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Hello, amigos, Welcome to theToo Houston Podcasts, a podcast for you
professionals in the marketing and advertising industryhere in Houston. My name is Alex.
I am your host, as wellas Camera Newhouse, my VP,
and Jacob right next to me,not across the room. There he is.
And today we have a very specialguest with us today, our new
social media chair, Delaney. HiDelaney, Hello, Hello, welcome to
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the show. We're so happy tohave you here. This is Is this
the first time you're in a podcastepisode? Yeah, with this whole like
setup a little shook, So thisis like the full experience, absolutely,
And you're in an iHeart You're inan iHeartMedia station station. Yeah, that's
really nice. This is a nicestation for sure. Yeah, we're so
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happy to have you here. Thisis actually my second time coming here.
We're usually at Radio Lounge, andthe setup there is also as nice.
If anything, we have more micsthere. But you know, we're doing
a fun hot potato situation. Butyeah, I mean, we're really excited
to have you here. And let'skind of kick things off with just a
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simple question at TOO, So tellus when did you get involved with us
and how did you hear about it? Okay, Yeah, So being newer
to Houston, I guess I didn'tknow anybody. I'm an extrovert, so
I'm like, how am I goingto meet people in this industry? You
know, so you kind of haveto do like some underground like work like
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research. Things aren't going to belike handed to you, so you kind
of just have to especially if you'renew in a big city, like you're
gonna have to like do your ownresearch and like look things up, you
know, like where you know youare into, you know, like being
in advertising career wise, and youknow, I'm done with college, so
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it's not like I'm going to goto a local college and like try to
like get involved because like I'm nota student anymore. Yeah, so I
just like researched, you know.I just like got on Google and I
was like advertising clubs, like advertisingand so you guys pulled up add to
Houston, and I think I messagedI saw that a friend of mine that
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I went to college with. That'show it happened. Yes, Raven introduced
us initially last year around the timewhen we were doing our bowling tournament,
I believe, and following that,we talked, maybe we have one introduction.
We're like, oh, do youthink you can come? Oh do
you think you can bring your friendsfrom Carbo? Maybe? Okay, well
talk to see you then and thenexactly Obviously, you know, life gets
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in the way or there's always complicationsand things kind of happened, but you
know you did come to us atour pick aball tournament. Actually that's right.
That was probably the biggest surprise.And you mentioned yeah, we talked
to myself. I was like,wait a minute, Oh my god,
Raven's so yeah, I think Iknew. I mean, I definitely knew
your name, but like putting yourface to your name, I was like,
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oh okay. And they didn't playtogether, we were a team,
yeah, can I noticed like Alexis very involved and he knows so many
people, and like when you goto a place where you know nobody,
I kind of like clung to Alexbecause he knew everyone, and I was
like, oh, he can introduceme this person, that person, that
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person. And same with Cameron,Like I remember when I met Cameron,
like at the poke a Ball.I was like, she's involved. I
just kind of knew by like yourdemeanor. I was like, she knows
people. It's like okay, takingnotes, you know, and so you
it's this weird part of life wherelike you are looking for network, but
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like I also want some friends.I'm like, freaking friends. You're going
to be more intentional about it,you know, not just y, Hey,
I need to know you because youknow people. You know. It's
like yeah, I mean that's like, yeah, I just want to know
you as a person, and yeah, i'd be a friend. And we
people tend to be more involved,Like I don't know, it's if it's
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just how we like at school,if we were all over achievers or something,
or if we just were in allthe little clubs. And I can
kind of speak like I was tryingto join all the little clubs, especially
in college, like I guess becauseit freaking looks good on your resume.
And it's like we just are setup to this headspace of like, Okay,
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how can we be the best inour careers as young college you know
grads, And it's like you justthat's just what happens, and you tend
to just go towards the people thatare like minded as you and who want
to get involved as well. Andso that's what I would say add to
Houston definitely is I think we setthe stage up really well. So,
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yeah, we do our best andif anything, we try to bring a
variety of people. Think the biggesthurdle that a lot of people find with
us is that they think, oh, we're a club for thirty two and
under, but no, you havethere's everybody's open. If anything, our
affiliation with the Advertising Federation makes itmore transparent, like we are able to
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tell people or remind them saying no, please come, network, make friends,
We'd love to chat. We're nothere to sell you anything. If
anything, it's more of just likea it's a nice space. We try
to make it more accommodating by doingprograms like beers with peers. Sometimes the
only downside is like how can weproactively make something more consistent to add on
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to it so that we don't justhave the one event once a month.
Maybe we could have like one that'sa networking, drinking social and another one
that's something completely different. Yeah,yeah, that's a good point, Like
maybe implementing more diverse you know activities, Yeah, like get together, get
together. Yeah, once we havelike we have a total of thirty people
in our membership, and you knowthat's fantastic. The only downside is not
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every one of those members are ableto come to our events or sometimes they
pay for membership, but they arenot able to get the benefit of that
community. And it's you know,it's disheartening at times. But you know,
we want to encourage and we wantto stay transparent saying hey, we
understand you're not able to make itto this one, but come to the
next one, or make time inyour calendar plan ahead hopefully you're not traveling
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out of the state, out ofthe city, yeah, or work just
somehow you don't have to do overtime. Alex. I'm like staring little crack
on the computers, Like in thestudio, there's two computers. There are
two computers, and I'm just lookingat Alex through this tiny little crevice.
Yes, Hi, some time.Okay, perfect, that's a little better.
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Yeah, oh yeah, that's great. All right. Okay, So
obviously you've become very involved in addtwo and now your social media chair.
So what was the pool or whatmade you really want to jump into this
role? And you know how that'sa good question. Uh, I just
knew in general I wanted to bemore involved. I didn't realize that I
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would. You know, I don'tknow if you asked me, Alex or
if I I showed interest. ButI asked you initially when we had a
call after our pickleball thing, askingwhen we had our pickleball tournament, I
asked, are you still interested inbeing involved with the org? Like,
oh that member? Yeah, Andthen I said, okay, let me
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get back with you. Also aside note for anybody that's that I mentioned
had these conversations with them in thepast, it's not that I forget.
I just have I get overwhelmed likeanybody. But I was able to follow
up with Delaney because we really neededa social media chair to help out with
content and planning and managing some ofthese materials that we're creating. Yeah,
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and you know, I had acall with you. We talked a little
bit about ourselves, like your aninterest. I just I expressed like I
expressed what we needed, and Iasked like, what would you feel comfortable
doing? Yeah, and then youmentioned social media. It was like,
oh, fantastic, That's exactly howit happened. Like he was just kind
of like feeling out like my interestsand everything. I'm a brand manager,
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so like or account manager even callit either or in the industry, it
kind of goes back and forth.But I know that, you know,
in my role right now, Idon't focus on social media like I did
in my previous run. So Iwas like, where can I jump into
where I can't kind of you know, get back into that a little more.
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So that's kind of how it happened. Yeah, It's like it was
a very nice twist, Like Iwas really happy to see that that aligned.
And you know, you expressed alot of you used to do work
with Lopez Nicreta as well with socialmedia exactly, and then you mentioned,
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you know you did you're doing brandmanagement and everything with Carlberg, and I
thought, hey, there's a lotthat Delaney can bring onto the table,
especially with managing the content and howcan we optimize our materials. I'm just
making sure you can see, okay, But yeah, I think if anything,
we're getting our grooves in. We'rejust working on our on our pipeline,
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just to make sure that we're ableto express, Hey, what can
we do better here? Can wemeet our schedules? Can we plan,
copy and create, have enough timefor our creative team to make the assets
to go out, and how canwe get better at making other contents like
reels and all that stuff that's stilla working progress. That's what's interesting about
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this club too, is that there'sa lot that goes into it. Yeah,
it's compared to other clubs, Ithink because you know, you know,
finance and like business and like lawyers, there's like so many of them.
I feel like and and I don'teven think they go this hard in
their clubs because they're like, weknow, we got a job to do.
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We're gonna go. You know,I have court at you know,
two o'clock. It's just a differentmindset in other industries, is what I'm
trying to get my porn across.And so with ad Club, you know,
we as people in advertising, wehave so many different little skills in
our career. Yeah, and whenyou put it all together with other people,
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it's really nice and you get tojust grow to your best potential and
you have so many like lanes thatyou can go into in our in our
industry, which is really cool.So I think that's why, like people
in advertising like just go hard andthey're so detail minded and detail oriented.
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I think I think we go harda little bit on the events and the
promotion stuff because that's how we do. We're like, oh, yeah,
let's make graphics, let's get likebandanas, mate, let's get you know,
cet a voice actress to a radioad, all the different of advertising.
Yeah, kind of just comes throughand it's fun and like creative for
us too. So we also haveto be mindful with our time management as
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well, Like we always have allthese ideas, and I think people in
the community are so open to allowingus to use their spaces, like for
example, with iHeartMedia, Jacob Works, here's we're able to pull that string
acause pop Off Jacob, pop OffJacob, they use the plug. And
we also have Ray who also letsus use the studio space as well,
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which is you know, we're supergrateful for that's where we normally do all
of our episodes. And sometimes,like what I really want to get into
doing is maybe working on our directionsfor some of our promotion materials, like
maybe we can do really cool brandedmaterials with photo ops doing all that fun
stuff, trying to see like maybethere might be times where we can ask
a favor for a photo studio.I mean, there's a lot of people
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that lately have been getting involved withthe Advertising Federation, like Cai from Captive
Creative or the One Studio. Alot of those guys are really nice,
and maybe eventually there might be atime where we could always just reach out
and say, hey, would itbe cool if we bring our own team
use the space during a weekend orsomething for fun. But obviously I think
it just comes down to our time, our plan, and that's what's really
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hurts us is the freaking time.Yeah, you know, that's the thing,
Like it's time, and also justbeing able to communicate effectively, like
what was it? You know.I remember there was this one time when
I was like, Okay, we'regoing to talk on Slack and I remember
the Laney left a message and nobodyresponded back to the Laney and I was
just like, ah, well,And I also understand because people are busy,
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Yeah, because we always overstack ourschedules just by second nature, I
guess, yeah, that does happen. We all like to be busy,
and you know that's another thing,like if you do want to come to
add to Houston events, like there'salways something that we can help you out
with or talk about, you knowwhen we're always here to extend an open
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hand. And that's a big likegoal for me, like as we get
older and stuff, just being reallythere for the next generation and like these
little young birds on the rise,oh yeah, and like don't you know
what to do? They don't knowwhat to do, and like we I
feel like we've got really good Wewere so fortunate to get like good you
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know peers among us and people likeCandy. Oh yes, Candy. People
like Candy, like those people whogenuinely care and it's just like it's really
motivating, and so I just Iwant to be like a candy for the
next little baby birds coming out.All yeah, if anything, I'm sure
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Kenny will find that super heartwarming.And you know, like even when I
first joined the club, like Ihad a very keen interest with people like
Dwhite doubt It or k Krenick,they've been pillars of the club in terms
or even Jonie that they all beendoing their part for a better part of
years in creating or establishing the Federationas it is here in Houston, at
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least with AF organizing the advertising awards, creating those happy hour social events in
the beginnings. If anything, thosewere kind of like my key cornerstones as
well. When I first joined theclub was when I first became president,
was how can I bring that opennessback to the club, getting people involved.
If anything, we have to we'regonna have to get better at doing
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some of these things moving forward.But you know, I think, like
you had mentioned, we're in agood pace now. Hopefully we'll get better
at reaching out asking for help.I think that's my other issues, like
we got to get better at askingfor help from my perspective. You know.
Actually, let's aside from asking forhelp, let's jump back into the
past for a minute. So canyou tell us a little bit about your
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childhood or did you always want towork in advertising? E No, I
didn't really know that advertising was.Oh, it's gonna sound like so dumb,
but I really didn't know that,like there were so many legs behind
advertising. That really makes me soundstupid. No, but it's so true,
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like same for me, Like youreally everything is so behind the scenes
that you just don't know. Yousee a billboard and you're like, oh
cool, you don't know you don'tthink about how they got there, you
know, like it's honestly, okay, the amount of times it had to
go through a QA just to gohonestly, and it's just like I don't
know. I mean that's pretty muchlike I really didn't know. It was
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a thing. I didn't know,you know, it was like a big
deal. And there's so many peoplethat you know, work in this industry.
So I was more sore, sore, more sore. I was more
so interested in film and so beingbehind the camera and being in a little
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studio, you know, and justworking closely with people. You know.
I just loved cameras and photography andvideography I still do, you know.
And not to put a little plugin, but I had a YouTube channel.
Really, I had a YouTube channelslike a middle schooler, just being
like just silly like vlogged and likejust you know, just posting random things
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like here's what I'm wearing today,you know, little things like that.
And so that loki continued until highschool and then I was like I kind
of want to start a podcasts,you know, just kind of just going
off the rails, like doing whateverI want, and it just being that
creative, like silly side of meand just like pulling that out. That
was fun and I do miss that. But then when I got to college,
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I was like, you know,I don't know about you guys,
but my parents, mostly my dad, he was just like, you want
to make money in your life,Yeah, pay the boot. I heard
that. I wanted to do animationinitially, and my mom just said animators
don't get paid a lot, Alex. But I'm just like they do,
but it's okay. So yeah,and I feel like that's so relatable.
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Like parents always want the best foryou, you know, YadA YadA,
but it's just like at the endof the day, they're like, you
want to be able to make alot of money and be comfortable, and
like I get it, and Irespect that and thank you very much,
but it's just like we also wantto be able to fulfill our interests,
you know. And you're going togo into a career. I mean,
here's kind of the stage that likeyou kind of grow up knowing is like
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you're going to be in the samecareer for your entire life, so you
better choose wisely, you know.And so it's it. But they don't
know that people could change, peoplecould jump around, you know. That's
why there's degree is like you know, like for instance, mass communications.
I got my masters in that Iknew that I can do whatever I pretty
much want with that. You cango into healthcare, you can go into
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mental health, you can go intoadvertising, you know, different realms.
And so that's kind of like thebeauty of this next generation coming up is
like they're just kind of telling everybodyyou can do anything you want and you
can always jump around. There's nobodysay holding a gun to your head,
you know, saying like you gottastick with this career for the rest of
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your life, make a choice orbreak Yeah, exactly, And so that's
kind of like a thing. Ohman, I forgot my train of thought.
I don't know where the first questionwas. But honestly, like that
is a thing though that you know, I just want to be able to
tell other people like, just becauseyou start somewhere, you can always change
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it up. Just be open tonew possibilities. Don't set yourself up for
just one career for the rest ofyour life, especially if you stop enjoying
it. So so, yeah,so then I got into advertising because there
is a major at the college Iwent to. I went to Texas Tech,
uh, and it was advertising andI was like, hmm. I
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was like, I was like,I have no idea what to expect with
this one. So it turns out, I mean it's a mix of what
I wanted, you know, justlike it takes us back to like how
diverse our industry is. You couldeither be on the creative side, you
know, just going into a studiolike this, or even like cameraon you
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work with like the cameras and stuff, like in a photography studio. Yeah,
they do a lot of commercial workthere too, and is advertising you
know, yeah, yeah, it'sstill under that umbrella of advertisem Sorry I
am trying not to swear, butyeah, it's still under that you know,
realm of advertising and you know,being on any side you want.
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And I think that's what really pulledme in to advertising. I didn't change
my ma, I think I stillYeah, I did change my major.
It was the original one was calledElectronic Media, and then I switched it
to Media Strategies because that one hadmore advertising courses that you can take,
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and so I did that, andthen I decided to minor in advertising and
Human resources. I don't know whyI got into human resources. It's because
her counselor talked me into it.She said, you just have one more
course to take and then you willbe able to have a human resources I
said, girl, sign me up. I was like, I'll do it.
I'll take that one last course andso it got that under my belt,
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and I guess who knows how thatwill help me, but like,
I have no idea. And thenI went to grad school because it was
COVID, you know, and Iwas like, what can I do,
you know, and my counselor waslike, well, there's this online master's
degree. It takes you a yearto do. And I was like,
girl, I'll do it. Iwas like, I got nothing else to
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do in COVID. But like wewere all depressed, we were all inside,
you know, like such a crazytime. So I kind of took
that, you know, to thebest I could and got a master's.
So yeah, I guess that's prettymuch it. It's a really cool that's
a really cool transition as well,Like you during the pandemic, instead of
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like picking up a new hobby ordoing well, I'm not saying you didn't
pick up any new skills. WhatI'm saying is like you were more focused
on your career in that sense,and you took the time to find a
online master's degree program that you wereable to complete. Was it with the
same university too, Yes, soeven better and if anything, like you
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got a lot out of that.I suppose like does that does that masters
actually help you out with your currentjob? It actually does, Like girls,
that's what made me get a rayall going to look up masters pop
off and maybe that is like Idon't know, I don't know. I
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don't want to just say it's likeyes or no, like this will catch
you out raise. Yeah, it'snot like automatic exactly. Yeah, you
have to show the work. Youhave to show the word exactly, so
you know, but that was athing. It's it just kind of I
don't know, I don't know,Guys, I don't want to say that
it shows something better different, butit's just I guess. Because it was
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a master's in mass communications, itmade me understand the research side. It
was a lot of research and likemask you know, like a man,
what was it about? Gosh,it was just a lot of like research
and advertising and like media learning aboutstrategies. Yeah, but now in the
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career, you know, it wasjust like reading out of a textbook.
But now like that we're actually inour careers. You know, you learn
about traditional media by doing it,you learn about digital media by doing it,
and like here we are in astudio. Everything is just more practical,
practical learning exactly when you're in it. Yeah. So yeah, well,
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very cool, very cool. Soyou went to school in Lubbock.
Where are you originally from. I'mfrom the Dallas area. It's a suburb
called mid Lothian. I always justtell people Dallas though, because it's just
shout out to my small town people'sbecause it's always just a little hasshole because
they're like, what is it?Where is that? It's just like,
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I'm from Dallas. Let's just leaveit at that, just because like I
don't know, I don't know ifother people can relate to that, but
for sure, I went to schoolin Louisiana and would tell people I'm from
Montgomery, Texas. They're like,what is that? Conro, I don't
know, Houston, you know whatI think? Okay, yeah, I
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got it. I think a Beyoncebecause she from how do you say Montgomery
Montgomery County. But yeah, youknow, when people always tell me,
oh, I'm from this county,I always get lost because I'm only familiar
with Harris County, if that makessense, Because I mean, to be
fair, like, I came herefrom abroad, like from an international background,
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and when I came here to theUS for the first time, I
was just not aware, like,oh county, what county am I in?
And then the voter lady from collegesays you're in Harris County. I
was like, oh, okay,thank you. Yeah. I mean,
just being in a bigger city likeHouston or Dallas, there was just so
much more opportunity as well. Whatwas your experience or do you feel that
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there was that bigger opportunity change.For sure, I feel like I think
it's just because where I'm from,Dallas feels so much more competitive. Really,
it just does like there's so manymore bigger advertising agencies. I think,
like they're Saucy and Sauchi. Ohyeah, Dallas, like they're a
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bigger agency. I mean, yeah, Dallas does have a really big club
there too, with AF Yeah,AF and the AT two club there too.
They actually have two different Dallas clubstechnically there is the main Dallas club
and then there's the one fort Worthfor Fortworth, Yes, the fort Worth
there's a okay, back to theepisode. So there's the Dallas and then
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there's the fort Worth chapters, andthey both usually comp they don't compete,
well, they just have to likesplit out their membership because if you live
in the fort Worth area, I'msure it's more convenient to drive to a
fort Worth event. But yeah,I think it's the same situation with Houston,
where I guess, like just toget across from Dallas to fort Worth
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it's like a forty minute drive.Just to get from where I live to
Houston, it's a forty minute drive. So I don't know why there's no
club in like Huntsville or something exactly. And I mean that's because I honestly,
I think every is migrating to thebig city, you know, and
it's just such a hub. Butto answer your question, Cameron, like,
I feel like it's less competitive herein Houston that you know, if
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you want to be more about thecommunity, which I definitely am, then
come to Houston because like people,there's just more care here, you know.
I feel like it's not as ohMan with peace and love. I'm
not trying to be rude, butit's not as fake peace and love.
Yeah, you know, and solike a genuine care, genuine care for
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people to like connect and collaborate.And if you'll notice, yeah, and
if you'll knows, like all theadvertising agencies, they all know of somebody.
Somebody knows somebody else. Even thestations like here, iHeartMedia. You
know you have kge how you kayJeff, all these like, but they
all know of the others. Andso yeah, it's a growing space.
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And if anything, like with theway that this community is kind of growing
towards, it's more of a collaborativeenvironment. So you know, there's always
the big talk about like gig gigwork and all that stuff. That's a
factor that comes to it because ifanything, a lot of people are able
to get into positions just through gigworkat the beginning to then transition to a
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full time position. And that's typicallyin a conversation that I interact with with
college students or with people that justrecently graduate. Yeah, because you know,
there's there are three ways. Eitherthe traditional raute where you get you
apply for an actual position, that'savailable. There is the gigway, where
you do work for this client,consistently, build good rapport, and if
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something opens you get an immediate directlink, good recommendation you get automatically.
It's an easier way in. Andthen there's also the internship, which is
like low pay but higher reward.I usually try to help a lot of
people get into internships since things likethat, especially with new members or prospecting
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members, because if anything, likeyou mentioned, everybody deserves a chance and
and if anything, just being ableto chat with them is a really big
important thing, especially when it comesto looking at people's futures. Where do
they grow? And you know,speaking of future, let's look at the
future for you, I mean,where do you see yourself in the next
few years. Oh well, I'mkind of having an identity crisis and it
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happens, and I guess it's likeour twenties and it's just like here's the
thing, Like I'm going to befully honest, Like I was having thoughts
like in the past month of likedo I want to go into healthcare?
And then how the heck am Igoing to do that? Am I gonna
have to go back to school?Just to get you know, be a
little pediatric nurse or I mean,I don't want to do that, but
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it's just like, you know,when you are thinking of a career,
your change, it's you kind ofget scared because it's like do you have
to go back to ground zero?And I was talking to my therapist shout
out. I was talking about popoff mental health. We'd love to see
her, love her, love her. Uh you know, I was talking
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to her and she was just like, why don't you start looking at what
you can do with your master's likedegree and like all the different things that
you can do, because like Isaid in the beginning, like there's so
many things you can do with adegree like that. And so she's like,
why don't you start looking up topicsor different things you can do.
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I know, I love mental health. I know I love you know,
people helping people. You know,does that turn into health care or does
that turn into mental health? It'syou know, it's kind of like that
game where you just kind of like, uh, cancel things off and just
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like pros and cons a little bitand just kind of like get it down
to where it seems like you willenjoy the most when you're about to make
a career change, or like noteven a career change. I don't think
I'm going to make a big jumplike that. Yeah, but just like
a change in pace, I guess, yeah, something that's different. Like
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sometimes I hear from my wife whenevershe's tired from work. It's like,
oh, I'm just gonna quit andstart a coffee shop in the valley.
Something off. Usually she it's alwayssomething in line with like, oh,
I want to start a small business. I want to do something that goes
with like my craft and use myskills to do something fun. And I
think those things are important, especiallywith mental health, like ways to de
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stress, right, that's really important. Hobbies, Yeah, there's always important.
I think the moment when your hobbybecomes your job, that's when it
does not become fun or relaxing likeI used to be. What was back
when I started off design, Iused to just treat it as a hobby.
I was like learning Photoshop, sothe illustrator, and then from there
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people are like, oh, I'llpay you this much to do a very
bad logo. I was like done, But then the moment when more work
start coming in, I was justthinking to myself. Oh that's an interesting
take. Now you're saying your hobbyshould not turn into work. It shouldn't
because, like, if anything,it's what makes you happy. Some people
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might pick up robotics or do likerandom things like for example, start a
YouTube channel, continue your here's somethinglike I don't know, Alex, just
just because like that can that's sucha strong I say, do what you
love and if it helps, ifyou can make money doing it, then
yeah, but it goes either orperson. Yeah, because if Jacob loves
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being in the studio all day,like it's his job, like more power
too. Yeah, if you enjoyit. But then I also see where
you're coming from where it's like you'reso busy, you're having a lot of
fun, but it becomes stressful.Oh yeah, deadlines or keeping but you're
still doing your favorite thing exactly,And so it's like, how does that?
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And maybe that goes back to timemanagement, you know, or like
or asking for help for help weall hate. I don't know about y'all,
but I hate asking for help.I don't know what it is.
I think it's all just like youwant to just like do it yourself,
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you know, And that's the thingas well, like helping my team.
Especially with the group, it's alwaysjust like people have their lives going on,
you know. There was My favoriteexample was when Caitlin she had her
wedding planned as well, and Iknow I noticed that she wasn't able to
do X, Y and Z andshe just recently got promoted. I'm just
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like, okay, I see what'sgoing on. Yeah, So I told
her, hey, I got this. You know, focus on your thing.
You're still involved, you're not leaving, You're fine. Because that was
like always the thing. It's likewhen you ask a person to just step
back a bit, there's always justlike you have to be reassuring saying,
hey, you're going to be fine. There's we are a team. We
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were able to support each other.Yeah, and this isn't like a job,
right, Like this is more ofsomething that we're doing for fun.
We want to build something great forthe community. We want to but we
also have to show responsibility and obviouslybeing able to depend on each other is
important. Like when I was gettingmarried, I had to ask my team
please help with this while I'm gone, Like I even had like I was
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planning my engagement and then I hadmy wedding back to back. It was
ridiculous. At least I counted onmy team to support for the most part,
and it was fun. Like Ienjoyed my time. I got back
and then I was like, okay, I'm back to this again. Yeah
yeah, and just we all pickup We help really well, picking up
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the pieces to other people, andlike that's another thing of coming to join
us, and just we're all goodpeople, you know, like we're not
gonna be mean to you or likesay, oh, you gotta figure it
out. You know. Our roleof this club is to always be a
helping hand and just open up ourresource yeah, open up our shared experiences,
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learn, pick up new skills,yeah, trauma bond yeah. Kind
of back on the way you seeyourself in the next few years with you
with your potential of maybe doing somethingdifferent, would you ever consider starting your
own agency or business? Absolutely notno, this is not me. Maybe
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not in the industry, but anything. Would you ever like starting your own
business, like you pick up ahobby. I think the only thing I
would start is that club. It'sbecause there's maybe there's not money to it,
you know, I'm not paying people. It's more of come on your
own time, have a good time, there's no pressure. I think that's
what I would do, but Iwould never. I don't. I just
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don't have that mindset of having myown business just because like it's a lot,
and it takes a certain type ofanimals to have your own business.
Oh yeah, and you either gotto be able to wear lots of hats.
You gotta be able to tell goodnews bad news, like oh yeah,
all of those things go into it, and I don't want to be
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it's because I'm a little planner.That's the bottom line, is like I'm
such a big planner where it's likeI can't plan for things like, oh,
it's so bad. I can't planfor things I can't control. I
can't like I can't control everything bad. Yes, And it's like I'm not,
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I can't. It's just a lot. And yeah, I would rather
be a part of something amazing andyou know, just tell good luck.
I can help. Yeah, butit's all your name's on the door.
Yeah, that's always a funny thingtoo. I always realize that agencies,
well not every agency, but somepeople usually like to incorporate their own names.
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I guess it's also like a raactly. It's kind of I think it's
kind of like a you know whatsome people have They get a kid and
they look just like they're themselves andthey call them, Oh, it's me
junior, Yes it's baby. Yeah. I guess it just depends on the
person. Yeah, Like if theyreally see themselves being that influential figure exactly,
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that's like, yeah, that's something. It's just like, Okay,
do you see your own company goingtowards yourself your legacy, or do you
want it to be a part ofsomething bigger that's beyond you. Yeah,
And then there's always the conversations oftrying to build something up to then be
bought out and making a bigger profit. Yeah, people tend to go with
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that route. I mean, lately, a lot of agencies that had big
names, like the Code or fiveplus eight. I know they recently well
I'm not sure, like they didn'tdo any rebrands, but I heard that
they were they were purchased by privateyGlobal or somebody something like that, and
somebody just changed their name a veil, Yeah, availed brivic Media chance their
name. They didn't get bought out, but it was more of like Brivic
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was originally the founder and it waslike a legacy thing, but then to
be respectful and to be more inline with the current direction and the leadership
there, Kelly Robinson made the decisionto change the name or her and her
team did. That's all that Iwas able to pick up from Kelly Regez
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by chance or is it Robinson Robin? Is that the found the current president
Kelly Robinson, I believe is thecurrent that it's okay anything Jacob if you
could Kelly Robins, but yeah,Kelly Robins. But that goes back to
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the point of like, you know, we all know somebody or some name
somehow we're all able to connect onthat. It's because like Houston, yes
it's a big city, but withinadvertising, that's what's amazing about like ADD
two club, is that somebody alwaysknows somebody. Yes it's a big city,
but somehow within our advertising industry,we all know somebody. And that's
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a really good part of just beinginvolved in Houston, like AD two aaf
am A ai ai g A Yeah, ai g A, how do you
all say it? Ai g Adon't say a. Last time I said
that to Dylan, he was actuallyone of the founding memories. Like what
did you just say? Wow?But it was fun. But yeah,
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I mean, like you mentioned,a lot of things really come into that
side of the spectrum where they're startingyour own club and see your own business.
I think it really comes down tojust the trajectory that you see your
impact leaving. But at the sametime, you know, just to kind
of transition to the end of theshow. You know, we are at
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the end marker here. So doyou have any advice for anyone looking into
breaking into the industry? Oh?Oh yeah, is it taking a master's
Honestly, do whatever you know makesyou happy in the moment. I'm trying
not to be as a planner toomuch just because it gives me anxiety,
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I hear you. So also likejust be in the moment. I guess
I would say, if trust yourgut, that's a big old deal.
Trust that gut gear that's your innerself talking to you. And so I
would just say, and also here'sanother thing, put yourself out there.
Yeah, because there are so manytimes where like we have an event,
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I'm like, I would just wantto sit on this couch. I just
want to sit on this couch.I don't want to go, but push
yourself, you know, push yourselfto go, because I promise you you're
gonna have a good time when you'reout there. I'm in a book club.
I'd say, join all the littleclubs. Join the garden club.
You know, there's so many clubThat's the best thing about Houston being so
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big is that there's so many resourcesfor you. Yeah, not outside of
this industry, but like, yeah, you know, just put yourself out
there a little bit. You don'thave to go all hard, but like
just one at a time. Yeah, I look around your community or in
your neighborhood if anything. Like lastyear, I learned sewing because my wife
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wanted to go to a sewing classand we found one year where we lived.
What yeah, like they were doingadult sewing classes. And then I
learned how to make bags for thepickleball event. Oh my, I even
learned screen printing. That's where youmade those bags. Yes, I made
the bags, and we love that. She didn't help My wife didn't help
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me. It was over my seat, oh, by myself. Like I
went on Etsy, I found apop off. I found all to the
self startups over there. So yeah, like I found somebody that had like
a dieline for a bag. Imade the bat Die line. I then
went to my class I got instructionslike, oh, you need this,
and then for screen printing, theyoffered screen printing and I was like,
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oh, maybe I can just timeit into when we do screenprinting to make
my make the bag. But itnever happened, and then I had to
buy my own screen printing gear andthat was that was a fun endeavor.
Wow. But yeah, I think, like you said, like breaking into
your career, get involved, pickup any little skills because like you said,
you can leave a big impact.And exactly, yeah, I mean,
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Cameron, any of your final remarks. Yeah, I mean, we're
we're glad to have you on ouron our board here, and we're glad
you came up to piggle pitch andgot to connect and everything. You've made
a big difference in our group andwe're just glad to have you. Exactly,
Cameron, Cameron's on the rise becauseyou're about to be are you the
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you are the president the next incoming? Yeah? And that oh what is
it okay to say that? Yeah, we can say that, yeah,
she's the next president or she's yeah, she's going to be the president regardless.
But all right, I mean that'sall that we have for today.
I mean, Delaney, thank youso much for being here. Really appreciate
it. And you know, keepan eye out for the episode to come
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