Season 1

Tescia Deák is a Creative Director at the storied Los Angeles agency, Chiat/Day. Her portfolio is full of brilliant, purpose-driven work that would make the most cynical creative at Weiden & Kennedy envious. Like a widget tha...

Episode 20 is a special chapter in the story of the Bad Pod. We speak with Sean Conejos, ACD/CW at FCB and Brian's new boss. He tells us how his pre-law undergrad led him to advertising, his parent's roles in …

Episode 19 starts with some ~personal news~ from Amelia & Brian and features digital nomad and creative recruiter at We Are Rosie, Joe Cole. He joins us from some pretty great parking lot wifi in British Columbia. He gives us...

Zoe Scaman is the founder of strategy studio Bodacious and co-founder of MCX, an experiment engine reinventing entertainment and basketball with Mark Cuban. A self-described swiss army knife, she has honed her expertise acros...

Today, we are talking with Steve Bayley, a Chicago-based strategist - our first strategist on The Bad Podcast! - at TEN35. Steve's journey into advertising has been both commonly circuitous and completely unique. It was driv...

Andy Pearson can outrun you. You might be faster, at first. But somewhere between mile one and 100, this McKinney Group Creative Director and avid ultra-runner is going to pass you. And while his infiltration into the world o...

We'll be right bad! Hear the details of our downtime, how Amelia's portfolio school experience has been going, our lukewarm takes on the marvel/dc universe, and a little shmandemic delirium in today's (and I mean this in the ...

Nakita Pope is a branding expert. She is both the Design Chair and Diversity & Inclusion Advisor at the Creative Circus, founder of Branding Chicks, and most recently co-founder of the Bella Boss Box, a quarterly subscription...

Ike Peters is not only our 11th guest on the bad podcast, he’s one of Brian’s favorite musicians. He’s a Senior Copywriter at CJRW in Little Rock and is father to two boys and a brand new baby girl. He …

Jessie Kernan is a strategist, storyteller, change agent, innovator, cultivator of talent, champion of equality and diversity, thought leader, systems thinker, business builder, boss mom, world traveler, and data geek who is ...

Mary Buzbee is a badass. More specifically, she is a multidisciplinary creative badass from Alabama who got her agency start at Lewis Communications in Birmingham. She and her creative partner, Lauren, have forged an amazing ...

Affectionately known by on Advertising Twitter, as “Ad Daddy,” David Griner is the international creative and innovation editor at Adweek and host of Adweek's podcast, "Yeah, That's Probably an Ad." He's been covering agencie...

Brooke Strozdas is a copywriter and strategist whose side hustle is telling an industry defined by overwork to take its unhealthy status quo and shove it. After circumventing portfolio school with an internship at Grey Group...

Dan Nelken is a Creative Director and Copywriter that has worked for some of the most creative ad agencies in Canada, some of the world's largest brands, and for start-ups who have collectively gone on to raise billions. Afte...

Samantha Geloso's spoof of a spot, "Hey, We're a Brand" [https://vimeo.com/430779998] gave us all some much needed reprieve from the seriously shitty start to 2020. This episode might do the same. We talked to this hilarious ...

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Throughout what's proved to be a very unique 20 year career consulting for both agencies, brands and even the government, Justin has been called a lot of names: The Sherlock of Strategy. The Barnum of Branding. The Copernicus...