142: Building the world’s first GEN-Z copywriting community, Word Tonic, with Carolyn McMurray and Em Goodier.

This week, we ate and left no some crumbs to lure and catch GEN-Z copywriters, Carolyn McMurray and Em Goodier. 

Co-founders of Word Tonic, the world’s first GEN-Z copywriting community, Carolyn and Em are hell-bent on helping and inspiring more young people to write for a living. Driven directly by young copywriters, it's a space to connect, share advice and learn from both each other and in masterclasses with the world's most noticeable brands like Disney and Google. 

With over 700 GEN-Z copywriters involved, they’re growing so fast they’ve got brands reaching out to recruit fresh, emerging talent straight from the community. 

We spill the tea (we’ll stop now) on embracing chaos in your career, building a community as an introvert, why research matters before a GEN-Z marketing effort, flexibility, mentorship, wanky creative directors, creating a diverse and inclusive community, short-term echo chambers, listener questions from Vikki Ross, Dave Harland, Thomas Kemeny and Andrew Boulton, boyfriend dedications, and loads more*.

*including a World Cup of GEN-Z words designed solely to get Giles to say “yeet”, “bussin”, and “vibe check”. 

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Follow Word Tonic on Instagram 
Find them on LinkedIn 
Here’s their website and newsletter 
And check out one of Carolyn’s recommendation; Farnam Street

Timestamps
(01:47) - World Cup of GEN-Z Words 
(03:31) - Early (chaotic) career paths; from Costa Coffee and cleaning to copywriting 
(12:31) - How Word Tonic started, the recruitment side, and why you should join 
(22:46) - How to nail GEN-Z marketing efforts 
(31:31) - Listener questions 
(40:51) - 4 pertinent posers 

Their book recommendations are: 
Junior by Thomas Kemeny 
Hey Whipple Squeeze This by Luke Sullivan 
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
A Self-Help Guide for Copywriters by Dan Nelken 
The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R. Carey

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