Welcome to episode #33 – this is a little different to all the other episodes in the past. I've not yet done a solo episode, as I haven’t had a good reason to, until now. If you're a first time listener, usually I have a conversation with one expert guest and attempt to dissect their story, the lessons they have learnt along the way and the advice they would give to their younger self. However, it’s time to mix things up, and what better way to do so than to pair the release of my second book; H...
Sep 29, 2016•40 min
On episode #32 – I spoke with the Chief Technology Officer of BlitzMetrics, who is an internationally recognised expert lecturer in the world of Facebook marketing. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, TechCrunch, Fox News, and CBS. He has previously held leadership positions at Yahoo! and American Airlines. His colleague Logan Young also joined to share some insights and stories. Some of the topics we spoke about include: 6 specific phases of Personal Brand...
Sep 14, 2016•1 hr 18 min
Episode #31 is now live and ready to shake up your day! I chatted with the creator of the digital magazine Foundr, which curates expert advice from some of the world’s greatest minds in entrepreneurship. He has interviewed the likes of Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins, Gary Vaynerchuk, Brené Brown, Seth Godin and many more. All contributing to the Foundr communities incredible growth since its humble beginnings in 2013. Some of the topics we spoke about include: How...
Aug 31, 2016•1 hr 6 min
Episode #30 is now live on the air! I interviewed a Scottish designer, innovator, entrepreneur and TEDx speaker who describes herself as “an ambassador of people”. Her popular service design blog; redjotter.com has attracted over 350,000 readers and she is now the Head of Service Design at The Good Lab in the UK. Management Today named her as one of the UK’s top 35 business women under 35, and ELLE also featured her as one of 30 women under 30 changing the world. Some of the topics we spoke abou...
Aug 10, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to Episode #29 Giants! Our guest is the founder of Marketing-Mentor.com , with 25+ years experience guiding self-employed creatives. She is the author of 7 books including “The Designer's Guide to Marketing & Pricing" and “The Creative Professional’s Guide to Money”. She’s also a CreativeLive.com instructor, the Program Partner for HOW Design Live and host of the HOWLive Podcast. She’s been featured on Entrepreneur.com, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HOW Maga...
Jul 21, 2016•56 min
Episode #28 is now live and ready to rock your ear buds! Our guest is a senior graphic designer and the brain behind Mundane Matters; known for creating beautiful and intricate masterpieces through humble fruits and vegetables. Her work has been featured in more than 30 online publications and TV channels, including Food Network (US), Huffpost (Japan), Mashable, Designboom, Trendland, Beautiful Decay, Design Taxi and many more. Some of the things we spoke about include: Why we should stop taking...
Jul 04, 2016•1 hr 5 min
Giants, welcome to Episode #27, where we chat to the 16 year old Founder and CEO of tech empire Fiftysix Creations; also known as the Lego of the 21st Century. Coined by some as “the next Steve Jobs”, he was exposed to his first school laptop in Grade 4, and started his first blog and entrepreneurial journey at the age of 11. He’s currently still a full-time high school student who runs his business by waking up at 4am every morning to connect with his team throughout Australia, the US and Londo...
Jun 13, 2016•1 hr 8 min
Welcome, to episode #26! If you’ve ever wanted to hear from a woman who was born in the 60s and started her design career in the 80s, has travelled the globe working with clients including Coca-Cola Amatil for 10 years building their brand across several continents, as well as working with some of Australia’s most successful corporate businesses such as QANTAS; then you’re in for an absolute treat. To this day she has worn all the hats you can imagine in the design space, from junior to mid to s...
May 29, 2016•1 hr 13 min
Welcome to episode #25! The guest joining us is a world-class expert negotiator for creatives and was the former Global Chief Creative Officer for FITCH Worldwide. In 1985, he was the founder and CEO of the branding agency ‘The Leonhardt Group’, which employed over forty people and annually billed $10 million to clients including Nissan, Nordstrom, Charles Schwab, Electronic Arts, and Microsoft. He’s also lectured at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts, is a contributing writer for Fast Company,...
May 18, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Giants, here on Episode 24 we peek into the incredible mind of a professional creative problem solver, who also happens to be the Executive Design Director and National Creative Director for Deloitte Digital. For the last two decades he has consulted with Fortune 50 companies, built agencies, created brands and shares with us his knowledge collected from a diverse range of experiences, including: His top tips for getting your foot in the door at a design company The power of sweating the details...
Apr 27, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Today we are diving into episode number 23, where I chat with the Design Director for Nike+, who has worked across the realms of digital products, physical products, services and brands. He is best known for his interaction design work, and his CV includes the likes of Samsung, Twitter and IDEO. His work has been recognised by: BAFTA (the British Academy of Film & Television Arts the Spark Awards the Webbys the Pixel Awards and the Interaction Design Association’s Awards. Has been published ...
Apr 10, 2016•1 hr
Our guest on episode 22 is unlike any other. His CV includes a broad range of accomplishments including working in naval intelligence during the Vietnam War, working as a journalist for the Associated Press, and contributing as a business writer for Time magazine. His most recent and significant contribution to the world of design has been his 20 year tenure as the Executive Director of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), where he was committed to advancing creative thinking from 1995 thr...
Mar 28, 2016•54 min
We are pumping out episode number #21 with a guest who is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Thankyou. They make water, food and body care products, then give 100% of the profits to help end global poverty. Their recent video was brought to my attention only a few days ago and I had to get this gentlemen on the show. I was so moved by their cause and impressed by their actions to bring their vision into reality. As of January 2016: They’ve given over $3.7 million dollars to people in need h...
Mar 07, 2016•1 hr 1 min
This guest is the Founder and CEO of NLP Academy Australia. For those that haven’t heard of NLP before, it stands for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and it’s a name that encompasses the three most influential components involved in producing human experience; neurology, language and programming. NLP methods include ‘modeling’ and ‘adopting’ the skills and behaviors of exceptional people, then using that to acquire your own goals and objectives. Some of the topics we chat about include: Four NLP a...
Mar 02, 2016•1 hr
Welcome to episode #19, I have the type of guest that truly lives life to the fullest, with unstoppable intentions. He is a health and fitness personality, and is currently Australia’s number 1 men’s physique fitness model. He has his own supplement brand. And on top of all that, lives a double life working for the world's fastest growing software company; Salesforce. Some of the topics we talk about include: The moment which transformed his life at 23 years of age Getting a supplement line up a...
Feb 23, 2016•50 min
Strap yourself in and have some snacks handy. This is a long one, but for good reason. It's partly deep, partly entertaining and 100% real. This man needs no introduction, but if by chance you haven't heard of him, he is a world-renowned photographer, CEO and Founder of CreativeLive. It’s none other than, Chase Jarvis. Some of the topics we spoke about include: Studying medicine for years before ultimately following his calling towards photography Creating ‘Best Camera’, the first app to introdu...
Feb 16, 2016•1 hr 35 min
We are pumping episode #17 out to your ear drums right now and our guest on this session is a well-known expert in the field of virtual business management. His business 'Virtual Staff Finder' allows his clients worldwide to experience more time, productivity and freedom through the benefits of a having a virtual assistant. His best-selling book, Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive and Build Your Dream Business, is the result of over a decade ...
Feb 09, 2016•57 min
Welcome to episode 16 on the podcast! In this session we are welcoming an Entrepreneur and Life Design Coach, whose motivational blog “Addicted2Success” has had over 68 million views worldwide and counting. He has graced the covers of Foundr magazine, Lifestyle Business magazine, and been an author on Success.com and Entrepreneur.com. He has even had the pleasure of interviewing giants such as Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Gary Vaynerchuk and Deepak Chopra. Some of the topics we talk about include:...
Jan 26, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to episode 15! The guest for this incredible session is an executive business consultant and life strategist who thrives on helping highly successful entrepreneurs tap into their greatness and build massive empires. She has a unique ability to help others discover what their gift is, show them how to use it to do good in the world, and empower them to take giant leaps toward their dreams. During this whirlwind episode, we cover topics including: Her career from working at Pixar to editin...
Jan 12, 2016•1 hr 8 min
Welcome to episode number 14! In this session we have a young gun who is a marketing and entrepreneurial wiz. His recent book ‘The Marketing Blueprint – Lessons to Market and Sell Anything’ has quickly climbed to the #1 Best Seller spot in the Marketing category on Amazon, globally. He’s also an advisor and consultant to over 50 brands. Some of the powerful insights our guest shares include: • Taking pictures, turning them into postcards and selling them when he was a kid at his mother’s hair sa...
Dec 27, 2015•57 min
G’day to all of you beautiful listeners, we are up to episode number 13. This guest is a behavioral investigator, published author by Penguin, public speaker and body language trainer specializing in science-based people skills. She’s a Huffington Post columnist and her ground-breaking work has been featured on NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the Today Show and USA Today. And has written for CNN, Fast Company and Forbes. She also the founder of the Science of People which is a human behavior resea...
Dec 09, 2015•31 min
The guest on this episode talks to us about how to have success in business through visual storytelling and branding via Instagram to attract our ideal customers authentically. • She’s incredibly experienced. • Has started 18 businesses. • Has been teaching social media for 8 years. • Has 7 Instagram accounts. • She gives plenty of gold nuggets, including bio writing tips, • understanding the right call to action, • advice on who to follow, • the number one underutilized function on Instagram • ...
Nov 25, 2015•55 min
On this episode; number 11, we have JP Stallard on the show, Co-founder of SOLV and was Samsung’s first interaction designer in Europe. He talks to us about designing towards emotions, personalities and service design. He also sheds light on how to build strong customer relationships even to the point of sharing with us practical presentation tips to CEO’s and key decision makers. JP says: "Design doesn’t mean what it did ten, twenty, thirty years ago. It’s all about the context it sits within a...
Nov 16, 2015•50 min
What better way to enter the double digits, episode #10, than to bring on the Global Vice President and Head of Design at Visa. He was previously the Global Director, Head of Product Strategy & UX Design at Samsung, Head of Design at Paypal, Senior Manager of UX Design at eBay, and has even had long stints at Whirlpool and GE. On this episode you will walk away with your mind blown. Seriously. The topics we talk about all revolve around user experience in so much depth, I usually dot point k...
Nov 05, 2015•1 hr 17 min
On this episode we have an Aussie fine artist / street artist who is based in Venice Beach, California. His art is featured internationally in cities including Melbourne, Sydney, London, San Fran, Paris, Tokyo, Hawaii, Mexico, L.A, and Hong Kong. This guy has some serious skills and talent. He’s most commonly recognised for his unique, expressive, and energetic style with references to pop-culture, the natural world, and socio-cultural issues. His technical use of colour and movement combines cl...
Oct 22, 2015•1 hr
In this episode we have a Sydney-based Art Director and Designer with over 15 years experience. He owns his own design studio and has worked with leading international brands including Coca Cola, Nespresso, Quicksilver, Hurley, Globe, Le Coq Sportive and Universal Music. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. He also runs an online store with his wife that produces a range of art prints, stationery and paper goods. These products feature his distinctive hand lettering and design style and there...
Oct 05, 2015•57 min
In this session, the guest joining us is the Creative Director and Principal of a very established design agency. He started this agency in 1991 – so, almost a quarter of a century ago. During his journey he’s achieved over 300 international and regional awards. He’s published 14 books, lectured extensively and served on numerous boards. His design work is even exhibited in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The topics we talk about include: • The true meaning of design thinking • The impor...
Sep 21, 2015•45 min
Hey guys, this is episode number 6 on the giant thinkers podcast, Ram Castillo here – unleashing a very unique guest for you all. He’s a physical education teacher that has leveraged emerging technologies to shape new age teaching. He’s created over 100 online products and services… over 60 of those are mobile apps and he’s won numerous awards world-wide for them. He’s even presented internationally, running workshops in over 30 countries for the last 6 years. He blogs regularly about his experi...
Sep 06, 2015•37 min
Hello wonderful listeners, thank you for tuning in on the fifth episode of the Giant thinkers Podcast. Ram Castillo here and I am pumped to launch this episode. If you’ve ever wanted to hear about what it’s like to be a Global Chief Creative Officer at one of the world’s best-known marketing communications agencies and one of the oldest, then this is the podcast episode you’ve been waiting for. Now, this is a little longer than my usual podcasts but it’s for good reason. Listen to the first half...
Aug 18, 2015•1 hr 9 min
What’s up everyone, welcome to the fourth episode of the Giant thinkers Podcast. A special thank you to the almost 4000 listeners that have tuned in to date from around the world. This is all for you guys and I endeavour to truly make this a show with consistency in providing actionable advice from the guests that come on. While, of course having a laugh and sharing some interesting stories. So on that note, let me introduce to you the next guest. There aren’t many people in the world who can sa...
Jul 27, 2015•28 min
