happen as a result!

Enjoy!

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Comedy Double Act Beauties Howard Coggins & Stu McLouglin from "Living Spit" Musical Theatre Company, here to "dissect their frog" on their wonderful anarchic comedy method and madness!

The warmth between the 2 is palpable and their comedy magic together a work of collective comedy genius. Howard & Stu work with a creative crack team of 5 to generate their magic together and are based in Clevedon at their home venue (which is also delightfully their "Clearing")  which they also co-founded, "The Clevedon Theatre Shop" 

This is their story on what has shaped them in the crafting of their impressive canon of 17 hilarious comedy musical theatre Shows to date as "Living Spit". 

"Living Spit" so called because Howard is - as Stu discovered much to his delight on a day trip to  Hever Castle - a "Living Spit" of Henry V111.  Stu got straight on the phone to Howard - and the rest - as they say, is comedy history!

Enjoy!

More about Living Spit:

Introducing an extraordinary couple of colourful characters from the West Country, the frontmen of their own theatre company, called mysteriously “Living Spit’. Not so mysterious when you learn that Stu saw a picture of Henry VIII at Hever Castle, which struck him as the spitting image of his friend, Howard. On the strength of this striking physical similarity, the two friends decided to create their own lighthearted musical comedy about Henry and his various wives. 

Howard was a shoe-in for Henry. Stu was happy to play the wives. Musicians in their teens, actors in their twenties, the two thespians created Living Spit - as if inspired by the Bob Dylan song ‘Don’t think twice, it’s alright.’ 

Now their company has 5 key people, including their own ‘third man’, producer / director Craig Edwards. Over ten years later, Living Spit has over 17 different original comedies to its credit and two or three more live ideas in the pipeline. These days the shows are more comedy than history. They always involve original music. The founders are now related by marriage, but not to each other. Brothers-in-law, they happily share family occasions as well as gruelling professional tours. In the pandemic, they played on camera- or rather six cameras - to an empty house at the Bristol Old Vic. This was a breeze compared with one unhappy night in Runcorn - so disappointing that they vowed never to return. And they never have. Instead, Howard and Stuart do their own thing, in their own way, then turn to Craig to help them make it work. Allowing a mere three weeks for rehearsals, they’re ready to go public with it.

 The audience is the only thing that matters to Living Spit: their laughter, their delight, their satisfaction. Our heroes are happy to be the best in the West. They don’t need to prove they’re the best in the world - even

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Welcome to the Clearing: Actor, Director and one the original founding members (alongside his brother Mark) of "The Medieval Players" Carl Heap!

"Finding the method in Medieval Theatres"  The Guardian

"The Medieval Players" were a pioneering British touring theatre company in the 1980's & 90's renowned and lauded for restoring a delicious vocabulary and experience of Medieval performance for us all, by re-introducing us to a different kind of Actor: An ensemble that is completely at ease talking directly to an audience and not hidden in the dark:

"If the audience is sharing daylight with the Actors it seems rather rude to ignore them!"

Indeed I had my 1st ever professional touring experience with The Medieval Players in a production called "Courage" in 1989 (as party of a 10 month tour) very shortly after graduating from The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Renowned Theatre Director Emma Rice said of The Medieval Players: "Gasp makingly cheeky,  so bloody funny, so bloody skilled!" as she witnessed the all juggling, all fire-breathing, all stilt walking Medieval Minstrelsy as one of her very formative theatre experiences.

Carl now writes, continues to act and direct as Artistic Director of Theatre Company, "Beggars Belief" (see what he's doing there?!) and he also sings on an epic scale with The Crouch End Festival Chorus.

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Ohhhh yes! Ladies n' Genminminmin please welcome Actor, Director, fellow Instant Witter, ex-Banker and dropper of the occasionally delicious 'F' Bomb (!) the very entertaining and wonderfully enigmatic Craig Edwards.

As an ex-Banker not so much "Cashier Number 3 please" but "F Bomb Number 12 pleeeeeease!" Chortle!

So Craig: How would you most like to be remembered? 

"I'd like to be remembered as someone who laughed a lot. But I won't be remembered for that, I'll be remembered as being a grumpy old fuck!"

Lol! A wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable conversation indeed...

A special "Digital Nomad" recording (go me!) as I speak to Craig LIVE from my balcony and strapped to the old interweb in Madeira! Wooo-hoo!

Tune in next week for more stories of 'Distinction & Genius' from The Good Listening To Show 'Clearing'. If you would like to be my Guest too then you can find out HOW via the different 'series strands' at 'The Good Listening To Show' website.

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