Dec 2021

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 failure at the individual level.

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Dec 2021

We kick off our first episode with David Beare, Executive Creative Director of Dragon Rouge London, and Ve Dewey Never Not Creative’s Co-creator

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Dec 2021

The final episode of our Creativity & Football mini-series welcomes ECD Simon Lee from Australia’s, The Hallway. Simon shares his personal journey as well as the story behind the recently launched mental health campaign, Boys Do Cry.

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Dec 2021

The fourth episode of our Creativity & Football mini-series welcomes Lettering Artist Stefan Kunz from Switzerland. Stefan shares, doing your best and keeping talking.

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Nov 2021

The third episode of our Creativity & Football mini-series welcomes ECD Craig Elimeliah from VMLY&R in New Work. Craig talks creative culture, awards and his own journey with mental health.

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Nov 2021

The second episode of our Creativity & Football mini-series welcomes Dr. Zac Seidler from Movember to chat about all things men’s mental health.

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Oct 2021

A new podcast mini-series dedicated to creativity and football (sshh. code for men’s mental health). First episode with Pete Brennan from Heaps Normal and Electric & Analog.

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Sep 2021

Asher Oliver has never given up in forging his career as an animator. He talks to Andy about opening doors and always learning.

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Sep 2021

Blair Enns (author of Win Without Pitching and Pricing Creativity) joins Andy to discuss the challenges that creatives have when it comes to business.

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Aug 2021

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

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Aug 2021

Andy and Sarah discuss the Never Not International Women’s Day talks by Tanarra Schneider and Andy Polaine.

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Jun 2021

Jane Duru and Sumita Maharaj join Andy and Sarah to discuss their talk for Never Not International Women’s Day.

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Apr 2021

Daniele Fiandaca and Deborah-Rey-Burns discuss what it will take to improve our working and societal cultures to become more inclusive. Time for the men to standup and be counted.

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Mar 2021

Ve Dewey, Andy Wright and Prue Jones discuss why it should be Never Not International Women’s Day and the inspiration behind the latest Never Not Creative initiative.

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Jan 2021

A throwback to one of our most successful Asking For A Friend events. Dr Sally Fitzpatrick is joined by author, Alex Wadelton to tackle how to discuss working hours with your boss and how to find meaning and purpose in your work.

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Dec 2020

We interview Victoria Davies from Newance about the traits we need to see in good leaders and how to figure out who you want to be.

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Oct 2020

We interview Trevor Hubbard from Butchershop on the importance of clarity in anything creative. From business to people and preparing for a pandemic.

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Sep 2020

We interview White Bear Founder, Kelly Mackenzie on creating community and achievement as a woman in the creative industry.

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Aug 2020

An interview with Future London Academy Founder, Ekaterina Solomeina. We discuss the future of education, career development and allowing diversity to thrive at work.

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Aug 2020

Why is the creative industry so obsessed with side hustles? There’s so much pressure to have one, it’s almost an expectation and it’s being added as a criterion to job ads. Brooke Strozdas joins us to say why we might be a little too obsessed!

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Aug 2020

What’s the future of work look like? How do I cope when I already feel like I’m at a disadvantage? How do we build resilience? All the answers and more with Prue Jones and Dr Zac Seidler.

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Jul 2020

Asking For A Friend returns with Creative Director, Jess Lilley and Psychologist, Aileen Alegado. We cover ageism, survivor’s guilt and when’s the right time to ask for a payrise.

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May 2020

When we stumbled across Creative Confessions in our insta feed, we sensed an immediate familiarity. Veronica Mike and Josh Schneider are on a mission to improve the stigma surrounding mental health in the creative industry.

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May 2020

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, Peter is Andrew's accountant.

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Apr 2020

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 allow anyone anywhere to “ask for a friend”, to an industry leader, and a psychologist, anonymously, and online.

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Apr 2020

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 strategic advice on how to tackle mental health at work.

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Apr 2020

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. Sarah and Andy talk to Sean about his business Energx, work with teams and the Mentally-Healthy Change Group.

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Feb 2020

In our first episode of Season 3 we go behind the scenes of the Mentally-Healthy survey with Nina Nyman, co-chair of the Mentally-Healthy Change Group and Chris Freel, CEO of Unltd.

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Dec 2019

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. We discussed how to cope with mental health challenges at work, for those experiencing and wanting to help others.

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Nov 2019

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 expertise as a mental health nurse to our conversation about mental health and the life of a creative.

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Oct 2019

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 our conversation and inevitably, the benefits that a more diverse team can bring to the perspective and solutions for a project.

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Oct 2019

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 their students and local businesses.

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Sep 2019

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 better job of looking after it.

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Aug 2019

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 Honest.

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Aug 2019

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 education and career as he realised that he didn’t have the time / money to be able to commit to hiring interns. Almost a year in and Chris joins us with Wilson Leung, the first participant in the program and now full time employee of Christopher Doyle & Co.

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Jul 2019

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?

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Jul 2019

Australian Design Radio and Never Not Creative hosts Matt Leach and Andy Wright found themselves in Brisbane together at The Design Conference.

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Jun 2019

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-development.

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May 2019

This episode was sparked by a tweet. It was followed by a series of examples and stories that people had shared through the Never Not Creative community.

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May 2019

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?

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Apr 2019

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) join Andy and Sarah to discuss what it's like to make the decision to go in-house as a creative.

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Apr 2019

This episode Andy and Sarah discuss a recent Never Not Creative event – The Future Of Internships.

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Mar 2019

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.

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Feb 2019

To kick off season 2, we review the best of season 1.

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Dec 2018

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.

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Dec 2018

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.

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Nov 2018

Part 2 of our chat with Jules Ehrhardt, former co-owner of Ustwo and founder of Fktry, a creative capital studio.

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Nov 2018

How do we stop creativity being seen as a commodity? Can we make equity for expertise a reality? What does a new creative economy look like?

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Nov 2018

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.

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Oct 2018

This is the first in a 3 part series of a conversation I had with Gabby Lord and Maggie Tang.

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Oct 2018

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?

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Oct 2018

This final instalment of a discussion with Maggie Tang and Gabby Lord focuses on the value of creative work.

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Oct 2018

In part 2 of our chat with Gabby Lord and Maggie Tang, we get inspired by Gabby's tweets

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Sep 2018

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.

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Sep 2018

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.

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Sep 2018

In the second half of our chat with Kitiya Palaskas, things get very real and very personal.

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Sep 2018

In this episode, we chat with Melbourne creative Kitiya Palaskas about burnout, accountability and how to deal with social media.

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Aug 2018

In this episode we interview Charl Laubscher, the founder of Love + Money.

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Aug 2018

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.

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Aug 2018

In part 2 of our chat with Josie and Tina we discuss are we giving people entering the creative industry the best possible start?

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Aug 2018

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.

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Jul 2018

An intro to the Never Not Creative podcast and what we're up to as a community for creatives.

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