Heart Move Magic
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMaking change is hard. Heart Move Magic, is a podcast by Almanac for mission-driven marketers doing challenging work. Episodes feature conversations with leaders, doers and all around change-makers on what they believe and how they make a difference. Almanac is a branding and digital agency based in St. Louis that works with purpose-driven organizations.
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Episodes
Neosha Franklin on Building a Culture of Philanthropy
September 05, 2019 06:00 - 33 minutes - 46.7 MBFor our final episode in this first season, I sat down with Neosha Franklin, Marketing & Communications Manager at the St. Louis Community Foundation (https://stlgives.org/). We got to talking all things charitable giving in St. Louis. The Community Foundation works with donors who want to give back to St. Louis. Neosha’s job is to make the case for investors, donors and community members, that giving through the Foundation can actually make real and meaningful progress toward building a more...
Tim Ward on Building Connection and Teaching Values Through Skateboarding
August 06, 2019 05:00 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBToday I’m talking to Tim Ward, the founder of Skate After School (http://www.skateafterschool.org/), a Phoenix-based nonprofit that provides after school programming in the form of skateboard instruction to underserved youth. Basically, Tim and his team use skateboarding to teach kids strong values, like teamwork and positivity. After visiting the organization’s Instagram page (https://www.instagram.com/skateafterschool/), you are immediately struck by a number of things. The first is the ov...
Corey Smale on Seizing the Moment
July 16, 2019 12:15 - 29 minutes - 40.3 MBIn 2013, we signed the paperwork and opened the Almanac (https://www.brandalmanac.com/) office in downtown St. Louis. We decided to host an opening party, and looked for inspiration from two trends happening in St. Louis at the time. The first, was the craft beer scene, which was booming, with new breweries opening every couple of weeks. The second was a super successful Kickstarter project that everyone was talking about. For a donut shop. We reached out to this new donut concept to see if ...
Enrique Von Rohr on the Intersection of Design & Health
June 26, 2019 11:30 - 29 minutes - 41.8 MBThis week on the podcast, I talk with Enrique Von Rohr (https://vondesign.com/), Director of Research & Technology and a Senior Lecturer in Communication Design at the Sam Fox School of Design (https://samfoxschool.wustl.edu/) at Washington University (https://wustl.edu/). I was interested in talking with Enrique because I learned about a pretty unusual course he was teaching, one where his students—who come from disparate schools throughout the university—partner with teams inside healthcare...
Kevin Farr on suspending belief in order to spark innovation
June 11, 2019 05:00 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MBToday I’ll be talking with Kevin Farr. Kevin runs the innovation consultancy CNTRD (https://www.cntrd.us/), where he helps organizations understand, practice and sustain innovation. I’ve known Kevin for a couple of years and have always found him to be filled with energy and excitement. When we get together we dig into everything from quantum computing and ai, to creative process and team dynamics. Sitting with Kevin, you feel like you get to peek into the future, although as you’ll hear, he...
Cindy Foley on the value of curiosity and creativity
May 28, 2019 05:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBUp next, my conversation with Cindy Foley, Executive Deputy Director for Learning and Experience at the Columbus Museum of Art. When we met Cindy, Almanac was working with the Museum, and Cindy’s approach to art connected with all of immediately. She makes the case that art’s critical value is to develop learners that think like artists; to be curious, creative, seek questions, develop ideas, and play. For this to happen, we need to stop defining creativity as an artistic skill. So if we wa...
Jay Fram
May 15, 2019 05:30 - 18 minutes - 25.1 MBNext up on the podcast, my interview with St. Louis—soon to be Portland—based photographer, Jay Fram. I’ve known Jay for more than a decade—as friends, studio mates and collaborators. Jay’s ability to craft evocative, honest portraits of real people and places has made him a favorite for our team and our clients. I wanted to talk with Jay because of all the photographers we’ve worked with, he has an uncanny ability to coax people out of their shells. Capturing people as they are is the best w...
Eric Scroggins
May 15, 2019 05:15 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBToday I’ll be talking with Eric Scroggings, Founder and CEO of The Opportunity Trust, an organization working to ensure everyone who calls St. Louis home is prepared to thrive. As we all know, the world’s economy and job markets are changing, and like many cities who were at the top of their game during the height of the industrial era, St. Louis struggles to keep up. Eric and his team have big plans to address the issues holding us back and to amplify the bright spots. (And their are some br...
Leslie Peters
May 15, 2019 05:00 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBAh, podcast number one. I’m really excited to kick this show off with an interview with Leslie Peters, who is one of my favorite people! She’s a speaker, author and guide who connects with people on the edge of growth. What does that mean? Basically, she works with leaders and teams during times of change. Perfect, right? Almanac and Leslie have worked together on a few projects over the years, and she’s not only gotten to know our company really well, but I would say she’s influenced the ty...
Heart Move Magic
May 10, 2019 20:00 - 2 minutes - 3.03 MBHey there, this is Nate Sprehe, CEO at Almanac. We’re a branding and digital agency in St. Louis working with purpose-driven organizations. And we’ve got a new podcast called Heart Move Magic. This podcast is an experiment on what it takes to create change. It started with an idea we had about how we could support and inspire the people we meet who are working so hard to make meaningful change in our society. (We see you and we know you are special!) But as much as it is for you, it’s also fo...