A - List 5012 Micöl Rankin

SPONSORED BY ADHOUSE ADVERTISING SCHOOL. AD CLASSES TAUGHT BY WORKING AD PROS ON ZOOM. ADHOUSENYC.COM ----- Hello and welcome to The A-List, the podcast that asks the world's top advertising professionals how they got started in the business. This episode is a conversation between host Tom Christmann and Micöl Rankin, ACD and very first creative hire at Majority, an agency co-founded by Shaquille O'Neill, Omid Farhang, Asmirh Davis and Jorge Hernandez. Micöl is the creator of #YouAreDopeShow on LinkedIN. He's also been named an Adweek Top Creative 100. And his "Vax That Thing Up" for the BLK dating app just won a lion at Cannes. But Micöl did not always dream of ad stardom. In fact, he is still working on a music career even as he pursues ad excellence at Majority. In this episode, you'll hear how he followed his passions from Pittsburgh Technical Institute to the Disney College Program in Orlando to working on his performance chops in Atlanta as a contemporary of Wiz Khalifa. Until a job at iHeart Radio changed his life forever. This is a story about breaking templates by being yourself. This is a story about doing what you feel. This is a story about vibing and letting success find you. And we hope you enjoy listening as much as we did making it. And if you do, please like and subscribe and share and talk us up. Or don't. Either way, we're vibing. Thanks to Micöl Rankin.