What better time is there to drop my conversation with Tara DeVeaux, CEO of Burrell Communications, than the very start of our fourth season?

Join us in front of a life-giving Basquiat backdrop as we dive in to topics like bringing your best self vs. your full self to work: how authentically showing your strengths doesn’t always square with revealing every aspect of yourself.

Plus, Tara makes it plain that—and y’all know I’ve been saying it—multicultural IS the new “gen pop.” Understanding cultural nuances helps businesses connect with a wider audience, period. Get on board, or get steamrolled. (Train pun intended.) And, effective leaders aren’t hatched, they’re grown.

Tara shares the importance of investing in leadership development programs to build the leaders you want to see in the world, and how such investments helped her become the CEO you see before you today. Pull up a chair, watch and share.

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Imagine the energy to start your ad career as an entrepreneur. Brandi Rand’s career has touched nearly every type of agency since then. In this episode, we spill the tea about how much of a powerup it can be for Black talent to experience working at multicultural agencies, and how the diversity push at predominately white agencies must go beyond DEI roles. Brandi’s mission in this industry is getting more of the Black diaspora into its storytelling. Meanwhile, she invests in and looks out for the culture, slathers her babies with sunscreen, and amplifies the voices of up-and-coming Black women in the industry. You know I can get down with that. Dig into this conversation about a trail-blazing woman and the game-changing work she’s made.