We Built This City Podcast | Manc 67: Scott Thomas - The Manc Who Is Learning As He Goes

“It was that dark moment that powered me forward - that year I went on to achieve things I never thought were possible.”


Scott Thomas, owner of Social PR, Food4Thoughts and his own personal brand, knows the struggle of beating your demons and overcoming difficult times. The desire to reach his full potential has driven him to continually work on himself, both mentally and physically, so that he can support the people around him.


His journey to fame began hosting exclusive club nights across Manchester where he built a network of like-minded business people. From there he began to build his companies, starting off selling selfie-sticks and hoverboards, and now running a highly successful PR company as well as a self-improvement program.


In this episode, you’ll hear how becoming labelled ‘the academic one’ shaped his identity, the importance of beating the stigma surrounding men’s mental health and how the community spirit of Manchester has captured Scott’s heart.

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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 25 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.