PR Not BS

Hosted by Fiona Scott, today’s podcast welcomes guest Margaret Rooke, an author and writer who has decades of experience in books, magazines, newspapers and writing for charities. Originally, Margaret followed her childhood dreams of becoming a journalist. She went to university and wrote the student newspaper, then local newspapers before moving onto nationals. She built up a career as a writer. Margaret began writing for charities and since then has created a name for herself as an author. ...

Hosted by Fiona Scott, today’s podcast welcomes Emma Carter, CEO of WestSpring IT. Emma’s small business is based in Bristol and offers clients technical support and IT services to companies across the UK. She’s known Fiona for many years as a client and as a friend. Fiona takes Emma back to her background. Emma describes her history as working in ‘sales’ although she feels she wasn’t ‘that good of a salesperson’ but she had the unique ability to go from industry to industry. When she w...

Hosted by Fiona Scott, today’s podcast welcomes Joe Tompkinson. Joe is one of the founders of the Swindon based tech company called MyMarketr. Joe explains how their company helps to support people with their marketing at a very reasonable price. He goes on to say how this is a really exciting time for business as there is so much happening in the tech industry. Joe begins his podcast by telling the audience how tech hasn’t always been his career and that he was originally a police offi...

Hosted by Fiona Scott, today’s podcast welcomes Dr Deborah Cohen. Dr Deborah Cohen is an award winning medically qualified broadcaster, journalist, editor and author who has worked across mainstream and academic print, digital, TV and radio. Deborah begins by introducing herself to the audience. She explains that she’s written a book called ‘Bad Influence: How the internet hijacked our health.’ Deborah tells us that the premise of the book is to get the reader to question whether what they’re...

Hosted by Fiona Scott, today’s podcast welcomes Angela Roberts, who she met around fifteen years ago. Angela was running her own business, and they met at an ‘I am woman’ networking group. Angela talks about how valuable networking is because you ‘make those contacts that nobody can ever take away from you.’ Fifteen years later, Angela had a job in marketing for ‘Gensmile’ a dental group and just after the lockdowns, she decided to help other businesses by starting her own networking group in...