A LOT TO SAY PODCAST

A Lot To Say welcomes Ben Keenan - Consulting Creative Director, Advisor and all-rounder with creative projects. He has led digital creative offerings at M&C Saatchi and Clemenger BBDO in Melbourne, and has received a significant amount of accolades for his work across multiple clients and industries. We go through his career starting with immersion in indie band scene, through to leading teams creating projects in-house at big agencies, to eventually branching out into his own consultancy. Ben consistently works with emerging creatives and teaches his own creative methods as a form of education.

This episode of A Lot To Say features Eileen Ormsby - Dark Web expert, lawyer, author and freelance journalist, based in Melbourne. She has written multiple books with her first, 'Silk Road', being an in-depth expose of the black markets that operate on the dark web. Following that, Eileen wrote 'The Darkest Web' which established her as a go-person for all things Dark Web focussed. She’s a prolific author, contributor and journalist for a range of publications and has been involved in ghost-writing for podcasts with significant listenership as well. *Content Warning - very mature themes contained in this podcast episode

A Lot To Say welcomes Mel Huang for a chat - she's an interactive designer and developer for the arts, culture & education sectors collaborating with institutions such as Dark Mofo, Science Gallery, NGV and Art Gallery NSW. She is a former sessional lecturer at RMIT teaching Creative Coding, founder of Technecolour which is bringing technical education to creative practitioners, and the novice, avid fermenter behind No Fun for Children hot sauce.

A Lot To Say welcomes artist Karina Utomo to the fold, as she discusses her creative process as part of well-known Australian heavy band High Tension, as well as emerging extreme music projects Rinuwat and Kilat. Karina dives into the collaborative process of disintegrating the voice, using abrasion as a tool to reference cultural identity, influences and expression.

A Lot To Say welcomes Scott Cooper for a chit-chat next - the COO of Versus Merch, who carries with him years of experience in scaling businesses in both Australia and the United States, including his past roles with Go1 and Drawboard. We lean into his background in the punk/hardcore/metal music realm and how that has influenced aspects of his career plus explore the remarkable situations on finds themselves in, as Coops has time and again.