Podcasts by Never Not Creative

Creativity and Football Mini-Series E06 from 2022-09-30T03:52:18

Paul Balfe is no football expert. But he is a male creative who was willing to chat to us about his mental health and his experiences with anxiety. Paul is Creative Director and Founder of Penny...

More than ticking boxes from 2022-09-22T01:58:51

Nasya Kamrat is the Co-Founder of FACULTY, a certified, woman-owned spatial storytelling agency. After experiences working with multi-national agencies owned by the global holding companies, Nas...

Exploring mental health from 2022-06-19T02:46:17

In our latest episode, Ve Dewey interviews James Routledge, the co-founder of Sanctus. After starting Sanctus, a coaching business to help improve mental wellbeing in workplaces, James has gone ...

Creative entrepreneurship for social good from 2022-01-20T15:29:12

In this episode, Ve and Andy join forces to chat to recent winners of the Deutsche Bank Awards For Creative Entrepreneurs – Jameisha Prescod, founder of You Look Okay To Me, an online space for ...

The F Word Mini-Series – Episode 3 from 2021-12-20T08:21:26

It's our third and final episode of the F Word Mini-Series. David and Ve sit down for an inspirational conversation around failure at an organisational level with the award-winning transformatio...

The F Word Mini-Series – Episode 2 from 2021-12-19T07:10:30

In our second episode, David and Ve sit down with Alina Mendoza Lopez, currently an intern at Dragon Rouge London, and Max Ottignon, co-founder of the London based agency Ragged Edge to discuss ...

The F Word Mini-Series – Episode 1 from 2021-12-14T11:35:02

Based on the “The F word”, our latest mini-series focuses on "Failure." This first episode with Never Not Creative Co-creator, Ve Dewey and David Beare, Executive Creative Director of Dragon Rou...

Creativity and Football Mini-Series E05 from 2021-12-12T01:43:54

The final episode of our Creativity and Football mini-series rounds out with The Hallway's ECD Simon Lee. Simon has lived experience with the ups and downs of mental health, but has also been wo...

Creativity and Football Mini-Series E04 from 2021-12-07T08:40:45

In the 4th episode of our Creativity & Football mini-series we head to Switzerland with renowned lettering artist Stefan Kunz.

Stefan is an internet phenomenon, entrepreneur and educa...

Creativity and Football Mini Series E03 from 2021-11-27T05:11:04

It's the 3rd episode of our Creativity & Football mini-series. Craig Elimeliah is an award-winning ECD at VMLY&R in New York. A native New-Yorker he gets his football analogies from the ...

Creativity and Football Mini Series E02 from 2021-11-12T10:30:20

Dr Zac Seidler knows a thing or two about football. Whilst he's scored many a goal from all over the pitch, his ultimate goal is to reduce the staggering rate of male suicide. In this second epi...

Creativity & Football Mini Series E02 from 2021-11-12T10:30:20

Dr Zac Seidler knows a thing or two about football. Whilst he's scored many a goal from all over the pitch, his ultimate goal is to reduce the staggering rate of male suicide. In this second epi...

Creativity and Football Mini Series E01 from 2021-10-21T11:13:17

Welcome to a Never Not Creative podcast mini-series. Creativity and Football. We're talking to men about creativity, football and... who are we kidding? This is an essential listen. A mini-serie...

Creativity & Football Mini Series E01 from 2021-10-21T11:13:17

Welcome to a Never Not Creative podcast mini-series. Creativity and Football. We're talking to men about creativity, football and... who are we kidding? This is an essential listen. A mini-serie...

S4 Ep8 Qualified? from 2021-09-25T14:25:09

Asher Oliver didn’t take the traditional ‘qualified’ pathway into the creative industry.

After graduation from university with a Business Management degree in 2009, he moved back home and...

S4 Ep7 A side of business from 2021-08-31T06:46:12

Blair Enns (author of Win Without Pitching and Pricing Creativity) joins Andy to discuss the challenges that creatives have when it comes to business. How our emotional attachment to work can hi...

S4 Ep6 Culture and colleagues from 2021-08-17T07:45:24

Andy and Sarah are back with another episode on a Never Not International Women’s Day talk with Tom Tapper.  

Tom is the co-founder and CEO of B-Corp certified agency, Nice and Serio...

S4 Ep5 Equality + respect from 2021-08-02T07:11:28

Join Andy Wright and Sarah Nguyen in another episode to discuss two powerful talks from Never Not International Women’s Day - ‘Until your fear of me isn’t my problem’ with Tanarra Schneider, and...

S4 Ep4 Move on John from 2021-06-22T03:30:30

Somewhere around 2015, the first of the John genre articles arrived, trumpeting that there are more CEOs named John than women CEOs in their entirety.   In this episode, we have a well...

S4 Ep3 All inclusive from 2021-05-16T01:47:37

Jane Duru (Verbal Design Director, R/GA) and Sumita Maharaj (Associate Design Director, Re:) join Sarah and Andy to discuss their recent submission to Never Not International Women's Day. From h...

S4 Ep2 Kill the stereotypes from 2021-04-25T04:12:15

To make meaningful change in workplaces all around the world, we need to recognise that the gender inequity in our industry and society is a cultural problem. We need to show men what they can’t...

S4 Ep1 Rage over fear – Never Not International Women's Day from 2021-03-30T23:07:10

International Women’s Day 2021 has passed. But this year, we're not going back to business as usual. As far as we're concerned, it will always be Never Not International Women’s Day until all wo...

S3 Ep16 Meaning And Purpose from 2021-01-04T23:11:40

Dr Sally Fitzpatrick is a Clinical Psychologist and the Acting Program Manager, Mental Health and Research at Everymind, our partners in the Mentally-Healthy research study. In this episode she’...

S3 Ep15 Take me to your leader - with Victoria Davies from 2020-12-14T06:26:08

Victoria Davies has spent years as a leader in the advertising industry.  Now though, Victoria has swapped running some of the most successful agencies in London and New York to start an ar...

S3 Ep14 Creative Clarity with Trevor Hubbard, Founder – Butchershop from 2020-10-16T22:10:34

After years of learning in the agency business, championing and doubling-down on a project-based model, Trevor Hubbard is on a mission to wipe out failure. The one thing standing in his way? Cla...

S3 Ep13 Creative shelf-life? from 2020-09-18T00:49:51

Kelly Mackenzie founded White Bear in 2014. Since then it's gone from strength to strength. No surprise really, as when we caught up with Kelly it was clear that she doesn't let much stand in he...

S3 Ep12 Creative Growth from 2020-08-28T06:44:56

We chat with Ekaterina Solomeina the founder of Future London Academy. Ekaterina challenges the traditional concept of University, a linear career path and how we learn. What happens when we mov...

S3 Ep11 Recovery – Where to from here? from 2020-08-19T01:04:29

An incredible, far-reaching episode with experts on the future and our mental health. Prue Jones, Design Director at Fjord provides a unique perspective on where to from here in 2020. Dr Zac Sei...

S3 Ep10 Under Pressure – the results of the 2020 Mentally-Healthy study from 2020-07-29T04:47:20

18 months on from our first study into the mental health and wellbeing of the creative, media and marketing industry, we’re back with a deeper dive. The purpose of the second study was to evalua...

S3 Ep9 Side hustle obsession from 2020-07-17T00:59:05

When Brooke Strozdas wrote about her side hustle observations she was just letting off steam. Then bang, Twitter responded and she'd clearly hit on something that many people must have been thin...

S3 Ep8 The New Normal – Asking For A Friend from 2020-07-06T11:59:07

With guests, Jess Lilley, Creative Director of Leo Burnett and Aileen Alegado, Psychologist.

We discuss when's the right time to ask for a payrise. Is our industry ageist? And what's Surv...

S3 Ep7 Creative Utopia? from 2020-06-22T00:08:09

Andy first met Daniele Fiandaca in 2002. He was COO at (then) independent agency Profero. They were his agency and he was their client. Since leaving Profero in 2009, Daniele has gone on to co-a...

S3 Ep6 A world-wide creative challenge from 2020-05-26T01:23:48

When we stumbled across Creative Confessions in our insta feed, we sensed an immediate familiarity. Veronica Mike and Josh Schneid...

S3 Ep5 Navigating change in 2020 from 2020-05-07T00:40:35

This episode is a fully loaded chat with Andrew Dobbie (Founder of Made Brave) and Peter Czapp (Founder of The Wow Company).  One's a creative founder, the other's an accountant – in fact, ...

S3 Ep4 Asking for a friend – April 2020 from 2020-04-21T02:19:04

This episode is from our April Asking For A Friend event.

We all know that “asking for a friend”is an easier way to ask a tough question. So once a month we’re going to allow anyone anywh...

S3 Ep3 Creative energy with Sean Hall from 2020-04-03T22:55:53

Sean Hall has seen almost every nook and cranny of our industry. From working in one of Australia's most iconic agencies to running one of Australia's most iconic brands, he now focuses on helpi...

S3 Ep2 Wearing your heart on your sleeve - with Mitch Wallis from 2020-03-10T04:32:56

In this episode Sarah and Andy chat to Mitch Wallis, the Founder of the Heart on My Sleeve Movement. Entwined within Mitch's story about his own Mental Health journey is solid scientific and str...

S3 Ep1 Purpose, meaning and mental health from 2020-02-24T11:52:54

We’re back. Season 3 kicks off with Chris Freel and Nina Nyman from Unltd. We talk all things mental health and how to do good in our industry. Perfect timing as we’ve recently launched the new ...

S2 Ep18 Tackling mental health at work from 2019-12-21T23:16:53

In our final episode of Season 2 and 2019, Andy and Sarah catch-up with the formidable "Monty" AKA Sarah Montague, Creative Director at ooh! Media.

With her career as a Solid Gold dancer ...

S2 Ep17 The mental health of the creative from 2019-11-14T05:31:19

We caught lettering artist and typographer, Craig Black as he was whizzing around Australia for his national AGDA tour. But better than that, we also invited his wife Alison to bring her experti...

S2 Ep16 Creating on the edge with Shruti Rai from 2019-10-30T01:25:14

Sarah and Andy catch up with Shruti Rai about designing for the edge cases and how to embrace audiences and use cases that we might not be comfortable with. Diversity becomes a major theme of ou...

S2 Ep15 Getting started from 2019-10-16T11:21:46

This episode, Andy is in Tasmania for Foundry Live.

Foundry Live is a conference  by Foundry Creative School in Tasmania. Every few months they invite industry leaders to speak to th...

S2 Ep14 The Creative's Mind – with Professor David Alais from 2019-09-04T02:20:20

Professor David Alais is a psychologist and neuroscientist at The University of Sydney. Sarah and Andy caught up with David to understand better how the creative mind works, and how we can do a ...

S2 Ep13 Being brutally honest from 2019-08-20T23:33:23

This episode is packed full of advice on running a business as a creative – get your notebooks out! Andy and Sarah caught up with Emily Cohen, creative business consultant and author of Brutally...

S2 Ep12 Minding The Gap from 2019-08-07T07:51:34

Andy and Sarah caught up with Chris Doyle who last year started an initiative called This Is Not University. TINU is a mentoring program that Chris started to help bridge the gap between educati...

S2 Ep11 Looking after each other from 2019-07-24T10:25:59

Our industry is nothing without the people who make it. So, what do we do to make sure they're thriving? How are we helping them grow?
In this episode, Andy and Sarah catch up with Manon Pie...

S2 Ep10 NNC x ADR collaboration - Running a business with your best mate from 2019-07-06T23:32:42

Australian Design Radio and Never Not Creative hosts Matt Leach and Andy Wright found themselves in Brisbane together at The Design Conference. Therefore, it was a no-brainer to combine mics and...

S2Ep9 Industry Events: Inspiration, community and self-development from 2019-06-07T04:16:21

After a month of high quality events in the creative industry, Sarah and Andy unpack how important it is to get out to find inspiration, community and spend some time on your own self-developmen...

S2Ep8 How can we make a brighter future for the creative industry? from 2019-05-22T03:18:30

This episode was sparked by a tweet. On the 2nd April, Andy tweeted, "Sometimes it feels like we really don't want to create a better industry. When you look at what we do to the people trying t...

S2Ep7 What diversity can bring to the creative industry from 2019-05-08T06:18:53

Big questions in this episode. Is the lack of diversity in the creative industry holding us back? Can we be more creative as a result? What's it like to be a person of colour in our industry? Listen

S2Ep6 Why go in-house as a creative? from 2019-04-25T05:43:47

Maggie Tang (ex Frost, Houston Group and current Head of Brand at Ableton), and Christian Hewitt ex R/GA, part of InVision's Design Leadership Forum and current Head of Design at Streamtime) joi...

S2Ep5 - Getting a foot in the door from 2019-04-09T01:42:58

This episode Andy and Sarah discuss a recent Never Not Creative event –  The Future Of Internships. Should they or shouldn't they be paid? How do we make sure that internships aren't just a...

S2 Ep4 - Causing a Creative Industry Boom from 2019-03-27T04:07:47

We catch up with Katy Cowan, the founder of Creative Boom. The online magazine for the creative industry that supports and provides resources for anyone working (or thinking of) in the creative ...

S2Ep3 - Providing support for women in the creative industry from 2019-03-12T23:15:18

In this episode we get frank about the experiences of women in the creative industry. Mirella Marie is the founder of Womentor. An international mentor network for female graphic designers. Mire...

S2Ep2 - Best of 2018 - part 2 from 2019-02-28T07:15:35

It's the second half of our review show. Sarah and Andy discuss internships with the highlights from our chats with Adam Thorn (journalist at Mumbrella) and Dean Jacobson (a creative from Melbou...

S2Ep1 - Best of 2018 - part 1 from 2019-02-19T21:15:52

To kick off season 2, we review the best of season 1. Andy and co-host Sarah, go back to the start to discuss vulnerability and struggle with some of the highlights from Andy's chat with Josie Y...

AGDA and staying relevant for the design community from 2018-12-20T02:26:44

In the second part of our chat with Nic Eldridge, CEO of AGDA, we focus on the future. What are the challenges facing AGDA as we enter 2019? How will AGDA remain relevant? Nic also adds some clari...

The great debate around awards and AGDA from 2018-12-18T02:59:20

As we move into the final weeks of the year, we have special guest, Nic Eldridge. Nic's the CEO of AGDA (the Australian Graphic Design Association) and a major voice in the design industry. In th...

Creating better conditions for parents returning to work from 2018-12-13T05:16:40

In this episode, we talk to Kate Pollard. Kate, is the co-founder of Circle In, a startup focused on creating a community to improve working conditions for working mums. It’s a big issue and one th...

Mentally Healthy - Does the creative industry have a mental health problem? from 2018-12-07T02:37:29

This week we launched the results of the Mentally Healthy 2018 research – one of the largest studies into the mental health of the creative, media and marketing industries. If you didn't get the ch...

Future Models For The Creative Industry from 2018-11-30T05:31:15

Part 2 of our chat with Jules Ehrhardt, former co-owner of Ustwo and founder of Fktry, a creative capital studio. Jules talks about future models, bringing all of yourself to work and how we need t...

The Future Of The Creative Industry with Jules Ehrhardt from 2018-11-17T10:09:59

Jules Ehrhardt is obsessed. Obsessed about the future of our industry and changing the terms of business for the creative class. How do we stop creativity being seen as a commodity? Can we make equ...

What's Going On? from 2018-11-09T11:22:54

This episode, Andy's on his own. So this is the perfect opportunity to let you know what's been going on and what's coming up in Never Not Creative land. From some early insight into the results of...

Internships - could standardised programs be the answer? from 2018-11-04T01:55:11

This is part 2 of our chat with Dean Jacobson, a designer from Melbourne. We disagreed on the subject of whether all internships should be paid. In this episode we start to discuss whether there ar...

Internships and the benefit of hindsight from 2018-10-24T23:16:14

Episode 12 brings us back to internships. They’re such a great way to get a foot in the door, prove your worth and start a career. But, should they be paid? Is there a maximum duration? What’s a go...

What are we worth? And what should we be rewarding? from 2018-10-16T13:45:55

This final instalment of a discussion with Maggie Tang and Gabby Lord focuses on the value of creative work. How do you ensure that clients recognise the value you provide? How do you ensure that y...

The Future, Unicorns And The (Potential) Power Of Community from 2018-10-10T22:47:51

In part 2 of our chat with Gabby Lord and Maggie Tang, we get inspired by Gabby's tweets (@gabbylord_ if you're not following already). From the unachievable expectations of job ads, to the cost of...

Gender, Confidence and the Money Question from 2018-10-04T04:00:48

This is the first in a 3 part series of a conversation I had with Gabby Lord and Maggie Tang. Both are Aussie creatives in Berlin with significant opinions on the industry and ideas for solutions. ...

Real Talk - feelings, struggles and honesty from 2018-09-26T10:56:27

In the second half of our chat with Kitiya Palaskas, things get very real and very personal. Kit has started an initiative called the Real Talk Project (realtalkproject.net). It's a project to enco...

Burnout and Accountability with Kitiya Palaskas from 2018-09-19T13:47:17

In this episode, we chat with Melbourne creative Kitiya Palaskas about burnout, accountability and how to deal with social media. Check out more about Kit at http://www.kitiyapalaskas.com/ --- S...

Investigating unpaid internships with Mumbrella's Adam Thorn from 2018-09-08T22:46:04

Adam Thorn is a journalist for Australia's media, marketing and creative industry news site, Mumbrella. For the last few months he's been investigating unpaid internships in the media industry. He ...

The Creative Juggle from 2018-08-30T03:33:56

In this episode we interview Charl Laubscher, the founder of Love + Money. Charl has had a fascinating journey through creative agencies and used that experience to start up his own. Love + Money h...

NNC Mini - Mentally Healthy 2018 from 2018-08-23T13:23:31

A first "mini" episode recorded while walking to and from the Mumbrella Health Marketing Summit to launch our research study, Mentally Healthy 2018. Let us know if these mini episodes are a good id...

Vulnerability and the creative's struggle from 2018-08-21T23:15:26

In the last part of our discussion with Josie and Tina we tackle some personal experiences around some of the mental and emotional struggles of being a creative. Don’t forget to share and subscribe...

Internships and getting the right start in the industry from 2018-08-13T21:53:06

In part 2 of our chat with Josie and Tina we discuss are we giving people entering the creative industry the best possible start? Should interns be paid? If not, what does that mean for others who ...

Gender And Opportunity In The Creative Industry from 2018-08-07T06:10:41

We chat with Josie Young (Christopher Doyle & Co.) and Tina Victoria Afshar (Common State) about being a woman in the industry and what we can do to find better balance and inclusion. Big thanks to...

Welcome to Never Not Creative from 2018-07-29T22:34:43

An intro to the Never Not Creative podcast and what we're up to as a community for creatives. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message