Side Projects Podcast

This week on Day One FM 🎙: summer travel trends, how long we'd last on a trip to Mars, and a chat with Jane Poynter, founder and co-CEO of Space Perspective, about next generation of space travel and how "Spaceship Neptune" could radically change our viewpoint of earth. 

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We chat about the dizzying pace of the trend cycle, how our media diets have changed over the past two years and ask The Cut's Michelle Santiago Cortes about the need for media literacy in today's news landscape. 

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In the latest edition of Day One's Speaker Series, we sat down with Chelsea LaSalle, Kristen Kuzemko and Kristine Tsui for a discussion on leading innovation in sports marketing, Web3 and visual storytelling.

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As part of our editorial exploration on algorithms, we sat down with technology writer Kyle Chayka—you may know him from The New Yorker or his newsletter Dirt—to discuss the effects of algorithms on both internet and IRL culture and his upcoming book Filterworld.

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Check out our panel conversation with Justin Sylvester, Latoya Shambo and Adedayo “Dayo” Kosoko on how to empower Black Creators and entrepreneurs to tell their own stories and create meaningful, long lasting partnerships. 

We spoke to Casey Lewis—author and creator of the wildly popular and plugged-in youth culture newsletter After School—to debrief on the pros and cons of the creator economy. 

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We spoke to Casey Lewis—author and creator of the wildly popular and plugged-in youth culture newsletter After School”—to debrief on the pros and cons of the creator economy. For more on love-hating the algorithm, burnout, and whether our podcast hosts would want to be creators themselves, listen here.

To cap off our month on all things metaverse, VP of Story William Rauscher tries to get his head around the future of NFTs with the help of Senior Director of Digital Strategy and unofficial agency metaverse buff Micah Kulish. Micah fills us in on the goings-on at the recent NFT NYC conference, aka crypto Comic-Con, sheds light on how NFT culture is driving the future of the metaverse (and something called “web3”), and provides some useful tips for how brands can make the most of this thrilling, confounding, and rapidly expanding space.

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We spoke to Casey Lewis—author and creator of the youth-culture obsessed newsletter "After School,”—for a debrief on Gen Z retail trends. Will Millennials make Depop uncool? Is your email inbox the new shopping mall? *How might* CrockPot become a cult Gen Z lifestyle brand? Stay tuned for part two of our conversation where we talk about Gen Z’s gonzo money mentality and the wishy-washy promise of the creator economy next month.

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To close out Latinx Heritage Month, we hosted a panel with creator, InStyle host and Timothee Chalamet red carpet interviewer Tefi Pessoa and Andres Izquieta, a Latin American entrepreneur in fashion, CPG and entertainment sectors, on being Latinx in creative industries.

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