Pr Talk

Take a break with us, it is Fika Time after all!!!!! Watch all Fika Talk episodes at https://www.veracityagency.com/fika-talk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We had a special talk with Parvaneh (Parv) Kalantari, owner of Vitality Home Realty and her 9 year old son, TK. First we got to celebrate their family’s afternoon tradition of homemade Arabic coffee as she told us about how her family gathered to drink it every Friday afternoon as the kids ran around crazy at Parv’s grandma’s house. Parv’s mom is from Syria and her dad is from Iran, so Parv weaved in more about the food and cultures of these areas throughout the interview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get ready for a long one that roughly (really roughly!) details the history of our company as I can’t talk about growing a business alongside the age of kids without doing that.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fika Talk #4: Interview with Diane and Maya Sykes On Friday we did a late Fika Talk so we could celebrate another culture's tradition by lighting the Shabbat candles with our Jewish neighbors Diane and Maya Sykes. After hearing their prayer we learned about how Diane set up her law practice, Diane S Sykes Attorney at Law, after her husband nudged her to do so (interesting the similarities we might find). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How the act of shedding unnecessary or unwanted things, yes even clients or jobs, can be beneficial in the end. Less is more. See them all at https://www.veracityagency.com/fika-talk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How Volunteering Can Boost Resumes And Even Launch Businesses Three Professional Volunteer Ideas That Will Add Skills And Increase Connections  You may have heard recent notions from leaders in the small business community nudging people who have lost their jobs towards volunteer work. When I first heard this idea I was taken aback because I thought maybe that was an insensitive comment for those that were likely scrambling to find new work or make some extra money any way they know how.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Announcing a new series my daughter, Audrey, and I are putting together called Fika Talk, inspired by our time in Sweden where the Fika state-of-mind reigns. Highly regarded as an essential part of life and business within the Swedish culture, the Fika break occurs in the afternoon. It is a revered time to recharge and connect with colleagues and friends over coffee and cake.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coronavirus PR Management & Insights into Science PR A Special Episode with Marvin Stockwell, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Only another PR person would drop what they are doing to help other PR people during what must be a very busy time. That’s why I love our community of giving, helpful PR friends around the globe. Today I got on the phone with Marvin Stockwell, Director of Media Relations at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. You might remember him from my PRSA ICON episode where I recapped a few of the sessions in a series of mini interviews. In his portion, Marvin recounted his experience participating in Pitch Tank, the PR person’s version of Shark Tank, where he pitched three PR ideas to a panel of media judges to land on St. Jude’s new nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer as the winning PR idea.   Read the entire write-up at https://www.veracityagency.com/podcast/covid-19/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Engage right around the corner, host Amy Rosenberg sat down with Wil for a preview of his keynote and talked about how data will change marketing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Three Voices from PRSA ICON 2019 Earlier this fall, PR Talk Podcast host Amy Rosenberg attended the PRSA International Conference (ICON) in San Diego. In addition to learning new tips and techniques her team is already putting into practice for Veracity’s clients, Amy had the opportunity to sit down with three conference presenters to hear their perspective on the PR profession.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An APR jumpstart transforms service-providers into C-suite advisers Read the entire recap at https://www.veracityagency.com/public-relations/the-apr/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

PR Talk host Amy Rosenberg talks with Kim about connecting local business to the larger trends that matter as well as tips for PRs seeking coverage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tricking Ourselves Into Doing Our New Year’s Resolutions  We Uncover Our Personal Tendencies from Gretchen Rubin’s Habit Change Quiz  In this PR Talk episode, Mike and I uncover our own tendencies, discussing how they relate to each other, while also touching on the other tendencies and how each might approach PR.  Read the entire write-up at https://www.veracityagency.com/podcast/habit-change/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you ready for Small Business Saturday?  With Small Business Saturday on the horizon, we think it is a perfect time to rerun our interview with small business expert Steve Strauss. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the PR Talk podcast, Elyse joins host Amy Rosenberg for a conversation about her event philosophy and why ROI may be the wrong framework to measure an event’s success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For more than a decade, Talia Beckett Davis has blazed a trail for women in the Canadian PR industry and here in the states. She’s the owner of Pink Pearl PR — which works with luxury brands targeting female consumers — and FEMpreneur, an agency helping female entrepreneurs thrive through personalized coaching. If that isn’t enough, Talia is also the founder of The Organization of Canadian Women in PR and its cross-border cousin, The Organization of American Women in PR.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the PR Talk Podcast, Amy Rosenberg chats with Dr. Rhoda Weiss, CEO of Rhoda Weiss & Associates, Inc. and this year’s chair of the PRSA International Conference in San Diego. During their conversation, Rhoda shares some fascinating tidbits about her long history in PR and gives podcast listeners the full download on what attendees can expect from the upcoming conference.  Read the entire recap at https://www.veracityagency.com/podcast/rhoda-weiss/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Living Our Best PR Life” is Mark Mohammadpour’s Motto as He Helps Communications Pros Thrive In this episode of the PR Talk podcast, Amy Rosenberg sits down for an extended talk with Mark Mohammadpour of Chasing the Sun — a health coaching company for communications professionals.  During their conversation, Mark shares the story of his weight-loss journey and how that personal transformation inspired him to help his colleagues live happier and healthier lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bringing PR into the Digital Age with Cision’s Rebecca Dersh If you’re a PR pro, you’ve probably already used Cision to pull media lists. However, as Amy found out in this interview with Rebecca Dersh — Public Relations Manager for Cision — the platform can do so much more.  As Rebecca describes it, Cision is a software solution helping PR and communication pros reach, target, and engage their audience. During the course of Amy and Rebecca’s chat, we discover how tools like Cision can help us justify our activities to our clients and open the door for more strategic work. Read the entire recap at https://www.veracityagency.com/podcast/rebecca-dersh/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mark Knowles On So Much More Than Swivel Two secrets to Mark Knowles’ success, both personally and professionally, are to always be curious, and to fail fast and learn from those failures. I interviewed Mark for Episode 70 of the PR Talk podcast. We had a candid conversation about a range of topics that went beyond the upcoming marketing conference he’s organizing in Bend called Swivel and delved into float planes, intention setting, serial entrepreneurialism and more. Besides organizing Swivel, Mark is a principal at Smartz (digital marketing) and The Growler Guys (craft beer), and is the CEO of Pixelsilk (an SEO-friendly CMS). At the end of the interview we learned about how his entrepreneurship began with the proverbial lemonade stand. Read the entire recap at https://www.veracityagency.com/podcast/mark-knowles/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices