Man Versus Brand

MLK is a man, a mood, a day, a celebration, a conversation. Martin Luther King Day is much more than 24 hours, so I want to share with you a conversation that's focused on All Of The Things related to humanity's icons during the week of MLK. It’s a talk on being impactful, flawed and in the forefront. Brand architect, designer, developer, creative director and culture scholar Benjamin Turbinton IV...

Let's kick off the year with a list of which public figures and brands need a 2022 Resolution. We are a little over a week into the new year and the general consensus around the new year is to skip it like a filler episode in a Hulu series. So what can you do? You can let the year happen to you or you can happen to it. Make your list, check it twice and plan out what you want to accomplish. And if...

It’s gotten real this holiday season and I think we should talk it out. Santa better be double vaccinated with a booster shot this year. I’m going to take you through the different definitions of the word “boost” and how each of them apply to what’s going on right now. Fights, flights cancelled, Pfizer, it's all interconnected but definitely not QAnon. Omnicron is definitely not a principle of Kwa...

Sports Bar, Grill on The Hill hosts a gang of colleagues, friends and old clients so we can have a good conversation about everything, and I mean everything. We cover Only Fans, intellectual property ownership, NFTs, bad contracts, politicians as public figures, journalistic objectivity, life authenticity, cancel culture, all over 50 cent wings. This is the good life!! Are we really doing a live t...

Carl Myrie talks about being a life-time multi-disciplined artist, contemporary art history, his experience as a Kehinde Wiley subject, loving creativity and the process and why media, Karens, childhood trauma and brands are potentially evoking the worst in us.

Paul WIlliams is masked down, cammed up and conflicted about looking the part, questioning if office and respectability politics can really help or hurt your career advancement and why you deserve to be confident.

Crystal Wright is a Honduran product manager who takes over teams, grows them into beasts, gives reality stars advice in Spanish, all the while moonlighting as an exceptional wedding planner. Let’s go...

Kazz Alexander talks business dress code, pronoun usage, finding joy in your career and why your Executive Director might be way funnier than you think.

I give five compelling reasons why you should listen to the podcast but not in a top five format, because that would be sooo simple that it becomes extremely complicated like Theranos or the Fyre Festival.