Jun 9, 2026 · 49 min · 11 segments
In this episode of Can I Buy You a Coffee?, Ebony sits down with Ashleigh Buchanan, Content Lead at The Breakout Hack and one of the marketing…
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Ashleigh BuchananGuestEbonyHostSocial media was a part of your degree.
I'm always really interested by that because that's obviously a relatively new thing-
... offering a degree in social media.
I now know, I didn't know this, this is so fun, that you went to uni to get out of paying rent.
Slay.
Love that.
Savvy queen.
Girl math.
But having gone through that degree and now you've been in, working in social media for over three years now, how tangible was that degree? And to younger and aspiring marketers who are maybe looking at doing a social media degree, what is your advice for them?
Mm
So, like, by the time they're gonna then put that in a assessment or a textbook, it's so past the fact of, like-
Onto the next.
So I think uni is great for, like, teaching you time management and, like, work ethic and things like that.
Mm-hmm.
But for social media specifically, I personally, I don't know, my opinion could be d- very different to the next person, but I don't personally think that uni directly taught me anything for social media-
Mm-hmm
... apart from, like, yeah, having the, the, like, deadlines and things like that that you need to work to.
But it's also, like, it teaches you a different skill set in, like, communicating with others.
Yeah.
Social media was a part of your degree.
I'm always really interested by that because that's obviously a relatively new thing-
... offering a degree in social media.
I now know, I didn't know this, this is so fun, that you went to uni to get out of paying rent.
Slay.
Love that.
Savvy queen.
Girl math.
But having gone through that degree and now you've been in, working in social media for over three years now, how tangible was that degree? And to younger and aspiring marketers who are maybe looking at doing a social media degree, what is your advice for them?
Mm
So, like, by the time they're gonna then put that in a assessment or a textbook, it's so past the fact of, like-
Onto the next.
So I think uni is great for, like, teaching you time management and, like, work ethic and things like that.
Mm-hmm.
But for social media specifically, I personally, I don't know, my opinion could be d- very different to the next person, but I don't personally think that uni directly taught me anything for social media-
Mm-hmm
... apart from, like, yeah, having the, the, like, deadlines and things like that that you need to work to.
But it's also, like, it teaches you a different skill set in, like, communicating with others.
Yeah.
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