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Greg Hahn, CCO at BBDO New York, talk about ‘mindhacking.’ “It’s about how you approach problems and solve them, and how you can do it by thinking about them differently,” he says. He also weighs in on his love for ‘80s guitar shredding and the disaster epic “Chernobyl” and his hatred of bees.

17 Jul 201938min

Melissa Hobley, CMO at OKCupid, describes the obstacles facing people who are undergoing in vitro fertilization. She is currently pregnant with her second child conceived using the technique. The process is stressful, time-consuming, painful and expensive, and it involves plenty of uncertainty. “It’s one of those things that so few people talk about, for obvious reasons.” She also weighs in on the best and worst couples, the allure of live TV and mixing politics and family.

11 Jul 201952min

Kristen Cavallo, CEO of The Martin Agency, talks about traveling to all seven continents with her children, beginning before they were teenagers. After hitting four continents, the family decided to visit them all, a feat they accomplished recently with a trip to Antarctica on an ice breaker that culminated in a polar plunge while on the lookout for hungry orcas. She also weighs in on the limits of casual conversation, going off on tangents and that time an angry customer called her a “fem-nazi.”

1 Jul 201938min

Krystle Loyland, CEO of Preacher, talks about her love of cooking, a talent she inherited from her own mother but didn’t discover until after college. “There’s hardly anything more instantly gratifying than cooking a meal. You get to come up with it and put it together and watch it transform and put it out for people, and you’re done.” She also started smoking meat at home about six years ago. Loyland also weighs in on the best deadly sin, her love of true crime and Beyoncé Knowles.

19 Jun 201938min

Jean-Marie Dru, chairman of TBWA Worldwide, talks about the work he does with the French Academy of Medicine Foundation and UNICEF France, where he is president. “What’s the most important thing for the four of us in this room? Health. And then what’s the most important thing for the future of everybody? Our children.” He also talks about his love of classic films and the French rappers and poets called “slammers,” and he weighs in on the creative benefits of jetlag, Eminem's vocabulary and his eventual retirement from agency life.

12 Jun 201933min

Tim Nudd, editor-in-chief of the Clio Awards and editor of Muse by Clio, talks about living the not-so-quiet life in Maine, where he goes fishing, camping and lobstering. “You slowly, through a catapult motion, let out more and more line,” he says. “You try to throw a fly in a particular part of a river where the fish are congregating.” He also weighs in on the appeal of Billy Joel and British period dramas and relates a tale of a bachelor party at sea—though not his own.

5 Jun 201938min

Mia Libby, chief revenue officer at The Daily Beast, talks about getting back in the game after years of skiing competitively when she was younger. “I need to be able to do something that is not doing my job, that is not being a mom, that I really enjoy. It’s really fun to rediscover this thing that I was once good at and be good at it again,” she says. She also weighs in on proper cold-weather attire, ineffective ad jingles and the inexplicable allure of tapas.

29 Mai 201939min

David Lee, chief creative officer at Squarespace, talks about how he discovered that editing photos gave him time to himself to think about everything else going on at work and in his life. “It’s like this repetitive task that you’re doing, and you’re not really even thinking about it, so your mind can drift. You can actually multitask very well.” He also weighs in on skateboarding as a kid, awkward anagrams and buying a technically-road-legal electric bike.

22 Mai 201932min