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Jo welcomes the brilliant Tiffanie Lee to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Tiffanie was once a project manager in the fashion world by day, and a music and arts journalist by night. She’s Taiwan made, Rural Midwest born, Los Angeles raised, and New York based. A creative unicorn, Tiffanie is adept at delivering intrepid copy, concepts and campaigns for a variety of brands from ADT to Walmart. She's worked at a variety of agencies from BBDO to McCann Worldwide and is currently a Creative Director at Dentsu Creative, NYC.Topics covered:
From art school ‘drop-out’ to Creative Director.- The 3 ingredients of success.
- Feeling destined for a different place.
- Realizing the dream to move to New York.
- Quitting piano lessons, pursuing creativity.
- The skills required to be a Creative Director and beyond.
- How to feed good ideas or copy.
- The ‘I wish I did that’ campaign.
- Loving the camaraderie of this industry.
- Burn out and the lessons we can all take.
- AI, the impact on creativity, now and in the future.
- The 3 guests of choice for the ultimate dinner party.
- Gratitude for a career that facilitates ‘play’.
- Why you should go to bed when your dog goes to bed.
- Tiffanie’s Goody Bag of Advice
Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
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Jo welcomes the legendary Rebecca Sowden to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Rebecca previously played professional football for the New Zealand national women's football team. Today she combines her sporting expertise with her marketing passion in the shape of Team Heroine, an organisation built to help sponsors, sport organisations & media UNLEASH the value of women’s sport.. In 2023 she was recognised as one of the top eleven people in the world to progress women’s football, partly due to being behind the incredible campaign: Correct the Internet - which highlighted and corrected bias against sportswomen on the internet. It, quite rightly, picked up multiple awards including a Cannes Lion Glass, and 3 Gold Cannes Lions.Topics covered:
- The 3 ingredients of success.
- Becoming a professional football player against the odds.
- Working hard to go to the Olympics and missing out.
- Realising the journey is as important as the destination.
- Running out for the first time to play for New Zealand.
- Having children alongside career ambition.
- The journey of IVF through country moves and COVID.
- Overcoming personal and career obstacles.
- Mixing professional footballer insight with advertising experience.
- Seeing the opportunity and founding Team Heroine.
- Correct The Internet – the multi-award-winning campaign.
- How internet searches are omitting sportswomen’s achievements.
- The negative impact of an internet biased towards male athletes.
- Creating impact from the top down and the bottom up.
- Stats: female athletes have higher engagement levels.
- Stats: female sports are more relatable, progressive & family-friendly.
- So why aren’t more brands sponsoring female sports?
- Michelle Kang – donating $30m to women and girls’ soccer in the US.
- Rebecca's Doggy Bag of Advice.Team Heroine: https://www.teamheroine.com/
Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlseatdinner/
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Jo welcomes the renowned Laura Jordan Bambach to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Laura has led some of the biggest and most creative agencies in London, and is a founder and Chief Creative Officer at the UK’s first fully female founded agency, Uncharted. Some of her entrepreneurial activities outside the day job include co-founding SheSays: a global network, working to get more women into creative industries, and Oko, an app-based business growth and career development programme.Alongside all of this, she is a regular speaker, award-jury-chair, author and artist.
Topics covered:
- The 3 ingredients of success.
- Being in the boys’ team and lobbying to be in the scouts.
- The epiphany created by a clitoris-themed political poster.
- The belly-fire to create space for others in this industry.
- The Great British Diversity Experiment and its findings.
- The leadership approach that creates the best work from a diverse team.
- The ad industry is promoting the wrong skills for good creative leadership.
- Why dangerous ideas need a safe space.
- Unchartered Studio, the first all-female-founded creative agency in London.
- 3 as the magic number of founders.
- Fulfilling numerous extra projects on the edge of the day job.
- Creative awards, the pros and the cons.
- The different agendas that decide what good work is.
- Creative is the key revenue driver, not a product or ‘nice to have.’
- AI, a powerful tool in creative hands.
- Wanting to see creative move back to the centre of the business.
- Laura’s Doggy Bag of Advice.Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlseatdinner/
Get in touch: [email protected]
Host, Jo Wallace: https://twitter.com/JoWallaceTweets
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Jo welcomes the exceptional Lori Meakin to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Lori is a multi-award-winning strategist and entrepreneur with decades of experience working with some of the world's biggest and most successful brands. Lori has long been driven to help build a more gender-equal world. Now, she uses the expertise in changing attitudes and behaviour that she's developed over decades in branding, advertising and the media to address the issue: why aren't more men getting involved in gender equality, which is proven to benefit all of us?Topics covered:
- Growing up in social housing in Dagenham near the Ford factory where a group of women took action that led to the Equal Pay Act.
- Trigger warning; suffering a traumatic sexual assault.
- How such a negative experience led to positive work.
- From a language & literature teacher to a strategist in advertising.
- The power of storytelling: helping us understand ourselves and one another.
- No More Menemies – the inspiration behind this insightful book.
- Approaching the task of engaging more men in gender equality strategically.
- Motivating men to help create a better outcome for everyone.
- The false narrative telling white straight men the odds are now stacked against them.
- How the likes of Trump and Tate capitalize on fear to give all of the wrong answers to young men.
- When women take up just 30% of a space, content or conversation they’re seen as ‘dominating’.
- When women take up just 15% of a space, content or conversation they’re seen as ‘equal’.
- Loss aversion: the human programming that makes Gender Equality feel like men are having things ‘taken away’ when women are literally losing rights.
- 57% of men in Britain think equality has gone too far – and surprisingly (perhaps) the majority are Gen Z.
- We’ve been socialized to assume that sons are more intelligent than daughters (by 10 IQ points).
- What men are missing out on due to a lack of equality.
- Misogyny as the gateway to many other forms of hate (homophobia, racism, transphobia etc).
- ‘The Others & Me’ a consultancy that spotlights the opportunities for organisations to create positive change and a competitive advantage.
- Why ‘guys’ is not the best way to address a team.
- Positively refusing to be beaten down by the problems in the world.
- Embracing curiosity and our similarities to bridge the perceived gender divide.
- Lori’s Doggy Bag of Advice
Lori's book: https://www.theothersandme.com/nomoremenemies
The Other's & Me: https://www.theothersandme.com/Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlseatdinner/
Get in touch: [email protected]
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Jo welcomes the brilliant Beth Collier to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Beth Collier is passionate about helping people improve their communication, creativity, and leadership skills. She began her career in film and television production in Los Angeles, and has held diverse communication and leadership roles on three continents, including a decade in financial services in London. Beth now runs a communication and leadership consultancy and helps people become more capable and confident speakers and writers, and more creative thinkers and leaders. Beth is originally from the US, and has lived abroad for 19 years. She is relentlessly curious and shares stories about business and pop culture in her weekly newsletter, Curious Minds.Topics covered:
- Giving an actor a life-changing tour of your school
- Making a dream come true for 32 cents.
- School mottos and why the message matters.
- How winning ‘story of the week’ cemented a passion for writing.
- The power of a thank you letter.
- Working in the TV/film industry in LA.
- Seeing people with power – and noticing how they use it.
- Firing people over email. The recent phenomenon that is not ok.
- Why showing people respect and care is so important.
- Delivering a talk in a way that engages people.
- The effort (practice) it takes to look effortless.
- Running a consultancy and the many hats required.
- ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.’
- How I met Beth when she came with the facts.
-That Daily Mail article and how I sued them and won.
- Why factual journalism is so important to society.
- Having a consistent writing practice.
- Why reading is vital for writing.
- Wanting to hear more from more women on LinkedIn.
- Dealing with trolls.
- Beth’s Doggy Bag of Advice.
Sign up for Beth's weekly newsletter 'Curious Minds' https://bethcollier.substack.com/Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlseatdinner/
Get in touch: [email protected]
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Jo welcomes the incredible Natalie Graeme to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Natalie is a founder of Uncommon Creative Studio, alongside Nils Leonard &, Lucy Jameson. A creative studio building brands that people in the real world actually wish existed; either by working with clients or by creating brands themselves. Natalie has 20+ years experience working at the most successful and creative agencies on the planet. Between London & Amsterdam she has run business defining relationships & strategies for global and local brands including, Sony, BBC, Coca-Cola, Vodafone, The Times and many more.Topics covered:
- A fishy first job, literally on a fish counter
- Being encouraged and supported as a child to ‘try anything’
- Wanting, for a while, to be a TV presenter
- Not quite reaching the ‘triple threat’ status
- The life lesson of recognizing what you’re good at and what you’re not
- Ambition and what drives it
- How being over-looked can fuel the fire of ambition
- Arriving to work experience on a speedboat!
- Falling in and out of love with the ad industry
- Striking out and setting up Uncommon
- Being in a professional ‘throuple’ with Nils and Lucy
- The strengths of difference
- The deal between Uncommon, Havas & Vivendi
- The secret to such incredible success
- Writing the ‘uncontract’ - a promise not to be dickheads
- Being in the business of creativity not status reports etc
- AI: Talent & creativity as the competitive advantage
- Why so much advertising is so s&!t
- Standing for something and the world-changing power of creativity
- The on-going, baffling, diversity issue in the industry
- Natalie’s Doggy Bag of adviceFind out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlseatdinner/
Get in touch: [email protected]
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Jo welcomes the fantastic Jessica Tamsedge to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Jessica swiftly rose through the ranks of the advertising industry. She has established herself as a leader who genuinely cares about championing her team and taking everyone on the journey to success. Having worked at various advertising agencies, including Grey and McCann, Jessica is currently the UK CEO for Dentsu Creative.
Topics covered:
- How stumbling as a concert pianist was a valuable life lesson- Living between Hong Kong and London
- ‘What is this scorcery?’ - a fortuitous discovery of the ad industry
- Applying to grad schemes, being turned down and persisting
- The unexpected path to being a CEO
- Identifying the type of leadership a creative organization needs
- The benefit of a flexible leadership style
- Is it really okay to fail?
- The dangers of micro-managing
- Modern creativity; why the ‘how’ matters as much as the ‘what’
- The battle to convince audiences to spend time with a brand
- Completing a Cambridge sustainability course, between jobs
- Career moments that left a bad taste and the lessons learnt
- Profiling personalities at work - is it useful for team compatibility?
- The concerns around AI bias, vs the incredible potential
- Why is most advertising so rubbish?
- Jessica’s Doggy Bag of advice
Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlseatdinner/
Get in touch: [email protected]
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Jo welcomes the brilliant Deborah B Williams to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Deborah is someone who creates awareness around the big problems we face in society. But she doesn’t just talk about them, she doesn’t even just create awareness around them; she creates ACTION. Action which took her on a journey to become the founder and CEO of The Women’s Association.
Topics covered:
- Growing up in a bubble of happiness that partially helped deflect racism- The importance of someone helping you picture your dreams
- Being able to fail and not live in that failure
- Hitting rock bottom and then choosing to live intentionally, with purpose
- Being told you can’t
- Then creating an organization to help stop other women be told they can’t
- The Women’s Association - helping remove the barriers to women’s dreams
- How society needs to play a role in closing the aspiration gap for girls
- The Executive Challenge: Giving teenage girls access to the workplace
- The Cannes Challenge - back by popular demand - for 18-30yr old women
- 56 Black Men - being part of a project to challenge racist stereotypes
- Knowing there’s a long way to go but finding fuel in real women’s stories
- Choosing to drive change rather than just exist in a biased system
- Social media: the no. 1 thing young girls site as impacting their confidence
- Project Phoenix - tackling the confidence barrier by allowing self-discovery
- Being intentional and consistent - and human - when it comes to DE&I
- Taking pride in helping others
- Deborah’s Doggy Bag of advice
Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlseatdinner/
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Jo welcomes the fantastic, Laurel Stark Akman, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
By her own admission, Laurel's career only really took off when she lived her values loudly in the form of some incredible passion projects. For example, she is an original member of the ‘3% Movement’ team – (an initiative with a mission to increase the number of female creative directors in marketing because, staggeringly, they only represented 3 percent at the time.) Having showcased what she was capable of with various creative side endeavours, she began landing roles which welcomed her voice, her values and ideas.
Topics covered:
- Growing up as computers started to become a thing- Getting to know your inner child
- Growing up in a loving, adopted family and how it shapes you
- Navigating a society that doesn’t always value creativity
- Leaning into your own authenticity as a creative person
- Holding onto your naive creative optimism, or your ‘de-lu-lu’
- The link between trauma in childhood and competitive pursuits
- Experiencing sexual harassment & bullying - and finding strength
- Finding your voice and becoming a part of the solution for others
- Being part of building an industry you want to be a part of
- Why it’s important to be visible
- Attracting the right opportunities to make the biggest impact
- How to scare away the people who aren’t meant for you, and call on the ones who are
- Gen Z: the first generation where gaming has superseded sport
- Laurel’s Doggy Bag of advice
Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
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Jo welcomes the brilliant, Nishma Patel Robb, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Nishma Patel Robb is proof that you can stay relevant and successfully surf the wave of change. Her career has evolved in-step with the digital evolution: from Teletext; the advent of digital interaction - to Google. She’s a passionate and tireless activist for equality. So much so that she was recently passed the baton to become the current President of WACL - for its 100th year.
Nishma is now also pursuing her love for music as a DJ.
Topics covered:
- Growing up with racism
- Finding an escape in storytelling and dreaming
- Pursuing old loves and new skills as a DJ
- Finding a creative career regardless of missing out on art school
- A love for humanity and our ability to shape the world
- A career spanning the birth of the digital age
- Why it’s normal to be afraid of AI
- The art of constant learning
- Why human connection is vital in business
- The continued need for unique creativity
- Supporting Marcus Rashford’s campaign with the power of Google
- Things that have left a bad taste
- Finding spaces where you can be comfortable to be yourself
- The biggest threat to businesses right now
- Nishma’s Doggy Bag of advice
Connect with Nishma here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishmapatelrobb
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Jo welcomes the Queen of Copy, Vikki Ross, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Vikki Ross is a Brand, TOV and Copy Consultant and has been writing copy for major global brands for 26 years. She specialises in branding and tone of voice, and travels the world telling businesses how to talk. Recent clients include IMAX, ITV, Comcast, Twitter, Sony Music and Spotify.
She is a D&AD Masterclass Trainer, judges at international industry award competitions, and mentors young creatives.
In 2017, Campaign and Creative Equals named her one of the Top 30 Female Creative Leaders. In 2019, Women in Marketing gave her a Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to Marketing, and in 2020, The Dots named her one of their Top 100 Trailblazers redefining the creative industry.
Topics covered:
- Being a podcast Guinea Pig ;-)
- Skipping university and taking a different path
- Quick fire: a new item on the menu for season 2
- Using a calculator in a more creative way
- From North London to broader horizons
- A car crash that triggered travelling the world
- Finding out Bangkok is not a paradise island in Thailand
- Writing to the editor of Vogue to ask for a job
- When the work goes live and it still feels exciting
- Respecting the audience and helping young creatives get ahead
- Behaviours that have left a bad taste and speaking up
- Creating events to champion copywriting on the side
- #copywritersunite: from a hashtag to a global community
- Meeting Harry & Meghan at Kensington Palace
- Who Vikki Ross would choose to have dinner with
- AI: are we being irresponsible?
- Vikki Ross’ incredible doggy bag of advice
Follow Vikki here: https://twitter.com/vikkirosswrites
Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlseatdinner/
Get in touch: [email protected]
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Jo welcomes the incredible artist, Sara Pope, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Contemporary artist Sara Pope is best known for her bold, seductive paintings of voluptuous lips. Taking inspiration from a successful career in the fashion industry as a shoe designer for brands such as Paul Smith, and also her work in magazines as a designer and art director, Sara aims to capture the sensuality and seductive power conveyed by the lips and mouth. Interested in questions of beauty, communication, and the notion of perfection, Sara uses the perspective of her commercial experience to explore these themes.
Sara is the first British female artist in over 70 years to have a piece of work accepted into the Vatican collection.
Topics covered:
- Creativity and its impact on anxiety and isolation
- Art and connection
- Why lips
- Having a portrait of the Pope hanging in the Vatican collection
- Being a self-taught, successful artist. Yes self-taught!
- From studying math, to shoe design, to now
- Inspiration and naming pieces of art
- Being commissioned by the English National Opera
- Will lips ever go out of fashion?
- Icons, Marylin Monroe, that dress, and Kim Kardashian
- The 3 people Sara would choose to have dinner with
- Sara’s Doggy Bag of Advice, including...
- Getting started with your creative pursuit
- Nurturing your creative gift vs expecting it to pay
- Being courageous
Sara’s website: https://sarapopeart.com/
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Jo welcomes the brilliant journalist and author, Jessica Pan, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Jessica Pan is a freelance journalist who lives in London. After graduating from Brown University, she lived and worked in Beijing for 2.5 years as an editor of an English expat magazine. She then completed her Master’s degree in journalism at RMIT in Melbourne, before spending a year as a TV reporter in Beijing. A self-confessed introvert, Jessica’s second book Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come chronicles her year of 'living dangerously’ - as an extrovert, with hilarious results. It has sold over 100,000 copies.
Topics covered:
- Growing up in ‘small town’ Texas
- Experiencing a very homogenous, Christian, conservative ‘world’
- Having a Chinese father and a Jewish mother
- Always feeling different and the benefits that can bring
- Feeling destined to leave home and explore the world
- How Sweet Valley high MIGHT have influenced career choices
- Why the best journalists aren’t afraid to be vulnerable
- The importance of original ideas
- Living out an introvert’s ‘nightmares’ for a year
- Jessica’s book: Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come
- Realising that people are often kinder than imagined
- ‘Nobody waves but everybody waves back.’ Breaking the ice
- Networking events and finding the right one
- Why you should practice doing things you’re afraid of
- The true introvert test. It involves Glastonbury
- Trying improv in front of strangers
- Jessica’s Doggy Bag of Advice
Jessica’s website: https://jesspan.com/
Follow Jessica @JessicaLPan
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Jo welcomes award-winning director and screenwriter, Meena Ayittey, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Meena graduated with a fine art degree from Central Saint Martins and has been working in the film, television and advertising industries ever since.
Having worked her way up from a runner she established herself as a 3D VFX artist and Motion Graphic Designer, working for some of the best agencies; including Grey London, Droga5, Saatchi & Saatchi, Adam & Eve DDB, and R/GA.
Meena then moved into film directing, and has written and directed films and documentaries that have been screened throughout the UK, USA and Europe.
Topics covered:
- Stepping outside your comfort zone
- Loving extremes
- How childhood imagination creates storytelling skills
- St Martins; a whole new world
- Being drawn to telling stories to help make the invisible, visible
- Learnings taken from advertising into film-making
- ‘Black Creative: Race & The Advertising Industry’: a documentary with a message
- ‘All The Little Things’ a film about micro aggressions
- Why the current project is the one to be most proud of
- Motherhood
- Surrealist art
- The fear of ‘stale’
- Taking risks
- Not settling for less
- Meena’s Doggy Bag of Advice
Meena Ayittey's website: https://www.meenamachina.comFind out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/goodgirlseatdinner/
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Jo welcomes the accidental but highly effective activist, Jamie Klingler, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Jamie Klingler is a leading speaker, writer (Vogue, Grazia, The Guardian etc) & consultant who helps organisations find their purpose.
Jamie combines her experience of becoming an accidental activist with her twenty years’ experience working with the world’s leading brands.
Named the 9th Top Communicator in the UK 2021 in PR Week, she’s known for her punchy and direct style.
Topics covered:
- Profound personal change: giving up booze and finding purpose
- From working at Shortlist, to creating national events, to calling for police reform
- Why National Burger Day coincides with Jamie’s birthday
- The story of ‘Reclaim These Streets’
- The impact of Scotland Yard saying no to a peaceful vigil for Sara Everard
- The threat of legal action from the police
- Raising £37,000 in just minutes to take the police to court
- Living in an episode of ‘In The Thick Of It’?
- Cancelling the vigil; seeing scenes of police kneeling on innocent women
- The watershed moment... and the continued wait for genuine change
- Why the conversation about violence against women has to involve men
- Achieving a human rights victory against the police in court
- The shocking backlash for daring to ask for an end to violence against women
- Getting out of your own way
- Finding hope amid an epidemic of violence against women
- How purpose is so necessary and yet so woefully underpaid
- Why small nuggets of kindness can mean the world
- Jamie’s Doggy Bag of advice
You can find out more about Jamie’s incredible work, plus book her as a speaker or consultant here: https://www.jamieklingler.com/
Watch Jamie’s TED Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtycbSeGp2I&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jamieklingler.com%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt
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Jo welcomes the brilliant wordsmith, Jaspreet Kaur, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Known also by her online handle 'Behind the Netra', Jaspreet is an award-winning spoken word artist, educator and author from London. Her book, Brown Girl Like Me, is an inspiring memoir and empowering manifesto that equips women with the confidence and tools they need to navigate the difficulties that come with an intersectional identity.Jaspreet is passionate about gender issues, taboo subjects and encouraging positive social change in both the Asian community and wider society. Her work tackles issues related to gender discrimination, mental health stigma, the postcolonial immigrant experience, and more. A regular on the BBC and Sunday Morning Live, Jaspreet is currently a Research Fellow at Birkbeck University's Centre for British Political Life. She has also worked with the UN on the HeforShe campaign.
**BONUS** Jaspreet shares some of her incredible poetry during the podcast.
Topics covered:
- How it felt growing up in a Punjabi family in the UK
- Teaching history, sociology and politics with relevance
- The mission to educate beyond the classroom
- How creative expression is so vital for mental health
- Overcoming terror to perform poetry live at an open mic night
- Being brown, female, opinionated…and invisible
- Writing the book you wish you’d had as a teenager
- Real South Asian women vs outdated stereotypes
- Pitching and publishing a book
- Being told ‘The brown community doesn’t read’
- Beauty ideals and body image – feeling othered
- Allyship to coalition
- Cultural appropriation
- Jaspreet’s Doggy Bag of advice
More information on Japreet's work and the courses she has available here: https://www.behindthenetra.com/Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
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Jo welcomes the change-maker, Rania Robinson, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
Rania Robinson is CEO & Partner at Quiet Storm, Director at Create Not Hate, and President of WACL.
Arriving in the UK from Egypt at the age of three and starting school not speaking a word of English, Rania's early experiences sparked a life-long passion for forming connections and meaningful communication. Having spent most of her career in non-traditional agencies in both account leadership and strategic roles, she has worked with some of the world's best-known brands, including: Haribo, Mercedes, Virgin, Google and Coca Cola.A passionate exponent of empowering women in the workplace, she is President of WACL (an organisation whose purpose is to accelerate gender equality in the advertising and communication industry). Rania is also an active diversity champion and in 2020 relaunched Create Not Hate, Quiet Storm's initiative to get under-represented young people into the creative industries by unlocking their creative potential to tackle social issues that they live with every day.
Wrap your ears around a smorgasbord of topics:
- Why it’s important to enjoy the journey between the milestones- Loving home-cooked food not loving cooking
- The symbiotic relationship between commercial work and purposeful work
- Running a business – and a life – with husband Trevor Robinson
- How learning to switch off is actually far more productive
- Steering a business through challenging economic times
- Giving yourself room to make strong decisions
- ‘Create Not Hate’ was ahead of its time when it first launched in 2008
- The extra work required to effect change
- Allyship and the difference between lip service and impact
- Why being risk averse in an economic downturn is the wrong approach
- Why creativity delivers higher commercial impact
- Why you should ask for help
- Why it’s vital to figure out what’s important to you
- Rania’s Doggy Bag of adviceFind out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
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Jo welcomes the unimitable Chaka Sobhani to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
*Some swearing ensues. By her own admission, Chaka has a ‘sailor’s mouth’.
Chaka Sobhani is Global Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett Worldwide and Chief Creative Officer Leo Burnett UK and Fallon.
Before joining the ad industry, Chaka spent over a decade as an award winning film-maker and working in television. She set up ITV’s first in-house creative agency, during which time the network regained the no.1 position in the UK, created its most successful global formats and content with shows like the X Factor and Downton Abbey, winning the prestigious Channel of the Year award for the first time.
Chaka has also won numerous BAFTA’s, Golden Globes and the prestigious Rose D’Or, alongside a plethora of advertising awards.
Topics:
- Being Queer, female and the only brown kid at school- Advertising’s gain was the tennis world’s loss
- Career plans and why you don’t need one
- Rooting for the underdog
- The power of empathy
- An incredible career in 5 minutes
- Awards? Does anyone give a s%!t?
- Why we should talk about difficult life experiences
- Diversity and inclusion
- Why meaningful change is taking so long
- Following your gut – and your heart
- Walking for healing
- Realising you’re Team Dessert not Team Savoury
- Chaka’s Doggy Bag of advice
Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
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Jo welcomes living legend, Cindy Gallop, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
*Some swearing ensues. Not much but just so you know, the f-bomb is dropped.
Following a standout career in advertising which saw Cindy found and chair the US branch of renowned advertising firm, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Cindy went on to create the sex-tech organization, 'Make Love Not Porn'. As CEO and founder, she launched the platform idea in 2009 during a TED Talk which instantly became one of the "most talked about presentations" ever. Which is hardly surprising given that she's a regular keynote speaker, a business innovator, consultant, and professional coach.
Cindy sums up her approach with the words: “I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business.”Topics:
- Cooking (Cindy loathes it)
- Making life defining career decisions
- The role of luck in success
- How to give no f*@ks
- Dating and how the best ideas can come from lived experience
- 'Make Love Not Porn' – socializing sex
- The challenges of achieving funding as a female tech entrepreneur
- Why men can do better to support equality
- Martinis
- Cindy's incredible doggy bag of advice
If you don't already follow Cindy Gallop:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cindygallop
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cindygallop/
Make Love Not Porn: https://makelovenotporn.tv/Find out more about Good Girls Eat Dinner: http://www.goodgirlseatdinner.com/
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Host, Jo Wallace: https://twitter.com/JoWallaceTweets
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