ValuesJammer in the Spotlight

This month´s ValuesJammer in the Spotlight is Melanie Perry.

Who are you?

Melanie Perry, Owner & Creative Director of Poppy Perry Media, Visual Marketing Agency and Co-Founder of the Private Networking Group CR38IVES.

What are your core values?

Trust

Generosity

Learning

Curiosity

Fulfilment

What is it about Gratitude that makes it so special for you?

Gratitude lifts the spirit.  It is very spiritual to me.  Connecting to the present, shutting out all the noise – especially negative noise which we get so much of on social media – and focussing on all the wonderful things around me is very grounding.

Why did you join the ValuesJam community?

I met ValuesJam Co-Founder, Lisa Birtles, at a networking event a couple of years ago.  She demonstrated the ValuesJam cards and I just fell in love with them, and the whole concept.  That’s it in a nutshell!

How could more Gratitude improve the world?

Oh I think more gratitude would improve the world greatly.  There seems to be an awful lot of ‘entitlement’ in the world today.  If people were to stop and pause, take time to really think about all they have, I think they would appreciate the world they live in a whole lot better.  Then they would behave rather differently towards it.  Respect it more, and be more giving rather than just taking.

How are you using your ValuesJam card decks?

I use the ValuesJam cards a little differently.  As part of the networking group I run for professionals within the creative industries (CR38IVES), we run a bi-monthly livestream where we interview creative professionals ‘On The Couch With CR38IVES’.  As part of our show, we play ValuesJam at the end of every episode.  We ask our guests creatively about the value they pick and have a lot of fun with it.  The amazing thing is, each guest always picks a card that is highly relevant to themselves and the conversation that preceded that segment of the show.

Favourite rock n roll moment of magic from a ValuesJam session?

I think it would have to be in my interview with Isaac Harvey MBE, when I made a mistake in one of my questions.  I intended it to be “What does (his chosen value) sound like?”, but it came out as “what does it SMELL like”!  However the answer was so good, we’ve kept it in!

Contact details

POPPY PERRY MEDIA:  Melanie@poppyperrymedia.com / poppyperrymedia.com across social media @poppyperrymedia

CR38IVES: melanie@cr38ives.com / across social media @CR38IVES

Phone:  07738 558587

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