IS THE WORK CHRISTMAS PARTY ON THE NAUGHTY LIST?
Having worked since the age of 16, the phrase ‘work hard play hard’ is something I’m more than familiar with. It’s a shorthand for: the more you work, the more money you have for boozing after work. When I bagged my first office job in London at the grand old age of 22 (a whole […]
Peloton & Aviation Gin: Alcoholism Takes Flight
I’d class myself as an enthusiast of both gin and cycling, though these two passions don’t often combine – unless we pass a great pub on a day ride. As a cycling purist, I am part of the crowd that has (rightly or wrongly) snubbed the stationary bike craze, led by Peloton, that’s still sweeping […]
Integrating work and parenting into a life that works for me
Whilst I was pregnant with my son, maternity leave could not come soon enough. I couldn’t wait for parenting and to spend a year going for copious amounts of coffee and lunch dates, gushing over the cute, tiny human clothes, coo-ing over my first born, and taking some me-time. It was fair to say, I […]
Podcast Review: Not Another Mummy: Rosamund Dean & Clemmie Telford On Mindful Drinking & Sobriety As A Parent
Mother’s ruin. #Wineoclock. Drinking and parenthood – specifically, motherhood, have a long and not always very proud history. The ‘glass of wine once the kids are in bed’ trope isn’t just a stereotype – it’s a fairly accurate description of evenings when you’ve got children. The excellent Not Another Mummy Podcast tackled this issue […]
A conscientious approach to mental health in the drinks industry
Mental Health In The Drinks Industry Given our work in Social Media and Content, those national, international and world ‘awareness’ days are something we tend to have a love/hate relationship with. We tend to consider them with caution on behalf of the brands we work with – particularly the hallmark holiday days. However, as with […]
Mental Health + Alcohol: Can marketing inspire a positive change in society’s relationship with alcohol?
For those of you that know YesMore Agency, you’ll know that we’re an alcohol marketing agency. What many people don’t (yet) know is that one of the key reasons we specialised in alcohol marketing was to use our expertise and experience to, ultimately, drive a cultural shift in our society’s relationship with drinking alcohol for […]
Do More Work, Don’t Go Into the Office. Our Take On Remote Working.
“Remote working” – one of the buzz phrases of our decade. Some see it as the lazy millennial’s way to avoid “real” work, others see it as an innovative way to be more productive, efficient and deliver better quality work as a whole. Either way, as I write this article I’m remote working from the […]
Drink Responsibly & Mindfully: Joining The Boos Aimed At The Booze Companies
This article was originally written and published in the November 2018 issue of River Tribe magazine. Read it in their online edition here. I have worked in the advertising industry for many years now going back to the early eighties. I have worked for drink companies to help them promote their products and yes, letting the […]
Why Young Teetotallers Could Be Great For Pub Culture
A national institution is in crisis. We teeter on the precipice of a watershed moment in the UK’s national identity so calamitous, and with such all-encompassing consequences at every level of society and the national consciousness, that it threatens to rift apart the very fabric of our collective psyche and our ideas of what it […]
How to improve mental health in the workplace
Right now as I write this post, these are the top 5 trending topics on Twitter: #WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealthDay2018 #MentalHealthAwarenessDay #WMHD18 #PMQs It’s clear that, finally, people are talking about mental health in the workplace. And that today, finally, the government is hosting the first ever global mental health summit with 50 countries around the world attending. And that today, […]
