A Pint With Seaniebee

Writer and "craictivist", The Don continues her top 20 picks from the first 144 episodes of A Pint With Seaniebee.

(A perfect starting point for first-time listeners to the series).

THE DON: An intelligent man of great integrity and a really cool life story.

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TONY PIGOTT HAS A PINT WITH SEANIEBEE

Growing up one of 7 kids into a construction family in rural Ontario, Tony Pigott did most of his exploring early in life. After a spell in the steel mills, he studied Russian history before deciding to set off and see the world at the tender age of 21. A brave and adventurous circumnavigation followed, including a journey across Russia on the Trans-Siberia Railway; a fascinating number of years spent teaching remote Neolithic tribes in the mountains of Papua New Guinea; jumping freighters to Hong Kong and arriving in Laos during the civil war. We also discuss the differences between Australia and Canada and why the latter is doing so much better than America right now, across so many important criteria.

On his return to Canada, he joined the ad agency JWT, where he spent over 30 years rising to the top as Chairman. Ten years ago, he established BrandAid Project – a business focused on bringing best marketing and design practice to small artisan producers in developing countries. Now named BrandTrade, they have done much work in Haiti, and more recently Peru where they brand and match small producers with resellers and are at the leading edge of the new, technology-led, ‘microtrade marketing’.

More about BrandTrade: tinyurl.com/knpypc5

Tony’s Guardian article on why marketing is failing to address social change: tinyurl.com/koypoyg

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A Pint With Seaniebee

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Top 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2016: tinyurl.com/hp83rnw

Release date: March 1st 2020

Runtime: 62m

Recorded: Dublin

Writer and "craictivist", The Don continues her top 20 picks from 144 episodes of A Pint With Seaniebee. (A perfect starting

point for first-time listeners to the series).

THE DON: If the overarching goal of the podcast is to find brave people who have lived creative and interesting lives, Jean certainly fits the bill, with her adventurous spirit and fearless curiosity.

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JEAN CURRAN HAS A PINT WITH SEANIEBEE

Today we are joined by one of Europe’s foremost photography-based artists. Born into an Irish farming family, Jean began her career as a photojournalist, with her work quickly gaining traction in both the national and international press. In her twenties, she sojourned to Africa, producing stunning assignments in both Ghana and Kenya. Two years ago, she bravely embedded herself with the coalition armies in Afghanistan in search of a long-lost, hand-painted, photography technique unique to the country. Her next project brought her to the Comoros Islands and she shares the fascinating culture that has developed there. Working in so many different Muslim countries, she unveils a very different side to Islam than the one most prevalent in our current news headlines. Most recently, she has based herself in London working as one of the only practicing masters in the declining art of dye transfer. Jean is an inspiration to anyone who has a dream or an ambitious idea and explains how single-minded determination, faith, trust and bravery can always make amazing things happen.

Links

Jean’s Website: tinyurl.com/yc3x3ael

Her unique dye-transfer images: tinyurl.com/y7m9b5qf

The Afghan adventure: tinyurl.com/y7l2wolk

The Comoros project: tinyurl.com/yd49oo3z

www.stationhousedalkey.com/

Contact [email protected] for information on how to purchase Jean’s work.

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A Pint With Seaniebee

Top 12 Best New Podcast Series of 2016: tinyurl.com/gps9tn5

Top 50 Best Podcast Episodes of 2016: tinyurl.com/hp83rnw

Release date: February 15th 2020

Runtime: 69m

Recorded: Dublin

Writer and "craictivist", The Don continues her countdown of her top 20 picks from 144 episodes of A Pint With Seaniebee. (A perfect starting

point for those who want to start exploring the series).

THE DON: Stephen has lived all over the world and has a very interesting take on life and multiculturalism as a result. It is also intriguing to see how Erdogan's hold on Turkey has worryingly strengthened in the three years since this interview was recorded in Istanbul.

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Stephen Fraser has a pint with Seaniebee

Bon viveur and raconteur, Stephen Fraser joins the pod today to recount a peripatetic, James-Bond-like life journey that has seen him live in 9 countries around the world. A man who lives by a constant quest for adventure, new discovery, inquisitiveness, and soaking in new cultures; we discuss his experiences that include: being sealed off in Bahrain at the start of The Gulf War; arriving at a time of heightened tension between North & South Korea; and landing in The Philippines just in time for their latest coup.

We also examine the middle east, Dubai and the extraordinary vision of the Maktoum family; the current ‘Islamic issues’ that trouble the world and the ‘iron-fist’ dictatorship-democracies of Erdoğan's Turkey and the Philippines under Duterte.

Stephen has worked with O&M for 33 years and is currently Business Development Director based in Istanbul.

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A Pint With Seaniebee

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Release date: January 15th 2020

Runtime: 59m

Recorded: Dublin (& London)

Release date: January 31st 2020

Runtime: 56m

Recorded: Dublin (& Istanbul)

Irish writer and "craictivist", The Don, commences her countdown of her top 20 picks from the 144 episodes of A Pint With Seaniebee over the past four years. (A perfect starting point for those who want to start exploring the series).

THE DON: Laura's interview should be listened to by men to gain valuable insight into some of the things that are difficult for women in the workplace; but also female listeners need to ask themselves which career-woman they are: "do you hold the ladder for women coming up behind you, or do you pull it up after you?"

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Laura Jordan-Bambach has a pint with Seaniebee

Former head of The D&AD, and labeled a “Digital female icon” by The Guardian, Laura Jordan-Bambach’s legacy is likely to be less about titles and more about her drive to effect change by DOING, rather than just talking about it. Apart from founding Mr President, one of the UK’s most progressive advertising agencies, Laura has also spent most of her life fighting for women in the notoriously patriarchal and misogynistic ad industry. In 2007, she helped set up the SheSays mentoring programme (now 40,000 strong and about to launch in Afghanistan), that encourages women to pursue careers in advertising and design. She is also a founder of the "Cannt Festival", a more practical and grounded version of Cannes. We talk Gillette, Petersen, the current state of feminism and ideas on how we might get out of this looming Climate Catastrophe, which current predictions suggest may be upon us by the end of the next decade.

Links

Laura’s brilliant “Don’t be a dick” speech: tinyurl.com/yytbyasy

Her agency: www.mrpresident.co/

The SheSays global network for women: weareshesays.com/

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A Pint With Seaniebee

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Release date: January 15th 2020

Runtime: 59m

Recorded: Dublin (& London)

The podcast turns 4 years old today and to celebrate, Seaniebee and The Don hack through the search for truth: how hard it is to find these days and how we need to start accepting that none of the ancient texts of the major Abrahamic religions will ever provide us with the answer. As the relevance and plausibility of faith continues to dissipate, perhaps it is time for the world to collectively create “Religion 4.0” – a new belief system predicated around the stored knowledge and realities of being a human in the 21st Century.

Links:

Reddit thread featuring research surveys with UK Musilims: https://tinyurl.com/uz5rut3

Unveiled – Jasmin Mohammed: https://tinyurl.com/rquztvd

The Koran (Penguin Classics): https://tinyurl.com/u9h4oce

Bart D.Ehrman lecture on The Gospels: https://tinyurl.com/zfx3q5g

Hail Satan trailer: https://tinyurl.com/y3hmmxzv

Outgrowing God – Richard Dawkins https://tinyurl.com/t9gvzgn

Dominion – Tom Holland https://tinyurl.com/rxrnwp8

A Pint With Seaniebee

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Release date: December 31st 2019

Runtime: 75m

Recorded: Dublin

David Brain and Seaniebee worked together as the first planning directors at BateyAds in Singapore under the mercurial Ian Batey. He subsequently rose to the top of Edelman where he spent 13 years running Asia from his home in Auckland. We share old war stories, Arthur C. Clarke’s predictions for the future of flight, and why if you are looking to get into strategy, it’s better to have Brain as a surname rather than Boyle.

Links:

David’s blog: https://tinyurl.com/qq5yn23

A Pint With Seaniebee

Please subscribe to support the podcast: www.patreon.com/seaniebee

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Release date: December 20th 2019

Runtime: 66m

Recorded: Dublin

It’s Time for a New Kind of Advertising Agency

Dave Dye has just launched a new ad agency in London – Love or Fear – focused on a return to common sense and emotionally big ideas when it comes to selling stuff. Having worked for many of the best agencies in the world, he and his team have set about attempting to answer the million-dollar question: how do you run an agency if you aspire to do really great work?

He also shares the results of a fascinating, 6-week experiment he did with the chalkboards outside his local delicatessen, where he endeavoured to apply his thirty years experience to see if he could increase their sales of fine foods and other cheesy comestibles.

Dave’s podcast – Stuff From The Loft – is essential listening for anyone in marketing and advertising and an amazing resource for anyone planning to venture into the business.

Links:

Stuff From The Loft: https://davedye.com/tag/podcast/

https://www.loveorfearltd.co.uk/

Dave’s rationale behind the launch of Love Or Fear: https://tinyurl.com/vl9hs84

Orange ‘Future Thoughts’ : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaKzEN8KoUM

Dunlop ‘Tested For The Unexpected’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLWWtgqDG2M

Keep an eye out for ‘Advertising Unplugged’ – his new book, coming soon.

A Pint With Seaniebee

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Release date: December 10th 2019

Runtime: 39m

Recorded: Cork

In January, advertising legend Vicki Maguire joins Havas London as their Chief Creative Officer. She optimistically believes that although the world is fucked, innovation will save the day, and that we need not fear robots when it comes to creativity, because “a robot will never look at a cupcake and see a vag”.

Links:

Libresse – Viva La Vulva: https://tinyurl.com/yyw4tolq

New York Times – The Truth Is Worth It: https://tinyurl.com/r2phefz

Led By Donkeys on Twitter: @ByDonkeys

https://havaskx.com/havas-london/

A Pint With Seaniebee

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Release date: November 30th 2019

Runtime: 33m

Recorded: Cork

“They were saying ‘certain stories shouldn’t be told’…that was the reason they wanted it to be removed…like a quarter of a million people…there was one festival in the UK, they got so much hate mail, people saying they were going to boycott the festival if they were going to show the film, they ended up dropping it.”

Filmmaker Vincent Lambe was the centre of much controversy earlier this year, when his short film – Detainment - was nominated for an Oscar. The movie charts the immediate aftermath of the arrest of two young boys charged with, and subsequently found guilty of, the 1993 murder of a two-year-old toddler named Jamie Bulger in Liverpool. The case was so disturbing it left a nation floundering for answers that never really came, and it remains a raw wound to the degree that a film such as this can cause the visceral backlash it did with many believing it should never have been made, not to mind being accepted into the Oscars. Vincent came under huge criticism for not engaging with Jamie Bulger’s mother prior to making the film. The tabloid media eviscerated him and his film (including spreading many mistruths about its content), and more mainstream journalists found themselves gagged by editors when it came to reviews and any attempts to divorce content from hysteria. Detainment is a powerful work that is difficult to watch, and raises many questions about what constitutes responsible film-making around such sensitive subjects.

Links:

www.detainmentfilm.com

A Pint With Seaniebee

Please subscribe to support the podcast: www.patreon.com/seaniebee

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Release date: November 20th 2019

Runtime: 50m

Recorded: Cork

With her family hailing from British Guiana, Stephanie Matthews discusses the challenges of growing up as a gay person of colour in 90s Britain. Her career trajectory has seen her take these lessons and experiences and apply them to helping others. She is a champion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace; the current President of Bloom UK and heavily involved in the Stonewall School Model Programme. Stephanie was recently appointed Partnerships Director at Creative Equals, a global agency championing inclusion and diversity in the creative industries. She previously worked as a senior campaign manager at The Virgin Group and at ITV and Channel 4.

Links:

http://www.creativeequals.org/

https://www.bloomuk.org/

A Pint With Seaniebee

Please subscribe to support the podcast: www.patreon.com/seaniebee

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Release date: November 10th 2019

Runtime: 35m

Recorded: London