A Lot To Say welcomes Ben Keenan - Consulting Creative Director, Advisor and all-rounder with creative projects. He has led digital creative offerings at M&C Saatchi and Clemenger BBDO in Melbourne, and has received a significant amount of accolades for his work across multiple clients and industries. We go through his career starting with immersion in indie band scene, through to leading teams creating projects in-house at big agencies, to eventually branching out into his own consultancy. Ben consistently works with emerging creatives and teaches his own creative methods as a form of education.

This episode of A Lot To Say features Eileen Ormsby - Dark Web expert, lawyer, author and freelance journalist, based in Melbourne. She has written multiple books with her first, 'Silk Road', being an in-depth expose of the black markets that operate on the dark web. Following that, Eileen wrote 'The Darkest Web' which established her as a go-person for all things Dark Web focussed. She’s a prolific author, contributor and journalist for a range of publications and has been involved in ghost-writing for podcasts with significant listenership as well. *Content Warning - very mature themes contained in this podcast episode

A Lot To Say welcomes Mel Huang for a chat - she's an interactive designer and developer for the arts, culture & education sectors collaborating with institutions such as Dark Mofo, Science Gallery, NGV and Art Gallery NSW. She is a former sessional lecturer at RMIT teaching Creative Coding, founder of Technecolour which is bringing technical education to creative practitioners, and the novice, avid fermenter behind No Fun for Children hot sauce.

A Lot To Say welcomes artist Karina Utomo to the fold, as she discusses her creative process as part of well-known Australian heavy band High Tension, as well as emerging extreme music projects Rinuwat and Kilat. Karina dives into the collaborative process of disintegrating the voice, using abrasion as a tool to reference cultural identity, influences and expression.

A Lot To Say welcomes Scott Cooper for a chit-chat next - the COO of Versus Merch, who carries with him years of experience in scaling businesses in both Australia and the United States, including his past roles with Go1 and Drawboard. We lean into his background in the punk/hardcore/metal music realm and how that has influenced aspects of his career plus explore the remarkable situations on finds themselves in, as Coops has time and again.

A Lot To Say welcomes Leah Heiss for a chat focussed on her incredible award-winning work as a designer and researcher working at the nexus of design, health and technology. Her practice traverses device, service and experience and her process is deeply collaborative, working with experts from nanotechnology, engineering and health services through to manufacturing.

A Lot To Say welcomes Emily Ulman as a guest for a chat - creator of Isol-Aid and a multi-talented venue booker, festival programmer, producer, musician, mentor, radio presenter, podcast enthusiast, AFLM/W Western Bulldogs fanatic and highly respected contributor to the local music community of Australia.

A Lot To Say is back with another chat, this time with technologist and outspoken distributed workforce advocate Jamie Skella. Jamie has spent 20 years in the design, building and advising of emerging industry businesses across blockchain, IoT, VR, and even future food. Jamie's prior startup, Horizon State, won the World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award for his work in democratic innovation, which was also voted 7 of 100 on a list of world changing companies by The Australian - ahead of Elon Musk’s SpaceX

A Lot To Say re-launches, by lining up a chat with the creative force that is Kate Berry, the founder of OK Motels, bringing Music, Art and Friendship down the highway to Motels all across regional Victoria. From Charlton to Geelong and beyond, OK Motels brings locals and out-of-towners together in the most memorable ways, set against a curated backdrop of Australia's best musical acts- Amyl and the Sniffers, Rolling Blackout Coastal Fever, Cash Savage, The Nation Blue to name just a few.

Last episode of 2020- a mash-up episode between FUNNY BUSINESS Podcast and A LOT TO SAY Podcast- GREAT CHAT!

Here is our chinwag with Alan Jones (the good one) - he is a well-known part of the Australian technology ecosystem from his work in his collaborative venture M8 Ventures, and his regular roles as an investor and entrepreneur-in-residence for various startup accelerator programs. We dive into social justice issues, opportunities to correct imbalance in the tech ecosystem and what making time for family across the journey means to him.

We've got Kunal Kalro joining for a chit-chat. He is the CEO & Co-Founder of Eugene - a digital genetic & health service empowering people with expert, convenient and compassionate healthcare — anytime, anywhere. We chat about the values he holds dear in driving the vision for this purposeful company, the importance he places on community interactions and the changing face of the health system.

Joining me for the first live recorded chat of the podcast are renowned street art collectors Sandra Powell and Andrew King, collectively known as SANDREW. In this live in-person chit-chat, we had a conversation in their incredible home which showcases one of the largest street art collections in the world (probably the largest...)

Joining for a chit-chat is Georgia Frances King- a globally roaming literary agent, former Ideas Editor of Quartz, former Editor of Kinfolk and ever-curious human who helps some of the world's smartest people translate dense topics into accessible language. She joins the chat (from quarantine) to talk about her winding career journey, as well as remarking on the year that has been, as she has been immersed in some of the more confronting times of upheaval with a front row seat in New York City.

We've got Andy Miller, he of non-alcoholic independent beer company Heaps Normal fame, joining us for a chit-chat on the changing face of relationships with alcohol and what it has been like to grow the company in 2020 in particular. We dive into what Andy would love to see of the world, as well as traversing a range of topics - the creative industries, startup accelerators, life in China and even travelling the world in your pyjamas!

We're joined on this episode by music industry legend Jaddan Comerford, the Founder & CEO of UNIFIED Music Group, a globally renowned multi-service music company formed in Melbourne. Jaddan and his team at UNIFIED enable a range of services including artist management, recorded music, publishing, live events and merchandise to a diverse roster of local and international artists including Vance Joy, Tash Sultana, Violent Soho, The Amity Affliction, Northlane and so many more, and we speak about being so intertwined in artists' lives.

Joining the pod to wax lyrical is Joel Connolly, Creative Director at Blackbird Ventures, a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand, who invest in every type of technology from software to space. Joel talks about his super unconventional career path from theatre and the arts through to leading creative direction for a group engaging with high growth technology companies, and where he feels his non-linear path may take him to next (possibly his life's work.)

Joining for a chin-wag is chit-chat is Giulia Giannini McGauran (or GG McG) whose vibrant visual art, creative direction and photography can barely be missed, with an expressive, quirky and boisterous style all at once. Having photographed many recognisable and emerging musicians and artists alike, Giulia talks about her journey through art school, commercial projects, inviting a highly collaborative process, and using her Nonna as a recurring test subject.

Joining the chit-chat is Oscar McMahon, co-founder of Young Henrys, a much loved independent brewery based out of Newtown, Sydney, which exists to 'Serve the People.' Having spent a large part of his youth playing music with the band Hell City Glamours, Oscar and co-founder Richard Adamson established Young Henrys as a way to bring good craft beer to the people, and as we discuss, it's become a fervent supporter of the creative industries, food and hospitality scene and even community focussed science experiments (!)

This episode we're joined by Lisy Kane, a videogames producer making waves in the industry and recognised in 2017 by Forbes in its prestigious top 30 list: Forbes 30 Under 30 2017: Games. Her work at Melbourne game development studio, League of Geeks, includes internationally-released title Armello (2015). She co-founded Girl Geek Academy with a mission to teach 1 million women to get into tech and launch their own startups by 2025, and has been involved in delivering plenty of engagement activities such as all-women hackathons, events and workshops.