Sweathead, A Strategy Podcast

@Femalcopywriter is an anonymous Internet presence. It’s funny. The person who writes it is funny. And, in this episode, we talk about what’s funny about advertising. But we also discuss some serious issues including sexual assault. @Femalcopywriter’s voice has been altered. Female Copywriter is here http://www.twitter.com/Femalcopywriter Strategy class is in session http://courses.sweathead.co

Eric L Hu is VP Strategy and Customer Experience at H4B Chelsea, a healthcare agency that's part of Havas. In this episode, we discuss what strategy work is in healthcare and what clients are asking of their agencies right now. You can find Eric here https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericlhu/ and here: https://www.instagram.com/ericlhu Sweathead strategy school is in session: http://courses.sweathead.co

Alex Stewart is a Senior Content Strategist at The Athletic, which recently acquired Tifo Football. Tifo Football is a football/soccer channel for nerds. It painstakingly breaks down football tactics, history, and business. In this chat, we go through some of the better known ways to approach strategy on a football field and try to make sense of them off the field.   You can find Alex here: https://twitter.com/AFHStewart You can find Tifo Football here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGYYNGmyhZ_kwBF_lqqXdAQ Sweathead strategy class is in session: http://courses.sweathead.co

Cole Habersham is an account manager at Droga5 in New York. In late 2019, he published a spreadsheet asking for people to anonymously share their salaries so that he could help friends work out their worth. Not their worth as humans but as salaries. You know what I mean.  This is the story of how it all happened. You can find Real Agency Salaries http://www.realagencysalaries.com/ You can find Cole here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colehabersham/ Strategy class is in session: http://courses.sweathead.co

Rebecca Rowntree hosts the podcast This Way Up and is a freelance Creative Director. She's judged D&AD and Cannes. She's worked at BBDO, R/GA, and The Elephant Room. And, at the time we spoke back in March, Rebecca was contemplating her freelance life. So that's what we discussed. You can find Rebecca https://www.rebeccarowntree.com/ And here https://twitter.com/rebeccarowntree * This episode was recorded on March 12, 2020, the day NYC started locking down but still early days for COVID-19 here. And, yes, my voice sounds like that because maybe I had it. Sweathead strategy classes are now in session: https://courses.sweathead.co/

Greg Hahn is one of the world's most prolific and best known creative leaders. Chances are that if you've lived in America–yet alone worked in the advertising industry here–you've seen his work. Or his team's work. Greg started at Fallon in Minneapolis then moved to BBDO in New York where he rose to Chief Creative Officer. He spent fourteen years at BBDO. But he's not there now. In this interview, we discuss how Greg is thinking through his future, how strategists and creatives can work better together, work and identity, as well as simpler stuff like, "What makes a portfolio good?". You can find Greg here https://www.linkedin.com/in/greghahn777/ The LinkedIn post we reference is here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/greghahn777_last-week-i-got-to-attend-my-own-wake-it-activity-6658133906765697024-JDDg Sweathead strategy school is in session: http://courses.sweathead.co

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Nathan Young is Group Strategy Director at Periscope in Minneapolis. Like the rest of us, he used to make a rap blog and, like the rest of us who've made rap blogs, at some point Nathann realized he had bills to pay. So again, like the rest of us who've faced these turbulent rap blog decisions, he moved into advertising. In this chat, we discuss research that he and his team at Periscope have just published. It focuses on COVID-19 and how America is feeling about it and responding to it. It also covers Periscope's POV on how to help marketers right now. Yes, we discuss rap and #BlackAF. You can find the Periscope team's research here https://www.periscope.com/covid/ You can find Nathan here https://twitter.com/notnathan You can join the Sweathead strategy school here: http://courses.sweathead.co

Ci En Lee is a media strategist at PHD Media in Singapore. With the help of friends, Lee has been gathering reports about COVID-19 and storing them in a Google Drive for others to access. He first started coming across reports in group chat with friends in China. We discuss how these reports have worked their way around China and then what's stuck with him having read many of them.  You can find Ci En Lee here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-ci-en/ You can find his round-up of COVID-19 reports here: https://bit.ly/covid19reports Sweathead strategy classes are in session: http://courses.sweathead.co

Tom Goodwin is Head of Futures at Publicis. We live-streamed this chat into Sweathead on Facebook on Saturday, 11 April, 2020.  We mostly discuss sharing ideas in public - the privilege that often enables it, the perils of doing it, and what the point of it is anyway.  You can find Tom here: https://twitter.com/tomfgoodwin  Sweathead strategy classes are in session: http://courses.sweathead.co