Podcasts about never not creative

Listen to Carol Mackay sharing her take on the latest design industry report by Up To The Light: What Clients Think 2025. We explore: • The impact and opportunity of AI for designers • The changing tech landscape in design • What clients want from designers from pitch to presentation   About Carol Mackay: Carol is the co-founder of Design Business Council and design studio Mackay Branson. She is also a leading and active advocate for Australia's design community. As well as leading DBA, a business advisory focused on the business of design, Carol has mentored through AGDA, Womentor and The Aunties. She sits on the board of Never Not Creative, a non-profit dedicated to improving the mental wellbeing of people working in creative businesses. Connect with Carol on Instagram Design Business Council Website What Clients Think 2025 Article   Want to connect with Bec? Check out The Brand Method Find me on Instagram

Send us a text“You just got to put the supports in place and show them why they're doing something and give them a reason for being, rather than just, you know, hey, here's a task. Get that done, and then I'll give your next one. We want stuff at work that feels rewarding and that shows that we are progressing in our work. And that, to be honest, is just being a good manager, being a professional business, showing people their pathways through your company. If you can do that, you'll improve mental health much better than yoga on a Thursday, meditation Monday morning, and some healthy fruit and snacks in the fridge.”  Andy WrightThis week's themeAndy Wright, the visionary CEO of Streamtime and founder of Never Not Creative, who is on a mission to revolutionise the way we think about mental well-being in our work environments.Andy Wright brings a wealth of experience and an innovative mindset to the table, revealing how he's tackled pressing issues like anxiety and depression within the creative sector.Tune in to this episode for actionable insights and inspiring strategies to transform mental health practices in your creative workspace.In this episode you'll hear about:Deciding focus and project attractionEnsuring action and impact in initiativesMental health experiences influencing methodViews on supporting graduates and internshipsDesign of work and its effects on mental healthStrategies for workplace mental health improvementEffective business approaches to mental healthManaging constant change and uncertaintyMethods for creating lasting changeKey linksAndy Wright LinkedIn Never Not Creative Website Creative Mornings where Andy gave a talk on mental healthEverymindAnxious Achiever PodcastStreamtimeInterbrand LandorR/GANever Not Finishing School Allies and Never Not CreativeHBR Article - the concept of the "ideal worker" and its impact on personal identity About our guest Andy is an experienced leader in the creative industry with a successful track record of business growth, and creating award winning innovative brands and products. Andy is the creator of Never Not Creative.Currently, CEO of Streamtime, project management software for the creative industry, Andy previously co-founded creative agency For The People, and worked in leadership positions at Interbrand, Landor and R/GA. Passionate about improving outcomes for emerging talent, mental health and recognising the value of creativity he founded Never Not Creative in 2018.For weekly updates and to hear about the latest episodes, please subscribe to The Company Road Podcast at https://companyroad.co/podcast/

In this conversation, Nick chats to Andy Wright, CEO of project management software, Streamtime. Andy shares his journey from aspiring journalist to a career in Marketing and Branding, and how his passion for mental health advocacy was sparked by his own experience with anxiety and depression. Andy chats about his involvement with Never Not Creative and Mentally-Healthy two organisations focused on mental health and suicide prevention, which revealed the prevalence of anxiety, depression, and stress in the creative marketing industry. The discussion delves into the importance of transitioning from hourly billing to value-based pricing, Streamtime's transformation into a company striving to create happier, healthier businesses, flexible work arrangements, and the significance of celebrating individuality in the workplace.

Our last episode on positivity (as part of Adobe MAX 2021) has Sumita and Matt talking with Ve Dewey in London about how she's remained positive in her squiggly-line career. Ve has worked for Adobe, Mattel, ReDesign Business and most recently as co-creator for Never Not Creative. In this discussion we look at how she ended up in London, being a ‘servant-leader' and how the design industry still needs to grow up. As always, a big thank you to Streamtime, our supporting partner, always finding ways to give back to the Australian design industry. Please give them a try at streamtime.net Links Ve's website: https://www.vedewey.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vandewcandew/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/vandewcandew Articles and podcasts by Ve: https://nevernotcreative.org/posts/tag/Ve+Dewey Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/australian-design-radio/message

The final episode of our Creativity and Football mini-series rounds out with The Hallway's ECD Simon Lee. Simon has lived experience with the ups and downs of mental health, but has also been working closely with mental health charity, Gotcha4Life for the last 3 years. The result of this work is the quite excellent Boys Do Cry campaign – a clever take on The Cure's "Boys Don't Cry" from 1979. It's a powerful piece bringing together 30 men from all walks of life to unite in tackling the stigma of mental health – especially relating to men. Andy and Simon discuss the rules of masculinity, the stiff upper lip and the power and relief that comes from opening up. You can find out more about the campaign at: Boys Do Cry. Thanks to Endel.io for background music. Check them out for one month free. Support from Streamtime always appreciated and for joining us on the fight for a healthier creative industry. Check out what's happening at Never Not Creative and last chance to take the empathy survey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

Welcome to a Never Not Creative podcast mini-series. Creativity and Football. We're talking to men about creativity, football and... who are we kidding? This is an essential listen. A mini-series dedicated to the topic of men's mental health in our industry. We kick-off our first episode with Pete Brennan. Co-founder of Heaps Normal, Electric & Analog and lucky for us, sharer of stories and experiences about his own journey with mental health. We're publishing this series because its almost guaranteed that whenever we run something around mental health – we'll see max 10% of males as part of the audience. It's time to chat fellas (and everyone of course, but especially the men). The more open you are, the more honest you are and the more you realise that more than half of this world is feeling something similar, the more we can all help each other. Thank you to Pete for sharing, talking and helping others realise it's good to talk and get to know yourself. Find out more about Pete, Heaps Normal and Electric and Analog below. Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterbrennan/?originalSubdomain=au Heaps Normal - https://heapsnormal.com/ Electric & Analog - https://www.eanda.cc/ Thanks to Streamtime - https://streamtime.net --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

Follow Never Not Creative on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook!Follow us on Instagram and on Twitter!Created by SOUR, this podcast is part of the studio's "Future of X,Y,Z" research, where the collaborative discussion outcomes serve as the base for the futuristic concepts built in line with the studio's mission of solving urban, social and environmental problems through intelligent designs.Make sure to visit our website - podcast.whatswrongwith.xyz- and subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Google Podcasts so you never miss an episode. If you found value in this show, we would appreciate it if you could head over to iTunes to rate and leave a review – or you can simply tell your friends about the show!Don’t forget to join us next week for another episode. Thank you for listening!

Jane Duru (Verbal Design Director, R/GA) and Sumita Maharaj (Associate Design Director, Re:) join Sarah and Andy to discuss their recent submission to Never Not International Women's Day. From having to bring a 6-pack to a meeting to get a seat at the table and a constant need to over-prove themselves Jane and Sumi share their stories and experiences from the world of advertising and design. You can watch their talk at Never Not International Women's Day. More at Never Not Creative. Thanks to Streamtime. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

International Women’s Day 2021 has passed. But this year, we're not going back to business as usual. As far as we're concerned, it will always be Never Not International Women’s Day until all women including women of colour, women with disabilities, and queer or trans women, stop being penalised for being women. This new season of the podcast highlights our Never Not International Women's Day initiative. A mind-changing, bias-ridding, downright mutinous loop of ideas and musings from women in the creative and associated industries everywhere that will run 24/7/365 on a loop forever, or until...we don’t need to talk about it anymore. We thought it was important to share our motivations and hopes for what this platform can become and how the world needs to change for the better for everyone. Join us in our first discussion with those behind NNIWD - Prue Jones, a long term veteran of the creative industries, Ve Dewey, co-creator of Never Not Creative, and Andy Wright, creator of Never Not Creative and co-chair of Mentally-Healthy. Watch here: https://nniwd.nevernotcreative.org/ As always, big thanks to Streamtime - https://streamtime.net/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

Victoria Davies has spent years as a leader in the advertising industry. Now though, Victoria has swapped running some of the most successful agencies in London and New York to start an artificial intelligence business to nudge leaders into being better. This episode is recorded in partnership with Gabberish – Creative Therapy For Creative Minds. An online magazine for our industry. Issue 21 (out on 15th December) is edited by Never Not Creative's Andy Wright and this interview forms part of an exploration into the topic of empathy. Read more at Gabberish.com. Find out more about Newance, artificial intelligence and how it can help us to be better leaders at Mynewance.com Check out Nevernotcreative.org... and thanks to Streamtime.net. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

18 months on from our first study into the mental health and wellbeing of the creative, media and marketing industry, we’re back with a deeper dive. The purpose of the second study was to evaluate what’s changed since 2018 and to further understand how people cope and what can be done to improve the situation. This episode includes a recording of the live presentation of the results with Professor Carmel Loughland, the Director of Everymind, our research legend, Ross Tynan, Nina Nyman, co-chair of the Mentally-Healthy Change Group and of course Andy from Never Not Creative. You can read more here - https://www.mentally-healthy.org/resources-collection/mentally-healthy-2020 Discuss the results with the community here - https://facebook.com/groups/nevernotcreative Thanks to Need someone to talk to? https://www.mentally-healthy.org/need-help-now --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

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’re going to allow anyone anywhere to “ask for a friend”, to an industry leader, and a psychologist, anonymously, and online. Asking For A Friend is an initiative by Never Not Creative, Young Bloods Australia and Mentally-Healthy. It exists to make it easier for creatives to ask the unaskable. Wherever you are, tune in on the first Thursday of each month to get help, or just listen to the answers to your friends, colleagues and peers questions.With guests, Maria Devereux, Executive Creative Director of Colenso BBDO New Zealand and Katie Feder, Psychotherapist. Register for next month or ask an anonymous question of your own at https://www.nevernotcreative.org/asking-for-a-friend Links: https://www.katiefeder.com/ http://www.mariadevereux.com/ https://youngbloods.org.au/ https://mentally-healthy.org.au --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

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, he now focuses on helping as many of us as possible to improve our energy levels and mental wellbeing. Energx is Sean's business and passion and it's taken him around the country and onto the stage of TEDx to share his unique insights into what makes us tick. Sean has also been kind enough to share his time in the Never Not Creative community and the Mentally-Healthy change group. You can find out more about Sean below as well as links to resources he recommended in this episode. Oh, and send him an email. He'd love that! Links: https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/register https://www.energx.com.au/ https://instagram.com/weareenergx sean@energx.com.au --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

Australian Design Radio and Never Not Creative hosts Matt Leach and Andy Wright found themselves in Brisbane together at The Design Conference. Therefore, it was a no-brainer to combine mics and interview the founders of Ustwo, Sinx and Mills about the ups and downs of running a business and what it's like to do all of that as best mates. You can follow Ustwo and Mills at @ustwo or @millsustwo - thanks to the guys for such a great chat! Thanks to @Streamtime for making a lot of what we do happen. Subscribe to the show on Spotify, iTunes, or wherever else you get your podcasts by searching for Never Not Creative. And, of course if you don't subscribe to the excellent ADR just search for them at Australian Design Radio. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

EP105 with Mills and Sinx Founders and owners of UsTwo, Matt 'Mills' Miller and John ‘Sinx’ Sinclair suddenly find themselves in a very enviable position — leaders of a successful ‘independent’ company, and… not really needed. This is of course ‘designed’ and not without a lot of hard work. But, since bringing in a CEO and senior management the best friends finally get to appreciate what they have built. In collaboration with Andy Wright and Never Not Creative, we found some time to sit with Mills & Sinx and explore what their company looks like now, how their friendship continues to work after 30 years and what they are going to do with all this spare time. This is an incredibly frank and honest reflection that charts the naïve, hedonistic beginnings of the ‘fampany’ to the realisation that they needed to pull the needle back towards business, making hard decisions and ‘growing up’ in order to protect the company and their 300+ employees. It’s a perfect end of chapter conversation, before beginning the next. As always special thanks to Streamtime for their steadfast support and motivation. If you haven’t tried their software yet, well, you’re wasting time, literally. Special thanks to The Design Conference who gave us this opportunity. If you haven’t been before, you must, simple as that. Links: UsTwo: www.ustwo.com Monument Valley: www.monumentvalleygame.com/mv2 The road to 100: medium.com/the-inner-terrapin-woke/my-name-is-mills-i-am-mills-e919b099b2a7 Mill’s podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-jfdi-cast/id1358414484 Mills Instagram: www.instagram.com/millsustwo Sinx Instagram: www.instagram.com/sinxustwo TDC: www.thedesignconference.com.au Streamtime: www.streamtime.net

This episode was sparked by a tweet. On the 2nd April, Andy tweeted, "Sometimes it feels like we really don't want to create a better industry. When you look at what we do to the people trying to start out or get ahead it's simply baffling..." It was followed by a series of examples and stories that people had shared through the Never Not Creative community. Quite a few of you chipped in with thoughts and opinions, and some of the active participants of the conversation agreed to get together and discuss some of the issues. So, joining Andy and Sarah in this episode are Jim Antonopoulos from Tank, Ngaio Parr from Make Nice, and previous guest, Gabby Lord. We discuss everything from the role of leadership to basic human instincts. It's a great conversation across New York, Melbourne and Sydney. That meant the audio can be a little annoying at times (sorry for that). Please stick with it though as the conversation is important! Link to the original tweet: https://twitter.com/adwrighty/status/1112849344577777666 Have your own thoughts? Jump into the Never Not Creative Facebook group or reignite the Twitter thread! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

This episode Andy and Sarah discuss a recent Never Not Creative event – The Future Of Internships. Should they or shouldn't they be paid? How do we make sure that internships aren't just accessible to those who can afford them? What stories exist around unpaid internships? What's the law? Why is our industry breaking it? What's the role of education in improving this situation? Included on the panel at the event were: Beau Penton, host of The Design Kids, Sydney Bianca Jarvis, Graphic Designer Rhiannon Tuntevski, Industry Partnerships at UTS Lara Blumber, Career Coach at General Assembly. Please review, share and rate us on your podcast platform. Also don't forget to vote for Streamtime at The Webbys. http://bit.ly/stwebby --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

To kick off season 2, we review the best of season 1. Andy and co-host Sarah, go back to the start to discuss vulnerability and struggle with some of the highlights from Andy's chat with Josie Young and Tina Victoria Afshar. We also talk egos and feelings with Kit Palaskas and re-cap on the magical 5hr working day with Charl Laubscher from Love and Money. Part 2 is up next week. If you'd like to share, this is a great one for intro-ing friends and colleagues to Never Not Creative. Ideas for future guests? just hit us up at @nvrnotcreative or in the Facebook group. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

EP92 with Adam J Kurtz on We're Going to Die In this episode, we spoke with Adam J Kurtz a designer, artists, author and more from Brooklyn. He is best known for the honesty and humour in his work and his books. True to his online presence, Adam was open, honest, funny and personal when we caught up for a sneaky chat in a press room at Adobe MAX. We spoke about Adam’s history moving to New York, that time he built a fan site for The Veronica’s, the internet, design, depression, taking ourselves too seriously and the fun fact that we’re all going to die. Thanks to our mates at Streamtime – it’s project management software we couldn’t live without. They’re also behind Never Not Creative who have a great podcast we think ADR listeners will enjoy. Our Adobe MAX series is co-supported by Adobe and HP Australia – big thanks to them for getting us to LA as an #adobepartner!

EP91 with Lauren Hom on Juice and Squeeze In this episode, we spoke with Lauren Hom a designer and letterer based in Detroit, schooled in New York, and raised in Los Angeles. Lauren is well known for her bright colour palettes, playful letterforms, and quirky copywriting. Lauren is highly intelligent, funny, passionate about what she does and has an infectious laugh that made this episode incredibly fun. We spoke about her original plans to be a Creative Director and studied at The School of Visual Arts and how lettering was a ’thing on the side’ we spoke about some of her lettering projects, freelancing, picking up book deals, marketing and building a body of work. Thanks, as always, to our good friends at Streamtime – It’s project management software we couldn’t live without. They’re also behind Never Not Creative who have a great podcast we think ADR listeners will enjoy. anchor.fm/nevernotcreative Our Adobe MAX series is co-supported by Adobe and HP Australia big thanks to them for getting us to LA as an #adobepartner Links homsweethom.com instagram.com/homsweethom behance.net/homsweethom streamtime.net

In this episode, we spoke with Mark Conlan in Los Angeles as part of our Adobe MAX series. Although it was the last episode we recorded, we still have a lot more to publish! Mark is a multi disciplined Illustrator from Dublin working and living in Melbourne Australia, Marks work is a combination of emotion, fantastic worlds, playful characters and a beautiful colour palate. Mark creates conceptual based illustration for products, editorial, publishing, advertising campaigns and one-off commissions for clients all around the world. We spoke about his journey to where he is today, from always being curious and a ‘doodler’ growing up, his animation course in Ireland to graduating during the recession and working for a few years before moving to Melbourne with his partner. It was in Australia that Mark discovered and refined his style by working on one piece of work every day. Thanks, as always, to our good friends at Streamtime. It’s with their support we’ve been able to get s**t done. It’s project management software we couldn’t live without. They’re also behind Never Not Creative who have a great podcast, take a look! anchor.fm/nevernotcreative Our Adobe MAX series is co-supported by @adobe and @hpaustralia big thanks to them for getting us to LA as an #adobepartner!

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. From some early insight into the results of the Mentally Healthy survey to who you can look forward to hearing from in the next episode. Plus, news on upcoming events in Sydney and Melbourne. Thanks for listening, please like, review or share on your platform of choice, and get involved at https://nevernotcreative.org or on Instagram and Facebook. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message

An intro to the Never Not Creative podcast and what we're up to as a community for creatives. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nevernotcreative/message