Kevin Lynch talks about his in-house work at Oatly and the Shanghai American School. He’s been the ECD of BBDO South China and is currently the proprietor of The Wrong Agency. In this episode, Kevin talks about the difference between selling t-shirts and selling conversation, how the Oatly Department of Mind Control doesn’t fit on an org chart, and why he’s never had an alarm clock.

Amanda Butts leads over 80 creatives across multi-brands for Elevance Health. This Blue Angels-laced episode was recording during the Chicago Air & Water Show and you'll hear Amanda's house get buzzed a few times early on in the interview. But you'll still be able to hear Amanda talk about her apprehension about leaving the traditional agency world and how that's panned out, eliminating the us vs. them mindset, and a very interesting way of structuring a creative department.

Matt Bijarchi is an award-winning producer and former assistant to Rich Silverstein and Jeff Goodby. Now he runs Blend, a creative production company (check out weareblend.la). He describes Blend as a "white label in-house agency for brands." In this episode, you'll hear Matt explain why relationships matter, and how to close the gap between marketers and makers.

Mollie Wilkie is Global Creative Director at Hasbro. Before that, she spent 10 years as an in-house creative director for the NFL. In this episode she discusses the difference between both in-house creative departments, how individual NFL teams use the League for creative, why in-house talent worked for Nerf, how to take the subjectivity out of creative reviews.

Michael Dhalliwal, Director of Brand Creative & Content at Topgolf discusses maintaining creative integrity on the client side and loving the brand you work on. Michael was born and raised in San Diego, got his advertising degree from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, then got a job at The Richards Group and moved to Dallas. After a couple of years, he left to be the internal copywriter for Topgolf. Eight years later, he's so successful he's now joining podcasts.

Jim Bosiljevac, former ECD of Yahoo! and current professor at the University of Texas Austin discusses in-house leadership, culture, and the importance of red shoes.