Good Girls Eat Dinner
Welcome to Good Girls Eat Dinner, the most interesting dinner party you'll ever go to, now in takeaway form.
Since 2015 we’ve been on a mission to provide more visible, female role models across the creative industries and beyond. At our popular real-life events we serve up four gloriously inspiring female speakers between the courses of a delicious meal. It always leaves everyone hungry for more, so here on the podcast we’ll dedicate a whole episode to each incredible guest. We won't be eating dinner but you certainly can!
Join me, Jo Wallace (Executive Creative Director by day, founder of Good Girls Eat Dinner by night) as I ask female pioneers to share their experiences, stories and advice. To leave you full of inspiration.
Good Girls Eat Dinner
S1 E2: Chaka Sobhani – How being Queer, female, and bullied fuelled a dazzling career and an empathetic leadership style.
Jo welcomes the unimitable Chaka Sobhani to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
*Some swearing ensues. By her own admission, Chaka has a ‘sailor’s mouth’.
Chaka Sobhani is Global Chief Creative Officer of Leo Burnett Worldwide and Chief Creative Officer Leo Burnett UK and Fallon.
Before joining the ad industry, Chaka spent over a decade as an award winning film-maker and working in television. She set up ITV’s first in-house creative agency, during which time the network regained the no.1 position in the UK, created its most successful global formats and content with shows like the X Factor and Downton Abbey, winning the prestigious Channel of the Year award for the first time.
Chaka has also won numerous BAFTA’s, Golden Globes and the prestigious Rose D’Or, alongside a plethora of advertising awards.
Topics:
- Being Queer, female and the only brown kid at school
- Advertising’s gain was the tennis world’s loss
- Career plans and why you don’t need one
- Rooting for the underdog
- The power of empathy
- An incredible career in 5 minutes
- Awards? Does anyone give a s%!t?
- Why we should talk about difficult life experiences
- Diversity and inclusion
- Why meaningful change is taking so long
- Following your gut – and your heart
- Walking for healing
- Realising you’re Team Dessert not Team Savoury
- Chaka’s Doggy Bag of advice
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