Real Famous

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 IMG. Enjoy!

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 Richard Linklater, Dream is Destiny and an original board member of the Austin Film Society.

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.

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 like Dice and Apple game of the year Monument Valley. Enjoy!

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 Technology Strategist at McCann and the Chief Innovation Officer at MDC Partners. In 2015, he published his first book, Paid Attention and now runs his own consultancy called Genius Steals. Enjoy!

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 a motivational speaker, and has now spoken to over 900,000 students across the world. He is the author of ‘Make Your Own Lunch’ and founder of Raise Your Flag, a company that’s reinventing the way people build their careers. Enjoy!

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 Chief Performance Officer at Dentsu companies iProspect and Reinvention. He is now the CMO of ICUC and the author of the Amazon #1 best selling book Connecting Happiness and Success.

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 selling boxes, accounting software and comics by creating more human experiences for the customers who bought them.

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 Liquid Agency. He now serves as their Director of Transformation.

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 product design and brand communications. We talked about the path that led him to advertising, the rush of working at creative powerhouses, and what it’s like to build an agency that doesn’t really do advertising anymore.

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 Gates. We talked about what he learned from working in CPG, how he got to Beyond Meat, and how they got the new plant-based Beyond Burger into the meat section at Whole Foods.

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 talked about the the path that led him to advertising and what it's like to build and sell an agency.

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

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.

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 bartleboglehegarty.com bbh-labs.com itspleinair.com

A conversation with Mitch Joel, the President of Mirum Global, about squiggly careers and staying on top of change.