Brand New Ways
Jen Leonard | Writer, Speaker, Design Thinker
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26: SFGirlbyBay Blogger Victoria Smith
Brand New Ways
08/18/15 • 32 min
Fitness, friendship, driving fast, wearing kaftans, and comedians in cars getting coffee.
In this episode, I talk to Victoria Smith, photographer, stylist, and editor of the internationally popular design blog sfgirlbybay, one of the west coast’s leading interior design blogs, with a faithful following that includes social media butterflies, top magazine editors, designophiles, and industry professionals.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
Neighbor, Neighbor – ZZ Top
Get Out of My House - The Streets
Aperol Sunset - Pete Herbert & Dicky Trisco
Avalon – Roxy Music
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Reading List
See San Francisco: Through the Lens of SFGirlbyBay, by Victoria Smith
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
The Razor’s Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
Watch List
Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Amélie
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24: Craftivist Collective Founder Sarah Corbett
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07/21/15 • 52 min
Mogwai, chocolate, embroidered hankies, cheeky puns, and sparking conversations about social justice one stitch at a time.
In this episode, I talk to cross-stitcher and activist Sarah Corbett, who’s the founder of Craftivist Collective, a global social enterprise that uses craft as a tool for gentle actions aimed at influencing long-term change.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft - Carpenters
The Craft - Blackalicious
Going Down to Liverpool – The Bangles
Two Rights Make One Wrong – Mogwai
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Reading List
Craftivism, by Betty Greer
Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
Don't Think Of An Elephant!, by George Lakoff
Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story, by Frederik Peeters
Watch List
To Kill A Mockingbird
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23: Designer, Illustrator & Art Director Timothy Goodman
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07/07/15 • 39 min
Kanye West, Lena Dunham, Chris Rock, personal mentors as catalysts for discovering your life's work, and breaking out of boxes that limit you.
In this episode, I talk to designer, illustrator and art director Timothy Goodman, who recently exhibited artworks from "Memories of A Girl I Never Knew" at Colette in Paris, collaborated with Jessica Walsh on 40 Days of Dating, and wrote Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques & Ideas for Transforming Your World.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
Highly Suspicious – My Morning Jacket
Greenfield Morning/Seed of Joy/Life is a Struggle - RZA & Yoko Ono
Colette – Orchestra Baobob
Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
On Sight – Kanye West
All My Love – Led Zeppelin
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Reading List
Sharpie Art Workshop: Techniques and Ideas for Transforming Your World, by Timothy Goodman
40 Days of Dating: An Experiment, by Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
The Autobiogrpahy of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Significant Objects, by Jason Grote
Watch List
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22: Designer & Illustrator Don Clark
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06/23/15 • 31 min
Vintage baseball gear, stackable monster toys, Scooby Doo, Foo Fighters, and blazing your own trail.
In this episode, I talk to designer and illustrator Don Clark, who founded Invisible Creature with his brother Ryan in 2006. It's a Grammy Award-nominated, multi-disciplinary creative studio housed in a dreamy refurbished barn just outside of Seattle.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
Runners - Lecrae
Space - M.I.A.
Polyethylene, Pt. 1 & 2 - Radiohead
The Pretender - Foo Fighters
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Reading List
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, by Andy Crouch
The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics, by C. S. Lewis
The Biggest Story: How the Snake Crusher Brings Us Back to the Garden, by Kevin DeYoung (author) and Don Clark (illustrator)
Watch List
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Mad Max (1979)
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20: Collaborative Artists Hillerbrand+Magsamen
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06/09/15 • 58 min
Suburban fluxus, Wes Anderson films, carpet crop circles, and the complex (and often comedic) dynamics of family life within a consumer culture.
In this episode, I talk to Hillerbrand+Magsamen, a husband and wife collaborative artistic team – Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen – who met at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and now live and practice their art in the suburbs of Houston, Texas with their two children and three dogs.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
Once In a Lifetime - Talking Heads
We Are Family (Single Version) – Sister Sledge
Stranglehold – Ted Nugent
O Superman – Laurie Anderson
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Watch List
Hillerbrand+Magsamen:
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19: Scientist & Winepreneur Corey Miller
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06/02/15 • 48 min
Kid Cudi, The Alchemist, and the lost art of collecting wine and revisiting it over time.
In this episode I talk to scientist and entrepreneur Corey Miller, who’s an MD and PhD, as well as the Founder and CEO of Bare Bottle, a San Francisco-based start-up that seeks to strip away the exclusivity of the wine industry by pairing beautiful wines with exceptional designs, and telling the stories of the makers behind both.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
Red Red Wine – UB40
Velvet (The Voice Performance) – Chris Jamison
French Kiss (Striptease Mix) – The Lovers
Soundtrack 2 My Life – Kid Cudi
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Books
The Alchemist, by Paolo Coehlo
Watch List
French Kiss
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18: Eating Designer Marije Vogelzang
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05/26/15 • 38 min
Meals, rituals, magic realism, and the rare privilege of showing shit at Milan Design Week.
In this episode I talk to "eating designer" Marije Vogelzang who is the head of the new Design Academy Eindhoven Food Non Food department. She's also a consultant to the food industry and a creator of provocative food-based installations that engage people with stories, memories, cultural traditions, social taboos and, ultimately, each other.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
Gotta Eat – Lupe Fiasco
Soul Food – Goodie Mob
Food – The Turtles
For - Nils Frahm
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Reading List
Eat Love: Food Conepts by Eating-Designer Marije Vogelzang
Like Water For Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Marquez
Watch List
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16: Skateistan Founder Oliver Percovich
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05/12/15 • 42 min
Local solutions for local problems, youth-directed education, and young girls dominating the skateboarding culture in Afghanistan.
In this episode I talk to skateboarder and social entrepreneur Oliver Percovich who's the Founder and Executive Director of Skateistan, an award-winning international NGO that uses skateboarding as a “hook” for leadership development in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
Burning Road – Fu Manchu
Herati (feat. Homayoun Sakhi) - Voices of Afghanistan
Rebel Without a Pause – Public Enemy
Kali-Fornia Über Alles 21st Century – Jello Biafra
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Reading List
Skateistan: The Tale of Skateboarding in Afghanistan - Jim Fitzpatrick, Skateistan
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values – by Robert M. Pirsig
An Answer to the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’ – Immanuel Kant
Watch List
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14: Shop Owners Buck Johnston & Camp Bosworth
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04/28/15 • 44 min
Living on the Mexican-American border, buying a church on a whim, and listening to daytime disco.
In this episode I talk to designer Buck Johnston and artist Camp Bosworth, the delightful duo behind the Wrong Store in Marfa, Texas – a gallery, a boutique of curiosities, and their home sweet home. Be sure to check out Camp’s impressive wood sculptures, inspired by drug lords and larger than life narco-politics.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
No Church in the Wild (feat. Frank Ocean) – Kanye West & JAY Z
Don’t Get Me Wrong – Pretenders
White Lightning – George Jones
Big River - Johnny Cash
La Suburban Dorada - La Mafia del Norte
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Reading List
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place – by Terry Tempest Williams
Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields – by Charles Bowden
Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family – by Charles Bowden
Watch List
Lessons of Darkness – Werner Herzog
Scenes from a Marriage – Ingmar Bergman
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28: Emmy-nominated Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain
Brand New Ways
09/29/15 • 32 min
Brain power, the science of character, what connects us as human beings, and the always important weekly date night.
In this episode, I talk to übermensch Tiffany Shlain, founder of The Webby Awards and creator of the AOL Originals series "The Future Starts Here." Her work adeptly explores the intersections of humanity, technology, science and culture.
Music
Show Opener: Salt-n-Pepa, Pharrell Williams (with Justin Timberlake), Melanie and Kanye West (feat. Rhymefest)
Stream of Consciousness (Skratch Bastid Remix) - Afiara Quartet
Delirious – Prince
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) [Original 7" Mix] – Dead or Alive
I've Seen All Good People: A. Your Move, B. All Good People – Yes
Daily News - Maps & Atlases
Where Is the Line? – Björk
Show Closer: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, Tricky, Dusty Springfield and Isaac Hayes
Reading List
Expanded Cinema, by Gene Youngblood
Art & Physics, by Leonard Shlain
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, by Leonard Shlain
Sex, Time & Power, by Leonard Shlain
Leonardo's Brain, by Leonard Shlain
Watch List
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FAQ
How many episodes does Brand New Ways have?
Brand New Ways currently has 29 episodes available.
What topics does Brand New Ways cover?
The podcast is about Change, Behavior, Leadership, Creativity, Design, Transformation, Podcasts, Arts and Innovation.
What is the most popular episode on Brand New Ways?
The episode title '28: Emmy-nominated Filmmaker Tiffany Shlain' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Brand New Ways?
The average episode length on Brand New Ways is 42 minutes.
How often are episodes of Brand New Ways released?
Episodes of Brand New Ways are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Brand New Ways?
The first episode of Brand New Ways was released on Feb 10, 2015.
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