Lucy Polkinghorne on everything you need to know about pitching to Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa show | Ep 6

05/05/20 • 54 min

Want to secure a radio gig for your brand, your celebrity talent, or a well-known name?

Fitzy and Wippa are household names throughout Sydney, and the rest of Australia for their daily lols in the morning. In this episode, I had the delightful opportunity to talk shop with Lucy Polkinghorne, the show’s senior producer, and all-round funny lady.

Lucy is smart as all get out, hilarious ...and kindly informed me just prior to going on air that she was getting comfy for the interview aka undoing the top button of her jeans.

As a bit of a newbie to being on the other side of the interview...this lady normally does the interviewing, Lucy shares generously about her career spanning TV and radio.

Lucy’s experience span news, sport, current affairs, entertainment, and weather having worked for Nova Entertainment, Sky News, Channel Seven, Fox Sports News, AFL Sydney Swans, BBL Sydney Sixers, NRL Canterbury Bulldogs and NRL.com.

In this episode Lucy shares:

What a day in life looks like as a senior producer for one of Australia’s most well-loved radio shows
What’s involved in being a weather gal and how she undertook a crash course in meteorology
What she’s looking for in a great pitch and breaks down the segments of the Fitzy and Wippa show

Download Lucy’s best tips and advice for pitching at www.odetteandco.com.au/episode6

You can find Lucy at www.instagram.com/lucy_polkinghorne/ and [email protected]

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Find out more about the Fitzy and Wippa showhttps://www.novafm.com.au/shows/fitzy-wippa/

Want to secure a radio gig for your brand, your celebrity talent, or a well-known name?

Lucy is smart as all get out, hilarious ...and kindly informed me just prior to going on air that she was getting comfy for the interview aka undoing the top button of her jeans.

As a bit of a newbie to being on the other side of the interview...this lady normally does the interviewing, Lucy shares generously about her career spanning TV and radio.

In this episode Lucy shares:

What a day in life looks like as a senior producer for one of Australia’s most well-loved radio shows
What’s involved in being a weather gal and how she undertook a crash course in meteorology
What she’s looking for in a great pitch and breaks down the segments of the Fitzy and Wippa show

Download Lucy’s best tips and advice for pitching at www.odetteandco.com.au/episode6

You can find Lucy at www.instagram.com/lucy_polkinghorne/ and [email protected]

Share and tag this episode on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/odetteandco/ https://www.odetteandco.com.au/

Find out more about the Fitzy and Wippa showhttps://www.novafm.com.au/shows/fitzy-wippa/

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Managing celebrity talent and building a flourishing PR career with Angela Ceberano | Ep 5

Ever dreamed of working in celebrity PR or starting your own PR agency?

In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Angela Ceberano the insanely talented founder of Flourish PR, a creative communications agency, who works with some of the biggest brands and celebrities in Australia. She is an all-round delightful human as you will very soon hear.

In this episode, Ange shares a little about her extensive career as the national publicist for Sony Music and talks through how she took the leap into running her own PR agency – and winning celebrity clients like Olivia Newton-John, Guy Sebastian and...The Backstreet Boys – hello!?

Ange shares some valuable advice for young publicists and the delight she experiences in the collaborative success that can be found when you work with a journalist to find the perfect news angle

In this episode we cover

managing your mental health in PR
setting boundaries with clients
the importance of clear communication with teams, clients and the media
and her winning relationship-building strategy of coffee catch-ups (even if you hand-deliver the coffee!)

We’ve got a little freebie that outlines Ange’s key steps to PR success as shared in this episode. If you would like to download a copy – please jump over to my website. www.odetteandco.com.au/episode5

You can find Angela at www.instagram.com/flourish_pr/ and www.instagram.com/angelaceberano/ and that infamous YouTube at www.youtube.com/channel/UCAmJdnHwfT_WNIKI7TI0UUg

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Creating a street press and pitching to One Wild Ride with Pru Chapman | Ep 7

Pru Chapman is the founder of The Owners Collective, somewhat of a small business MBA / unicorn factory, that truly knows how to add rocket fuel to business.

In 2019, she experimented her way into a creative pursuit, a free wilding, curiously probing podcast, One Wild Ride, And then, amidst the chaos of coronavirus, she took a step out, in true Pru fashion and launched her print magazine.

In this podcast Pru takes us behind the scenes into planning and producing a magazine and shares a little about her grassroots distribution strategy to launch the mag and how it got completely side swiped by the lockdown.

Today we dive in to a meandering chat with a dear friend and fabulous storyteller, let’s jump in.

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