Episodes

  • 007 - Shaken, stirred and inspired

    007 - Shaken, stirred and inspired
    Jul 11 2022
    DESCRIPTION What is inspiration? What inspires you? What inspires us? Oh, and what doesn’t inspire us? (Lots of inspiration in one sentence!) In this episode we take a look at what motivates and galvanises us, what gets us out of bed in the morning* and also what just gets us down, makes us want to stick our fingers down our throats and generally pisses us off. (*In Dave’s case it’s generally his bladder) Here’s a taste of what we chat about… Rainbow unicorn cloudsLots of James Bond references (inevitably for podcast 007)Inspired by a dream?Oh, I do like to be beside the seasideArt, music, nature and all that kind of stuff LINKS Here are the pictures of the rainbow cloud and Vicky’s wave paintings: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bBzud7gh5WuMaJsR7 And a link to the lady who painted them, Kim Adelle Fuller: https://www.kimadele.co.uk/ Here’s the gallery where Vicky has been displaying her fab artwork: Montague Gallery - https://montaguegallery.co.uk/ Want to see more of Vicky’s art? Here’s the place to go: Made by Me by the Sea - https://madebymebythesea.co.uk/ England & Wales Blind Golf: https://www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk/england-wales-blind-golf-rebrand-success/ Listen to a couple of the hilarious songs by Fascinating Aida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAg0lUYHHFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXzaVOk_Ydk Book: Rationality by Steven Pinker: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rationality-What-Seems-Scarce-Matters/dp/0525561994 Book: Examples by Ansel Adams: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Examples-Making-40-Photographs-Forty/dp/082121750X Podcast: Origin Story by Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey: search and download on your podcast platform ABOUT THE HOSTS – VICKY VAUGHAN Vicky is a Chartered Marketer and Branding Consultant at The Brand Surgery, which is celebrating 20 years of brand health in 2022. Vicky is committed to revitalising and rejuvenating brand vitality across the UK though a combination of creative design, brand coaching and corporate social responsibility. She helps business owners keep their brands in tip top shape through accurate diagnosis and bespoke prescriptions and solutions. Vicky recently created a CPD accredited course (22 CPD hours) called ‘Marketing Psychology from the Inside Out’ which has already helped hundreds of students to superpower their personal and business brands.  Connect with Vicky… LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/victoriavaughan-brand-soul-coach Website: www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk To book a free 15-minute consultation either call Vicky on 07909 693172 or book a time online at: thebrandsurgery.as.me/ ABOUT THE HOSTS – DAVID HENSON David is known as The Slide Presentation Man. He helps business owners produce better presentations when using slides. This can be anything from selling copies of his book ‘Your Slides Suck!’ through training people in how to produce better visual presentations as well as his main gig which is designing and producing engaging, compelling and effective presentations. Connect with David… LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/ Website: www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/ Or to book a free 15-minute consultation: calendly.com/tspm/15min DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests. Please conduct your own due diligence. External links may be provided to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of external sites. As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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    24 mins
  • 006 - 'Appy Days

    006 - 'Appy Days
    May 27 2022

    DESCRIPTION

    Apps – we all use them and they’ve become part of our everyday lives. In this episode Vicky and Dave look at the apps that they like (and dislike) both for business and fun. And apps they’d like to see created.

    So, here’s were we perambulated in this episode:

    • Bumping into the Blue Tits
    • Zooming on the beach
    • The best otter joke EVER!
    • Mind-blowing mind maps
    • Cartophilia
    • And apps we want including Hangr, Leasr, Supermarketr, Foragr – you get the idea!

    LINKS

    And here’s a list of the apps we discussed. Look them up in the Pay Store or the App Store:

    • Zoom – online meetings
    • Otter – transcribing speech to text
    • Audible – listen to audio books
    • Pocketcasts – Dave’s podcast listening platform of choice
    • Simplemind – fab mind mapping app
    • Easyjet – helping Vicky go on holiday
    • Ring – spy on people when they’re doing podcasts!
    • Komoot – Dave’s cycle routing app
    • Flightradar24 – se all the planes in the sky
    • Marine Traffic – se all the ships on the sea
    • ISS – see all the International Space Stations in space
    ABOUT THE HOSTS – VICKY VAUGHAN

    Vicky is a Chartered Marketer and Branding Consultant at The Brand Surgery, which is celebrating 20 years of brand health in 2022. Vicky is committed to revitalising and rejuvenating brand vitality across the UK though a combination of creative design, brand coaching and corporate social responsibility. She helps business owners keep their brands in tip top shape through accurate diagnosis and bespoke prescriptions and solutions.

    Vicky recently created a CPD accredited course (22 CPD hours) called ‘Marketing Psychology from the Inside Out’ which has already helped hundreds of students to superpower their personal and business brands. 

    Connect with Vicky…

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/victoriavaughan-brand-soul-coach

    Website: www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk

    To book a free 15-minute consultation either call Vicky on 07909 693172 or book a time online at: thebrandsurgery.as.me/

    ABOUT THE HOSTS – DAVID HENSON

    David is known as The Slide Presentation Man. He helps business owners produce better presentations when using slides. This can be anything from selling copies of his book ‘Your Slides Suck!’ through training people in how to produce better visual presentations as well as his main gig which is designing and producing engaging, compelling and effective presentations.

    Connect with David…

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/

    Website: www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/

    Or to book a free 15-minute consultation: calendly.com/tspm/15min

    DISCLAIMER

    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests. Please conduct your own due diligence. External links may be provided to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of external sites.

    As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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    25 mins
  • 005 - The Zone of Comfort (and leaving it behind)

    005 - The Zone of Comfort (and leaving it behind)
    Apr 28 2022
    DESCRIPTION When you get out of your comfort zone, great things can happen (except if you jump off a pier dressed as a naughty nurse!) We get out of our fur-lined ruts in this episode by recording a completely unscripted podcast. What could possibly go wrong (not a lot as it happens!) So, what did we chat about… What does it mean to get out of your comfort zone?Toastmasters – and not the men in red coatsThe Birdman (or woman) of WorthingWhat a diving board has to do with stating a business50 things to do when you’re 50 LINKS Toastmasters – get the confidence and competence to be a great public speakerwww.toastmasters.org Professional Speaking Associationwww.thepsa.co.uk Dave with his PSA certificatewww.facebook.com/HensonDave/posts/10166519432110691 Chestnut Tree House Hospice – who Vicky raised money forwww.chestnut-tree-house.org.uk Made By Me By The Sea - Vicky’s fab art deco designs www.facebook.com/MadebyMebytheSea Anna Wardley – endurance swimmer www.annawardley.com Neil Laughton – Doing LEJOG on a Penny Farthing neillaughton.com ABOUT THE HOSTS – VICKY VAUGHAN Vicky is a Chartered Marketer and Branding Consultant at The Brand Surgery, which is celebrating 20 years of brand health in 2022. Vicky is committed to revitalising and rejuvenating brand vitality across the UK though a combination of creative design, brand coaching and corporate social responsibility. She helps business owners keep their brands in tip top shape through accurate diagnosis and bespoke prescriptions and solutions. Vicky recently created a CPD accredited course (22 CPD hours) called ‘Marketing Psychology from the Inside Out’ which has already helped hundreds of students to superpower their personal and business brands.  Connect with Vicky… LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/victoriavaughan-brand-soul-coach Website: www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk To book a free 15-minute consultation either call Vicky on 07909 693172 or book a time online at: thebrandsurgery.as.me/ ABOUT THE HOSTS – DAVID HENSON David is known as The Slide Presentation Man. He helps business owners produce better presentations when using slides. This can be anything from selling copies of his book ‘Your Slides Suck!’ through training people in how to produce better visual presentations as well as his main gig which is designing and producing engaging, compelling and effective presentations. Connect with David… LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/ Website: www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/ Or to book a free 15-minute consultation: calendly.com/tspm/15min DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests. Please conduct your own due diligence. External links may be provided to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of external sites. As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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    23 mins
  • 004 - Customer Scraps, Traps and F in Flaps

    004 - Customer Scraps, Traps and F in Flaps
    Jan 19 2022
    DESCRIPTION It’s an age-old phrase: The customer is always right. But is it true? And what can you do about it when they’re not? In this podcast we discuss the awkward subject of when the customer is wrong. We explore customer relationships and how to have a healthy rapport even if you’re meeting through a letterbox! What are we talking about… We’re on Dry January – how smug can you get?Don’t ignore the experts and the evidencePerceptions, expectations and valuesWhat's the worst thing that can go wrong with your customer and how to put it rightHow to avoid blaming gamesLetterbox love and terrible typosA spaceship in Uranus!Customer – you’re fired LINKS The Queens birthday: https://www.royal.uk/queens-birthday Shakespeare's birthday: https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/shakespeares-birthday/ The customer is always right – where did the slogan come from?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_customer_is_always_right Vicky on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/victoriavaughan-brand-soul-coach Dave on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/ July 22, 1962: Mariner 1 Done In by a Typo: https://www.wired.com/2009/07/dayintech-0722/  ABOUT THE HOSTS – VICKY VAUGHAN Vicky is a Chartered Marketer and Branding Consultant at The Brand Surgery, which is celebrating 20 years of brand health in 2022. Vicky is committed to revitalising and rejuvenating brand vitality across the UK though a combination of creative design, brand coaching and corporate social responsibility. She helps business owners keep their brands in tip top shape through accurate diagnosis and bespoke prescriptions and solutions. Vicky recently created a CPD accredited course (22 CPD hours) called ‘Marketing Psychology from the Inside Out’ which has already helped hundreds of students to superpower their personal and business brands.  Connect with Vicky… LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/victoriavaughan-brand-soul-coach Website: www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk To book a free 15-minute consultation either call Vicky on 07909 693172 or book a time online at: thebrandsurgery.as.me/ ABOUT THE HOSTS – DAVID HENSON David is known as The Slide Presentation Man. He helps business owners produce better presentations when using slides. This can be anything from selling copies of his book ‘Your Slides Suck!’ through training people in how to produce better visual presentations as well as his main gig which is designing and producing engaging, compelling and effective presentations. Connect with David… LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/ Website: www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/ Or to book a free 15-minute consultation: calendly.com/tspm/15min DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests. Please conduct your own due diligence. External links may be provided to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of external sites. As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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    20 mins
  • 003 - Taking the SH out of IT

    003 - Taking the SH out of IT
    Dec 8 2021
    DESCRIPTION Are you a tech wizard or are you dystechxic? Is dystechxic even a real word? Probably not! We take a broad overview of IT and the way it’s used in business in this podcast. We’ve also added in lots of useful links below of things that we talk about in this episode. Here’s what we’re covering… Queen Victoria’s birthdayThe Post Office – when IT becomes SHITPowerPoint – poo or presentation perfection?Spill chequers and productive tentGIGO or SISO?Calendly is fab! Or is it? LINKS The Post Office scandal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal Susan Walsh – The Classification Guru: https://www.theclassificationguru.com/ Dave’s book – Your Slides Suck! : https://www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/book/ Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine  by Hannah Fry: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hello-World-How-Human-Machine/dp/0857525247 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dx75g Useful tools HubSpot CRM (used by both Vicky and Dave): https://www.hubspot.com/ Xero (accounts software used by Dave): https://www.xero.com/uk/ Kashflow (accounts software used by Vicky): https://www.kashflow.com/ Simplemind (brilliant mind mapping software used by both of us!): https://simplemind.eu/ Calendly (loved by Dave, loathed by Vicky!): https://calendly.com/ ABOUT THE HOSTS – VICKY VAUGHAN Vicky is a Chartered Marketer and Branding Consultant at The Brand Surgery, which is celebrating 20 years of brand health in 2022. Vicky is committed to revitalising and rejuvenating brand vitality across the UK though a combination of creative design, brand coaching and corporate social responsibility. She helps business owners keep their brands in tip top shape through accurate diagnosis and bespoke prescriptions and solutions. Vicky recently created a CPD accredited course (22 CPD hours) called ‘Marketing Psychology from the Inside Out’ which has already helped hundreds of students to superpower their personal and business brands.  Connect with Vicky… LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/victoriavaughan-brand-soul-coach Website: www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk To book a free 15-minute consultation either call Vicky on 07909 693172 or book a time online at: thebrandsurgery.as.me/ ABOUT THE HOSTS – DAVID HENSON David is known as The Slide Presentation Man. He helps business owners produce better presentations when using slides. This can be anything from selling copies of his book ‘Your Slides Suck!’ through training people in how to produce better visual presentations as well as his main gig which is designing and producing engaging, compelling and effective presentations. Connect with David… LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/ Website: www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/ Or to book a free 15-minute consultation: calendly.com/tspm/15min DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests. Please conduct your own due diligence. External links may be provided to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of external sites. As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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    26 mins
  • 002 - We've upped our branding game - so up yours!

    002 - We've upped our branding game - so up yours!
    Nov 11 2021
    DESCRIPTION

    It’s a subject close to our heart especially Vicky as it’s her thing! So in this first look at branding we want to encourage you to up your branding game. We also take a look at some amusing branding fails and there are some links below which we mention in the show. Visual branding is vital to give the right impression but we know of course it’s not just about that at all. So what are we talking about in this episode?

    • The excellent Ethan and his Burlington brand values
    • How to get more kisses!
    • How an Asda van driver gave me a warm fuzzy feeling
    • Branding fails – dodgy domains and laughable logos
    • Sandwich deals
    • Useless washing powder
    • Brilliant and boring bank brands
    LINKS

    See more dodgy domain names at https://www.boredpanda.com/worst-domain-names Look at more laughable logos at https://thelogocompany.net/top-20-rude-logos/

    ABOUT THE HOSTS – VICKY VAUGHAN

    Vicky is a Chartered Marketer and Branding Consultant at The Brand Surgery, which is celebrating 20 years of brand health in 2022. Vicky is committed to revitalising and rejuvenating brand vitality across the UK though a combination of creative design, brand coaching and corporate social responsibility. She helps business owners keep their brands in tip top shape through accurate diagnosis and bespoke prescriptions and solutions. Vicky recently created a CPD accredited course (22 CPD hours) called ‘Marketing Psychology from the Inside Out’ which has already helped hundreds of students to superpower their personal and business brands. 

    Connect with Vicky…

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/victoriavaughan-brand-soul-coach

    Website: www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk

    To book a free 15-minute consultation either call Vicky on 07909 693172 or book a time online at: thebrandsurgery.as.me/

    ABOUT THE HOSTS – DAVID HENSON

    David is known as The Slide Presentation Man. He helps business owners produce better presentations when using slides. This can be anything from selling copies of his book ‘Your Slides Suck!’ through training people in how to produce better visual presentations as well as his main gig which is designing and producing engaging, compelling and effective presentations.

    Connect with David…

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/

    Website: www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/

    Or to book a free 15-minute consultation: calendly.com/tspm/15min

    DISCLAIMER

    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests. Please conduct your own due diligence. External links may be provided to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of external sites.

    As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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    20 mins
  • 001 - How far can you take the F in Fun?

    001 - How far can you take the F in Fun?
    Oct 14 2021
    DESCRIPTION

    As we’ve said, and as you can glean from the title of our podcast, we want to make sure that we have fun and that you get great value from our chats as well as having a bit of a laugh. But how far can we take it? What are the limits of having fun in business? In our first podcast we investigate this and cover such things as:

    • Our hats!
    • Why people should fall out of love with Bad Dave
    • How far can you go without damaging your brand?
    • Stop telling us to be kind!
    • The offence spectrum
    • Getting into the Habito habit
    • Wokery – good or bad?
    • The implicit bias test
    • How to be different and stand out
    LINKS

    Harvard implicit bias test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

    ABOUT THE HOSTS – VICKY VAUGHAN

    Vicky is a Chartered Marketer and Branding Consultant at The Brand Surgery, which is celebrating 20 years of brand health in 2022. Vicky is committed to revitalising and rejuvenating brand vitality across the UK though a combination of creative design, brand coaching and corporate social responsibility. She helps business owners keep their brands in tip top shape through accurate diagnosis and bespoke prescriptions and solutions. Vicky recently created a CPD accredited course (22 CPD hours) called ‘Marketing Psychology from the Inside Out’ which has already helped hundreds of students to superpower their personal and business brands. 

    Connect with Vicky…

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/victoriavaughan-brand-soul-coach

    Website: www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk

    To book a free 15-minute consultation either call Vicky on 07909 693172 or book a time online at: thebrandsurgery.as.me/

    ABOUT THE HOSTS – DAVID HENSON

    David is known as The Slide Presentation Man. He helps business owners produce better presentations when using slides. This can be anything from selling copies of his book ‘Your Slides Suck!’ through training people in how to produce better visual presentations as well as his main gig which is designing and producing engaging, compelling and effective presentations.

    Connect with David…

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/

    Website: www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/

    Or to book a free 15-minute consultation: calendly.com/tspm/15min

    DISCLAIMER

    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests. Please conduct your own due diligence. External links may be provided to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of external sites.

    As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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    23 mins
  • 000 - The FUNdamentals...

    000 - The FUNdamentals...
    Sep 16 2021

    DESCRIPTION

    Welcome to Putting the F in Fun, where we take topics of interest to you and your business and discuss and dissect them in a fun and irreverent way. In episode zero, we’ll tell you what we’re all about and, hopefully, give you a sense of the fun we want to bring to our podcasts (as well as the value we intend to deliver)  So, what’s it all about?

    • We think fun is fundamental
    • We want to seek out and silence the fun suckers!
    • Introducing Bad Dave and Jo Brand
    • And Vicky and Dave’s values
    • Getting to grips with our gigs
    • The 4 Ps – Planning and Preparation Preferably in a Pub!

    LINKS Here are the links to our websites…

    Vicky: thebrandsurgery.co.uk

    Dave: theslidepresentationman.co.uk

    ABOUT THE HOSTS – VICKY VAUGHAN

    Vicky is a Chartered Marketer and Branding Consultant at The Brand Surgery, which is celebrating 20 years of brand health in 2022. Vicky is committed to revitalising and rejuvenating brand vitality across the UK though a combination of creative design, brand coaching and corporate social responsibility. She helps business owners keep their brands in tip top shape through accurate diagnosis and bespoke prescriptions and solutions.

    Vicky recently created a CPD accredited course (22 CPD hours) called ‘Marketing Psychology from the Inside Out’ which has already helped hundreds of students to superpower their personal and business brands. 

    Connect with Vicky…

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/victoriavaughan-brand-soul-coach

    Website: www.thebrandsurgery.co.uk

    To book a free 15-minute consultation either call Vicky on 07909 693172 or book a time online at: thebrandsurgery.as.me/

    ABOUT THE HOSTS – DAVID HENSON

    David is known as The Slide Presentation Man. He helps business owners produce better presentations when using slides. This can be anything from selling copies of his book ‘Your Slides Suck!’ through training people in how to produce better visual presentations as well as his main gig which is designing and producing engaging, compelling and effective presentations.

    Connect with David…

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/

    Website: www.theslidepresentationman.co.uk/

    Or to book a free 15-minute consultation: calendly.com/tspm/15min

    DISCLAIMER

    The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts and guests. Please conduct your own due diligence. External links may be provided to other websites. We are not responsible for the content of external sites.

    As Amazon Associates, we earn from qualifying purchases.
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    8 mins