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Episode 10

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6th Jun 2024

Work is Brilliant

Laurra Davis recorded on 07/05/2024

Laurra Davis is the founder and creative director of Leeds-based social media agency, Brilliant. They manage social media accounts for some of the UK’s best food and drink brands and celebrate their 13th year in business this month. At Brilliant Laurra oversees the creative output of the agency, and has a strong focus on tone of voice for brands and delivering that through social media content and advertising.

Laurra has lived in Leeds from age of 2 and studied theatre and creative writing, going on to form her first business called One Life Ceremonies with her mum when she was 23, bringing her writing skills to life through personally written and conducted ceremonies including funerals, baby namings and weddings.

Through running One Life she found a talent for social media marketing and became well known as someone who ‘knew what they were doing’ with Twitter and LinkedIn, so back in 2011, she started a side business of social media training which went on to become Brilliant.

Laurra is also a co-founder of B-corp certified sustainable product design agency, FIVE Create. They are the team behind the multi award winning air purification unit called Briiv (pronounced Breathe) which is the world’s most sustainable air purifier.

Alongside looking after her two children she’s also a Trustee for The Leeds Library which is the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the UK. Socials are:

https://www.instagram.com/brilliantsocial/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/2726304

https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurradavis/

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About the Podcast

Working Hours
The Story of Work in Leeds in the 2020s
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Western Studios, Leeds presents Working Hours: a podcast series surveying the people of Leeds on their thoughts and feelings on the topic of work. I want to talk to my city about work. Why do we do it? Do we like it? What could we do differently? What will we? How does work change and how does it change us?
Leeds, the largest city in the largest county on the UK mainland, is a former imperial textile centre and is now a major UK financial centre. This series will document the city’s experiences through Lockdown, Brexit, creeping technological unemployment, new and continuing resource wars, the ongoing dismantling of the welfare state and our accelerating ecological emergency.
If you are in Leeds or from Leeds then help me to reach my target of interviewing 1000 Loiners over the 2020s. Let me ask you, what do you do?
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