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How do I create a strong trademark for my product and services? How do I differentiate myself from the competition? Can I actually make "competition" irrelevant with my brand? What are some of the other legal issues entrepreneurs face? How can businesses grow value in their brand names, and monetize their assets? These are just some of the big questions that leading trademark attorney, Suzi Hixon, Esq., digs into on the Trademarks Made Easy Podcast. In addition to trademark creation step-by- ...
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Playwright Stef Smith is best known for her, well, plays. But her award-winning BBC Scotland drama, Float – a tender tangle of love, life and identity in small-town Scotland – is also well worth your time. Season one is already bingeable on the iPlayer and, ahead of season two hitting screens at the end of the month, our Mick chatted to Stef about …
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Playwright Suzie Miller is best known for her award-sweeping masterpiece, Prima Facie, a searing critique of the criminal justice system and, specifically, how it deals with survivors of sexual assault and rape. She’s now adapted the play into a novel, and so Jen was chuffed to bits to talk to her about the process of adaptation, as well as why she…
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They don’t come much bigger than Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s three-hour Oscar-nabbing historical drama, and Hannah’s pick for this month’s Flicking. It’s quite rightly made Cillian Murphy the man of the moment, but how’s Yosra feeling about Robert Downey Jnr’s gongs? And will it have enough bang for its buck as far as Mick’s concerned? Find ou…
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When we think about a wake-up eager workforce, we are looking for people who are performing roles that align with their strengths. We are looking for people who are motivated and feel respected and appreciated in their roles. Often, we find in the workplace that some employees are not as involved or enthused as we would like. Sometimes, they are ac…
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Hollie McNish - Standard Issue fave, award-winning poet, and all-round smasher - is back with Lobster, a brand-new collection of poems and prose. Naturally, Mick was delighted to jump on the Zoom to talk to her about it, as well as joy, not-joy, vulvas, knickers and RP. Over IRL, as the kids say, Jen was chuffed to bits to be reunited with writer A…
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Journalist, broadcaster, documentary-maker, author and Mickey mind-blower is back on the podcast to chat about her incredible new book, The Price of Life: In Search of What We’re Worth and Who Decides. It’s a fascinating and brutal investigation into who puts a price on our heads – because we all have not just one, but several, depending on the sit…
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If you find watching sport in public a bit intimidating, Set Piece Social will be for you. This week, Jen chats to Naomi Fitzgibbons and Kate Hetherington about their pioneering new project to get women watching women's sport. Hannah's talking to writer Farine Clark about her new play London Zoo, and what inspired her career changes from medicine t…
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Liz Jensen is better known for her fiction writing, but the author and activist has just published a memoir, Your Wild and Precious Life: On Grief, Hope and Rebellion. Her new book documents her grief after the death of her son Raphael, a zoologist and ecological activist, in 2020, aged just 25, and her fight for the future of our planet, in his na…
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It is hard to Wake Up Eager when you are in physical pain. In this episode, I speak with Kelly Lynch Feldkamp, founder of Provention Plus, about how wellness programs impact company culture, how soft tissue injuries impact your bottom line, how everybody is a Jobsite Athlete, and the benefit of understanding the impact of posture and movement in th…
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Imagine having an idea so engaging that you make Anjelica Huston want to talk about Tupperware. Well, hello journalist Annabelle Hirsch, whose book, A History of Women in 101 Objects, is a fascinating walk through female history via, well, 101 objects. The book came out last October and is well worth your eyes, but if you like to get your ears invo…
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Critical thinking isn't exactly everyone's strong point and in her upcoming memoir Learning to Think, Tracy King explains how she went from born-again Christianity to pseudoscience to teaching herself to think critically. And when she applied that thinking to the violent death of her father, she uncovered a whole other story from the one she'd been…
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Writer and Standard Issue fave Kerry Hudson is back with brand-new memoir, Newborn, the follow-up to her previous work, Lowborn. In this week’s podzine, Hannah jumps on the Zoom to talk with Kerry about class, social mobility, money and why you can't air fry your way out of poverty. A self-professed Mary Shelley “obsessive”, our Jen was delighted w…
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Comedian, podcast mogul, writer, broadcaster and professional oversharer, the glorious Catherine Bohart is this week’s Sunday Chops. She and Mick are chatting about the joy and freedom of podcasts, being a professional oversharer, living with OCD, the giving and receiving of advice and, of course, her new show, Again, With Feelings, which is on tou…
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Stories have always been a way that we have shared information and influenced others. The power of stories predates modern society and carries such a powerful influence as a way to share experience and knowledge. In this episode, I speak with Doug Stevenson, who is the master of Storytelling that Sticks. Doug is a former professional actor with a c…
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Lindsay Duncan - you heard us! - is on stage at the National Theatre in a revival of Dodie Smith's Dear Octopus, so of course Jen jumped at the chance to chat to her. They were joined by the play's director, Emily Burns, to discuss family dynamics, age and a whole lot more. Hannah's also talking theatre this week, with Hannah Walker, creator of Gam…
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Hosts Dan White and Pam Stack present the 2023 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR. Finalists by category- Ashley Winstead - Southern Gothic - MIDNIGHT IS THE DARKEST HOUR Lev Rosen -Historical Fiction - THE BELL IN THE FOG Kate Clayborn - Romance -GEORGIE ALL ALONG Keith Bruton - Humorous Thriller - THE LEMON MAN Reed Farrel Coleman - Police Procedural - SLEEP…
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Jim Fusilli is the author of multiple novels and has published many short stories that have appeared in a variety of magazines as well as anthologies edited by Lee Child, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman and other masters of the mystery genre. The former Rock & Pop Critic of The Wall Street Journal and occasional contributor to National Public Radio’s …
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Jon Lindstrom is a 4-time Emmy© nominated actor, a published author, an award-winning filmmaker, and occasionally a drummer. By most accounts, he is also a pretty nice guy. He lives mostly in Los Angeles, which is what he mostly writes about: The good people, the bad people, the business of show and the experience of living in sunny, seductive, cor…
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Actor, director, producer, and masterful storyteller Eriq La Salle is best known to worldwide television audiences for his award-winning portrayal of Dr. Peter Benton on the medical drama ER. Educated at Juilliard and NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, his credits range from Broadway to film roles, starring alongside Eddie Murphy in Coming to America,…
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Thomas M. Kostigen is an award-winning and New York Times-bestselling author and journalist. He founded the Climate Survivalist column for USA Today and has written for numerous publications, including The Washington Post, National Geographic, Discover, Departures, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal, among other…
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice In the Mary Russell series (first entry: The Beekeeper's Apprentice), fifteen-year-old Russell meets Sherlock Holmes on the Sussex Downs in 1915, becoming his apprentice, then his partner. The series follows their amiably contentious partnership into the 1920s as they challenge each other to ever greater feats of detectio…
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Performance poet Len Pennie is a big deal on the social media, particularly TikTok, where her Scots Word of the Day videos, forthright, urgent poetry and wicked sense of humour have made her a bona fide star. Published by Canongate on February 22, her debut poetry collection, Poyums, she covers a lot of ground, from depression and mental health to …
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Greta Lee and Teo Yoo star in Celine Song’s debut feature, which follows deeply connected childhood friends Nora (Lee) and Hae Sung (Yoo) over the course of 24 years and an ocean of separation. It’s a gentle, poignant, philosophical, maybe romance, chosen by Yosra for this month’s Flicking. But will it have enough wallop for Mickey and not too much…
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Imagine making a film set in a town where dancing is illegal. Imagine that bit being the true story element of said film. Imagine that not one of the team had ever seen 1984’s Footloose in full before this very week. SCENES, such very eighties scenes, in this week’s Rated or Dated, chosen by Offord, montaged by Bacon. Before that, Mick’s been on th…
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Author Lisa Dodson stops by to discuss her newest release, The Bodyguard's Deadly Mission. Lisa is a National Bestselling Author and an Amazon #1 bestselling author with a remarkable portfolio of over nineteen novels. Her extensive work covers various genres, from Multicultural to Contemporary, Romantic Suspense to Sweet Romance, and Clean Read. Li…
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Welcome to the Thought Garden - on Air! Host Alexis Quintal, CEO and Owner of Rosarium PR & Marketing Collective has invited entrepreneurs who have a story to tell come to bring out their inner author on this show. Today, we’re excited to talk with Alexandra Chan, who likes to go by Alexka, she is an archeologist, author, and artist. Alexandra has …
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I continued my discussion with Dr. Stephen Middleton today in Part 2 of his interview. If you ever feel like you are having difficulty finding the opportunities you want, this episode is just what you need to give you a little boost of encouragement that opportunities are all around us – we just have to be open to them. The possibilities that we ha…
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Why won't copy show up? Comedian, writer, podcaster, friend of Standard Issue, and glorious human being Jess Fostekew is back on tour with her new show Mettle, and so Mick jumped at the chance to talk to her about it. They also chat buses, bulking, and the tiny birds of Geoff Capes. Hannah’s been on the Zoom to talk to journalist and award-winning …
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Welcome to On the Air with Florenza, your podcast destination for authentic conversations with a twist. On this episode, Florenza sits down to interview Suzy Woo, a visionary in the realm of life, purpose, and fulfillment. Suzy is not just a guide; she's a compassionate soul dedicated to helping you rediscover your core self and teaching you to emb…
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Being a mum is great, but it can also be relentlessly challenging and impossibly difficult. Not to mention that from the day they're born, you know you'll eventually lose your children to adulthood. In her late 30s, writer and actress Michele Winstanley gave birth to a much-wanted child, and quickly realised that mumming wasn't the sugar-coated dre…
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It’s always nice to have a reminder of what is possible in our lives, and I want to bring that reminder to you today through my interview with Dr. Stephen Middleton - The Possibility Man. Beginning his life in rural South Carolina, Dr. Middleton came to the realization that he was meant for more in this life than farming. He shares stories of inspi…
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Sort of. This week, Jen's been on the satellite phone to bone fide polar adventurer Harpreet ‘Preet’ Chandi. Preet recently broke a third World Record, becoming the world’s fastest woman to complete a solo unsupported ski expedition to the South Pole. She chats to Jen about the how and why, accepting failure when it comes, becoming a role model and…
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Join Florenza in a captivating episode of Words to Ponder as she welcomes the multi-talented Rhonda Crowder. With a Bachelor of Arts in English and a 2019 Cleveland Champion, Rhonda is a journalist, manuscript editor, entrepreneur, and authorof the debut novel Riddles. Beyond her literary achievements, Rhonda is a dedicated advocate for literacy an…
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Are we addicted to our phones? Are they bad for our mental health? Are they changing the way we behave? Hannah gets the answers to these and many more questions from neuroscientist Dr Faye Begeti, otherwise known as the Brain Doctor, whose new book The Phone Fix: The Brain-Focused Guide to Building Healthy Digital Habits and Breaking Bad Ones is ou…
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Tracy Clark, a native Chicagoan, is the author of the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series, featuring ex-cop turned PaI Cassandra Raines. Tracy, a proud member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, is a lifelong South-Sider and roots for every Chicago team with equal enthusiasm. She is currently busy writing her next book. visit www.tra…
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We are back for Part 2 this week of the best Mind, Body, and Spirit ideas and products to give you a wake-up eager 2024! Last week I interviewed some professionals who are near and dear to my heart, and they shared their favorite tips and tricks for mind, body, and spirit that they are implementing in 2024. In this episode: [00:01:03] Welcome to th…
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Stand up Laura Smyth came to comedy later in life and with a whole load of experiences, including cancer, under her belt. People are lapping it up, and tickets to her debut tour show, Living My Best Life, are selling like hot cakes. Mmm, hot cakes. Laura chats to our Hannah about wide-ranging appeal, the big C and maintaining a sense of self. Mick’…
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Robb FrostByte King joins Florenza on this episode of On the Air with Florenza. Embark on a thought-provoking episode of Words to Ponder with Florenza as she welcomes the incredibly talented author Robb Frostbyte King. Known for his eclectic writing style that seamlessly blends humor and contemplation, Robb is more than just an artist; he's a drivi…
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Richard North Patterson is an American fiction writer, attorney and political commentator. His new legal thriller is TRIAL. Patterson graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University and has been awarded that school's Distinguished Achievement Citation and his national fraternity's Alumni Achievement Award. He is a 1971 graduate of the Case Western …
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Award-winning authors Pamela Fagan Hutchins discussed the release of the first 3 Delaney Pace Mystery books. ORDER SERIES HERE: https://amzn.to/3RbWJhN Book 1 Her Silent Bones here: https://ow.ly/ANTX50QaHwpBook 2 Her Hidden Grave: https://geni.us/B0CNTG9NHRcoverBook 3 Her Last Cry: https://geni.us/B0CNTG15KDcover…
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If ever a subject demanded a bit more of our time, it’s what’s happening to women and girls in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Zahra Nader, editor-in-chief of Zan Times, a brilliant, women-led investigative newsroom, covering the human rights crisis in Afghanistan with a focus on women, is well-placed to tell our Mick what’s really happening on the …
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It's cold out, although inexplicably sunny in Hannah's lounge, so let's all stay in and watch some telly. This month, we're talking about Julia, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Slow Horses, Fool Me Once, True Detective: Night Country, Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster, and the final ever episode of Ghosts. Tuck in! Support this show http://suppor…
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