We are delighted to have Amy Kean join us on the FUTURES podcast who shares her perspectives and personal journey to becoming her truest and honest self but also the challenges she faced along the way. You'll hear some real talk, learn what a silent brainstorm is and also gain need-to-know tips on how best to navigate the advertising world.

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Amy is founder of creativity and culture company Six Things Impossible: a creative force for good in a formulaic world, frequently sharing fresh ideas to people and has recharged company cultures. She's on a mission to fix some (six) things in the ad industry, ranging from how we talk about people, to how we stop obsessing over fabricated trends. She’s worked in strategy and innovation for 16 years, and was previously global head of strategic innovation and creativity at Starcom, responsible for driving positive change across every client’s business. Prior to that she led strategy for Mindshare across APAC , launched the UK’s first media lab for the Havas Media Group, and ran marketing, PR and social at the IAB. She is also an author of two books, The little girl that gave zero fucks and house of weeds. 

Amy is culture editor at Shots and co creator of The Dice Charter - which was set up to ensure better representation on stages and holds event organisers accountable to that. She was named a ‘digital maverick’ by Marketing Magazine as well as BIMA’s top ten ‘women in tech’.

In the age of Instagram and LinkedIn, we’re all pressured to demonstrate “success” to peers, whilst the blurred line between our professional and private lives compounds the need to try to achieve this in all areas, all of the time. So what does success actually mean?

In this episode, FUTURES talks to Dan Bennett to learn how Behavioural Science can be harnessed to help you rethink what success means, and ultimately make you feel more fulfilled.

Gina Hood discusses with Dan how we can define what success means to us personally, avoid falling into unhealthy cycles of comparison, and set ourselves up for happiness in our jobs. Dan also shares some personal stories about his career journey, and what he's learnt about success along the way.

Dan co-leads the behavioural science practice within Ogilvy Consulting London looking after clients from the public and private sectors. He is a Practitioner, Speaker and Writer on the creative application of behavioural science to the world's stickiest challenges. Joining the practice at its commencement in 2012, he has worked on over 80 of the world’s major brands & organisations.

As the world slowly opens up, do we want to go back to the office at all? There’s an implication that returning to the office means we’ll be going back to old ways. But we know flexible working is a primary influencing factor in closing the gender pay gap - but how committed are businesses to this really. This year is crunch year - our one opportunity to reset how we go to work as women.

In this episode, we’ll explore the topic with WACL President and Founder & Global CEO of Brooklyn Brothers, Jackie Stevenson, who joins Laura Vipond, an agency marketer and founder of the FUTURES Network.

Jackie shares her experience campaigning for gender parity as WACL President 2021/22, and discusses practical tips for how we can all take a #FlexibleFirst approach to working to help redress the gender pay gap.

Find out more about Jackie Stevenson and her #FlexibleFirst WACL campaign at wacl.info/flexible-first-campaign, and on Instagram and Twitter at @jackiestevenson.

This podcast was mixed by Oliver Steadman from Stone Street Productions.

Have you ever felt stuck in your career or life? If so, self-coaching could be a powerful tool to help you get unstuck. 

Self-coaching is the ability to tap into your own inner wisdom to work out what the best path is for you personally. It’s the idea that the answers sit within us, we just need to work out how to unlock them to make better decisions and take positive action as a result. As our lives become more ambiguous and complex, it’s a skill that has never been more relevant and important. 

Cristina Loaiza, marketer and Founder of the FUTURES Network, speaks to Sarah Ellis about how to build self-awareness and use practical coaching techniques and tools to get unstuck, and shares some of her own experiences of coaching herself and others too. 

Sarah is the co-founder of Amazing If, an award-winning career development company with a mission to make work better for everyone. She’s co-author of The Sunday Times No1 bestseller The Squiggly Career book and host of the highly popular Squiggly Careers podcast. She is also in the process of writing her 2nd book, which is all about teaching people how to coach themselves effectively (out in Jan 2022, available for pre-order Sept 2021.)

Find out more about Sarah on Instagram @AmazingIf.

 Special thanks to Ollie Steadman for mixing this podcast.

Evolution not revolution: with so much change in the world right now, many of us are looking at new career paths and possibilities. But where do we start? We'll discuss how you can leverage your strengths, values and support networks to explore different career possibilities to find work happiness.

In this episode, we’ll explore the topic with Working Wonder co-founders and twin sisters, Calli Louis and Nichola Johnson-Marshall, who join Laura Vipond, an agency marketer and founder of the FUTURES Network.

Calli and Nichola share their Working Wonder learnings and discuss practical tips for how you can build resilience, communicate effectively and why being new in a role can be your superpower.

Find out more about Calli and Nichola and Working Wonder at workingwonder.co, on Instagram at @workingwonder and Twitter at @working_wonder.

This podcast was mixed by Oliver Steadman from Stone Street Productions.

What is the secret to having a positive relationship with our mental health? What can we do to make sure our minds helps us become the very best versions of ourselves?

In today’s episode, we’ll explore the topic of mental health with Cate Murden, founder of corporate wellness and mental health company, PUSH.

Cate joins Therese Baggas, one of the leaders of the FUTURES Network and a marketer, to talk about the power of learning to manage manage our minds and mental health when we face uncertainty and stress.

She takes us on her journey from high-flying media executive to founding PUSH, sharing how she learned to look after her mental health along the way. We’ll discuss Cate’s best tips for how you can become more aware of your thoughts and control how you respond to tough situations, so that you can live the life you want and achieve your goals.

Find out more about Cate and PUSH at www.pushmindandbody.com, where you’ll find PUSH’s recently published e-book, High-Potential Hacks.

This podcast was mixed by Oliver Steadman from Stone Street Productions.

Today, we welcome Sinéad Burke to Pass It On. 

Sinéad is an Irish educator, writer, broadcaster, fashion-admirer and advocate for disability and design. She’s the first female little person to be on the cover of British Vogue making history for the fashion publication. She is also Founder of Tilting the Lens, which is a consultancy working to accelerate systemic and cultural change through innovation and design. Sinead also has her own podcast series called ‘As Me’. 

Sinead joins Visha Naul, Co-founder of the FUTURES Network and Director of Business Marketing for Pinterest, EMEA, to talk about how to embrace our differences and turn them into our superpowers. We often try to fit in when in fact our differences and quirks can be our biggest source of strength and power. Sinead shares her own personal experiences in how to unleash her own quirks to be her best self authentically. 

She takes us through her journey from childhood to adulthood and shares how she learnt to use her multiple identities (a woman, irish, disabled to name a few) to become the success she is today and how it opened up opportunities, pride and joy.  

This podcast was mixed by Oliver Steadman from Stone Street productions.

What are your biggest fears? Every single person on this planet has fears, also known as self-limiting beliefs, that could be holding them back from reaching their full potential.

In this episode, we dig into the topic with award-winning marketer, consultant and ICF certified life and business coach, Abigail Dixon.

Cristina Loaiza, a marketer and Founder of the Futures Network chats to Abby about what limiting beliefs are, why we have them and importantly how we can overcome them, so that we can reach our goals. Abby also shares how she conquered her own fear of writing which led her to write her first book.

Find out more about Abby on Instagram @thewholeyoucoach and @labyrinthmktg

This podcast was mixed by Oliver Steadman at Stone Street Productions.

Change is life's only certainty. Never has that been truer following the most unpredictable year on record, 2020. The key is that we learn how to navigate the stormy times, so we can learn and grow as individuals, both personally and professionally.

In our first ever episode of Pass It On, we dig into the topic of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable with the brilliant and talented Daryl Fielding.

Cristina Loaiza, a marketer and Founder of Futures Network, chats to Daryl about how she overcame some difficult challenges in her personal life (following an unexpected divorce), as well as in her impressive and varied career to date.

Daryl is currently the CEO of The Marketing Academy Foundation, a brilliant charity enabling young adults from tough backgrounds to start a career in the marketing industries, fulfilling her lifelong passion for diversity. 

Find out more about Daryl here.

This podcast was mixed by Oliver Steadman at Stone Street Productions.