Sunday 24 December 2017

Episode #8: CHRISTMAS! With Special Guest, Gemma!

We are Jenni and Marc, we have been friends for years and we’re writing a book…join us on our journey…It’s Christmas time, there’s no need to be afraid…we’re here!



This episode includes:
- Our guest (and friend of the show) we discuss motivation techniques used in schools, managing your time, the importance of a digital detox and why it’s important to elevate the quality of your work and life balance...but who is Granny Flymo?
- We talk about listening to "white noise" on youtube to help productivity
- We talk achievement chains!
- We talk feedback - do we need feedback from an audience yet? Would you like to read what we’ve written so far?
- We talk about Ed Catmull's Creativity Inc and Jen Sincero's You Are a Badass
- Hear us reminisce about our teenager days and where we used to shop (…you’re welcome)
- Christmas lists…namely Tom Hanks new book and the new Harry Potter books from the British Library (Harry Potter A History of Magic and Harry Potter, a Journey Through the History of Magic). How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb (you can find Richard Herring’s interview with Robert Webb here). Pete Tong’s Philharmonic album. Richard Ayoade’s Book, the Grip of Film. Mary Beard’s Women on Power. Pitch Perfect.

Things we’ve learnt from recording episode 8 of POW podcast UK:

- Since we’ve started podcasting we have added 13,000 to our book. So far, as we draw to the end of 2017, we are at a total word count of 31,000 - yessssss!
- As well as being a superstar young person educator, Gemma is also part of a sensational acapella singing group - follow them at @avenue_acapella
- We learn that Jessie J’s “Man with the Bag” is a silly song
- We learn Jenni’s vomit related stories
- If you want to find the facebook group “Writing About Writing”, you can find it here.

Today’s management meeting is supported by festive drinks (namely Snowballs and Cinnamon&Vanilla Baileys)

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Music:"Clap Your Hands" by Scott Holmes

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Thursday 7 December 2017

Episode #7: Our Survey Says...

Welcome to Procrastinate or Write!

Its our survey episode! A few weeks back, you may recall taking part in our survey about the things that make YOU procrastinate and what you do to stop...well here are the results...and that's not all...this is the very first time, in POWpodcastUK history, that an episode has been recorded with Jenni and Marc being in the same room...we think you'll agree it's a marvellous joy to put upon your ears!

We are helped by coffee and the antics of Jen's beautiful dog, Boo. As well as the survey, we discuss writing fanzines and have a good old catch up! Enjoy!

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We also talked about...

  • Chocolate biscuits
  • Whiskey and what time it is appropriate to start drinking whiskey (it is about 11.25am)   
  • Taskmaster
  • Ru Paul's Drag Race AllStars
  • Tom Hank's new book
  • Voices for dogs
  • Social media and Marc's 'no internet - back to the dark ages' campaign 
  • Fanzines!  
  • Marc's childcare tips
  • And lots of chat about our survey results - THANK YOU if you took part, you are amazing! 

Follow us on twitter: @POWpodcastUK
Email us at: powpodcastuk@gmail.com
Support our podcast by “buying us a beer”

Music: "Clap Your Hands" by Scott Holmes

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