My Insurance Downtime: James Brooks, Clear Group
James Brooks, employee benefits team manager at Clear Group, offers us a window into his life outside insurance, including smoking meats, discovering golf and watching cartoons because he is still a kid at heart – just don’t talk to him about the ending of Game of Thrones.
Music timeThis is probably going to sound cliché, but I have quite a widespread music taste. If you are lucky enough to listen to my Spotify playlist, you will hear everything from Fleetwood Mac to Tupac, Janet Jackson to System of a Down.
I try and go to at least one music festival a year, even if just for a day, and was lucky enough to get tickets for Glastonbury in 2020, which ended up taking place two years later. If anyone has ever thought about going but
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