Slideshow with Dave Hayward
Slideshow with Dave Hayward
Podcast Description
Slideshow is a podcast about ideas worth sharing, one slide deck at a time. In each episode, a guest brings in a handful of slides to unpack a bold idea, a clever framework, or a working demo. Host Dave Hayward (Europa Creative Partners) guides the conversation through business, marketing, strategy, technology and AI. We're all about making space for sharp insight, creative detours, and the occasional cosmic reference. More information and resources are available at www.europa.nz.
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The podcast covers a range of topics centered on business, marketing, strategy, technology, and AI. Notable episodes include discussions on programmatic media buying, the creative influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the impact of AI agents on productivity, providing listeners with a blend of theoretical insights and practical applications.
Slideshow is a podcast about ideas worth sharing, one slide deck at a time. In each episode, a guest brings in a handful of slides to unpack a bold idea, a clever framework, or a working demo. Host Dave Hayward (Europa Creative Partners) guides the conversation through business, marketing, strategy, technology and AI. We’re all about making space for sharp insight, creative detours, and the occasional cosmic reference. More information and resources are available at www.europa.nz.
Dave Hayward has changed industry and discipline more times than most people change jobs. This is what all that jumping taught him, and what it cost.
In his first solo episode of Slideshow, recorded from a talk at Revved's Write-Offs event, Dave works through four lessons from a career spent jumping off the deep end: sinking before you swim, treating optimism as a tactic rather than a default, surviving bad bosses and impossible targets, and the dream job that fell apart and led him to revive Europa Creative Partners.
Along the way, he gets into forgetting the coffee for a coffee tasting and closing the deal anyway, a sales target that was doubled and then tripled with no extra resource, and the dream job that fell apart and pushed him to quit with a fresh mortgage and no plan, the write-off that became Europa Creative Partners.
He also lands on why 2026 might be the best time in years to be a generalist, and why the self-doubt never really goes away. Worth a watch if you have ever taken on a job you had no business taking, and made it work anyway.
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This episode was recorded from content that was part of Dave's talk at Revved's Write-Offs event.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:50 A first solo edition: the Write-Offs talk
01:40 Imposter syndrome and the 84 percent
02:50 Breadth, depth, and optimism as a tactic
04:00 The welding job he wasn't ready for
05:20 Birmingham: a coffee tasting with no coffee
06:10 Bad bosses and a target that doubled then tripled
08:10 The dream job and the scandal that followed
09:20 Quitting with no plan, and how Europa came back
11:50 Why 2026 is a good time to be a generalist
12:40 Still jumping, just picking better watersFind full show notes, links, and transcript at europa.nz/podcasts.Produced by Europa Creative Partners.
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