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

A special series-strand of the Show featuring & celebrating some of the movers & makers from Chris’s home town of Bristol. Best of Bristol shows can also be recorded LIVE in front of an invited audience to help mark the occasion, with simultaneous streaming to Facebook & YouTube.

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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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CELEBRATING LOCAL LEGENDS, BRISTOL BUSINESSES & PROJECTS...

Brand Strand / Founder Stories

Are you a Business based in Bristol? Are you a Bristol based creative with a passion project or side-hustle that you'd be excited to tell us all about?

Would you like help to raise awareness of your business or a project that your working on? How would you like to be my very special LIVE Guest in my home town of Bristol?

Filmed and recorded LIVE in front of an invited audience of your choice, together we tell the ‘story-behind-the story’ of your creative endeavour or business, with me Chris Grimes as your host.

Next 'Best of Bristol: Bristol Voices LIVE' is on:

  • Wednesday 25th September at The Bristol Beer Factory

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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...

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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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Featured Genius: Gold From The Archive

How was that for you?

'It's been a lovely opportunity to share some moments in life and reflect. It's been wonderful.'

– Chris Pirie
Artistic director & puppeteer

'I was a bit nervous at first, but it's been enjoyable. It's just a bit of a chat, isn't it? It's been lovely. It's surprisingly enjoyable and I would recommend doing it.'

– Laurens Nockels
TV, film & events propmaker

'I found it an absolute delight. You are more than welcome to ferret around in my subconscious any time you like.'

– Dr Phil Hammond
Physician, broadcaster & comedian

'It was quite emotional actually, reflecting on the things that have shaped me or that are important to me. I promised myself I wouldn't blub. Really wonderful.'

– Saikat Ahamed
Bangladeshi actor & writer

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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