#9: Sam Jones - Not Just Soup and Tunafish

Casey Digital Podcast

I interviewed MD of Tunafish Media Sam Jones about balancing the agency and running a successful charity to help to homeless in Manchester. The main topics we cover are: Starting out in radio and deciding it wasn’t for him Sam worked in early stage social media around 2003 2011 he started an agency called Tunafish media with some friends from Uni When they started Tunafish they also had a bar job to help with cash Creating viral content for Donald Trump’s first day in the office, 200 million views in 3 days for a World Leaders WhatsApp group Looking forward to the future of creating content and how the gap will be closed between hero content and throw away content and personalised Memes and GIFs Sam’s Manchester rant Work life balance when running an agency Facing mental health issues and how Sam copes with anxiety Finding motivation in cheesy montage videos Inspiration: Michael Di Palo and Sandy Lindsay providing guidance Not just soup was started in collaboration with Coffee for Craig to feed the homeless men and women in Manchester 3 nights a week This project has provided over 45,000 meals to people in Manchester Sam going to Buckingham Palace to receive the Queens award at a garden party Volunteering for Forever Manchester and being the Vice-Chair Having really bad hair back in the day Links and resources: Sam on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-jones-84158414/ Sam on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SamJonesMCR Sam’s agency Tunafish Media - https://tunafishmedia.co.uk/ Shoe dog book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-NIKE/dp/1471146707 The war of art - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1936891026/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_tLikEbQJJB3GR Felix Baumgartner Space Jump - https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/fly-with-felix-red-bull-stratos-pov-video Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Factfulness-Reasons-Wrong-Things-Better/dp/147363749X/ref=asc_df_147363749X/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=344380111895&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1416550232838382582&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006912&hvtargid=pla-590283424795&psc=1&th=1&psc=1 Not Just Soup - https://twitter.com/notjustsoupmcr Street Support (tackling homelessness) - https://streetsupport.net/manchester/ Forever Manchester - https://forevermanchester.com/ Thank you for listening and please email me any feedback - [e-mail] Connect with the host, Paul Casey: @caseydigital on Instagram Paul Casey on LinkedIn @casey_digital on Twitter