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*please note, there is potentially triggering content with references to themes of suicide and emotional trauma in this article/email, which some individuals may find distressing. Please ensure that you feel safe to continue reading. If you recognise that you need support after reading this article, please reach out to someone that you trust. Mind are a great UK based support network for people experiencing mental health, as are NAMI, for my readers based in the US. If you're not sure where to start, you can also reach out to me via email emma@emmaevelyncampbell.com and I can help point you in the right direction. "These words on paper are an overflow of pure emotion, a mirror held up to the beautiful and perhaps less desirable parts of us. A candid expression of the human experience. This poetry tells a story that, as you read, you realise you have lived too. The writing invites reflection which we all need a little room for in our lives. Thank you, Emma, for your vulnerability." I received this quote from a dear friend, Sofia, as she read my book before I self-published. I loved it so much that I used it as the blurb. My intention for creating this mini-series for the next (probably) 4 weeks, reading a few poems from the book, is to invite you into your own exploration of what it means to be human. I'll read the poem, provide the context for it's creation and then share my own reflections on it as I read it years later. The questions I ask myself in this reflection are... 'how have I changed?' 'how am I still the same?' 'what is the wisdom I've gained?' I also invite you to share in the comments or by email emma@emmaevelyncampbell.com what the listening of this poem brought up for you. If you haven't already you can join us for this series by subscribing for free below. You'll also benefit from a growing space where I share weekly thoughts from my heart, meditations and more heart-opening poetry. My intention is to continue to expand this space in a way that nourishes the reader and listener, whilst following my own intuition on what feels good. I want this to be an environment where you feel no expectations to do anything, other than to feel what surfaces for you as you connect with the words that are shared. Uncomfortably, Beautifully Human is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.I've captured the poem and my reflections below, which you can read if you prefer to engage with this content by reading over watching the video.This feels so f*****g hard I feel all the pain in my heart I feel lost in the words in my mind created in a time when I could easily disguise Now it all comes to the surface I'm starting to regress to the part of my journey where I felt so lonely where I felt so lost Like I couldn't breathe Yes, I remember that version of me where running was all that she could do to survive Where hiding was all she could do to feel safe in this life to repress everything that suffocated her that cut her deep like a knife Where all those tears she had in her eyes And all she could do was pretend to be fine.This poem is number 12 in my book 44: A Journey Through Poetry, which you can purchase here. As I read back this poem, I'm also going through this chapter and transition in my life now where there's this feeling of like, it's difficult. It's hard, but there's not that heaviness that I used to carry. So it's really a moment to see not only my growth, but also this compassion for the one, that version of myself that just was so, so lost and so, so afraid of everything and whatever would happen it would be this need to get away, to avoid, to run. At this phase, it feels more like a need to hold on tightly.I must have wrote this 3/4 years ago, when I was reflecting on the version of myself aged 16-18. It's funny now to read it back and see this pattern and how it has played out in different phases of my life. How sometimes it would be to run and other times to hold tightly.I'm starting to regress to the part of my journey where I felt so lonely where I felt so lostI think we can all relate to these lines. We have moments on our journey where we naturally return to old habits, behaviours and ways of being. I think what this is showing us is how that version of ourselves is still present within us, and is asking to receive space to be heard and compassion to feel loved, not by the things we were running away from or chasing after, but from ourselves. Whilst I've been staying at my family home where I grew up, I've been focusing a lot on my inner child. The child that grew up here and, although had a good upbringing, felt really misunderstood, and emotionally suppressed. As I contemplate more on the line “I'm starting to regress to the part of my journey”, it's a reminder that ways of being and behaviours from our past do resurface and asks the question, how can we open up with compassion to them when they do, instead of pushing them away? How is this inquiry actually a step forward, rather than a step backwards?I called this poem '‘when it feels so f*****g hard', and you'll notice as you read my book, that a lot of the poems from this time include swear words. I liked to use them to express both frustration and excitement. I feel it keeps my work un-filtered, and in this particular poem, really emphasises my inner frustration. I actually went back through my journals the other day, and came across one of the first ones I wrote in when I began obsessively journaling every detail of my life around 5 years ago (all destined to be another book one day) and this was what I read “spent a few days crying, exhausted - couldn't get out of bed - sducidal thoughts”. It was a huge moment of love to see how taking that time to invest in myself and how I see the world, has helped me grow so much and to see how writing was a huge catalyst for that. I'm someone who's always questioning my intention and reflecting on how I show up in the world. I want to treat others how I'd wanted to be treated myself. In my opinion, this involves going into, as Carl Jung would say, my shadow and my unconscious patterns and thoughts. I identified a lot of those through the process of writing. There's definitely this archetype of the emotionally struggling writer or poet and we see this as a weakness. My invitation to anyone who does struggle emotionally, mentally or in life in general, is to see this as a source of empowerment. Use writing not only to capture how you're feeling, but also as a way to witness yourself by reading what's emerged onto the page. Get curious about what you've wrote. Ask questions about it. Explore where it's coming from. This is a great tool for cultivating self-awareness, compassion and love. There's a lot of emphasis around being the best version of ourselves but, through writing, I think we can learn to embrace the full continuum of being human, see the gifts in our challenges and find the tools that most support us to participate and navigate this experience.As I read the last lines of this poem againwhere all those tears she had in her eyes and all she could do was pretend to be fine I felt reminded of another one of my intentions with poetry, to show people you're not alone, to open up a discussion around topics we struggle to speak about. Topics that bring up shame and fears of rejection. Everything I do holds the intention to create space for people to be fully seen, heard and understood in all that they are. I'd love for you to share what came up for you as you listened/read. As I've learnt with poetry, the poet writes about their experiences or experiences they observe, but the reader receives what they need to through the reading or listening of those words. To me, 44: A Journey Through Poetry, really captured the poems from my younger years, and invites you to explore and reflect on your own (I actually include journaling pages in the book for you to do this). I'll be reading more poems from my book each Sunday morning with you and I do hope you'll join me and connect with us in the comments and in our chat to speak about what each poem brings up for you. Vulnerability with ourselves and one another is, in my opinion, one of the things that truly help us grow and connect. with love,Emma Get full access to Uncomfortably, Beautifully Human at uncomfortablybeautifullyhuman.substack.com/subscribe

On this week's episode, I'm excited to be joined by an old friend, Joe Curtis. Initially, Joe was the founder of a recruitment company called 3Search, which then led to building a bigger business called 11 Investments. 11 Investments is a series of niche recruitment organisations that work together and share a common goal with a central operational function. Joe's role as founder is to bring more people into the portfolio, both people who want to start their own recruitment company and also people who want to work for the portfolio. He's been responsible for growing the business to 100 people, which they've managed to do sustainably and profitably with a clear plan.In this episode, we talk about:Joe's journey of nine years of growthHow remaining profitable throughout that process is really important. Manyrecruitment organisations don't make any money, and as a result, they suffer in times like thisThe importance of running a business with a clear directionThe debate around working in the office and working from home. 3Search, 11 Investments, and the whole portfolio believe in working together in an office in London three days a week with a little bit of flexibility, and they're very clear on how and why they've built it that waySo, if you are in a position right now where you are feeling that, post covid, you don't really know the best way to run your firm - whether it's remote, in-house, or a combination - then you need to listen to this because Joe explains it perfectly. He's got to a headcount of 100 and they're going towards 200, so there's a lot to learn from this episode.__________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients in less than two years. We built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we'll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Epispde Sponsor: RecruitHubOur trusted partner RecruitHub helps new founders launch their own recruitment business in the UK, US & UAE. The community is growing rapidly with over 70 founders on the RecruitHub platform.Everything you need to launch your own recruitment business with ease.- Receive 100% of the fees you bill- Own full commercial control of your business and increase its value-...

On this week's show I'm sharing one of the most powerful episodes I've ever recorded with a lady called Janette Marx. Jeanette is the global CEO at a company called Airswift, a huge workforce, staffing and solutions organisation headquartered in the US with 62 offices worldwide, 900 employees, and 7500 contractors that they support. Jeanette's been with the business for nine years and in the recruitment industry for over 20 years. She previously worked for Adecco and was leading a huge operation for them across the US.What I love about Jeanette is her mindset and how she's done what she's done while going through so much!She's an author of a book called Together We Rise, which she co-authored after the pandemic with 16 other female leaders in the staffing industry globally.She shared how she's grown her career as an entrepreneur and become a global CEO as a female whilst having a baby and running a business. Everything she's done to get to where she was at the beginning of 2023. And then we talked about the impact of finding out that she had stage two breast cancer at the beginning of March this year and how she dealt with the news.Because the book she wrote was about dealing with crisis moments and stress and how to stay calm, she managed to put everything in the book into practice and between the beginning of March and the end of April, she was back to work, cancer free.She went through a series of different operations, she built a team of doctors around her and she took control of a life or death situation and has come back to work with a different sense of appreciation for life. She's still incredibly motivated to give back, build a business and help her people, but she also has calmness, which has come from getting through something so serious.In this episode there were moments where I had to take a deep breath and as I was getting quite emotional myself. I'm just inspired by such an amazing woman who and what she's achieved. And I think anyone out there who's dealt with serious illness themselves or seen their family members or friends go through it can resonate.And anyone who's at the helm or wants to be at the helm of a larger business, you can also resonate with with different things we discussed. If you're interested in reading ‘Together We Rise', you can find it here: https://amzn.to/3KglF41__________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support, and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients.In less than two years, we built a business generating from zero to over 1 million...

I'm super excited to be joined by Alexander Antoniou, the founder of AL Solutions, a Life Sciences specialist recruiter headquartered in London, just over five years old, with 25 staff.Now, the reason I wanted to interview Alexander is because he's not only grown AL Solutions, but he's also built a portfolio of five other businesses that he does the back office support for. They share infrastructure, and he's basically set other people up.Alexander is only 25 years old!He got into recruitment at 18. Having said to his parents, who wanted him to become a lawyer, that he was going to have a gap year and just work in sales to save some money for university. He then became the top performer at a local life science recruitment firm, and two and a half years later, at the age of 20 years old, he went out and set up AL Solutions, which stands for Antoniou Life Science.Alexander is an incredible guy with incredible energy. He's so young and has achieved so much.He looks at the business with energy, passion, and a level of simplicity. I believe we could all learn from the way he runs his business.You're going to enjoy this episode if you are a recruiter looking to start your own business in the future or if you're looking to grow and you want to think a bit clearly and a little bit more simply about the whole solution. __________________________________________HoxoAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo. We'll give you the training, support, and resources to help you stand out from the competition and reach over 25,000 relevant people and drive daily inbound leads on Linkedin in 6 weeks - and if you don't perform, you don't pay. Now, how can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? 2 reasons:1. Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say will do for our clients in less than two years. We actually built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2. Second is our track record. Not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,700 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, follow this link: https://academy.hoxomedia.com/get-started59434285 __________________________________________Episode sponsor: RecruitHubOver 70 founders have launched their businesses on RecruitHub in the UK, US, and UAE.One of them was Stuart Mitchell, Founder of Hampton North in the US.With experience in both the UK and US markets, million-dollar biller Stuart Mitchell formed Hampton North to tackle the biggest problem in cyber security; the talent shortage.Before launching his own business, Stuart felt like he had run out of growth and he wanted to achieve a better work-life balance for himself and his team. For Stuart, this meant he could spend more time with his daughter.He now is on a mission to create the best cybersecurity recruiting team in the industry, with the support of Recruit Hub, The world's most powerful recruitment start-up solution.His only regret once joining Recruit Hub? Not joining sooner.Link to his full story:

On this week's show, I am joined by Louise Campbell, Global Head of Learning and Development at Robert Walters.Robert Walters is a global, household name in our sector, with over 4000 employees around the world.Louise is based in Ireland. She was the MD of their Irish business for over 20 years.Recently, she reinvented herself and moved into L&D wth the goal of making a difference across the global team. I love understanding Louise's mindset. I've personally worked with Robert Walters for three years. They've just signed with us for another year, and we're working with over 500 of Robert Walters's consultants on their personal brand.Louise has been instrumental in both bringing us on board, and also working with us to ensure that training is delivered well across the organisation.L&D is normally something that's under-invested in and not very well managed in recruitment organisations. What I think is so special here, is that Louise went from being an MD of the usiness to then using all of her knowledge for L&D. So she's not just a trainer, she's a business leader, and we talked about her intrapreneurial journey through Robert Walters, why she loves the organisation, why she's been there for over 20 years, and everything in-between. If you are looking to develop a strong L&D function in your business and grow organically by building the best team possible, you need to listen to this episode.__________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support, and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients.In less than two years, we built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion-pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,700 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we'll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: VincereVincere's portals is a quick-win solution for agencies in need of a no-code candidate and clientportal. It's your one-way ticket to attracting top-tier candidates and clients with everything theyneed in one place.Easily set up your candidate, client, and job portal straight within your Vincere account andconfigure it to your own brand and theme so it feels like you.You can publish jobs from Vincere's Job Portal and sync them directly to your website in oneeasy click. You can also offer candidates a quick and easy job search...

On this week's show, I was joined by Stuart Mitchell, the founder of Hampton North, a specialist cybersecurity search firm, headquartered in the US with 3 staff. He's based in Connecticut, just between Boston and New York.He launched the business in September 2022, so we're only nine months into his journey.I wanted to interview Stuart because he's built an incredible personal brand. I have never worked with Stuart, so I can't take any credit, but the way he works is exactly how I believe the modern recruiter should.It's what I teach thousands of people to do all over the world. He started investing in his personal brand in 2017 and by 2019 he was at Stott & May on the west coast of America. He was bringing in business all over the world for his teammates and he started to realise the power of personal branding and inbound on LinkedIn. He then teamed up with RecruitHub and launched his own agency. After nine months, he has billed over $ 1 million which is incredible! He's now at three people and he wants to build a company that is fit for the modern era - a remote first business. All of the people who worked for him have approached him, and they're already top billers elsewhere. So, anyone who's looking to start an agency, you're going to learn a lot. Anyone who's already running a business, you could learn a hell of a lot from the way he's running his.__________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients in less than two years. We built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we'll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: RecruitHubOur trusted partner RecruitHub helps new founders launch their own recruitment business in the UK, US & UAE. The community is growing rapidly with over 70 founders on the RecruitHub platform.Everything you need to launch your own recruitment business with ease.- Receive 100% of the fees you bill- Own full commercial control of your business and increase its...

On this week's show, I'm joined by James Emmett, CEO and founder of Hanover Group. Having recently interviewed Anthony Pitt, President at Hanover USA, I was really excited to welcome James, the original founder, on to the show.James started the business 27 years ago and has now grown to an organisation of over hundred people across multiple international locations including both the UK and USA.The business has not only grown organically, but also has a clear acquisition strategy too. In this episode, he talks at length about his buy and build strategy.This is going to be super important for you to listen to if you are the type of organisation that wants to grow and potentially do this through a similar method. If you're a small recruitment organisation that might actually be interested in being acquired in the future then we also cover the pros and cons to the whole process.__________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients in less than two years. We built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we'll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________RecruitHub MessageOver 70 founders have launched their businesses on RecruitHub in the UK, US, and UAEOne of them is Kyle Winterbottom, founder of Orbition Group, a niche, talent consultancy that operates exclusively in the Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence space across the UK, Europe, and USA.In just a year of trading, the company has gone on to build an impressive client base in the Data and Analytics space and has an industry-leading podcast with more than 20,000 listeners in 128 countries.Before joining RecruitHub, Kyle had spoken to other start-up support companies which either wanted him to invest a ton of money upfront, then he'd only own the percentage he'd invested against what it costs to start, or they wanted a lot of equity.For Kyle, RecruitHub was a great option – they weren't asking for money upfront to launch, they weren't taking loads of equity and they wanted to be involved; the company has been able to lean on RecruitHub quite

Roheel Ahmad on growing to 80 staff in 8 years and looking at the next phase of growth - to IPO with a £60 million valuation. I'm delighted to be joined by Roheel Ahmad. Roheel is the managing partner and co-founder of Forsyth Barnes. I interviewed his partner, Scott, a few years ago during the pandemic and have watched their journey ever since. These guys are just pushing 80 staff across Nottingham, London, and New York, and they specialise in exec search and leadership roles across three different sectors: FinTech, sports, and eTail, which is retail carried out via the Internet.Forsyth Barnes was founded in 2015 by two guys who knew each other before and had a mission to grow something big with scale, and they've thrown everything at it.In eight years, they've achieved more than they expected, now they're looking at their next phase of growth - to IPO with a £60 million valuation. They've just given away 33% of the business to the staff, and they are growing like crazy.So, the RAG is all about growth and everyone looks at it in a different way. These guys have got a clear path that I can't wait to share with you.So if you are looking at growing, an exit, or an IPO, then this is the episode for you.Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients in less than two years. We built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion-pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we'll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWaEpisode Sponsor: VincereVincere's TimeTemp is your complete integrated timesheet and workforce management solution, pre-built, pre-integrated, and designed so no matter how much your business grows, you'll be able to keep track of every single worker.All changes inside Vincere will sync with TimeTemp and feed back into your account, automating the entire process with two-way sync from your front to back office.Vincere's TimeTemp enables you to create shift schedules, search available workers, shortlist, and book assignments in seconds.It'll also allow you to track time, leave, and expenses with its built-in pay rule engine, DoorClock and mobile app for the on-the-go.Find out more on vincere.io/rag

On this week's show, I'm joined by an old client of mine, Matt Green. Matt is the founder and CEO of IDEX, a recruitment organisation with an employer branding arm and an advisory arm working with the insurance industry, the financial services sector, and now the legal sector.Matt founded IDEX 17 years ago and they are now fully remote with 60 people in Manchester, Birmingham, London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.What I love about this business is that over 17 years, they've managed to do things the right way. They've built organically without investment.They've invested a lot into the business without taking too much money awayThey've also built a product with a genuine USP where they go into organisations and sell retainers and employer branding packages. They can genuinely take recruiters from £200k billings whilst working with other firms to 1.5 or x2 in billing by giving them access to their services and technology.And as a result of all of this work, Matt is now on a mission to 10X the business! But there's no pressure and no timeline. Matt has a long-term view, so anyone listening to this episode, especially new founders or even people that are thinking about starting a recruitment firm will learn from this! Matt's a great person to listen to because he's quite different from a lot of recruitment business owners.He has patience, sees the long-term picture, and doesn't make rash decisions. He invests in his company and he sees it as his baby. So many people can take advice and learn from him in this episode. Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support, and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients.In less than two years, we built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion-pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,700 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we'll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: VincereVincere's portals is a quick-win solution for agencies in need of a no-code candidate and client portal. It's your one-way ticket to attracting top-tier candidates and clients with everything they need in one place.Easily set up your candidate, client, and job portal...

On this week's show, I'm joined by Adam Richardson. Adam is the founder of Strive Sales, a dedicated go-to-market recruitment agency headquartered in Manchester with an office in Tampa in the US with over 20 employees.At 33, he has loads of experience in running businesses. He got into recruitment when he was in his early twenties and, within a couple of years, he became an entrepreneur launching his first business outside of the recruitment market. Upon selling this credit finance business, he launched his first recruitment agency and later a second brand which he now focuses on fully today. Through that period, he's seen so many ups and downs, specifically in the go-to-market niche, which is predominantly recruiting salespeople into VC-backed software companies.Over 70% of all the candidates in the sales market in VC-backed companies are underperforming, which means the knock-on effect of recruitment has been astronomical. He saw over 50% of the vacancies he was working on vanish at the beginning of 2022.So as a company, they've had to evolve, they've had to adapt, they've had to become BD focused. In this episode we talk about his experience in all his different businesses, but really how using all this experience enabled him to get through such a very difficult 2022.Now, they're seeing the upside and it's starting to shift along with economic conditions.Adam is a young, super ambitious, super motivated, and knowledgeable guy!I hope you enjoy the episode as much as I did recording it.__________________________________________Hoxo MessageAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients in less than two years. We built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we'll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________RecruitHub MessageOver 70 founders have launched their businesses on RecruitHub in the UK, US, and UAEOne of them is Kyle Winterbottom, founder of Orbition Group, a niche, talent consultancy that operates exclusively in the Data, Analytics and Artificial...

Recruitment owners and leaders: struggling in today's tough market? Well I'm giving you 3 Clever ways to boost your business development using LinkedInOn this week's episode of The RAG Podcast, I wanted to release a very special episode, which is based on a webinar I recently hosted for the market, all about using LinkedIn to boost your business development.When put into action, this advice will help you:#1 - Optimise your profile and grow your LinkedIn network#2 - Get the attention of your market at scale#3 - Find daily inbound leadsThis is part of the process I teach on my Personal Brand Academy, where we're working with 4,800 recruiters globally to teach them how to win on LinkedIn. You can take the advice straight to LinkedIn, make some extra revenue, build some more client relationships, and get some more jobs!This is a 30-minute video session. You can listen to this on the podcast platforms or flip to YouTube and watch this recorded video as I use slides and I show you examples you might want to see. I hope you make the most out of this. Listen, take it, put it into practice, and go out there and win in a market that is super competitive right now.__________________________________________HoxoAre you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo. We'll give you the training, support, and resources to help you stand out from the competition and reach over 25,000 relevant people and drive daily inbound leads on Linkedin in 6 weeks - and if you don't perform, you don't pay. Now, how can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? 2 reasons:1. Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say will do for our clients in less than two years. We actually built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2. Second is our track record. Not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,700 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, follow this link: https://personalbrand.hoxomedia.com/get-in-touch__________________________________________Episode sponsor: RecruitHubOver 70 founders have launched their businesses on RecruitHub in the UK, US, and UAE.One of them was Stuart Mitchell, Founder of Hampton North in the US.With experience in both the UK and US markets, million-dollar biller Stuart Mitchell formed Hampton North to tackle the biggest problem in cyber security; the talent shortage.Before launching his own business, Stuart felt like he had run out of growth and he wanted to achieve a better work-life balance for himself and his team. For Stuart, this meant he could spend more time with his daughter.He now is on a mission to create the best cybersecurity recruiting team in the industry, with the support of Recruit Hub, The world's most powerful recruitment start-up solution.His only regret once joining Recruit Hub? Not joining...

On this week's show, I am joined by Adrian O'Connor, the founder of Global Accounting Network (GAN) Founded in 2011, GAN is a business of over 27 people headquartered in the UK with an office in Atlanta. In this episode, we talked about his journey of growth during the last 12 years, including:How he has built a remote-first culture with UK headquarters and a US based business all whilst personally living and working from Lisbon, PortugalHow he and his team have built a methodology and a process that has enabled them to have a much higher fill rate in the downturn of the economy. So as job flow has decreased, their fill rate has gone up to 78%.So if you're interested in building a remote-first company, having a US-based office, living abroad and working completely remotely, or you just want to know more about how you can have a much stronger fill rate in today's economy, this episode is for you.I hope you enjoy this episode!__________________________________________Hoxo Are you spending hours on LinkedIn and cold outreach and want more business coming to you over your competition? Well, if you're the founder or leader of a recruitment agency, here's what we can do for you at Hoxo.We will give you the training, support and resources to take you from what I call an offline recruiter, reliant on posting jobs and sending in emails to open up new customers, ultimately looking like every other recruiter on LinkedIn - to an online recruiter, being seen by over 25,000 relevant people driving a 200% minimum increase in engagement on your profile and seeing daily lead lists from LinkedIn that you can follow up with in six weeks time.And if you don't perform, you don't pay. How can we make such a bold, results-driven promise like this? Two reasons1) Whilst I've been building the RAG podcast, we've actually done what we say we'll do for our clients in less than two years. We built a business generating from zero to over 1 million views per month on LinkedIn leading to multimillion pound revenues with a sales team of me plus two people without making a single outbound call.2) Our track record - not only have we done it ourselves, but we've helped over 350 agencies and over 4,000 consultants do it as well, all in the last three years. Now, if that sounds of interest to you, make sure you fill in our contact form and we'll tell you how we can help: https://bit.ly/3jpuEWa__________________________________________Episode Sponsor: RecruitHubThinking about starting a recruitment business in the UK or US? Download your startup blueprint from RecruitHub and access key information including:- Funding – how much do you need, and what are your options- Knowing where you stand - decode your non-compete and understand your restrictions- Co-founder MUST-knows- How to automate your way to faster billings- Business plan basics – what are they, and how do you write one?- Naming & brand-building – creating a brand that stands outAnd more…Get your copy at recruit-hub.com/startup-blueprint

First broadcast on FAB RADIO INTERNATIONAL at 19:00 on August 7th 2022 These days I'm often told that, when it comes to my thoughts on things, and the emphatic stances I tend to take on events that seem not to bother other people in quite the same way, or, indeed, vice-versa, I need to loosen up a little, and learn to be a little more flexible. This seems to be especially pertinent when it comes to the small matter of the acquisition and storage of the television series which I have accumulated over the years and still want to watch, or share my insights upon. Why, I am often asked, in this era of streaming and downloading, do you still feel the need to get hard copies of all these things? Why are you so attached to the shiny disk in all its formats, and, when it comes to those boxes of old videotapes that still sit mouldering in the darkest corners of your increasingly cramped and cluttered little house, hiding behind the piles of books and CDs and magazines that also seem increasingly anachronistic to some, can you still not bring yourself to get rid of them? And, to be honest, there are a lot of people, probably a lot younger than me, and who grew up in a different era of digital accessibility, who would roll their eyes impatiently at this strange, perhaps slightly desperate, need to cling on to physical objects in order to enjoy watching certain television series of the kind I watch. And yes, whilst certain shows (because there's one born every minute), have tempted me to single, double, and even triple dip their releases through VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray and more, quite a lot of the television and films that I choose to watch in the pursuit of bringing you VISION ON SOUND each week are not widely available in any other format, and some of us are still very grateful to the companies that choose to make their products available to us in these various formats. Whilst I've not yet been persuaded of the wisdom of the resurgence of the Vinyl LP as a music-playing choice, and I have been looking at ways of retrieving data from some of my old VHS collection through digital conversion, I still get a small thrill at the announcement of a brand new blu-ray set crammed full of delightful looking VALUE ADDED MATERIAL, or even a DVD release of a series that I've never actually heard of, or which I genuinely never believed was likely to ever be seen again. So this week, I'm joined once again by PAUL CHANDLER, THE SHY YETI himself, curator of THE SHY LIFE PODCAST and we take a delightful journey through the upsides and downsides of the curious world of collecting PHYSICAL MEDIA in a digital age, a topic prompted, mostly, by PAUL extolling its virtues in response to an article in the national press which seemed to imply that this is something of an eccentric attitude for us to have. PLEASE NOTE - For Copyright reasons, musical content sometimes has to be removed for the podcast edition. All the spoken word content remains (mostly) as it was in the broadcast version. Hopefully this won't spoil your enjoyment of the show.

This week I'm talking to Drew Charles… Drew is a musician and author from Melbourne, Australia, and he's recently released a book, called After Party, which tells the story of his life-long struggles with drugs and alcohol, and his eventual path to sobriety. The whole purpose of writing After Party was to draw attention to the damaging effects drugs and alcohol can have on a range of people from all kinds of backgrounds. Drew's mission is to break the stigma of addiction and share his story in the hopes that it promotes more open discussions of the very real problems of alcohol and drug dependance, or overuse in modern societies.  This chat hit home with me - Whilst I've never had an issue with drugs, there are many parallels between Drew's story and mine... After Party on Amazon.co.uk - here Facebook - facebook.com/DrewCharlesAF Instagram - @drewcharlesaf drewcharles.net -- All episodes are now being released in 4K video exclusively on the SodsPod YouTube channel - subscribe here - youtube.com/c/TheSodsLawPodcast If you'd like to support Sod's Law you can become a Sod's Law patron at patreon.com/sodspod from as little as £1 /$1 a month - there are different tiers including ad-free episodes, giveaways and more! See podcast.co/privacy for privacy information.

Foundations of Amateur Radio When you obtain your license there's a whole lot of learning to be had before you even get started with your first transmission, but when you get there you'll discover that learning has just begun and the rest of your life will be beset with challenges, quests, discovery and dawning understanding. One of the early and recurring questions is around the best time to be on air. Before I get into the why, the answer is, right now. This interminable question will continue to haunt you throughout your life, and the most pressing answer will be shaped around the missed opportunity. You'll discover tools that assist with predicting propagation, web-sites that explain what the various layers of the ionosphere do and how they affect your ability to use radio to make contact with other amateurs. There's learned discussion around testing and tracking propagation, special modes that help create your own maps for your own station and you'll discover an endless supply of experts who will advise you when you should power up your transceiver and call CQ. Whilst I've only been an amateur for a short time. In the decade to date I've learnt one thing about propagation. Despite all the tools, the discussion, the maps and forecasts, there is no substitute for actually getting on air and making noise. Over the past while I've been watching the propagation from my own shack using a 200 milliwatt beacon and I've discovered that running 24 hours a day, every day, well, almost every day, my signal gets to places far beyond my wildest dreams. I have also discovered trends. That is, the average distance of the signal reports is increasing over time. This isn't a linear thing, not even a recurring thing, much like the ebb and flow of the tides, varying from day to day, a little bit at a time, inexorably making your shoes wet when you least expect it. While to some extent we've tamed the prediction of the tides with complex and interrelated cycles, discovered by using Fourier transforms, we're no-where near achieving this level of sophistication for the ionosphere and its associated propagation. Just like predicting a specific wave is still beyond the capabilities of a tide table, predicting the ability of a radio wave to make it from your antenna to that of another amateur is beyond any tool we have today. Another way to look at predicting the complexity associated with the ionosphere is comparing it to weather forecasting. We have national forecasting bodies, with millions of sensors, super computing cycles that dwarf most other research, a global network of satellite sensors, roughly a quarter of which have some form of earth sensing capability, transmitting terrabytes of data every day and still we cannot determine where on Earth it's going to rain tomorrow. The ionosphere, whilst it's being monitored, is not nearly as well resourced. It's not nearly as visible to the average person as the packing of an umbrella and the political perception of need is nowehere near as urgent as getting the weather right. So, absent accurate forecasting, finding a better way to determine when to get on air is required. That said, I've discovered that regret is the biggest motivator to get on air. The day after a contest when a friend made a contact with an amazing station, or the lunch break where I didn't power the radio on to discover a random opening to a clamouring horde of calls looking to make contact. So, my best advice to you is to get on air whenever you can. You might not make a contact every time, but you'll discover what the bands look like right now and you'll have the chance of hitting the jackpot with a rare contact and truth be told, I think your chances of making a contact are higher than winning the lottery. When you do take that step, you'll start discovering the ebb and flow of the bands, discover the characteristic sound that each band makes and what a band sounds like when it's open and when it's not. You'll hear stations far and wide, discover that while there are trends in propagation, there are no rules. From one moment to the next, you'll discover the thrill of hearing something unexpected. One thing to consider, if you get on air for the sole purpose to make contacts, you're likely going to be disappointed. It's like fishing. Most people don't get up at some crazy hour, sit on a damp jetty, freezing parts of their anatomy off for the sole purpose of catching fish. So, get on air and make some noise, today. I'm Onno VK6FLAB

We're on a mission to help one million people RISE by 2030 - join the movement at www.myrise.co.uk As I was arriving at the club the other day (check post, run the taps through for Legionnaire's and, I'll admit, have a workout while I'm there) coach Jen was just leaving. So we had a quick chat as she left (don't worry – from a few meters apart). She was telling me some people had expressed surprise that she was still working. That we're delivering a full timetable of sessions as we always have. Just online. “You're so lucky” she said some people had said. Which is nice to hear. We must be doing something alright if full delivery of service (and more) isn't what people are seeing elsewhere and expecting. I'll be honest, the last year hasn't been easy. Whilst I've been really pleased with how it's gone compared to the industry as a whole, we have had less members than in a ‘normal' year. And, as we keep our budget fairly lean anyway, a few savings here and there and a bit of government support has helped………… But there is a hole in the budget that needs filling. Which is fine. I know it'll get filled. I know we'll get back to where we need to be long term and it'll average out over time. Many experts in the fitness industry are predicting that “the floodgates are going to open” for us later this year. Vaccinations will be high, cases low, confidence up. And many people won't be happy with what's happened to their weight, energy levels and mental health and be wanting to do something about that. And I know that behind our floodgates is more than most's. Whilst many in the fitness industry have been “waiting for this to be over”………. Or hoping “next year is better”………. We've not been relying on hope. We've been putting the ground work in. Maintaining contact with people. Offering support where we can. Putting out blogs, videos, podcasts and more as we always have. Spending more on marketing, not less. For two reasons: 1. We want to help people and we know there are a lot of people who will benefit from our help. Some right now. Some in the future. 2. Prepping for the future. We have bills to pay and kids to feed. 1 and 2 aren't mutually exclusive and most of the industry will pretend they just do it because they love it, yet still charge. Because we know that when things are a bit more “back to normal” what happens then won't be a result of what we do then…………. It'll be a result of what we've done over the preceding year and a half or so. Because our results are never the product of ‘what we're doing now'. They are the product of ‘what we've done'. Our body shape, energy levels, etc aren't a result of the way we're eating and exercising right now………. They're the result of what we've done in recent months and years. “You are what you ate” they say. It's lead indicators vs. lag indicators. And we humans are very good at focussing on the lag indicators. The stuff that comes after an amount of time. The increasing energy, mood, endurance, health, fitness, recovery and / or strength. The decreasing weight, aches and pains and more. And getting discouraged. Sometimes it feels like we're not getting the results we feel we deserve. But it just takes time. If you're not sure if you're doing the “right thing”, check with us? If you are, just keep doing it. The results will come. You will become what you ate. People will say you're “lucky”. Your floodgates will open

The Joy of Ownership I remember owning my first car. I felt liberated and rich! The world was mine and I had freedom of movement. Whilst I've never owned a house, I can put myself in the shoes of those who have and can imagine just how secure and strong and safe it must feel. There is joy in ownership. Not all ownership is equal! On my workshops I often set myself up to be at fault about something innocuous, just to make a point. When the trap has been laid, I ask the participants, “Who is to blame?” “It's YOU, Lex!” they say, laughing. I agree with them and then I invite them to point at the person who is to blame and say it again! As they are pointing at me, I ask them to hold their hands in the index-finger-pointing position. You might like to have a go at that now. The ‘reveal' is to ask them to count the number of fingers pointing back at them from their own hand. This usually causes a joyous response around the room as the participants realise they've been set up for an “Aha!” moment. I love owning stuff – most of the time – but rarely enjoy ‘owning' problems. When we point the finger at others – something I'm really good at – we fail to own our own opportunity to be a part of the solution. The simple exercise of noticing that three fingers on our own hand point back at us when we point our index finger at others may be enough to bring about a shift in our thinking. One pointing out, three pointing back; 25% outside, 75% under our own control. That litter on the pavement is an issue I can point to and say, “Tut! Tut! People should know better!” It can also become an opportunity where I pick it up even if I do agree that, “People should know better!” When I remember this illustration, it encourages me to repeat a phrase I learned in training, “I OWN the problem.” When I do this, I discover that there is usually some small step I can take to improve the situation. Yesterday, I was listening to a world expert on the topic of motivation. He was ranting and raving about poor customer service, and I found myself not only agreeing with him but also thinking, “I bet I sound like that!” It wasn't a very beautiful sound! He was right but the moaning and complaining pulled my energy down. I would like to moan less and own more – in the sense of taking more responsibility for making a difference. “I own the problem,” is a powerful mantra, and ‘mantra' comes from Sanskrit, literally meaning the thought behind speech or action. “I own the problem!” Perhaps you'd like to chant that with me now. [Joe Polish story] “I own the problem!” If you ‘own' the problem, you ‘own' the solution as well! If you ‘own' the problem, you ‘own' the opportunity to change your history! When we cease to blame others, and focus on what part we can play, it's like owning that first car. There's a sense of liberation and wealth, of potency and potential. Let's, perhaps just for today, put the key in the ignition of decision and drive our minds to somewhere better where we own the problem AND the opportunity. [Image credit: Charles Deluvio on Unsplash]

This episode is a bit of a catch up on some of the things myself and my clients are working through given the COVID pandemic has caused us to postpone and cancel plans. Whilst I've tried my best to guide bands through this time and still help them be productive, it's ok to feel like sh*t from time to time! Get my free Spotify Playlists Cheatsheet - www.monicastrut.com/spotify For more tips, come connect with me on Instagram – @monicastrut Check out my free Facebook Group Music Marketing & Mindset for Heavy Bands/Musicians If your band wants to work with me on your next release, hit me up via email too or Instagram - @monicastrut.

Sean answers your Marvel questions!3:05 Jim ScroggsDo you know if AMC A List reservations are counted toward pre-sale ticket numbers?3:56 Jim ScroggsWith Rhodes in the Air Force and considering his age, is it possible that he and Carol might have crossed paths?4:48 Jim ScroggsDo you see Marvel adding a character with Marines and/or Naval background to complete the service academy representation5:26 Paul ShearmanHey Sean and patrons, happy Captain Marvel weekend!! I've been MIA recently from these Q&A's, but I've been listening in and enjoying the conversations (and Sean's answers of course!) here and on the Discord. Whilst I've not been joining in much lately, this great community has kept me going over some difficult recent weeks, so a big thank you to you all!So, Captain Marvel huh...?  Wow, I just love this film so much - I've seen it twice in 24 hours thanks to some careful scheduling and it's just perfect. Brie Larson is just exceptional as Carol Danvers, I feel she embodies the character from the comics so well, whilst bringing her own qualities to the role.From the Stan Lee tribute at the start (very emotional and wonderfully inventive) this movie never missed a beat throughout.Whilst I know it's still very early to be making lots of judgements on various aspects of the movie, I'm keen to know if there was any stand out scene for you Sean, that you either never saw coming or was just a particular highlight?Thanks as always for your time, and hope everyone gets to go higher further faster with this awesome movie!13:27 brentacPrimeCaptain Marvel spoiler question. What was the biggest surprise for you?15:18 Robert KlauserWhat's up Sean? Do you think that there's a setup for Carol similar to Scarlett Witch? We see that Mar Vel was in possession of the tesseract and I believe she used that to make her FTL ship and that's where Carol got her powers from when she shot that energy core. So the setup would be that Carol Danvers can somehow destroy the space stone because her powers might have the same signature as the space stone. Do you think that this is theory is something they could allude to in Endgame or is this more of a “been there don't that” with Wanda and the Mind Stone?18:31 Matt OswaldWe know that SHIELD was in possession of the Tesseract after Howard Stark recovered it, and Loki stole it from a Project Pegasus facility in the Avengers. It is obvious that Fury did not know the real Identity of Lawson even though he at least knew of the existence of Pegasus. Do you think any of the top brass at SHIELD knew her real identity?19:46 Matt OswaldOne of the things that has bothered me a little about Captain Marvel is the apparent lack of security around the Tesseract at Project Pegasus. We know at the start of the Avengers that there are SHIELD agents like Hawkeye assigned to guard the Tesseract. Apparently during the 90's security was a little more lax around the project since Lawson was able to take the tesseract out of the facility, and to her Kree space ship/lab. It seems like somone should have noticed that the Tesseract was missing from the facility. One might be able to reason that after the crash, it was believed that the Tesseract was destroyed in the crash. But we don't see any evidence in the film that before the crash anyone even noticed it was gone. Am I reading too much into this?22:51 Mookie JohnsonDo you feel the way that Captain Marvel ended reduces the chances the secret invasion is a pursued storyline?25:13 Woo S! KimWho between these two characters Agent Peggy Carter and Agent Phil Coulson are you more surprised by their popularity and how they are really embedded in the MCU and why?  My vote is for Phil Coulson do you have any other characters like Coulson or Peggy Carter that when they originally appeared in the MCU you are surprised how narratively and how long they have managed to stay integral parts of the MCU and or fan favourites? 28:42 Woo S! KimI am not stating this character is needed in the X-Men/Avengers going forward Sean,  but what do you think the chances because the heroes will be messing with time in “Avengers: End Game” of Aaron Taylor Johnson's QuickSilver to return after the events of “Avengers: End Game?”  Should he brought back or would you rather keep that character dead?29:56 Woo S! KimSean, let's say for argument sake that “Spider-Man: Far From Home” moved to February 2020 “Avengers: End Game” moved to Christmas 2019 and Star Wars: Episode IX took the late April 2019 spot would Box Office numbers change at all, if this were done why or why not?31:05 Mookie JohnsonDo you think Captain Marvel 2 has room for Ms Marvel and Photon to join in?32:48 Mookie JohnsonI love how Captain Marvel's movie was also is some way a Nick Fury/Modern  Day Shield/Avengers initiative story also. Could you share some of your thoughts on that idea?35:53 AlexDo you think the Fox deal that will grant Marvel access to so many more  characters could lessen Marvel's willingness to cooperate with Sony past Far From Home especially if Sony starts mandating that they start integrating SMCU characters like Venom and Morbius? 37:25 David RosenHey Sean, I know you were really looking forward to seeing how they treated the Kree Supreme Intelligence. Even though we didn't get the giant floating head, are you satisfied with what we did get?39:50 Tom DeMicheleSince all of SHIELD's information was leaked in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, does the world know about Captain Marvel? Fury may not have divulged what happened in the film's final act, but there were plenty of other witnesses early on.By the way, this is an exciting time for the Discord, and I encourage all Patrons to join the fun conversation over there with us!43:01 Robert KlauserNot a serious question or anything like that. But, can't we let Thor and the Asgardians off of the hook for the Phase 2 weapons? It seems Fury knew we were “hopelessly and hilariously outgunned” since 1995.44:35 Xavier ArquerosI liked the movie, not as much as I hoped (which was a lot), but it's good. I have a lot of questions, but the only one that concerns me is when will the sequel take place, because it's seems that Yon-Rogg and Ronan have an agenda against Carol but I'm not the biggest fan on an other MCU movie set in the past, I hope Captain Marvel 2 is set post-Endgame. What do you think Sean? I would watch it nevertheless, but you know, Let's move forward. Cheers!48:40 AlexSean, I know that you had Bill Hader as one of your top castings for Reed Richards but I unfortunately I just don't see it. He looks the part sure, but nothing I've seen of Bill Hader so far has left me with the impression he'd make a good Reed. He just strikes me as too comedic an actor to play a serious role like Reed Richards who isn't normally intentionally funny so may I ask what movies or shows that you've seen Mr. Hader in that makes you think he'd be a fit for the role?49:42 Hector Giovanni NavarreteHey Sean! I enjoyed CM! Thought it was great!I have a couple of questions about Goose the cat. I know they probably aren't big deals in the grand scheme of things in the MCU but they are questions I came up with nonetheless lol.So we first see Goose at the Pegasus facility and it seems like she/he knows Carol cause it walks up to her first as if recognizing Carol. So do you think it used to be Carol's pet and if so how did Carol come to have an alien as a pet? Or do you believe it was Mar-Vell's pet since she was Kree so most likely Mar-Vell would've potentially brought an alien pet from space ?So at the end of CM, Fury seems to keep Goose, so where has Goose been all this time in the present day MCU? Still with Fury?52:06 Alex WardHey Sean! First of all, thank you for doing these q and A's. They've answered so many lingering questions about the MCU for me and deepened my interest in Marvel to an insane degree. That being said, you might remember my question a while ago about what the Avengers are "avenging." You had an awesome answer, but thanks to that little discussion, the final scene in Captain Marvel impacted me on a much deeper level; it gave me goosebumps just as I'm sure it did a lot of fans. My question is, if Fury came up with the Avengers Initiative in 1995, did it really take him over ten years to find his first Avenger? Do you think there were any hiccups before Iron Man, perhaps that we'll see filled in in the Black Widow movie or something? Thanks Sean!55:09 Alex WardHow did you feel about the way the Skrulls were handled? I know the Skrulls and the Kree can be good and bad in the comics, but I love this new dynamic.55:46 Alex WardOne non Captain Marvel question--how would you age the new generation of the MCU? For example, should the FF skew younger like the Ultimate comics so they can stick around longer, or should they be older? Also, how old is too old for Reed? He's gotta hang on to those greying temples; it'd be blasphemy if he'd ever go full silver fox like how Mark Ruffalo seems to be heading.58:07 Alex WardI know folks have been throwing around the idea of the FF being a period piece, but what do you think about the idea of the FF being from the modern era, but accidentally getting stuck in the 60s and getting famous there (maybe by introducing "advanced" modern technology), before traveling back to modern day?59:40 Michael Louis WeaselboyHey Sean how was your week?? Anyways I saw Captain Marvel of course, opening night I loved it. You were right that really is the best crowd to watch an MCU film, I saw it in the big IMAX theater in Tempe, Arizona and that crowd was so ecstatic, I can't wait to watch Endgame there next month, the crowd went crazy during the Marvel Studios logo at the beginning and a loud clap when it said "Thank you Stan". Anyways my question is when do you think a sequel will be set?? Could it be with the 23 years she was off earth? or should it be set after in the post endgame MCU?? Who do you think could be the villain? Thoughts??1:02:46 Mookie JohnsonDo you have a Captain Marvel costume preference between the red/blue towards the end of the movie and the post-credit outfit? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a 3 hour workshop on Botanical Illustration with the Yurt Academy. Honestly I was a bit nervous before I went, partly because I've never attempted a formal illustration class, though I've done a fair amount of life drawing. Also, botanical illustration is no joke! If you can picture a traditional botanical illustration, you know it's super detailed, highly realistic in most cases, and very delicate almost painstaking work. Whilst I've always been a fan of detailed work, I'm not exactly the most patient when it comes to art - so never really got far with more detailed, delicate stuff. So with my insecurities aside, I went along anyway. Another thing that added to my nerves was our teacher, or Yurt Keeper - Cherry Denman, who is a proper real-life, full-time illustrator - who's published books and worked on a book for one of my favourite TV shows, Q.I. The idea of embarrassing myself in front of her wasn't too appealing, but fortunately for me she was a lovely woman with a great sense of humour, super encouraging to all of us, and a damn good teacher in my opinion. We started the class with some simple (in theory) drawing exercises. The idea here was to show us the importance of looking. Trying to draw a bicycle from memory will do that for you. Then we practised our pencil control - drawing cones, spheres, tubes, practising pencil pressure and shading - the lot. It reminded me that no matter how long we've been drawing for, there's nothing like going back to the basics and getting warmed up again for taking your work to the next level. OK so then we got onto our 'work of art'... I selected a nice leaf, the name of which I've of course forgotten... it looked a bit like a fig leaf (to me) - anyway, if you can identify it - please let me know! We started by drawing, which was my favourite part. Actually painting it was another matter, but I was pleasantly surprised by the end result. Cherry came around to each of us regularly to give us pointers and encouragement. The whole group seemed to be enjoying it, but I might have been projecting my own enjoyment onto the room - I had that much to go around. I mean, when do we ever get a chance to sit down and really draw, or paint? Unless it's your job, but even then - you're making art on behalf of someone else. There's a point to it. This felt much more like art for art's sake. Like what ladies of leisure would do in Victorian times. It was also nice to do it with others - to laugh about our mistakes and egg each other on. If you can't tell, I had a very nice time. I definitely wasn't in my comfort zone to begin with, but by the end I had decided that I was going to take on Botanical Illustration as my next hobby... not that I need another one, but hey - it's good to have back up plans. Fun rating: 9/10 The perfect balance of challenge, pleasure and reward. I would highly recommend going to a similar art class if you have any local options, or even checking out some of the workshops offered by the Yurt Academy if you're in the UK. Oh and if any of you are botanical illustrators, get in touch and send me a link to your work! I'd love to learn more about this beautiful art form.