We Built This City: Greater Manchester

The best networks aren’t built by asking; they’re built by giving.

We Built This City host Lisa Morton was invited to be a guest on another great Manchester podcast, Blooming North, and you can hear that conversation in this episode.
Lisa joined 'Coach to the North' Lisa Hughes on the most recent episode of the Blooming North podcast. Together they explored the idea of creating your own "Manchester Bank Account", the invisible wealth generated through generosity, consistency and showing up for others long before you need anything in return.
You’ll hear them discuss that reputations are built over decades rather than days, and why the strongest professional relationships are made through countless small deposits; like making introductions, celebrating others and always doing what you say you’ll do.
Lisa shares her lessons from building Roland Dransfield, the power of playing the long game, and why your reputation walks into a room before you do.
The Blooming North Podcast is proudly sponsored by MX Location Experts, the global OOH agency of Miroma Group, helping brands connect with audiences in the moments and locations that matter.

Listen to Blooming North here
Find out more about the Bloom North Network Via their website
Via Instagram

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield
linkedin.com/in/lisamortonrdpr
www.rdpr.co.uk

Connect with Lisa Hughes, Founder and Director of Lisa Hughes Coaching.
linkedin.com/in/lisahughescoaching
Insta@LisaHughesCoaching
www.LisaHughesCoaching.com

Blooming North Producers:
1word productions
www.1wordproductions.co.uk

Blooming North studio space:
Colony workspaces
https://colonyco.work/office-space-northern-quarter

”She was a quiet rebel in class, a diamond sifter in a gravel pit."
Caroline Aherne left Manchester with a comedic legacy that went on to redefine British TV.
One of the many people she inspired is Dave Scott, the poet and author who you might know better as Argh Kid. Dave’s latest book ‘Rebel in Disguise', is a love letter to Caroline’s work as a writer, actress and comedian.
Host Lisa Morton recorded this conversation at the We Built This City afternoon tea at Cloud 23 in The Manchester Deansgate Hotel, to celebrate the launch of Dave’s book.
Dave has built a career out of finding the poetry in the lives of everyday Mancunians; from the phrases, the humour and the heart that makes this city region different. So it’s no surprise that Caroline and The Royle Family had a huge impact on him. As you'll hear him say, watching the show felt just like watching his own family; something many people who grew up in Greater Manchester will resonate with.

In this episode, you'll hear why Dave believes Caroline was Greater Manchester's greatest artist; why he wanted to make her the focus of his next book, and you’ll also hear readings from the book that beautifully encapsulate Caroline’s genius.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business and its team members have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.
To celebrate the 30 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Dave and buy his book
Via Instagram
Get the book

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:
Via our website
On Instagram
On X

Thanks to our partners on this episode of We Built This City, Car Finance 247. You can visit CarFinance247.co.uk or follow Car Finance 247 on LinkedIn to find out more about them.

”Our songs were all about how I felt being Mancunian”
What does it look like to live a life immersed in the Manchester music scene and to make a city dance?
Mike Pickering is the legendary Hacienda DJ, musician and former A&R for Factory Records and now, author. You can’t tell the story of music in Manchester over the past 40 years without Mike in the picture.
In this episode, you’ll find out how Mike’s punk attitude has shaped everything he’s done, and how, in his mission to create spaces for the misfits, he’s also allowed thousands of people to express themselves and create memories that last a lifetime.
After the recent Launch of Mike’s book; Manchester Must Dance: “A Life of Music, Madness and Moving on Up” he sat down with Lisa to share some of the stories that went into creating the book, like turning a Yacht showroom into the city’s most iconic night club the Hacienda, signing The Happy Mondays and James to Factory Records, and putting a New Order gig on In a water tower in Rotterdam.
Hear Mike’s perspective on the incredible highs of being at the centre of the Hacienda and Factory Records boom as well as the lows, violence and fall of the club.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business and its team members have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.
To celebrate the 30 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.

Connect with Mike
Via Instagram
Buy his book

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:
Via our website
On Instagram
On X
Thanks to our partners on this episode of We Built This City, Car Finance 247. You can visit CarFinance247.co.uk or follow Car Finance 247 on LinkedIn to find out more about them.

What does it take to run one of the UK's most ambitious city regions?
Caroline Simpson, Group Chief Executive of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, joins Lisa Morton to share how the region is turning devolution into real, tangible change for people's lives.
Caroline has helped shape some of the most significant developments in Greater Manchester in recent years, including the Bee Network; the region's locally run public transport system. She also played a central role in developing the Greater Manchester Strategy, a plan that brings the public, private, and voluntary sectors together around a single, shared vision.
You'll hear how the Greater Manchester Combined Authority identified the need for the Good Growth Fund, and how they're positioning the region as a compelling destination for outside investment. Caroline also explores what it means in practice to ensure that growth reaches all ten Greater Manchester Boroughs, so that no community is left behind.
With the world watching the city’s growth, development and leadership, Lisa and Caroline also reflect on what Caroline believes will define Greater Manchester's next decade.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business and its team members have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.
To celebrate the 30 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.
Connect with Caroline and GMCA
Via Caroline’s LinkedIn
Via GMCA LinkedIn
Via GMCA Instagram

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:
Via our website
On Instagram
On X

Thanks to our partners on this episode of We Built This City, Car Finance 247. You can visit CarFinance247.co.uk or follow Car Finance 247 on LinkedIn to find out more about them.

What does it mean to spend over 40 years building a career that shapes so much of who you are?
Joe Gallagher is a professional world champion boxing coach and the owner of Gallagher's Gym in Moss Side. A born and bred Mancunian, Joe spends his time fighting people’s corner, encouraging them to find strength and ultimately win.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Joe’s entry into boxing at just 10 years old has formed his values, relationships and work ethic and what drives him to show up at the gym every day, even with his diagnosis of stage four bowel cancer.
Joe got his start at Wythenshawe Forum ABC with legendary boxing trainer Jimmy Egan. You’ll hear how formative those years were for Joe and what it means for him to return to the venue after 40 years, coaching the sons of his former rivals in a huge night of boxing on June 6th.
Find out what learning to fight teaches you about people and how you can build strength that goes beyond the physical.

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Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business and its team members have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.
To celebrate the 30 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family’ and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.
Connect with Joe
On Instagram
Via LinkedIn

Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield:
Via our website
On Instagram
On X

Thanks to our partners on this episode of We Built This City, Car Finance 247. You can visit CarFinance247.co.uk or follow Car Finance 247 on LinkedIn to find out more about them.