Chief Creative Podcast

Host Dustin Pead helps creative businesses know themselves, their process, & their teams more so they can unleash their best work.

Chief Creative Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Dustin Pead, with 164 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.

Dustin Pead hosts Chief Creative Podcast, a arts show with 164 episodes published.

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  Episode #163

  Stop Saying Yes on Feeling: Introducing the Capacity Cadence | Ep. 163

  Aug 6, 202622 min

  Capacity decisions get made on feeling instead of fact, and it's costing creative business owners their margin. In Chapter 8 of Creative Work: 10 Systems Every Creative Business Needs , Dustin unveils the Capacity Cadence, a simple weekly question that replaces gut instinct with real numbers. Learn the four capacity buckets, the weekly math that tells you if you're healthy, on the warning track, or in a deficit, and exactly what to do next. chiefcreativepartners.com | dustinpead.com/free

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  Episode #162

  Client Retention Strategy: Speak Their Appreciation Language | Ep. 162

  Jul 30, 202613 min

  Not every client feels appreciated the same way. In this front porch edition, Dustin Pead breaks down the five business appreciation languages, adapted from Gary Chapman's Five Love Languages and John Ruhlin's Giftology. He also shares the simple survey that revealed how his own partners really want to be valued. If you run a creative business, this one's worth the 13 minutes. Connect with Dustin: chiefcretivepartners.com | dustinpead.com | @dustinpead Free resources for creative business owners: dustinpead.com/free

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  Episode #161

  Replacing Yourself with AI (with Christian Brim) | Ep. 161

  Jul 16, 202636 min

  Is AI coming for your job, or changing what your job actually is? This week Dustin sits down with Christian Brim, founder of Core Group, to talk about a chatbot Christian's been testing, Andy Stanley's idea of replacing yourself, and why the age of the knowledge worker might be ending. The knowledge economy made information free. The next economy runs on judgment, experience, and knowing what to do with what you know. Christian and Dustin dig into where AI actually adds value, where it falls flat, and why "good enough" might not be good enough for your business. ⚡️ What you'll hear: Why technology doesn't eliminate jobs, it just moves the value Why judgment and experience are becoming the real differentiators Why AI drives to the average, and what that means for creative work Why permission to play might be your best creative strategy right now Why protecting client data matters more than ever Christian Brim is the founder and owner of Core Group, the finance and accounting firm Chief Creative Partners trusts with our own books. Learn more at coregroupus.com. Connect with Dustin: chiefcreativepartners.com | dustinpead.com | @dustinpead Free resources for creative business owners: dustinpead.com/free You create. We operate.

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  Episode #159

  Team One-on-Ones: How to Build Trust, Unblock Work, and Develop Your Creative Team | Ep 159

  Jun 18, 202633 min

  Building a creative team? Your one-on-ones might be the most underused system in your business. In Episode 159, Dustin Pead walks through the full one-on-one framework from Chapter 7 of his live book, Creative Work: 10 Systems Every Creative Business Needs. This is Part Three of the book — Team and Scale — and it starts with the meeting that makes all the other systems actually work. You'll learn who needs a one-on-one with you (and how often), the five-part 30-minute structure Dustin uses with his clients, how to ask the right questions and actually listen, and the five most common mistakes creative leaders make that quietly destroy team trust. Whether you have one person on your team or ten, this episode will change how you lead them. Episode Resource: ⁠Transformative 1on1s⁠ chiefcreativepartners.com | dustinpead.com/free #CreativeBusiness #CreativeLeadership #TeamManagement #CreativePodcast #ChiefCreativePodcast #OneOnOneMeetings #ScaleYourBusiness #CreativeAgency

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  Episode #158

  Client Onboarding for Creative Businesses | Ep 158

  Jun 4, 202620 min

  Most client onboarding is really just project prep in disguise. But effective onboarding is about the relationship, not the deliverables. In this episode, Dustin Pead draws a clear line between project kickoffs (what are we building and how?) and client onboarding (how do we work together?) — and introduces the Client Intelligence File: a living document that helps you and your team truly know every client you serve. Dustin also digs into the five languages of client appreciation, mapping Gary Chapman's love languages into a practical B2B framework — including an often-overlooked fifth language: advocacy. Plus, two immediate steps you can take this week to build a real onboarding system in your creative business. This episode is part of the live book series for Creative Work: 10 Systems Every Creative Business Needs. For free resources and tools: dustinpead.com/freeWork with Chief Creative Partners: chiefcreativepartners.com #ClientOnboarding #CreativeBusiness #ChiefCreativePodcast #CreativeAgency #BusinessSystems #ClientRetention #SmallBusinessOperations

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