For this episode of The Ad Race podcast Fayola Douglas is joined by Kalpna Tandon. After 12 years in the advertising industry, working at Be-Hookd, FRUKT, Coolr, Nerds, and a laundry service, Kalpna founded Vibe Worthy—a culture marketing and empowerment consultancy for brands and music artists.

Find Vibe Worthy on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/vibe-worthy/

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#TheAdRace is an open conversation about advertising, marketing, and diversity & inclusion. Expect an unfiltered approach, lots of laughter, personal insights, and lived experiences.

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For this episode of The Ad Race podcast Fayola Douglas is joined by Ali Munro. Ali is a Creative at Grey London who studied fine art before entering the world of advertising. He is a D&AD One to Watch and New Blood White Pencil winner. He has delivered award winning work across clients including PlayStation, Spotify and Fortnite. Away from work Ali utilises his design skills to explore some of society's big questions, like finding a partner "Desperate Discs", the power of AI "Infinite Marilyn", food poverty "#AisleHelp" and gentrification "All I want for Christmas is affordable housing".

Find Ali Munro on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-munro-bb07131b3/

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#TheAdRace is an open conversation about advertising, marketing, and diversity & inclusion. Expect an unfiltered approach, lots of laughter, personal insights, and lived experiences.

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In Season 3 Episode 2 of The Ad Race podcast Fayola Douglas is joined by Arun Lloyd, Associate Director at Hope&Glory PR, a creative consumer comms agency based in London.

Arun has been in the PR industry for 10 years, starting out at Dynamo before joining Hope&Glory back in 2018, spending four years working on some of their largest clients including Sony, LinkedIn, American Airlines and Argos. He gets his kicks from work that allows him to bring brands authentically into culture, using a mix of channels that meets audiences where they are. Arun has recently completed the TheXec, a leadership scheme for UK-based Black, Asian, Mixed Race, and Ethnic Minority PR and comms pros - developed by BMEPRPros.

Find Arun Lloyd on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/arun-lloyd/

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#TheAdRace is an open conversation about advertising, marketing, and diversity & inclusion. Expect an unfiltered approach, lots of laughter, personal insights, and lived experiences.

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In Season 3 Episode 1 of The Ad Race podcast Fayola Douglas is joined by Nishma Patel Robb, President of WACL.

Nishma is known to be one of the UK’s top marketing leaders and a great champion for representation and inclusion in our industry. Through her work at Google she pioneered how marketing and technology can play a critical role in addressing societal inequalities. Nishma has also graced many stages sharing her experiences as a senior, brown, working-class woman in the tech and advertising industry.

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Host of The Ad Race podcast Fayola Douglas is joined by Dionne Maxwell. Dionne is passionate about diversity, inclusion, and belonging as well as race equality issues. She is Director of Diversity, Belonging and Engagement at Jungle Creations where she leads the social media first publisher in developing and implementing Jungle's diversity and belonging strategy. She is also Chief Amplifier at AmplifiedKin, a network that aims to amplify the presence of Black and Ethnic professionals, through events, collaborations, and spotlights.

www.amplifiedkin.com

#TheAdRace is an open conversation about advertising, marketing, and diversity & inclusion. Expect an unfiltered approach, lots of laughter, personal insights, and lived experiences.

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For Season 2 Episode 4 Fayola Douglas is joined by Elizabeth Anyaegbuna founder of 16x9 media agency, WACL member, Mentor at MEFA and current Bloom president. Elizabeth champions inclusion and equity authoring Bloom’s Allyship Code of Conduct, she is also a mentor and co-founded the inclusion group Bloom in Colour. Elizabeth shares her career journey from a degree in Law to becoming a media agency Founder.

BLOOMFEST 2024: The Lift will be taking place on Wednesday, 7 February 2024. More information is available here: https://www.bloomnetwork.uk/events

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Welcome back to The Ad Race Podcast, it is Season 2 Episode 3 which is our Christmas Special.

Fayola Douglas is joined by passionate storyteller Rose Latiff who has worked in brand experience and for Cannes Lions, so she knows how to spot a winner.

The pair have watched a range of Christmas ads and are sharing some very honest feedback. From the big supermarket ads like Aldi and Tesco to the classic Christmas ads like John Lewis and Coca Cola each year brands battle to deliver the best spot. But have the done enough to make you change your shopping habits?

Fayola and Rose have been unpicking the most controversial moments including Iceland opting out and M & S fighting fires as well as cheering for their favourites.

#TheAdRace is an open conversation about advertising, marketing, and diversity & inclusion. Expect an unfiltered approach, lots of laughter, personal insights, and lived experiences.

Find Rose on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roseanne-latiff/

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For Season 2 episode 2 of The Ad Race podcast Fayola Douglas is joined by Leila Faatar, Founder, CEO and CSO of Platform 13.

With more than 25 years’ proven experience, Leila Fataar has the unique ability to speak entrepreneurial, cultural and corporate fluently. Having worked both in senior leadership roles in-house the likes of adidas and Diageo, and through founding her own platforms and agencies.

Leila created Platform13 in August 2017 to answer challenges and needs faced by big brands in the ever-changing swiftly moving world of consumer behaviour, creative innovation and cultural shifts.

Leila takes us through her career, and identifies the "red thread" that ties it all together.

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