In this episode of The Six Sells Podcast, Mike Nicholson spoke to Carly Activille, who has over 20 years of advertising experience working across digital, print, magazines, newspaper, demand gen, programmatic, podcasts, and events.

Carly’s background spans the Daily Mail, Express, ReachLocal, Publications UK, Dennis, Future and now Audience Q where she is the Managing Director. A proud member of MEFA, she describes herself as data driven and an omnichannel enthusiast!

Here are some of the topics we discussed in this episode.

Starting out in regional press

How personal circumstances can affect career progression

Challenges and how they shape women in the workplace

Talking about IVF and the grief of baby loss

Being a voice and support for others

The importance of protected leave

Enabling leaders to have difficult conversations

Nurturing leaders and championing your team

Mutual respect, safe spaces and team culture

Mentorship and lifting others up

Harnessing lived experience to answer questions

Believing in yourself and keep doing what you’re doing

Being visible and putting yourself forward

LinkedIn, events and podcasts

Never questioning your value

Find the places that know your worth

Growth, encouraging and championing your team

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Who is Six Sells?

Six Sells is a UK-based executive visibility and thought leadership agency that works globally with CEOs and senior leaders in media, advertising, adtech and technology.

Founded in 2018, we turn each executive's expertise into distinctive, authoritative content in their own voice, built to reach two audiences at once: the humans that matter to them, and the AI models those humans now ask for answers.

Our work combines executive ghostwriting, video, podcasts, photography and awards to build familiarity, trust and authority across LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, Substack, the trade press and the wider web.

We also help executives and their companies improve their visibility in AI search and large language models (LLMs) through generative engine optimisation (GEO), increasing the likelihood that platforms including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity and Claude can discover, understand, cite and recommend their expertise.

Email hello@sixsells.co.uk for more information.

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