Hosted by Dustin Pead · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 160 episodes
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Dustin Pead hosts Chief Creative Podcast, a arts show with 160 episodes published.
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 S
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
You landed the client — now what? Dustin Pead breaks down the project kickoff system: a focused, 45-minute process that prevents scope creep, aligns your team, and produces a complete project brief before any work begins
Is your creative business ready for summer? In this episode, Dustin Pead takes a break from the live book writing series to share something super timely: the 5-block summer momentum prep session he runs with clients ever
Your clients don't leave because the work was bad — they leave because of the silence between deliverables. In this episode, Dustin Pead introduces the Pizza Delivery System: a CRM-based, semi-automated client communicat
Your future self is forgetful. And if you're not accounting for that in the way you manage your work, it's costing you more than you think. The average creative professional wastes 23 minutes every single time they conte
Every creative professional knows the feeling: too many tasks, too little time, no idea where to start. In this episode, Dustin Pead introduces the Priority Framework, a three-step system for cutting through task overwhe
Most creative agencies are organized around when work is DUE. The most scalable ones are organized around when it needs to get DONE. In Episode 152 of the Chief Creative Podcast, Dustin Pead walks through the DO vs DUE F
A friend once briefed Dustin Pead for 30 minutes on the wrong project. That phone call launched Chief Creative Partners — and now it's launching his next book, written live on this podcast. In Episode 151, Dustin introdu
150 episodes. Three podcast names. One business rebrand. And a new book on the way. Episode 150 marks the official launch of the Chief Creative Podcast — and Dustin Pead shares why the name finally changed, what it means
Your team keeps asking the same client questions. You're losing 10-15 hours a week being the institutional memory for your entire agency — and every new hire takes months to get up to speed. There's one document that fix
Most creative agency owners manage contractors the wrong way — unclear scope, no structure, and paying for hours instead of outcomes. In this episode, Dustin Pead breaks down the three rules that change everything. In th
Most creative team meetings are just status updates in disguise — and they're quietly killing your momentum. In this episode, Dustin Pead shares the Creative Meeting Success Framework: a simple 3-part method to transform
February is National Time Management Month, and creatives lose 20 hours monthly to poor time management. That's half a work week where you could be doing your best work instead of fighting fires. Here are the 5 strategic
The skills that made you a successful creative are now the biggest barriers to scaling your agency. Here's why 80% done by someone else beats 100% done by you when you're maxed out—and how to finally make the shift from
For six months, I let AI plan my week. It was efficient, it was optimized, and it was completely wrong for me. I thought planning was about the output—getting organized faster so I could move on to "real work." But after
Your team keeps asking the same questions about client preferences, and you keep answering from memory. Every interruption costs you 5-20 minutes of focused work. By the end of the week, you've spent 10+ hours being a hu
You just invested time and money in the perfect system. You rolled it out to your team. And then... crickets. Nobody's logging in. The problem? You're leading systems instead of leading people. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: - Why s
New year, 47 things on your to-do list, 12 marked urgent—and you're completely paralyzed. Today we're breaking free from priority paralysis using the Focus Funnel and capacity planning strategies that actually work. WHAT
As we close out 2025, it's time to give future you the greatest gift possible: clarity. In this special year-end episode, discover what we learned together this year and exactly how to turn those lessons into your cleare
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