Podcasts by Real Famous
Real Famous is a real life education in making brands that people want to talk about. We’re talking to leaders in creative industries to learn from their stories - how they got started, the challenges they overcame, the work that defined their careers and what drove them to become a success. We're brought to you by Plein Air, the agency that helps brands grow through connected, shareable and useful customer experiences.
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Catherine Heath Returns from 2023-12-08T22:22
Real Famous returns with a conversation with Catherine Heath. She recently left her role as the Head of Brand for Instagram. She is now on the board of the innovation consultancy Spikes and the ...
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Emily Heyward - Founder&Chief Brand Officer, Red Antler from 2020-06-04T10:00
This is a conversation with Emily Heyward. Emily is the co-founder and Chief Brand Officer at Red Antler. They have developed some of the biggest startup success ...
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Icaro Doria - Former CCO, Arnold, DDB from 2020-05-08T10:00
This is a conversation with Icaro Doria. Over his career, he’s been the Chief Creative Officer of Arnold and DDB. He was also the founding partner and CCO of Wied...
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John McNeil - Founder&CEO, John McNeil Studio from 2020-04-29T10:00
This is a conversation with John McNeil, the founder and CEO of John McNeil Studio. John held creative leadership roles at Hill Holiday and Ogilvy before becoming...
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Rob Schwartz - CEO, TBWA\CHIAT\DAY NY from 2020-04-23T14:53:56
This is a conversation with Rob Schwartz, the CEO of TBWA\CHIAT\DAY New York. Rob has been with the company for more than 20 years, including roles as Global Crea...
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Jonathan Schoenberg - ECD&Co-Owner, TDA Boulder from 2020-01-14T17:29:45
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Dianne Wilkins - Global CEO, Critical Mass from 2019-10-30T18:52:06
This is a conversation with Dianne Wilkins, the CEO of Critical Mass. Di has been with the company since 1998 when she left her previous career behind to take on ...
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Anselmo Ramos - Co-Founder of GUT, DAVID from 2019-10-15T13:56:21
This is a conversation with Anselmo Ramos. He is the Chief Creative Officer of global agency GUT, which he co-founded just over a year ago, He is also the co-foun...
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Eric Yang - Founder, Gear Patrol from 2019-07-09T13:48:32
This is a conversation with Eric Yang, the Founder and Editor in Chief of Gear Patrol. What started off as a hobby turned into a career as Eric built his blog int...
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Heather LeFevre - Author, Brain Surfing from 2019-06-19T09:00
This is a conversation with Heather LeFevre. She is a strategist and the author of the fantastic Brain Surfing the top strategy minds in the world. She has held s...
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Scott Trattner - Former VP, ECD at Facebook, ECD at Media Arts Lab from 2019-05-14T14:03:43
This is a conversation with Scott Trattner. Most recently, he was the VP and Executive Creative Director at Facebook. Before that, he spent years working at the M...
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S5E7 with Jon Steel from 2019-04-11T16:06:35
This is a conversation with Jon Steel. He is one of the most well-known and respected strategists in the history of advertising. He started his career at BMP, which is one of the agencies that p...
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S5E6 with Jayanta Jenkins from 2019-03-19T20:10:18
This is a conversation with Jayanta Jenkins. He’s held leadership roles including Global Executive Creative Director at Twitter, Global Creative Director at Beats by Dre, and Global C...
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S5E5 with Natalie Lam from 2019-02-27T14:12:56
This is a conversation with Natalie Lam. Most recently, she was Executive Creative Director at Google. Before that, she was the ECD at Razorfish, McAnn, OgilvyOne Asia, and a Creative...
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S5E4 with Tiffany Rolfe from 2019-02-05T14:51
This is a conversation with Tiffany Rolfe. Tiffany is the EVP, US Chief Creative Officer at RGA. Before that, she was a partner and Chief Creative Officer at Co:Collective and spent 1...
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S5E3 with Dave Burg from 2019-01-29T13:15:03
This is a conversation with Dave Burg. He is a co-founder of Shepherd, a strategic consultancy based in Austin, TX. Prior to launching his own agency, he held strategic leadership roles with RGA...
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S5E2 with Bud Caddell from 2019-01-16T11:00
This is a conversation with the Bud Caddell, the founder of NOBL. Bud was the SVP of Invention and Digital Strategy Director at Deutsch and the West Coast founder of Undercurrent. In 2014, he la...
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S5E1 with Alex Bogusky from 2019-01-08T16:54:57
This is a conversation with Alex Bogusky, Adweek’s Creative Director of the Decade and Chief Creative Engineer at Crispin, Porter, Bogusky. Alex was employee 16 at Crispin Porter, a company he a...
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S4E16 with Gareth Kay, Faris Yakob,&Rosie Yakob from 2018-09-13T10:00
On this season finale of Real Famous, we have a conversation with Rosie Yakob, Faris Yakob, and Gareth Kay. Rosie was a Senior Social Strategist at Cake, led social s...
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S4E15 with Chris Konya from 2018-09-05T20:28:09
This is a conversation with Chris Konya. Chris is the Co-head of NY for the Innovation and Brand Design studio Sylvain Labs. Chris started her career in the ad busine...
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S4E14 with Ben Jones from 2018-08-30T10:00
This is a conversation with Ben Jones, Global Creative Director and founder of Unskippable Labs at Google. Before joining Google, he was the EVP, Group Creative Direc...
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S4E13 with Justine Bloome from 2018-08-21T13:27:49
This is a conversation with Justine Bloome, the Chief Strategy Officer at Vaynermedia. Over her career, she’s spent time in publishing and the entertainment business,...
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S4E12 with Andrea Ring from 2018-08-14T13:21:17
This is a conversation with Andrea Ring. Andrea is the Chief Strategy Officer at Big Spaceship. They were MediaPost’s agency of the year in 2017 and their clients inc...
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S4E11 with Thas Naseemuddeen from 2018-08-08T00:59:09
This is a conversation with Thas Naseemuddeen. She is a Partner, Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Director at Omel...
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S4E10 with Rachel Mercer from 2018-07-31T09:30
This is a conversation with Rachel Mercer. She is the Executive Strategy Director at R/GA. Prior to that, she was the SVP, Head of Digital Strategy & Invention for De...
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S4E9 with David Polinchock from 2018-07-24T10:00
This is a conversation with David Polinchock. David is a pioneer in VR and the founder of the Experiential Advertising Group. Previously, he was the director of PWC’s...
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S4E8 with Tosh Hall from 2018-07-18T10:00
This is a conversation with Tosh Hall. He is the Global Executive Creative Director at Jones Knowles Ritchie. They are a brand design agency with offices in London, N...
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S4E7 with Catherine Heath from 2018-07-11T21:03:56
This is a conversation with Catherine Heath. She has been a strategist at M&C Saatchi and Y&R, Global Creative Planning Director on Red Bull for Kastner & Partners, S...
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S4E6 with Grant Owens from 2018-07-03T10:00
This is a conversation with Grant Owens, the Chief Strategy Officer at Critical Mass. They are a global experience design company with clients like GoDaddy, Rolex, AT...
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S4E5 with Jason Prohaska from 2018-06-26T02:51:16
This is a conversation with Jason Prohaska, the Managing Director of MediaMonks NY, which is the first international office outside of Europe for the global creative ...
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S4E4 with Tom Goodwin from 2018-06-19T12:10:02
This is a conversation with Tom Goodwin, the EVP and Head of innovation at Zenith. Over his career, he’s held roles at GSK, TBWA, Lowe, Huge, ...
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S4E3 with Virginia Wang from 2018-06-12T09:00
This is a conversation with Virginia Wang, Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at TBD, She has held strategy and insights roles at DDB NY, Goodby, MTV, EA, and Ideo...
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S4E2 with Mike Monello from 2018-06-05T08:00
This is a conversation with Mike Monello. Mike is one of the forefathers of Transmedia storytelling. He started his career in the film business and was one of the creators of the Blai...
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S4E1 with Noah Brier from 2018-05-29T18:46:56
This is a conversation with Noah Brier, co-founder of Percolate. Noah was a writer at American Demographics and Renegade Marketing. He became a strategist with Naked Communications and then buil...
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S3E10 with Rory Sutherland from 2018-02-28T01:59:42
This is a conversation with Rory Sutherland. Rory is the Vice Chairman of Ogilvy UK, the founder of their behavioral psychology arm, Ogilvy Change, a former President of the IPA and f...
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S3E9 with Paul Feldwick from 2018-02-06T14:49:50
This is a conversation with a great in our industry, Paul Feldwick. He started his career at BMP in 1974 and rose up the ranks to become the Worldwide Brand Planning Director for DDB....
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S3E8 with David Armano from 2018-01-25T21:36:56
This is a conversation with David Armano, the Global Strategy Director of Edelman. David was part of the founding team at the Dachis Group, the VP of Experience Design at Critical Mas...
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S3E7 with Kara Goldin from 2018-01-18T14:21:23
This is a conversation with Kara Goldin, the founder of Hint Water. Kara was a technology executive at AOL before she got into the beverage business. She was named one of Fortune’s Mo...
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S3E6 with Mark Earls from 2018-01-08T20:59:55
This is a conversation with Mark Earls, an author and brand pioneer. Mark was the Head of Planning at Bates Dorland and St. Luke’s Communications before becoming the Executive Plannin...
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S3E5 with Rob Campbell from 2017-12-19T01:54:37
This is a conversation with Rob Campbell, the Chief Strategy Officer and a Partner at Deutsch. Rob founded two agencies, was the regional head of planning at Y&R Asia, and the head of...
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S3E4 with Elise Mitchell from 2017-12-12T23:42:04
This is a conversation with Elise Mitchell, the Founder and CEO of Mitchell Communications, the CEO of the Dentsu Aegis PR network, and the President of the International Communicati...
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S3E3 with Bill Macaitis from 2017-12-05T02:01:51
The is a conversation with Bill Macaitis, a true technology luminary. Most recently, he was a board member and CMO of Slack. Before that, he was the CMO of Zendesk, t...
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S3E2 with Chris Riley from 2017-11-28T01:04:04
This is a conversation with a true giant of our industry, Chris Riley. He was the first strategist hired at Wieden and Kennedy in 1991 and was a part of the leadershi...
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S3E1 with Richard Huntington from 2017-11-16T13:36:51
This is a conversation with Richard Huntington. Richard is the Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer at Saatchi & Saatchi London. Before that, he held strategic leaders...
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S2 BONUS with Stefan Sagmeister from 2017-07-25T02:38:20
This is a conversation with Stefan Sagmeister. Stefan is the founder of the New York design studio Sagmeister & Walsh. He has collaborated with the likes of the Talking Heads, Aerosmith, the Rol...
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S2E14 with Adrian Ho from 2017-07-05T20:56:14
Welcome to the Season 2 Finale! This is a conversation the co-founder of Zeus Jones, Adrian Ho. Adrian started his career in the mailroom at Lord, Denstu & Partners before working his way into p...
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S2E13 with Charlie McKittrick from 2017-06-27T02:24:22
This is a conversation with Charlie McKittrick, Chief Strategy Officer at Mother New York. Charlie worked in the film business and built a design studio before going back to get his MBA in finan...
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S2E12 with Grey Montgomery from 2017-06-20T21:04:50
This is a conversation with Grey Montgomery. Grey grew up in his family’s newspaper business before taking on new product development and leading strategic planning for Gannett. From there, he l...
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S2E11 with Martin Weigel from 2017-05-24T01:56:20
This is a conversation with Martin Weigel. Martin was the Global Planning Director at JWT and the Planning Director for Leo Burnett before taking on his current role as the Head of Planning at W...
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S2E10 with Kelly Nyland from 2017-05-17T21:56:15
This is a conversation with the head of marketing for Spectacles by Snapchat, Kelly Nyland. Kelly has spent her career educating consumers about new technologies including leadership roles for P...
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S2E9 with Scott Carlson from 2017-05-10T02:26:35
This is a conversation with Scott Carlson. Scott has had an amazing career leading teams at some of the most creative shops in the business including Deutsch, Chiat, dRush, the Love Collective a...
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S2E8 with Russell Davies from 2017-05-05T04:38:47
This is a conversation with one of the godfathers of planning on the internet, Russell Davies. Russell has had a massive career including leadership roles at Leo Burnett, Wieden + Kennedy, Nike,...
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Mel Exon Snack EP 0.1 from 2017-04-25T01:47:09
This is a Real Famous Snack. New episodes will be returning shortly, but we'll start with a shortened version of the Mel Exon episode. Mel is the CEO of the Sunshine Company. When we recorded, s...
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S2E7 with Seth Gaffney from 2017-02-14T18:06:33
This is a conversation with Seth Gaffney. He made his way up the ranks as a planner at Fallon and Wieden and Kennedy NY before becoming the co-head of strategy at Mother. In 2014, he became the co-...
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S2E6 with Ann Handley from 2017-02-07T04:22:32
This is a conversation with Ann Handley. She co-founded Click Z before becoming the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and the WSJ best-selling author of Content Rules and Everybody Writes. En...
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S2E5 with Scott Goodson from 2017-01-31T02:25:25
Scott Goodson is Founder and Chairman of the global agency, Strawberry Frog. Their clients include Emirates Airlines, Jim Beam and Sun Trust. Previous to that, he was the Executive Creative Directo...
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S2E4 with Rohit Bhargava from 2017-01-23T22:38:11
This is a conversation with Rohit Bhargava. He is formerly the SVP of Global Strategy and Planning at Ogilvy, the best selling author of Non-Obvious and Personality Not Included and the founder of ...
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S2E3 with Louis Black from 2017-01-17T02:39:37
Louis Black is the co-founder and editor of the Austin Chronicle, a co-founder of SXSW and Toronto’s North by Northeast, an executive producer of a documentary on Townes Van Zandt, a co-director of...
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S2E2 with Charlene Li from 2017-01-10T02:55:06
This is a conversation with Charlene Li. Charlene is the founder of Altimeter and the NYT and WSJ best-selling author of Groundswell, Open Leadership and the Engaged Leader.
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S2E1 with Jules Ehrhardt from 2017-01-04T15:55:57
This is a conversation with Jules Ehrhardt. Jules is a co-owner of ustwo, one of the most creative digital studios in the world with clients like Google, Adidas and Ford, and their own products lik...
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S1E12 with Faris Yakob from 2016-10-04T14:23:16
This is a conversation with Faris Yakob. Faris was named one of 10 modern day mad men by Fast Company and one of the top 53 creatives in the world by the Clio Awards. He has been the Chief Technolo...
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S1E11 with Ryan Porter from 2016-09-28T17:37:48
This is a conversation with Ryan Porter. He has dedicated his life to helping people answer the question, what should I do with my life? After dropping out of college and moving to Japan, he became...
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S1E10 with Ray White from 2016-09-20T18:08:28
This is a conversation with Ray White. Ray has made a career of growing businesses from little revenue to hundreds of millions, from Superpages.com to his time as COO of Range Online Media, then Ch...
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S1E9 with Saul Colt from 2016-09-15T15:57:20
This is a conversation with Saul Colt. He was an early employee at Freshbooks, the first international employee at Zipcar and speaks at conferences across the globe. We talked about his career sell...
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S1E8 with Marty Neumeier from 2016-08-30T18:54:58
This is a conversation with Marty Neumeier, author of the Brand Gap, the Brand Flip and Meta Skills among others. He founded the Silicon Valley branding agency Neutron before merging with the Liqui...
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S1E7 with Gareth Kay from 2016-08-23T13:54:36
This is a conversation with Gareth Kay. He was the Chief Strategy Officer at Goodby Silverstein and Partners before founding Chapter SF. They are a new style of creative agency, bringing together p...
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S1E6 with Will Schafer from 2016-08-16T14:21:50
This is a conversation with Will Schafer, the Director of Marketing at Beyond Meat. They are easily one of the most innovative food producers around today with backers including Biz Stone and Bill ...
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S1E5 with Richard Leslie from 2016-08-09T14:15:19
This is a conversation with Richard Leslie, founder of Trend Influence, which he sold to MDC Partners, a founding partner of Culture, and now the Chief Strategy Officer at BFG Communications. We ta...
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S1E4 with Clay Jones from 2016-08-04T17:48:56
Clay Jones, a co-founder of August, joins us to talk talent, digital and the path that led him to focus 100% on the future of work. aug.co itspleinair.com
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S1E3 with Jordan Herald and Leigh Himel from 2016-07-26T20:39:58
This is a conversation with Jordan Herald and Leigh Himel, the Co-CEO's of Toronto hot shop Gravity Partners. We talk about talent, crafting a career and what it's like to share the CEO title.
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S1E2 with Mel Exon from 2016-07-19T13:26
A conversation with Mel Exon, the CEO of the Sunshine Company and Co-founder of BBH Labs, about her dream of becoming a spy, talent and how Labs came to be. twitter.com/melex thesunshinecompany.com...
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S1E1 with Mitch Joel from 2016-07-11T14:26:33
A conversation with Mitch Joel, the President of Mirum Global, about squiggly careers and staying on top of change.
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