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Brett Davidson

I work with foundations and nonprofits using narrative and the power of listening to bring about social change. 

I'm originally from South Africa and started my career as a radio presenter and journalist. I then worked for a leading democracy NGO, supporting community radio and local news organizat…


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Great idea Nakita! Best for me to have it on our regular day too.

Hi

This is a fantastic piece about gathering - key takeaway: people want less content, fewer TED-type speeches and more opportunity to connect with one another. 

https://open.substack.com/p...


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I know the questions are for discussion on Thursday, but talking about selling that turns me off - I need to rant:  I probably need to get a new car, and just sending an enquiry about prices to a car review website in the US ('click here to find out about comparative prices in your area' ) - but you can't get the info unless you leave your email address, and then you get  bombarded with calls, texts and emails - and if you don't respond, they just keep at it. It makes me hate buying a car, wish I didn't have to, and not want to respond to anyone. It's so in-your-face - it feels like an assault. The same 3 or 4 people from different dealers have literally called me multiple times a day, and email at least once a day. 

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Happy to do this.
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Perspective homework

Today I published episode 12 of my Podcast and in the light of our last session I was inspired to change the subtitle of the podcast. As I realized that it means something to me, but not necessarily to listeners browsing to find a podcast they would want to listen to. 

The title used to be "Bloom -Neurosensitive Voices of Change

Now it is: Bloom -Highly Sensitives' Daring to Defy the Norm

This might not be the 100% right yet, but it resonates a lot more with my message and it certainly resonates with the more rebellious aspects of HSPs.

Any feedback on what resonates with you is welcome :) 

Here is a link to the latest episode: https://podcasters.spotify....



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The new title makes me want to listen to it!

Why You Should Have A Business Podcast: It's Not What We Think

This morning, I joined a talk with a group of professional service business owners about podcasting. Peter Caputa from Databox shared results from a solid study on why people like us run podcasts. It was striking to learn that linking podcasting to lead generation and revenue isn't straightforward and that the best podcasters aren't focused on these aspects.

Here’s the link to the research data: https://docs.google.com/pre...

As I prepare to launch my own podcast, this information made me rethink my goals and the resources I want to invest in this project. If you're interested, we could discuss this further in one of our calls. Let me know.



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Love the group podcast idea. I have not run a podcast but from my years of experience supporting media producers, creators etc of many kinds, people get very excited about creating their product, but too often don't think about the audience - who is the audience and will they read/view/listen to it? How will you make that happen? What is your envisioned impact and how will you achieve that? The content creation is just one half to one third of the equation - you need as much, if not more investment of time and resources into distribution and impact - and yet that is often neglected with the assumption that if something is out there, people will see it. And that if they see it, they will do something about it. Reaching an audience takes work and then activating that audience takes work. In the field of documentaries there is an entire career called an Impact Producer - their whole job is to work on the distribution and impact.

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Would love to discuss this, thanks Guillaume
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