The Farmhouse Podcast
by Farmhouse
Official podcast from the front lines of innovation in the Chicago area. Interviews with innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs from all walks of life, with a focus on what motivates them to think and act disruptively. Hosted by Paul Earle, Executive Director of Farmhouse, the Innovation and New Venture Center of Leo Burnett, from our offices in Chicago.
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Pablos Holman
If you’ve ever tossed aside the instructions on the back of a Lego box to make something totally crazy and new, you may consider yourself a hacker. At least, according to inventor Pablos Holman. And he would know. On this edition of the Farmhouse Podcast, Paul Earle chats with Holman how hacking...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Michael Darling
This edition of the Farmhouse Podcast has Department of Design head Alisa Wolfson guest hosting for resident emcee Paul Earle in a rousing chat about the intersection of art and innovation. Michael Darling (chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago) is the man responsible for...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Alan Cook
Alan Cook, creator of ScoopFree (a self-cleaning littler box that puts its competitors to shame) and Belle-V (a particularly swaggy ice cream scooper that Real Simple magazine called “ingenious"), joins us today on the Farmhouse Podcast. Today, this Wharton grad’s talking the importance of…
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Henry King
After a short summer recess, the Farmhouse Podcast is back! Henry King joins us today for a lively dialogue on innovation (turns out there is quite a lot businesses can learn from British garden birds). You'll be surprised to know that this frequent contributor to Fast Company (and author of the...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Dan Roam
Dan Roam may not have been the man who said it first, but he’s certainly the one who’s drawn it best. Taking complex ideas and explaining them with visuals is Dan’s specialty – he’s penned four books on the subject and sketched the most popular graphic representation of the Affordable Care Act to...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Dr. Michael Abecassis
What do medical research and marketing innovation have in common? Dr. Michael Abecassis (Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center, Northwestern University) joins us to talk about just that. From incredible anecdotes about strides in his field to analyzing how sometimes innovation itself can...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Zach Kaplan
Chicago native Zach Kaplan heads the Windy City company Inventables, an organization that constructs its business model on the adage, “making beautiful products should be easy.” Well, Midwest makers (and beyond), no need to beware. Thanks to Inventables’ products, startups, jewelry makers, kids…
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Dean DeBiase + Sonny Garg
This month, Paul Earle (Executive Director of Farmhouse, the innovation and new venture center of Leo Burnett) sits down with Dean DeBiase (Chairman of Reboot Partners) and Sonny Garg (Chief Innovation Officer of the energy giant Exelon) to talk about the increasingly popular notion of "startup...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Craig Dubitsky
Welcome back to the Farmhouse Podcast! This month we’re chatting all things design (ahem...Design...with a capital “D”) with the entrepreneur who believes in it most, Craig Dubitsky. Craig joins our humble consortium from several avenues – he was a founding-level investor (and board member) of...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Barnaby Struve
When we sat down at Three Floyds’ Munster-based brewpub with co-founder Barnaby Struve, the pint pioneer discussed just why he is so fiercely protective of his product. The answer lies somewhere between a learned passion a la Nick Floyd (who started the brand in 1996 after studying brewing at the...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Howard Tullman
Not many can boast both “magician” and “lawyer” as previous means of employment, but Howard Tullman, dubbed “the most accomplished, best-connected entrepreneur you’ve never heard of,” by Inc. magazine in 2012, isn’t your average businessman. From pioneering educational ventures (Tullman was…
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Brad Keywell
How do you measure the success of an entrepreneur? For serial business-creator Brad Keywell, that question is often answered with another question: “How old were you when you first started your own business? And how did it do?” The litmus test is stolen from Warren Buffett, but for Keywell, it’s…
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The Farmhouse: Sarah Elizabeth Ippel
Entrepreneur since birth, Academy for Global Citizenship Founder and Executive Director Sarah Elizabeth Ippel’s passion for education is singular. Sarah Elizabeth joins Paul Earle on the latest episode of the Farmhouse Podcast to discuss her history as a non-profit impresario and...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Nick Kokonas
In this episode, we’re joined by Nick Kokonas, co-founder of Alinea, Next and the Aviary, to talk about his journey from hustling as a derivatives trader at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to becoming one of the world’s most innovative minds in the culinary business.
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Perry Farrell + Marc Geiger
In our latest podcast, Chief Storyteller Dan Chodrow sits down with Lollapalooza co-founders Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction and Mark Geiger, head of the Music Group at William Morris Endeavor, to discuss the concept of reinvention, the universal power of music and the importance of bringing...
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The Farmhouse Podcast: Chuck Templeton
Meet the self-described knucklehead and only man to have invited over 400 million people to dinner, Chuck Templeton. Founder of Opentable, the world's leading provider of restaurant reservations, Chuck's entrepreneurial spirit has taken him from waiting tables to redefining the restaurant…
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Official podcast from the front lines of innovation in the Chicago area. Interviews with innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs from all walks of life, with a focus on what motivates them to think and act disruptively. Hosted by Paul Earle, Executive Director of Farmhouse, the Innovation and New Venture Center of Leo Burnett, from our offices in Chicago.
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