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I was delighted to talk to two of my favourite digital content creators/story tellers/trainers. For a while I've been obsessed with making dry topic training interesting. When it comes to risk and controls and in some cases the techie and seemingly irrelevant spectre of cyber threats to individuals this really proves to be challenging. So many of us have been forced to 'click through' unmemorable training just to make sure we don't appear on the naughty list. So what's the value in this training if nobody takes key messages away?

I was so happy to chat to Ryan Roadkill who is one of my favourite artists & illustrator! I own t-shirts, pins, stickers, hats, pictures and books with his artwork. I also have a Porsche 911 bonnet ready to be adorned with a unique commission at some point post lockdown!

We weaved through how he started getting into art, what inspires him. How much of his work is commissioned vs his own inspiration, digital art and a few other things. Basically the journey he took JUST to become my favourite artist.

Please follow him on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ryanroadkill/) and buy loads of stuff from his site (https://www.ryanroadkill.com/) or from the Bike Shed Motorcycle Club (https://bikeshedmoto.com/collections/caps/products/bsmc-dead-dakar-doug-cap-black) or from Hebtro (https://hebtro.co/product/beer-mat-pack/) or StolenSpace (https://www.stolenspace.com/product-category/ryan-roadkill-originals/) or Hermanus (https://www.hermanusbruges.be/product-page/garage-rock-english) or wherever you can find his stuff!

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Cyber Resilience gets mentioned often and as with ‘Resilience’ there are often a million and one definitions of it! I got together with Will Dixon, the head of Cyber Security for the World Economic Forum and explored what it is! Is it:

- A Cyber Recovery Vault to guard against Ransomware? Or is that snake oil?
- Just another scenario for Operational Resilience to design for? Or is that applying an old school lens to it?
- A culture and controls within a company to minimise the likelihood of a successful Cyber attack? Or is that just a BAU CISO role?
- All of the above? Or none of the above?

Will and I meander around the topic and hopefully you find this discussion useful in your own discussions about how to prepare your organisation for the Cyber threats of the now and the future.

Towards the end of ‘Lockdown 1.0’ in the UK, I wrote an article on Location Independent Working and concluded that:

“Could I work from home and never go to an office? I could probably do my job effectively but it wouldn't do my mental health any good!

Is the new way of working the right thing for society and planet earth? IMHO (one for the kidz): YES!!”

We’ve now been through various tiers lovingly known as Lockdown 1.1, 1.2, Christmas, Lockdown 2.0, Lockdown 2.1 ‘The Revenge of the Virus’ and now Lockdown 3.0 ‘The Rise of the Vaccine’.

I got together with Richard Bell to return to the topic and see what we thought now and whether my views still stood.

Just after Christmas, my great friend Mike O’Brien and I decided to record one of our usual weekly catch-ups! The brief was that I’d interview him and we need to try not to swear or go down too many esoteric rabbit holes!

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I spoke to the inspirational Nikita Gunnewegh about mental health including touching on her and my own experiences with mental health issues. We both hope that this podcast, albeit long, will help those experiencing mental health issues but also those who want to help people with mental health issues.