The Badlands

In this instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking with Natalia Brightmore, Natalia describes herself as a Marketing Generalist with 2 decades experience working in all aspects of marketing. But like many others she still finds herself in the Badlands for the first time in her career, and like others job hunting is proving to be challenging at the moment but Natalia has additional requirements due to...

In this instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking with Rachel King, Rachel is a highly experienced Creative Director with 3 decades working at the BBC and ITV with stints at other broadcasters to boot. However in spite of all that history and experience she still finds herself in the Badlands for the first time in her career after an out of the blue redundancy.  We discuss her time as a Creative lea...

In this instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking with Phil Dearson about all things A.I. as Phil is Chief Strategy Officer and A.I. Advisor at Obsolete.  Phil and I used to work together many years ago at a Digital agency here in London and back then he clearly knew his stuff and still does to this day. So I thought he would be a perfect person to talk A.I. given its permutation into everyday life...

In this weeks instalment of  @TheBadlandsJDC    I’m talking with Celia Muddimer, Celia is an (ex) Marketing Director, Director of Performance Marketing and all round Marketing specialist. Today we discuss how and why she is in the Badlands, what she has been doing with her time. The importance of networking and her desire to move into a Fractional Portfolio of roles and her view on why it’s smart...

In this weeks instalment of The Badlands, it takes another slightly different turn as I'm talking with Anna Coscia, Anna is ex Global Planning Director at a number of major Agencies but now a Leadership Coach and Yoga Teacher. She had her time in the Badlands but made her way out in her own way, by changing careers. Today we discuss how and why she transitioned from Global Planning Director to...

In this instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking to Jo Janssen, Jo is an experienced Marketing Director having worked at numerous well known FMCG and Alcohol brands, but even with all that experience she unfortunately finds herself in The Badlands for way longer than expected. Like many other highly experienced marketeers and agency folk. We discuss her experiences job hunting, the importance of st...

In this instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking to Fi Robertson, Fi is an experienced Brand Director and Business Director having worked both agency and client side, but even with all that experience she unfortunately finds herself in The Badlands. Like many other highly experienced suits. We discuss the ups and downs of job hunting, her frustrations with the process but also some of the weird sil...

In this instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking to Steve Price, Steve is a highly experienced Creative Director and Design Director, having had a successful and constant freelance career over the last 2 decades, he like many other freelance creatives finds himself in The Badlands for way longer than ever before. We discuss the ups and downs of job hunting, the horror of silence, his efforts to hel...

In this instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking to James Bailey, James is a highly experienced Design Strategist, Product Designer and Service Designer, but unfortunately finds himself in The Badlands for way longer than he expected. We discuss the ups and downs of job hunting, his theories on what is happening on the Service / Product design sector, the need to diversify oneself and some of the w...

In this instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking to Lucas Bergmans, Lucas is ex Group Marketing Director of Cazoo, formerly of Aviva, Money Supermarket.com, Pepsi, Heineken to name a few little brands he has worked at and managed over the last 25 years, but unfortunately he still finds himself in The Badlands, for way longer than he expected. We discuss the ups and downs of job hunting, the importa...

In this weeks instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking to Rikke Wichmann-Brunn, Rikke is ex CEO of MRM, she has had a stellar career at some of the biggest agencies in the UK and Denmark over the last 25 years, but unfortunately she finds herself in The Badlands. We discuss the importance of staying optimistic, knowing ones self worth, and how saying no to things is still important in your job sear...

In this weeks instalment of The Badlands, it takes another slightly different turn in a change from regular scheduled programming, I’m talking to Rosie Macphail, Rosie is a recruiter at Major Players and responsible for Senior marketing appointments. We discuss the state of the market, the green shoots of positive change that Major Players are seeing, along with some great tips on CVs and communic...

In a change from regular scheduled programming, this weeks instalment of The Badlands takes a slightly different turn, I’m talking to Hasan Khair, Hasan is the CEO of Mavericks Unlimited and Tyllr, he is an exec Coach, mentor and an Ikigai Master (it will make sense when you listen). We discuss how one might go about looking at changing careers, moving into other areas, identifying passion areas a...

In this instalment of The Badlands, I’m talking to Katrina Vines, Katrina is a Managing Partner level Agency suit, she has worked at lots of the big agencies in the last 20 years as a contractor but for the first time in her career finds herself wandering The Badlands like a lot of others. We discuss having TWINS during Covid, the importance of Self Worth, and how saying No to things is still impo...

In the next instalment of the Badlands, I’m pleased to welcome David Byrne, David is an ex Ad guy that made the move client side a few years ago, but now finds himself in wandering The Badlands like a lot of others. David and I have not worked together before, but we know a lot of the same characters in the London Ad world. (All of whom will remain nameless in this chat). We discuss composting, to...

My first chat wandering The Badlands is with David Brewerton, David was part of a client team that I had the pleasure of working with a few years ago now, and like me he finds himself in between jobs a little longer than he expected or hoped. In this conversation with David we discuss his career experience, his job hunt techniques, and also if wearing pants on the school run is mandatory. David is...