29. Boats, brainstorms, and banter with Sophie Paulin and Ali Nasseri
Some scientists believe water is conducive to creativity. I test this theory on Episode 29 of the B-side by jumping onto a boat and heading out into unscripted waters with award-winning Australian Photographer Ali Nasseri and Chief Marketing Officer Sophie Paulin.
Ali is a qualified lawyer who ditched the courtroom for a camera to become a commercial photographer working with some of the world's leading advertising networks and design agencies. He is behind the highly regarded 'Bondi Republic', a photographic book celebrating Australia's most iconic suburb.
Sophie is the CMO of Ordermentum, an ordering, payments, and insights platform for the food and beverage industry. A strategic and passionate marketing and digital specialist, having worked across a diverse portfolio of clients, companies, and digital disciplines, who is now shaking things up in the hospitality tech sector.
Ali, Sophie and I discuss how Covid-19 impacted their respective sectors and share some of the reasons to be optimistic about 2022. We reflect on the maturity of the internet and the increasing adoption of tech in a more globally-connected, locally-engaged world.
We jam on the basics of blockchain, how NFT's could increase the value of digitally created content, and the resurgence of analogue film in cinema. Then we get into a freestyle flow-state on the very nature of ideas, whether religion just needs an update, and the mysteries of the metaverse. And just for shits and gigs we clumsily cover everything from quantum computing to cryptos; politics to single-shot photography too.
This was such a fun episode to record, and on a boat in the middle of Sydney Harbour, no less. After close to two years of zoom sessions due to lock-down restrictions, a return to actual, in-person recordings was an absolute delight. Sophie and Ali are amazingly positive spirits filled with optimism and raw creative energy, and they're absolutely hilarious. I hope you have as much fun listening to the episode as I did recording it.
You can find Ali Nasseri here: http://www.alinasseri.com
And Sophie Paulin here: https://au.linkedin.com/in/sophiepaulin
And a special thank you must go to the captain of the ship CEO of The General Store, Matt Newell, for making such an incredible day happen.
