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Paul Sutton on Digital Downloads and Mental Illness Advocacy

This week, I sit down with Paul Sutton, host of the Digital Download Podcast, a show about digital communications strategy, social media marketing, and the internet.

Each week, Paul discusses a specific area of digital media with an expert in their field.

Paul is also a vocal advocate of mental health awareness in the communications industry, and uses his own personal battle with mental illness to continue the discussion around this important topic.

I don’t get people on; I address topics.

Paul...

Some Quick Updates on the Show and Our Community

Hi, and welcome to this bonus episodeof Podcaster Stories. Normal service will be resumed next week (always wanted to say that!), but in the meantime I just wanted to share some quick updates around the show.

A new Facebook group for the showA fun review challenge that I’m taking part inRequesting feedback around a membership option I’m working on

As always, thanks so much for listening to the show, and sending me emails with feedback on episodes, or just to say hi – I always like receiving...

Some Quick Updates, and A New Community Group!

Normal service will be resumed next week (always wanted to say that!), but in the meantime I just wanted to share some quick updates around the show, including a new Facebook group and a fun review challenge!

John Adams on Changing the Conversation Around Dads in the Media

This week, I sit down with John Adams, host of DadPodUK, a fatherhood and family life podcast that shares the different, unique experiences of fatherhood.

John’s podcast comes from being a stay-at-home dad for 10 years, and the conversations he’s had with other dads around the various challenges they face as dads in an increasingly changing world.

Topics up for discussion this week include:

how lockdown encouraged him to start the showthe most emotionally-charged interview he’s done to datew...

Has Covid Finished Off the Commute to Work?

As someone who’s worked remotely for a good chunk of my professional life, I’ve always been dubious about the need for companies to require downtown office spaces.

Yes, the social aspect of being around your colleagues can be hugely beneficial, both in a professional mindset and a mental health one – but apart from that, do we really need to be in a confined space together to do our best work?

My belief is no.

As I mentioned at the start, a good chunk of my working life (at least si...

Episode 9: The Fallacy of Big Meaning Success

Often in life, we’re told big equals successful. Bigger houses, bigger bank accounts, bigger pay checks.

Yet is this true? Does big really mean success? Or is success defined by how you’re truly seen, versus how you feel you should be seen?

This week’s episode. Slaintevar.

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The End of a Blog? Not Quite – But All Change at DannyBrown.me

I’ve been writing on this blog since the end of September 2008. That’s just over 10 years here, give or take a month or two.

In that time, I’ve published almost 1,400 posts, originally starting out writing about marketing, PR, social media, and all the other stuff that came with it at that time.

But I got bored with that, and started writing more personal stuff – questioning life, our place in the world, and what it meant to be a good person.

It made me rediscover my love for blogging, as I...

On Making the Right Decision

In life and in business, we often ask – and are asked by others – the question,

How do you make the right decision?”

For me, it comes down to one thing: Will your family be proud?

No matter what you do during the day to make things happen, there is one simple fact:

If you can go home to your wife/husband and children and look them in the eye, and say, “I did the right thing today”…

This can also be translated to self, and the reflection looking you in the mirror at the end of every day.

It ca...

It’s Up To Us To Make The World Better

This morning, as I was getting the kids ready for school, my eight year old son Ewan couldn’t find his gloves (we think he left them in mom’s car, and she had left for work).

So, he dug into the hat and gloves pile and found his mom’s winter gloves. “I’ll wear these pink ones,” he declared.

“What if your friends make fun of you?” I asked him, remembering how his friends had ridiculed him earlier this year for wearing a raincoat that ‘wasn’t a boy’s colour’.

“I don’t care,” was Ewan’s respons...

On Being a While Since the Last Update, and Beers That Go With Marketing!

So I realized last night, as I was looking at some updates on here, that I hadn’t posted any content for more than six weeks. That’s a lifetime! Or at least, it used to be…

It’s not that I’ve run out of things to say, or lost interest in blogging/podcasting. Far from it.

I’ve just been busy in all areas of my life – work, personal, some little creative stuff I’ve been tinkering with, and such as. And that’s pretty much kept me away from this blog.

Sure, I could have just reposted stuff I’ve d...