Today we continue our interview series and welcome to the studio Jo-Anne Hook. Jo-Anne is a consultant and coach to the creative industries, and someone who has been instrumental for growing our own practices as producers and agents.

To open our interview series, we chat with producer and project manager Nirmala Shome from the New York-based digital product design studio, This Also. We discuss her journey from digital account management to product management, her various self-initiated side projects, as well as advice for fellow PMs.

From this week, we're starting to change things up a bit and have a whole bunch of interviews coming your way with creative producers and project/product managers across the globe. To kick things off in that spirit, we're going to introduce you to the rest of the Jacky Winter production team to talk about their own journeys into the wild and wonderful world of creative artist and project management, including their key takeaways and lessons learned so far.

To launch our new event series, Open Tabs, we decided to devote an entire episode to discussing some of the links making the rounds in our #professionaldevelopment Slack channel. We'll look at everything from the concept of 'Blagging' to how to work with... less than ideal people.

This week we get out of the studio and look at the processes involved in producing physical projects like large scale murals, installations, and live art. We cover the potential risks, technical requirements and limitations, plus some lessons learned in the field!

This week we discuss the experience of burning out and why creative fields are so susceptible to it. We also look at what project burnout might look like and how to look after ourselves and avoid it all together.

This week we round-up some various online project management tools and explore their many uses for creative production work, as well as how they might help or hinder workflow. From full-featured PM tools and industry specific web-apps, to building your own 'stack' and new players on the field, there's something here for everyone!

Today we finally get into the differences between licensing and work for hire. We ask, who owns what and how much of it. What does it mean to work for hire, and why is licensing the best thing we have to ensure the future of the creative industry for talent and clients alike.

This week on JWGYTB we take a look at influencers and influencer marketing! Who are these mysterious beasts and how you find one, should you find one, and what are some of the risks and rewards involved? The power of our podcast compels you to listen and find out!

In our line of work we spend a lot of time in meetings with clients, artists and everyone in between. So today we’re taking a closer look at this to figure out when and whether meetings are necessary and how we can make them more efficient. From in person meetings to video chat and short form group chat, we also cover some alternative meeting techniques and developments in the software space to help make creative meetings suck a bit less.