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Selling Out! — Ep 3: Labels, Laughs & Loud Marketing | Sarah Archer & Alex Ryan

Selling Out!

Friday, 17 April 2026 - 1 hour 11 minutes

Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms straight jackets not included. 🏳️‍🌈Episode 3 is a riot and also one of our most honest conversations yet.Sarah Archer (she/her, G) spent years thinking she was straight, got married, had a daughter, moved to Germany three days before her 21st birthday, climbed to HR Director and then, during pregnancy, everything shifted. She came out into a workplace that gave her a pay rise. She’s since retrained as a stand-up comedian, written two books, toured her own theatre show celebrating forgotten Victorian drag king superstars, and built a speaking business that coaches experts to create talks that sell without anyone feeling pitched to. Her podcast The Speaking Club is in the top 1% globally.Alex Ryan (he/him, Q) sold torn-out pages from a porn magazine at primary school for 20p a pop. He’s come a long way — via DJing, bar work, a head of marketing role at a £60 million business, and a pandemic side hustle that became Marketing 101, his Brighton-based agency now six years strong. He’s also chair of Gaydio Brighton, spent a decade as voluntary production director of National Student Pride, and recently launched Vermouth, Actually a handcrafted vermouth made at Devil’s Dyke Distillery that sold 50 bottles off a single LinkedIn post.Two people who’ve had a smoother ride than most but who’ve both channelled that privilege into fighting for the people who haven’t.This episode goes deep on identity, labels, DEI under fire, and the trans community under attack. It also features a genuinely beautiful argument for why queerness is a superpower and one of the best closing lines we’ve had on the show.“Queerness is not unique to the human species. But homophobia is.”🎙️ Sponsored by Legends Brighton — legendsresortbrighton.com — and Mortgage Medics — mortgage-medics.comVideo & Audio by Always Cinematic -AlwaysCinematic.comKeywords / Tags:LGBTQIA+, queer business, marketing, public speaking, comedy, DEI, diversity and inclusion, trans rights, labels, identity, Brighton, vermouth, podcast, Selling Out, GoSucceedSeason: 1 | Episode: 3Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.