Produced By - Insight #18 - Daniel James: The Importance Of Finding Your Mission For Fulfilment

Episode Date: August 18, 2023

Daniel James is a cancer survivor and a media manager for Inteliports Ltd. and Motion-Robotics Ltd., collaborating on building droneports to facilitate fully automated drone delivery. Daniel, a native of Somerset, relocated to London to get a degree in television production at the university. He later began working for a virtual reality startup, creating a variety of VR products. Then he left London and went to work as airport security, where he remained until he learned something that would change his life. After receiving a diagnosis, David spent several months immobile, with some lasting effects. Now that he has mostly recovered, Daniel works as a media manager for Interliports and Motion-Robotics, a business that seeks to revolutionize drone deliveries with its technology, handling all social media, video recording and promotion-related matters. Listen to this episode to find out more about Daniel's predicament, learn what it's like to work in airport security and get a deep dive into drones and their use for deliveries.   Connect with Daniel: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/dljamesvideoproduction/⁠ Inteliports: ⁠https://www.inteliports.com/⁠   Quotes from the episode: “You don't really know what's going on. You're not conscious really at all. It's just things that are happening and you react to them as naturally as you can.” “It's taken me almost two years now to feel fairly normal, although because I was working the airport job and I was walking a lot, I'm not going to feel like that stage really ever again, just because of the muscle mass and muscle memory that I've lost in that.” “I'm not really focused on anything else. As long as it's interesting, like that's all I'm here for.” “You think everything's just stuck against you or you think that there's no hope. But just take a deep breath and just continue going.” “The world's still gonna revolve and the next day is going to come. If things seem insurmountable, you just go slow down and just take things small task by small task and just build yourself up.”   Connect with the podcaster: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tomasloucky.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/TomasLoucky⁠     Follow the podcast: 🌐 Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://produced-by-podcast.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🔗 Links: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/produced_by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   💬 Contact: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://produced-by-podcast.com/contact⁠⁠⁠ 📷 Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://instagram.com/produced_by_podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  🎥 YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5LHnM6YCaeVzIr0WatOsw⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  🎵 TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@producedbypodcast⁠  ✉️ Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[e-mail]⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠Spotify: ⁠https://lnkd.in/e5Y8Wscx⁠  Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/produced-by/id1684669642⁠⁠⁠⁠    🎙️ About Produced By Podcast: Produced By brings you exciting stories of brave people who set out to build careers in competitive fields despite often challenging circumstances. Whether you are interested in creative industries, personal development or want to have some fun, enter the spotlight along with our guests and get inspired. Listen to people coming from all parts of the world, diverse fields of expertise and different levels of careers. So join us to follow their journeys, learn from life experience and embark on a great adventure. 🤩 If you enjoy listening to the podcast, please, leave a review on your podcast app, subscribe or share it with your friends. You can also send us a message and share any feedback, advice and tips for guests. 📭 Subscribe at ⁠⁠⁠https://produced-by-podcast.com/subscribe⁠⁠⁠ so that you don't miss out!    #producedbypodcast #producedby #enterthespotlight     Enjoy! Connect with Tomas:X: https://x.com/TomasLoucky⁠⁠⁠Stan: https://stan.store/TommenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomasloucky/⁠⁠Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisistommen/⁠⁠Unproduced:Newsletter: https://unproduced.substack.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@unproducednotesSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/033Ddo8ibDlLYoaP7FFLIWMore:Links: https://linktr.ee/produced_by⁠⁠⁠Newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://producednewsletter.substack.com/⁠The Podcast Club: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/25420030/Tools & gear that support the show:Metricool: https://f.mtr.cool/HRJBZKRiverside: https://riverside.sjv.io/vDnDodFavikon: https://www.favikon.com?fpr=tommenRa Optics: https://ra-optics.myshopify.com/discount/TOMMEN?rfsn=8803777.591d19JamX: https://jamx.ai/podcasters-offer?ref_id=e02d48af-ef66-4e76-b804-c2e8d282a8bfSome links are affiliate links, which means I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. If you find them useful, using these links helps keep the podcast running. Thank you!  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Yeah, can you introduce us a bit more the role that you've got in a company? Yeah. What do? What are your responsibilities? So for motion robotics and its headports, increasingly in set uports, I am currently the media manager, which is just kind of a temporary hold-all term at the moment that we're using. So I work with social media side, making sure all those pages are up-state clean, and that we're and I'll be managing the social posts that go out every time on that.

And also, most by responsibility at the moment, is capturing test footage and promotional footage to provide with our contracts to make sure that we're still beating tasks and quotas to keep the funding going. So at the moment, I'm just mostly recording test footage, and we are slowly starting to build up promotional material that we can start sending to venture capitalists first. to start pitching for seed funding, which is going to start relatively very soon. So that's going to be a very big jump, which will be great. Also organizing public events, so I was responsible for organizing our attendants at fully

charged last year, which is an electric car expert, but also had a section featured on electric flight, so he managed to get it there. didn't go in this year just because of kind of financial issues with the company at the moment just because we're not really bouncing books correctly and that led us to being able to attend the Wood Festival of Speed which is this massive motoring event happening in Gidwood where all the latest supercars get announced and everything it's absolutely it was crazy it was such a cool event to go to and just to get like picked out of nowhere just like oh yeah I should come and feature in our future lab exhibit and I was

It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. I can't have it. And does it really help with the promotion of the company and to spread the world when you participate in this type of events? Hugely, yeah. Mainly because, so the work we kind of do is mainly in office and because it's kind of technical and working with grants and that kind of thing, we don't really have time to publish anything until it's done. So when we get to go to these kinds of events, it's also a great.

experience for the team as well to get feedback from people. Because a lot of the time, most of the engineers are just working behind the desk, behind a computer, working on prototypes, just carrying a hair out to get something to work. And then for people to actually see the work that they're doing and comment on it and talk about how cool it is, really boost morale in the office as well. So that's one of the main things. When it comes to promotional, here we are, and actually getting in front of people, there hasn't been much promotional work lately. since I joined, just because until now, the main focus has been working on these grants, working on this technology to get something that resembles working.

So, yeah, no, it's getting us out there. People are seeing us. We get the opportunity of people covering us, like social media influences, or just people walking past with a camera phone, tweeting about it. And you may have mentioned it, but how long you've been working there? I've been working at motion robotics and interpoles for about two years now, almost I lived on. Started working here because of, so I just finished cancer, I moved down to Ringwood with my nan and my mum, just because things in Somerset had just kind of didn't really work out too well. And I was just looking for a job whilst I was recovering from chemo. I felt like I was in a good state to start working.

and we found this opening on LinkedIn for working at this drone company making a video meant the guys start producing a video for them and just kind of stuck around so yeah that's how that's kind of worked out but I just love the concept so much I'm just kind of stuck around yeah it sounds great to be part of something like that you know you've got like a mission and product that you are developing together yeah so it's a really cool idea and a really cool sector that is you want to work working really. So most of my media careers, especially would virtually be there, and now motion products on the teleports,

is finding something that you're all interested in and just going along for the ride, really. I'm not really focused on anything else, as long as it's interesting. Like, that's all on my airport. Yeah, and it sounds like there is a wide big future for this industry or this specific type that the company is working on.

At a drone delivery, right? Yeah, definitely. So a drone delivery has been something that's been in work since at least around 2014, when Amazon announced that they were going to start doing drone delivery.