Greater Than 11%
The Greater than 11% podcast explores roles and opportunities within the creative industries with the aim of improving diversity. We promote, provide a platform and shout about awesome women and those identifying as non-binary.
S3 E97 · Fri, December 16, 2022
Claire Blyth - Managing Partner
For episode 97 we are joined by Claire Blyth, founder and managing partner of Red Setter - a specialist PR agency for design consultancies and corporate design teams. Claire is also the co-founder of The Design Community Hub - a digital platform… for professionals across the design world to give their time, knowledge and expertise to support the next generation of designers. Claire shares how poor career guidance at school lead her to study science, but on graduating a chance meeting in a pub set her off on the design path and she hasn't looked back. She also discusses as design touches every part of our lives the importance of ensuring diversity is embedded in who gets the opportunities to contribute and the process, to avoid a world designed to work for one type of person. Claire is generous and open with her experiences and shares her mission to chip away at the things she can change - she is in it for the long game. If you are considering a career in design, do reach out to her brilliant initiative - The Design Community Hub to find support, guidance and community. A joyous and reflective episode. Enjoy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11
S3 E96 · Fri, December 02, 2022
Katherine Maskell - Head of Sales
For episode 96 we are joined by Katherine Maskell, Head of Sales at Blink - a British production company producing everything from commercials to long-form entertainment. Katherine details what the Head of Sales role entails at Blink - it is definitely not what you are thinking. Moreover, it is about representation. In a nutshell, it is about knowing the talent and capabilities of the directors Blink represents and making connections with different agencies, writers and producers to bring them together for new commercials or music videos etc. She also shares how her various roles from account director to recruitment consultant unseemingly connected on the surface prepared her for this very role which she is very passionate about. She talks about the importance of culture in the workplace and trusting yourself when it doesn't feel right to make a change. A fab episode with some beautiful reflections. Enjoy. ---------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11
S3 E95 · Thu, November 03, 2022
Ellie Hale - Managing Director
For episode 95 we are joined by Ellie Hale, Managing Director at The Agency Collective - an organisation focused on helping agencies be better through their core values and their members' collective action and connection. Ellie originally completed a Batchelor of Laws but straight out of her degree she pursued acting, something that is still her passion and love. She discusses she didn't necessarily have a plan in terms of her 'career,' but as someone who is creative and interested in people, she fitted naturally into business development and managerial roles. In 2019 Ellie joined The Agency Collective, firstly as their Chief Community Officer but took up the Managing Director role - soon after. She also founded Mindfulworks in 2018 after she lost a close friend to suicide. Mindfulworks supports companies and individuals with Mental Health First Aid Training. It teaches how to spot triggers and changes in behaviours, and to have the confidence to start some meaningful conversations with colleagues and friends. Ellie has the most soothing of voices - we could listen to her all day. She is also super passionate about diversity and change within the media and comms industry and is proactively contributing to social equity in the sector both in her role and through The Agency Collective. --------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11
S3 E94 · Wed, October 19, 2022
Siân Blackman - Account Director
Siân Blackman is Account Director at The Diversity Standards Collective (The DSC), an organisation which offers brands and agencies the opportunity to get behind the data - and closer to diverse views and opinions from across the globe - to drive better representation - into communications. She shares her journey from studying English Literature and how with hindsight, she can see her thinking around representation was forming through her final dissertation without her being necessarily aware of it at the time. Siân talks about her creative journey, working firstly at Creative Brief for over five years before joining The DSC and how she has learnt to manage her anxiety when it appears (she even gives a few tips). She also discusses the incredible work that The DSC is doing, with big and small brands to ensure there is a greater representation of lived experience at the point of conception of a campaign / advert. Not sure what an account director or account manager does? Heard of Client Services but are still unclear about what their responsibilities are? Siân does a great job of explaining the roles and functions of an Accounts team. Such a fabulous discussion with a truly kind and generous being - a treat to listen to. Enjoy. --------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11
S3 E93 · Tue, October 04, 2022
Amy Kean + Nicky Kemp - Co-founders of Good Shout
For episode 93 we are joined by the co-founders of Good Shout - Amy Kean & Nicola Kemp. Amy Kean is a creative sociologist, advertising strategist, poet and author and Nicola Kemp - a journalist, editor and event host recently brought their incredible talents together to create training products that facilitate social learning practices - to help people experiment with their own voice, talent and thinking - and they named the company - Good Shout . In this episode, they share why they started Good Shout and the importance of embracing your weird and accepting we are all experiments. It was such a great discussion and it could have gone on and on, as these two women are as much fun as they are intelligent. ---------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven
S3 E92 · Fri, June 03, 2022
Vick Bain - Founder & creator of the F-List
For episode 92 we are joined by Vick Bain who has worked in the music industry for 25+ years and recently has set up her own company VBain Consultancy . She shares her creative journey - the first in her family to enter higher education becoming a musician (another first in her family) and then moving into the management and business side of the industry rising to CEO of The Ivors Academy (formerly the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors). When starting her own business in 2019 to focus on campaigning, researching and training on all aspects of diversity in the music & creative industries she focused on a project she had wanted to tackle for some time - analysing the gender of who was on the rosters of over 300 UK record labels and publishing companies. Her findings were published in the report ‘ Counting the Music Industry ’ and demonstrated, with data how few women are supported financially by the music industry in comparison to men. This research evolved into the F-List - something that set the UK music industry alight in 2020 (listen to find out more). Vick is an empathetic, generous campaigner and leader and it was an honour to discuss her career and be in awe of how her persistence has brought about change (and continues to do so). Enjoy ---------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven
S3 E91 · Tue, May 17, 2022
Isabel Sachs - Creative Producer + Founder
For episode 91 we are joined by Creative Producer and founder of: I LIKE NETWORKING - Isabel Sachs. Isabel shares her journey to discovering a creative life as a result of studying International Relations degree in her native Brazil. Not enjoying the course, she found solace in getting involved - at first running on film sets for friends and slowly she got more involved in all things creative. She decided to channel her energy into founding her own company. A brilliant choice as it evolved into an award-winning cultural agency, which she grew into a huge success with it producing 50+ events a year - including tours, managing artists and a theatre company, but in 2015 she decided to sell the business and move to London. In the UK she worked for a number of companies in her capacity as a creative producer within the arts, cultural and entertainment sectors but when the Covid pandemic hit in 2020 she was made redundant. It is from this I LIKE NETWORKING was born. To date I LIKE NETWORKING has established: a mentoring scheme… and there have been 150+ mentees that have received support. There is an online community of approximately 30,000 people actively engaging with the platform There has been a podcast series And there have been a number of events! Isabel shares her journey, the importance of networking - it not being cringe as portrayed in movies - and her ambitions for a more equal and diverse cultural industries. Enjoy ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven
S3 E90 · Tue, May 03, 2022
Amy Smith - Head of Talent
For episode 90 we are joined by Amy Smith - Head of Talent for the Oscar-winning, world-renowned animation and visual effects creative studio - Framestore. Amy is uber passionate and committed to creating a more socially equitable global visual effects (VFX) industry. She shares all the initiatives she and her industry colleagues have been rolling out over the past decade to ensure they are playing the long game when it comes to diversity and inclusion in their sector. This includes; visiting primary schools, apprentice and intern schemes and getting involved in political campaigning for better creative education! SHE IS AMAZING! Amy breaks down in eloquent detail all the touchpoints and roles involved in creating a film with heavy VFX . She also covers the different processes and the types of people who work on an advert compared to a movie. She also shares how being made redundant from a dream job a few years back was devastating and took a lot of focused effort to both, find another role and manage her wellbeing. She reflects that experience has made her a more empathetic recruiter and Head of Talent. Amy's enthusiasm and drive are infectious! This is a fabulous listen to! Enjoy! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven
S3 E89 · Tue, April 05, 2022
Anthea Agyekum - Producer
For episode 89 we are joined by producer and founder and host of Poducate, Anthea Agyekum. 💎 Still considered 'early career', Anthea shares the uncertainty and challenges of trying to find what creative career was the right fit for her, whilst trying to get her foot in the door of the advertising industry. Anthea is open, honest and direct in discussing what it meant to decide not to go to university and when asked about her successes, such as her work with D&AD and GAUP Magazine, she pointed out - 'there were probably as many 'f-ups' along the way too' and highlighted 'those are part of the journey and the reality of establishing a career.' She shares her very personal experience of facing redundancy during the Covid pandemic in 2020 coinciding with the murder of George Floyd in America. At the time, the CEO of the agency, which was about to terminate her contract, sent an email to all staff in response to Floyd’s death and the systemic racism embedded in western culture, detailing 'that their company too needed to take action.' Anthea emailed the CEO directly to introduce herself, share her skills and contribution to the company - and started a conversation. Anthea has gorgeous energy, is extremely talented and tenacious and shared so much in this diamond episode. 💎 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven
S3 E88 · Fri, March 18, 2022
Ep88 - Samantha Hornsby & Mae Yip - Eric
We are back for Series 3 and are delighted to welcome both Samantha Hornsby and Mae Yip as our first guests after quite a lengthy hiatus. Sam & Mae are both the co-founders of Eric - whose offering has evolved over the past few years but is currently taking shape in app form. The Eric app (download here: IOS or Android ) is a hot house of hot house of all the best career advice. Beneficial to all, but with a prime focus on providing 16-25 year olds with little to no experience and with career advice and guidance. It is awesome! In this episode they share how they were originally guided away from creative careers, but found themselves distracted in the roles they took on early in their careers so decided to ditch them, join forces and found their own company - LY London and eventually launching Eric. There is a lot of laughter, a lot of candid honesty and they share their thinking on the next move for Eric (which could involve Beyonce 🤞). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓 Leave us a review / rating and we will love you forever. Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: @greaterthaneleven 🐦 Twitter: @Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: Greater Than Eleven
S2 E87 · Wed, October 21, 2020
Head of Talent & Co-founder - Shanice Mears
For episode 87 we are joined by the gorgeous Shanice Mears, Head of Talent & Co-founder of creative agency, The Elephant Room. Shannie shares her passion for fostering community and supporting others - being a bridge between talent and opportunity. She goes back to her creative roots and discusses her love of dance and how she shaped her talent and skills to work within advertising. Ambitious and wanting to connect with like-minded people she founded 'Girls Let's Talk' before she relocated from Birmingham to London and how her love for music led her to be a Community Manager for the London Chapter of shesaid.so - a brilliant organisation, which brings together a global community of women and gender minorities in the music industry. In 2017 she co-founded The Elephant Room with Dan Saxaby and they have just received the news that they have made the shortlist for The Drum Awards for Best Independent Agency of the Year and Best Approach to Diversity and Inclusion . Huge congratulations. 🎉 🎉 🎉 Shannie is bloody incredible (you'll hear Renee fangirling) - her focus on nurturing, supporting talent and literally building a more diverse creative industries, makes her legendary in our book. 🧡 You can connect and get in contact with Shannie: shannie.mears@theelephantroom.net You can find out more about Creative Storytellers and how to get involved here: theelephantroom.net/case-study/creative-storytellers Check out Girls Let's Talk via Instagram: @girlsletstalk__ and click here for shesaid.so. Please note this is our final episode for Series 2. We are currently looking for sponsorship to continue with Series 3 - sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date on our future plans. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleve
S2 E86 · Wed, October 07, 2020
Chief Operations Officer - Cat Agostinho
For episode 86, we aren't featuring a panel discussion as Crystal is on holiday but rather the amazing Chief Operations Officer and co-founder of market research agency Imagen, Cat Agostinho. When I say 'amazing' I mean it! I think Cat is one of the loveliest people - EVER. Keep an ear out for how many times I say 'awesome' & 'amazing' -think it is fair to say I went a bit fangirl!!! Not only is Cat highly talented with a stellar CV, she is also the co-founder of dawn network and founder of her own Media & Marketing business - Agostinho Consultancy. She discusses some real challenges she has faced in her career and shares what she did to overcome them. She also talks with passion about her businesses, supporting others and the importance of walking (and looking up) when thinking. You can connect with Cat via LinkedIn , find more about Imagen and how to get involved and how to attend a dawn network event. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven
S2 E85 · Wed, September 16, 2020
OT, Artist & 1/3 of Charismatic Megafauna
Occupational Therapist, artist and 1/3 of the electro-punk band, Charismatic Megafauna - this episode we are joined by the fabulous Georgia Twigg. Georgia discusses the benefits of working across different industries (acknowledging it can also be exhausting), a DIY approach to whatever they focus on and applying 'doing, being, becoming' to areas of their life that pushes them outside their comfort zone. A great example - deciding to learn the drums whilst performing to audiences. 😳 They also share combing their skills as an artist with their knowledge of physical and mental well-being to form a workshop focusing on staying positive and engaged in the face of disagreement. You can listen to a version of the workshop commissioned by ‘Keep it Complex’ titled: ’ How to talk to people you disagree with. ’ and also purchase an accompanying zine here: https://makeitclear.eu/posts/how-to-talk-to-people-you-disagree-with/ It is super practical and provides a lot of useful information on managing your own health and wellbeing in confronting situations - such as campaigning or protesting (or at Christmas family dinners!). You can also listen and purchase Charismatic Megafauna's music here: https://charismaticmegafaunamusic.bandcamp.com/album/semi-regular Georgia is open about their experiences and delivers so much wisdom about self-journey, creative expression and social justice - some real gems to mull over. 💎 A big thank you to all of Charismatic Megafauna of allowing us to use their music on this episode. 🧡 ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven
S2 E84 · Wed, September 02, 2020
Stealth Activism with Emma Sexton
On this month's Greater Than 11% Panel while Renee is busy raising awareness for our 20k for 20k campaign, Crystal is joined by Emma Sexton, CEO and Founder of creative agency MYWW, former presenter of Badass Woman's Hour and all-round trailblazer. Emma's agency MYWW is a remote-first agency and she's been leading creative teams remotely long before Covid hit. They discuss the power of vulnerability in building strong teams, challenging conventional wisdom about creativity and the creative industry's response to Black Lives Matter. READ: MYWW: Tips for leading teams remotely https://www.myww.co.uk/how-to-nail-remote-working/ Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday: https://www.waterstones.com/book/ego-is-the-enemy/ryan-holiday/9781781257029 Remote: Office Not Required by David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried: https://www.waterstones.com/book/remote/david-heinemeier-hansson/jason-fried/9780091954673 The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-4-hour-work-week/timothy-ferriss/9780091929114 ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven
S2 E83 · Wed, August 26, 2020
*Special* - £20k for 20k - Thank you
Welcome to this special episode of Greater than 11%. We are celebrating and shouting out to all those that have donated to our £20k for 20k fundraising campaign. The Greater than 11% podcast will reach 20,000 downloads by the end of August. We are super proud of this figure and thank all of our wonderful contributors and for listeners helping us reach this milestone. The podcast is a self-funded initiative and we set off to fundraise - on the premise coined by co-host Crystal Eisinger - if we had a £1 for every download we would be able to raise £20,000. Ambitious yes but we wanted to give it a shot and with the funds, award financial assistance to fellow creatives that are struggling fiscally, emotionally and mentally as a result of the pandemic and its impact. Who are we talking about: Artists, Musicians, Those that work as cast & crew in the Film+TV and Theatre Industries Creative educators outside the schooling system Creative Producers Creatives Craft makers And so many more people and jobs that have been affected. If you are a regular listener or this is your first time to Greater than 11% you can find details on how to donate here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/greater-than-11---20k-for-20k A huge thank you and shout out to those who have donated to date: Pascalle Burton Lucy Ferguson Beth Foster Nicola Rix Mari Continenza Ally Waring Simon White Craig Fenton Nicola Kemp Jen Clark Amarat Sehgal Jay Richards Rina Atenza Joe Hill Lisa Goff Lucie Gledhill Hilary Joiner Still Epsilon Beck Gooby Tessa Atkins Marilyn Ford Chantell Glenville We have also had a number of anonymous donations so thank you to those secret squirrels! 🐿
S2 E82 · Wed, August 19, 2020
Script Supervisor - Emma Thomas
For episode 82, we are joined by film and television royalty, Script Supervisor, Emma Thomas. Her contribution to the industry has not gone unnoticed and in 2019 she received a BAFTA Craft Award - for her talents. Emma’s career, started as a clerk-typist, at Elstree Studio where she was responsible for answering the fan mail for her boss - Kermit the Frog. Amazing! 🐸 She has gone on to work on 50+ production - features and series. She explains in detail all that a script supervisor does and the importance of training the next generation. Emma is incredibly positive - I tried to get some industry gossip but she was so lovely about everyone. Enjoy. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ ---- We are fundraising at present to support creatives that are struggling as a result of lack of income as a result of Covid19. If you've enjoyed listening to Greater than 11% and are in a position where you can donate you can do so here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/greater-than-11---20k-for-20k You can also support by sharing the campaign on your social channels.
S2 E81 · Wed, August 05, 2020
Panel: Foraging, Curiosity during Covid & Period Tech
After the COVID19 series & Allyship panel, Crystal and Renee have a good old catch up. They cover how they're doing in the "new normal", their continued allyship journey and they share their top reads and watches from the last few weeks. As ever their conversation ranges far and wide from the fruits of foraging, definitions of equity versus equality, Japanese reality TV and period tech! We also discuss our BREAKING NEWS! The Greater than 11% podcast, now in its second series and having interviewed 100+ people, will hit 20,000 downloads in September. We wanted to mark this milestone by continuing to support our community and are focusing on raising £20K for 20K (downloads). The rationale being, if we had a £1 for every listen, we would quickly be able to raise the cash and create a grant fund providing 20 x £1000 for female / non-binary creatives based in the UK. If you've enjoyed listening to Greater than 11% and are in a position where you can donate financially you can do so here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/greater-than-11---20k-for-20k You can also help us by promoting the campaign on your social channels. As per our all our panel episodes we end on our watch and read segment. Renee's Recommendations: 📺 Cracked Up: The Darrell Hammond Story, Netflix 📚 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk Crystal's Recommendations: 📺 Terrace House, Netflix 📚 Period Power by Maisie Hill Remember to check out the new Greater Than 11% website ( greaterthan11.com ), subscribe to the newsletter.
S2 E80 · Wed, July 15, 2020
Career & Life Coach - Isabel Sanchez
For episode 80 we are joined by Coach and Co-Founder of Hack Camp, Isabel Sanchez. Isabel’s career started off in social enterprise and then merged with the tech sector working with the likes of Lifeline & Just Giving. Most of her roles revolved around working with people - establishing collaboration with clients, colleagues and developing others. As a result, her passion for empowering people led her to pursue a career in coaching. Together with the wonderful former Greater than 11% podcast guest, Samira Musa, they founded Hack Camp - coaching to enable ambitious young leaders to transform their lives from the offset. In addition to their coaching, their fist initiative ‘ Future Leaders ’ was put together and launched in a matter of weeks in response to The Black Lives Matter movement. They are currently focusing on arming the next generation of young Black leaders with the right tools and methodologies to reach their full potential. Isabel discusses why she was drawn to coaching, her personal approach and shares her and Samira's vision for Hack Camp and Future Leaders. If you want to learn more about Hack Camp and get some coaching you can do so here: https://www.hackcamp.co.uk/ Isabel and Samira are currently raising funds for their 2nd cohort of Future Leaders you can contribute to here: https://www.hackcamp.co.uk/future-leaders ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven
S2 E79 · Wed, July 01, 2020
Panel Discussion - Allyship: A Verb Not A Noun
Allyship: A Verb Not A Noun In this month’s panel show, Crystal and Renee are joined by Aluma, the owner and founder of ADN photography and Beth Foster, a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lead for Alphabet and Chief of Staff for the Black Googler Network. Aluma shares her personal experience of the past few weeks; ranging from the exhaustion to personal growth. 75% of respondents to our poll said they didn’t know what Allyship means so we discuss Allyship fully and practically. What it looks like, what it feels like and crucially, that it is rooted in action. Beth discusses how intentions matter less than impact and her own Allyship journey. Tune in for an honest, touching, kind and hopeful discussion about the small bold actions we can all take, to further racial equity and for a deep yet highly practical understanding of Allyship and what it entails. Resources which were discussed listed below: READ: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo. https://www.waterstones.com/book/white-fragility/robin-diangelo/9780141990569 WATCH: White Fragility YouTube Video by Robin DiAngelo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU&feature=youtu.be&t=89 READ: All BAME Ain’t The Same https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/why-bame-aint/1672936 READ: Natives by Akala https://www.waterstones.com/book/natives/akala/9781473661233 ACT: Write to your MP using this template to make Black histories mandatory in the national curriculum https://www.theblackcurriculum.com/action ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be int
S2 E78 · Wed, June 17, 2020
Foley Artist - Louise Brown
For episode 78 we headed to South West England - to Bristol precisely and are joined, virtually of course, by Foley Artist, Louise Brown. To flag, we had a bit of a dodgy Zoom line at times, so there is a little static here and there but nothing too unbearable. Louise breaks down exactly what it is a foley artist does. From hugging bowls of water for a shark film to walking on the spot for up to 8 hours. Ok, it is a lot more complex than that, but you'll have to listen to the episode to hear it from the metaphorical horse's mouth... or should I say hoof? With a burning desire to work in the music industry, but with no understanding of how or any industry connections, Louise made the decision to jack in her job at a factory and do a BTEC followed by a degree in Music Technology. Whilst doing a summer job with an unplanned visit Pinewood Studios she discovered foley and this began a long and slow slog to break into the industry - even having to ignore and push on after being directly told by her boss at the time 'women can't do sound' 😱. Louise pulls back the curtain and shares some trade 'foley secrets' - who would have thought paper clips attached to leather gloves would double up as claws? She also breaks down the whats and hows when working on a brief for the likes of BBC's Doctor Who or Netflix's Sex Education . ----- 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven
S2 E77 · Wed, June 03, 2020
Panel Discussion - Content in the time of Covid19
A note prior to details about this panel discussion. We recorded this episode before the tragic news of the murder of George Floyd broke. We, like many others across the globe, are both shocked and angered by systemic and brutal racism that continues to cost lives, is completely and utterly criminal and causes engulfing waves of pain for individuals and communities. Greater than 11% has diversity at its core, is anti-racist and is both an ally and supporter for equality for all. There is a proliferation of information on how to get involved, support, get educated on tackling racism and with the best will in the world and sincere desire to get contribute to change, it can feel a tad overwhelming. We have found the Obama Foundation’s Meet Anguish With Action website really valuable in terms of educating and reflecting on the current moment and how to get involved - even in small ways. We also want to give a shout out to a charity promoted by a former >11% guest and absolute legend who we adore, Collette Phillips. Charity So White is on mission to root out symptomatic widespread institutional racism in the UK’s third sector through education. If you have the means and are seeking to support anti-racism by way of financial donation, you can contribute to the vital work they do via this link . —- For this panel episode Crystal and Renee are joined by two Content Queens this week, Jenny Hollander, Director of Content Strategy for Marie Claire US and Lucy Ferguson, Editor for Think with Google in the UK. They discuss changing content consumption appetites throughout Covid but by far the most interesting and bizarre topic discussed in Jenny's father's preoccupation with stuffed animals. The panel also shares their favourite pieces of Covid related content and the impact of Covid on their work. Renee’s content recommends View: Ruby etc . also on instagram . Watch: The Morning Show (on Apple TV) Jenny’s content recommends Read: Marie Claire: Death Surrounds Her Marie Claire: What will Covid-19 do to Pregnant Women’s Mental Health &<a href="https://www.marieclaire.com/health-fitness/
S2 E76 · Wed, May 20, 2020
Children’s Media Consultant, Executive Producer and Writer - Alison Stewart
For Episode 76, Producer Ursie Downes interviews Alison Stewart. Alison is a Children’s Media Consultant and has worked as an Executive Producer and Writer. Alison has worked for the BBC for over 13 years and her most recent role was Head of Production for BBC's CBeebies channel for pre-school children. Alison has had an incredible career and it was a pleasure to learn more about what she does and the project's she's worked on. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven
S2 E75 · Wed, May 06, 2020
Panel Discussion - Food in the time of Covid19
Film and ice-cream pairing, Too Hot To Handle and some world class empathetic entrepreneurialism which no management course could have taught. This episode is jam-packed with goodies. In responses to our recent instagram poll, 85% of contributors said their relationship with food and cooking had changed over the last few weeks, we wanted to explore this topic and recorded Food in a Time of Covid. We are joined by two absolute delights: 💃 🥑 Kate Frobisher Founder of Urban Pantry and (the best brunch place in London according to Crystal) and Code Hospitality 30 Under 30 👱♀️🍦Gini Sharvill, Global Marketing Manager at Haagen Dazs, Marketing Academy Scholar and WACL Future Leaders Award winner. The panel discuss how lockdown has influenced (or hasn't) their; creativity in the kitchen, relationship with food on a personal level and impacted the industries they work in. Kate describes the impact of Covid19 as a small business owner and Gini shares managing the changes to communications and campaigns for a global brand Häagen-Dazs. As ever, we have a good old laugh and candid conversations from the highs of DIY Michelin star restaurants to daily shame cycles surrounding food. You can connect with Kate Frobisher via instagram @urbanpantrylondon and Gini Sharvill via LinkedIn . 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E74 · Wed, April 29, 2020
Publicist & Communications Specialist - Anita Yardemian 🇺🇸
For episode 74 we are are joined by Los Angeles based Publicist and Communications Specialist, Anita Yardemian. She discusses the range and diversity of her job; strategy, brand management, PR, media and VIP relations, event producing and journalism. Anita shares how she has crafted and adapted the journalist element of her work to ensure she has more autonomy, creativity and more direct involvement in her community. Working with big luxury brands, such as Westime & Ferrari. Big names such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Kylie Jenner. Anita talks about how she manages the pressure and also on occasion, a big ego - with empathy and embracing conflict as a way of creative collaboration. She also discusses the importance of networks, personal brand and how she is managing the current crisis. If you would like to connect with Anita or discover more of how incredibly brilliant she is you can do so at: www.under-luxe.com (we loved the 'Behind the Scenes' section and all decided we needed to head LA as soon as possible). 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E73 · Wed, April 22, 2020
Brand Strategist & Founder - Collette Philip
Intentional, optimistic and sharp are three words to describe this week’s guest - Brand Strategist and Founder of Brand By Me, Collette Philip. She discusses knowing early on that she wanted to work for the greater good and be a leader. As as a child she focused her aspirations on becoming the UK's prime minister (something that she says is still on the table). Studying Business and German at University, she discovered she really enjoyed modules focusing on 'marketing' which resulted in her landing an Account Manager role at Grey’s London, as soon as she completed her degree. Spending a number of years in AdLand she realised she was finding herself continually in a cycle of sticky floors or bumping up against glass ceilings when focusing on her progression. She pivoted her career to working directly with charities and after 18 years of building and shaping other brands she decided to found her own - setting up Brand By Me in 2016. 💡 She discusses the things, as an owner of a small business she is facing as a result of quarantine. Has some fabulous thoughts and tips for managing your brand - whether that be organisational or your personal brand during the Covid19 crisis and reflects on the importance of dealing with past baggage to ensure you can move forward. We ❤️Collette. You can get in contact with Collette via Brand By Me’s website: brandbyme.co.uk And you can subscribe to her weekly YouTube channel and learn all things brand strategy: youtube.com/channel/UC-urtLO43V_XoEB-zsfRi0w/featured 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E72 · Wed, April 15, 2020
Illustrator & Graphic Designer - Sneha Shanker
This week's guest's illustrative work will have you weeping with joy at the beauty and tenderness she is able to evoke with her paints and pens. 🎨 For episode 72 we are joined by the wildly talented Illustrator and Graphic Designer, Sneha Shanker. She discusses her pathway to following her creativity - not a straight journey which included a detour via way of an engineering degree. She also shares her morning rituals to help 'clear her mind' for the day ahead and the importance of giving oneself permission to do things badly. 📣 We also have an exclusive! 📣 Sneha has created two drawings that you can download via greaterthan11.com - if you go to the site, pop in your email address they are yours. We encourage you to share your completed coloured-in work with us via instagram @sneha.shanker & @greaterthaneleven or email them back to us at info@greaterthaneleven.com. We will be catching up with Sneha via Instagram live on the 24th April, to share and discuss your wonderful creations. You can learn more and connect with Sneha via her website: snehashanker.com or via instagram: @sneha.shanker. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E71 · Wed, April 08, 2020
Creative Director - Hilary Joiner 🏴
Recorded just a week before lockdown and the last episode from our Edinburgh trip, this week's guest is the super talented Creative Director, Hilary Joiner. Hilary shares her career journey; studying fine art, rising to the level of creative director within the advertising industry, starting her own company - Little Ego and coming full circle to her current role as Creative Director at Stripe Communications. She discusses machismo culture and her belief that the antidotes reside in humility and empathy. She also talks about the importance of feeding your mind palace with inspiring, nourishing visual experiences. We are so looking forward to getting back to Scotland later in 2020. It is was with the help from Hilary that Greater than 11% were actually able to get to Edinburgh! We have heaps of love and gratitude for the support Hilary provided - she is a star 💫 You can connect with Hilary via LinkedIn bit.ly/Hilary_Joiner 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E70 · Wed, April 01, 2020
Panel Discussion - Greater than 11% - In Quarantine
From a cupboard in Leigh-on-Sea to a pillowed corner in Nottingham and down to crystallised Cathedral City consuming in Chiswick, we kick off April with our 1st-panel podcast recorded virtually. Our special guest this month is our very own Series Producer, Ursie Downes. We discuss the unexpected highs and lows of lockdown life. We talk all things; routine, mental health and the impact of COVID-19 on our different workplaces. We cover Love Is Blind, the joys of jigsaws and share our top read, watch and listen recommendations for any extra time afforded by staying at home. Dear listeners, we are here for you. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us if you're having a tough time, fancy a virtual cup of tea or need some advice. You can find and connect with us on Insta: @greaterthanelven @reneevaughansutherland @crystal_maze @ursiegrace Stay tuned all the way to the outro if you'd like to the kitchen cacophony kindly provided by Crystal's husband, Chris #recordingfromhome. Stay safe. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E69 · Wed, March 25, 2020
Magazine Editor - Hannah Taylor 🏴
✨ For the Third Episode of our Scottish Tour, Greater Than 11%'s Producer, Ursie Downes, catches up with the vibrant and inspiring Hannah Taylor, Editor of The Delicate Rebellion Magazine . Hannah is also Head of The Collective , an online community that provides support and mentoring to creatives who want to boost their earnings or increase their business acumen. ✏️ Hannah talks about her incredible career path, from leaving school at 15 to falling in love with publishing and diving into a masters degree a few years later. 😨 She talks about how she balances her busy life as Editor and Community Coordinator, as well as what it's like to be an introvert who's job involves constant communication with strangers! 📱 We also talked fear of phones, curating playlists and code-switching out of Mummy-mode for work! 💌 You can get in contact with Hannah, get your hands on The Delicate Rebellion and learn more about The Collective at https://www.thedelicaterebellion.com 😍 We absolutely loved catching up with Hannah and know you'll love listening to her talk about her career for this episode! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E68 · Wed, March 18, 2020
Commercial Photographer - Susie Lowe 🏴
The second instalment of our Scottish tour is hosted by Greater than 11%'s wonderful producer, Ursie Downes. For this episode, she catches up with the talented Susie Lowe, spectacularly brilliant Commercial Photographer with a whole host of impressive clients. Susie's discussion on the strength and tenacity of freelancers feels particularly poignant in the wake of this week's news on the coronavirus. Susie shares her long love affair with photography - getting hold of her first camera at age 9! Having studied at Falmouth College of Art, she moved first to London and then back home to Edinburgh to grow her client base and establish her career. She talks about starting out and working in the industry as a woman (& having to deal with the nudie pics on the wall), she breaks down how she works through a brief and shares her joy collaborating with Emily Murray on The Pink House blog. You can get in contact with Susie or see her varied (and sumptuous) work via her site: susielowestudio.com We loved catching with Susie she was super patient with our makeshift 'on the road studio' & even reduced her gesticulation to help with audio quality! Enjoy! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E67 · Wed, March 11, 2020
Curator, Collector, Co-founder - Nicky Wilson 🏴
Ep 67 is the first episode from our whirlwind Scottish tour. Discussing her love of art, we are joined by Nicky Wilson - Curator, Collector and Co-founder of Jupiter Artland. Nicky studied fine art at Camberwell College London followed by a masters in sculpture from the Chelsea School of Art. On graduating she won a British School of Rome Sculpture Scholarship. Her sculpting practice took a hiatus whilst she raise her five children but she having moved to Bonnington House, a grand 17th century manor house nestled into 100 acre estate just outside Edinburgh, she began thinking about how to bring her love of art into the landscape. Nicky & her husband began commissioning artists to make large-scale landworks and outdoor sculptures for the estate and in 2008 Jupiter Artland opened to the public. Nicky discusses her role, dreaming of sculpture and that sometimes the struggle is what makes something rewarding. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E66 · Wed, March 04, 2020
Panel with Sam Conniff - Author, Consultant & Speaker
International Women's Day, overcoming fears, challenges of organisational transformation and the earth righting itself are just a few of the subjects we discuss with this month's panel with the legendary, Sam Conniff. Entrepreneur, Author, Consultant, Speaker, Mentor - what hasn't Sam done? He has also been officially ordained as a pirate - for real. ☠️⚓️ Founder of Bafta-winning content agency Don’t Panic, Co-founder of Livity; a creative agency using youth culture to design the future (they have been doing so for 19+ years), Sam also wrote ”Be More Pirate Or How To Take On the World and Win” - a bestseller in the UK. A Speaker and Facilitator in high demand - he has been on many stages across the globe for some of the biggest brands from Apple to the Ministry of Defence. Sam not only inspired us, but he also made us laugh - heaps! He challenged us to face what scares us most and as a result, all three of us agreed to do stand up comedy! Say what? 😱 You can find more details on Sam and his incredible work here: https://www.samconniff.com/ and on Instagram @samconniff 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E65 · Wed, February 26, 2020
Head of Movement - Steffany George
For episode 65 we are joined by the incredible, the wonderful Steffany George, Head of Movement for the University of Essex’s East 15 - Acting School. Born and raised in Texas, Steffany trained as a dancer at the Virginia Commonwealth University moving to New York once she graduated. She shares that early on she had to juggle several jobs, barely make ends meet whilst freelancing as a dancer and found her path leading her more towards movement working with actors. She went on to teach at the prestigious Stellar Adler Studio of Acting for ten years before moving to the UK. She discusses her role as Head of Movement, working with students and neural pathways connected to the body and movement. Steffany generously talks about her biggest challenge - disappointment and the importance of self-care after completing a project. A really open and honest episode with an amazing dancer, teacher and friend. Enjoy. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E64 · Wed, February 19, 2020
Marketing Director - Nishma Robb
Fresh from the Brits and seeing Lizzo perform (we are so jealous), this week's equally fabulous guest is Nishma Robb - Marketing Director for Google UK. Nishma walks us through her role - it is epic! Responsible for brand reputation, as well as leading the advertising and the industry marketing for Google UK, she talks about the importance of curiosity and building bespoke teams to meet the demands. A lover of stories, she shares that as a child she was set on becoming a journalist, but after doing a stint of work experience at Marie Claire realised it wasn't for her. Walking us through her formative jobs and roles, she reflects her need for security perhaps limited the number of leaps she was able to take, but inquisitive by nature she was always pushing to learn, establishing a very successful career early on. A proactive and consistent agitator for equality and diversity, Nishma is constantly advocating the need to attract talent from differing backgrounds to the creative industries. She talks about her own experiences; from calling things out, challenging agencies and reflecting on how to address diversity within Google's advertising (& beyond). Nishma is an inspiring leader who generously discusses her career & experiences - enjoy! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E63 · Tue, February 18, 2020
Jay Yule & Leah Airey discuss Witches (Bonus Ep!)
A little extra from episode 63 that didn't make it into the edit but we loved Leah's go-to for inspiration on all things witches, punks & Riot Grrrls. 'We are the granddaughters of the women you couldn't burn!' 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E63 · Wed, February 12, 2020
Viva La Vulva - Jay Yule & Leah Airey
For episode 63 we are joined by not one - but two incredible women - Jay Yule & Leah Airey. Jay is a dance artist and choreographer whose work is influenced by feminist philosophies, with a particular interest in the readdressing the audience and performer relationship. Leah is a Production Assistant at Shoot Europe - a production house based London. And together they collaborate on Viva La Vulva - a celebration of female and non-binary sexuality. They discuss their careers, how their collaboration came about and their ambitions for Viva La Vulva. This is such a fantastic episode but sadly our recording conditions have impacted the quality of the audio - do be aware that the levels do vary a little throughout the interview. You can find out more about what they do and Viva La Vulva on their individual Instagram feeds: @jayrule and lia__air or via Jay’s website: jayrule.com 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E62 · Wed, February 05, 2020
Panel with Zena Birch - Humanist Celebrant
Must be love, love, love. We are kicking off February discussing all things love & creativity. Seriously, are there any better topics? And fitting to the occasion, we are joined by Humanist Celebrant, Zena Birch. She shares her creative journey, landing by accident her current role where she brings stories and ceremony together to annotate moments. We collectively discuss; Valentine's day and it's portrayal in the Media & Comms industry. We also talk about our experiences of our 'relationship status' in the workplace and reflect on the influence of 'being in love' has on creativity. Apparently, according to one of us, it gets in the way of being productive. Romantic! If you would like to find out more about Zena, you can do so here: zenabirch.com We also want to take this opportunity to let our wonderful listeners know how much we love them and do very much appreciate their devotion! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E61 · Wed, January 29, 2020
Business Director - Jane English
A combination of commerciality, creativity and kindness - this week's guest, Jane English is a Business Director for British broadcaster's Channel 4 (C4). Whilst studying a BA in English, Jane was unsure of a career path or role suited to her. It was whilst in the waiting room to see the university's careers advisor, she happened upon a copy of 'Campaign' magazine and at that moment knew she had found her calling. Positioned in Channel 4's in-house creative team, she talks about her role being made up of many strands; from strategy to nurturing and supporting the culture, ensuring C4 creatives can make the best work they can. Jane discusses learning to stay true to herself, having been underestimated owing to her 'being too nice' early on in her career. Naturally empathetic, she reflects that kindness sometimes results in hard nose decisions for the team. She also covers the launch of Channel 4's Menopause Policy in October 2019 - a first for the UK’s media industry! Its aim is to prioritise women’s health through private and temperature-controlled spaces, flexible working and paid leave if they are experiencing menopause symptoms. The ultimate objective is to destigmatise the condition and make it more visible - normalise something 50% of our workforce will go through. Jane is so inspiring through how she approaches her role, her drive to support others and her passion for making fantastic work. A gem of an episode - enjoy! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E60 · Wed, January 22, 2020
Animation Filmmaker - Kate Jessop
This week we are joined by multi-award winning Animation Filmmaker, Kate Jessop. She discusses her broad influences, which range from Jarvis Cocker to Dadaism and shares her creative journey - none of which she planned - from studying illustration, playing in bands, becoming a DJ and creating her own visuals which ultimately led her to filmmaking. She talks about her animation style and process, managing both her creative and mental wellbeing and reflects on her the difference between her and her forebearers working lives. You can see Kate's work & get in contact via her website: http://katejessop.co.uk/ and find her on both Instagram and Twitter @katejessopfilm. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E59 · Wed, January 15, 2020
Creative Brand Consultant - Davina Ajana
A balm for the ears and soul - a soothing listen! This week we are joined by Creative Brand Consultant & Founder of Lemons Me, Davina Ajana. We discuss her extensive design talents and epic career history. She has worked for a number of major global fashion and beauty brands: Clarins to TKMax to Boden (and everyone else in between). She shares the reasons behind setting up her own Creative Brand consultancy: giving her the freedom to explore her own creative style and the vital importance of being visible as a senior creative woman of colour. Focusing on startups and small business, her passion is to support - be present and nurture those going through the process - allowing them space and time to shape their branding. Davina also talks about Beenie Buds & Co - an online boutique toy store she set-up with her husband after she discovered she was pregnant and also being made redundant on the same day. Going strong, Beenie Buds & Co it celebrates it's 10th birthday this year. She also discusses the importance of growing talent - nurturing and supporting younger, less experienced members of her team and how much she has always enjoyed this element of any role or team she takes on. Davina's approach and generosity to what she does are completely inspiring - nurturing is the word! You can find out more about Davina and Lemons Me here: lemons.me and Beanie Buds & Co here: beeniebudsandco.com 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E58 · Wed, January 08, 2020
Data & Transformation Strategy Leader - Jennifer Clarke
Prepare yourself for a wild ride! This week we are joined by the incredibly exuberant, Jennifer Clarke, Data & Transformation Strategy Leader. Taking us on her creative journey, Jen talks about starting out in printmaking before discovering her love of data when doing her Masters in Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburg. On graduating, she moved into an Operations Analyst role before landing a job as Digital Strategist & Product Manager whilst simultaneously moonlighting in a freelance capacity, as Strategy Consultant for the banking, health and retail sectors. She also shares her experience at 'career transformation' event she recently attended, where she had to visualise a year before her own death to determine what was important her. Scary?! Yes, but she discusses how it completely reinvigorated her desire for change, prompting her to consult with her own personal board (made up of friends, peers and mentors) to work through ideas and thoughts on her next career move. An exciting year ahead by all accounts! Jen's positivity and humour are energising - enjoy! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E57 · Wed, January 01, 2020
Panel Discussion with Kate Bassett - Head of Content & Journalist
We kick off the new year... the new decade with the wonderful Kate Bassett - Head of Content at Management Today and a journalist. We discuss our personal and industry reflections of 2019, our thoughts of new year’s resolutions and share what we are hoping to achieve in the coming year. Plus, there is a lot of talk about breakfast and Greggs vegan sausage rolls (Kate’s slightly obsessed). We wish all our listeners a super creative 2020. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E56 · Wed, December 18, 2019
Art Director & Illustrator - Flavia Amaral
For episode 56 we are joined by the incredibly talented Art Director and Illustrator Flavia Amaral, in our first anti-podcast for Series 2. Flavia shares starting out in the industry. Working hard, developing her skills to become an Art Director but also returning to her creative beginnings, drawing, and how vital it was she nurtured this too. She talks about her love / hate relationship with being outside her comfort zone and completely surprised me, reeling off a list of unpredictable challenges she has done to ensure she pushes herself. One of those being 'clown lessons' - yikes! Her illustrative work is absolutely stunning and what a treat to have her share and design a bespoke element for our catch up. You can locate the anti-podcast on our Insta channel @greaterthaneleven - it will be in our Story and then saved to our Highlights. If you would like to find out more about Flavia and her work you can do so here or search for her on Insta @flamaral. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E55 · Wed, December 11, 2019
Founder - Kaleido Rolls - Laura Mimoun
For episode 55 we are joined by the super-focused foodie founder, Laura Mimoun. Laura shares her journey from studying business to being a very happy marketer when one evening she and her husband discovered/created salad rolls contained within rice paper. They knew they were onto a good thing and took a leap to found Kaleido Rolls . I think you will be able to tell by the interview - I'm a fan! They are so delicious and super healthy! Laura discusses finding inspiration everywhere, managing the fear and uncertainty she sometimes feels and the responsibility to the team she has built around the business. The energy and determination in which Laura possesses is infectious - it will definitely rub off on you. Enjoy! **Please note - we had a few minor issues with aircon at the time of recording. The sound does dip from time to time but levels out quite quickly after the intro. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 E54 · Wed, December 04, 2019
DJ & Label Manager - Alice Whittington
For our first interview for Series 2, we are joined by DJ & Label Manager, Alice Whittington - aka DJ Norsicaa. Alice shares how her love of music (and also hogging the iPod at office parties), led her to quit her job in education and administration to take a four-week course and set out to become a DJ. In the beginning, working long hours and often for free, it wasn't easy. But through grit, determination and with an ear for fantastic tunes & beats within a couple of years, she carved out a name in the music industry. Alice is now booked at nightclubs and festivals across the globe all year round and hosts a monthly show on Soho Radio and also on Foundation FM. Not only is she queen of the decks, but she also works as a Label Manager for Soundway Records, where she is responsible for the studio's PR, production, distribution, media, management and artist liaison. Alice discusses the importance of being professional, learning to know and stand up for your value and being a completionist. She is super passionate about music and heaps of fun! Enjoy. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S2 Enull · Wed, November 27, 2019
S2: Welcome to Series 2 of Greater than 11%
We are super pumped to be back with Series 2 of Greater than 11%. A few changes since we took a break at the end of September, all of which we cover in this episode but first and foremost we have tweaked the format a little. The beginning of every month will feature a panel discussion with Renee Vaughan Sutherland, Crystal Eisinger and a special guest. In between, Renee will still be interviewing awesome women about their creative careers and roles. This episode was intended to be a warm and short 'hiya we're back!' but impassioned conversations bubbled up covering inequality, unequal pay and things got political - which is not surprising in the current climate. Ursie Downes is now the shows fabulous producer and in the coming months will also be involved in interviews and panel discussions. It is great to be back! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E53 · Wed, September 18, 2019
Creative Director, Artist & Podcaster - Renee Vaughan Sutherland (Bonus Ep!)
In this very special bonus episode, Founder and Host of Greater Than 11% is interviewed by Ursie Downes. Renee discusses her career journey, from working as a conveyancing and law clerk, moving to France to work as an au pair, to London to studying for her degree and working as an artist and Creative Director. In Renee's own words, she doesn't 'know balance' and she talks us through her busy creative life, managing a team at London video agency, Hub, working as an artist... oh and starting a podcast! We discuss who Renee is inspired by creatively, her favourite moments from series 1 and what's coming up for series 2! You can learn more about Renee and her work here: http://www.r-v-s.co.uk/ 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E52 · Wed, September 11, 2019
Composer - Hannah Kendall
For our final episode in Series 1, we are joined by the incredible Composer, Hannah Kendall. Hannah discusses her early start in music: learning to play the violin at four years old. She shares how her love of all things music grew throughout her childhood and in her teens, she would go to the library each Saturday to loan Bach CDs. She confesses that she had never considered composition as a career, as she had never known or been taught about any women - or women of colour composers at school. She muses her career path as a result of an admin error when she was at university, which meant that she had to take an 'extra' class to make up her points to ensure she could graduate and it was in this class - 'composition' - that she found her calling. Hannah talks about her process; starting off with graphical representations of how she sees the music taking shape (this fascinated me) and the anxiety involved with starting a new project. Hannah 'keeps it real' whilst I consistently try and romanticise her creativity and talents in the interview - I have to be honest, I'm still in awe at what she does and creates, I mean just listen to her music (link below)! You can learn more about Hannah and her work here: hannahkendall.co.uk You can listen to her incredible work here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylxPYatC3w0 (& youtube for more). This concludes Series 1, thank you for listening and we will be back on air within a few short months. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E51 · Wed, September 04, 2019
Costume & Set Designer- Sophie Thomas
This week's guest is the gracious Costume & Set Designer, Sophie Thomas. Sophie shares, after careful consideration, choosing a creative path over following in her family's vocational footsteps and becoming a 4th generation Doctor Thomas. After completing an art foundation Sophie chose the costume and set design course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, realising it would give her more practical creative skills than an art degree. She discusses her love of collaboration within set & costume design and stresses the importance of the script to unlocking the creative imagination needed to take audiences on a journey within the theatre. With set & costume design roles mostly being freelance, Sophie shares her experience and some of the challenges she has faced as a result. Juggling jobs, late payments and trying to pay the rent meant that she had to reassess how she viewed both her role and her values. She discusses that putting in place some boundaries ensures she is able to keep being creative, healthy and happy. Sophie is articulate, thoughtful and wildly talented - a gem! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E50 · Wed, August 28, 2019
Events, Marketing & Communications Consultant & Founder - Emily Philp
This week’s wonderful guest is Event, Marketing & Comms Consultant and founder of Flex Events, Emily Philp. Emily shares her creative journey to discovering event management and her own surprise that she founded her own business. She discusses the importance of resilience and having a sense of humour; both when running an event but also in managing her company, 'because things will go wrong.' She also stresses the importance of having networks, meeting people and connecting and gives her top tip for getting around the awkwardness that networking events sometimes exude, 'see it as going out to meet friends'. She talks about the value of taking risks outside your comfort zone in your career and that by breaking down a focused leap into smaller parts boosts your confidence (and is also a thrill) when you achieve it. It is evident in how Emily describes her career that she loves running events. Having witnessed her calm, creative expertise up close at Creative Equals' Rise event in May, I can definitely testify she is truly passionate and talented in what she does and how she does it. You can find more information about Flex Events here: www.weareflexevents.com/ 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E49 · Wed, August 21, 2019
Strategy & Operations Lead - Crystal Eisinger
This week’s amazing guest is Strategy & Operations Lead at Google, Crystal Eisinger. Crystal describes her approach and flavour to strategy and operations, stressing the most important element is ‘empathy,’ especially when it involves change. She discusses her life-changing ‘gap year’ in the industry with multinational professional services network, Deloitte, before she went to university. Sharing, that the knowledge and confidence she learnt, set her up to take more risks in her career - not fearing being fired as she has a solid set of skills to fall back on. She also discusses her hybrid approach to communication: storytelling through a combination of Marie Kondo’s ‘Spark Joy?’, Sam Conniff’s ‘Be More Pirate’ and Brené Brown’s ‘The Power of Vulnerability.’ A voracious reader herself, she talks about the book she is currently writing titled; ’How to Lean in When You’re Not the COO of Facebook’ - aimed at those starting out on their career path, giving practical advice and insight on intention setting. She also lets us in on her secrets for how she remains focused and zen: lots of Bikram yoga, tuning into to Radio 4, going fishing with her father, reading, plus a good dash of Love Island whilst enjoying chicken wings. Crystal’s courageous and thoughtful energy is infectious, she will without a doubt sweep you up in her creative fervour. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E48 · Wed, August 14, 2019
Author, Board Game Creator & Domestic Violence Service Manager - Sahdaish Pall
This week's guest, Sahdaish Pall is a creative polymath! She is an Author, a Board Game Creator (two to date!) and a Domestic Violence Service Manager but it doesn't stop there. She also is a co-founder in S.W.A.N, a Community Interest Group whose aim is to develop positive change in the community and to inspire, develop and empower women to live confident and fulfilled lives. She has also published a cookbook, written articles for the likes of the Guardian and won numerous awards for her talents and community work! Sahdaish discusses writing her two fiction books: The Perfect Match & The Perfect Dress, her process and how she self-published. She shares using the 'chick-lit' genre to broach and promote an awareness of domestic violence and how to find and access support and help. If you would like to find out more or buy the Perfect Match you can do so here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Match-Sahdaish-Pall/dp/1326479423 or The Perfect Dress here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Perfect-Dress-Sahdaish-Pall/dp/1326479032 She also talks about her current project - creating and launching her second board game titled 'Fair Play.' The game helps educate primary and secondary school students on systems of abuse, identifying unhealthy behaviours and how to respond and get support if need be. The game launched a week after we recorded the interview and has already been well received. If you would like to find out more about 'Fair Play' you can do so here: http://www.genderequalitymatters.co.uk/fairplay Sahdaish's creativity, kindness and energy are epic, she works on all her creative projects in addition to her full-time job as Domestic Violence Service Manager. It is a tough role, which often encounters some of the dark moments but she shares how she has learnt to focus on the positive changes that can be made in recovery for those that she works with. She also discusses not getting the opportunity to go to university when she was younger and how this sometimes creates a dip in self-belief (despite all the bloody amazing things she does) and that she has to remind herself not to be too critical but rather focus her attention on reflecting on all that she has achieved. She is a huge advocate for giving things a go, being determined and making it happen. Sahdaish is INCREDIBLE! Her constant focus, on how to use her creativity to help other peoples' lives better, is so inspiring! Be ready to be blown away! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forev
S1 E47 · Wed, August 07, 2019
Global Head of Brand - Cristina Loaiza
For episode 47 I am joined by the wonderful Global Head of Brand at Graze, Cristina Loaiza. A healthy snack company founded just ten years ago, Cristina discusses the fast pace at which Graze operates and how this helps keep the internal brand team nimble - being able to make decisions quickly. She talks about her challenge: not being quite sure what she wanted to do when leaving school and then university before she found (and fell in love with) marketing. She shares that for a period of time, she felt this early career uncertainty slowed her progression but with hindsight has discovered it has actually been a bonus - giving her more experience and a broader perspective. Cristina, one of the co-founders of Futures (along with the fabulous Visha Naul: Episode 43), provides an overview of how the Network is structured, her role within the leadership team and how important it was to her, to be able to create something that supported other women in the media and communication industry. Super energetic and to the point, Cristina lays out the demands and intensity of the Global Head of Brand role with effortless ease. Enjoy. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E46 · Wed, July 31, 2019
PR Expert & Founder - Lucy Werner
For episode 46 we are joined by PR guru and strategy ninja, Lucy Werner. She is also the founder of The Wern: a specialist communications consultancy and training hub for startups, entrepreneurs and independent brands. Initially focused on being a journalist - she discovered and fell in love with PR after doing a week's work experience in her teens and becoming pretty shit hot once she got her foot in the door. She discusses the challenges of working in an agency versus in-house and how always being given the difficult clients was fantastic training but ultimately lead her to create her own path. Lucy is passionate about supporting other small startups and is super selective about who she works with. She shares the value of keeping your focus on your ambition and not being sidetracked by others notion of the ‘ideal’ direction or route. We nabbed Lucy just before she went on maternity leave and are pleased to be able to congratulate her on her new addition to the family that arrived between recording and release of this episode! You can find out more about Lucy and The Wern here: thewern.com 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E45 · Wed, July 24, 2019
Director of Strategy & Innovation and Podcaster - Zara Bryson
This week we are joined by Director of Strategy & Innovation and podcast founder & host of 'Who's Next,' the fabulous Zara Bryson. Zara's energy is infectious! Not only does she discuss her role, but she also shares, with gusto, her love of maths, which is more about overcoming confidence blockers as much as it is about maths. Never been a fan of the subject? There is a chance you'll be a convert after listening to Zara's zeal on all things maths & problem-solving. With ambitions of being a human rights lawyer, she studied a Bachelor of Laws at Birmingham University. On graduating she sidestepped into market research. She quickly became frustrated with insight often being an exercise rather than a catalyst and became eager to move into strategy. A role shrouded in mystery, she wasn't sure of the route to reach her ambition. Having persisted & securing the position she was focused on, she talks with passion and energy about how much she enjoys her current job. Zara also shares the importance of asking for help or career guidance and through doing so, the potential to getting to where you need to be quicker. Zara also talks about her incredible podcast 'Who's Next' which focuses on shining a light on brilliant women and providing inspiration for all. She shares the reasons behind her initial procrastination getting it started, how much she has enjoyed the process and the connections she has made. You can find it on Soundcloud , Spotify and most podcast platforms. You can also follow 'Who's Next' on Instagram: @whosnextpoduk for updates and emoji-tastic posts! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E44 · Wed, July 17, 2019
Manager of Brand & Campaign Planning - Evelyn Marfo-Sackey
For episode 44, I am joined by Manger of Brand & Campaign Planning, Evelyn Marfo-Sakey. In between making me laugh a lot, Evelyn shares her career journey starting out as a secretary and realising quite quickly that she wanted to be doing something a little more exciting. Through her own tenacity, she moved into an account planning role within a creative agency. A job she loved and set her in good stead for her current role as Manager of Brand & Campaign Planning. She discusses the differences between working for agencies compared to an in-house creative team for a brand and the evolution of her role, for her current employer TJX Europe, who is responsible for brands such as TX Maxx and Homesense. She talks about progression challenges, biases and microaggressions that were previously part of her work life and the revelatory hindsight she experienced when she recently read, ‘Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible' by Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinené. Evelyn is heaps of fun with lashings of cheeky energy - I could have easily chatter to her for hours! Enjoy! You can find out more about Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible here: bit.ly/30Gzks1 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E43 · Wed, July 10, 2019
Co-founder & Industry Partnership Lead - Visha Naul
An energetic treat of an episode! Visha Naul is Google’s Marketing Lead for Industry Partnerships, but this isn’t her only role, she is also one of the co-founders of WACL’s (Women in Communication London), Futures Network. Futures offer; support, mentoring, networking and facilitates events that are inspiring and encouraging for Future Leader Award winners. It also creates the opportunity and space for the exchange of knowledge & expertise. In addition, the Network provides advice and support for those applying for the bursary. At Visha's request, our discussions focused on the Futures Network; what it involves, who it is for and her role within the leadership team. Visha shares how she came to understand that she was 'just rolling along' in her career and it was when she applied and won the Future Leaders Award, that it gave her focus to start shaping her career in a more purposeful way. She talks passionately about the need for more platforms for women to discuss their role(s), achievements and the importance of believing in and encouraging others in their moments of self-doubt. She also discusses '#passiton - Know Your Personal Brand,' an initiative she set up with Nicola Kemp after she received an hour of one to one mentoring with Karen Blackett, Chair of Mediacom. The article, on Campaign, summarises and shares what she learnt so others can benefit. The hashtag has continued with others passing on their learnings and experiences. If you would like to know more about the Futures Network you can do so here: futuresnetwork.co.uk If you would like to know more about WACL's Future Leader Award and how to apply you can do so here: wacl.info/about/future-leaders-award/ You can read Visha's article on the campaign here: campaignlive.co.uk/article/passiton-know-personal-brand/1583379 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E36 · Fri, July 05, 2019
Chief Creative Officer - Karin Onsager-Birch (Bonus Ep!)
Karin Onsager-Birch is the creative powerhouse and award-winning Chief Creative Officer at FCB West. In this bonus addition to episode 36 (recorded at the wonderful Creative Equals: Rise in May 2019), Karin shares her creative journey and some of the lessons she has learnt along the way. She talks about some of her early experiences and observations such as all the interesting creative briefs were potentially being discussed and allocated in the men's toilet. She also shares the importance of leaning into your own difference and using that as a creative reservoir to create genuine and authentic work. At the event, she showed some of her early work for Nike which is currently unavailable online. You can access the other two campaigns she shared with the CE Rise audience - Clorox and Levi's, in the links below: Clorox - Clean Matters Levi’s - Circles Levi’s - Use Your Vote 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E42 · Wed, July 03, 2019
Theatre Development Officer - Marina Maleni 🇨🇿
For episode 42 we visited the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) and caught up with Theatre Development Officer, Marina Maleni. Marina studied a combination of Fine Arts, Sociology & Drama in Texas, returning to her native Cyprus to work as an actress, firstly in the theatre but then extending into film, tv & radio. She discusses how her current role at Cyprus Theatre Organisation (THOC) arose from a challenge and how moving from the stage to an office desk was a bit of a culture shock. Working to promote theatre across Cyprus; from partnering with organisations to collaborating with teachers ensuring the next generation gets an opportunity to experience the dramatic arts earlier on, Marina is truly passionate about what she does. Part of her role is also curation and she was in Prague celebrating her recent project by artists Elena Kotsavilli and Alexis Vayianos titled: Status Quo . The Prague Quadrennial devotes time and space to showcase the best of design for performance, scenography, and theatre architecture. Having held the position of Theatre Development Officer for nearly 19 years, Marina shares that one of the things she most enjoys about the job is that it creates endless opportunities for meeting and connecting with people. You can find out more information about the Cyprus Theatre Organisation here: thoc.org.cy and The Prague Quadrennial here: pq.cz 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E41 · Wed, June 26, 2019
Coder - Suze Shardlow
This week I'm joined by Coder, Suze Shardlow. Suze was fascinated by programming from a young age - citing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' as an inspiration. Ferris' character, played by Matthew Broderick, hacks into the school computer system to change the number of days he has skived. Suze was encouraged at primary school to explore computing but by the time she reached secondary school, with little access and no encouragement, the option to pursue it evaporated. Whilst her interest in coding never waned, she left school going on to achieve a BA in Business Studies and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing. Working for the London Metropolitan Police in a Senior Leadership role, she had a very successful and fulfilling career, but with coding in her blood, she took the opportunity to retrain when her role with the Met was made redundant. She has produced some awesome work, coding her way to connect the shy and introverted pre-events with 'Ice Breaker'. A programme that allows you to connect with others attending events via Meetup. She also has created 'Borro' which allows users to share household items. Suze is also a crafter, with a love for sewing, making anything from bunting to a pair of trousers. She discusses why craft and coding are connected and her passion for getting involved and providing solutions. You can find more about Suze and her work here: suzeshardlow.com 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E40 · Wed, June 19, 2019
Lighting Designer - Lucy Carter
This week I’m joined by the incredibly talented Lighting Designer, Lucy Carter. Whilst studying dance & drama, she discovered lighting or (in her words) ‘lighting found her.’ She began exploring the creative possibilities for her own assignments but before long she was working with her fellow students lighting their work. After her degree, she continued to pursue how to ‘paint’ with light, working with a number of theatres and dance companies by assisting and learning on the job. She went on to work with choreographer & director, Wayne McGregor when he initially set up Random Dance Company in the early 90s - a collaboration that has continued up until this present day. Lucy has travelled the world designing lighting for opera to art installations. She discusses, in detail, what is required for the role and how it is distinctively collaborative by nature - which keeps her interested and passionate about what she does. If you don’t know if you’ve seen Lucy’s work (& that is part of the joyous mystery of what she does) do a search on YouTube - it is INCREDIBLE! Huge kinetic panels of light shaping and framing a space, pools of light patterned on the stage floor beautifully choreographed with performers and a piece with no bodies at all! So many former guests requested to hear from a gaffer or lighting designer discuss what their role involves - I’d say we were successful in getting one of the best! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E39 · Wed, June 12, 2019
Photographer - Kasia Wozniak
For episode 39, I’m joined by the outstandingly brilliant photographer, Kasia Wozniak. She discusses discovering wet plate collodion photography, capturing her imagination and teaching herself the process from Victorian manuals in the British Library. For those of you unsure - wet plate collodion is a camera/photography process, from around the 1850s. A big wooden box, a lens and black piece of cloth at the back. You have to prepare chemicals on either glass or aluminium plates in complete darkness before loading them into the camera. If capturing people, depending on the light, they will need to sit still for a period of time to ensure they register more than just a blur. Taking us through the process and the challenges it presents, Kasia shares how she uses this technique in fashion photography and portraiture often resulting in feeling like the camera itself, is a time machine. Kasia is wonderfully generous and curious about people and it is evident in her photographs. Her connection with her subjects slowly reveals itself the more time you spend looking at her imagery. Her photos have a precarity that gently lures you in and before you know it, you’ve lost hours completely mesmerised going from one image to the next. You can find out more about Kasia and her beautiful work on her website: kasiaw.com 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E38 · Wed, June 05, 2019
Theatre Maker, Experience Designer & Founder - Åste Amundsen
This week I’m joined by Åste Amundsen. She is a theatre maker, experience designer and founder (and so much more). Åste shares growing up in intentional communities and attending a Steiner School, which validated the freedom to explore things she was interested in learning. In her early teens and after hearing the scientist, James Hansen talks about the impact of climate change, she joined an environmental group and went to protest, in what was then Soviet Russia, scaling factories to hang banners by way of eco sabotage. She describes 'career' as being foreign to her although she had an awareness at a young age; 'that you can’t tell people what to do or think’ combined with the profound understanding that we have a very short time on this earth to make impactful social change. This landed her in theatre. She shares how she saw theatre's potential to move people to act, to change, to conceive other ways in which the world could be, through transporting audiences into spaces that illuminated other pathways of thinking. Åste has formed a number of immersive theatre and performances groups and arrived at the idea of developing performance participation through wearable tech in 2008. She has also developed a series of systems for audience data harvesting, that creates the potential for personalised audience interaction in real-time. She breaks down in detail how data can be used in a way to entertain and educate, as opposed to the current mainstream focus, using it to 'sell'. She also discusses her current role as Immersion Fellow at the South-West Creative Technology Network and founding Computer-Aided Theatre (C.A.T), where she is focusing on developing a set of commercially available tools to address the limitations and challenges facing immersive event producers. Åste is incredibly thoughtful, intentional and driven and completely opened my mind to so much I had not considered, specifically around the use of personal data. If you would like to find out more about Åste you can do so on her website: asteamundsen.com 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/g
S1 E37 · Wed, May 29, 2019
Print Maker & Illustrator - Kate Gibb
For episode 37, we visited the wonderful Printmaker & Illustrator, Kate Gibb in her studio in north London. Kate discusses her creative journey, scraping into art school with a couple of charcoal drawings, through to having commercial success producing prints for the likes of Apple, Penguin and the Chemical Brothers. She shares her creative silkscreen process - unorthodox! Favouring happy accidents, the desire to ensure no two images she produces are exactly the same and valuing traces of what has come before being enmeshed within the fabric of image-making. Kate also discusses overcoming the challenge of giving too much emotional intensity to the success of a piece of work and often feeling exhausted and sometimes unhappy as a result. She stresses that caring a little less is vital to saving some creative energy to enjoy the final output. Kate's work is so beautiful, she has a way with shape, pattern and colour that burns into your retina leaving an indelible trace in your mind's eye. If you would like to find out more about Kate and her work here: kategibb.co.uk/ 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E36 · Tue, May 28, 2019
Executive HR Director - Liz Nottingham (Bonus Ep!)
Liz Nottingham is a super creative and award-winning Executive HR Director at R/GA. In this bonus supplement to episode 36, she discusses the ‘inner critic’ and how identifying it and separating yourself from it, can be a game changer to moving your professional and creative life forward. She also undertakes an exercise with the 300+ audience on our ‘body brain’ and how getting in touch with it means we can be more present in general. Liz is incredible, we loved this session of Creative Equals: Rise so much and were gutted we couldn’t squeeze it into the two-part released last week - but even better we can include it in full here. Enjoy All of Liz’s references are listed below. Rollo May - The Courage to Create Tara Mohr - Playing Big Dr Masaru Emoto - Science of Water Artgym 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E36 · Wed, May 22, 2019
Creative Equals: Rise - Part Two
For part 2 of episode 36 we continue with a number of fantastic interviews from Creative Equals: Rise, that took place on the 15th May (a week ago). In part 2 you will hear: A Fireside chat between Managing Editor, BITE Trends at Creativebrief, Nicola Kemp and Mary Portas , Founder & CEO of Portas Agency. A mentoring session with Ursie Downes , Assistant Producer at Hub and Natalie Graeme , Founder of Uncommon London. A really interesting insight from Commercial Director, Rosa Rola of Major Players, who are doing recruitment very differently. A snippet from the Fishbowl facilitated by Gemma Greaves , CEO of The Marketing Society, focusing on 'Imposter Syndrome.' And, Chief Marketing Officer, Abi Comber discussing what keeps her up at night and the importance of being bolshy. You will also hear from a number of people attending the Event and their experiences of the day. Creative Equals is all about inclusive creativity - creativity for all, designed by all you can find out more about their mission here: www.creativeequals.org 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E36 · Wed, May 22, 2019
Creative Equals: Rise - Part One
For episode 36 we were at Creative Equals: Rise, which took place on the 15th May (a week ago). Creative Equals is all about inclusive creativity - creativity for all, designed by all. You can find out more about their mission here: http://www.creativeequals.org/ The day unfolded with an abundance of incredible, inspiring and sometimes challenging; speakers, panels and a fishbowl! With my colleague and Greater than 11% alumni (episode 17 in the playlist), Ursie Downes, we set to capturing a flavour of the day. Episode 36 is split into two parts, owing to inability to cram all the goodness of the day into less than a one hour. In part 1 you will hear: Pip Jamieson , Founder and CEO of The Dots, discuss her role as the events MC and the importance of intersectional diversity. Ali Hanan , founder and CEO of Creative Equals share a temperature reading of where we are now and the focus for bringing about a more diverse workforce in her talk kicking off the event. The hilarious and infectiously energetic; actress, comedian and activist, Samantha Renke , discuss tokenism. Managing Partner of Econsultancy, Richard Robinson discuss the panel he chaired: 'What is Keeping CMO's up at Night?' From the respectively uber passionate Marine Tanguy of MTArt Agency and Mimi Gray , Head of Visual Content at M&C Saatchi, share the importance of healthy and well balanced Visual Diet . And, from incredible artist Adelaide Damoah after her performance - she shares her personal journey to becoming an artist. You will also hear from a number of people attending the Event and their experiences of the day. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: <a href="https
S1 E35 · Wed, May 15, 2019
Deputy Managing Director - Jackie Scully
For episode 35, I’m joined by the awe-inspiring Deputy Managing Director, Jackie Scully. Jackie breakdowns what her role, as Deputy Managing Director for Think Publishing, involves: a lot! No day is the same - from research & innovation to the organisation's profitability, through to content strategy for clients. She is also responsible for leading & motivating the team and talks about how important it is to manage with kindness and compassion and to support colleagues to find their edges - even if that means they may leave the organisation as their skills and ambitions grow as a result. She also shares her personal journey of being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 32 and how running 10km, at the end of her last chemo treatment, gave her focus and purpose. She hasn’t stopped pushing herself ever since! She has run marathons (even on her wedding day!) and trekked The Great Wall of China. Now five years clear of cancer, she has set herself five EPIC challenges. One she completed the weekend following this interview - a 66-mile walk, non-stop through the night around the Isle of Wight. The next one, in June, is a half iron-woman, she is then following that with climbing Ben Nevis, an ultra-marathon and then cycling coast to coast - all to raise money for charity! Towards the end of this year, she has plans for a non-stop 10-hour Spin session! I can’t deny I’m tempted by the Spinathon, which is baffling as I’ve never been to a Spin class in my life! Jackie does that to you - she has vigour that is infectious as it is inspiring! If you would like to donate to the incredible challenges Jackie is undertaking you can do so here: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/JackieScully 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E34 · Wed, May 08, 2019
Studio & Events Producer - Amarat Sehgal
This week I’m joined by the wonderfully organised, Studio and Events Producer, Amarat Seghal. Amarat discusses she had a real desire to work in the media industry from a young age. She studied Media at university, but on graduating found it really difficult to get her foot in the door. Her sisters and friends encouraged her to ‘westernise’ her name on application forms and she got a job for a major magazine publisher (this was only 18 years ago!!!) Not enjoying the experience and feeling dejected she got an administerial job at Thomson Reuters. She shares that during her 10 years at Reuters, despite many opportunities and career progression, she was craving more creativity and a real drive to get back to what she studied and really wanted to work in - media. She took a leap of faith, interviewed for a role at Bombora, a small start-up producing live webinars and streaming events, and was successful in securing the position as a producer - a role she loves and executes with absolute efficiency. Amarat breaks down what it is she does and how important working in a team you can rely on is. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E33 · Wed, May 01, 2019
Creative Designer - Tania Conrad
For this episode, we are joined by naturally inquisitive and adventurous, Creative Designer, Tania Conrad. Right up front, Tania sets the scene, laying out what graphic design is in its raw form. A subset of visual communication which, through the use of typography and imagery provides solutions and artwork for corporate design, editorial, packaging, experiential and wayfinding. Her role, as a Creative Designer, takes graphic design as a base and extends to include conceptual thinking and strategising to problem solve. When Tania left school, she had no idea what graphic design actually was. Thinking about career options, she knew that she couldn’t go to art school, as she need a solid career when she graduated in her native Brazil. She considered architecture, but realised projects take years to complete and that did not suit her curious and energetic nature. A friend suggested graphic design and as soon she understood it - she knew it was for her. She shares her journey of moving to the UK and completing a Masters in Communication Design at St Martin's, working for the BBC and going freelance before heading to Thailand to work remotely. Tania also discusses dealing with long bouts of depression, how it affected her and what she has learnt of going through it and coming out the other side. She also talks about recent experiences of sexism & ageism from creative recruitment agencies in London - something her peers and friends back up, as they too have been exposed to the same form of discrimination. Tania is delightfully forthright, extremely talented and I defy anyone to find someone else who says ‘fabulous’ as delectably as her. You can find out more about Tania and her work at https://www.taniaconrad.com/ 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E32 · Wed, April 24, 2019
Empathy Designer & Artist- Enni-Kukka Tuomala
For episode 32 we are joined by the wonderful Empathy Designer, Artist and Strategist, Enni-Kukka Tuomala. Enni is one of those people who shines brightly and you are immediately drawn to as soon as they walk in the room: kind smile, super smart, emanating positivity. Enni discusses what it is to sculpt a purpose from really listening to your gut and trusting your instinct. She focused on what shape that would take, carving into a functional role. Through combining all she has learnt; from her undergraduate degree in Classical Archaeology & Ancient History to working within advertising for five years, to completing a Masters in Global Innovation Design, as well as, being on the board for the London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT) - she arrived at Empathy Designer & Artist. She creates; tools, games, installations, experiences and environments that focus on creating empathy as the outcome, in addition to working with empathy. Enni connects people, communities and politicians aiming to transform empathy from an individual feeling to collective power. Bring it on! Enni’s role IS ESSENTIAL. She shares her creative journey, how she kept an ‘Empathy Journal’ (yikes!!) and discusses her current project ‘Campaign For Empathy’ - aiming to bridge the growing distance between communities during Brexit uncertainty in the London Borough of Newham. You can find more information about Enni and her work on her website: https://ennikukka.com/ You can find out more information and get involved in Campaign for Empathy here: https://bowarts.org/whats-on/exhibitions-and-events/campaign-for-empathy 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E31 · Wed, April 17, 2019
Jeweller - Lucie Gledhill
This week’s guest is the super creative and technically patient Jeweller, Lucie Gledhill. Lucie runs her own makers studio where she creates exhibition pieces of jewellery, collections and also teaches and runs workshops. Knowing herself to be a maker for as long as she can remember, her process is completely involved. She makes her own alloys - melting metals together, which gives her a complete understanding of how what she produces will behave. Conceptually she is drawn to myths and contradiction. One example is her exploration of the idea of what ‘chain’ is. Lucie likes to undermine and contradict the notion that ‘chain’ is to add strength and flexibility. From forming the idea, to learning the technique, through to making the piece: her unique one-offs can take years to produce. She is extremely patient and loves working slowly in a determined way. This focus couldn’t be more evident than in her piece titled, ‘Rope is Patient.’ An extremely long rope chain made of fine soldered wires that took a number of years to complete. I am in absolute admiration of Lucie’s examination of the perception of what we know certain things to be and then her subsequent acceptance in the process… in time, to develop and craft these ‘certainties’ into a new way of seeing or thinking. For those of you inspired to make your own jewellery you can find more information about Lucie’s teaching and workshops here: www.madebyore.com You can learn more about Lucie and her gorgeous work here: www.luciegledhill.com/ 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E30 · Wed, April 10, 2019
Dance Company Director, Choreographer & Consultant - Kerry Nicholls
For episode 30 we are joined by Dance Company Director, Choreographer and Consultant, Kerry Nicholls. You are in for a treat - Kerry is incredible. Not only does she run Kerry Nicholls Dance (KND), she has taken the many challenges that life has presented and fashioned them into skills and tools to propel her forward. She coaches, mentors, teaches, consultants, directs and choreographs performances across the globe. Kerry discusses what it is to set your own version of success, not being sidetracked by others projections of accomplishment. Charting her own course, she set up KND to flip the conventional approach to dance studios. Where most traditional dance studios focus on choreography and touring with a secondary element of education, Kerry placed education and professional development and the growth of others as the heart of KND in addition to choreography. She shares her passion for supporting dancers beyond the industry 'norms' broadening the expectations of dance in relation to body shape, gender and age. Pushing for change. Kerry is so inspiring and radiantly positive with her sense of self and her drive (I would say calling) to support and grow others creativity. She really reminded me, that sometimes the unexpected (or unwanted) can be a gift in disguise, it is down to how you perceive and manage it. You can find out more about Kerry and KND at: www.kerrynicholls.com 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E29 · Wed, April 03, 2019
Film Producer - Samira Musa
From script to premiering on the big screen (and everything else in between), this week's guest is Film Producer, Samira Musa. Samira started off thinking fashion was where her career lay before switching to film, completing a Film, Media & Cultural Studies degree. On graduating she got a runner job on an indie film and quickly moved up the ranks to become first assistant director. Once the production wrapped she felt well and truly broken, owing to the intensity and long days and decided filmmaking wasn't for her. She went and got "a proper job" (her words) as a marketing executive but after a few years decided to go back to film, working for a range of productions and for a number of companies. Samira discusses how she combined all her knowledge and direct experience to co-found The Creative Roots (TCR) with Alex De Silva. TCR is a production agency that aims to level the playing field, striving for diversity across the board, both in front of and behind the camera. She breaks down step-by-step what film producers do (a hell of a lot) and the techniques she has learnt to help her manage the many plates the role demands be kept spinning. Samira is full of creative and supportive energy with a laser focus on changing the industry, working from the ground up. It was totally awesome to discuss her creative journey, her career and vision with her! #legend 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E28 · Wed, March 27, 2019
Copywriter - Christina Olympia Angus
This week's guest is kick ass copy writer, Christina Olympia Angus. Whilst working as a PA in advertising agency, Christina and her fellow PA would steal creative briefs and then submit their ideas to the creative department. The tenacity paid off and one of their concepts ended up as a 10 second spot on TV. She then moved into the Creative Department as a copywriter, building up her craft over the past 15 years. Christina shares what skills are needed to become an exceptional copywriter, the importance of working in a team: with your day wife or day husband and where she seeks out creative inspiration - everywhere! Having just taken part in Creative Equals - Returners programme, Christina discusses the importance to drive an army of female creativity back into the industry to address the gender imbalance. The Returners scheme aims to provide women with the tools, knowledge and confidence to secure full-time or freelance employment after an extended career break. Christina also does more than copy! Concocted on night fuelled by gin, she meet her future side hustler, Kate Kate O’Sullivan in a pub and as a result Street Diner was born. It has gone on to become Brightons much loved and biggest weekly street food market. Christina talks passionately about championing local traders, how they set up the market and how her agency and copywriting skills cross over to help promote the weekly event. You can find more information on Street Diner at: streetdiner.co.uk Christina is full of colour and is super generous with her thoughts and experiences. It is completely energising to listen to her discuss both her copywriting career and managing Street Diner. Christina is currently freelancing and you can find further information about her and her work at: copychristina.co.uk 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E27 · Wed, March 20, 2019
Author - Jackie Ryan 🇦🇺
This week I'm joined by the multi-award winning and incredibly witty author, Jackie Ryan. A comic book series titled 'Burger Force', a spoof romance writing project called 'The Fanciful Fiction Auxiliary' and recently published book - 'We'll Show the World: Expo 88' are but a few of her creative outputs. She is prolific. Jackie discusses being inspired to write early on when given a 'creative writing book' in primary school and marveling at being able to make up stories and not get in trouble. She also shares her process and the importance of not rushing to put work out in the world, to take the time to edit - 'as like nudie photos once they are out there, there's no going back' - wise words! It was fantastic talking to Jackie, observing how she chews up pop culture and spits it back out with a familiar but salient twist. For further information on any of Jackie's wonderful work please follow the links: Jackie Ryan - http://www.jackieryan.net/ Burger Force - http://www.burgerforce.com/ The Fanciful Fiction Auxiliary - http://www.fancifulfictionauxiliary.com/ 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E26 · Wed, March 13, 2019
Live Sound & Studio Engineer - Nell Forster 🇦🇺
For episode 26, I’m joined by Live Sound & Studio Engineer, Nell Forster. Nell discusses how she found her way to sound engineering through her love of music, applying to do a music technology degree when she was 30. She also discusses the intricacies of setting up and running the sound for a live venue, the importance of establishing what people want when recording an album and her love for supporting artist develop their music. Nell is absolutely awesome, full of energy and shares a great deal of 'behind the scenes' for both live and studio recorded music. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E25 · Wed, March 06, 2019
Experimental Poet - Pascalle Burton 🇦🇺
This week I'm joined by the delightful and super talented experimental poet, Pascalle Burton. Pascalle’s poetic output meets at, and crosses over many creative junctions: writing, performance, visual, music, film, jewellery and zines. With both conceptual art and cultural theory being the seedbed of her work, she often responds to existing texts and imagery and transforms them into something new - extending the energy. Pascalle discusses her creative process and how editing - and not being precious - is integral to the final output. She also talks about her decision on how best to financially support her creative practice to ensure she has space, time and energy to focus on the work. Pascalle also performs four pieces of her work - through out the podcast! They are bloody fantastic! You can find more information on Pascalle and her work at: https://pascalleburton.wordpress.com/ 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E24 · Wed, February 27, 2019
Production Manager - Kelly Hewitt
This week I'm joined by Production Manager, Kelly Hewitt. Cool, calm and collected Kelly details what it is a production manager does, what skills are needed for the role and her techniques to ensure the many responsibilities of the role don't slip. She discusses the adrenalin rush she gets from the job, what keeps her up at night and her love of budgets (the bigger the better). She also shares her experiences on her first agency production and how despite including top models, panthers and a castle the advert never saw the light of day. Kelly is heaps of fun and a fantastic production manager. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E23 · Wed, February 20, 2019
Artist & Arts Educator - Marilyn Ford
This week’s guest is Marilyn Ford, arts educator and artist. Marilyn discusses her role as Head of Art, her love of teaching at special needs school and how this connects to her practice as an artist. She shares her drive to ensure that the process of artistic endeavour is at the heart of her students’ education by focusing on exploration, trying things out and making mistakes. Marilyn also discusses the importance of intuition in the classroom and not being rigid when things aren’t going to plan. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E22 · Wed, February 13, 2019
Digital Media Director- Jess Geary
This week I'm joined by Digital Media Director, Jess Geary. Jess, a self confessed digital evangelist breaks down exactly what digital media is, how it functions and how her role facilitates where content is places and then how it performs. She is also the founder of Margots, a resource that helps build confidence and grounding. She shares what lead her to produce a series of talks, the website and toolkits that gently promote self: work, empathy and compassion to improve wellbeing. You can find more information on Margots at http://margotsclub.com/ Jess has an incredible energy, is super generous and open with her experiences and was such a delight to talk to. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E21 · Wed, February 06, 2019
Principal of The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama - Helena Gaunt
This week’s episode is with the magical Helena Gaunt, Principal of The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Helena is a highly experienced musician - a professional oboist, a conservatoire teacher, professor, researcher and author. Prior to her current role she was Vice-Principal & Director of Guildhall Innovation at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. She is super passionate about in supporting others creativity both in their practice but also how they may apply their skills in a more commercial way to provide a service but also to earn a living. Incredibly articulate and dedicated to the arts, teaching and learning, Helena had me beaming from start to finish of our discussion- she is a wonder! She also brought her oboe and performed some improvised musical pieces which you can hear at the start and end of the podcast - they're fantastic! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E20 · Wed, January 30, 2019
Senior Colourist - Jet Omoshebi
This week I'm joined by Senior Colourist, Jet Omoshebi. With nearly 30 years in the industry, Jet has worked on numerous: films, tv series, music videos and commercials. She shares her early experiences in the industry - initially training as dubbing mixer but quite quickly being advised to 'go and learn to type as the role is too technical for you.' She states 'this was the best bit of advice as it made me really angry and I thought I'll show you!' She found her way into the telecine department of a post house and developed a career as colourist over a number of years. The grading of films is often shrouded in a bit of mystery but Jet breaks down the role, the skills you need, what she loves about her job and why she dressed 'as cop' for a number of years. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E19 · Wed, January 23, 2019
Production Designer - Anna Pritchard
This week’s guest is the infectiously enthusiastic Production Designer, Anna Pritchard. Anna initially trained as a goldsmith jeweller as a practical way to stay close to her desire to be a sculptor. She found herself making objects and props for films and made her way to Los Angeles to work for Paramount Studios for a number of years. During this time she discovered the Production Design department and loved the diversity of the roles within it. She returned to the UK and completed a Masters in Production Design at Kingston University and worked her way up through the ranks starting out as a runner at the age of 31. Anna is a force of energy - owing to this being a podcast and the inability to visually witness her gesturally animated descriptions, you can definitely hear them transmitted through her wonderful jewellery as she describes her love of the job and passion for learning. She has worked on many well know and large productions from Amazon’s Vanity Fair series to the BBC’s Top Boy. She breaks down exactly how a film and tv Production Design department works, what are the roles and what skills you require. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E18 · Wed, January 16, 2019
Advertising Creative - Scarlett Montanaro
This week’s guest is Creative, Scarlett Montanaro. Forging a career within advertising is something Scarlett knew, from a young age, she wanted to do. Since graduating from the London College of Communication in 2012 she has trailblazed her career - literally jumping on a flight to Singapore, the day she handed in her final year dissertation, for an internship at BBH. She then went on to land her first permanent job, on the back of a winning pitch within weeks of being at AnalogFolk followed by working on D&AD Pencil winning campaigns at AMV BBDO. She hit a crisis point when she was feeling unfulfilled by the projects she was working on and this instigated her to co-found Crack + Cider with Charlotte Cramer. Crack + Cider is a non-for-profit that sells practical supplies online for people to give to their local homeless population. Scarlett is full of creativity energy and her focus of using her talents and skills for making positive changes in the world is awesome! If you would like more information on Crack + Cider you can visit the website: https://crackandcider.com/ You can also read Scarlett's - 'Lazy Girls Guide to Starting a Successful Project' on Huffpost: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/scarlett-montanaro/starting-a-business b 9845714.html 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E17 · Wed, January 09, 2019
Assistant Producer - Ursie Downes
This week's guest is the wonderfully dynamic Assistant Producer, Ursie Downes. Relatively early in her career, she shares her journey from solely focusing on working in fashion, to making a decision to explore other options on graduating from the London College of Fashion in 2016. From research to running events, Ursie breaks down exactly what an assistant producer does - a lot! She also generously shares how she manages anxiety and the things she does to ensure she stays well and healthy. I'm lucky to work with Ursie on a daily basis - she is fun, kind, talented and with masses empathy. #sheisawesome 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E16 · Wed, January 02, 2019
Artist - Michelle Williams-Gamaker
Happy New Year! This week’s guest sublimely ushering us into 2019 is artist, Michelle Williams-Gamaker. Michelle discusses her own artistic journey; graduating from a BA in Fine Art to working a 9-5 job, moving to Holland and returning to London a few years later, completing an MA & then PhD all the whilst making work and getting to know her practice. She also shares her love of celluloid film, the vitality of having a creative discussion with other artists and the value of taking time to pause. Michelle is a wonderful human being and incredible artist - she is also is a trooper who pushed on, despite being poorly at the time of recording and lost her voice the minute we finished! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E15 · Wed, December 19, 2018
Senior Strategist - Alexandra Waring
Alexandra Waring is Senior Strategist for global advertising agency RAPP. After graduating with a degree in Modern Languages, Ally wasn't exactly certain of her exact career ambitions until she discovered the role of 'Strategist,' whilst interning and knew it was for her. Her path to becoming one was more like a quest, where she encountered many set backs but she triumphed and has gone on to win many awards for her talents. Ally shares her difficulties in finding a role that suited both her creativity and logical thinking, the discrimination she experienced in job interviews and the importance of being stubborn. We love Ally, she has simmering energy of creativity and an aura of tenacity! 🧡🧡🧡 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E14 · Wed, December 12, 2018
Executive Creative Director - Lauren Pleydell-Pearce
Lauren Pleydell-Pearce, Executive Creative Director for PWC. Coming from a design background, Lauren has worked for many big global agencies such as Wunderman, Fabric and Razorfish. She discusses her current role and learning new ways of working - without a brief 😱. She also shares how she manages her responsibilities - imbedding ‘deep working time’ within her daily schedule and the importance of setting objectives as a way of driving your career and personal development forward. Lauren is super generous with her thoughts and experiences as well as being heaps of fun! 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E13 · Tue, December 04, 2018
Editorial Art Director & Artist - Alexandra Zsigmond 🇳🇱
Alexandra Zsigmond is an editorial art director and artist. She worked at the New York Times for a seven year period on the Sunday Review and Opinion sections. In this episode, Alexandra discusses managing tight deadlines (on a weekly basis), the importance of research for fuelling creativity, the need to take time to develop her own art practice and her interest in visual metaphor. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E12 · Wed, November 28, 2018
Head of Programme & Chief Curator at Modern Art Oxford - Emma Ridgway
This week’s guest is Emma Ridgway, Head of Programme & Chief Curator at Modern Art Oxford. Emma discusses her take on the remit of public art institutions as being an expression of intense emotional responses to the world by artists. For those visiting the gallery, it is a space to reflect and dwell on their responses to the art work through immersing themselves into someone else’s perspective. She also discusses that she sees art being a form of education and not separate from it and reflects on how this informs her process in both programming and curating. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E11 · Sat, November 24, 2018
Social Engineer - Rina Atienza
Rina Atienza is a social engineer, cultural producer and historian. In this episode, Rina shares her creative journey - one that has often taken leaps into the unknown. She discusses what we see, hear, experience exists through different evidences - social artefacts or objects within the communication space and the importance of play to open up new possibilities and can bring about change. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E10 · Wed, November 14, 2018
Motion Designer - Mari Continenza (Anti-Podcast!)
In the first anti-podcast on Greater Than 11% is with Mari Continenza, an incredibly talented Motion Designer. Mari was born and trained in Italy, before packing up her two cats and driving to London about five years ago. When Mari was asked to appear on the podcast she declined, in short because ‘English isn’t her first language!’ So not to be constrained by verbal communication, we hatched a plan which we labelled as the anti-podcast. The full interview can be found on story highlights on the Greater Than 11% Instagram account @greaterthaneleven. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E9 · Wed, November 07, 2018
Graphic Designers, Educators & Advocates - Lucienne Roberts & Rebecca Wright
This episode features not one but two awesome women! Design: makers, educators and advocates and the founders of GraphicDesign& - Rebecca Wright and Lucienne Roberts. They discuss design’s ability to inform and connect and the importance of designing with and for empathy. They assert that designing isn't just a neutral act but it comes with responsibilities beyond being the mouthpiece for other people's messages. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E8 · Wed, October 31, 2018
Documentary, Film & Opera Director - Penny Woolcock
Penny Woolcock is an multi-award winning documentary, film, tv and opera director. In this episode, Penny discusses her career and her approach to filmmaking, the importance of real diversity - casting people who can play the roles in her films and how she went from directing films to directing an opera at New York's Metropolitan. She shares practical advice for directing and making films: preparation, hard work and tenacity and the importance of surrounding yourself with knowledgable and supportive crew. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E7 · Tue, October 23, 2018
Director, Model Maker & Stop Motion Animator - Astrid Goldsmith
Astrid Goldsmith is a multi-talented, award-winning Animator, specialising primarily in puppet stop motion. She has worked on many projects including some well known adverts such as - The Alaphant for Ford Fiesta, The Duracell Bunny and in a very recent addition, the troll in Nike's Never Ask campaign. In this episode of Greater Than 11%, Renee and Astrid discuss the process of using Bolex film cameras and how Astrid created numerous grey and red Squirrels for her masterpiece that is Squirrel Island. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E6 · Tue, October 16, 2018
Graphic Designer - Rina Cheung
Rina Cheung is a Senior Designer who has worked in many industries including: fashion, music, film, the arts and media. Her skills extend to designing for print, online and film. Working in art departments for feature films, she produces both video and photo shoots. This week on Greater Than 11%, Renee and Rina talk through the changes in the industry and the way in which these changes have impacted the way we work today. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E5 · Tue, October 09, 2018
Makeup Artist - Hannah Wastnidge
Hannah Wastnidge is a freelance Makeup Artist who works across a range of industries. From fashion to music, film and campaigns. Hannah has worked on photoshoots for magazines such as ID and runway models for London and Paris Fashion weeks. In this episode, Renee and Hannah talk about the road to becoming a freelance makeup artist and the creative processes that inspires her work. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E4 · Tue, October 02, 2018
Art, Poetry & Fiction Writer - Maria Petrides 🇨🇾
Maria Petrides is an Independent Writer whose practice includes poetry, art and fiction. Maria has won a number of awards for her writing and is also one of the co-founders of ‘pick nick’, an artist collective that brings together various practices of research to facilitate collaborations between artists, writers and curators. On this episode of Greater than 11%, Renee and Maria discuss the ways different languages and translations can completely change a narrative. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E3 · Tue, September 25, 2018
Cinematographer - Anna Valdez Hanks
Anna Valdez-Hanks is a Cinematographer who has shot a number of British films such as Mile End and the recently completed Hope Gap, which is currently in post production. In this episode, Renee and Anna discuss the pathway to becoming a successful cinematographer and some of the challenges faced along the way. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E2 · Wed, September 19, 2018
Editor for TV & Advertising - Laura Francies
Laura Francis is a Senior Editor who has worked for a range of broadcasters such as Discovery, Sky and ITV. She has worked on documentary's that include Race of Their Lives and The Big Blue. On this episode, Renee and Laura talk about the process to becoming a successful editor and some of the challenges that arise as a result. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
S1 E1 · Mon, September 10, 2018
Costume Cutter & Assistant Designer - Basia Kuznar
Basia Kuznar is an Assistant Designer and Cutter who has been part of the costume department for a vast number of Hollywood and British films, as well as series for the BBC, Netflix and Amazon. This week on Greater than 11%, Renee interviews Basia to find out more about her path to creativity, as well as her experience in her role. 🛎 We need your help pushing for change: a more diverse creative industry within years, not decades. Please share the podcast with others who you think may be interested or benefit! 💓Leave us a review/rating and we will love you forever: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/greater-than-11/id1435811372 Be sure to follow us: 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/greaterthaneleven/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gre4terThan11 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/greater-than-eleven/
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