Greater Than 11%

For episode 97 we are joined by Claire Blyth, founder and managing partner of Red Setter -  a specialist PR agency for design consultancies and corporate design teams. Claire is also the co-founder of The Design Community Hub - a digital platform… for professionals across the design world to give their time, knowledge and expertise to support the next generation of designers. Claire shares how poor career guidance at school lead her to study science, but on graduating a chance meeting in a pub set her off on the design path and she hasn't looked back. She also discusses as design touches every part of our lives the importance of ensuring diversity is embedded in who gets the opportunities to contribute and the process, to avoid a world designed to work for one type of person. Claire is generous and open with her experiences and shares her mission to chip away at the things she can change - she is in it for the long game. If you are considering a career in design, do reach out to her brilliant initiative - The Design Community Hub to find support, guidance and community. A joyous and reflective episode. Enjoy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11

For episode 96 we are joined by Katherine Maskell, Head of Sales at Blink - a British production company producing everything from commercials to long-form entertainment. Katherine details what the Head of Sales role entails at Blink -  it is definitely not what you are thinking. Moreover, it is about representation. In a nutshell, it is about knowing the talent and capabilities of the directors Blink represents and making connections with different agencies, writers and producers to bring them together for new commercials or music videos etc. She also shares how her various roles from account director to recruitment consultant unseemingly connected on the surface prepared her for this very role which she is very passionate about. She talks about the importance of culture in the workplace and trusting yourself when it doesn't feel right to make a change. A fab episode with some beautiful reflections. Enjoy. ---------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11

For episode 95 we are joined by Ellie Hale, Managing Director at The Agency Collective - an organisation focused on helping agencies be better through their core values and their members' collective action and connection. Ellie originally completed a Batchelor of Laws but straight out of her degree she pursued acting, something that is still her passion and love. She discusses she didn't necessarily have a plan in terms of her 'career,' but as someone who is creative and interested in people, she fitted naturally into business development and managerial roles. In 2019 Ellie joined The Agency Collective, firstly as their Chief Community Officer but took up the Managing Director role - soon after. She also founded Mindfulworks in 2018 after she lost a close friend to suicide. Mindfulworks supports companies and individuals with Mental Health First Aid Training. It teaches how to spot triggers and changes in behaviours, and to have the confidence to start some meaningful conversations with colleagues and friends. Ellie has the most soothing of voices - we could listen to her all day. She is also super passionate about diversity and change within the media and comms industry and is proactively contributing to social equity in the sector both in her role and through The Agency Collective. --------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11

Siân Blackman is Account Director at The Diversity Standards Collective (The DSC), an organisation which offers brands and agencies the opportunity to get behind the data - and closer to diverse views and opinions from across the globe -  to drive better representation - into communications. She shares her journey from studying English Literature and how with hindsight, she can see her thinking around representation was forming through her final dissertation without her being necessarily aware of it at the time. Siân talks about her creative journey, working firstly at Creative Brief for over five years before joining The DSC and how she has learnt to manage her anxiety when it appears (she even gives a few tips). She also discusses the incredible work that The DSC is doing, with big and small brands to ensure there is a greater representation of lived experience at the point of conception of a campaign / advert. Not sure what an account director or account manager does? Heard of Client Services but are still unclear about what their responsibilities are? Siân does a great job of explaining the roles and functions of an Accounts team. Such a fabulous discussion with a truly kind and generous being - a treat to listen to. Enjoy. --------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11

For episode 93 we are joined by the co-founders of Good Shout - Amy Kean & Nicola Kemp. Amy Kean is a creative sociologist, advertising strategist, poet and author and Nicola Kemp - a journalist, editor and event host recently brought their incredible talents together to create training products that facilitate social learning practices -  to help people experiment with their own voice, talent and thinking - and they named the company - Good Shout. In this episode, they share why they started Good Shout and the importance of embracing your weird and accepting we are all experiments. It was such a great discussion and it could have gone on and on, as these two women are as much fun as they are intelligent.  ---------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven  🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven  

For episode 92 we are joined by Vick Bain who has worked in the music industry for 25+ years and recently has set up her own company VBain Consultancy. She shares her creative journey - the first in her family to enter higher education becoming a musician (another first in her family) and then moving into the management and business side of the industry rising to CEO of The Ivors Academy (formerly the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors). When starting her own business in 2019 to focus on campaigning, researching and training on all aspects of diversity in the music & creative industries she focused on a project she had wanted to tackle for some time - analysing the gender of who was on the rosters of over 300 UK record labels and publishing companies. Her findings were published in the report ‘Counting the Music Industry’ and demonstrated, with data how few women are supported financially by the music industry in comparison to men. This research evolved into the F-List - something that set the UK music industry alight in 2020 (listen to find out more). Vick is an empathetic, generous campaigner and leader and it was an honour to discuss her career and be in awe of how her persistence has brought about change (and continues to do so). Enjoy ---------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven  🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven  

For episode 91 we are joined by Creative Producer and founder of:  I LIKE NETWORKING -  Isabel Sachs. Isabel shares her journey to discovering a creative life as a result of studying International Relations degree in her native Brazil. Not enjoying the course, she found solace in getting involved - at first running on film sets for friends and slowly she got more involved in all things creative. She decided to channel her energy into founding her own company. A brilliant choice as it evolved into an award-winning cultural agency, which she grew into a huge success with it producing 50+ events a year - including tours, managing artists and a theatre company, but in 2015 she decided to sell the business and move to London. In the UK she worked for a number of companies in her capacity as a creative producer within the arts, cultural and entertainment sectors but when the Covid pandemic hit in 2020 she was made redundant. It is from this I LIKE NETWORKING was born. To date I LIKE NETWORKING has established: a mentoring scheme… and there have been 150+ mentees that have received support. There is an online community of approximately 30,000 people actively engaging with the platform There has been a podcast series And there have been a number of events! Isabel shares her journey, the importance of networking - it not being cringe as portrayed in movies - and her ambitions for a more equal and diverse cultural industries. Enjoy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven  🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven  

For episode 90 we are joined by Amy Smith - Head of Talent for the Oscar-winning, world-renowned animation and visual effects creative studio - Framestore. Amy is uber passionate and committed to creating a more socially equitable global visual effects (VFX) industry. She shares all the initiatives she and her industry colleagues have been rolling out over the past decade to ensure they are playing the long game when it comes to diversity and inclusion in their sector. This includes; visiting primary schools, apprentice and intern schemes and getting involved in political campaigning for better creative education! SHE IS AMAZING! Amy breaks down in eloquent detail all the touchpoints and roles involved in creating a film with heavy VFX . She also covers the different processes and the types of people who work on an advert compared to a movie. She also shares how being made redundant from a dream job a few years back was devastating and took a lot of focused effort to both, find another role and manage her wellbeing. She reflects that experience has made her a more empathetic recruiter and Head of Talent. Amy's enthusiasm and drive are infectious! This is a fabulous listen to! Enjoy!  -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven  🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven  

For episode 89 we are joined by producer and founder and host of Poducate, Anthea Agyekum. 💎 Still considered 'early career', Anthea shares the uncertainty and challenges of trying to find what creative career was the right fit for her, whilst trying to get her foot in the door of the advertising industry. Anthea is open, honest and direct in discussing what it meant to decide not to go to university and when asked about her successes, such as her work with D&AD and GAUP Magazine, she pointed out - 'there were probably as many 'f-ups' along the way too' and highlighted 'those are part of the journey and the reality of establishing a career.' She shares her very personal experience of facing redundancy during the Covid pandemic in 2020 coinciding with the murder of George Floyd in America. At the time, the CEO of the agency, which was about to terminate her contract, sent an email to all staff in response to Floyd’s death and the systemic racism embedded in western culture, detailing 'that their company too needed to take action.' Anthea emailed the CEO directly to introduce herself, share her skills and contribution to the company - and started a conversation. Anthea has gorgeous energy, is extremely talented and tenacious and shared so much in this diamond episode. 💎 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven  🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven  

We are back for Series 3 and are delighted to welcome both Samantha Hornsby and Mae Yip as our first guests after quite a lengthy hiatus. Sam & Mae are both the co-founders of Eric - whose offering has evolved over the past few years but is currently taking shape in app form. The Eric app (download here: IOS or Android)  is a hot house of hot house of all the best career advice. Beneficial to all, but with a prime focus on providing 16-25 year olds with little to no experience and with career advice and guidance. It is awesome! In this episode they share how they were originally guided away from creative careers, but found themselves distracted in the roles they took on early in their careers so decided to ditch them, join forces and found their own company - LY London and eventually launching Eric. There is a lot of laughter, a lot of candid honesty and they share their thinking on the next move for Eric (which could involve Beyonce 🤞). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven  🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven  

For episode 87 we are joined by the gorgeous Shanice Mears, Head of Talent & Co-founder of creative agency, The Elephant Room. Shannie shares her passion for fostering community and supporting others - being a bridge between talent and opportunity. She goes back to her creative roots and discusses her love of dance and how she shaped her talent and skills to work within advertising. Ambitious and wanting to connect with like-minded people she founded 'Girls Let's Talk' before she relocated from Birmingham to London and how her love for music led her to be a Community Manager for the London Chapter of shesaid.so - a brilliant organisation, which brings together a global community of women and gender minorities in the music industry. In 2017 she co-founded The Elephant Room with Dan Saxaby and they have just received the news that they have made the shortlist for The Drum Awards for Best Independent Agency of the Year and Best Approach to Diversity and Inclusion. Huge congratulations. 🎉 🎉 🎉 Shannie is bloody incredible (you'll hear Renee fangirling) - her focus on nurturing, supporting talent and literally building a more diverse creative industries, makes her legendary in our book. 🧡 You can connect and get in contact with Shannie: shannie.mears@theelephantroom.net You can find out more about Creative Storytellers and how to get involved here: theelephantroom.net/case-study/creative-storytellers Check out Girls Let's Talk via Instagram: @girlsletstalk__ and click here for shesaid.so. Please note this is our final episode for Series 2. We are currently looking for sponsorship to continue with Series 3 - sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date on our future plans. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372  Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven

For episode 86, we aren't featuring a panel discussion as Crystal is on holiday but rather the amazing Chief Operations Officer and co-founder of market research agency Imagen, Cat Agostinho. When I say 'amazing' I mean it! I think Cat is one of the loveliest people - EVER. Keep an ear out for how many times I say 'awesome' & 'amazing' -think it is fair to say I went a bit fangirl!!! Not only is Cat highly talented with a stellar CV, she is also the co-founder of dawn network and founder of her own Media & Marketing business - Agostinho Consultancy. She discusses some real challenges she has faced in her career and shares what she did to overcome them. She also talks with passion about her businesses, supporting others and the importance of walking (and looking up) when thinking. You can connect with Cat via LinkedIn, find more about Imagen and how to get involved and how to attend a dawn network event. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372  Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven

Occupational Therapist, artist and 1/3 of the electro-punk band, Charismatic Megafauna - this episode we are joined by the fabulous Georgia Twigg. Georgia discusses the benefits of working across different industries (acknowledging it can also be exhausting), a DIY approach to whatever they focus on and applying 'doing, being, becoming' to areas of their life that pushes them outside their comfort zone. A great example - deciding to learn the drums whilst performing to audiences. 😳 They also share combing their skills as an artist with their knowledge of physical and mental well-being to form a workshop focusing on staying positive and engaged in the face of disagreement. You can listen to a version of the workshop commissioned by ‘Keep it Complex’ titled: ’How to talk to people you disagree with.’ and also purchase an accompanying zine here: https://makeitclear.eu/posts/how-to-talk-to-people-you-disagree-with/ It is super practical and provides a lot of useful information on managing your own health and wellbeing in confronting situations - such as campaigning or protesting (or at Christmas family dinners!). You can also listen and purchase Charismatic Megafauna's music here: https://charismaticmegafaunamusic.bandcamp.com/album/semi-regular Georgia is open about their experiences and delivers so much wisdom about self-journey, creative expression and social justice - some real gems to mull over. 💎 A big thank you to all of Charismatic Megafauna of allowing us to use their music on this episode. 🧡 ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372  Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven

On this month's Greater Than 11% Panel while Renee is busy raising awareness for our 20k for 20k campaign, Crystal is joined by Emma Sexton, CEO and Founder of creative agency MYWW, former presenter of Badass Woman's Hour and all-round trailblazer.  Emma's agency MYWW is a remote-first agency and she's been leading creative teams remotely long before Covid hit. They discuss the power of vulnerability in building strong teams, challenging conventional wisdom about creativity and the creative industry's response to Black Lives Matter.  READ: MYWW: Tips for leading teams remotely https://www.myww.co.uk/how-to-nail-remote-working/ Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday: https://www.waterstones.com/book/ego-is-the-enemy/ryan-holiday/9781781257029 Remote: Office Not Required by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried: https://www.waterstones.com/book/remote/david-heinemeier-hansson/jason-fried/9780091954673 The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-4-hour-work-week/timothy-ferriss/9780091929114 ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372  Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven

Welcome to this special episode of Greater than 11%. We are celebrating and shouting out to all those that have donated to our £20k for 20k fundraising campaign. The Greater than 11% podcast will reach 20,000 downloads by the end of August. We are super proud of this figure and thank all of our wonderful contributors and for listeners helping us reach this milestone. The podcast is a self-funded initiative and we set off to fundraise - on the premise coined by co-host Crystal Eisinger - if we had a £1 for every download we would be able to raise £20,000. Ambitious yes but we wanted to give it a shot and with the funds, award financial assistance to fellow creatives that are struggling fiscally, emotionally and mentally as a result of the pandemic and its impact. Who are we talking about: Artists,  Musicians, Those that work as cast & crew in the Film+TV and Theatre Industries Creative educators outside the schooling system Creative Producers Creatives Craft makers And so many more people and jobs that have been affected. If you are a regular listener or this is your first time to Greater than 11% you can find details on how to donate here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/greater-than-11---20k-for-20k  A huge thank you and shout out to those who have donated to date:  Pascalle Burton Lucy Ferguson Beth Foster Nicola Rix Mari Continenza Ally Waring Simon White Craig Fenton Nicola Kemp Jen Clark Amarat Sehgal Jay Richards Rina Atenza Joe Hill Lisa Goff Lucie Gledhill Hilary Joiner Still Epsilon Beck Gooby Tessa Atkins Marilyn Ford Chantell Glenville We have also had a number of anonymous donations so thank you to those secret squirrels! 🐿 

For episode 82, we are joined by film and television royalty, Script Supervisor, Emma Thomas. Her contribution to the industry has not gone unnoticed and in 2019 she received a BAFTA Craft Award  - for her talents. Emma’s career, started as a clerk-typist, at Elstree Studio where she was responsible for answering the fan mail for her boss - Kermit the Frog. Amazing! 🐸 She has gone on to work on 50+ production - features and series. She explains in detail all that a script supervisor does and the importance of training the next generation. Emma is incredibly positive - I tried to get some industry gossip but she was so lovely about everyone. Enjoy. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ ---- We are fundraising at present to support creatives that are struggling as a result of lack of income as a result of Covid19. If you've enjoyed listening to Greater than 11% and  are in a position where you can donate you can do so here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/greater-than-11---20k-for-20k You can also support by sharing the campaign on your social channels.

After the COVID19 series & Allyship panel, Crystal and Renee have a good old catch up. They cover how they're doing in the "new normal", their continued allyship journey and they share their top reads and watches from the last few weeks. As ever their conversation ranges far and wide from the fruits of foraging, definitions of equity versus equality, Japanese reality TV and period tech! We also discuss our BREAKING NEWS! The Greater than 11% podcast, now in its second series and having interviewed 100+ people, will hit 20,000 downloads in September. We wanted to mark this milestone by continuing to support our community and are focusing on raising £20K for 20K (downloads). The rationale being, if we had a £1 for every listen, we would quickly be able to raise the cash and create a grant fund providing 20 x £1000 for female / non-binary creatives based in the UK. If you've enjoyed listening to Greater than 11% and  are in a position where you can donate financially you can do so here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/greater-than-11---20k-for-20k You can also help us by promoting the campaign on your social channels. As per our all our panel episodes we end on our watch and read segment.  Renee's Recommendations:  📺 Cracked Up: The Darrell Hammond Story, Netflix 📚 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk Crystal's Recommendations: 📺 Terrace House, Netflix 📚 Period Power by Maisie Hill Remember to check out the new Greater Than 11% website (greaterthan11.com), subscribe to the newsletter. 

For episode 80 we are joined by Coach and Co-Founder of Hack Camp, Isabel Sanchez. Isabel’s career started off in social enterprise and then merged with the tech sector working with the likes of Lifeline & Just Giving. Most of her roles revolved around working with people - establishing collaboration with clients, colleagues and developing others. As a result, her passion for empowering people led her to pursue a career in coaching. Together with the wonderful former Greater than 11% podcast guest, Samira Musa, they founded Hack Camp - coaching to enable ambitious young leaders to transform their lives from the offset. In addition to their coaching, their fist initiative ‘Future Leaders’ was put together and launched in a matter of weeks in response to The Black Lives Matter movement. They are currently focusing on arming the next generation of young Black leaders with the right tools and methodologies to reach their full potential. Isabel discusses why she was drawn to coaching, her personal approach and shares her and Samira's vision for Hack Camp and Future Leaders. If you want to learn more about Hack Camp and get some coaching you can do so here: https://www.hackcamp.co.uk/ Isabel and Samira are currently raising funds for their 2nd cohort of Future Leaders you can contribute to here: https://www.hackcamp.co.uk/future-leaders ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372  Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven  

Allyship: A Verb Not A Noun In this month’s panel show, Crystal and Renee are joined by Aluma, the owner and founder of ADN photography and Beth Foster, a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lead for Alphabet and Chief of Staff for the Black Googler Network.  Aluma shares her personal experience of the past few weeks; ranging from the exhaustion to personal growth. 75% of respondents to our poll said they didn’t know what Allyship means so we discuss Allyship fully and practically. What it looks like, what it feels like and crucially, that it is rooted in action. Beth discusses how intentions matter less than impact and her own Allyship journey.  Tune in for an honest, touching, kind and hopeful discussion about the small bold actions we can all take, to further racial equity and for a deep yet highly practical understanding of Allyship and what it entails.  Resources which were discussed listed below: READ:  White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo. https://www.waterstones.com/book/white-fragility/robin-diangelo/9780141990569 WATCH:  White Fragility YouTube Video by Robin DiAngelo.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU&feature=youtu.be&t=89 READ:  All BAME Ain’t The Same https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/why-bame-aint/1672936 READ:  Natives by Akala  https://www.waterstones.com/book/natives/akala/9781473661233 ACT:   Write to your MP using this template to make Black histories mandatory in the national curriculum https://www.theblackcurriculum.com/action ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372  Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven

For episode 78 we headed to South West England - to Bristol precisely and are joined, virtually of course, by Foley Artist, Louise Brown. To flag, we had a bit of a dodgy Zoom line at times, so there is a little static here and there but nothing too unbearable. Louise breaks down exactly what it is a foley artist does. From hugging bowls of water for a shark film to walking on the spot for up to 8 hours. Ok, it is a lot more complex than that, but you'll have to listen to the episode to hear it from the metaphorical horse's mouth... or should I say hoof? With a burning desire to work in the music industry, but with no understanding of how or any industry connections, Louise made the decision to jack in her job at a factory and do a BTEC followed by a degree in Music Technology. Whilst doing a summer job with an unplanned visit Pinewood Studios she discovered foley and this began a long and slow slog to break into the industry - even having to ignore and push on after being directly told by her boss at the time 'women can't do sound' 😱. Louise pulls back the curtain and shares some trade 'foley secrets' - who would have thought paper clips attached to leather gloves would double up as claws? She also breaks down the whats and hows when working on a brief for the likes of BBC's Doctor Who or Netflix's Sex Education. ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372  Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven