Young PR Pros Episode 122

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If this podcast were to go silent for 30 seconds, what would you do? Would you immediately switch over to another app, say Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to check what is going on until the podcast came back on air?

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Young PR Pros Episode 116

Originally posted on youngprpros.ca on January 19, 2016.

Episode #116: Concrete Steps to Help Learn from your Mistakes

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Kristine shares a story about getting caught with an unlicensed image on her blog. She was sent a letter from a lawyer and had to pay a fee. The image was from a post published in 2011, she had just launched her blog that year. Ignorance is not an excuse to break the law, however. So she paid the fine and added this to her important list of lessons learned.

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Young PR Pros Episode 115

Originally posted on youngprpros.ca on December 20, 2016.

Episode #115: The 12 PR Days of Christmas

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In honour of the traditional 1900s English Christmas carol, or for those born in the 80s – the Bob and Doug Christmas classic, we thought we would do our own 12 Days of Christmas. Listen to the full episode to catch Young PR Pros’ 12 Days of PR Christmas.

We divided the 12 days into three categories: books, movies and activities.

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Young PR Pros Episode 113

Originally posted on youngpros.ca on October 20, 2016.

Episode #113: Making career choices

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The average person will make a career change approximately five to seven times during their working life. With an ever increasing number of different career choices, about 1/3 of the total workforce will now change jobs every 12 months. By the age of 42 you may have had about ten jobs, says Career Change Statistics.

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Young PR Pros Episode 112

Originally posted on youngprpros.ca on September 14, 2016.

Episode #112: The Entrepreneur’s Show

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Once upon a time, there lived this driven young man who dreamed about becoming an entrepreneur. One day, he used all his allowance to purchase different coloured do-rags and sell them out of his locker at school, turning his allowance money into pure profit!

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Young PR Pros Episode 111

Originally published on youngprpros.ca. 

Episode #111: The Definition of PR

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Who can relate: you introduce yourself to an acquaintance at a friend’s party. They ask you what you do for a living. You say you work in PR. You get a blank stare and most people respond with: oh so like advertising, or my personal favourite, you must spin the media.

Well Young PR Pros has had enough, so we sat down as a team and put together our own definition.

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Young Pr Pros Episode 110

Originally published on youngprpros.ca on July 12, 2016.

Episode #110: Women in PR

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There are more female PR professionals than female nurses. That is a pretty staggering number, especially when only 20 percent of upper management PR roles are held by women.

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Young Pr Pros Episode 108

My first produced episode of Young PR Pros, a show on the FIR podcast network. Published April 26, 2016. 

Originally published on youngprpros.ca.

Episode #108: Our First Jobs, and a New Member of the Family

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The Young PR Pros family is expanding. We welcome Clare Bonnyman as our new assistant producer. Clare has extensive background in radio editing. We hope her skills will make the show sound even better in your ear buds on your commute, in the office, or wherever you listen. OH, and Julia Kent welcomed her new son into the world on April 6.

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The Story of Studio 212

An unpublished longer-form mini-drama, about the last radio drama dedicated space in North America, which happened to be CBC’s Studio 212 in Toronto, Ontario.

Written, performed and produced by Clare Bonnyman, 2016.

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