Latest Beautiful thinking Podcast Episodes
Season VII | EP 4: Johannes Torpe, Designer/CEO Johannes Torpe Studios
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - May 02, 2024 19:00 - 1 hourIn this episode, Carolyn Hadlock, Founder and Host sat down with Johannes Torpe to discuss his circuitous creative path starting with being born in a commune, and his evolution as a multidisciplinary creative and CEO of his eponymous studio.
Season VII | EP 3: Nevada Berg, Author / Founder of North Wild Kitchen
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - April 10, 2024 00:00 - 44 minutesIn this episode, Carolyn Hadlock, founder of TBTP talks with Nevada about how the landscape of Norway informed her culinary evolution. She speaks to the importance of seasons, cooking in the outdoors and respecting the food traditions of Norway while finding modern takes on them.
Season VII | EP 2: Paul Bennett, Design Leader / Former CCO, IDEO
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - March 14, 2024 21:00 - 57 minutesIn this episode, Carolyn Hadlock, Founder and Host sat down with Paul Bennett to discuss his long and fruitful career with IDEO, his creative partnership with Tim Brown, how to land in a room deeply and what's next on his Not To-Do List. (P.S. Stay past the end for bonus content about his tatto...
Season VII | EP 1: Marcus Engman, CCO / IKEA
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - February 28, 2024 23:00 - 48 minutesIn this episode, Carolyn Hadlock, founder of TBTP talks with Marcus Engman about the future of retail, IKEA's inaugural Artist in Residency Program with Annie Leibovitz, designing change and growing up IKEA as the second Engman to be Head of Design at IKEA.
Dr. Hirt (Pt. 2)
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - December 20, 2023 15:00 - 39 minutesOn the season VI finale of “Saturated,” Carolyn Hadlock and IU students Mina Denny and Caterina DeSantis bring back Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU, Dr. Edward Hirt. If you recall, we kicked off “Saturated” with Dr. Hirt. Instead of focusing on the ways in which saturation ...
Jason Q. Ng
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - December 14, 2023 19:00 - 31 minutesThe sixth episode of Season VI "Saturated" : IU Edition welcomes Jason Q. Ng, Author of Blocked On Weibo where he writes about Chinese internet censorship and currently works as a Data Scientist at Duolingo. In this episode Jason discusses how he has used data throughout his career to democrati...
Denise Roberson
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - December 04, 2023 19:00 - 36 minutesThe fifth episode of Season VI “Saturated”: IU Edition welcomes Denise Roberson, Chief Purpose Officer at TBWA, Professor and Speaker. Denise is the first Chief Purpose Officer TBWA has had. Denise shares her passion for purpose and her work to embed it inside organizations. While the work of pu...
Aakash Ranison
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - November 22, 2023 13:00 - 35 minutesThe fourth episode of Season VI “Saturated”: IU Edition welcomes Aakash Ranison, Author, Nomad and Climate Optimist. Aakash shares his personal journey of how traveling (via bicycle) through India opened his eyes to the need for climate change. His optimistic approach calls us to shift our behav...
Don McPherson
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - November 16, 2023 00:00 - 26 minutesDon McPherson invented eyewear for color blindness when he was working to develop eyewear for surgeons to use as protection during laser surgery. He would discover this when he lent his glasses to a friend who was color blind during a round of Ultimate Frisbee in Santa Cruz. In 2005 EnChroma was...
Connor Hitchcock
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - November 08, 2023 04:00 - 30 minutesConnor Hitchcock founded Homefield Apparel with his wife Christa in 2018. Today they sell college themed apparel to over 150 universities nationwide. Homefield prides itself on crafting a brand based on thoughtful design, culture and values. In this episode Connor shares the benefits of starting...
Dr. Edward Hirt
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - October 31, 2023 21:00 - 26 minutesOur first episode of Season VI "Saturated": IU Edition welcomes Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU Bloomington. Dr. Hirt discusses his work at the HirtLab where he and students study social identity, mental depletion, replenishment and motivation. In this debut episode, he’l...
Liz Paquette
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - December 15, 2022 19:00 - 28 minutesLiz Paquette is the Senior Director of Brand for Drizly, a leading beverage alcohol e-commerce shop. Drizly was the first brand to carve out a space in direct-to-consumer alcohol sales, and it continues to revolutionize the act of buying someone a drink via mobile phone with an innovative brand ...
Ryan Lott
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - December 06, 2022 18:00 - 37 minutesRyan Lott is a musician, composer, and founding member of music collective Son Lux. Ryan and his Son Lux collaborators developed the score for the 2022 film “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” much of which was written in a home Ryan rented out in Indianapolis. He talked about reconciling his c...
Candy Tong
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - November 15, 2022 17:00 - 31 minutesCandy Tong is a dancer, model, and entrepreneur based in New York City. Having trained and worked in the world of ballet, Candy has a unique perspective on femininity and body politics, and she uses her platform to push the changing look of ballet further forward. She talked about the importance...
Ray Roberts
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - October 25, 2022 14:00 - 32 minutesRay Roberts is a former NFL player who currently serves as the Director of Unified Champion Schools for Special Olympics North America. A naturally talented leader and speaker, Ray brings the same heart, work ethic, and communication skills to his career in the nonprofit world that he did to the...
Amy Conway-Hatcher
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - August 18, 2022 19:00 - 31 minutesAmy Conway-Hatcher is an attorney, author, advocate, and founding member of Chief (a network built to support and empower women in positions of executive leadership) in Washington DC. Her book “Infinitely More: Choosing Freedom, A Career Mom’s Turning Point” recounts her journey from equity part...
Bryce & Jill Morrison
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - December 07, 2021 20:00 - 36 minutesBryce and Jill Morrison are the co-founders of Mom Water. All-natural, non-carbonated, and available in flavors like the Julie (passionfruit) and the Karen (lemon-blueberry), Jill and Bryce created Mom Water for their group of parent friends before marketing it to the masses in four US states an...
Martha Hoover
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - November 22, 2021 20:00 - 38 minutesMartha Hoover is the founder of Patachou, Inc. One of the first restaurateurs to emphasize fresh farm-to-table ingredients back in 1989, Martha has transformed Patachou into an enterprise of multiple European-inspired restaurant concepts that have elevated the restaurant scene in Indianapolis an...
Kourtney Morgan
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - November 10, 2021 15:00 - 30 minutesKourtney Morgan is a Senior Designer at Patagonia— and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People In Business in 2020. Kourtney, a nature lover herself, has taken up the company’s mantle to find unique solutions for minimizing waste in Patagonia’s clothing design, from championing the brand’s Wo...
Susan Holmes McKagan
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - November 03, 2021 13:00 - 30 minutesSusan Holmes McKagan, author, model, and influencer. Susan has defied the expectations of being a model and rock star wife (to Guns N Roses’ Duff McKagan) by taking on a host of other careers, from swimwear designer and businesswoman to journalist and novelist. She talked about stressing the imp...
Kevin Lynch
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - October 27, 2021 12:00 - 28 minutesKevin Lynch. Creative Director at Oatly. World traveler. Story maker. Beautiful thinker. With a background at ad agencies in Chicago, Kevin first traveled the world to work in Shanghai, and later came to help the nondairy milk brand headquartered in Malmo, Sweden make creative messaging to furth...
Chris Davis
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - June 04, 2021 15:00 - 34 minutesChris Davis, Chief Marketing Officer of New Balance, on forming authentic partnerships, calculated risk-taking, and making dad shoes cool.
Julie Browning Bova
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - May 25, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutesJulie Browning Bova, designer/founder of Julie Bova Design, on story-centered interior design, putting intentional fear into your life and Midwest craftsmanship
David Napolitano
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - May 18, 2021 18:00 - 31 minutesDavid Napolitano, founder of Breadico, on baking out of a garage, the perks of growing a business in a smaller market, and why we all got so into bread in 2020.
Alessandro Manfredi
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - May 11, 2021 18:00 - 32 minutesAlessandro Manfredi, EVP, Dove at Unilever on why brand purpose is good business, the need for systemic change in the world of beauty, and partnering with Lizzo.
Justin Parnell
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - April 27, 2021 15:00 - 37 minutesJustin Parnell, Senior Director of OREO at Mondelez International, on staying playful, building a doomsday vault in Norway, and being an “and” brand.
Alex Matisse
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - April 20, 2021 15:00 - 27 minutesBeautiful Thinker: Alex Matisse, founder of East Fork Pottery, on bringing old-school manufacturing back, making community part of brand DNA, and finding success beyond his family’s legacy.
Alan Lightman
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - April 13, 2021 16:00 - 23 minutesAlan Lightman, author, physicist, and educator, on living a creative life, challenging science’s view of the unexplainable, and bringing the humanities to MIT.
John Merris
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - April 06, 2021 15:00 - 28 minutesJohn Merris, President and CEO of Solo Stove, on cultivating a solid company culture, radical customer service transparency, and creating your own fire.
Giovanni Corazza
The Beautiful Thinkers Project - January 06, 2021 22:00 - 30 minutesGiovanni Corazza, founder of the Marconi Institute for Creativity, on the dangers of expertise, balancing creative ideas with business principles, and how even non-living things can be creative.
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