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Jo welcomes Thas Naseemuddeen, CEO of Omelet, an independent creative agency in LA.

Thas took a non-linear path in her impressive journey to the top; a career-trained strategist, she’s strategically built and championed work with brands such as Target, Google, and Pepsi at agencies that include BBH, Deutsch and TBWA Chiat/Day.

Now as CEO, Thas continues to push the boundaries (and definitions) of our industry. Notably, she’s on a personal mission to democratize business for creative people and the inverse; to make creativity more accessible to business.

TOPICS COVERED:

- Training Olympic-level ice skaters

- Thas’ recipe for success

- Being Canadian born, US based, and the proud daughter of immigrants

- Never half ass-ing things, including classical piano as a teenager

- Correcting yourself without anyone noticing

- Studying cognitive science, the precursor to AI

- Getting an MBA and then unintentionally landing in advertising

- The original goal for cognitive science, regarding AI, and why that brings optimism

- Work to be envious of

- The power of our industry to move people to action

- Being told you can’t and using it as fuel to accelerate

- Creating an environment, as a CEO, where people can thrive

- Democratizing business for creative people, and the inverse

- Things that leave a bad taste about this industry

- Meeting Elmo – a beacon of hope

- A yearning for a return to kindness as the default

Thas’ Doggy Bag of Advice:

- Being true to yourself

- Following your curiosities, regardless of whether it’s ‘cool’

- Fostering radical joy

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Jo welcomes the creative leader and AI artist, Sherina Florence, onto the podcast.

Sherina is an ECD and, now, a Chief Creative Architecht and co-founder with the firm belief that if you change thinking, you change behaviour. And if you change behaviour, you change the world.

Over the course of her career, she’s led creative work for agencies including 72 and Sunny, Ogilvy, and Dentsu Global – delivering pitch-winning and award-winning work for brands such as Reebok, Sonos, Smirnoff, Unilever and MANY more.

But her work hasn’t just won awards and new business, it even contributed to the release of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay.

Concurrently, in culture, she’s fully embraced AI as an artist – exciting curators around the globe.

Topics covered:

- Sherina’s recipe for success

- The importance of consciousness

- Asking for 3 life-changing gifts at age 3, including a desk

- The importance of people who believe in you

- Going beyond the brief and creating real change

- Viewing a$$holes differently

- Embracing AI for creativity and art

- How we might use technology and data to preserve culture

- The limitless opportunities that Gen AI brings

- The importance of critical thinking

- Sherina’s Doggy Bag of Advice, including:

- Why you must protect your imagination

- ‘Use the stickers’.

- The importance of kindness.

Link to the school Sherina attended https://creativecircus.com/

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Jo welcomes the UK Editor of Campaign, Maisie McCabe, onto the podcast.

Masie is a journalist who’s spent her career reporting and commenting on TV, advertising, technology and the marketing industry. She’s written for a vast array of news platforms, including The Independent, The Sunday Times and Dazed - but for many years, she’s been a consistent voice at Haymarket Media Group, both for Campaign and Media week – rising to be the UK editor of Campaign in 2020.

In this episode we discuss what the future of the advertising industry looks like, and much more.

Topics covered:

- Maisie’s recipe for success

- Why creating relationships is key

- How saying you came from Bradford helped weed out racists

- Growing up in the hometown of David Hockney and other artists

- Dropping the ambition to be a doctor on Ibiza with a speedboat

- How an interest in history fuelled an interest in the now & the future

- The effect of advertising on society and the power of creativity

- The Cannes Lion fakery scandal this year

- What shape of work could and should win at Cannes

- What it’s like to be the UK Editor of Campaign

- Responding to criticism of Campaign

- Predictions for the future of the industry

- The decline of female creative leaders; why and how we can address the issue

- Writing a book, set in an alternate universe

- Feeling confident about the future of the industry despite the pressures

- Maisie’s Doggy Bag of Advice

The Michael Rosen blog Maisie mentions regarding learning to read: https://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/how-do-you-become-fluent-at-reading-ruth.html

The museum near Maisie's childhood home: https://bradfordmuseums.org/cartwright-hall-art-gallery/plan-a-visit/

The mill she worked at: https://www.saltsmill.org.uk/

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Jo welcomes Creative Director, Rebecca Rowntree, onto the podcast.

Rebecca is passionate about creating ideas that move people. Full of curiosity, she likes to push boundaries wherever possible – believing that there’s a better advertising world out there. To honor that belief she created a platform called ‘Get Sh*t Done’. In its event-form, large audiences collectively brainstorm to help tackle various issues. All part of Rebecca’s goal to help create positive change.

So, if you want to ‘Get Sh*t Done’, take a listen.

Topics covered:

- Rebecca’s recipe for success.

- Why it’s important to collect good people.

- Knowing yourself & living as yourself.

- Organising events and collective energy.

- AI – the need for more women at the forefront.

- The continued lack of female role models in leadership.

- ‘Damned if you do and damned if you don’t.’

- The complexities of having an opinion as a female creative leader.

- Channeling frustration into change.

- How ‘Get Sh*t Done’ was born.

- 3 dinner party guests of choice.

- Seeing yourself as part of the solution.

- Rebecca’s Doggy Bag of Advice.

- Inc. feeling petrified and doing it anyway.

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Jo welcomes the Chief Creative Officer of Amazon, Jo Shoesmith onto the podcast.

Jo is a multi, award-winning creative leader. Born in rural Australia, she began her career at BBDO Melbourne before moving to Leo Burnett. Jo then moved to the US where she worked on a variety of brands ranging from Allstate Insurance to Kelloggs. Jo’s next move saw her take a role as a Chief Creative Officer at IPG’s Cambell Ewald, where she led creative, strategy, and production across three offices in New York, LA and Detroit.

In 2020 Jo moved brand-side to Amazon, where she is currently CCO, leading global and cross-channel creative teams to deliver consistently award-winning campaigns.

Topics covered:

- The 3 ingredients of success.

- Growing up in rural Australia like Huckleberry Finn.

- Realising that life as an artist would be too solo.

- Hiring for talent AND temperament.

- Living wide-eyed and how it fuels creativity.

- Moving from agency to brand side – how it differs.

- Why the best decisions have four legs.

- Sitting on the other side of the table for idea presentations.

- Why you should never give the internal team the same brief as the agency.

- Working with talent like Megan Thee Stallion and Adam Driver.

- The secret to creating consistently outstanding work.

- The lack of (and now declining) number of female creative leaders.

- Why a lack of diverse voices will hurt the work.

- Role models and leadership style.

- AI, change and the future.

- Jo’s Goody Bag of Advice

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Jo welcomes the brilliant Tiffanie Lee to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

Tiffanie was once a project manager in the fashion world by day, and a music and arts journalist by night. She’s Taiwan made, Rural Midwest born, Los Angeles raised, and New York based. A creative unicorn, Tiffanie is adept at delivering intrepid copy, concepts and campaigns for a variety of brands from ADT to Walmart. She's worked ­at a variety of agencies from BBDO to McCann Worldwide and is currently a Creative Director at Dentsu Creative, NYC.

Topics covered:

From art school ‘drop-out’ to Creative Director.

- The 3 ingredients of success.

- Feeling destined for a different place.

- Realizing the dream to move to New York.

- Quitting piano lessons, pursuing creativity.

- The skills required to be a Creative Director and beyond.

- How to feed good ideas or copy.

- The ‘I wish I did that’ campaign.

- Loving the camaraderie of this industry.

- Burn out and the lessons we can all take.

- AI, the impact on creativity, now and in the future.

- The 3 guests of choice for the ultimate dinner party.

- Gratitude for a career that facilitates ‘play’.

- Why you should go to bed when your dog goes to bed.

- Tiffanie’s Goody Bag of Advice

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Jo welcomes the legendary Rebecca Sowden to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

Rebecca previously played professional football for the New Zealand national women's football team. Today she combines her sporting expertise with her marketing passion in the shape of Team Heroine, an organisation built to help sponsors, sport organisations & media UNLEASH the value of women’s sport.. In 2023 she was recognised as one of the top eleven people in the world to progress women’s football, partly due to being behind the incredible campaign: Correct the Internet - which highlighted and corrected bias against sportswomen on the internet. It, quite rightly, picked up multiple awards including a Cannes Lion Glass, and 3 Gold Cannes Lions.

Topics covered:
- The 3 ingredients of success.
- Becoming a professional football player against the odds.
- Working hard to go to the Olympics and missing out.
- Realising the journey is as important as the destination.
- Running out for the first time to play for New Zealand.
- Having children alongside career ambition.
- The journey of IVF through country moves and COVID.
- Overcoming personal and career obstacles.
- Mixing professional footballer insight with advertising experience.
- Seeing the opportunity and founding Team Heroine.
- Correct The Internet – the multi-award-winning campaign.
- How internet searches are omitting sportswomen’s achievements.
- The negative impact of an internet biased towards male athletes.
- Creating impact from the top down and the bottom up.
- Stats: female athletes have higher engagement levels.
- Stats: female sports are more relatable, progressive & family-friendly.
- So why aren’t more brands sponsoring female sports?
- Michelle Kang – donating $30m to women and girls’ soccer in the US.
- Rebecca's Doggy Bag of Advice.

Team Heroine: https://www.teamheroine.com/

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Jo welcomes the renowned Laura Jordan Bambach to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

Laura has led some of the biggest and most creative agencies in London, and is a founder and Chief Creative Officer at the UK’s first fully female founded agency, Uncharted. Some of her entrepreneurial activities outside the day job include co-founding SheSays: a global network, working to get more women into creative industries, and Oko, an app-based business growth and career development programme.

Alongside all of this, she is a regular speaker, award-jury-chair, author and artist.

Topics covered:

- The 3 ingredients of success.
- Being in the boys’ team and lobbying to be in the scouts.
- The epiphany created by a clitoris-themed political poster.
- The belly-fire to create space for others in this industry.
- The Great British Diversity Experiment and its findings.
- The leadership approach that creates the best work from a diverse team.
- The ad industry is promoting the wrong skills for good creative leadership.
- Why dangerous ideas need a safe space.
- Unchartered Studio, the first all-female-founded creative agency in London.
- 3 as the magic number of founders.
- Fulfilling numerous extra projects on the edge of the day job.
- Creative awards, the pros and the cons.
- The different agendas that decide what good work is.
- Creative is the key revenue driver, not a product or ‘nice to have.’
- AI, a powerful tool in creative hands.
- Wanting to see creative move back to the centre of the business.
- Laura’s Doggy Bag of Advice.

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