This week’s episode of Inside Deloitte Studios is our season 6 finale, and in true IDS fashion, we are going out with a bang! Tune in to listen to the adventures of Studio Lead/Content Strategy Director Rachel Whitt—which include starting a men’s underwear brand, traveling the globe as a kid and with her kids in the future, and finding passions in creative problem solving in and out of the workplace.

Timestamps:

• Launching a men's underwear company. | 01:11.2
• Were you comfortable in an entrepreneur environment? | 08:08.1
• Would you start a company again? | 14:06.1
• What role does travel play in your life? | 15:15.1
• Traveling tradition in the family. | 25:18.5
• Where did you grow up? | 26:58.4
• How did your father go from immigrant to hollywoord? | 29:12.6
• Why did you want to be a cop at one point? | 35:46.5
• Tell me about the problem solving you experience in your role? | 39:40.9
• What has been a major theme in your career? | 41:03.6
• Nelson's two questions. | 44:14.5

This week’s guest—Kaitlyn Kuzcer, Digital Reality Manager—went from flying stand-by across the globe with her Air Force pilot parents to, mid-college, switching her intended career path from becoming a doctor to trailblazing the future of engagement with virtual and augmented reality technology. Nelson and Kaitlyn talk about Colorado outdoor adventure life, martial arts, and the drive to discover the most innovative digital reality creative solutions this high-flying episode you won’t want to miss!

Timestamps:

• Are you from Colorado? | 02:50.2
• How did you get started in the outdoors? | 03:36.1
• How was traveling as a kid? | 06:07.3
• What was your mother's impression of being one of the first 100 female pilots for the Air Force? | 08:34.3
• What was your inclination to pre-med? | 11:57.5
• How did you end up falling into Tech? | 14:18.3
• Discussion on the discomfort of new technology. | 18:10.6
• Discussion on VR and a new medium. | 22:06.9
• What do you do to disconnect? | 32:40.1
• How did you get into Kung-Fu? | 33:34.4
• Nelson's two questions. | 45:32.9

Let’s connect the dots. What do innovative digital user design, marathon running, traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu, and lightsaber/beehive/dirtball building all have in common? They are just a few aspects of the life and creative journey of IDS’s guest this week, Creative Director Fritz Duggan. Tune in for this episode filled with inspiration in unexpected places and empathetic thinking to make impactful design.

Timestamps:

• Where are you from? | 02:06.4
• What is your relationship to sport? | 03:44.0
• Tell me about your martial art experience. | 12:41.4
• How does your martial art discipline translate to your creative work? | 16:37.2
• When did creativity become a thing for you? | 21:16.4
• How did you transition to leading some of our biggest UX projects? | 27:32.5
• How do you present UX to a client? | 30:18.3
• Do you have a need for an analog outlet after working on so many digital products? | 36:39.9
• Nelson's two questions. | 45:50.6

From a young age, dreaming first about being the English teacher causing a “Dead Poets Society-esque” fury of passion in classrooms, this week’s guest, Nathan Young—Head of Content Strategy and Deloitte Digital’s Ethos—has been passionately focused on living authentically and working with empathy ever since he was a kid. Catch this episode filled with stories of how Nathan went from sitting on production with his dad to climbing the ranks of the advertising world and finally spearheading the future of purposeful strategy to create impactful change in the world.

Timestamps:

• Where do you work and how has remote work been? | 01:37.4
• Growing up while traveling and acting.  | 04:02.4
• How did your mother get into yoga? | 06:26.7
• How did your father get into acting? | 07:47.8
• How did you parents approach parenting?  | 09:13.5
• How did you identity with cultural moving around to so many cities growing up? | 13:21.9
• How did you find your own identity? | 15:40.6
• What is your connection to purpose? | 19:26.4
• How did you start your career? | 21:55.8
• What do you think of capitalism and social issues? | 31:49.5
• What is Ethos? | 43:58.2
• Nelson's two questions. | 50:13.2

Our guest this week, Studio Content Lead Jenny Kelly, now spearheads content and user strategy here at Deloitte Digital. Her journey to trailblazing the conversation about the complexity of content is filled with some non-traditional adventures, which include growing up the daughter of a world-renowned poultry expert, living in small German and Dutch towns, vying for a spot in the CIA, restaurant owning, and being a local Seattle activist. You won’t want to miss this episode about the nuances of creativity, content, and life lessons learned in the most unlikely of places.

Timestamps: 

Where did you grow up? | 03:22.9
Family life discussion. | 04:54.3
Trying out for the police force. | 10:46.5
Interested in behavioral science from an early age. | 16:13.2
How did you transistion into the mareting field? | 19:30.3
Tell me about your au pair experience.  | 20:35.2
What fuels you to be part of so many different things? | 25:21.8
How did you get started in those Seattle activist groups? | 27:14.0
Discussion on family values and Jenny's activist daughter. | 33:07.0
Jenny's restruant ownership experience. | 38:20.7
Discussion on experiences in the digital age. | 44:04.6
Learning and growing from experiences. | 47:59.2
Nelson's two questions.  | 53:58.2

This week’s guest, a Global Creative Brand and Advertising Lead for Deloitte Digital Adrian Mills, to thank for working on the jingle (originally created as an advertisement for Melbourne Metro Trains). Aside from leading up a train safety campaign that has generated nearly 300 million views on YouTube, Mills is a decorated advertising veteran who has spearheaded creative projects across the globe, one of which added official English dictionary word creator to his resume. Tune in to this week’s episode to hear this Aussie’s journey through the advertising ranks—which includes commiserating with Nelson about the moments when their college professors told them they should consider dropping out.

Timestamps:

• Where do you call home?  |  03:15.6
•  Tell me what it was like growing up.  |  04:34.9
•  What did your parent do at this time?  |  05:57.4
•  The value of teaching.  |  06:49.2
•  Account creative team discussion.   |  08:54.4
•  Where did creativity start for you?    11:57.1
•  Where did you really connect with advertising?   |  16:10.3
•  What was the advertising industry like back in your early years?  |  18:26.7
•  What was your first role when you first got into the industry.  |   21:05.3
•  What were some game-changers in your industry?  |  23:54.3
•  What has been some of the highlights of your work?  |  29:35.1
•  How do you put yourself into your work?  |  34:06.4
•  How does the family feel about the career you've chosen?  |  38:54.7
•  Nelson's two questions  |  39:40.2

This episode Nelson chats with Allan Cook, Deloitte Digital’s very own Brit turned Californian Director of Digital Reality. Nelson and Allan dive deep into Allan’s journey through the media and tech worlds, which feature his experiences growing up across the world, following green cards to LA (via his father and a future girlfriend), and constantly working at the forefront of technology, the internet, and discovering how we as humans interact and get the most value out of them. Tune in to catch the story of this tech wizard/creative genius’ whose career path went from first pioneering technology at one of the most prominent film and media centers in the US (a job which he found in a newspaper ad) to now innovating entire technical landscapes and experiences through virtual and augmented reality across the Deloitte Digital practice.

Timestamps:

• Growing up and moving to California from the U.K.  |  03:16.0
•  What brought you back to the U.S?  |  07:59.5
•  When did creativity originate for you?  |  09:27.6
•  How did you end up with a job at The Getty?  |  11:53.5
•  How did you become part of the Television Academy?  |  16:57.7
•  How was going through these areas during great changes?  |  18:52.2
•  What is the catalyst that has created the most change?   |  26:36.9
•  Discussion on changing technology, generations, and virtual reality.   |  39:20.4
•  Nelson's two questions  |  43:38.5

This week, we’re showcasing Nelson’s conversation with South African bred creative director Matthew Price. Matthew’s journey from studying multimedia in college to leading up user-experience at Deloitte Digital is one that features a balancing act of traveling across the globe for the South African national kendo martial arts team, living and embracing South African roots and values amid constant global influence, and a burgeoning love and appreciation of the intricacies and study of purposeful and creative design. You won’t want to miss this episode filled with tales of globetrotting, creative exploration, intentionality, and how something as simple a cup of coffee can tell a far greater story about culture, life, and how we view it.

Timestamps:

• Coffee Discussion | 01:42.3
• Do you enjoy the community aspect of your hobbies/obsessions? | 10:15.8
• Do you believe intentionality separates great design? | 14:06.6
• Tell me a little about growing up in South Africa. | 16:20.0
• Did your environment contribute to starting a career in the creative space? | 20:58.9
• What was the state of technology in South Africa? | 29:58.3
• Can you tell me about Kando Martial Arts? | 34:06.6
• What has made you stay with Kando? | 37:29.3
• Is there something with Kando and the intentionality you spoke of before? | 40:34.1
• Do you have challenges switching to teamwork with design after being involved in such an individual sport? | 41:38.2
• Any major differences to living in Seattle versus South Africa? | 44:11.3
• Nelson's Two Questions | 46:33.0