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As a person who has spent a large portion of their life being a square peg trying to fit into round holes, this resonates so much with me! When I joined the Drake team, I walked in battered, bruised and burnt out but ready to learn and embrace change. What I never expected was the support I got from day one - I often asked my colleague Niven if I was getting punked, half expecting all the positivity and encouragement to vanish at any moment. Spoiler: it never did. Instead, I found a leader and a team who embraced me - warts and all - from the second (and even before) I joined Drake. I was encouraged to learn and engage in ways that worked for ME, rather than trying to squeeze myself into a cookie-cutter mold that I had struggled with my entire life. Of course, there are stats to meet and processes to follow, but what set this experience apart is that I was encouraged to find my OWN voice - to experiment, get creative, learn from failures, and innovate toward the outcomes we were striving for. Challenges became opportunities for creative brainstorms. Problems were solved collaboratively, not through rigid, prescriptive approaches. For the first time in my professional life, I felt seen, heard, and empowered to truly own my role. My neurospicey heart just SANG! Drake didn’t just give me a job - they gave me the space to thrive as my authentic self. And that has made all the difference. Claire, your unwavering support and guidance has been nothing short of life-changing. I’m so grateful to have such a brilliant mentor and leader in my corner! You are SO appreciated and I have so much respect for all that you are and everything that you do! To anyone who feels like a square peg trying to fit into round holes - there are spaces out there where you don’t have to change who you are to succeed. You just need to find the people who see your value and amplify it. Here’s to being unapologetically ourselves—and thriving because of it, not in spite of it! #recruiterlife #justrecruiterthings #drakeUK #teamleadershipdoneright #DE&I #Neurospicey #ADHD

The Where and When of: To Be (Oneself) Or Not to Be (Oneself) This is my question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of scorn and group censorship… Some friends have PM’d me to ask if I’m okay and wonder if I might be oversharing when I post about my feelings, resentments, or past angsts. I think many of these people are still living in a halcyon age where people received royalties and everything was fair and nice… and good. I admit, sharing is cathartic; it helps to get it all out there and have some kind of record of my experiences from my point of view. I’ve held onto these thoughts for 20 years, and staying silent hasn’t done me any real good. And perhaps it’s boring to read, but sorry… there’ll be a cat video for you to laugh at in a microsecond… to help you forget the creeping barrage of your own enslavement… Also, the big question is: am I showing weakness by sharing? Or is it stronger to fight for what you believe? Anyhow, it’s not like I’m going to lose out on any record company work! I’ve been blackballed by major record labels since 2004, YES, 20 years!! What are they going to do, give me no work for another 20 years? I was working hard and collaborating with top people, I had about 5 albums in the top 10, Dido was number 1 and going massive, winning two Brits! I realized in 1999 that a band making a Dido-type sound would be huge, and so I made my plan to find a band and make that happen. In 1999, I found this band—This is the Keane I started working with: https://lnkd.in/eRqspdhh And I thought I could make a Dido-y sound with it, then I pitched the idea to the band. This was my sound, my studio, my synths, my vision. MY IDEA!!! The transition was finished by the end of 2001. But due to lies, broken agreements, and trusting people’s word and handshakes… After they left my studio, they didn’t invite me to the BRITs and ghosted me. Lee and Thompson lawyers and I filed suit against Island Records in 2010. Island Records said they’d try to do better the next time. 20th Anniversary’s release, 48 wrong credits! Even songs on the 2001 CD made here at VibeyStudios by me were credited as ‘Tim’s Demos’. Imagine the INSULT! AND don’t forget, because Keane told everyone they made Hopes and Fears themselves in their garden, they made it look like I was lying… AND I have never been asked to work by a major record company again!!! Blacklisted Due to the lies in 2004, I went from “superstar programmer” to some kind of ‘lying blagger scoundrel’ overnight… My career kind of ended. So, I went independent, building up new acts on my own. I wouldn’t really have minded if they hadn’t done the same thing to me again 20 years later with ENGLISH TEACHER. I’ve made two of Island Records’ biggest UK acts and they stole both from me.

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