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(Meghan) - Welcome to this episode of JING TV! about how to find your tribe.
(Rachel) - Creative collaborations.
(M) - Welcome back to JING TV! we're going to talk this week about how to find your tribe in creative collaborations. (R) - Absolutely.
(R) - And here are two members of our tribe, John Scotland video designer extrodinaire
and Andrew Dineley graphic designer. (M) - and Nina! (R) - And Nina, office manage.
(Nina) - Hi. (R) - My story was that many years ago I had a little dream about setting up a massage
school in the UK. As part of my journey I went to the states to retrain and then I walked
into a spa for a job and meet a woman called Meghan Mari and to cut a long story short,
Meghan Mari said to me "I'll come to England" (M) - I'll do anything and we can make dreams
come true. (R) - Yeah. (M) - So that was the beginning of the seed (R) - The beginning
of Jing 2003 (M) - and then you pulled in (R) - few years later pulled in (M) - No you
pulled in Dinely (R) - Yeah he was first (Andrew) - She's the new kid on the block.
(N) - I'm the newbie. (R) - New kid on the block that's true. So Andrew, if you wanna work creatively
with people first of all look within your own friendship set because there will be people
there with amazing skills and Andrew Dineley is an amazing graphics designer (A) - Thank
you. (R) - whose been a friend and a great colleague for twenty years and he helped me
design my very first massage leaflet back in the 80's. (A) - When you were called?
(R) - Touch - with an exclamation mark. And that was on oatmeal/wholemeal sort of like
(M) - Unlike today where we look mad and crazy on our new brochure. Andrew, all over it!
(R) - So anyway. We went to Andrew and Andrew helped us design our very first brochure's,
help design the Jing brand (M) - Came up with, helped us come up with the name Jing, that
was really important. (R) - Yeah. (N) - Because you were going to be called? (A) - Oh don't
go there. (R) - Bad. (M & R) - Dab Handz, with a Z! (R) - Andrew said "I'm not designing
a logo for Dab Handz, you have to find another name." (A) - You can push a friendship too
far. (R) - You can push a friendship too far. So Andrew been there right from the beginning
and then a few years later, well we had a few other people (M) - We had some support
along the way, so we had friends that helped us administratively, so things like helping
us take the bookings and bits and pieces and all that. So we had people coming in maybe
four or five different people along the way. Then we realised that the organisation was
growing and we really needed some solid foundation, support and we put out (R) - We put together
a really long job description (N) - It was about 7 pages!! (M) - Anybody who falls for
that, anybody who says yes to that is our kind of person. (N) - I can do anything.
(R) - Anyway we put the advert out and we drew up a short list of people to interview and
one of them was this woman called Nina Frizoni who didn't seem to have any experience apart
from travelling round Europe in an ambulance (M) - She does have a degree in marketing
(N) - I do. (R) - She does have other stuff but that's a good story. She had enough to
make it to the short list. But the clincher for me was, one of the tasks, cos it was sort
of like a fairy story getting this job in Jing, so they had to not only come to an interview,
which was about 5 hours long, cos it was questions and practical tasks. They had to bring to
the interview, copy for an email to advertise the hot stones course. I called up Nina just
to check she was coming to the interview or to tell her something and she was in a field
camping in the middle of Devon. She answered the phone and she was like "ah yes you want
me to do an email, do you want me to do it in HTML?" Which was something I'd never heard
of. We just wanted a typed thing with some words and I was like "yeah that'd be great",
she said "yeah I'll do that." So right from the beginning Nina had planted herself in
there as someone who was able to go the extra mile, was really enthusiastic and I wrote
in my notes - great on the phone, really friendly. (M) - I will also say, that we had a business
mentor at the time who got us to a certain point and actually he wasn't such a fan of
Nina. In the sense of like the experience that Nina had, we had a couple of other people
who were much more experienced in the idea of organising an organisation and Rachel and
I both felt that actually Nina, you were somebody we could work with. That actually is part
of creative collaborations and finding your tribe. When you're building something, you
want to find somebody that sparks you also and that you can rely on their energy.
(R) - So Nina entered the fold four and a half years ago, fantastic, and as I said we thought
she'd only stay for 3 months but here she is, four and a half years in and we're really
happy. (M) - Nina was very instrumental in helping us get to this next stage, you were
really up for the website (N) - The website, social media, all that sort of stuff. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, loved it. (M) - Therefore we went back to Andrew and said "can we get some help?"
Then the other one, popped up. Mr Scotland. (R) - We said to Andrew we'd quite like to
do a promo video for our website and he was like "well, I know this guy John Scotland
and done a bit of work with him." And here he is. So John tell us about how you got involved
with Jing. (John) - I got a call off Andrew and he had some footage that needed editing
for a web video and then it evolved from there didn't it. (R) - It did, absolutely. John
came on board, did a three minute video, but I think the key point here is, if you find
people that you resonate with you're going to use them more and I think all the people
here have got certain characteristics in common. One we're continuously told we're enthusiastic.
We love to have fun, don't we. (A) - Yeah. (R) - I think we all work hard at what we
do and we enjoy what we do so we're happy to put in extra time and work at it. We're
not watching the clock. It's fun being together and doing things. (M) - Yeah and although
the three of us are here all the time, John and Andrew actually come from Liverpool and
are up north. It's really an incredible energy induction when people come from outside and
bring stuff. Doing this JING TV! work we're here for a little while and we can really
think together and then go away from each other and come back. (R) - I think that's
a great thing about the web, you can have creative collaborations when you're not actually
in touch with each other. I know a lot of people out there are working by themselves
and you really miss other people, so actually getting together with other therapists or
other creative types to do things together is a fantastic injection. (M) - John and Andrew
do you want to say a little bit about that, because both of you work quite independently,
you don't really (A) - I think it's really important to commit time to it because it
can be seen as less of a priority, not really part of the business, but it is actually a
really important part of the business, because this kind of work is what projects your business
personality to your customers. Put time aside. We've dedicated two days to doing this.
(R) - We have. (A) - Making these videos for YOU! (R, M & N) - Just for you!! (R) - The viewers
out there. (M) - Mr Scotland, what about your creative collaborations? (J) - I'd say chemistry.
Look for the chemistry, it's something that you can't define but you can recognise.
(R) - OK. I think what we want to get over is to get these videos out to you it's needed all of
us, needed everybody here. Andrew looks after the, you know, making it pretty and the graphic
design. John does the filming and the editing. We're the stars.
(All laugh)
(A) - and Nina carries the bags! (N) - I carry the bags. (R) - Nina will get it up on the website,
get it out on social media. None of these, none of. This wouldn't have happened without
everybody here. So find your own creative collaborations and find your own tribe because
it's fun. (M) - So get involved (A) - Find Jing (M) - and find Jing (R) - online
(M) - www.jingmassage.com Also have a conversation with us about this, find each other. Our Facebook
page is a great place to put questions out or put out what you want. Also you could follow
us on Twitter @JingInstitute. You can find John and Andrew online. John what's your website?
(J) - www.johnscotland.tv (A) - I'm www.softoctopus.co.uk (M) - You can subscribe to JING TV! through
iTunes/YouTube. Get in touch. Get involved and get together. Take care. (R) - Bye