AI Can’t Replace the Human Connection You Create When You step on a Stage. #29.

PART 1.

There was some weird mix-up with Streamyard and/or Linkedin messing up the timing of the live stream, which goes out at 4 p.m. on a Tuesday. For some reason (maybe the algorithm got confused over BST, British Summer Time or that fact I was streaming from SWINDON!? 🤷🏼‍♀️) it scheduled it for 5 PM.

SO, my fabulous guest Mark Masters agreed not only to spend 4 - 4.30 live with me but again 5 - 5.30 p.m. just so we didn’t upset anyone who’d put the time aside. Mark says he’s a marketer on a mission to empower people to create businesses that others naturally want to be with. And I know that to be absolutely true.

Mark is the founder of You Are The Media, a collaborative, creative community of fabulous people (including me!) where he shares his values of creativity, independence, visibility, experimentation, co-learning, community and self-sufficiency and where WE have become the media. Self-sufficient marketers! Mark is first and foremost a marketing consultant but he’s also a speaker, author, community leader, event organiser, educator, and Thursday morning newsletter paperboy. Plus, (briefly) a stand-up comedian! I’ll stop there - I could go on all day listing the fabulous things that Mark Masters is, suffice to say I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now if it wasn’t for him and the YATM community.

A huge thanks to Mark for showing up twice, even though in between he was in charge of feeding the kids! (Tune in to part 2 to see how that went. 😂)

We had a fabulous conversation about getting on stage, how it started for him and how AI can’t replace human connection and of course community!