Communication Consultant and Storytelling Coach
When you’re trying to share a meaningful message, how do you make sure to be heard?
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How do you communicate when your budget is almost zero? When I started out with my documentary series on African migrants around the world I invested exactly £30. That was enough to book me a flight to Oslo and start taking pictures of migrants there. As the ambitions for the documentary grew, the investment required…
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How do you grab people’s attention if you’re not Kim Kardashian? This question popped during a training session I delivered in London for a group of change-makers. They were frustrated by the struggle of reaching a wider audience when promoting messages of solidarity. I’ve been meditating on this topic for long so I had my…
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Isn’t it odd how try something new can make us feel so unsettled? This goes for our online lives as well. Someone attending one of my workshops told me: “I am completely lost with social media. People say I should use a call to action, but can I use more than one? Will that be…
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“Bea, the best things in life take time”. That was my friend Yuhong back at graduate school. I can’t even remember what was the context in which she said that I had to be patient, but I know from time to time I have to re-listen to those words. As change-makers, we itch for change…
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One of the most difficult things in life is to start, take action. Start eating healthy, start writing the book, start doing sport, start being kinder … What if that taking action meant deleting everything you have done before and re-start from scratch again? In our daily lives, it might mean changing the city, circle…
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What have you shared in 2019 that really made a difference? You can tell because is the blog post that had more hits, the social media post with more comments, the newsletter with the higher click rate, the video after which people sent you grateful messages. For me, what I share aims to help changemakers…
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Every night before going to bed or early in the morning when everyone else is still sleeping, my routine training session starts. I pick up a book from the bed-stand shelf and feed my brain, one chapter a day. For me is an informal way to keep updated on communication and marketing to offer always…
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From free call consultations to one-to-one sessions, workshops, bespoken trainings, there are many ways we can start shaping your message in the most original, authentic and successful way
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It’s the end of the year, which means it’s time to look back at 2019 to reflect. Without further ado, here are the lessons I have learned from a year spent working towards my dreams. Do something that scares you (every day) to remind yourself how awesome you are and how much you can get…
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One of the biggest achievements of 2019, has been running my first 5KM race. In preparation for the big event, I trained. I woke up every morning when everyone was still asleep, Nike run training in my ears, start walking then jogging and eventually running. Each session I had an objective: run without stopping, run…
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“Do you have any luggage to check in?” The hostess asks me. She is incomprehensibly annoyed and doesn’t make eye contact. I answer: “None”. That’s when she stares at me surprised and repeats: “None??” I can tell what she is really asking is you’re travelling to Africa, how can you have no luggage to check…
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In a conversation over Instagram Tomi Makanjuola shared with me the five tips to self-make your communication if you are a change-maker. Tomi is a chef and the founder of The Vegan Nigerian, a blog and company approaching Nigerian food from a whole different angle: veganism. As reported by the pan-African platform This is Africa:…
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One of the first hashtag I saw when joining Instagram was something related to suicide. At the time it seemed to confirm the idea that maybe that platform wasn’t for me but now I realise that wasn’t my usual solution-based reaction. For the past couple of months I have been running a Facebook live show…
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Hands up if you have heard this one before: if you want to be heard you have to SCREAM. Where scream doesn’t necessarily mean with your voice but with every other feature we use to communicate: clothes, music, colours, personality. I certainly did. And for a while I beat myself up because I wasn’t loud…
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