The Rebuilders – Details, episodes & analysis

This week I am talking to Matt Davis, Co-Founder of Red Brick Road and Patron at ambitious for autism. But more importantly, for this interview, Matt is also the father of 14-year-old Isaac who was diagnosed with autism aged three. Matt talks to Sara about rebuilding his expectations and assumptions about being a parent.

As Isaac grows and as their family has grown Matt describes  his parenting experience as one of unlearning, as fluid learning curve, always being redefined in part due to the fluid nature of autism itself. This fluidity has also altered how Matt approaches other aspects of his life and work, as his mind has become more attuned to challenging his own assumptions about things.

Matt also  shares how his experiences with Isaac have helped him to shape the culture of inclusion at the business he co-founded including the hiring of a team member who is also autistic. 

If you would like to read more of Matt and Isaac's story then please explore his blog. To learn more about autism please visit Ambitious About Autism and to donate to research into autism visit Autistica. 

To read more  stories from inspiring rebuilders then the book is available here. 

You will not want to miss this episode! Jamie Klingler, Writer and Activist for women's safety shares her story of making a change she had given up on, and in doing so finding a new calling. Alcohol and food dependancies were helping Jamie numb the pain of grief, but keeping her stuck in destructive patterns. In the first UK lockdown in 2020 she realised that something had to change. Jamie shares with Sara, how she managed to start and sustain a change and this gave her the resolve and energy to fight for a cause she cared for, after the murder of Sarah Everard 

As co-founder of Reclaim These Streets, she was part of the group that successfully sued the Metropolitan Police for breaching her human rights after they banned a vigil for Sarah Everard.  She was named ninth in PR Week UK's list of top communicators in 2021. Her writing can be seen in Vogue, the Guardian, Grazia and many more outlets.  Her recent TEDx talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtycbSeGp2I  and she writes regularly at jamieklingler.substack.com

You can read more about Jamie's incredible story here and here.

She also mentions the book The Surprising Joy of Being Sober which you can order here.

If you fancy hearing more stories like Jamie's and to explore the learnings among our rebuilders then you can order The Rebuilders book here. 

Lucy Rocca is a mother, life coach, founder of Soberistas and author of

The Sober Revolution,

The A-Z of Binning the Booze

The Sober Revolution: Calling Time on Wine O’Clock

Glass Half Full

Lucy is passionate about helping people feel good about leading an alcohol-free life and not seeing giving up alcohol as a compromise. But rather as gaining life in control. She has grown the Soberistas community to over 65,000 members and has turned her personal rebuild into a truly communal one. Lucy has made numerous radio and TV appearances on this topic.

Lucy Rocca Life Coaching: https://www.lucyroccalifecoaching.com/

Soberistas: https://soberistas.com/

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https://twitter.com/Soberistas

https://www.instagram.com/soberistas

Nancy Reyes is an industry veteran with over 20 years combined agency and client-side experience. She joined TBWA’s New York headquarters in 2016 and serves as the day-to-day operational lead for the agency, as well as the principal liaison across all roster clients, which include Mountain Dew, TD Bank and Hilton Hotels.

Prior to TBWA, Nancy was VP of Marketing Creative for Verizon, responsible for 360-degree creative product for the brand’s wireless business, which included advertising, retail and social marketing under the “Better Matters” brand platform. Most of Reyes’ advertising career was spent in Goodby Silverstein & Partners’ San Francisco office, where she worked for 11 years on accounts like Adobe, Frito-Lay, Google, Comcast and HP.

TBWA\Chiat\Day is the New York office of TBWA, known as the Disruption® Company. They help brands find strategic and creative white space through the power of Disruption. Their roster of clients includes world leading brands such as McDonalds, Mountain Dew, Mayo Clinic and adidas. They are considered to be one of thew world's leading creative companies recognised by Fast Company in 2019 and 2020 as one of the  'World's Most Innovative Companies'.

https://tbwachiatdayny.com

Once upon a time, Marc Lewis was a student at John Gillard’s SCA, before making his breakthrough and fortune on the tech start-up scene. Following a breakdown, and the closure of the SCA, Marc decided to return to the creative industry and rebuild and reopen the SCA 2.0. Marc talks passionately about his telos, or purpose, about having an industry funded school, creating scholarships and rebuilding the creative community by putting diversity at the heart of the creative industry.

https://schoolcommunicationarts.com

Sophie kindly gave up her time to speak to co-host Sara Tate, only 4 days into her new role at The Marketing Society, and 4 weeks into UK lockdown.

Sophie is an experienced business leader, entrepreneur, marketer and bestselling author who has worked in and with multinational companies, successful start-ups and agencies. An ‘acceleration addict’ she is constantly curious about how to speed up success. Her book on leadership ‘Superfast: Lead at Speed’ was published by John Murray Press and was shortlisted for Business Book of the Year as well as getting to a no.1 spot on Amazon. Sophie is an acclaimed keynote speaker, talking to organisations and at events regularly. Her most recent role has been as CEO of The Caffeine Partnership, a unique business consultancy which helps leaders to work with purpose and pace, where she has worked with impatient business leaders across the world.

Learn more about Lead at Speed:

https://superfastthebook.com

Follow Sophie:

https://twitter.com/TheMarketingSoc

https://twitter.com/s_devonshire

https://www.marketingsociety.com

Chris Atkins is a documentary film maker, journalist and author. He found success early in life with documentaries Taking Liberties, Starsuckers, and UKIP: The First 100 Days. He has received 3 BAFTA nominations for his work and also gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry. In 2016 he was sentenced to five years in prison for participating in a tax evasion schemes within the British film industry. He published a book about his time in prison entitled A Bit of a Stretch. But our conversation focuses on Chris’ time after prison and how he used his time away to decide how we wanted to come back. We cover post-it notes, parties, pitches and people in a wonderfully open, self-aware and funny conversation.

Faris is award winning strategist, creative director, writer, public speaker and geek. He was advising on how to use the internet before most people knew it was there. He has spent two decades challenging the staus quo of the advertising and marketing industry and worked on some of the world’s greatest brands. He has spent time living in the UK, Sydney and New York before starting his own business in 2013. Alongside Rosie Siman Yakob, he is the co-founder of nomadic creative consultancy Genius Steals. http://geniussteals.co and the pair have lived nomadically since 2013.

In his own words “I'm trying to work out how we communicate in a networked world, how we can make people happy, how we can make awesome stuff that is useful or entertaining or both.”

Follow him here https://twitter.com/faris

Charlie Webster is a renounced broadcaster, campaigner, and host of podcasts My Sporting Mind and the Undiscussable series. She’s been honoured in Parliament for her work in increasing awareness of domestic abuse and successfully campaigned to get children included in the definition of abuse victims. In 2016, she was told she was unlikely to wake up from a medically induced coma but miraculously recovered. This prompted her to confront childhood traumas in order to fully enjoy and appreciate her life and achievements.

https://charliewebster.com/undiscussable

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The Face is a British music, fashion and culture monthly magazine originally published from 1980 to 2004, and relaunched in 2019. It was first launched in May 1980 in London by Nick Logan, the British journalist who had previously been editor of New Musical Express and Smash Hits.

Explore it at www.theface.com