Interviewed ⁠Seb Pelan⁠ - a talented videographer I had the pleasure of working with back in 2018 when I was heading up the marketing team for a tech startup in Ljubljana. We chatted about AI's impact on the video content industry, why he is cautiously pessimistic about the rise of AI in relation to videography, & a few AI tools he can recommend for budding videographers. He recommended the following AI video generation tools: Pictory - a cool video generation solution - ⁠https://pictory.ai/⁠ Synthesia & Deepbrain AI Studios - Text to (video) avatar - ⁠https://www.synthesia.io/⁠ & ⁠https://www.deepbrain.io/aistudios⁠ Intro to Adobe Firefly - a good starting point to dive deep into Adobe's AI tools: ⁠https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/03/21/bringing-gen-ai-to-creative-cloud-adobe-firefly

Marianna Boguslavsky interviews one of South Africa’s most talented copywriters. We talk AI and copywriting - a hot topic right now. Should copywriters be scared, how AI is transforming content, plagiarism, plus some advice for newbie copywriters. 

Richard Mulholland is a professional speaker, presenter, author, entrepreneur, and executive coach. Marianna chats to Richard about the one key thing anyone can do to overcome public speaking anxiety, the pitfalls of over-rehearsing, Malcolm Gladwell’s presentation style, and Richard’s distaste for Gary Vaynerchuk’s self promotion philosophy. 

Elan Lohmann is the Founder and CEO of SleekGeek SA. Marianna and Elan both worked in the tech industry in Cape Town back in the day, and they caught up to chat about following your career passion, the challenges of leaving a corporate role to become an entrepreneur, how to grow a niche wellness community, and what the future holds for SleekGeek. 

Brenden Hubbard is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and producer. He has managed productions and festival runs for variety of films. Marianna worked with Brenden when he was the associate producer and film festival manager for the US film 'Before I Disappear' (based on the Oscar winning short film 'Curfew') and Boguslavsky & Co was contracted to create & implement the social media strategy for the film. Marianna and Brenden share their recollections of working on this film project, and Marianna talks about being amazed that Paul Wesley does his own emails. Brenden discusses the state of indie filmmaking in 2020, shares some film festival strategies for aspiring filmmakers, and divulges a behind the scene moment of working with Ron Perlman. 

Hendrik Laubscher is the founder and chief analyst at Blue Cape Ventures. along with being an eCommerce and marketplaces expert. Marianna chats to Hendrik about working together at PriceCheck (South Africa's largest price & product comparison website), ​the importance of customer service in eCommerce​, and the current state of the eCommerce industry. The two discuss ​the issue with most checkout pages,​ and Hendrik even ​offers ​some​ valuable​ advice to eCommerce retailers​.​

Our inaugural podcast for Boguslavsky & Co is an interview with with one of Marianna Boguslavsky's longtime friends, a past colleague, and an inspirational Brand & Product Manager for an international hair brand. Marianna chats to Catherine Williams about what being an air hostess taught her about marketing to consumers, how a customer centric role can influence all future marketing work, and the importance of resilience when it comes to one's career. The ladies reminisce about their first meeting and Catherine talks about her dream brand to work with along with a funny story about dog shampoo.