The NABS Podcast
Honest conversations about mental wellness and more with inspiring people from across the advertising and media industry.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 31
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Caregiving in adland: Ben Waters' devoted double life
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Caregiving in adland: Ben Waters' devoted double life
Ben Waters is a producer at Mother and a caregiver for his partner. He also founded and runs the caregivers’ …
How to support someone through grief with Gen Kobayashi
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Gen Kobayashi is UK group chief strategy officer at M+C Saatchi. Gen also knows the pain of bereavement first-hand, as he sadly lost his sister-in-law to cancer.
Ge…
How to manage your team's mental wellness - and your own. With Sue Todd, CEO, NABS
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How to manage your team's mental wellness - and your own, with Sue Todd, CEO, NABS
Sue Todd is the CEO of NABS, the industry's charity, helping everybody to move fo…
How to make a big impact without burnout, with Bianca Best
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How to make a big impact without burnout, with Bianca Best
Bianca Best knows about burnout - she experienced it, and has now written a book on how to avoid burnout …
How we created a dads' community at work, with Ben Irons & Joe Dolan of Microsoft Advertising
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TW: premature birth; miscarriage
How we created a dads' community at work, with Ben Irons and Joe Dolan of Microsoft Advertising
Ben Irons and Joe Dolan are advertis…
How to spot burnout and share tough times with Emma Flaxman
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tw: suicide
Emma Flaxman is senior commercial comms lead at Channel 4 and a mental wellness influencer in adland, having led on mental health for the likes of PHD a…
How to navigate alcohol and addiction, with Natalie Bell, CEO, MG OMD
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tw: alcohol addiction, depression
Natalie Bell is CEO, MG OMD and one of the industry's most prolific leaders, with a string of accolades to show for it. With her f…
How to be a hands-on dad and a hands-on leader with James Fox
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James Fox is the outgoing CEO of Havas. First and foremost though, in his own words, he's a dad, and in this conversation he talks about the truth of being a worki…
How to get diverse talent into your teams with Trevor Robinson OBE
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Trevor Robinson OBE is the co-founder of Quiet Storm, which he runs with his wife Rania (also a NABS Podcast guest) and Create not Hate, which works with young tal…
How to look after yourself as a super-busy leader, with Rania Robinson
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Rania Robinson is CEO of Quiet Storm Advertising, co-founder of Create not Hate and a former president of WACL. She's also a naturally early riser, using her body-…
How art and creativity can support your mental wellness - with Jade Tomlin
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Jade is executive creative director at Huge, a design and innovation company based in London and New York. A graduate of St. Martin's, Jade describes herself as a …
How to get rid of toxic workplaces - with Josh Krichefski
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Josh Krichefski is CEO of GroupM, EMEA and UK and president of the IPA. This industry influencer is also a huge advocate for mental wellness in our industry, and a…
How to survive serious trauma and help others - with Matt Foster
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Trigger Warning: sexual assault, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, alcoholism, cyberbullying
Matt Foster, director of DE&I at Ogilvy UK, has an outstanding tra…
How to survive redundancy and pitch mindfully with Julian Douglas
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This week's NABS Podcast guest is Julian Douglas, global CEO at VCCP and a vocal advocate for mental wellness in the advertising industry.
The instigator of the Pi…
How to be ADHD and working-class in adland, with Ally Owen
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Ally Owen is the rapid-fire and inspirational founder of Brixton Finishing School, the free course that develops underrepresented talent for adland. Ally shares he…
How to support yourself and others with ADHD - with Iain Preston
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Iain Preston is a neurodiverse creative industry leader and DEI advocate. Full of energy and wisdom, Ian shares his lived experience of ADHD with our host Louise S…
How to be kind at work, even when you're under pressure - with Aimee Luther
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Aimee Luther is managing director of the Liberty Guild. The Liberty Guild is an invitation-only curated association of the finest communication practitioners in th…
How to support your mental wellness as a Black woman in adland - with Chloe Davis
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tw: suicide
Chloe Davies is a creative global inclusion and belonging consultant and founder of It Takes a Village, a network for Black women in advertising, market…
How to deal with trauma and live your truth - with Reeha Alder
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tw: domestic violence
Reeha Alder is the founder of Mighty You, an executive coaching and training consultancy focusing on helping individuals, teams and organisati…
How a CEO supports herself and others through the menopause - with Melissa Robertson
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Melissa Robertson is CEO of creative agency Dark Horses. She is also one of adland's most visible menopause ambassadors. Melissa created a brilliant open-source me…