Sweathead, A Strategy Podcast

A Quick Trip Around Africa, the Middle East, and Asia - Sit and Talk, Nairobi

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20 Interesting Behaviors From Medellín, Colombia - Sit And Talk, Panama City

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Is There A "Strategist" Personality Type? - Sit And Talk, Medellín

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Sydney Sweeney & American Eagle: Smart or Stupid Marketing?

Watch this on the new Sweathead YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/cqUmFaJ6Af4 It's part of our new series Brains On Brands. Sydney Sweeney and American Eagle dropped o

How To Live A More Creative Life - Walk And Talk with Chris Do and Rakaa

Many thanks to Chris Do from The Futur and Rakaa from Dilated Peoples from this impromptu walk around Los Angeles. You can find them here: http://www.instagram.com/the

Travel Adventures Plus 5 Strategies From Australia and Asia - Sit and Talk

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Strategy Framework Examples Of The Four Points From Europe Masterclasses - Live From Tbilisi

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Six Workshopped Strategies From Latin America - Bogota, Colombia

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Working In Advertising In New York City - Becky Wang, Rosie Siman, Joe Burns

Watch us discuss all of this here on YouTube: https://youtu.be/IAp_TsXrG7Q?si=OeGELRvjHM8FPNG9 - The USA vs the UK - US clients vs UK clients - Doing creative work in

This Amazon Art Director Quit Amazon In Public - Jason Murray

This interview comes from Part 2 of my YouTube series about surviving New York City, especially the Corporate America parts. Jason has worked at Energy BBDO, Huge, and A

Would New York Make You Or Break You? - Part 1 with Julian Cole, Jack Appleby

Watch my first raw travel YouTube video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0josxmlLCKU&t=1437s It features strategists and friends Julian Cole and Jack Appleby. I al

2025 Trends And The Problem With Trend Reports - Lee Ci En and Amy Daroukakis

Lee Ci En and Amy Daroukakis have been collecting trend reports in a Google for years now. You've probably fiended for access :) The thing is, trends can be useful but a

Strategy Clarity On A Page - Sit and Talk, DC

In this episode, I reflect about some of the countries I visited in 2024 - from The Maldives to Saudi Arabia. I also talk about the mindset required to reach clarity, big

Explain Saudi Arabia To Me - Omar Alomran, Thmanyah

I'm in Riyadh this week. It's my first time. I'm here for a new creator conference called Impaq Makers. It's run by the Ministry of Media. I spent a few days exploring t

All Reach Is Not Created Equal (Plus Distinctiveness Vs Differentiation) - Felipe Tomaz from Oxford, Tom Roach from Jellyfish

Felipe Tomaz is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Saïd Business School at University of Oxford. He's about to publish a paper in the Journal of Marketing after ana

Over-thinking, Procrastination, And Self-Doubt - Ipsita Das, Personal Development Coach

Ipsita Das often reaches millions of people every month. While she was studying media and psychology at he New School, her Instagram account started to pop. Now, she wor

How To Better Pitch To Clients - Steve Walls, Moon Rabbit

Steve Walls has had big strategy jobs at TBWA, Ogilvy, Publicis Groupe, and more. But, now, he lives in Zurich, works with Moon Rabbit, and sees agency pitches from the o

A Magician Who's A Strategist - Or Is It The Other Way Around? - Mike Jacobson, Strategist & Magician

Mike Jacobson has worked in strategy for years. But he's been a magician for decades. Not long ago, he appeared on America's Got Talent. That's how good he is. In this

Strategic Territories And Starting Ideas - Joe Burns, Creative Quality Meats

I recently spoke with Joe about strategy frameworks and whether they're dumb. In this episode, we discuss strategic territories, which is one of those tools that is eit

Are You Sure You're Using The Word "Culture" Properly, Strategists? - Lucien Etori, McCann NY CSO

Lucien Etori is the Chief Strategy Officer of McCann New York. He grew up moving around a lot as well as a fan of several music subcultures. This has led him to question