#9: Sam Jones - Not Just Soup and Tunafish

I interviewed MD of Tunafish Media Sam Jones about balancing the agency and running a successful charity to help to homeless in Manchester.  The main topics we cover are:  Starting out in radio and deciding it wasn’t for him  Sam worked in early stage social media around 2003  2011 he started an agency called Tunafish media with some friends from Uni When they started Tunafish they also had a bar job to help with cash  Creating viral content for Donald Trump’s first day in the office, 200 million views in 3 days for a World Leaders WhatsApp group  Looking forward to the future of creating content and how the gap will be closed between hero content and throw away content and personalised Memes and GIFs  Sam’s Manchester rant  Work life balance when running an agency  Facing mental health issues and how  Sam copes with anxiety  Finding motivation in cheesy montage videos  Inspiration: Michael Di Palo and Sandy Lindsay providing guidance  Not just soup was started in collaboration with Coffee for Craig to feed the homeless men and women in Manchester 3 nights a week  This project has provided over 45,000 meals to people in Manchester  Sam going to Buckingham Palace to receive the Queens award at a garden party  Volunteering for Forever Manchester and being the Vice-Chair Having really bad hair back in the day  Links and resources:  Sam on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-jones-84158414/  Sam on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SamJonesMCR  Sam’s agency Tunafish Media - https://tunafishmedia.co.uk/  Shoe dog book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-NIKE/dp/1471146707  The war of art - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1936891026/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_tLikEbQJJB3GR  Felix Baumgartner Space Jump - https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/fly-with-felix-red-bull-stratos-pov-video  Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Factfulness-Reasons-Wrong-Things-Better/dp/147363749X/ref=asc_df_147363749X/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=344380111895&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1416550232838382582&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006912&hvtargid=pla-590283424795&psc=1&th=1&psc=1 Not  Just Soup - https://twitter.com/notjustsoupmcr  Street Support (tackling homelessness) - https://streetsupport.net/manchester/  Forever Manchester - https://forevermanchester.com/  Thank you for listening and please email me any feedback - [e-mail] Connect with the host, Paul Casey: @caseydigital on Instagram Paul Casey on LinkedIn @casey_digital on Twitter