Two partners set out to end childhood poverty through joy and creativity: $1M+ in donations, 2 hours with Stephen Colbert, a Shorty Impact Award and one incredibly good story. Rachel Romero is the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Critical Role , the wildly popular D&D inspired web series and board member of the Critical Role Foundation. Rachel has worked in online media for almost two decades, with a special focus on fostering community. Previously, Rachel was the VP of Marketing for Le...
Sep 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Winnie Sun is a wealth whisperer. The founder and managing director of Sun Group Wealth Partners represents a lot of the famous creators you know and love. She’s one of the nation’s most respected financial advisors and a frequent guest on CNBC, Bloomberg and more. But there’s a specific reason why I picked now for us to chat about her career, creators and current events. In a field where cautious anonymity is valued, Winnie stands out as a creator herself with her own following, her own show an...
Aug 29, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 17
David Armano doesn't miss when it comes to spotting a trend. His latest Substack is evidence. A marketing and CX leader who has worked with some of the most recognizable names in business, assisting brands as they evolve with technology, he spent a decade as the Global Strategy Director for Edelman, worked on autonomous vehicles for Cruise and now currently leads marketing at Soul Machines , an AI Avatar platform and spends his time focused on Generative AI, Enterprise LLMs, and the evolution of...
Aug 22, 2023•57 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Christen Nino De Guzman , founder of Clara for Creators , brings over a decade of experience working with top content creators at Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest. As a creator herself, with a following of over 400,000, Christen is passionate about helping people break into the industry through her educational content. She has been featured on Insider, Wall Street Journal and was also a speaker this year at Vidcon. Goldie Chan is a global speaker, strategist, author and advisor. She's known as t...
Aug 15, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Eddie Ndopu was just featured on ABC News , wrote an incredible piece in Time and his debut book Sipping Dom Perignon Through A Straw is already Apple’s best book of the month and in the Top 10 on Amazon. His story is fascinating but I’ll let him tell it in his own words. He attended Oxford on a scholarship, has a masters in public policy and is one of seventeen global advocates appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Sustainable Development Goals. Eddie was commissioned by ...
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Dr. Marcus Collins is the architect of some of the most famous ad campaigns of the last decade. Cliff Paul for State Farm, Nike, Apple, Google’s Real Tone Photography. Oh and digital strategy for Beyoncé. He’s a clinical professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and was most recently the head of strategy at Wieden+Kennedy, New York. His new book For the Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be is different. It takes something omnipresent yet...
Aug 01, 2023•54 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Justin Wu has a story everyone should hear. The multi award-winning Toronto-based Director, Photographer, Creative Director, and Speaker began his career as a photojournalist. He worked with Vogue, Elle, GQ, and a long list of blue chip brands as an internationally recognized artist in the fashion industry, with a keen eye for visuals and storytelling. He then transitioned from photography into filmmaking, known for directing TV series such as Popularity Papers and Kim's Convenience . We talk ab...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Rani Mani is not just respected, she’s loved by the thousands of lives she has changed with an unwavering kindness. Plenty of people have contacts, Rani makes connections. She has led social influence, employee advocacy and now Digital Media Customer Communications at Adobe. And is one of this year’s judges for Wave and The Shorty Awards’ Elevate Creatives Fund . So many people view kindness as a sign of weakness but Rani – views it as the greatest strength you can possess. This is episode is di...
Jul 18, 2023•56 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Cathy Hackl is one of the Top 10 most influential women in tech, a trailblazer featured on 60 Minutes, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC and more as the “Godmother of The Metaverse.” Cathy is the first person in the room with her agency Journey at every big company consulting, guiding, shaping Web3 strategy, creating immersive experiences and always with an eye forward, not down at her phone like most of us. That’s a spatial computing joke you’ll get later. She’s honed her skills as a top executive ...
Jul 11, 2023•46 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Two guests. No time to waste. This conversation is all about unlocking creativity, what holds us back, what can propel us forward and what we would tell our 15 year old selves if given the chance now. Elliot Kotek is a shockingly humble creative legend with 7 Emmy nominations, 5 Cannes Lions, 2 Clios, multiple Webby honors and the Shortys' Audience Award for Best Brand Awareness Campaign in 2023 with First Robotics. He is the producer of award-winning festival-favorites such as Queen Mimi, the N...
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Murray Hill is the hardest working man in showbiz. The New York Times profiled him this week. Good Morning America, Today as well. After 25 years of being the best kept secret in comedy, America’s best Drag King is now an overnight success. There’s a warmth, a perseverance, a vulnerability and of course a ton of humor behind everything Murray does. You can currently see him on Hulu’s Life and Beth, as the host of the new drag queen dinner party competition show Drag Me to Dinner and most notably...
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 8
It’s time for a wild ride with Peter Shankman. The New York Times calls him “a rock star who knows everything about social media." Disney, Google, Adobe, SAP and three dozen more of the biggest companies in the world work with him to guide customer experience and the neurodiverse economy. He is a 6x best selling author - including the insanely popular Faster Than Normal. His first children's book The Boy With The Faster Brain is out now. He created and sold Help A Reporter Out in just three year...
Jun 20, 2023•47 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Today we welcome Zahir Khoja, CEO of Wave. He’s not your average CEO having spent time in Afghanistan bringing banking and financial education to underserved communities. In this role, he is focused on enabling small business owners to manage their money management; allowing them to do what they do best; But that starts by understanding their needs as a whole. And he gets it. It’s not just getting paid faster or uncomplicating money management. His passion for giving back continues with the laun...
Jun 13, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Tiffani Bova is a global growth evangelist at Salesforce and bestselling author of the new book, The Experience Mindset, Changes the Way You Think About Growth. She's one of the most sought after speakers in the world, giving over 750 keynotes in six different continents. This episode is all gas, no breaks. We dig into why employee experiences become collateral damage when improving customer experience and user convenience. And we talk about the right questions to ask to lead people to the right...
Jun 06, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Tejas Hullur isn’t your average 22 year old content creator. He dropped out of a top business school with one year to go to move to LA, then New York and become a full time creator. Business Insider, Fortune and others have done great profiles even calling him the next Tony Robbins. He’s attracted brand deals with Venmo, Robinhood, countless others and is now a correspondent on Nick News. But you know what was refreshing about this conversation? There’s no ego. Tejas rolled up in his skateboard,...
May 30, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Deja Foxx made national headlines as a 16-year-old, standing up proudly to then senator Jeff Flake at a town hall. Now she's a reproductive rights activist, political strategist, badass and blogger known for being the youngest staffer and first Influencer and Surrogate Strategist on U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign, and for her work with Planned Parenthood. Teen Vogue’s 21 Under 21, a digital creator for Ford Models and a fresh graduate of Columbia University. We talk abo...
May 23, 2023•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 3
Abhijit Bhaduri is a bestselling author of five books including Dreamers and Unicorns . His sixth comes out in November. With 800,000 LinkedIn followers he's one of the most listened to and respected voices on the platform. As a boomerang employee he has traveled from Microsoft to PepsiCo, Wipro, Colgate, his own consulting and back to Microsoft, currently leading learning and development. In our conversation we discuss how every career is unique, what careers will look like in the future and wh...
May 16, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Dominic Andre has the stats: a political science, philosophy and psychology triple major turned science content creator with over 7 million followers on TikTok . But this conversation goes deep into what happens when chance meets opportunity, and hobbies lead to a lasting career. The New York Times wrote about how he made millions posting to Snapchat. We talk about how to find angles others don't see, going back to YouTube and turning content creation into a 50-year career and not 15 minutes of ...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 1
