135 episodes
The Crazy One Stephen Gates
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4.8 • 42 Ratings
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The Crazy One helps you find new insights and breakthroughs in your career, creativity, and leadership. In every episode, Stephen Gates gives you honest and actionable insights taken from his experience leading global in-house and agency creative teams, building multiple Fortune 100 brands, and working as InVision’s Chief Design Evangelist coaching and working with companies ranging from small start-ups to some of the world's biggest and innovative companies. Recognized with 2020 Webby Awards Honoree for Best Technology podcast, Inside Design’s #1 favorite design podcast, How Design Live #1 design leadership podcast, Springboard’s #1 must-listen UX design podcast and more.
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Ep 129 Keynote: BeMore Festival 2023 - How to build a breakthrough career
My keynote about how to build a breakthrough career from the 2023 BeMore festival which is an annual epic 24-hour super conference bringing 100+ legendary speakers in Design, AI, Product & Career Growth. Elevate your future with live keynotes, networking and an experience that will empower and educate the community.
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Ep 128 Career: How to start your studio or freelance business
The last few months have seen more layoffs, more uncertain futures, and creative frustration, which has many people wondering if they should go out on their own. It could be as a freelancer, consultant, or starting their own business. But there are so many questions, uncertainty, and few answers. In this episode, we are going to look at the foundational questions you need to ask yourself about the type of business you want to start, the questions you need to ask to figure out the type of business you want to create, share some insights in my journey launching my own studio, and more.
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Ep 127 Career: How to navigate and succeed in the era of defensive employment
We are in a time when most people have realized that they have to take on a lot more to have a successful career. But it can be tough to navigate and know what you need to do to be successful. In this episode, we will look at what has caused this new era of defensive employment, what it will mean for you and your leadership style, and what you need to do to succeed.
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Ep 126 Career: Understanding the 2022 job market, a shift is coming
The job market continues to evolve from a war for talent where people were getting multiple offers to rampant layoffs and tons of frustration. I think all of this will add up to a big change, and it is something I haven't seen in a while. It will create both opportunities and challenges for all of us. In this episode, we will talk about what is going on in the creative industry in 2022 that is driving so much change in companies and the job market, the big shift that I think is coming in the next few years, and how all of this has set me in a new direction with my career.
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Ep 125 Value of Design P3: Showing the value and impact of design
The third in a 3 part series where we will look at the steps you can take to help your team and company understand the value of design. In this episode, we will look at how to show the value of design through design reviews, set a different tone through feedback guidelines, and measure the impact through metrics and case studies.
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Ep 124 Value of Design P2: Creating demand for design
The second in a 3 part series where we will look at the steps you can take to help your team and company understand the value of design. In this episode, we will look at creating the demand for design by creating an effective plan and using three critical methodologies and approaches to help move your team to a more valued contributor to your company.
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Customer Reviews
A brilliant pod full of amazing insight
Stephen has a certain way of putting across information to you in such a digestible and simple way. I’ve certainly learned a lot listening to this podcast and it’s helped me make some key decisions in my career. I’d definitely recommend this to anyone working in design, product, technology or anyone who needs to learn about leadership!
Thank you Stephen, I owe you a drink!
After 15 years as Creative Manager in the Print Publishing industry, I decided to take a dive and retrain as UX Designer. I loved it and got freelance work almost straight away, but I felt so insicure about my skills and didn't know how to go on about looking for permanent work.
Every day during lockdown I went for a long walk and listened to Stephen's voice, one episode a day, and slowly slowly my confidence grew: I started to believe that I could make it as a UX designer! I followed Stephen's advice on how to create one's personal brand, how to stick to what you believe in, to create a good portfolio, to conduct an interview.. All this paid off and I just got offered a position as UX Designer! If you ever come to London stephen I'll get you a pint! thank you so much for helping me in this new exciting career :)
Obnoxious
I listened to his first 12 episodes and was willing to give him a chance or see him improve in the medium, but I can’t anymore. I hope by now he has become a more humble person, but as far as I’ve heard he is too full of himself