

Based in London, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco award-winning reputation management consultant and host of the popular Media Masters Podcast Paul Blanchard has the dream life of business travel. He loves driving across the USA, listening to podcasts, notching up 26 states and counting. When he’s not hot-footing it around the globe (Tajikistan, Pakistan, Tblisi Georgia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda…) or hanging out with the rich and famous he lives on a farm near Milton Keynes.
On this episode we cover:
What is reputation management
What his clients want
Billionaire philanthropists
Why you shouldn’t send a press release
His book Fast PR
Imposter syndrome
Working for 46 Chief Executives around the world
Balancing working in London, New York and Los Angeles
How LA and San Francisco differ
His wife and his farm near Milton Keynes
Economy versus business class
Avoiding airline food
How being a vegan is more mainstream now
Not being an awkward vegan
Not moving back to where he grew up in York ,Yorkshire
Loving New Yorkers and New York spirit
Being fickle about loving the East Coast and West of America
Having travelled to 26 US state
California, Yosemite, Little Rock Arkansas, Alaska, Hawaii, New England, Boston. Chicago
Partying at a country music bar in Nashville
Cowboy boots and higher heels
‘Tom Cruise syndrome’
The beauty of driving through rural California
Live jazz and pizza pie in Chicago
Tajikistan, Pakistan, Tblisi Georgia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda
Racist clichés
African entrepreneurs need capital
How Britain struggle from early adopter syndrome
Travelling through the villages of Tajikistan on a donkey
iPhones and gold teeth
Roasting rats on portable BBQs
Central America, Nicaragua – the food, the people
The musical Avenue Q
Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist
Challenging his preconceptions
How travel broadens the mind
The Telegraph
Smartphone addiction
‘Non places’ that get you from A to B
How Instagram, travel blogging and social media have changed travel
Harry Styles!
Jeremy Vine and BBC Radio 2 on twitter
His plan to drive from Texas to North Dakota
Another holiday to Tokyo and Singapore
Universal studios
How to get the cheapest flights
Norwegian Airlines
Using tons of air miles and points
Why working class people don’t want rich people to be taxed heavily
How Brexit boredom compares to a scene from The Wire
The philosopher A C Grayling
Trying not to use bad language
Writing his book in four years instead of one
Learning lessons from the success of his Media Masters Podcast
Perez Hilton and his appearance on the podcast
Why he listens to podcasts and not