Awaiting Approval

What happens when seasoned creatives finally speak without filters?Hosted by Adam Jennings, a design leader with three decades of experience, Awaiting Approval invites creative directors, design leads, and experienced makers to share the work they’re proud of, the lessons they learned too late, and the messy, human truth of leadership.Awaiting Approval is a Cordial Fox production.Hosted by Adam Jennings. Produced by Adam Jennings & Jasmin Egner growwithadamjennings.substack.com

Awaiting Approval is a arts podcast hosted by Adam Jennings, with 52 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Adam Jennings hosts Awaiting Approval, a arts show with 52 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Odeya Noble-Bougay - Continuity

  May 28, 20261h 6mS3

  <p>Odeya Noble-Bougay returns. If you heard her in Season 2, you already know why. If you didn’t, go back and find it, then come here. Odeya thinks in ranges rather than binaries, leads with a generosity that feels entirely natural rather than performed, and has a way of reframing a question that makes you wonder why you were asking it the other way round in the first place. She was the obvious choice to bridge Season 2 into Season 3. Continuity, in every sense.</p><p>This conversation picks up where the last one left off, which is to say it go...

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  Episode #3

  Nacho Zuccarino - Vulnerability

  May 21, 20261h 17mS3

  <p>Nacho Zuccarino - Vulnerability</p><p>Nacho Zuccarino has lived several careers in one lifetime. He started out teaching metaphysics in Buenos Aires, moved into advertising, spent a decade in Silicon Valley working at orgs like Google and Netflix, helped launch Starlink with SpaceX, and has spent the last two years building at the intersection of creativity and AI. He is restless, warm, and deeply, disarmingly honest. And he will tell you, without hesitation, that he is still a broken kid.</p><p>This conversation goes to places neither of us expected. We talk about what it means to...

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  Episode #2

  Debbie Millman - Becoming

  May 14, 202648 minS3

  <p>Debbie Millman has spent over 20 years interviewing the world’s most creative people, built one of the most celebrated design podcasts in existence, written a number of highly acclaimed books, co-founded the Masters Program in Branding at the SVA, and helped shape how an entire industry thinks about craft, identity, and what it means to do meaningful work. She is warm, considered, and disarmingly honest. And she is, by her own admission, still very much in the process of becoming.</p><p>What struck me most in our conversation is how someone who has achieved so much remains so ge...

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  David Martin - Curiosity

  May 7, 202648 minS3

  <p>David Martin founded Fantasy Interactive before most people knew what interaction design was. He helped shape the visual language of operating systems used by billions, built one of the most influential creative agencies of its era, and worked with some of the biggest names in tech and culture. He’s also a pilot, a go-kart mechanic, a consciousness obsessive, and a dad who quit the nine-to-five to be trackside with his eleven-year-old son. He is, in the best possible way, a lot.</p><p>This conversation goes everywhere. We talk about ADHD as a superpower and a saboteur, why Da...

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  Awaiting Approval

  Season 3 Trailer & Cast Reveal

  Apr 30, 20265 minS3

  <p>Season 3 of Awaiting Approval is here.</p><p>22 episodes. 22 conversations. 22 themes. One season.</p><p>Starting May 7th.</p><p>Watch the trailer now.</p><p>E1 — David Martin — Curiosity — 7th May </p><p>E2 — Debbie Millman — Becoming — 14th May </p><p>E3 — Nacho Zuccarino — Vulnerability — 21st May </p><p>E4 — Odeya Noble-Bougay — Continuity — 28th May </p><p>E5 — Charles Cadbury — Conviction — 4th June </p><p>E6 — Tamora Petitt — Clarity — 11th June </p><p>E7 — Maryam Cristillo — Love — 18th June </p><p>E8 — James Ferguson — Adaptability — 25th June </p><p>E9 — Martina Hodges-Schell — Range — 2nd July </p><p>E10 — Maria Nicholas — Service — 9th July</p><p>E11 — Recruite...

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