Less Chatter, More Matter: The Communications Podcast
Communications expert, business owner, group fitness instructor...that's your podcast host, Mel Loy! And in the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, Mel shares tips on how to improve your communication skills, and interviews with the experts.
In 2020, after almost 20 years in corporate communications, Mel (happily) took a redundancy from her full-time, executive corporate job and went out on her own, founding her communications agency, Hey Mel! Communication & Training.
These days, she's a sought-after speaker, workshop facilitator, and consultant, working for some of the biggest brands in Australia and popping up on speaker line-ups at conferences world wide.
Expect short, entertaining episodes packed with valuable tips that will inspire you to try new things. Communication tips to improve your relationships at work, navigate crises, internal communication, and deliver change are top of the agenda.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 135
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
#74 How TikTok is changing political communications ft. Dr. Susan Grantham
In 2022 Australia was gearing up for a federal election. The Australian labor party or the ALP was in opposition at the time. And they needed to win over a specific audience: the younger generations.…
#73 How to have challenging conversations
How many times have you avoided a tough conversation because you thought it would be difficult? If you’re like most people, probably quite a few.
The problem is that avoiding these discussions can l…
#72 What comms professionals need to know about data (ft. Roelant Vos)
By 2025, it's estimated that the volume of data or information created, captured, copied and consumed worldwide will reach 181 zettabytes. That’s the equivalent of 4.98 quintillion movies, or 78 time…
#71 How improv can enhance your comms skills (ft. Mandy Plumb)
How could improv possibly play a role in improving someone's communication abilities?
We're so glad you asked. This week on the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we've got the incredibly talented and…
#70 Strategic storytelling: what is it and why should you use it?
Strategic storytelling is a skill as old as time… literally. As in, most of the world couldn’t read or write until the 1980s, so how we communicated was through verbal storytelling.
This, however, ha…
#69 5 communications things you need to do to prepare for EOFY
We're getting close to the end of financial year here in Australia, and with it comes the age-old debacle: how do we communicate our results to varying audiences?
Well, this is where communications pr…
#68 How to make the complex, simple (ft. Kate Norris)
Another week, another filled-with-free-insights podcast episode and another incredibly insightful guest!
Welcome to our latest guest, Kate Norris, from Presentation Boss - a business dedicated to tea…
#67 Inspire change with these key messaging tips
This week on the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast we've diving into change messaging and how you can make sure yours is effective, inspires action and resonates with your audience.
Generally, we've s…
#66 5 secrets to persuading your audience
216 million is the amount of emails that are sent, on average, every day. 15.5 hours is the accumulated time for an average office worker to simply manage these emails, and 40 is the amount of email…
#65 What in the world is happening? How to communicate in a world of upheaval
How do you communicate about the tough topics?
More importantly, in a world of upheaval and an ongoing barrage of information and news - how do you communicate about the important things in a meaningf…
#64 The process behind creating and embedding an EVP
Welcome back to another episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast. This week, we dive into part two of the EVP-explained series where we explain all things EVP, why it matters and how it matte…
#63 What is an EVP and why is it important?
On today's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we cross the bridge from comms land into HR land a little to unpack the infamous Employee Value Proposition, or EVP, as it's more commonly…
#62 What is thought leadership and how do you use it?
On this week's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we're starting with a jargon-busting episode dedicated to detailing out exactly what the term "thought leadership" means.
As a comms pr…
#61 Do the right thing: communications edition
Today we've covered a new topic that has been briefly touched on in previous episodes, but we are hyper-aware that if we called it exactly what it is... nobody would listen to it, because the topic i…
#60 Showing up on social media (ft. Rachael Gough)
On this week's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, we've dived into the fun topic of: social media.
We interviewed Rachael Gough, a Brisbane-based, award-winning certified personal styli…
#59 The role of leaders in communicating change
Communication is important in a change, but comms itself does not make change happen. Leadership is how a change gets across the line effectively and successfully across a business, and when you comb…
#58 All things change communication (ft. Prina Shah)
This week, we've turned the tables on Mel and instead of being the interviewer... she's the interviewee! Prina Shah has stepped in again this week to do a second week of absolute comms gold, intervie…
#57 The power of leadership communication (ft. Prina Shah)
Welcome back to another episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast, where we were joined by the incredible Prina Shah. Prina is a coach, consultant, trainer, and speaker, and the host of the Wa…
#56 5 best-practice comms activities for every crisis
Every single day we're seeing something of some kind of issue or crisis bubbling up in organisations of all shapes and sizes. From high-profile resignations through to large scale hacks and IT outage…
#55 The right to disconnect … what does that mean for internal comms?
On this week's episode of the Less Chatter, More Matter podcast we’ve looked to the international community for some guidance on navigating new workplace laws here in Australia.
If you have no idea w…