Agency Land

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17. Ian Rumsby - Accessibility, Curiosity and Judgement

Agency Land ·

2026/10/08

Ian Rumsby has a theory on judgment that cuts against everything you've heard about experience. Most people assume tough situations sharpen your judgment automatically. Ian's spent decades watching that fail: plenty of people go through brutal experiences and come out the other side with terrible judgment anyway.His read: judgment is sensory. Not taught, not earned through hardship alone, but built through exposure, curiosity and a level of self-awareness most people skip. "Judgment is the habit of

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00:56:26

17. Ian Rumsby - Accessibility, Curiosity and Judgement

Agency Land ·

2026/10/08

Ian Rumsby has a theory on judgment that cuts against everything you've heard about experience. Most people assume tough situations sharpen your judgment automatically. Ian's spent decades watching that fail: plenty of people go through brutal experiences and come out the other side with terrible judgment anyway.His read: judgment is sensory. Not taught, not earned through hardship alone, but built through exposure, curiosity and a level of self-awareness most people skip. "Judgment is the habit of

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00:43:07

16. Darren Burns - What Asia Taught Me About Leadership

Agency Land ·

2026/10/01

After 26 years inside the network, Darren Burns is back on the outside, asking what comes next.Darren Burns has spent more than two decades building and leading agencies across Asia Pacific. From a one-year plan to study Mandarin in Taiwan to leading major PR operations across China, Singapore and the region, he has worked through the boom years, the hard decisions and the constant change that comes with agency life.In this conversation, Darren talks about moving from a directive leader to one who

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00:46:19

Nichole Provatas - Cultural Matchmaking

Agency Land ·

2026/09/08

Nobody knows exactly what they’re doing. Some people are simply more comfortable moving before they have the complete picture.For Nichole Provatas, confidence is not certainty. It is knowing what you know. Knowing what you don’t. Then getting on with it.Now Managing Director, Australia at Sling & Stone, Nichole joins Jye to talk about saying ambition out loud, becoming a beginner again and the luck, trust and discomfort that polished career stories tend to leave out.She also makes the case for a

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00:58:57

Stanley Johnson - Never Let Good Get in the Way of Great

Agency Land ·

2026/08/26

Stanley Johnson has spent more than three decades in advertising, from writing commercial-real-estate ads and mastering the discipline of hundreds of headlines, to leading creative teams across agencies, technology businesses and brand transformation projects.In this conversation, Stan unpacks the difference between being a good creative and being a creative leader; why a creative director’s job is to help make ideas happen; the internal doubt that can keep you sharp; and what burnout taught him

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00:49:12

Oliver Weidlich - UX & Empathy at Scale

Agency Land ·

2026/08/17

Oliver Weidlich has spent decades years inside every major shift in how humans and computers talk to each other, from triple-tap Nokia keypads to Palm Pilots, from the iPhone moment that finally made UX matter, to spatial computing years before Apple Vision Pro existed. He built Contxtual (formerly Mobile Experience) not to scale into an agency of hundreds, but as what he calls a “lifestyle company,” small, specialist, and deliberately built around the work he wants to do rather than the work that

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00:24:18

Strategy Hotline - What are we calling this thing?

Agency Land ·

2026/08/10

Stop Asking Your Client To Do Your Job For You!Strategy Hotline is back. Sophia Brockman returns with real questions sent in from agency people, brand side, freelancers, and consultants around the world, and Jye answers them live, no prep, no mercy.This one covers building in public (and when not to), whether to take the podcast ad partnership, what to do when a client hands you a brief for "everyone 25 plus," and a new closing segment where Jye puts Sophia on the spot with zero warning. Her answer

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00:22:06

12. Jayden Garcia - Get Out And Do It

Agency Land ·

2026/08/03

Jayden Garcia did agency land backwards. Studied finance and law, worked at Westpac, then started a run club with his two best mates called Runday. The content took off, so they quit their jobs, started a production company, picked a name so safe it meant nothing, then rebranded to Pool Party. Now they run a creative studio and music venue out of Erskineville and never asked anyone's permission to do it.This one's about looking good as a strategy, friendship as the foundation and the liability, and

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00:46:06

11. Alex Adams - By Night I Was Ms Darlinghurst

Agency Land ·

2026/07/14

Alex Adams was a brand manager at Red Bull, did a year in PR she hated, then built a career most agency people only talk about. Ms Darlinghurst, then the food blog Eat Drink Play, grew to over 100,000 newsletter subscribers. Secret Foodies, running secret location dinners across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. A partnership with Diageo. And now Darling Crackles, a specialty hospitality marketing agency.She got married and divorced in the same month last December, married to her husband, divorced

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00:44:34

Gary Bertwistle - Why Marketing Is Broken

Agency Land ·

2026/06/30

Gary Bertwistle has never run an agency, never held an agency title, never sat on an org chart. He's still spent more time in agency rooms than most agency people ever will.This is the episode about the gap between the career you're supposed to build and the one you're actually for.Gary takes Jye from his Austereo days running promotions in the rock and roll era of radio, to the keynote speaker who walked out of a senior corporate role with no fallback plan, to the founder of the Ideas Vault who

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00:26:30

Sara Servan - Anyone Can Design A Logo.

Agency Land ·

2026/06/23

Anyone can design a logo. Strategy decides if it works.That's Sara Servan's whole philosophy, and it's the thread running through this entire conversation. Sara crossed three continents before she ever ran her own studio. Northern Spain to Rome to Hong Kong to Sydney, picking up languages and global brand work along the way, until she landed on the thing most designers never get told out loud: the craft was never the hard part.In this one we get into design as an actual language, her first night in

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00:49:53

Ashton Bishop - You Don't Need To Outrun The Lion

Agency Land ·

2026/06/04

Ashton Bishop has been running Step Change for 17 years. He started it mid-GFC with no clients, no money, and no plan — as a protest vote after finding a coup being plotted against a friend dying of cancer. That friend was Gav Larkin, and that friendship was the genesis of R U OK? Day.In this episode, Ashton talks to Jye about the real cost of ambition: 23 courses of antibiotics in a year, the hedonistic treadmill that burned through his health in his 20s and 30s, and what he learned when COVID

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00:43:44

Gavin Heaton: Ideas Are Cheap

Agency Land ·

2026/05/27

Gavin Heaton has had more career chapters than most people have jobs. From accounting dropout to IBM champion to agency creative to redundancy survivor to founder of Disruptors Co, he's broken things at every stop, including his own role, more than once.In this conversation, Gavin talks about what IBM really teaches you when you're willing to run servers under your desk, what "relevance deprivation" feels like when you go from 300 people on your floor to 30, and why getting made redundant at the top

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00:57:09

Sophia Brockman: The Best Strategists Think Like...

Agency Land ·

2026/05/19

Sophia Brockman started as an intern at Wagner Edstrom in Seattle, moved to Australia at 25, spent 11 years at one agency through three rebrandings, pivoted from account management to strategy, and eventually left agency life entirely for a global in-house role in London. In this episode, we talk about why the best strategists think like detectives, the moment she stopped suppressing the skills that made her great, why agency is bootcamp for everyone in comms, and what it really costs to give your

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00:55:32

Julian Cole: You Can Find the Answer, But Can You...

Agency Land ·

2026/04/30

Julian Cole grew up in the industry. His parents ran a TV production company and told him two things: start your own agency, and you'll be washed up by 45. He started at Naked, pioneered comms planning in Australia, then moved to New York as a strategy director at BBH despite never having written a brief or worked with a creative team. He spent two years making zero work and wondered if he'd ever be found out. Then he led comms planning for the PlayStation 4 launch, the highest selling console in

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00:45:03

Clive Burcham: Your Real 10X Is What You Survive

Agency Land ·

2026/04/30

Clive Burcham left home at 15, talked his way into a regional TV station, and by 16 was writing, producing and directing his own show. He went on to become the creative director of the Comedy Channel by 25, built the Conscious Organisation into one of Australia's defining social media agencies, sold it to WPP, bought it back for a fraction of the price, survived the GFC, helped set up Nestle's first digital acceleration team across 29 countries, and became a founding partner in Global Citizen, which

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00:38:36

Kady O'Connell: Your Business Is Not Your Worth

Agency Land ·

2026/04/30

Kady O'Connell moved from Ireland to Sydney knowing nobody, got deported after leaving a toxic agency that was holding her visa hostage, turned that into seven months of travel, and came back to build Kady Creative from a kitchen table into an award-winning branding agency that built over 200 brands. Then in 2025, she closed the doors. Not because she had to, but because she wanted to.In this conversation she talks about the dopamine addiction of agency chaos, wrapping your entire identity in a

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00:53:53

Jonathan Pease: The Conditions Are Always Perfect

Agency Land ·

2026/04/30

Jonathan Pease started his career at BBDO New York, came back to Australia, co-founded Tong (an ideas agency he sold to STW/AKQA), judged Australia's Next Top Model for five seasons, launched a fashion label into 13 countries, and is the founding creative director of Sown Hearts and Minds, which has raised close to $100 million for medical research. He also wrote Winning the Room, a book about pitching that belongs on every agency person's shelf.In this conversation he talks about what BBDO New York

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00:44:08

Katja Forbes: Stop Shrinking So Others Can Swallow You

Agency Land ·

2026/04/30

Katja Forbes founded an agency, sold it, ran design for the company that acquired her, wrote a book, and somehow taught at university through all of it. In this conversation she talks about the loneliness of being a sole founder, why the maths of mid-sized agency life rarely work, the moment she claimed her space in a room full of men, and why asking for help is the only real survival strategy in agency land.Find out more and get a copy of Machine Customers https://www.thecxevolutionist.ai/Got a

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