ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Don't Shoot The Messenger is a podcast by Vicki Marinker, bringing you interesting conversations about careers in communications. Vicki talks with experts in PR, corporate communications, internal comms and more - discussing everything from starting a career in comms, to managing a full-scale corporate crisis. This is the podcast for you, if you want to get ahead in communications.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 78 days
Average audio length:
31 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United Kingdom
34 episodes
since Sept. 10, 2020
episodic
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How do you secure a job share role, and once in, how do you make it work?
In this episode, two guests join us to share their experiences of job sharing. Will McDonald and Natasha Liedl-McDowall took different routes into job sharing. We talked about:
📣 How to win over sceptical stakeholders 📣 Th…
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Jo Coxhill is on a mission to make work not suck.
An expert in employee experience, organisational culture and internal communication, Jo helps companies boost performance and build happier, healthier, more engaged teams.
She’s also a burnout advocate, speaker, and fellow of the IoIC, known for he…
Here's the latest 'Job Search SOS' episode.
I'm back with Lucy Cairncross, MD of VMA GROUP to tackle the questions keeping job seekers up at night.
This episode is packed with straight-talking advice on:
📣 Cover letters: why they still matter (despite what everyone tells you), a…
This week I’m bringing you another Job Search SOS episode, a recording of a Q&A webinar I ran in mid January 2025, with Lucy Cairncross. the MD of VMA Group, the recruitment specialist for communications, marketing, digital and change roles. We answered questions from the communications communi…
Nessa O'Gorman is a global product and marketing strategist who has had several career pivots. From an early career as an interpreter, she moved into marketing and product development, launching Expedia's first loyalty programme across 14 countries. And now Nessa has a new passion - wellb…
Lucy Cairncross is the MD of VMA GROUP, the specialist marketing and communications recruitment and executive search firm.In this special episode of the podcast, I'm bringing you a recording of a Q&A session Lucy and I hosted for our communities of communications professionals, frustrated …
Louisa Houghton is Head of Communications at VMO2 Business. She is a storyteller and writer at her core. And having worked in the fast-paced world of telecoms for most of her career, she has experienced the speed of change from the inside.In this episode, we talk about how her mission to achieve ha…
Nicole Bearne had a fascinating communications career in Formula 1 and is now a board director at Motorsport UK, and an employee experience consultant.
Working in an organisation with such big budgets and high profile has given Nicole so many unique experiences (bumping into Brad Pitt at work being…
Shan Chatoo calls herself a communications warrior. Alongside her work as a comms professional, she now combines the skill she’s developed in communication, with her passion for weights, to empower women to build mental and physical resilience.
In this episode Shan will inspire you with her epic ac…
Polly Evans oversees UK audio production for the world’s largest interactive audio platform for kids.
She started her career at the BBC, moving into reporting and becoming a TV news anchor.
This episode is about a life and career-changing moment that happened to her on live TV, in front of hundreds…
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