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The PRCA MENA Regional Awards celebrate the best of the best PR and communications campaigns, teams and individuals across the Middle East and North Africa. The awards are open to all parties involved in the use of PR and communications; PR consultancies, freelancers, in-house communications departments, digital agencies and media owners. The awards are entering their 3rd year and in this podcast we interview Lauren Brush, our Rising Star winner from 2018, to discuss her experience and how the win has affected her both personally and professionally.

Join Graeme Sands (Head of Business Banking at CYBG) and Pablo Shah (Economist at Cebr) for this episode of ‘In Conversation With’ as they discuss the latest findings of the quarterly SME Health Check Index. Could the UK economy be start to show signs of recovery following a slow start to the year? You can check out the report for yourself here https://www.cybg.com/resources/b827cace-92ba-4903-b124-55e7395fe8c7/CYBG+SME+Q2+2018+p5.pdf

The Local Shop Report is a comprehensive look at the 46,262 stores in the convenience sector, the people running those stores and the customers that use them every day. In this podcast, Chris Noice and James Lowman sit down with Jill Livesey from HIM to discuss the findings of the report, what they mean for the sector and what retailers should be looking out for in the future. The full report is available free to download on the ACS website. www.acs.org.uk www.acs.org.uk/research/local-shop-report

Keeping up with the Influencers: Influencer impulse outweighing savvy saving? 15-24yr olds check their social media feeds on average 30 times a day, parting with £3bn a year.

We’re joined In Conversation With comedian and social commentator, Jenny Éclair to discuss how British-isms could be causing us more stress than they’re worth. Our quirks as British people may be part of what binds us a nation, but being constantly uptight, overly-polite and queueing for hours on end can have a very detrimental effect on our postures and general stress-related health.

Britain still has a long way to go to break the perceived taboo of grief and death despite high‐profile cases of opening up and talking freely, suggests the largest national survey of its kind. The past year or so has seen the likes of ex‐England and Manchester United footballer, Rio Ferdinand and Sky Sports presenter, Simon Thomas speaking from the heart about the loss of their wives. They expressed clearly how they dealt with their grief process through the likes of counselling, yet despite this only one in 50 Brits have sought external help following a bereavement. The survey, conducted by Co‐op Funeralcare, asked 30,000 Brits about their thoughts, feelings and concerns around dying, grief and losing loved ones and found that seven in ten (70%) of us had lost someone close in the past five years. To discuss the nation’s attitudes towards death, grief and sharing their concerns are TV presenter and cancer survivor, Carol McGiffin, who also lost her sister to cancer in 2017 alongside David Collingwood from Co‐op Funeralcare.

It's A-Level day and students across the country will be waking today recognising it as one of the most significant in their young lives, it is the completion of another part of their journey in life and will provide the trigger for the next chapter. With the arrival of each key milestone there is another factor which students may not be entirely aware of, which is the incredible impact of the hard work and determination through their education on their parents. Victoria Stakelum, Deputy CEO at Arden University is in conversation to offer advice to people who think they could be doing more with their lives – but don’t know how.  Victoria also provides insight into how current students can shape their future and what their next steps might be.

Description: Conversation around eating habits in the family home from all different family members, encouraging Brits to use Bosch appliances as they cater to all different types of cooking. Bosch understands have a busy day and a busy lifestyle, and it is there to help you uncomplicate your cooking in a complicated world and they want to let listeners know that they provide the solutions to this modern-day cooking challenge.

Jamie Douglas Hamilton founded Actiph Water after setting two world records rowing 4,200 miles from Australia to Africa across the Indian Ocean. The gruelling journey which saw team members burn 8-10,000 calories and drink 13 litres of water a day - suffering hallucinations and passing out as a result -  was Jamie’s inspiration for creating Actiph Water. The eureka moment came when a team member mixed fresh water with sea water. The effect was so profound the crew started to mix every second bottle of drinking water with one third sea water, replacing essential minerals. This had a dramatic effect, producing less hallucinations and leaving the crew feeling energised after rebalancing their bodies. Realising the vital role hydration plays in performance and wellbeing has led Jamie to create the first alkaline ionised bottled water made in Great Britain. It is made by purifying spring water from Shropshire, adding electrolytes, then supercharged by ionisation to remove all the acidic ions, leaving a smooth tasting, alkaline water that is refreshing and easy to drink. In this podcast we talk to Jamie about his journey from bedroom to boardroom and what his plans are for the future. www.actiphwater.com

Gumtree is launching the ‘Etiquette of Buying and Selling Online’ guide to help us manage our awkwardness and steer us into becoming experts when buying and selling online. Whether you are selling your old car or purchasing something for your new home, Gumtree want to help boost your confidence and enable you to buy and sell successfully on online marketplaces. In this podcast, we listen to Gavin Presman, expert negotiator and author of the guide, working alongside Gumtree to offer advice on how to best conduct a transaction from first post to final transaction. Gumtree’s free guide can be downloaded from their site now.