Spikes Excitement Talk #239 with Ai Suzuki

Yeah.

Because, yeah, yeah, full stop.

So how, did you ever talk to your mentor, whether he, she, she, right? She.

Had a long-term plan of getting you out of advertising on client side, or was it in the moment of you, little kids, pregnant, Uber?

Oh, gosh, that's a great question, but i don't know she she had been suggesting this option for a while but it just never felt real to me

yeah

um and so maybe to her it was just one of those suggestions but to me it was just in that moment it had to come true

okay fair enough yeah um So no need to, were there other people who had such an extraordinary influence on your career or is she the one mentor?

The one mentor, well, there was another mentor at the agency and she really said, yeah, she really helped me make this decision.

She said, if you want to come back, you can come back.

You have a place to come back.

If you tried and you don't like it, you have a home to come back to.

So that gave me a little nudge as well.

But yeah.

Yeah.

I remember, uh, like we, we see that in, in the conversations again and again, the best places, um, other ones who simply make that offer.

And, um, like we have people coming back once, twice, sometimes even, and it's such a sign of a good culture.

Um,

yes.

And I will admit, I had actually left that agency once and I had gone back.

I took a short break and I was not willing to go back for a while because I was just worn out and I needed a break.

But when I felt the urge to work full time again in advertising, there was only one place to go back to.

And I didn't think of applying for any other agency.

Yes.

And so I went home.

Yeah.

Because, yeah, yeah, full stop.

So how, did you ever talk to your mentor, whether he, she, she, right? She.

Had a long-term plan of getting you out of advertising on client side, or was it in the moment of you, little kids, pregnant, Uber?

Oh, gosh, that's a great question, but i don't know she she had been suggesting this option for a while but it just never felt real to me

yeah

um and so maybe to her it was just one of those suggestions but to me it was just in that moment it had to come true

okay fair enough yeah um So no need to, were there other people who had such an extraordinary influence on your career or is she the one mentor?

The one mentor, well, there was another mentor at the agency and she really said, yeah, she really helped me make this decision.

She said, if you want to come back, you can come back.

You have a place to come back.

If you tried and you don't like it, you have a home to come back to.

So that gave me a little nudge as well.

But yeah.

Yeah.

I remember, uh, like we, we see that in, in the conversations again and again, the best places, um, other ones who simply make that offer.

And, um, like we have people coming back once, twice, sometimes even, and it's such a sign of a good culture.

Um,

yes.

And I will admit, I had actually left that agency once and I had gone back.

I took a short break and I was not willing to go back for a while because I was just worn out and I needed a break.

But when I felt the urge to work full time again in advertising, there was only one place to go back to.

And I didn't think of applying for any other agency.

Yes.

And so I went home.