Chief Creative Podcast

Dustin Pead
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Host Dustin Pead helps creative businesses know themselves, their process, & their teams more so they can unleash their best work.

  1. Project Kickoff Process for Creative Businesses | Ep 157

    6d ago

    Project Kickoff Process for Creative Businesses | Ep 157

    You landed the client — now what? Dustin Pead breaks down the project kickoff system: a focused, 45-minute process that prevents scope creep, aligns your team, and produces a complete project brief before any work begins. Learn the standard questions every creative should ask, why recording the meeting changes everything, and how to use Claude to draft a brief that looks the same every single time. Part of the live book-writing series, Creative Work: 10 Systems Every Creative Business Needs. #ProjectKickoff #CreativeAgency #ProjectManagement #CreativeBusiness #ChiefCreativePodcast

    14 min
  2. Summer Momentum Prep: How to Keep Your Creative Business on Track All Summer Long | EP 156

    May 14

    Summer Momentum Prep: How to Keep Your Creative Business on Track All Summer Long | EP 156

    Is your creative business ready for summer? In this episode, Dustin Pead takes a break from the live book writing series to share something super timely: the 5-block summer momentum prep session he runs with clients every spring. From momentum checks and DO vs DUE planning to priority protection and Q3 roadmaps, this framework helps creative businesses enter summer with intention and exit with their annual goals still intact. Unleashing creative businesses to do their best work starts with a plan. This episode is yours. What you'll learn: How to run a momentum check on your annual goals before distractions set inHow the DO vs DUE Framework builds the margin you need all summerHow to identify your non-negotiables and protect your prioritiesHow to build a one-page summer strategy action plan for Q3Connect with Dustin and Chief Creative Partners: chiefcreativepartners.com | dustinpead.com | @dustinpead #CreativeBusiness #SummerPlanning #CreativeAgency #Productivity #ChiefCreativePodcast #SmallBusiness #Q3Planning

    15 min
  3. Automated Client Updates: How the Pizza Delivery System Works for Creative Businesses | Ep 155

    May 7

    Automated Client Updates: How the Pizza Delivery System Works for Creative Businesses | Ep 155

    Your clients don't leave because the work was bad — they leave because of the silence between deliverables. In this episode, Dustin Pead introduces the Pizza Delivery System: a CRM-based, semi-automated client communication framework that notifies clients at every project milestone, eliminates reactive "just checking in" emails, and builds the kind of trust that earns repeat business. This is Chapter 1 of Part Two of the live, real-time writing of Creative Work: 10 Systems That Every Creative Business Needs. Part Two covers the Client Experience — the systems that shape how clients feel about working with you from kickoff to final delivery. Learn how to map your client journey, build milestone email templates, and set up a production pipeline that keeps clients informed with a single click and drag. New episodes weekly. Subscribe so you don't miss the next chapter. chiefcreativepartners.com | @dustinpead #CreativeBusiness #ClientCommunication #CreativeAgency #SystemsForCreatives #ChiefCreativePodcast

    15 min
  4. 10 Systems Every Creative Business Needs | Ep 154

    Apr 23

    10 Systems Every Creative Business Needs | Ep 154

    Your future self is forgetful. And if you're not accounting for that in the way you manage your work, it's costing you more than you think. The average creative professional wastes 23 minutes every single time they context switch from one task to the next — just figuring out where they left off. Six tasks a day. Over an hour gone. At $75 an hour, that adds up to roughly $15,000 a year in lost productivity. In Episode 154, Dustin Pead breaks down the Future You Framework — a simple, three-part note-taking method that solves this in 20 seconds per task. You'll learn the What, Why, and Where structure that makes every task handoff seamless, whether you're picking up where you left off or passing work to your team. This is Chapter 3 of the live book series: Creative Work: 10 Systems Every Creative Business Needs. Free tools and frameworks: dustinpead.com/free Future You Method Learn more: chiefcreativepartners.com #creativebusiness #creativeagency #podcastfordesigners #projectmanagement #taskmanagement #creativework #chiefcreativepodcast #dustinpead

    16 min
  5. The 3-Step System That Clears Creative Task Overwhelm for Good | Ep 153

    Apr 16

    The 3-Step System That Clears Creative Task Overwhelm for Good | Ep 153

    Every creative professional knows the feeling: too many tasks, too little time, no idea where to start. In this episode, Dustin Pead introduces the Priority Framework, a three-step system for cutting through task overwhelm and reclaiming focused, meaningful work. This is chapter two of the Creative Work book series, writing live on the Chief Creative Podcast. Step one: Brain dump everything out of your head. Step two: Ruthlessly categorize using the Eisenhower Matrix. Step three: Run each task through the Focus Funnel to decide whether to do it, automate it, delegate it, procrastinate it, or eliminate it. If your to-do list has been running your workday instead of the other way around, this episode gives you the system to take it back. New episodes every Thursday. Chief Creative Partners helps creative businesses do their best work. #CreativeBusiness #Productivity #CreativeAgency #Prioritization #TaskManagement #ChiefCreativePodcast #BusinessSystems #CreativeProfessionals #SmallBusiness #Podcast

    18 min
  6. DO vs DUE Framework: The 5-Step Deadline System for Creative Businesses | Ep 152

    Apr 9

    DO vs DUE Framework: The 5-Step Deadline System for Creative Businesses | Ep 152

    Most creative agencies are organized around when work is DUE. The most scalable ones are organized around when it needs to get DONE. In Episode 152 of the Chief Creative Podcast, Dustin Pead walks through the DO vs DUE Framework — the cornerstone system from his new book, Creative Work: 10 Systems That Every Creative Business Needs. This is the first chapter of the live book-writing series, and the framework every other system in the book is built on. Dustin breaks down the five-step formula that gives creative agency owners real margin: how to calculate your true start date, why standard work back schedules still leave you behind, and how to build a buffer for the unexpected before it derails you. Plus: a real-world case study where one agency cut weekend work by 90%, raised client satisfaction scores, and increased project profitability by 23% — all by changing how they related to deadlines. Next episode: the Priority Framework — Chapter 2 of Creative Work. Featured Resource: DO Vs DUE Framework Free resources at dustinpead.com/free Chief Creative Partners at chiefcreativepartners.com #ChiefCreativePodcast #CreativeBusiness #CreativeAgency #DOvsDUE #ProjectManagement #OperationsForCreatives #CreativeWork #FractionalCOO #SystemsForCreatives #AgencyOperations

    16 min
  7. Creative Work: We're Writing the Book Live | Ep 151

    Apr 2

    Creative Work: We're Writing the Book Live | Ep 151

    A friend once briefed Dustin Pead for 30 minutes on the wrong project. That phone call launched Chief Creative Partners — and now it's launching his next book, written live on this podcast. In Episode 151, Dustin introduces Creative Work: 10 Systems That Every Creative Business Needs — a 12-episode series covering the operating frameworks that help creative businesses stop drowning in chaos and start doing their best work. Creative businesses don't fail from lack of talent. They fail from lack of systems. This series is the practical roadmap out of that chaos, covering three stages of business growth: personal survival, client experience, and team scale. Next episode: the DO vs DUE Framework — the system that has saved the sanity of creative businesses for 20+ years. Listen. Share. Build something that actually works. chiefcreativepartners.com | dustinpead.com/free #CreativeWork #ChiefCreativePodcast #CreativeBusiness #OperatingSystems #CreativeAgency #FractionalCOO #SystemsForCreatives #AgencyLife #PodcastSeries

    12 min
  8. New Name, Same Focus | Ep. 150

    Mar 26

    New Name, Same Focus | Ep. 150

    150 episodes. Three podcast names. One business rebrand. And a new book on the way. Episode 150 marks the official launch of the Chief Creative Podcast — and Dustin Pead shares why the name finally changed, what it means for the business, and what's coming in the episodes ahead. What you'll hear: Why Creativity Made Easy never fully felt right — and how the new name finally doesThe story behind rebranding from Chief Creative Consultants to Chief Creative PartnersHow the next 12 episodes will build the book Creative Work chapter by chapter in real timeConnect with Dustin: chiefcreativepartners.com | dustinpead.com | @dustinpead #ChiefCreativePodcast #PodcastRebrand #CreativeBusiness #CreativeAgency #ChiefCreativePartners

    23 min
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Host Dustin Pead helps creative businesses know themselves, their process, & their teams more so they can unleash their best work.

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  • Creator
    Dustin Pead
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    158
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    © Dustin Pead
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    Chief Creative Podcast