[Music] so hi julie welcome hi claire um right so we're going to jump straight in with the first question which woman or woman have you found inspirational so i think it's really tempting to say somebody who's famous or a celebrity but actually there's a lot of women in my life who are really inspirational for my mum who's been a carer her whole life my sister who went blind about 17 years ago and she set up a charity where she supports other blind people and runs groups every day of the week to a whole group of my friends who inspire me so i'm in a book group which is a book group where we're all from um everyone's from different places around the world it's quite an international book group so we all introduce books from our own cultures and um you know there's there's people in that who are you know consultants working with covid cases there's head of data for tfl um heads of global diversity for big organizations so people have really inspired me and showed me that women can do anything that they want to do now how did you how did you find yourself in your career and when did you how did you fall into it did you know what you wanted to do and when did you know that the job you were in was the job that you loved i think i had this feeling when i was younger you know i just heard about media studies it was just becoming a thing and i thought oh that sounds interesting because i was never really allowed to watch tv as a kid so it's kind of a rebellious thing i wasn't allowed to watch eastenders so i'm going to go off and study tv programs i did all of that and i became a runner and i worked my way up always as a freelancer kind of going from from job to job and i eventually found myself working on probably what i ended up in tv loving the most was when i worked on city hospital which was a um bbc one series and then somehow the nhs got hold of me and i ended up making nhs films and government films and films with a message and that was how i sort of got into more corporate and charity film i went on to set up a film unit within the charity rnib um which is a sight loss charity um and i was there for about five and a half years before i went to the agency world now the last question is is just talk about your industry per se and where you think it might be going in the future yeah i mean i think the future is about the next generation that are coming through of course and it's about having a really diverse workforce and people from all backgrounds being able to come into the industry so um you know not expecting people to work unpaid for months on end to open it up so that it's not just middle class people that can do it and you know apprenticeship schemes as well so it's not just people who've been able to go to university who are able to do it it just needs to be opened up a bit more i think there's a lot of work being done in the industry at the moment which i think is really positive and we're hoping we can speed it along so we can start to see see the change definitely and it's been lovely to be part of evcom and to see you know the shadow board coming through and some of the work that's being done through evcom with mentoring people and you know doing what's right for the next we're going for it yeah