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Today we have TikTok influencer and apologist BigJonSteel on to share his testimony and help us understand how Christian's can overcome depression and anxiety. BigJonSteel also does a lot of YouTube and TikTok lives where he defends the faith against live challenges! Find him on YouTube: https://youtube.com/channel/UCbzKGqM0UJZptpxq_zCqGXg TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bigjonsteel?lang=en&is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=mobile&sender_web_id=7139925683203589678 Instagram: https://instagram.com/bigjonsteel?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Got any questions or topics you'd like to hear about? You can email us at thingsyoudonthearinchurchpod@gmail.com Like our content? Consider helping us grow through Patreon, a follow, or subscribe! Leave a rating on whatever platform you listen on and write some nice comments YOUTUBE here PATREON here INSTAGRAM: www.instagram.com/ thingsyoudonthearinchurchpod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thingsyoudonthearinchurch/support
Bonnie Wan has been working at Goodby since 1998. In 2022, she was named Advertising Age/Creativity Chief Strategy Officer of the Year.She started her career at Weiss, Whitten, and Stagliano in NY before becoming Adam Morgan's first hire at TBWA Chiat Day LA followed by stints at FCB and Hal Riney before joining GSP to work with Jon Steel. In the conversation, we talk about the shifts and changes in the strategy discipline with leaders moving from gurus to guides. Higher stakes for clients and a wider remit in terms of media expansion. She describes her approach to strategy is to work and think as a "team"- "it's not about being the smartest person in the room", but "making the whole room smart" and that requires a spirit of generosity. The department culture is key for Bonnie- it's all about her bench and her team and making alchemy happen between the members of the team. When it comes to philosophy around the process of strategy, she highlights the need for always-on, constant monitoring of culture and of consumers and the practice of always asking the smartest questions to ensure you arrive at a really interesting place. Bonnie talks about her development of "Brand Camp" which is a 6-week strategy sprint that gets clients to an "organizing idea" and involves workshops with GSP strategists and the client C-Suites. This has served to bring new non-advertising clients to the agency and codified in detail the strategic process. For emerging talent- she's created a 15-week training camp that teaches the fundamentals of Strategy.We also talk about her upcoming book- "The Life Brief" - where she applies the strategic thinking and framing used for brands to life. Which is something she applied successfully in her life, Bonnie has just signed a book deal with Simon and Schuster .
Episode 36 of the Off the Wall Hockey Show.Season Prediction Show!!Jon & Steel make their predictions on how each Eastern and Western conference teams are going to finish and who is going to be making the playoffs this year and who is getting the Lottery Balls in the draft!A Hockey Show for Hockey Fans, we talk all things NHL so join us as we get you all up to speed on what is going on in the NHL!Follow Off the Wall Hockey on Twitter - @offthewallhockFollow SteelFlyers on Twitter - @Steelflyers52Get all your Great Off the Wall Hockey Shows here!!https://steelflyers.com/links/off-the-wall-hockey/
We’ve taken cover in the jungle and laid bait of some intriguing research in the wild to snare planner, pattern spotter and people watcher, Sarah Benson, this week. Currently a Senior Planner at adam&eveDDB, Sarah is an exceptionally talented strategic mind with 12 years’ experience making telly ads, creating brands and finding out what people really think. She chats to us on being fired from her first job at IKEA, tackling industry biases, why planners should pay attention to the mundane, pattern spotting, research in the wild, cracking on, hard pants and lots more. Plus, a bonus pitch story of power, corruption and blueberry cheesecake. ///// Follow Sarah on Twitter Sarah proudly dedicates this episode to @izzihays, give them a follow too Check out her film recommendation The Florida Project Sarah’s book recommendations are: The Optimists Telescope by Bina Venkataraman Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino Perfect Pitch by Jon Steel /////
Amelia is one of England's sharpest strategic minds. Inspired to join the ad business by a personal response from a letter she wrote to Sir Martin Sorrell.She joined the WPP fellowship program and worked directly with Jon Steel and from there built an amazing resume of experience including stints at Naked, TBWA, and VCCP where she was part of the team that won the ad account for the 2012 London Olympics. Today, she is the co-founder of the Fawnbrake collective- a network of strategic thinkers that are deployed on teams to work on client projects. In this episode, we cover her career trajectory and the evolution of strategy from a discipline that mainly existed inside of agencies to one that is now thriving outside of its traditional confines. This is the world of Fawnbrake, a world where everything and everyone is a brand and they all need strategic thinking even if they do no advertising.
In this episode, I will highlight some of the useful life tips I’ve picked up from various books over the years. Here are 11 quotes that capture the tips: Demote the importance of email. Your inbox is other people’s priorities (Craig Jarrow, Time Management Ninja) To make networking successful, follow up is everything (Jayson Gaignard, MastemindTalks). Scaling requires grinding it out and pressing each person, team, group, division or organization to make one small change after another (Robert Sutton, Hayagreeva Rao, “Scaling Up Excellence”) . Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do (Dale Carnegie, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”) Unless you give at least forty-five minutes to careful, fatiguing reflection (it is an awful bore at first) upon what you are reading, your ninety minutes a night [of reading] are chiefly wasted (Arnold Bennett, “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day”). The acid test for creativity is simply stated: has the domain in which you operate been significantly altered by your contribution? (Howard Gardner, “Five Minds for the Future”) Keeping things “just in case” indicates a lack of trust in the future…Good things cannot easily come into your life if you block the flow of energy by persistently clinging to outdated clutter (Karen Kingston, “Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui”) Judging is what the mind does, I discovered. But what you can begin to do is write your judgments down and question them. That will give you a sane and happy life (Byron Katie, “Who Would You Be Without Your Story”). Great presenters have the ability to tell you something you already know, in a way that gives it new and more powerful meaning (Jon Steel, “Perfect Pitch: The Art of Selling Ideas and Winning New Business”). What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do (Timothy Ferriss, “The 4-Hour Work Week”). “Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think” (Patrick Lencioni, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”). Hope you find this helpful. You can subscribe to my podcast on iTunes, Stitcher, Overcast, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Just search for “Deep See With Bilal”. Also make sure to rate and review this podcast and enjoy! Bilal
Steve reached out a couple of months ago with an interest to be on the podcast, he seemed like he was up to a lot of interesting things so we organized meeting up for chat. We ended up unexpectedly talking about rap and hip hop, Steve's circuitous journey to becoming a planner working in advertising and marketing, his involvement with soccer, the non-league he launched, and many other fascinating stories. Steve is a compelling proof that a planner can come from all sorts of different background and succeed in the creative communications industry and it was a delightful conversation, I hope you enjoy it as well. "If you have a vision, stick with it. Just pursue that vision and don't put so much stock in the maxims you get from industry luminaries, because I took that Jon Steel thing of 'Be interesting and be interested' to so much heart that it probably added years on to my circuitous journey." Steve on breaking into the advertising industry as a planner. Thank you to the True Star Foundation in Chicago who let us borrow a room in their facility to record this conversation, we talk about it during the podcast, it's a fantastic program supporting Chicago youth in gaining media and marketing experience through a range of after school courses, activities, programs, and job internships. Mentioned in this episode: Steve Bayley on Twitter and Linkedin Non League America Truth, Lies, and Advertising, by Jon Steel University South Carolina, Greensboro Master P G Camp Hair bands Poison Cinderella Britney Fox Bullet Boys Bobby Brown The Chronic Dr Dre Eminem VCU Brand Center Miami Ad School Beasley Broadcast Group Clear Channel BBH Stratfest BBDO Atlanta Matlock Agency Atlanta Non League Soccer Fox Soccer Channel Torquay FA Cup US Open Cup Ground Hopper Culture Deep in the Pyramid Detroit City FC Creata McDonald's Happy Meal True Star Foundation Chicago Adcolor Leo Burnett Moleskine The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind
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 pioneered the concept of account planning. He became the first head of planning for Goodby back when they were 30 people and eventually took on the role of partner and Vice Chairman. He spent the rest of his career with WPP as Global Planning Director. He also led the WPP Fellowship, an elite global graduate recruitment and training program that was designed to create future leaders for the company. In 1998, he wrote one of the bibles of account planning, Truth, Lies and Advertising, and he followed up with Perfect Pitch, the art of selling ideas and winning new business, in 2006. Enjoy!
In this episode, I talked with Douglas Davis, creative strategist, the author of Creative Strategy and Business of Design and he is also the principal of The Davis Group LLC. We talked about his book, getting the right strategy behind your products, how to write a good strategy and what should you take into account when creating products or solving problems for your consumers. His work experience and previous clients include ABN·AMRO Bank, Council for Economic Education, The Economist, HSBC, Tribal DDB, JWT, Deutsch and many others. Book references during this episode include Hey Whipple Squeeze This by Luke Sullivan, Truth Lies, and Advertising by Jon Steel and Juicing the Orange by Pat Fallon His book can be bought on Amazon: https://goo.gl/2iAsfG You can also listen to this episode on iTunes: https://goo.gl/2cyAgu Soundcloud: https://goo.gl/gByB8P About Laroche: https://www.laroche.co/ ------- Laroche.fm is a podcast hosted by Eugeniu Esanu, the founder and creative director of Laroche.co, a design agency from Amsterdam. We are on a journey of learning from different experts and industry leaders who share their expertise and knowledge. ------- Music: https://soundcloud.com/itsnglmusic
In this interview, Jon Steel breaks down the whole pitching process and what things should be avoided at all costs when preparing. We also talk about distractions and working in teams.