Two Babies and a Business

New clients, Dylan and Rubén of SAGA Wisdom, join CIPR Communications’ Peter Pilarski in a conversation about artificial intelligence. The SAGA team walks through their AI roadmap, their thoughts on the future of AI, and the inside scoop on their very own generative AI tool, Mímir. Data and security is also a huge feature of this episode - tune in to find out how AI can help or hinder.

Christina and Peter talk about lessons learned in trust this week. With their clients, with their friends, with their friends turned clients, with their kids, and with each other. Becoming a trusted advisor takes time and a few mistakes - but in trust, there are many lessons.

In this episode, Christina and Peter are interviewed by their colleague, Emily, as a follow-up episode to the first Goals episode with their two children. This episode is full of nuggets of wisdom on goal-setting for professionals in all stages of their career. It also pulls back the curtain on Christina and Peter's strategy on goal-setting as a family. Whether you're a frequent goal-setter or jus...

In this week’s episode, Christina and Peter tackle honesty - with their team, with their clients, and with their kids. Christina will tell you honesty is a core value of hers - but are white lies passable? Listen to the end for the bottom line on honesty - this dynamic duo closes the episode with a mic drop moment.

The key to keeping your relationships strong? Managing expectations. At least according to Emily, the podcast's unofficial producer, who joins Christina and Peter on this episode. After 10 years of marriage and over 10 years in business together, the owners of CIPR Communications share their wisdom on managing expectations professionally and with your life partner. Learning to manage expectations...

In part two of the Healthy Conflict conversation, Christina and Peter are joined by their business coach, Steve Osmond. A critical component of healthy conflict is emotional intelligence and meeting people where they're at. Steve dives into a discussion with the CIPR Communications founders to discuss the tools they often use to help foster more cohesive emotional intelligence - namely the enneagr...

Conflict and how we manage it is deeply personal.” Who better to help you manage than a coach? Christina and Peter are joined by their business coach, Steve Osmond, in this two part series. In part one, they break down different styles of managing conflict.

Have you ever wondered how to catch a Leprechaun? As an important goal of the infamous Two Babies each year, they’ll walk you through all the things you need to accomplish your goals. Even if they don’t involve any leprechaun catching Easily our cutest episode to date!

A candid conversation about addiction. On this week's episode, CIPR Communications' Christina and Peter dive deep into what are sometimes just bad habits, and what sometimes really are addictions. They also discuss ways we can move away from these bad habits and addictions - especially when it comes to the next generation.

How much do you trust your gut? Potentially less than you should... on this week's episode of CIPR Communications' Two Babies and a Business, Peter and Christina discuss intuition. Using intuition to trust your team, building your personal and professional principles using your intuition, and even some of the science around your gut are all in this episode.

Quitting gets a bad rap, but you're going to do it at some point. Quit the job, quit the project, quit the relationship. So how do we know when to quit? And do we quit at the right time? In this week's episode, Christina and Peter discuss their experiences quitting - the job, the project, and on some occasions, the relationship.

Scared or excited? Diving in head first... or burying your head in the sand? And what's next for AI? "People are going to come back to a whole new world in the fall." So how can you innovate your marketing using AI? Peter sits down with Gennady Liakhter to discuss how people should approach the multitude of tools, engaging a marketing agency, and cutting through all the noise.

Fake it 'til you make it, the old cliché... but should you? Christina and Peter sit down with their Marketing Specialist, Emily Lundy, to discuss confidence, one of CIPR's cultural values. Confidence comes easier for some than others, so how do you build it? According to these three, it's a lifelong commitment.

Artificial Intelligence on LinkedIn is not new, but there is a difference between automation and AI tools. LinkedIn is a bit more finicky than other social platforms in terms of the rules its algorithm requires of users, so there needs to be intention in using AI when it comes to LinkedIn. Experienced LinkedIn Consultant Gunnar Hood sits down with Peter this week to discuss the use cases for AI on...

Christina is joined by Heather Draper of the Heather Company to discuss content creation! As a one-woman-show, Heather speaks to the value of content creation and how to find your audience. But how do you strike the work-life balance on your channels? Christina and Heather share their tips on how to make engaging content that will capture all the right attention.

Richard Fallah, founder of Vbout, sits down with Peter to discuss the specifics of how artificial intelligence can optimize your marketing plan. And with so many different AI tools entering the market, how do you know which tool to use? Richard and Peter break it down, as well as how AI can supplement humans in the important work we all do.

Social media - the beast. Does your brand really need it? Christina and Peter say yes, but there’s still a chance to be selective in the way you do it. That extends to personal use too. Tune in to find out their tips for managing social media for business and your own personal brand.

“AI can help you do your tasks better, faster and cheaper.” Joining the podcast all the way from South Africa, Francois Muscat offers his perspective on how artificial intelligence can improve your digital marketing outputs. Peter and Francois also dive into strategy and the human element required to inform these new tools.

There's no handbook on parenting - and this episode isn't one either. This week, Christina and Peter sit down and talk about how parenting has shifted their business style, their interpersonal styles and their relationship with their inner child. So while this episode isn't a guide on parenting, it does offer insight into the do's and don'ts they've noticed work for their family.

This week's guest, Robert Mitchell from the WSI Network, compares learning artificial intelligence to learning ballroom dancing. Wait, what?! Despite the learning curve facing marketers in the AI space right now, Robert and Peter agree there is a critical need to move in this direction. And while we might be moving towards AI and new tech, is there an opportunity to also move back towards other, m...

We've all got professional partnerships and professional partnerships - but how do they fit into the work we do and the lives we lead? Well, it seems it's always in flux. Christina is joined by Lemons for Days by Jasmin Shannon on this week's episode - they speak about how to choose a partnership, the role your values play in forming partnerships, and sending emails... in labour! Tune in to find o...

Connection - it matters to what we do and how we do it. At CIPR, we are in the business of connection. In this episode, Christina and Peter speak about how they make connections with their team, their clients, and themselves. They also note their own individual challenges in making connections and how they've made efforts to improve.

On this week's episode, Christina and Peter are joined by Cynthia Mordecai from WSI Smart Marketing. These three walk through their morning routines, the nuggets of wisdom you can use to build their morning routine and how to push past that morning fog. Did you know your morning routine can actually start the night before? Tune in to find out how!

"Have an attitude of gratitude." Christina and Peter discuss how gratitude is built into their work and family life. Gratitude isn't just what you're grateful for and affirmations - it's built into habits and rituals each day. Listen in as they talk about the positive impact gratitude has had on their business, their home, and themselves.

In this episode, Christina and Peter focus on the value of process. They discuss playing to your strengths, building their processes, and give specific examples of how it makes your whole team stronger. How does process fit into their parenting? You'll have to listen to find out.