Mint & Co

09/05/2025

Looking forward to our sessions at the Podcast Show next week!

To round off the week, we’re delighted to announce that AudioUK will be co-hosting the Indie Business Stage with from 21-22 May!

The Indie Business Stage is dedicated to showcasing the creativity and entrepreneurial nature of independent podcast businesses. Across the 2 days, AudioUK is presenting a series of sessions that illustrates the brilliant expertise of indie podcast businesses as well as providing practical tips and takeaways for attendees. The space also provides an area for AudioUK members to meet up so do come and say hello!

Sessions in the Indie Business Zone include:

⭐️ 21 May at 4.00pm
Taking A Risk When Others Won’t
With John Sweeney, Writer and Broadcaster and Jason Phipps, Head of Content,

⭐️ 22 May at 10.00am
10 Ways To Turn Your Podcast into IP (Intellectual Property)
With Bernard P Achampong, Founder

⭐️ 22 May at 4.00pm
How to make a business success from video podcasts
With Josh Adley, Co-CEO and Lucy Rozario, Chief Media Officer .uk

⭐️ Legal and business affairs advisers, will also be presenting a session each day.

👀 There will also be a networking moment for members of AudioUK - details of day and time will be sent out in a bulletin next week!

Final reminder for the week that AudioUK members can get a 10% discount on Platinum and Gold tickets - just get in touch with [email protected] for the code.

10/03/2025

It was International Women's Day over the weekend; with everything happening in the world right now, this year’s IWD theme of ‘Accelerating progress towards gender equality’ feels more important than ever.

Here at Mint & Co (founded and run by an all-female team) equality has always mattered and it's the foundation the business is built on. Equality for all. While companies are still debating flexible working and changing policies, we built a flexible business since its inception 10 years go, that proves equality is sustainable and attracts the best people.

Flexibility and gender equality isn’t a perk - it’s how we work. We’re fussy about finding the right people, but once they’re here, we invest in them and are alongside them to build work that fits their lives – whether that means:

- Supporting parents and carers to balance responsibilities
- Making space for personal passions and ambitions
- Prioritising learning and growth, through our Mindful Mint wellbeing & development programme and beyond
- Creating a culture where everyone is valued

We love our in-person meet-ups across the year (and between those, there’s plenty of WhatsApps, emails, online catch-ups, and our Mindful Mint sessions with recordings in case times don't suit). It's about daily decisions that ensure everyone has choice and agency in the way they work. We're committed to an inclusive world where both women (and the lovely men in our team too), don't just survive, but can thrive.

20/12/2024

Wishing you a very happy festive season from Mint & Co.

May you enjoy a restful break with good food & company over the festive period. Wishing you peace, joy & prosperity for 2025.

This year we are making donations to the following charities, nominated by and voted for by the Mint Collective:

Alzheimer's Research UK: The dementia research charity

Centrepoint: Providing accommodation and support to homeless young people

Mind: The mental health charity

Young Minds: Providing mental health support for children, young people, and their parents & carers

🎄Please note our operating hours over the Christmas and New Year period:
We will be closed between the 21st December 2024 and 5th January 2025 inclusive.

Best wishes from all of us at Mint & Co
🎄🎄🎄

10/10/2024

It's World Mental Health day today and we hope everyone can take some time for themselves today, from the daily grind, to do something nourishing. As you may have spotted, we launched Mindful Mint and our wellbeing & personal development programme in 2023, for our team. We also recently extended this to several clients and partners as a trial for a/w 2024, to extend some of the goodness to our wider community. Today we have a Vagus Nerve Breathwork session with the lovely Yoga team!

The vagus nerve is so key to our mental health and becoming more widely recognised as an incredibly important focus in terms of nervous system and emotional regulation. This nerve is like a 'super nerve'! It runs from the brain through the face, thorax lungs, heart to the abdomen. It's part of our parasympathetic nervous system which regulates stress, and it also helps regulate taste, speech, blood pressure, digestion, mood and a myriad of other bodily functions. If we have poor vagal tone we will experience more stress and other physical symptoms. Stimulating the vagus nerve helps to bring the body back to a state of 'rest and digest', reduces inflammation, and also helps us to become more resilient to stress of all kinds.

Breathwork is one way to do this, and we love the total feeling of invigoration and relaxation after one of Yeh Yoga's breathwork sessions! Here are some other tips to take care of the vagus nerve:
https://www.charliehealth.com/post/vagus-nerve-exercises

25/07/2024

We're delighted see see our clients Audio Always, Jon Holmes, Novel and Rethink Audio all nominated in the British Podcast Awards - congratulations to everyone on their teams!

23/07/2024

"It's just a fantastic service."

We recently asked our clients to complete a questionnaire about how they find working with us, we do this every 6 months. It was great to see our values being reflected back to us, and that our clients appreciate the very things about our service that we work hard to provide! We also received some really good suggestions about new things we can bring into our offering, which we're working on behind the scenes.

Some of the comments we received from clients were;

"- Flexible, women-led.
- The flexibility of your approach to the services you offer, the expertise.
- Flexible, supportive.
- Bespoke, friendly approach to our business.
- Engagement, interest, promptness.
- Friendly, accessible, not too expensive!
- Friendly and supportive approach to working.
- The speed not just of response but of solution."

And congrats to Andy Glynn at Mosaic Films, who won the randomly selected prize for submitting the questionnaire (in the highly professionally shot video attached!) and chose to receive John Lewis vouchers :-)

04/07/2024

This week, Mint & Co teamed up with client , and partner law firm, Russells solicitors, to deliver a free seminar on AI Tools for Content Creators. The seminar focused on two areas; the tools themselves (showcasing several across the lifecycle of a project from development to post production) and the legal and practical risks and implications around the use of AI tools. It was a fantastic session and we've had some great feedback already (one attendee said "This was a fantastic presentation, by far the best I've joined!").

After a brief introduction by Mint & Co's CEO & Founder Nicola, The Connected Set gave us a whistle stop tour of Chat GPT, Claude and 4.0 showcasing creation of format ideas for a specific platform using clear prompts and references, how to coach yourself in pitching by using the character of an existing person you admire, a look at Midjourney in discord creating images of studios in different styles, the use of AI in post-production (including Adobe Firefly, Autopod and QuickTune), project planning and scheduling, and a look at video generation tool Sora - which has yet to be released to the public.

Then we heard from legal & business affairs specialists Laura Hammond (from Mint & Co) and Alex Cole and Henry Priestley (from Russells). Laura talked through the origin of AI tools and where material is sourced from, liability and rights positions (as between the AI tool platform and the producer and then producer and commissioning entity), advice from industry insurance brokers and Pact, and broadcasters’ positions in use of AI tools. She presented an example clause created by Mint & Co that results in practical risk reduction.
Alex and Henry presented on current and proposed laws and regulations around AI, case law, performers' rights, data protection, confidentiality and practical risk analysis of using these tools).

It was a fascinating seminar on a subject that is changing the production landscape for the entire industry and moving at lightening speed. If you have any questions in these areas, we’d love to chat. And if you are looking for training on these tools and others like them, do get in touch with @ The Connected Set.

We’ll be releasing another Industry Insight soon on the regulatory and risk landscape for AI. If you'd like to be added to the Mint & Co mailing list to receive notifications of our future seminars, industry news and Mint updates, please email [email protected]

25/06/2024

Lawyer wellbeing and freedom, work-life harmony, and a friendly, supportive and caring community for consultants has been Mint's big 'WHY' for existing, so it's been lovely to hear the following feedback from our team questionnaire recently, reflecting our ethos and values back to us!...

- “The respect, care and consideration that's given to the consultants."
- "The Flexible working and ability to have balance in life."
- "The work is interesting and varied."
- "The honesty, openness and kindness of all the members of the team."
- "Supportive and friendly."
- "Friendliness, the feedback from clients about Mint being positive.”

We really value having such a brilliant team!

12/06/2024

It was lovely to see so many industry professionals attend our two free seminars this week and last week.
Last Tuesday, Mint & Co Legal & Business Affairs Consultant Sarah Leach and Commercial Consultant Luci Sanan spoke about how to maximise your exploitation opportunities and create new revenue streams, including through digital, social and brand-funded content, as well as how to negotiate favourable rights positions from the outset of a project. Feedback from attendees has been wonderful!

We are running these seminars as part of our commitment to help the industry survive and thrive; our next free seminar will be on July 1st in partnership with The Connected Set and Russells, covering AI tools for content creators - if you'd like to attend please email [email protected]

16/05/2024

Sarah and I spent a lovely few hours at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon care of AudioUK's invite to the creative industries garden party!

We had a conversation with the Duke of Edinburgh, chatted to some lovely people in the audio industry, spotted a few celebs and enjoyed the baby ducklings in the palace gardens.

14/05/2024

It may be mental health awareness week, but for us, it’s so important that we’ve woven well-being and personal development into the fabric of Mint & Co. We’ve done this via our annual programme of coaching and well-being sessions, as well as mental health first aider training. A few notes from Nicola, our founder and CEO and Maisy, our Client & Talent Relationship Manager;

Nicola
I posted here at the start of 2023 to announce the start of Mindful Mint, which is now in its second year. It’s been an experimental journey, working out what the team are interested in and most need, offering probably more than people can attend and seeing where it leads! I don’t have all the answers yet, but I do know that well-being and personal development are at the heart of what helps us stay grounded and balanced in this crazy dance called life. I also know that not enough organisations in the legal sector are investing in it for their people. Mint & Co is a place to come for work, yes, but there are plenty of places and platforms to find work. It’s also a friendly and team-oriented community to join, somewhere to belong, to find work life balance, and to be nurtured and developed. And that feels crucially important to us.

Maisy
It's a privilege to be Mint & Co's Mental Health First Aider. I'm also an EMCC EIA Accredited Senior Practitioner Leadership and Life Coach and the skills from both enable me to support and provide a listening ear for the team whenever they might need it. This year and last I've run some fun and collaborative sessions: we had goal setting at the start of the year, learning more about how we self sabotage coming up soon, and creating positive interactions in the summer as well as organising mental health group check-in opportunities with the team.

09/05/2024

Mint Collective consultants Laura Hammond and Sarah Leach will be speaking at the Podcast Show two weeks today! They'll be on the Creator Stage at 12.30pm on Thursday 23rd May, ready to answer all your burning questions on legal & business affairs matters, so please come along if you have anything you'd like to ask!

https://ow.ly/VI3550RzsxS