Krystle Loyland, CEO of Preacher, talks about her love of cooking, a talent she inherited from her own mother but didn't discover until after college. "There's hardly anything more instantly gratifying than cooking a meal. You get to come up with it and put it together and watch it transform and put it out for people, and you're done." She also started smoking meat at home about six years ago. Loyland also weighs in on the best deadly sin, her love of true crime and Beyoncé Knowles.

Jean-Marie Dru, chairman of TBWA Worldwide, talks about the work he does with the French Academy of Medicine Foundation and UNICEF France, where he is president. "What's the most important thing for the four of us in this room? Health. And then what's the most important thing for the future of everybody? Our children." He also talks about his love of classic films and the French rappers and poets called "slammers," and he weighs in on the creative benefits of jetlag, Eminem's vocabulary and his eventual retirement from agency life.

Tim Nudd, editor-in-chief of the Clio Awards and editor of Muse by Clio, talks about living the not-so-quiet life in Maine, where he goes fishing, camping and lobstering. "You slowly, through a catapult motion, let out more and more line," he says. "You try to throw a fly in a particular part of a river where the fish are congregating." He also weighs in on the appeal of Billy Joel and British period dramas and relates a tale of a bachelor party at sea—though not his own.

Mia Libby, chief revenue officer at The Daily Beast, talks about getting back in the game after years of skiing competitively when she was younger. "I need to be able to do something that is not doing my job, that is not being a mom, that I really enjoy. It's really fun to rediscover this thing that I was once good at and be good at it again," she says. She also weighs in on proper cold-weather attire, ineffective ad jingles and the inexplicable allure of tapas.

David Lee, chief creative officer at Squarespace, talks about how he discovered that editing photos gave him time to himself to think about everything else going on at work and in his life. "It's like this repetitive task that you're doing, and you're not really even thinking about it, so your mind can drift. You can actually multitask very well." He also weighs in on skateboarding as a kid, awkward anagrams and buying a technically-road-legal electric bike.

Goodby Silverstein & Partners founder Jeff Goodby talks about his tequila importing business—a small-batch, high-end liquor aged for 5 years in three kinds of barrels. "It makes you do your other job better to have things on the side, whether it's fishing or painting or playing soccer or whatever you take seriously," he says. He also chooses the best vandals throughout history, recommends alarming audio books and takes a milk-based pop quiz.

Jason Sperling, SVP, chief, creative development at RPA, talks about his affinity for graphic novels, comic books and trade paperbacks. In advertising "these days, there's absolutely no shame in saying, 'I love Star Wars, I love Battlestar Galactica,'" he says. "And of course, comic books—in some ways they're saving cinema." He also recommends science fiction titles, picks a superpower and tells a story about his first meeting with Gerry Graf.

Noble People CEO Greg March talks about his nascent collection of pinball machines—an homage of sorts to his father's love of watches. "There is no less impermanent business than advertising," March says. "I guess to have a hobby that is tactile and physical, but also incorporates art and storytelling all at the same time, it touched a lot of buttons for me." He also weighs in on screen time for his kids, too much cheese, and the dangers of reckless entrepreneurship.

Mekanism president and CEO Jason Harris talks about sparring in the boxing ring—for charity at first—which evolved into his preferred workout after a long day at the office. "It was terrifying. You don't really know until you go in there for your first sparring match how you're going to take a punch," Harris says. "And then you kind of get into it, and you enjoy getting hit after a while, which is a really weird thing to say." He also weighs in on growing up near Washington, D.C., what it was like knowing he wanted to be in advertising from a young age and why David Bowie is the greatest musician of all time.

Virtue CCO Cameron Farrelly talks about the obsessive need to curate—some might say hoard—items that strike his fancy. Collecting "vinyl is like having a hobby that doesn't have a finish. It's going to torment you, because you're never going to master that hobby, so you will never be complete," he says. He also weighs in on his own virtues, creativity as an obsessive tendency and the recursive cultural critique of "The Truman Show."