The Crazy One

By Stephen Gates

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Episodes: 135

Jennifer Yamamoto
 Nov 14, 2018
if you've learned something from any of Stephen Gates' sessions at Adobe MAX, you're gonna pick up some more from these podcasts! Tune in for graphics inspiration and enjoy the ride.

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The Crazy One helps you find new insights and breakthroughs in your career, creativity, and leadership. In every episode, Stephen Gates gives you honest and actionable insights taken from his experience leading global in-house and agency creative teams, building multiple Fortune 100 brands, and working as InVision’s Chief Design Evangelist coaching and working with companies ranging from small start-ups to some of the world's biggest and innovative companies. Recognized with 2020 Webby Awards Honoree for Best Technology podcast, Inside Design’s #1 favorite design podcast, How Design Live #1 design leadership podcast, Springboard’s #1 must-listen UX design podcast and more.

Episode Date
Ep 129 Keynote: BeMore Festival 2023 - How to build a breakthrough career
Oct 02, 2023
Ep 128 Career: How to start your studio or freelance business
Sep 25, 2023
Ep 127 Career: How to navigate and succeed in the era of defensive employment
Nov 07, 2022
Ep 126 Career: Understanding the 2022 job market, a shift is coming
Oct 17, 2022
Ep 125 Value of Design P3: Showing the value and impact of design
Sep 19, 2022
Ep 124 Value of Design P2: Creating demand for design
Sep 12, 2022
Ep 123 Value of Design P1: Understanding the power and stigma of the word 'Design'
Aug 08, 2022
Ep 122 Career: How to decide if you should quit your job (or get a promotion)
Jul 18, 2022
Ep 121 Design Thinking: The U.S. Army can teach you a lot about Design Thinking
Jul 11, 2022
Back from hiatus
Jun 20, 2022
Ep 120 Career: Don't apply for your next job (and what to do instead)
Jun 20, 2022
Ep 119 Teamwork: How to become a great meeting and workshop facilitator
Nov 22, 2021
Ep 118 Teamwork: The best remote team building activities
Oct 18, 2021
Ep 117 Teamwork: Understanding your team's cognitive and emotional culture
Oct 04, 2021
Ep 116 Creativity: Understanding the new imposter syndrome triggers from remote work
Sep 13, 2021
Ep 115 Leadership: How to write an effective and unbiased job description
May 03, 2021
Ep 114 Career: Overcoming fear and self-doubt
Apr 26, 2021
Ep 113 Career: Understanding the 2021 job market
Feb 08, 2021
Ep 112 #ShareTheMicNow: The Power of Youth in Redesigning Systems by Antionette Carroll
Feb 01, 2021
Ep 111 #ShareTheMicNow: Dismantling White Supremacy in Design by Antionette Carroll
Jan 18, 2021
Ep 110 Creativity: 'Metallica’s rock ‘n roll insights on creativity and leadership’ from HOW Design Live 2020
Dec 07, 2020
Ep 109 Creativity: ’Hope is not a strategy’ keynote from HOW Design Live 2020
Nov 23, 2020
Ep 108 Memorial: The life and lessons of my father, David Gates
Oct 26, 2020
Ep 107 Career: How to outsmart the broken recruiting system
Sep 28, 2020
Ep 106 Career: How to build a personal brand people will love to hate
Sep 14, 2020
Ep 105 Career: How to negotiate salary and job offers
Aug 31, 2020
Ep 104 #ShareTheMicNow: Working in Tech While Black Part 1 by Jackie Velasquez Ross, Dorcie Lovinsky, and Christian Clark
Aug 24, 2020
Ep 103 Leadership: Why creating organization and cultural change is so hard
Aug 17, 2020
Ep 102 #ShareTheMicNow: I Dare You to Care by Sylvia Baffour
Jul 20, 2020
Ep 101 #ShareTheMicNow: Maurice Cherry and Debbie Millman in conversation
Jul 06, 2020
Joining #ShareTheMicNow
Jun 23, 2020
Ep 100 Career: Rejecting your life's invisible scripts
Jun 08, 2020
Amazing Design People List: Find a job, a mentor, and some hope.
May 17, 2020
Ep 99 Career: The 8 habits of successful people
May 11, 2020
Ep 98 Career: What to do if you get laid off
Apr 27, 2020
The Crazy One is now on YouTube
Apr 08, 2020
How I'm finding hope in these difficult times.
Mar 23, 2020
Ep 97 Career: How to deal with change.
Mar 23, 2020
Ep 96 Career: Insights from the Design Imposter Syndrome Crazy One Conversations.
Mar 02, 2020
Ep 95 Career: How to create a standout portfolio.
Feb 17, 2020
Ep 94 Creativity: The lost art of boredom.
Feb 03, 2020
Ep 93 Career: Why you have to build and maintain a personal support system.
Jan 27, 2020
Ep 92 Career: How to deal with difficult and creativity killing people
Jan 20, 2020
Ep 91 Career: The critical difference between design vs. creativity
Dec 23, 2019
Ep 90 Career: The real reason why you aren't getting promoted.
Dec 02, 2019
Ep 89 Career: Trends in recruiting, hiring, and retaining the best talent.
Nov 18, 2019
Ep 88 Creativity: Trust is the key to everything.
Nov 04, 2019
Ep 87 Creativity: Supporting and empowering introverts
Oct 21, 2019
Ep 86 Career: How to make peace with yourself to improve your creativity.
Sep 30, 2019
Ep 85 Creativity: How to get and give better creative feedback
Sep 09, 2019
Ep 84 Design: The need for ethical design
Aug 19, 2019
Ep 83 Leadership: Your leadership maturity level, persona and communication style
Aug 05, 2019
Ep 82 Conference talk: ’The Future is Creative’ keynote from HOW Design Live 2019
Jul 15, 2019
Ep 81 Keynote: ‘Why innovation is rarely authorized’ panel from HOW Design 2019
Jul 01, 2019
Ep 80 Emotional intelligence: How to find and restore your confidence
Jun 17, 2019
Ep 79 Listener questions: Design operations, start-ups, company “purpose", your career and building a team.
Jun 03, 2019
Ep 78 Teamwork: How improv can make your team more creative
May 20, 2019
Ep 77 Keynote: ‘Building an In-House Design Powerhouse’ keynote from SXSW 2019
Apr 22, 2019
Ep 76 Creativity: Why cognitive bias is the real problem with your work.
Apr 08, 2019
Ep 75 Career: How to survive corporate politics with grace and integrity
Mar 04, 2019
Ep 74 Methodologies: Design Thinking isn't bullsh*t. The way you apply it is.
Feb 07, 2019
Ep 73 Listener questions: Design leadership, office environments, design authority. conflict and sharing.
Feb 04, 2019
Ep 72 Leadership: How to create REAL innovation
Dec 31, 2018
Ep 71 Career: How to become a digital product designer
Dec 17, 2018
Ep 70 Emotional intelligence: Understanding and improving your emotional intelligence
Nov 05, 2018
Ep 69 Creativity: How to fight imposter syndrome
Oct 22, 2018
Ep 68 Your career: What's the equation for doing great work?
Oct 14, 2018
Ep 67 Creativity: How to give better design feedback
Sep 17, 2018
Ep 66 Originality: What to embrace, fight, stop and start to rediscover your voice and create your best ideas.
Aug 20, 2018
Ep 65 Listener questions: Branding navigation, hamburger menus, design systems, inspiring change and more.
Jul 29, 2018
Ep 64 Teamwork: Best practices for remote work
Jul 22, 2018
Ep 63 Creativity: The good and evil of data, research, and brainstorming
Jul 01, 2018
Ep 62: Listener questions: Advice for junior designers, activating empathy, work routine and more.
May 26, 2018
Ep 61 Career: Portfolio, resume and personal branding refresher
May 20, 2018
Ep 60 Methodologies: Understanding the power and potential of Design Thinking
Apr 22, 2018
Ep 59 Career: Know when to quit and do it the right way.
Apr 07, 2018
Ep 58 Leadership: Confronting gender bias
Mar 05, 2018
Ep 57 Teamwork: How to fix all those useless meetings
Feb 04, 2018
Ep 56 Podcast: How to get the most out of this podcast
Feb 04, 2018
Ep 55 Career: Know what fights to pick and fight them constructively
Jan 15, 2018
Ep 54 Emotional intelligence: The importance of honesty for your work, your team and yourself
Jan 07, 2018
Ep 53 Podcast: The Crazy One podcast's biggest lessons of 2017
Dec 25, 2017
Ep 52 Career: 6 ways to screw up your career
Nov 26, 2017
Ep 51 Leadership: How to work with underperforming people and teams
Nov 11, 2017
Ep 50 Conference talk: ‘Building your personal brand' from Adobe MAX 2017
Oct 29, 2017
Ep 49 Conference talk: ‘In-house powerhouse' from Adobe MAX 2017
Oct 22, 2017
Ep 48 Leadership: 3 step method to coach and grow your team
Oct 08, 2017
Ep 47 Creativity: Understanding and applying empathy in your work
Sep 24, 2017
Ep 46 Leadership: Why people quit and what you can do about it
Aug 27, 2017
Ep 45 Leadership: Become a better leader with the 10/80/10 ratio
Aug 20, 2017
Ep 44 Your career: Luck has nothing to do with success or creativity
Jul 30, 2017
Ep 43 Creativity: Understanding and breaking through creative slumps
Jul 16, 2017
Ep 42 Design: How to design a great mobile app
Jul 07, 2017
Ep 41 Emotional intelligence: Understanding and embracing insecurity
Jun 25, 2017
Ep 40 In-house design: Who owns creativity: In-house or agency teams?
Jun 18, 2017
Ep 39 Mentoring: How to find or become a mentor
Jun 04, 2017
Ep 38 Teamwork: Building stronger relationships with your clients (even the difficult ones)
May 15, 2017
Ep 37 Creativity: How to stop executive interference in your creative process
May 08, 2017
Ep 36 Listener questions: When do you ask for a raise, making remote teams work and valuing creative talent
Apr 16, 2017
Ep 35 Methodologies: Design Thinking P3 - Implementation phase and how build it into your culture
Apr 08, 2017
Ep 34 Methodologies: Design Thinking P2 - Ideation phase
Mar 31, 2017
Ep 33 Methodologies: Design Thinking P1 - Overview and Inspiration phase
Mar 19, 2017
Ep 32 Creativity: How to see opportunities and insights before anyone else
Feb 26, 2017
Ep 31 Listener questions: Setting your salary and showing the value of an in-house team
Feb 12, 2017
Ep 30 In-house design: How to fix broken and dysfunctional in-house creative teams
Jan 29, 2017
Ep 29 Speaking: How to become a great public speaker
Jan 21, 2017
Ep 28 Career advice: The 6 most important lessons I've learned in my career
Jan 15, 2017
Ep 27 Emotional intelligence: The relationship between happiness and creativity
Jan 08, 2017
Ep 26 Creativity: Have better ideas with better insights and a creative palette
Dec 18, 2016
Ep 25 Design: What are Atomic Design Systems and why are they the future?
Dec 12, 2016
Ep 24 Methodologies: How to make agile methodologies work with your design process
Dec 04, 2016
Ep 23 Conference talk: My talk with Scott Morrison at the 2016 Fifteen Seconds Festival
Nov 13, 2016
Ep 22 Teamwork: 5 Ways to build rapport with your clients
Nov 13, 2016
Ep 21 Conference talk: 'Success is a choice' from Adobe MAX 2016
Nov 06, 2016
Ep 20 Creativity: Insights from chef Thomas Keller on creativity and culture
Oct 30, 2016
Ep 19 Design: The 4 trends that will define the future of UI / UX design
Oct 23, 2016
Ep 18 Creativity: 7 rules for running a better brainstorm
Oct 14, 2016
Ep 17 Hiring: How do you find and hire better creatives?!?
Oct 10, 2016
Ep 16 In-house design: The secrets to becoming a successful in-house designer
Oct 03, 2016
Ep 15 Creativity: Insights from my conversation with Ferran Adria, the world’s greatest chef
Sep 26, 2016
Ep 14 Public speaking: Understanding your audience, the aftermath and keeping it sold
Sep 19, 2016
Ep 13 Public speaking: Building, setting up and giving a great presentation
Sep 06, 2016
Ep 12 Public speaking: Understanding your presentation style and becoming a better storyteller
Sep 03, 2016
Ep 11 Design: Innovative fashion, technology and shoes that might change everything
Aug 28, 2016
Ep 10 Creativity: How to build a product or creative strategy
Aug 21, 2016
Ep 9 Hiring: The biggest design portfolio opportunities, secrets and mistakes
Aug 12, 2016
Ep 8 Hiring: The lost art of the job interview
Aug 01, 2016
Ep 7 Career: How to build your personal brand ecosystem
Aug 01, 2016
Ep 6 Career: How to create a strong and effective personal brand
Jul 28, 2016
Ep 5 Listener questions: Should designers code? Is platformification killing design?
Jul 16, 2016
Ep 4 Design: Social media insights, potatoes and power of experiential currency
Jul 16, 2016
Ep 3 Teamwork: Creating a stronger culture, team beliefs and the power of 'What inspires you?'
Jul 14, 2016
Ep 2 Leadership: Common obstacles and 7 steps to becoming a better leader
Jul 14, 2016
Ep 1 Creativity: Lightbulbs are bullish*t
Jul 14, 2016
Welcome to the crazy
Jul 14, 2016