You could never fully know what life has in store for you. But when it comes to life opportunities, Paola Antonelli shares how being in the "right place" makes a difference.

On this week’s episode, we welcome Paola, the Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), to hear about the beginnings of her career, life events that became curation opportunities, personal emotional challenges, and how she found herself overcoming these.

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:01:47 Journey to becoming a curator
• 00:05:40 Finding opportunities to curate a show
• 00:06:00 “It was just being at the right place at the right time, or just being in the right place, period”
• 00:09:21 What are key turning points in your career?
• 00:12:30 Unwelcoming experiences in New York
• 00:15:06 “Depression is a reality and I needed to learn to deal with it”
• 00:17:22 Life advice: “Learn how to surf”
• 00:18:51 Three takeaways

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Happiness can sometimes feel challenging, or even impossible to attain, in the world we live in. Provided that there may be no single one-size-fits-all solution, what if you could design your own system and focus on what “you” want to make happen?

On our episode this week, we welcome back Cindy Gallop, CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn, to hear about how a personal midlife crisis became her very opportunity to find a refound conviction, and how she used this to launch her own business to keep herself happy.

Timestamps:

• 00:00:00 Intro
• 00:01:01 Beginnings of MakeLoveNotPorn
• 00:03:27 When free access to porn online and reluctance to talk about sex converge
• 00:04:50 A refound conviction
• 00:06:21 The issue is the reluctance to talk openly about sex in the real world
• 00:28:18 What is the single piece of advice you’d give a young person going into advertising today?
• 00:28:37 Go into any industry to make what “you” want to make happen, happen
• 00:28:50 Advice for youth in any industry: Take a look around to identify what you think is missing or would love to see and start it yourself
• 00:29:36 If you want to be happy, design your own system 
• 00:32:03 3 key takeaways

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Rei speaks with Cindy Gallop, former founder of BBH New York and current founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn, which launched at TED 2009 - ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’. Today, Cindy pushes to socialize and normalize sex to make it easier to talk about and promote good sexual values and behavior.

In this episode, our guest Cindy shares her work philosophy to attain key career milestones, her choices as a leader to enable creativity to flourish within a corporate team, and how a personal midlife crisis led to one of the best decisions in her life.

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In this episode, we welcome back Ian Spalter, the Director of Metaverse Design at Meta, to discuss how introducing a “state of play” in the workplace is key to creativity, whether talent is nature or nurture, Japan through Ian's eyes, and challenges as a Black designer.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:55 How do you encourage an organization to be more creative?

08:30 Is creativity nurture or nature?

10:58 “Play” helps reduce the fear of making mistakes and leaves space for experimentation

11:54 Areas of creativity in Japan and vice versa

15:12 Observations about businesses and culture in Japan?

19:55 Challenges as a minority and how to overcome them

23:53 Advice for the youth in Japan

25:48 Rei’s Three Key Takeaways

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Rei speaks with Ian Spalter, former head of design at Instagram who led the redesign of Instagram in 2016, after which Instagram saw an explosive user growth worldwide. Featured in the Netflix documentary “Abstract: The Art of Design,” Ian is currently the Director of Metaverse Design at Meta and oversees the design of its Avatars and immersive social products.In our first episode, Ian opens the conversation by sharing his early fascination for computers in his adolescent years, his pivotal moment of realization amidst his “boring” job, tips for landing your dream job, and advice he would tell his 25-year-old self.

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I&CO founding partner Rei Inamoto speaks with the world’s leading practitioners of creativity from industries such as art, design, architecture, cuisine, and much more, to offer a glimpse into the minds of what it takes to build a successful career. In each episode, these creative luminaries share their beginnings, intimate moments of success and failure, and pieces of advice for work and life.

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