Start where you are
Aniya Roslan
It’s normal to look at ambitious goals and feel daunted by the journey ahead. It’s also human to look at people and compare how you’re doing.
Good ads wear in, not out
Seb Mackay
There’s this fallacy that, even if it’s working, an ad should only be run for a couple of months before audiences will get sick of it.
Venture capital is not runway
Lauren Howard
Raising money doesn't alleviate pressure. It creates new pressure. It creates literally millions of dollars worth of pressure,
More women should control their own destiny
Effie Kanyua
We still have gender and ethnicity pay gaps, and women seem to burn out at a much higher rate.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Brian Jung
I worked for a mobile tech start-up in San Diego in the early 2000s. This had some rockstar founders. I was part of their round one of hires.
DEI is treated as a trend
Daynah Singh
I said something in a fit of frustration that’s been rolling around in my mind ever since: DEI was made for us, but it's killing us.
Happy people don’t wreck themselves
Sophie Lee
Hundreds of pounds of gear a week, normalised by the ‘well, everyone else is doing it’ narrative.
Sensationalism is destroying public discourse
Joan Westenberg
We need responsible journalism: thorough research, unbiased reporting, and a commitment to providing readers with meaningful insights.
Share experiences not advice
Joe Glover
It acknowledges a bit of humility but also nods to the biggest truth of them all: there are rarely silver bullets.
Growth, no matter what
Adriana Tica
I nearly killed my digital marketing agency by onboarding the wrong clients. I fell for the stupid “growth or perish” mantra.
Holding hands with the agency president
Kevin Lynch
I had been a copywriter in advertising for about three years by then, which was just long enough to know I didn’t belong in that room.
Saatchi Kate and Addict Kate
Kate Smith
By all conventional measures, I was highly successful..but by 2004, I was struggling with addiction to alcohol.
It’s just media, we aren’t saving lives
Frankie Coia
I’m a big believer that work ‘fuck ups’ shouldn’t be impacting your own personal wellbeing, so you should never be going home feeling anxious.
Self deception
Omar Oakes
What I fucked up was not being honest with myself. Self-deception is almost always the root cause of any big mistake.
D-list people and upsetting spies
Steve Price
I’ve had some projects that have landed with a bang, but nothing close to nuclear.
It took me 10 years to recover my confidence
George Tannenbaum
That job, getting fired, and eighteen months of failing to overcome mediocre work set me and my career back.
Pigeonholed
Harry Lang
In the beginning, it was fun, but after a few jobs over a few years, the sheen faded, and I was… stuck. Pigeonholed.
Selling dreams rather than deliverables
Atem Mbeboh
Buzzword-driven strategies that lack substance take away from creating value for clients through meaningful connections with their audience.
Blonde PR girl of the week
Kat Jackson
I get very upset about how PR is portrayed, as glorified spin doctors or the glam, constantly partying consumer PR image.
Trusting people to run my agency
Adam Pritchard
When I realised that staff had lied, been lazy, and we were losing accounts left, right, and centre, it sent me into a spiral of anger...