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Finding Your Tribe with Uncool Designer, Anna Dower

Martin Franklin — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:43:05 +0000

Finding her tribe with her Uncool Designer podcast, designer boss lady Anna Dower has created an international community hub for freelance designers.

We talk about the start of her journey, from producing information resources for her clients as a freelancer. Leading to one-to-one coaching and then supporting larger numbers of people through online courses and Facebook community groups.

With her focus on using “ten years worth of mistakes” to help her fellow graphic designers succeed in their own business. She has established a formula of priceless advice that is easily portable across many freelance work sectors.

Working The Crowd, Funding and Process with Kirby Ferguson

Martin Franklin — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 00:38:21 +0000

How to stay on track when your supporters tell you you’ve “got your thumb up your ass”. The crowd is not easy to please, but neither is it easy to research and create an innovative documentary series! Kirby Ferguson is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, and speaker whose work covers creative works and popular culture; particularly remix culture. He is best known for his documentary series Everything is a Remix and This is Not a Conspiracy Theory.

Joining MetaPod host, Martin Franklin for a conversation in late February 2020, Kirby talks about his three crowd-funded projects using Kickstarter and Patreon and how he kept his supporters onboard for the production process.

The first episode of his series took 2 years to arrive, so some of the Kickstarter funders became “unhappy campers”. In the extreme they accused him of fraud which understandably didn’t help motivation and focus to deliver a major project.

Nevertherless, Kirby’s work has been released and received with great acclaim. His ability to track social and conceptual phenomena has created not one but two engaging and enlightening film series that sit somewhere beyond documentary into cultural meditations on the places we find ourselves in.

Embrace The Remix

Kirby Ferguson speaking at TED XOXO 2015
https://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix

Take Control of Your Speech… And Your Podcast Interview

Martin Franklin — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 23:36:59 +0000

Learn how to eliminate the ums and ahs ! It is surprising how much sound that comes out of our mouths is not helpful to effective communication. Sometimes vocal sounds are there to indicate it is our turn to talk, to create a space where our brain can formulate what it actually wants to say, or are just habits. Effective speaking is a skill, so in order to develop the skills, practice is unavoidable for most people.

If you are a podcast host who conducts interviews, we’ve compiled a few learning notes to help you build your verbal Kung Fu skills.