Real People, With Jason Dunstone - Consumer Insights, Market Research, Customers, Design Thinking and More Jason Dunstone, Square Holes

Today we are joined by Jamin Brazil, market research entrepreneur, and tech pioneer.

Fresno, California-based Jamin is the super popular host of the Happy Market Research Podcast with more than 300 episodes in which he interviews consumer insight and research professionals and entrepreneurs from across the world.

Jamin comes from a position of informed influence having founded top online survey platform Decipher in 2000 and Focus Vision research platform Focus Vision in 2016.

An active contributor to the research industry and supporting early stage companies throughout California, Jamin is adjunct professor at California State University and an all-round nice guy.

We discuss the world in 2020, research, entrepreneurship and much more.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople
Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en
Send Jason an email - jason@squareholes.com Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/
Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/
Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

We are joined by Ebony Gaylor, Managing Partner of newly launched social cause agency Decade of Action, a partnership with Thinkerbell's Adam Ferrier and Margie Reid.

Ebony has held key strategy and social change roles, most recently for the Australian Red Cross. We discuss Ebony's background and childhood, and the motivation behind Decade of Action, and why businesses play a critical role in addressing urgent global challenges over the next 10 years and beyond.

We discuss how business has a critical role to play and needs to take more targeted and authentic action. We explore the key role of evidence in identifying critical causes, that may seem left of centre to many of the more visible issues that come top of mind.

And approaches to working with influential businesses, brands, governments and movements to boldly define their purpose platform and galvanize their assets, ideas and to have a positive impact on the world.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople
Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en
Send Jason an email - jason@squareholes.com Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/
Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/
Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Today we are joined by Dr Fiona Kerr, Founder and CEO of the Neurotech Institute, and leading futurist
and author Steve Sammartino in our first double header with previous guests.

Fiona was interviewed in episode 11 of Real People and Steve in episode 16.

This most certainly was an explosion of thinking as Fiona and Steve shared their observations of the
world in chaos and what this means moving forward.

We discuss a huge amount in a rollercoaster chat from digital sovereignty to how well Australia is performing at a global scale.

We discuss the hunger games of the US and lessons as to how to take a longer-term perspective can be learnt from places like Finland. We ponder is Australia more like the US or Europe? And, does Australia's safe stability make us lucky or lazy?

We discuss systems thinking and blind spots. What future capitalism will look like. And, the high likelihood we will just slot back into comfortable old ways, even with the pause during COVID-19 to slow down and think about better ways moving forward.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople
Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en
Send Jason an email - jason@squareholes.com Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/
Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/
Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Today we are joined by Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell, Director of the 3A Institute at ANU in Canberra, a collaboration with CSIRO's Data61, with the mission of building a new applied science around the management of artificial intelligence, data, technology and their impact on humanity.

Genevieve is also Senior Fellow, New Technology Group at Intel, since joining Intel as a researcher to conduct ethnographic research in 1998.

This is a most fascinating discussion about the world in chaos, how we are adjusting and what might come. We discuss key themes such as contact tracing and mass surveillance, and how critical it is that our communities embrace to fight COVID-19.

We explore how the devastating Australian bushfires and now COVID-19 have shone the light on our vulnerabilities and segments of the community that were already falling through the cracks dealing with inequality, personal dangers and complexities, and the role of the government in supporting this.

Genevieve shares her perspective on how Australia has dealt with COVID-19 compared with other parts of the world, and how it is near impossible to understand the situation without more data and stable models.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople
Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en
Send Jason an email - jason@squareholes.com Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/
Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/
Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Today we are joined by Dr Rebecca Huntley, one of Australia's foremost researchers on social trends.

A regular media commentator and writer, including for the Quarterly Essay of March 2019, in which she
explored how Australians are calling for change from our government in climate change and wider social
issues, and the corruption of democracy.

Rebecca is the author of numerous books, including 'How to Talk About Climate Change in a Way That
Makes a Difference,' Still Lucky and The World According to Y.

We discuss the changes that may come from the chaos of bushfires then COVID-19, some thinking around how Australia and Australians have responded well to a pandemic, and ponder 'are we still lucky?'

We discuss fairness vs freedom and the likely shift in thinking towards Australia seeking a greater level
of self-sufficiency moving forward, and the wider impact on our cultural values.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople
Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en
Send Jason an email - jason@squareholes.com Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/
Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/
Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/

Today we are joined by JP, John-Paul Drake Director of Drakes Supermarkets.

We go on a fabulous journey going back to JP's entrepreneurial childhood, hear about riding the retail rodeo of the past few months, and how a bit of right place right time luck is awesome. We try to make sense of all the crazy hoarding and hear about JP's global social media attention for his one finger salute
at the man wanting a refund on 150 packs of toilet paper.

This is a great chat about the importance of agility in business, standing up for your staff, particularly against the rare arse of a customer, how the waves seem be bringing consumer sentiment back to 'buy local' and how JP and the Drakes team are leveraging this now and into the future. We talk about marketing and authenticity against the supermarket juggernauts and a whole lot more.

Real People is a podcast hosted by Jason Dunstone, the founder and managing director of Square Holes. Subscribe to Real People on your favourite podcast player.

Jason builds on his 25 years of conducting human-centred research, interviewing average and not so average people (rich, poor, old, young, content and vulnerable) to understand what they believe and how they behave.

Check out the Real People website - http://squareholes.com/realpeople
Connect with Jason Dunstone on Twitter @jasondunstone - https://twitter.com/jasondunstone?lang=en
Send Jason an email - jason@squareholes.com Read more blogs from Jason Dunstone - https://squareholes.com/blog/author/jason/
Find out more about Square Holes - http://www.squareholes.com/
Produced with Apiro Media - https://www.apiropodcasts.com/