The Crazy One show

The Crazy One

Summary: The Crazy One helps you find new breakthroughs in your career, creativity, leadership and more. In every episode, Stephen Gates give you honest and actionable insights taken from his experience leading global in-house and agency creative teams, building multiple Fortune 100 brands, and working as InVision’s Chief Design Evangelist coaching and working with some the world's most innovative companies.

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 Ep 15 Creativity: Insights from my conversation with Ferran Adria, the world’s greatest chef | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:10

Ferran Adria has been called the world's greatest chef because of his restaurant ElBulli. This episode shares the insights on creativity, inspiration and more I got from my conversation with Ferran Adria and visiting his private workshop in Barcelona.

 Ep 14 Presenting: Understanding your audience, the aftermath and keeping it sold | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 43:15

Building on the presentation basics in episode 13, this will teach you to better understand how to present to your clients, and what should happen after your presentation to keep your work sold.

 Ep 13 Presenting: Building, setting up and giving a great presentation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 48:30

Episode 12 covered the basics of becoming a great presenter and this episode continues the series by teaching you how to build better presentations with actionable tips, tricks and insights on setting up and giving great presentations.

 Ep 12 Presenting: Selling, presentation style and better storytelling | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 54:17

Great ideas only see the light of day if you can sell them to your clients. This episode will teach you the critical things you will need to become a great presenter who can sell your work through understanding what you are presenting, your presentations style and the power of storytelling.

 Ep 11 Trends: Fashion, technology and shoes that may change everything | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 42:15

Trend spotting can be a powerful tool to help you find breakthrough ideas. This episode looks at the intersection of fashion and technology, and a trend in technology that could disrupt the entire fashion industry.

  Ep 10 Creativity: How to build a creative strategy | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:59

Great ideas start with a great strategy. This episode will look at the 8 essential question you need to use as a basis for any great creative strategy.

  Ep 9 Design portfolios: The biggest opportunities, secrets and mistakes | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 56:24

This episode will teach you the 5 things you should do and the 3 things you should never do in your design portfolio from creating my portfolio site and reviewing thousand of other portfolios.

 Ep 8 Your career: The lost art of the job interview | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 47:02

You never get any feedback on why your last job interview didn’t go well and you didn’t get the job.This episode will help you learn the most common interview mistakes, how to be more prepared, sell your brand and get better results in your next job interview.

 Ep 7 Your career: Bringing your personal brand to life | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:06

Start building your personal brand ecosystem by understanding the secrets to bring it to life in your portfolio, resume, business cards, social media and more.

 Ep 6 Your career: How to create your own personal brand | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 40:01

Have you thought about why you are different or better than every other creative out there? This episode will help you understand the obstacles, power, and importance of creating your personal brand and two different techniques you can use to start building it.

 Ep 5 Listener questions: Should designers code? Is platformification killing design? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:03

Answering listener questions about if should designers should learn to code, making developers a bigger part of your creative process and talking about if digital platforms are killing design.

 Ep 4 Social media: Potatoes and power of experiential currency | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:58

Social media has turned everyone into a little brand who is concerned about their image, voice and much more. This episode looks at the importance of using unique insights in your work and the underlying social currency that really drives social media.

 Ep 3 Leadership: Culture, beliefs and the power of 'What inspires you?' | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 51:32

Culture is created either by default or by design. This episode will look at how to evaluate your team's culture, the steps you need to take to create a strong culture and understand the power of asking 'What inspires you?'.

 Ep 2 Leadership: Common obstacles and 7 steps to becoming a better leader | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 37:51

Companies are desperate for more creative leadership but few of the know how to coach them to become better leaders. This episode looks at the most common leadership obstacles you will have to overcome and the 7 steps you will need to work on to become a better leader.

 Ep 1 Creativity: Lightbulbs are bullish*t | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 50:40

Most people believe that ideas are lightbulbs but nothing is further from the truth. This episode has insights and tips on how you can be more creative, and get a better understanding of your creative process.

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