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
S2 E3: Laurel Stark Akman - How to attract the right opportunities and make the biggest impact.
Jo welcomes the fantastic, Laurel Stark Akman, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
By her own admission, Laurel's career only really took off when she lived her values loudly in the form of some incredible passion projects. For example, she is an original member of the ‘3% Movement’ team – (an initiative with a mission to increase the number of female creative directors in marketing because, staggeringly, they only represented 3 percent at the time.) Having showcased what she was capable of with various creative side endeavours, she began landing roles which welcomed her voice, her values and ideas.
Topics covered:
- Growing up as computers started to become a thing
- Getting to know your inner child
- Growing up in a loving, adopted family and how it shapes you
- Navigating a society that doesn’t always value creativity
- Leaning into your own authenticity as a creative person
- Holding onto your naive creative optimism, or your ‘de-lu-lu’
- The link between trauma in childhood and competitive pursuits
- Experiencing sexual harassment & bullying - and finding strength
- Finding your voice and becoming a part of the solution for others
- Being part of building an industry you want to be a part of
- Why it’s important to be visible
- Attracting the right opportunities to make the biggest impact
- How to scare away the people who aren’t meant for you, and call on the ones who are
- Gen Z: the first generation where gaming has superseded sport
- Laurel’s Doggy Bag of advice
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