Posts tagged media
In the pod
Feb 19th
We’re presently trying to find out where to host some audio clips I want to put on the site, with little progress to date. But I’m pleased to say you can listen immediately to me talking about the challenges of working from home by going to Freelance Advisor, an excellent site full of good advice for anyone already working as a freelancer or contemplating taking the plunge.
The podcast came about as a result of the spontaneous call I made to Radio Bristol after receiving a tweet one snowy morning telling me the subject under discussion was working at home in bad weather. Somehow the editor of Freelance Advisor heard the clip and invited me to do the podcast. And all accomplished sitting at my desk at home – amazing!
Hanging on the telephone
Jan 13th
The telephone seems to be the the theme of today. I was here at the keyboard this morning ready to tell you about the teleseminar I’m doing next week with Inspired Entrepreneur founder Nick Williams, when I received a tweet telling me Radio Bristol were doing a phone-in on working from home at that very moment.
So I googled their phone number and minutes later was chatting to radio show host Graham Torrington about how British businesses can be persuaded to let more staff work from home! Certainly gave me a buzz to start the day on! It’s about five minutes and you can listen again – start the recording at 40 minutes 20 seconds.
Anyway, back to the teleseminar. Nick Williams helps people sick of working just to pay the bills to find their real purpose in life and start making plans to earn a living from it. He runs courses and events and also calls on a range of experts well-respected in their fields. I’ve benefited enormously from their experience and will be recommending some of them in future pages.
So I’m very honoured that Nick has asked me to be part of his programme. The teleseminar is next Monday evening – not much notice, but the recording will be available afterwards – and we’ll be talking about how to get the very best from working from home. Which just happens to be one of my favourite activities, so I’m really looking forward to it!
How work is changing
Dec 8th
There were the usual stories of people who used to have to go to an office but can now work abroad or from their garden sheds, but what caught my attention was the question of how we avoid a two-tier society when essential services still have to be supplied by people who can’t work at home and often have to work long, anti-social hours in unpleasant conditions.
I feel that really needs addressing now, and maybe there will be some pointers in the book written by Richard Donkin, who was the major contributor to the programme. It’s called The Future of Work
and will be fascinating to compare to American Daniel Pink’s Free Agent Nation.
What particularly bothers me is that government and the law seems unwilling or incapable of keeping up with the changes in the way people work, which after all don’t happen overnight but over a long period of time, but more about that another time.
From home office to radio studio
Sep 16th
I had my first shot at live radio last week when I was invited on BBC Radio Somerset’s Morning Show with Emma Britton. Emma travels around the county on the BBC Somerset Bus, but I was away when it came to the Frome area, so I drove to the studio in Taunton to talk about the pros and cons of working from home.
Emma is a very enthusiastic and engaging host, and made it easy for me to relax and chat about my experience of home working, writing the book and the upcoming workshop on Saturday 26 September. You can listen to the interview until midday on Friday 18. It starts at 1.01.15 for about 10 minutes.
