Techstroverts

This week I was honoured to be joined by global digital agency, AnalogFolk 's Director of Strategic Services, Sol Ghafoor . Sol is a confessed polymath with an appetite for driving change! Tune in to hear how he felt about the blowback after the 2020 Euro Cup final, his passion for showing up as a leader, and his choice of outerwear when showing out at the office. Things I learned from Sol: 📱ㅤHe...

To describe this episode in one word: Whoosh ! 💨 Meta 's Mollie Pearse is a marvel! Not only in the literal sense ( she's a repeat ultra marathoner who previously qualified for team GB's triathlon squad! ) - But also somewhat of a superhero who runs a charity for children in Zambia and doubles up as a top talent in tech the rest of the time. Tune in to hear Mollie be unapologetically candid about...

Episode 14 plays host to WEVESTR 's Head of Growth, Lothifa Chowdhury . Lotihifa is an old mate from a previous job, and while she's doing great things in the equity management space, that's as much about the work we covered in this ep! Instead, we chatted about how she fell in love with Vietnam when travelling the globe, how her mindfulness activity has become an addiction and her lasting values...

This week's instalment of fly-on-the-wall candour comes from Matilde from Meta , a great friend and colleague who sits on the Meta Blueprint training and learning team. In this episode, she shares candid views on micromanagement in the workplace, a hilarious tale about stealing birds from the beach (gulp!) and how much kindness drives every action she takes in business and life. Things I learned f...

Enjoy ten-ish minutes with digital marketing expert Tino Triste . Tino, a Portuguese-born, Manchester-based ex-pat, is Digital Services Director at SLG agency . But forget about that (for now!) 🤫 In this episode of Techstroverts , he and I talk about fashion, alien surveillance and the ominously named '27-club' conspiracy theories before Tino shares some solid advice about collaborating your way...

This one, friends, is a corker of an episode! 💥 I had the pleasure and delight of choppin' it up with self-proclaimed ' mouthy marketer ' Amy Elliott , who is making waves at digital agency Lightbulb Media . In this episode, we rush through intros and get right into the nitty gritty. Amy shares an eye-opening story about how she realised she was neurodiverse. We also tap into her views on overhyp...

It's here! Episode 10 hosts the exceptionally talented yet completely down-to-earth Alexandra Sehmer, a tech marketing bod over at Google Cloud . After Alex's elevator pitch, we talk about discontinued supermarkets, snobby shopping and whether or not kleptomania is a rite of passage...👀 Things I learned from Alex : 🍹ㅤShe's quite partial to the old Piña colada 🛒ㅤShe considers Whole Foods her p...

Happy New Year! 🥂 I hope your time away for the holiday period was refreshing, relaxing and restoring and has set you up for a brilliant start to 2023! 🔋 I'm incredibly excited to present the first instalment of the podcast for the new year featuring Michael Benjamin , Head of Digital Acquisition & Growth Marketing in Meta 's global Business Messaging & Demand Generation team ! This one...

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, all! I'm thrilled to bring you the final episode of Techstroverts for 2022 - and I promise you, it's a gooden! 🤩 Episode eight features Ralph Aoun , a highly talented Global Marketing Manager from Meta 's Brand Management team ! I'm not supposed to have favourites, but Ralph 's generous, courageous, yet bold vulnerability was so incredibly touching duri...

Episode seven's hero is the wonderful Ellen Mackessy , a Digital Marketing Manager and marvel from Meta 's Small & Medium Business & Programs Scaled Marketing team! In one of the funniest episodes to record to date, Ellen shares her love of extreme recovery, her wonderful taste in music, and a hilarious tale of completing The Dingle Adventure Race with the wrong equipment! 😂 Things I lear...

It's here! The newest episode of Techstroverts , your birds-eye view into some of the industry's brightest minds and funniest thoughts outside of the jobs they do! In episode six, I got to pick the brain of one of the industry's biggest foodies - from Meta 's Global Culinary Group - Program Manager, Tobias Azizah ! Aside from his impeccable taste in snacks, we giggled over astrology, 'text-to-call...

Are you ready for another behind-the-curtain chit-chat where you get to listen to the inner workings of real people that work in tech but not about tech? Sure you are! 😉 Today's chat is with one of Meta 's Business Planning & Ops Managers, Aisling Flowers. Aisling is one of the kindest folks I've met at Meta, embodying the Core Value of Meta, Metamates, Me . I hope you enjoy listening as much...

Bringing you your weekly dose of fly-on-the-wall content where I sit down with folks in tech to talk about anything BUT the job! 🎙🎧 You're not meant to have favourites, but I had the pleasure of chatting with one of mine! Please welcome one of the nicest, most generous people I know, Christian Miguel da Silva; a fellow Advocacy Program manager leading GBM's LATAM Programs & Platforms Team at...

Bringing you your weekly dose of behind-the-curtain content where I sit down with tech bods to talk about everything else! 🎙🎧 Today's episode welcomes Caprice Stolle , an experiential event-marketing mastermind impacting Meta 's Creative & Experiential Face-2-Face Team . Things I learned from Caprice : 🧘🏻‍♀️ㅤShe's a trained and certified Yogi! 🇩🇰ㅤShe watched the last World Cup from a Dani...

Fresh out of the oven is the second episode of Techstroverts , the weekly podcast inviting you to listen in on folks working in tech, our only rule; we can discuss anything except for the job! 🎙🎧 In this episode, I parley with Anthaeus Weir, a self-confessed jack-of-all-trades and esteemed agency & Partnerships Marketing Team manager at Meta . Things I learned from Anthaeus : ♋ ㅤHe's a fell...

I'm proud to present the first-ever episode of Techstroverts , a podcast designed to highlight the fantastic personalities behind the bright minds in tech! 🎙🎧 In the first episode, I chat with absolute force Kemi Adeniyi , Head of Community Management in Meta 's Community Partnerships Team, about everything but the job! Things I learned from Kemi: 🍚ㅤAmendments to Jollof will be judged harshly !...