The PRovoke Media Podcast

Intersection Series: Author Craig Watkins on Creative Hustle & the Technology Revolution

In this episode of Intersection, a series that PRovoke Media is launching in partnership with Praytell, author and professor S. Craig Watkins talks about the ways creatives of color use tech and social ingenuity to build a new innovation economy that disrupts sectors as varied as design, media and entertainment, education, and civic engagement. PRovoke executive editor Aarti Shah interviews Watkins and Praytell's VP/head of DE&I Naria Frazier.

Show Notes
The Intersection Series Introduction Video
Video Interview with Craig Watkins 

Partner Content: Ideas with Purpose — PR & Race (Part I)

In this episode of the Ideas with Purpose podcast, Hudson Cutler's founder/CEO Robert Dowling talks to the agency's chief storytelling officer, Shawn Amos about a life of being “the only Black guy in the room” while working in the PR industry. In this candid conversation, they share their thoughts for creating real diversity and equity in very white male business. 

Dole CMO Rupen Desai (Ep. 235)

'Accidental marketer' Rupen Desai joins the PRovoke podcast to discuss Dole's new series of sweeping commitments, which aim to increase access to sustainable nutrition and eliminate food waste. Desai, who spent two decades with Lowe before joining Edelman, also examines the PR industry's attempts to transform, diversity & inclusion challenges, and the lessons he has learned along the way.

PAN CEO Phil Nardone On Making Diversity a Priority (Ep. 234)

In this episode of the PRovoke Podcast, PAN CEO Phil Nardone talks to PRovoke Media's Aarti Shah about the PR industry's failures when it come to diversity, inclusion and equity — and how his tech PR firm is accelerating its DE&I plans, even amid a global pandemic. 

NewsWhip's Paul Quigley on Misinformation around Black Lives Matters and Covid-19 (Episode 233)

In this episode of the PRovoke Podcast, we talk to NewsWhip CEO Paul Quigley about the way information — and misinformation — spreads, specifically around the Black Lives Matter movement and Covid-19. The data shows the Black Lives Matter movement was not actually divisive and misinformation thrives among those predisposed to believe it. 

Show Notes
Black Lives Matter Protests: Public Engagement And Corporate Responses 

How Coronavirus Misinformation Spreads 

Lockdown lessons from Arlo Brady & Alice Cartner-Morley (Ep. 232)

Freuds chief executive Arlo Brady and Republic founder Alice Cartner-Morley talk through the big themes to come out of their joint research into the hopes and fears of people in the US, the UK and Germany, regarding what life and work might look like on the other side of the Covid-19 pandemic, including the digital, economic, and social legacies of lockdown.

ESG in an era of societal and corporate challenges (Ep. 231)

Until this spring, the biggest driver of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) was climate change. This episode of the PRovoke podcast looks at how business and capitalism are being redefined and reinvented, through the additional lenses of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. Maja Pawinska Sims is joined by sustainable business expert Matt Peacock, former group director of corporate affairs at Vodafone, and now a partner at strategic and creative agency Blurred, and Kate Higgins, legal director and corporate governance lead at law firm Mishcon de Reya.

Quartz's Isabella Steger (Ep. 230)

Quartz Asia deputy editor Isabella Steger — a veteran of covering unrest in Hong Kong — joins the PRovoke podcast to discuss the current outlook for journalism in the city, along with the impact of Covid-19 on her work, the future of work in the region and her fleeting PR career.  

How PR can move from words to action on support for PoC (Ep. 229)

At the start of the Black Lives Matter protests, Katy Howell, the CEO of social media agency Immediate Future, posted a moving video on LinkedIn about her own experience of systemic racism in the UK. She joins Maja Pawinska Sims on the PRovoke podcast to talk about how agencies in the creatives industries can move from pledges to solid action on supporting Black and ethnic minority employees. 

Overcoming the PR industry's mental health problem (Ep. 228)

Katie de Cozar, head of enterprise technology at B2B specialist agency CCgroup, PRovoke's EMEA Technology Agency of the Year, joins Maja Pawinska Sims on the podcast to talk about the PR industry's mental health crisis, particularly given the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown and the renewed focus on inclusive working environments.