September 2018 - Don't Stop Us Now

Cindy Gallop – Blowing Shit Up!

September 25, 2018
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This week’s guest describes herself as someone who likes to blow shit up. They are her words not ours. Cindy Gallop is a globe-trotting consultant, speaker and entrepreneur who was a former North American head of the famed advertising agency, Bartle Bogle & Hegarty (BBH).

As you’ll hear in this conversation, Cindy is a strong, edgy character with clear views about many topics including diversity and sex, to name just two. She’s not one of those people who just say things, she’s out there trying to change the world! And it hasn’t been easy.

Around 13 years ago, she decided it was time to leave advertising and do her own thing…

Her mission for the past nine years is to make it easier for everybody in the world to talk about normal sex vs pornography through her start up MakeLoveNotPorn. You’ll hear about how her now infamous TED talk led her to embark on this journey which would prove to be filled with unexpected challenges.

In this episode you’ll learn:

How Cindy’s life and career have always been a complete accident.
How asking about where her career was going led to her dream job starting and running the BBH US business
How her own experience of dating men in their 20’s led to MakeLoveNotPorn
Her powerful thoughts on why you should shamelessly self promote
Why she’d tell her younger self to “don’t give a damn about what other people think” and;
How she’s been turned into a chatbot that you can’t afford to ignore.

You really don’t want to miss this episode with the very unique Cindy Gallop!

Links of interest:

Check out the Cindy Gallop ChatBot on Facebook Messenger to get Cindy’s advice to negotiate your salary. You’ll need to use a US postcode (such as as 90210) as the bot was built using US salary data. The advice is still useful wherever you live in the world.

Ask Cindy Gallop ChatBot

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Interview

Aya Aso – The Savvy, Luxury Entrepreneur

September 11, 2018December 5, 2018
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Our guest this week is Japanese luxury hotel and hospitality entrepreneur, Aya Aso.

Until last year, Aya ran the hotel chain she founded a decade ago, the Agora Hotel Group, a multi award-winning chain of resort and luxury hotels in Japan.

Aya spent most of her childhood living in Brazil and in her 20’s studied to become a concert pianist in Los Angeles. However, that idea was put on the back burner when a part time job at the Sheraton led to the discovery that she loved the hospitality industry.

This set Aya on her career journey and led her back to Japan where she ultimately started her business.

In today’s episode, you’ll hear:

How growing up in Brazil has impacted her as a business woman
How one of the most influential entrepreneurs in Japan took her under his wing and helped her learn the most important thing about running a company
What it was like to be a woman starting a business in Japan
How she lost most of her business after an earthquake devastated the travel industry in 2011 and
What it felt like to build the company back up to 1,000 staff only to reach a point where she felt she had no other option but to walk away

We can’t wait to see her next business, the SAVVY Collective, a Luxury Hotel Concept Consulting business, go from strength to strength.