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Jules Lund is the Founder of Tribe - a self serve marketplace connecting social media influencers with leading brands to create powerful 1:1 campaigns that engage audiences difficult to reach.

We talk about how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable, the evolution of influence and influencers, social commerce and how it works for brands, amongst many, many other things.

Marianne Malina is the President of GSD&M - a creatively driven, full-service agency born and raised in Austin, Texas - run by a band of misfits, artists, musicians, entrepreneurs and clay.

In this episode, we looked at Marianne's 20 years' experience at GSD&M, the role of a creative agency and how GSD&M are expanding on their core capabilities to remain relevant in the future, and what the industry and culture might look like in a post-COVID world.

We also discussed the role of DE&I in everything we do, Marianne's love of all things cooking, and her advice for those looking to start a career in advertising.

The changing media landscape. Taking bigger bites. Leadership styles. Scaling an agency. Responses to COVID-19. Brand purpose.

Just a few of the topics that we discussed with Jean Freeman.

Chris is the Chief Creative Officer of TBWA\Chiat\Day NY, where he is responsible for the agency’s creative output.

In his time at the agency, TBWA\Chiat\Day NY has transformed itself, resulting in industry and cultural recognition, including returning to the AdAge A-List at #5 in 2019, after a 10 year absence, when New York “emerged seemingly out of nowhere to become TBWA’s most surprising innovation machine,” and “where creativity has bloomed again.” In 2020, the agency moved up a spot to #4.

TBWA\Chiat\Day was also named one of Fast Co's Most Innovative Companies in 2019 and 2020, as well as ADWEEK's Network of the Year in 2018. The New York office also became the #5 individual agency at Cannes, winning the most creative awards in agency's history.

Chris and the TBWA\Chiat\Day NY team believe you can deliver beautiful ideas for every business challenge or opportunity. He is most proud of the partnerships at TBWA\Chiat\Day NY, where creativity is owned by the entire agency.

How do you scale a start up business? A business that's been listed as a Top 3 Independent Agency in the US by Campaign Magazine? What lessons in leadership can you take from large companies, to smaller ones? How do you sell creative work that makes a legal team ask questions? What's your relationship to creativity? What advice would you have for those looking to get into the advertising industry?

A few of the topics Beth and Joe discussed with Kerry McKibbin.

I'm not interested in stories about the past or any crap of that kind because the woods are burning, you understand? There's a big blaze going on all around.

Adam Ferrier is Founder/Consumer Psychologist at Thinkerbell, Decade of Action and s p a c e. Here's a wee bit more info on the legendary Australian entrepeneur.

After graduating university with degrees in commerce and clinical psychology, Adam began his career working in maximum security prisons, before making the natural move to advertising. He joined Saatchi & Saatchi as a Strategic Planner and, during this time, invented a psychological board game 'The Analyst'​, translated into three languages (still selling well in Benelux countries).

He co-founded Naked Communications, APAC in 2004. Naked embraced a behavioural change model, building brands whilst changing behaviour, and was one of Australia’s most awarded and successful agencies (winning AdNews Agency of the Year Grand Prix in 2007). After selling Naked, he created THINKERBELL - where they practice 'measured magic' - bringing together marketing science and hard core creativity. After just 2 years it’s 2019 AdNews' Creative Agency of the year.

He's also co-founded two conferences s p a c e (a confestival) and MSIX (marketing sciences ideas change). He also sits on the boards of TRIBE (social influence), the Public Interest Journalism Initiative (PIJI), and Good Thnx.

He's a regular panelist on TV shows Gruen, Sky, The Project, Your Money and Sunrise #mastersofspin (as well as Celebrity Apprentice and Australia's Next Top Model (don't ask!), and Man Up. He had a weekly segment on national radio station MMM, and ABC. He's commentated and/or writes for TIME, The Australian, Mumbrella, B&T, Fast Company, The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal.

Ali Rez is the Regional Executive Creative Director at Impact BBDO. Ranked amongst the Global Top 20 Executive Creative Directors on the 2020 World Creativity Rankings, and named South Asia Creative Person of the Year by Campaign magazine, Ali Rez has won more than 400 international awards in his 20-year career. These include multiple Gold Cannes Lions, Gold Clios, D&AD pencils, Grand Prix Effie, Grand Prix Dubai Lynx, and Grand Prix Spikes amongst many others.

In this episode, we discussed Ali's journey through advertising, his thoughts on the Purpose Behind Purpose, a walkthrough of the Grand Prix winning "The Blank Edition," and a deep dive into his leadership style and how he gets the best creative work from his teams.

Jason Rosario - Chief Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Officer, BBDO Worldwide (E72) by Love This Podcast by Colenso BBDO

Marc is the co-founder of Giant Spoon - an agency built on the power of possible thinking – to shoot for the moon and solve impossible challenges.

In this episode, we look at how and why Marc decided to start Giant Spoon, how he has found running an agency of 100+ people and partnering clients during COVID-19, his relationship to creativity and finding the edges, and what's next for Giant Spoon.