The Crazy One

The relationship and trust between creatives and their clients are one of the most important parts of the creative process. In this episode, we will look at how to build a solid foundation with your clients, the importance of trust, how you can training bad traits out of difficult clients, avoid problems by including them in the creative process and some basic tips to building rapport. SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-38-creative-direction-building-stronger-relationships-with-your-clients-even-the-difficult-ones/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

One of the biggest challenges comes from company executives who throw out ideas that are blindly followed instead of taking the time to understand the real problem. In this episode, I will walk you through the most common places where this happens and how you can overcome it to let your team be creative and empowered.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-37-creativity-how-to-stop-executive-interference-in-your-creative-process/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

Answering listener questions about how you can pick the right time to ask for a raise or promotion, the best way to negotiate your raise, how you can get remote teams to work together more seamlessly, and a discussion of how companies should value and hire creative talent.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-36-listener-questions-when-do-you-ask-for-a-raise-making-remote-teams-work-and-valuing-creative-talent/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

In this third in a 3-part series, we will look at implementation which is the final phase of Design Thinking where you bring the insights and concepts to life in prototyping, testing, and final delivery. Then we will look at some of the ways you can bring Design Thinking into your team.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-35-design-thinking-part-3-implementation-phase-and-building-it-into-your-culture/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

The second in a 3-part crash course in Design Thinking. In this episode, I will teach you how to take the insights you found through your research in the inspiration phase and start to brainstorm ideas by learning how to craft ‘How might we’ statements and the 7 rules for running a better brainstorm.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-34-design-thinking-part-2-ideation-phase/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

The first in a 3 part series on Design Thinking that will teach you all the important parts of this methodology that I learned while becoming an IDEO-certified Design Thinking trainer. In this episode, I will give you an overview of all of the parts of Design Thinking and then explore the first inspiration phase, which consists of research and synthesis.SHOW NOTES:http://www.thecrazy1.com FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter: https://twitter.com/sdgatesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sdgates/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CrazyOnePodcast

The world is always changing around us and we need to be able to see these changes because they give us the opportunity to create disruptive ideas. In this episode, we will teach you lessons in non-traditional disruption from different industries and how you can learn to overcome cognitive bias to spot these opportunities before everyone else.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-32-disruption-create-game-changing-ideas-by-seeing-opportunities-before-anyone-else/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

Answering listener questions about how to figure out what salary you should ask for, and how to show your company the value of an in-house creative team.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-31-listener-questions-setting-your-salary-and-showing-the-value-of-an-in-house-team/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

Companies want creativity like never before but very few of their internal creative teams have been empowered or supported to be able to take advantage of this demand. In this episode, I share everything I've learned from my career about how to successfully position, empower, and fix in-house teams.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-30-client-side-creativity-how-to-fix-broken-client-side-creative-teams/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

Presenting to your team is one thing but speaking in front of a crowd of strangers is a whole different challenge. In this episode, I share everything I've learned about crafting presentations and some of the tips and tricks I've learned that will help you become a better public speaker.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-29-public-speaking-how-to-become-a-great-public-speaker/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

I’ve had a lot of successes and challenges over the course of my career but they all taught me some important lessons. The goal of this show has always been to try and share all of this in the hopes that it can help you not repeat those mistakes. In this episode, I share the most important lessons I’ve learned in 6 different areas to help you have a more successful and creative career.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-28-career-advice-everything-important-ive-learned-in-my-career-so-far/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

I ask people "Do you know what you need to be happy?" and very few of them can answer that question. That is important because there a correlation between self-awareness, happiness, and creativity. In this episode, we look at why happiness is an important part of creativity, understanding how being happy is a part of your process, and understanding decision fatigue.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-27-creativity-the-importance-of-happiness-in-creativity/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

A continuation of Episode 1 ‘Lightbulbs are bullsh*t’ that helped you understand your creative process, we now look at how to better develop your creative palette to evaluate your work, find new areas of insights and opportunities, and judge the quality of those insights.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-26-creativity-creativity-is-a-blue-collar-profession/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

Atomic design is not a linear process, but rather a mental model to help us think of our user interfaces as both a cohesive whole and a collection of parts at the same time. In this episode, we will walk you through the basics of building all the pieces of an Atomic Design Language, how to roll it out to your team or company, and scale it in your organization.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-25-digital-design-what-are-atomic-design-systems-and-why-are-they-the-future/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

Getting design to work with agile methodologies can be a real challenge because agile is a software methodology that works well at iteration and struggles with creation. In this episode, we will walk you through the basics of agile methodologies, the most common problems for creative teams, and share some tips for how you can make agile work with your design process.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-24-process-making-design-work-with-agile-methodologies/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

A replay of my conversation with Scott Morrison, formerly head of marketing at Levi’s, Activision and Diesel, at the Fifteen Seconds Festival about leadership, creativity and how we approach our work and careers.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-23-leadership-my-talk-with-scott-morrison-at-the-2016-fifteen-seconds-festival/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

You have to be able to build rapport with your clients because they need to trust and believe in you and your team so your ideas actually see the light of day. In this episode, we explore the 5 things you can do to build stronger leadership, partnership, and rapport with your clients and team.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-22-business-5-ways-to-build-rapport-with-your-clients/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

A replay of my sold-out session from Adobe MAX 2016 'Success is a choice' that walks you through how to foster a culture that creates strong leadership, grows creativity and understand the most common leadership blind spots and what you can do to overcome them.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-21-leadership-success-is-a-choice-from-adobe-max-2016/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

I had the incredibly rare opportunity to have dinner with luxury retail developer for properties like Hudson Yards and the World Trade Center, Ken Himmel, and three Michelin Star chef Thomas Keller at his restaurant Per Se in New York City. We discussed their approach to creativity, leadership, building culture, hiring, and more.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-20-creativity-insights-from-my-dinner-with-chef-thomas-keller-on-creativity-and-culture/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook 

Digital technologies are constantly changing so how do you create experiences that stand out from the crowd? In this episode, we look at the 4 emerging trends you can use to create better digital experiences for web sites, mobile apps, social media, wearables, and emerging technologies.SHOW NOTES:http://thecrazy1.com/episode-19-digital-design-4-trends-that-will-define-the-future-of-uiux-design/ FOLLOW THE CRAZY ONE:Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook