One More Question

More about Uno 

Uno de Waal is owner and publisher of Between 10 and 5, South Africa's largest online creative showcase. He is also the recipient of the British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur award, has been included in the Destiny Man Power of 40 and GQ's Coolest Guys Under 35.

10and5 is the winner of the African Blogger Awards: Arts and Culture, Gold Pixel Winner for specialist publisher at the Bookmark Awards and is listed as one of the 15 most influential blogs in South Africa. The sub-agency of 10and5, 5TUDIO, has worked on brands like Estee Lauder, Nike, Adidas, MINI, Heineken, Glenfiddich and more.

Uno has previously spent time at DSTV where he consulted on KykNET, Channel O, MK and VUZU to help bring their digital properties up to scratch. 

After this, he joined the international digital ad agency Trigger/Isobar where he was instrumental in strategy for Nike, Nokia, Cell C and Red Bull.

Uno also runs a pop-up supper-club/restaurant with his partner Lee-Ann that has received rave reviews in local publications.

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Rich Mnisi

Colin Kaepernick

Trevor Stuurman

Ravi Naidoo

Dean Carlson

Ryan Holiday

Thando Hopa

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Between 10 and 5

Behance

H&M

Mini

Nike

CreativeMornings

Design Indaba

Lucky Strike

BrainFarm

Adidas

Audi

Black Label

Coca-Cola

Impossible Foods

Burger King

PETA

Gillette

Wal-Mart

Naspers

Vice

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Sandton

Midrand

Cape Town

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Oppikoppi

House of Vans

Mail & Guardian Top 200

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One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.

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A little bit more about Mike 

Mike Stopforth is an entrepreneur, writer and speaker. He is particularly passionate about transformational leadership and organisational change, and enjoys helping fellow business owners, executive teams and CEOs get the best out of their people, especially in the midst of rapid political, environmental and socio-economic change. In this line of work he is often invited to offer business commentary for industry publications, on TV and on radio.

In 2006, after a short and colourful career in sales (that included peddling welding machines and earth-moving machinery spares), he took the entrepreneurial plunge and started a company called Cerebra. With a specialist focus on digital content and engagement, Cerebra won numerous multinational accounts and grew quickly to become South Africa’s leading social media agency. In his role as CEO of the business, he had the privilege of working with Coca-Cola, Samsung, Toyota, Vodafone, AB InBev, Google, Ford, Huawei, Barclays, and many other remarkable brands. Cerebra was acquired by global advertising giant WPP in 2013.

In 2007, Mike co-founded a web start-up called Afrigator.com that was acquired by Naspers just 18 months later. Around the same time, he began hosting a popular networking event called the 27dinners, which went on to catalyse business collaborations and relationships through hundreds of successful events.

 Listen to Episode #10 of OneMoreQuestion with Mike Stopforth, it’s a window into the impact economy, purpose and values in business and how they’re driving more deliberate, responsible behaviour in organisations.

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How can you help?
Our podcast is still new and there are three ways you can help us out.

Share this as far and wide as you can - tell your friends, family and colleagues about us (caveat: if you own a family business, these may all be the same people)

Tell us how we can create a better podcast - tell us what you liked, didn’t like, or what you’d like to hear more (or less) of

Tell us who you’d like to hear on the podcast. Suggest someone that you think we should interview.

One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.

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More about Mike

Mike Stopforth is an entrepreneur, writer and speaker. He is particularly passionate about transformational leadership and organisational change, and enjoys helping fellow business owners, executive teams and CEOs get the best out of their people, especially in the midst of rapid political, environmental and socio-economic change. In this line of work he is often invited to offer business commentary for industry publications, on TV and on radio.

In 2006, after a short and colourful career in sales (that included peddling welding machines and earth-moving machinery spares), he took the entrepreneurial plunge and started a company called Cerebra. With a specialist focus on digital content and engagement, Cerebra won numerous multinational accounts and grew quickly to become South Africa’s leading social media agency. In his role as CEO of the business, he had the privilege of working with Coca-Cola, Samsung, Toyota, Vodafone, AB InBev, Google, Ford, Huawei, Barclays, and many other remarkable brands. Cerebra was acquired by global advertising giant WPP in 2013.

In 2007, Mike co-founded a web start-up called Afrigator.com that was acquired by Naspers just 18 months later. Around the same time, he began hosting a popular networking event called the 27dinners, which went on to catalyse business collaborations and relationships through hundreds of successful events.

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One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.

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**More about Yossi **

Yossi Hasson is a South African Entrepreneur turned VC.

After co-founding and later selling his stake in, SYNAQ, a leading cloud email service provider, Yossi launched and ran the Techstars FinTech accelerator program with Barclays as partner. The program was based in Cape Town and chose 10 promising FinTech start-ups from around the world for seed investment, mentorship, office space, and training. It was also Techstars’ first Accelerator program on the African continent.

Since May 2018, Yossi has been the Managing Director of Alchemist Blockchain Techstars Accelerator, launching Techstars first dedicated Blockchain Accelerator in New York City. Through Techstars he continues to work with and invest in founders building the decentralized economy.

Yossi is a co-founder of PAN-African coding school, WeThinkCode_, and crypto investment fund, Onchain Capital. He has invested in over 15 companies, throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa. He is mainly focussed on open source software, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and Fintech.

You can find more on Yossi, here:

Yossi Hasson

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One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.

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More about Jeff

Jeff Large is a podcast producer and strategist. He founded and runs Come Alive Creative, a podcast production company that helps brands and businesses produce their own podcasts.

Come Alive Creative can help with everything from strategy to professional production, syndication, and thorough promotion of your podcast without any hassle.

Owing to his natural curiosity, Jeff spends most days questioning and learning. He likes managing projects, making the complicated understandable, and repurposing content for maximum efficiency.

Find Jeff and his work, here:

Jeff Large

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How can you help?

One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.

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More about Donovan

Donovan Goliath is a comedian, co-owner of the Melville Comedy Club and the award-winning entertainment brand, GOLIATH AND GOLIATH.

He is most recognisable for the role he had as the host of The Real Goboza, which is one of South Africa’s most watched television shows, and is also an expert in delivering master classes on marketing, design and creativity.

Funny enough, Donovan is a Caucasian-looking, coloured guy from Mthatha in the Eastern Cape who speaks fluent isiXhosa, giving ‘diversity’ a whole new meaning.

What’s significant about him is that he has no blood relation to any of the Goliath stakeholders in SA comedy, but he simply shares a passion for the same sector.

He left his lucrative advertising job for a full-time career in comedy and his acts are based around insightful storytelling and simple truths by using various characters and impersonations, which he invents. Today, he has risen as a social media star through the character, Donny Custard.

Find Donovan and his work, here:

Goliath and Goliath

Melville Comedy Club

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One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.

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More about Spillly

Brent Spilkin (Spillly) is a business coach, founder of What The Freelance and BBBRAP, a movement starter, and former MD. He describes himself as a terrible business coach and a terrible management consultant but an amazing hybrid of both.

Spillly has helped some of the most creative minds in agencies and tech solve their problems by delivering practical and accountable advice, guiding them toward efficiency and profitability.

Find Spillly and his work, here:

What The Freelance

BBBRAP

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How can you help?

One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.

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More about Carly

Carly Ayres is a writer and creative director based in New York. Up until recently, she was a partner and co-founder at HAWRAF, an interactive design and technology design studio that worked to engage people in new & interesting ways. From sound-reactive identities to mirrored selfie posters, HAWRAF worked to help brands have better conversations. Prior to HAWRAF, Carly worked humanizing AI and evolving the Google logo in Google’s Creative Lab. She’s given voices to Fortune 500 companies & chatbots alike and writes on design, as well as a slew of other things.

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One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.

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In this world of content marketing and automation, are consumers happy to talk to robots and to get an auto-generic service or do people still prefer to use human interface?

Turns out that 60% of us like the smart Bot and about 40% of us like interfacing with humans, according to Nick Argyros. Could this be a generational thing?

In Episode #4 of One More Question our self-learning podcast, our Founder, Ross Drakes gets into some risky ideas about robots, the pros and cons of smart machine learning and AI technology that could help your brand grow or kill it, along with some humans. Yep, it really could be a moral dilemma depending on your view of Schrödinger's cat. Ross talks to Nick Argyros Co-Founder and Director of INJOZI Digital Design, Audio Militia and GotBot AI Solutions, his machine learning, AI conversation Bot that can automate workflow and help your brand engage seamlessly with customers, also stick around to learn from Nick’s multiple business growth adventures.

More about Nick Argyros

After years of experience in a multitude of creative and technology-based disciplines, Nick Argyros is now the Co-Founder and Director of INJOZI Digital Design, Audio Militia and GotBot AI Solutions. Establishing the INJOZI Digital team in 2008, Nick has headed the agency for over a decade, receiving numerous accolades along the way, including multiple Promax, Bookmark, Midas, Clio, FWA and Loerie Awards. Audio Militia has similarly seen glory at the Loeries under his curatorship and was even recently credited on a Cannes Grand Prix winning project. Both businesses have been voted into the top 3 Digital Agency and Audio Post-production companies on the continent, over the years 2016/17/18. The newest member of his growing business conglomerate, GotBot AI, was selected as one of the Top 10 start-up companies on the African continent in 2017. Nick’s undeniable experience in the machine-learning sector has also seen him presenting, demonstrating and introducing the product to local and international audiences, from WPP Stream to Viva Tech Paris 2018.

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One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our Founder Ross Drakes.

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What is Intersectional Brand Building?

How do you shift the culture of a brand to an authentic position of care and place of relevance in society while building relationships with consumers, that matters?

There are a few epic considerations actually. In Episode #3 of One More Question, a probing podcast by the people of Nicework, our founder, Ross Drakes dives into some deeply reflective concepts with Sizakele Marutlule, CEO and Founder of Marutlulle & Co, a Pan African strategy and ideas lab. They explore ideas around unfashionable care, culture change, conscious consumerism, deep leadership and why benching company superstars can be a good thing.

More about Sizakele Marutlulle

Strategist and creative problem solver Sizakele Marutlulle has over 23 years’ experience in leadership, business architecture, brand building, innovation and people development. She is the CEO and Founder of Marutlulle & Co, a Pan African strategy and ideas lab that helps pro-Africa companies compete, win and prosper.

She is a disruptive thinker, cultural creative, business architect, ideation activist and public speaker with experience across various sectors and geographies. She has the rare talent of having worked in the public and private sectors, with small and established businesses at various stages of development. She has also founded, turned around and/or accelerated several ad agencies. She applies this deep and diverse knowledge to unlock sustainable commercial and reputational success for her clients.

Given her specific work experience, corporate leadership, brand expertise and consumer engagement in South Africa, The Americas, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania and a working knowledge of Asia and Europe, top-tier companies engage her as advisor and consultant to advance their ambitions as well as imagine new futures. With a burning desire to positively impact Africa’s fortunes, she has a special focus on Fentrepreneurs©, a proprietary term she has coined to refer to female entrepreneurs, to help them build bankable and scalable, future-fit businesses.

She holds a BA Degree (Political Science & Sociology) as well as BA Hons (Sociology) from the University of Durban-Westville (now UKZN), a Master’s Degree in Communication Sociology from Wits University. She completed a Strategy & Leadership Program at The New School For Social Research, NYC, a Summer Film Production Course at New York University, NYC as well as a Program for Operational Excellence at Harvard Business School. She is currently a PhD student.

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One More Question is a podcast by Nicework a Brand and Service Design Company. One of the things we do best is asking our clients the right questions. This podcast came about because we want to share some of the best answers we have heard over the last 12 years. We talk to significant creators, experts and communicators who we have encountered. To share the useful insights, inspirations and facts that made us stop and take notes as we go about our work. Hosted by our founder Ross Drakes.

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