We’re thrilled to announce the latest addition to the TPC team, our new Community Events Facilitator, Nicola Twiston Davies 🎉
As one of our early Founding Members – and with years of experience hosting hundreds of events, workshops and games nights – we couldn’t be more excited to have Nicola onboard and can’t wait to see what she adds to our events!
We’d love for you to join us in welcoming her to the team 🙌
Absolutely thrilled for you …and us Nicola. Delighted to see you go to the dark side. Congrats and very best wishes adding this string to your bow. Sadly (not that sad I need a rest!) I may be away so will miss the Fireside. Good Luck.
Thanks so much to everyone who joined us on today’s Fireside – they really are a highlight of my month! In summary, we talked about:
– overcoming the feeling of needing to know/be seen to have ”everything” in place before we begin,
– changing assumptions that are made about us,
– networking with diverse experiences from rising stars to established names to learn from different points of view,
– understanding your value and how to talk it up,
– creating clarity so that both parties meet expectations,
– using generalist superpowers and when to niche,
– managing your workload as you would crops – so that they don’t all ripen at once…
– and so much more.
There were a few questions that I couldn’t quite get to (which I love btw, thanks for asking such great questions!) so I thought I’d ask these to our brilliant panel on here instead…
I’ll speak to both the investment in self and success questions:
I know I’m going to sound biased but coaching was hugely useful for me and it’s ultimately why I ended up also becoming trained as a coach. I was miserable at my 9-5 and so having someone else to talk to and challenge me and hold me accountable to change was why I ended up saying yes to a freelance gig and not a fulltime job offer.
That’s the mental side of things – as a freelancer you’re often going to c…
Excited for this one! Ironically, we can learn together about learning together 👌🏼