The Great Design Lead Podcast

Kendra Rainey is Director of Strategy and Content at Edgar Allan, a brand to no-code-build Webflow enterprise partner based in Atlanta, GA and Buenos Aires, Argentina. She's also a Midwesterner living in the American South, a mother, wife, musician and educator. She gets on her soapbox as often as she can to preach about content-first web and product design and how collaborative practices and...

Ben Celiński is a Webflow Developer and UX/UI Designer originally from Poland but now living in Dublin, Ireland. Listen to stories about moving countries, work-life balance, and the four day work week. Contact Guest: Ben Celiński Email: bencelinskidigital@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benedykt-celinski/ Website: https://www.bencelinski.com/ Twitter: @ben_celinski - https://twitte...

Grace Walker is an independent designer and Webflow developer working to build beautiful and functional experiences for the web. Listen to stories about design school, family, and relationships, as well as a reminder to live for yourself rather than living to meet other’s expectations. Contact Guest: Grace Walker Email: hello@gracewalker.ca Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walkergrace/ Websit...

Ioana Teleanu is a UX designer, coach, and teacher who is now running the UX bootcamp, Mento Design Academy. She has built a sizable Instagram following as a UX resource for thousands of beginner designers all around the world. She and Anfisa Bogomolova also co-host the Honest UX Talks podcast, which is where I heard my first stories of UX design. Ioana is a major role model for me,...

Ezekiel Rochat is the owner of ROCSHIP, a web firm in Knoxville, Tennessee. Listen to some beautiful stories of family, love, and growth in discomfort. You may not know that Ezekiel is one of nine siblings, worked as a DJ in his early twenties, and discovered webflow by chance in a passing comment made by a friend. Contact Guest: Ezekiel Rochat Email: ezekiel@rocship.com Linkedin: https://www.link...

Keith Armstrong is the Founder and CEO of Flow Sparrow, a Webflow design and development agency that focuses on monthly management and development projects for clients across North America. Listen to the story of a skater turned DJ turned Webflow agency owner. Contact Guest: Keith Armstrong Email: keith@flowsparrow.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-armstrong-a13627ba/ Instagram: @kei...

Chris Lacey is the Co-Founder of Beyond, a digital marketing agency in the UK. Listen to the story of a Spalding kid who grew up sketching and playing ice hockey. Despite his elementary school report card discouraging him from artistic endeavors, Chris and his partner, Emma, have worked with some of the world's biggest brands, helping them enter the digital age. When he's not helping clients...

Emma Fieldhouse is the cofounder of Beyond Agency. Listen to all of her adventures, from waiting tables in the Agrabah Cafe in Disneyland, Paris, to taking a risk and leaving her first career, teaching, to build an agency with her partner, Chris. Contact Guest: Emma Fieldhouse Email: emma@beyond.agency Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emma-fieldhouse/ Instagram: @efieldhouse - https://www.ins...

Harry Roper is a designer and the founder of Imaginary Space, a creative agency that makes websites for fashion companies. He also hosts a YouTube channel where he teaches what he's learned about agency life. Listen for stories of self-reflection, life lessons, mentorship, life lessons, and the wisdom of a Bulgarian friend. Contact Guest: Harry Roper Email: harry@imaginaryspace.co.uk Linkedin...

Pablo González Day is a designer at MURAL and Youtube content creator with IBtech. Hear about Pablo doing his primary school homework in a submarine, performing in musicals in his twenties in Argentina, and creating weekly tech videos for the past three years. Contact Guest: Pablo González Day Email: pablog@mural.co Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablogday/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/pabl...

Elsa Amri is a Visual Designer, Adobe XD Ambassador, and Mentor Community Advocate @ ADPList. Listen for stories of travel, design, family, and Emily’s semi-accurate summary of One Punch Man. Contact Guest: Elsa Amri Email: elsa.amri@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elsa-amri/ Website: elsaamri.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/elsaaamri YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWOz...

Arnau Ros is a Barcelona-based product designer. Listen for stories on freelancing, podcasting, and YouTube, as well as a great Gary Vaynerchuk impersonation. Contact Guest: Arnau Ros Email: hello@arnau.design Website: https://www.arnau.design/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ArnauRos Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arnau_design/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/arnau_design Fun Links: How To...

Jeremy Beyt is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer at the creative agency, Three Sixty Eight. Listen for stories of growing up with his friends in New Iberia, Louisiana, skydiving with his dad, and the persistence it took to build an award winning agency like theirs. Contact Guest: Jeremy Beyt Website: https://threesixtyeight.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-beyt-8064366b/ B...

Raymmar Tirado is the Chief Marketing Officer at Finsweet. Listen for stories of grit, persistence, life, and no-code. Contact Guest: Raymmar Tirado Website: https://raymmar.com/ Website: https://www.finsweet.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/raymmar_ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Finsweet Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raymmar/ Referenced in the episode: Sarasota 2017 Town Hall: https:...

Brigitte Cronje is a teacher by day and an artist by night, and right now she’s working on a children’s book. Listen for stories of culinary school, world travel, and the Happy Hippos NFT. Contact Guest: Brigitte Cronje Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/brigitte_paints Website: https://www.brigittepaints.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brigitte_paints/ Hippos! Instagram: @thehipposnft...

Matt Carroll is a brand strategist and copywriter who owns the brand company Big Big Story. Listen to his story of growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania, living the first half of his life as a pastor, and now teaching business, developers, and designers how to better communicate their brands and ideas. Contact Guest: Matt Carroll Email: matt@bigbigstory.com Website: https://www.bigbigstory.co...

Nikolai Bain creates websites that increase user signups and generates content for other developers to help them use Webflow better. Listen to a story of a guy from New Zealand who got his start in high school, playing in Photoshop with his friends, to now, years later, a successful Webflow Professional Partner. Contact Guest: Nikolai Bain Email: nikolaibain@icloud.com Website: https://www.nikolai...

Joseph Berry is an Experience Designer, Webflow developer, Awwwards Jury member, and the guy that has taught most of my friends their animation skills. Listen for a story about ice hockey, the brilliant basics, the confidence to stay true to yourself and not take life too personally. Contact Guest: Joseph Berry Website: https://joseph-berry.webflow.io/ Awwwards: https://www.awwwards.com/Joseph-Ber...

Kent Eisenhuth is a staff ux designer at Google and soon-to-be published author. Kent grew up drawing, playing with legos in his family’s basement, and playing pretend with his friends in the woods behind his northeast PA home. Listen for a story of creativity, finding your place in life, and remembering to leave some advice for the next generation. Contact Guest: Kent Eisenhuth Email: kent.eisenh...

Jacey Adler is a Technology Analyst at Deloitte and certified yoga teacher at Corepower Yoga in Manhattan. Listen for the story of a shy kid from Long Island who grew up to be an analyst and world traveler who cares to make deeper connections with the users she’s creating experiences for. Book Recommendations: Elevating the Human Experience (Amelia Dunlop): https://tinyurl.com/2p9ydvnz The Experie...

Ran Segall needs no introduction… but for those who don’t know him yet, he’s a designer and founder of Flux Academy. Listen for his story of growing up in Israel, serving in the military, and how punk music started an interest in graphic design and then web. Contact Guest: Ran Segall Website: https://www.flux-academy.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FluxWithRanSegall Instagram: @ransegall -...

Sai Kannekanti is a Designer at Spark DSG. Listen to catch up about Sai’s first six months working post-graduation and thoughts looking back on the last few years. Wobbly Windows: https://youtu.be/nbCg9_YgKgM Contact Guest: Sai Kannekanti Email: saikanndesign@gmail.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saikanndesign/ Website: www.saikanndesign.com Behance: https://www.behance.net/darkcompgeek...

Cameron Spencer is a Software Engineer at GoPuff, Bollywood actor, international hiker, wing eating champion, and a pretty nice guy. Listen for a story of curiosity, risk, cleverness, and coding. Contact Guest: Cameron Spencer LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cameronmspencer/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10036923/ Contact Host: Emily Giordano Email: emily@greatdesignlead.com Website: www...

The origin story of a kid from Long Island who had a passion for selling things and solo quests. Joe Krug went from being an elementary school baseball card businessman to making a decent living listing on ebay by the time he was in early high school. He was introduced to web design by chance and eventually moved to Mexico where he currently lives with his wife, Karla (who he also met by chance)....

This podcast was one of the best experiences I’ve been gifted. Hope you enjoy a few hours with a guy who needs no introduction, Vlad Magdalin. Find Guest: Vlad Magdalin Twitter: https://twitter.com/callmevlad?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Website: www.webflow.com Contact Host: Emily Giordano Email: emily@greatdesignlead.com Website: www.greatdesignlead.com YouTube: https:/...