#17 - Shelly Davies Interview (Writing, Communications, Language, Profanity, Maori, White Privilege etc.)

Spoke with Writing and Communications Trainer Shelly Davies about
how to improve your writing and training as well as other topics
such as Maori, Profanity, Racism and more


WEBSITE www.shellydavies.co.nz


TIMESTAMPS


01:27 - How Shelly Got Into Writing 02:47 - Hapu Trust
Board/Document of RMA 03:39 - Written Document That Was Easy To
Read 04:50 - Being Handed A Business 05:54 - Plain Language 06:44
- Why We Write Different To How We Speak 07:59 - Untraining
People To Write Differently From Spoken Word/Examples 10:04 -
Finding The Balance To Write Professionally But Simple 10:33 -
Shelly’s Website/Errors 12:38 - Active & Passive Sentence
Structure 14:48 - Shelly’s Marketing/Brand 17:08 - Plain Language
Not Taught In Universities 19:13 - Grammar Nazi’s/Modern English
21:41 - Differences Between Te Reo Maori & English 24:53 -
Difference In Languages/Mistranslation & Communication 25:50
- Communication 27:58 - Shelly’s Critical Eye 29:00 - Apostrophe
Errors 31:13 - Plain Language Comes Across More Professional
31:45 - Writing Emails 32:13 - CV’s 34:10 - Automation 35:35 -
Writing Worse Now Because Of Automation & Social Media 36:47
- Handwriting 37:33 - Shelly Plays A Game With Reece 39:05 -
Profanity 41:00 - Profanity In Shelly’s Brand 42:55 - The Pros Of
Profanity According To Studies 43:58 - When Profanity Is Bad
44:53 - Shelly’s Book “Good Shit I’ve Learned” 46:57 - Shelly’s
Second Book “Engaging With Maori For Success In Business” 47:31 -
The Idea For Shelly’s Second Book 49:02 - Having Inter Generation
View Of Maori 51:17 - Misperceptions Of Maori/Shelly’s Views On
Maori 52:18 - Colonisation Of Maori Still Has Ongoing Impacts
53:48 - Racism/Defence Mechanisms 55:46 - Shelly’s Moko/People
Thinking Shelly’s White 57:40 - White Privilege/Multicultural
Society 59:07 - Different Reactions To Shelly’s Moko 1:01:35 -
America 1:03:41 - Differences Between America & NZ 1:05:09 -
Empowerment For Women/Social Media Being Fake 1:07:31 - Reece
Tries To Be Respectful On The Podcast/Maturity 1:10:26 -
Gratitude Journal/Being Happy 1:12:11 - Counselling Sessions
1:13:16 - Ted Talks/Speeches Different To Speaking 1:14:17 -
Shelly Focusing More On Speaking Gigs 1:15:00 - How To Contact
Shelly