Brand Strand &
Founder Stories

Stories of Distinction & Genius
with your host, Motivational Comedian
Chris Grimes

Turning your Business Story into GOLD!

Communicate the essence of your business and share your story to amplify your brand. Together we get into the ‘who-the-what-the-how-the-WHY’ you do what you do. Plus we find out exactly WHERE we can come and find you to work with you and book your services!

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What's it all about?

It's the podcast with the squirrels and the tree from Motivational Comedian Chris Grimes!

Think 'Desert Island Discs' but in a ‘Clearing’ and with Stories rather than Music.

Who are my guests?

In 'The Good Listening To Show' I invite movers & makers, shakers & mavericks, influencers & also personal heroes from the worlds of Arts & Entertainment, Business & Popular Culture into a ‘Clearing’ or ‘serious happy place’ of their choosing to all share with us their remarkable stories of ‘Distinction and Genius’.

WHO ARE MY LISTENERS?

The Good Listening To Show is also broadcast on Chris’s weekly programme on UK Health Radio, which has an audience reach of nearly 2 million listeners across 54 countries. This means that your episode will not only be heard by listeners at home, but also by a wide-ranging international audience abroad. This helps you to raise your profile, boost your brand and grow sales. In addition, all episodes are recorded as either Facebook or LinkedIn LIVES, automatically connecting you with host Chris’s extensive social media network as he records.

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In the series that cuts through the noise of other podcasts, Chris invites his guests to share their life and career journeys to reveal intriguing insights, invaluable tips and advice, and heartwarming anecdotes.

Chris’s guests are guided by a unique and engaging format involving rich storytelling metaphors such as a Tree, a juicy exercise called '5-4-3-2-1', some Alchemy, a bar of Gold, a couple of random Squirrels, a cheeky bit of Shakespeare and a Cake! So, it's all to play for!

Plus, his guests all get to ‘pass along the Golden Baton’ to a NEXT guest of their choosing, to keep the golden thread of the story trail going.

You too can join Chris’s ‘Genius Club’ by becoming his guest. Just choose from one of the show’s different strands, Brand Strand/Founder Stories, Good Books, Corporate, Festival & Theatre Shows, Leadership Reflections and Legacy: Life Reflections, listed below.

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aLchemy for your business...

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Brand Strand / Founder Stories

Are you a Business Owner, Founder or Brand Director? An SME, Marketing Head or Creative Director?

Want to showcase your Brand and business story to a global audience in 54 countries via my weekly radio show? Explain your company or Personal Brand story (& receive your own master recording)?

My 'Brand Strand/Founder Stories' series has a strong and established storytelling format to encourage guests to amplify their brand with an audience of 2 million people. For a small investment, the show offers you a great opportunity to promote your business, grow your brand and boost sales.

Our conversation will help you to:

  • share your Brand story with stakeholders, board members, in-house teams, at your AGM
  • also use it to attract new clients and investors to win sales and raise your profile
  • promote your Personal or Business Brand to secure growth and increase profits

A LARGE AUDIENCE AWAITS YOU

Leadership Reflections

Are you a Leader, CEO, MD, Divisional Head, Entrepreneur, Business Owner or SME Founder?

Does being ‘time-poor’ leave you struggling to communicate? Do you want to share your Leadership experience to benefit colleagues? Or wish you had more time to get your key messages across?

This is your opportunity to tell your story in a way that’s more human and authentic, and less transactional than a scripted, in-house corporate message.

Safe in my hands, you’ll create a memorable and valuable recording you can use all year as you:

  • share your podcast with stakeholders, board members, in-house teams, at your AGM
  • talk about your Leadership style, lessons you’ve learned and your future plans
  • bid a fond farewell to colleagues as you retire, or greet staff as you start a new senior role
  • inspire the next generation of Leaders by sharing some of your wisdom and experience

This is a high-value, low-cost and time-effective solution: a rare opportunity to share your reflections on leadership with internal or external audiences, or both.

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Good Books

Are you an Author, Novelist, Biographer, Poet, Composer or Playwright? A Publisher, Agent or Festival Director?

Are you keen to share your new book or work with as wide an audience as possible? Promoters, are you looking to boost your marketing campaign and generate sales?

This is a high-value, low-cost opportunity to get into Chris Grimes’s Good Books and give nearly 2 million people in 54 countries the chance to ‘Read all about it’. You’ll share the story of your new book / play / film / musical work / scientific research paper / nail-biting drama as you talk about your inspirations, sources, unsung contributors & supporters. PLUS, to promote it, you'll get to perform or read an extract of your choice.

Actor & broadcaster Chris is an award-winning filmmaker & writer of scripts & comedy sketches, so you’ll be ‘amongst friends’ when creating this recording to:

  • reach new audiences promoting your work UK and worldwide
  • promote yourself & your career to attract new audiences & inspire others
  • state clearly how & where people can buy your new publication

Legacy: Life Reflections

To capture the Life Story of someone near or dear to you for posterity.

Want to create an enduring memory for your family to remember you by? Is there someone special whose inspiring life you’d like to preserve for eternity?

Now there’s an easy way to capture & share such Golden Moments. My Private Podcast series gives guests their unique ‘moment in the sunshine’ so listeners can enjoy the highlights of a person’s life.

As extra 2-for-1 value, podcasts are filmed, giving guests both an audio & video recording.

An artist will take weeks to paint your portrait. Penning your autobiography, a ghost-writer will ask you questions for months. Both cost thousands, but the modest fee attached to your podcast episode won’t and allows you to:

  • share a warm conversation, reminisce with favourite anecdotes and create a recording to be enjoyed now and/or stored for future generations
  • give the interview as a birthday or Christmas gift to someone special
  • ensure the treasured memories, wisdom and experience of an elderly relative will live on
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Corporate, Festival & Theatre Shows

Are you a company Events Manager or HR Director? A fundraiser, venue owner or festival organiser? A theatre programmer or director?

If you would like to host a client event with a difference, The Good Listening To Show is also available as a LIVE Theatre or Events Show, with simultaneous streaming to Facebook & YouTube or to a social media channel of your choice.

The performance is a fully designed stage show with Chris Grimes as your host and presenter. It gives you the opportunity to invite an audience of your choice to a live, recorded and filmed episode of the podcast.

For corporates, guests to the show can be stakeholders or clients. For festivals, an invited audience to hear about an author’s new book. For theatres, to discover the ‘story behind the story’ of a particular show or can be offered as a fundraising event.

The show has already been staged in corporate, festival and theatre settings. There is a very small fee just to cover production costs. If you would like to discuss your particular requirements, please get in touch for a confidential conversation.

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About Chris Grimes

Motivational Comedian. Facilitator. Coach. Broadcaster.

‘The Good Listening To Show’ podcast host Chris Grimes has spent the past 25 years globetrotting, gaining a wealth of international experience as a much sought-after Executive Coach, helping business leaders and their teams at some of the world's biggest blue-chip companies to communicate better, at work and in life. From Bristol to Bangkok, Newcastle to New York and from Manchester to Milan, he has worked in 20 countries across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, supporting over 3,000 professionals, improving their personal impact, presence, presentation techniques and storytelling skills.

Chris’s natural talent for bringing out the best in people flourished at drama school, then as an actor, comedy improvisation performer and, later, as a drama teacher and Artistic Director with the acclaimed comedy improvisation company, Instant Wit. His idol is Stan Laurel, of comic duo Laurel and Hardy fame – the inspiration perhaps for Chris’s very own quirky, warm sense of humour.

Transferring his business communication skills and stage experience to the recording studio, Chris is constantly surprised and delighted by the illuminating ‘Stories of Distinction and Genius’ his podcast guests feel able to share. Their rich life experiences and valuable business anecdotes are also broadcast on UK Health Radio where the podcast airs on Chris’s weekly show, reaching a further 1.3 million listeners in 54 countries.

Chris coaches many top blue-chip companies:

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Previous guests of Distinction & Genius who have featured on the show...

Genius Club Membership

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If you’d like to become a member of The Genius Club and apply to appear on the show, all you need to do is select the Series Strand of your choice and get in touch.

Chris will then get back to you to discuss arrangements for you becoming his guest.

Once you have been interviewed on the show yourself, you become a Genius Club Member and are then eligible to nominate others by passing on the ‘Golden Baton’, as featured within the podcast’s story structure.

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How was that for you?

'It's always a pleasure to talk about yourself and take stock a bit. 'The Clearing' is a great metaphor.'

– Pete Bailie
Leadership coach

It was absolutely perfect! You made me feel so at ease and handled all of that with grace & aplomb. Happy to say that the investment was well worth it. I loved it, loved all of it!

– Simon Bergenroth
Career Progression Coach

I love your format! You animated me to think about things that might otherwise stay hidden. How often do we get think about things that shape & define us? It made me evaluate and look within in a profoundly different way. Thank you!

Raphaela Reeb Ilgenfritz
Creative Director UKHR & 'Stoma4Life' Podcast Host

One of the most joyous experiences I've had in a very long time. To have a conversation, Chris, with someone like you - my brain is on fire right now! If I was in an MRI machine my brain would be on fire! What I'm going to do now is start writing based on our conversation. The greatest joy in life is to have conversations with people who make me think. And you made me think.

- Errol Gerson
Creative Mentor, Philosopher, Teacher & Coach

'Chris kept me on my toes and I had to make sure I'd prepared for it. I hadn't ever been on a podcast with such an interesting set of questions. I loved it. Well done!'

– David Hieatt
Serial entrepreneur and Founder of Hiut Denim & The DO Lectures

It was cool, really cool! I don't normally think in those kind of structured ways and I'm glad that I did! Thinking about things and have they have fitted in over the last few years has been great!

– Gareth Dauncey
Architect & Founder of the Mood App

It was very pleasant, enjoyable and flattering. You asked me to pause, get off the treadmill & think about MY life and the people around me who affect me and whom I affect. Really nice!

– Mychael Owen
Captain Brand

'This has been such fun and a real delight. So proud to have the sign language included.'

– Josette Bushell-Mingo OBE
Principal & CEO of The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

What a wonderful construct! It's a lovely jumping-off point to wax lyrical and especially to honour the people through my life that have been really important inspirations.

- Ita O'Brian
Intimacy Co-Ordinator in Film, TV & Theatre

Your podcast is 'Theatre for the Mind'. I congratulate you sir!

– Henry Caplan
Facilitator, Actor & Coach

You’re a superstar for eliciting stories that matter. Love it!

– Sean Perlmutter
Partner at Pivotal Twist

Become My Sponsor!

Would you like to raise the profile of your business?

Why not become a Sponsor of The Good Listening To Show’?

If you’d like to find out more about how sponsoring ‘The Good Listening To Show’ could benefit you and your company, please get in touch below.

Apply to be on the show

If you have a story of Distinction & Genius and would like to apply to be my guest and become a Genius Club Member, simply select your Series Strand of choice and fill in your details:

Thank you so much for your enquiry to ‘The Good Listening To Show: Stories of Distinction & Genius’.

I very much look forward to chatting with you about this and I will get back to you very shortly.

Thank you and all best wishes,
Chris

Chris Grimes
Host, The Good Listening To Show
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