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Cody Wanner is a video creator who spent every day of 2018 uploading a new video to youtube and finding a way to make every day an adventure! Cody transitioned from a job within a production company that he founded, to full-time YouTube in 2018. We discuss the transition and how he now helps other brands and local business create 'vlog-style' videos to help tell their story online.

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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/rcwninja

Twitter: https://twitter.com/codywanner

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codywanner/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/codyvlog/

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Jake Rich is a travel creator and educator from Australia. We sit down today to talk about how he built a sustainable career as a travel creator, the ups and downs of creating whilst travelling and what he learnt from spending a year and a half working on an Ice Cream brand's social media content strategy.   

Check Jake out on:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jakerich55

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jakerichtravels/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjakerich

Jake's new company: 

https://www.notjustcolour.com/

https://www.instagram.com/notjustcolour/

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Dillon Osborne is a creative in every sense of the word. 15 years in graphic design, a photographer, filmmaker and storyteller based in Belfast. Dillon and I sit down to have a really interesting conversation that includes a discussion about the different platforms and where we think our content actually belongs.

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Monika Wilczynska is a multi-award-winning filmmaker, writer and photographer published in print with an all-consuming love for travel. It was really inspiring to sit down and talk with Monika about everything from being at Cannes film festival to taking risks and leaving the comfortable 9-5 lifestyle behind for something more, and the importance of sharing and talking about mental health online. 

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On today's episode, I talk with Olie Martin and Jack Rubinstein. Long time friends and collaborators, Jack and Oli started their creative journey as adventure-driven filmmakers in 2011 when they took part in the Mongol Rally driving 10,000 miles from the UK to Mongolia in a skoda fabia with a yak-shaped roof box. That journey was turned into a feature-length travel doc and released on YouTube. Following on, they both worked for the BBC Earth’s YouTube network, where they spent time in the wilderness with a Sami Reindeer herder, held the heart of an Amur Tiger, and met the main man himself, David Attenborough.

They’ve since branched out on their own, Oli to Austria where he's exploring the Alps and developed films for Red Bull and Jack to Australia as a freelance filmmaker and to build up his surfing skills.

On this week's episode, I sit down to talk with my friend Dru Williams. Award-winning cinematographer, who used to be a professional Snowboarder now currently living in Utah where he runs his own production company, 43 Productions. Still shooting extreme sports in the mountains as well as creating short films and working with brands making bespoke content. Dru was a blast to talk to and knows so much about the world of filming in harsh conditions, which is something I'm fascinated by. He also has his very own Podcast 'Take 43'.

Find Dru's podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/show/2jW0aO9MqYFndIcIAhFukV?si=v7j2FjwmQkCLPEbSq6GKFw

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On today's episode of the Podcast, I talk with Mike Will the founder of the Instagram collective UK Shooters. UK Shooters is a community of talented photographers, Mike talks to me about how he grew the page into a thriving community of creatives and how he balances the life of managing these pages with travelling all across the world and being a professional Ice Hockey player. 

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On today's episode, I talk with Genetics PhD, Content Creator & Science communicator Alex Dainis about her Science focused YouTube channel and how she is bringing storytelling to the world of science. 

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Today on the Podcast I have my first threesome with Alex and Brain of the Nowhere Men! The Nowhere Men make short docs about human connection & inspiring people. Alex and Brain talk to me about how they transitioned from content creators into the world of Directing and Producing high-end commercials and short films for brands like Seamless. They tell me about how in 2020 they are finding the balance between paid client work and telling their own stories as the Nowhere Men and the process they are putting in place to maintain that balance. 

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Today on the podcast I chat with Tech Content Creator GadgetsBoy, about how he found his place in the world of Tech in the online space. We also discuss our experiences working with brands and how to build better relationships with the people inside your favourite companies. 

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Today I'm joined on the Podcast by Mike Chudley, Mike is a Freelance Filmmaker and Photographer. Mike found success at a young age on YouTube uploading BMX videos and now produces high-quality work for clients whilst maintaining his side hustle of YouTube tutorials. We also talk about his recent success on Tiktok and we look back at my time on Snapchat and how I managed to grow an audience on a platform that wasn't designed for mass growth.

Check out Red Bull Origins here: https://youtu.be/xAQy_VXcqbg

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Today I'm so happy to have the master Live stream producer, Alex Pettitt o the Podcast with me. Alex runs some of the best live stream setups in the UK, working behind the scenes for True Geordie, The FA and Lego, alongside travelling the world producing social content for brands like Formule E and Red Bull. It was a pleasure to find out how Alex built his business from starting out as an early adopter on the app Periscope to now managing weekly shows for a number of big-name brands.

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