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The Crazy One
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ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗

The Crazy One is an award-winning podcast for creatives, leaders, and anyone who refuses to settle. Hosted by renowned designer and global design leader Stephen Gates, this show delivers unfiltered honesty, actionable insights, and hard-won wisdom to help you grow your creativity, lead with confidence, and build a meaningful career.


With over two decades leading world-class design teams at companies like InVision, Citi, Starwood Hotels, WW, and McCann Erickson, Stephen has built brands and digital experiences for clients including Disney, American Airlines, W Hotels, Verizon, Acura, and more — work that’s earned over 150 international awards and has been featured by Apple in 10 keynotes, 4 commercials, and the Human Interface Guidelines.


Now as the founder of CRZY, an independent strategy and design studio, he’s helping companies find bold new visions for their brands, experiences, and creative futures. Through The Crazy One, he shares everything he’s learned along the way — from integrating behavioral science with human-centered design to navigating imposter syndrome to building a career and creative life on your own terms.


With over 100 episodes and a loyal global audience, The Crazy One has been named:

• Webby Award Honoree for Best Technology Podcast

• #1 Podcast by Inside Design, HOW Design Live, and Springboard

• 5-star rated across every iTunes Store worldwide


This is more than a design podcast. It’s a wake-up call. A masterclass. A real-talk guide for finding your voice, owning your crazy, and changing the game.


No BS. No buzzwords. Just real insights from someone who’s been there.

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English
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158 episodes
since July 14, 2016
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗

Ep 152 Tough Topics: Your Brand Isn't the Logo. It's the Standard Behind It.

Ep 152 Tough Topics: Your Brand Isn't the Logo. It's the Standard Behind It.

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AI has made speed nearly free, and brands are taking full advantage — shipping faster, cutting corners, calling it efficiency. But speed was never what customers were buying. Trust was. And trust doesn't erode all at once — it erodes the first time nobody in the room says "this isn't…
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Ep 151 Career: Believing in Yourself Is an Act of Will

Ep 151 Career: Believing in Yourself Is an Act of Will

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Believing in yourself isn't a feeling. It's not a mood you wake up into some mornings and not others. It's an act of will, which means it's going to get tested. Constantly, on purpose, by people and systems that have a reason to want you to stop. In this episode, Stephen breaks …
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Ep 150 Creativity: What 10 years of making The Crazy One taught me

Ep 150 Creativity: What 10 years of making The Crazy One taught me

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This is the ten-year episode — 149 episodes, July 1, 2016 to today. Not a highlight reel, but an honest look at what changed in this industry over a decade, what stayed exactly the same, and a thread that's run under almost everything Stephen has made without ever getting its own hour. Three l…
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Ep 149 Career: You're underpriced because you're under confident.

Ep 149 Career: You're underpriced because you're under confident.

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You don't have a pricing problem. You have a confidence problem, a business-literacy problem, and a habit of showing up as a pair of hands when you should be showing up with an opinion.A new report from Fast Company and AIGA surveyed 1,273 freelance designers and 150 hiring managers about rate…
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Ep 148 Creativity: 7 Years, 3 Buzzwords, 2 Studies, and 1 Constant Problem

Ep 148 Creativity: 7 Years, 3 Buzzwords, 2 Studies, and 1 Constant Problem

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In 2019, I helped run the largest study ever done on the relationship between design and business performance. We found that the vast majority of companies were stuck, full of creative potential that they couldn't convert into results. This month, Accenture Song published a brand-new study of …
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Ep 147 Leadership: Judgment, Taste, and the Five Things AI Still Can't Touch

Ep 147 Leadership: Judgment, Taste, and the Five Things AI Still Can't Touch

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Your team's value used to come from how fast and how well they could execute. That formula is broken — and most leaders are still managing a team that was built for a job that no longer exists. This episode is about what leadership actually has to look like once execution stops being the thing…
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Ep 146 AI: Premortems, Because A.I. Won't Wait for a Retrospective

Ep 146 AI: Premortems, Because A.I. Won't Wait for a Retrospective

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The "ship it, fix it later" playbook was already broken. AI just made it catastrophic. Post-mortems assume you have time to observe, adjust, and course correct. AI has collapsed those timelines, and the damage isn't waiting for a retrospective. In this episode, Stephen argues that pr…
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Ep 145 Creativity: Stop Asking AI to Agree With You

Ep 145 Creativity: Stop Asking AI to Agree With You

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You've turned the most powerful thinking tool in history into a yes-machine — and it's making your ideas weaker without you even realizing it. This episode is about a fundamental shift in how you use AI. Not a new tool, not a better prompt library — a completely different posture. Most pe…
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Ep 144 AI: Your Company Decided Your Value Before AI Existed

Ep 144 AI: Your Company Decided Your Value Before AI Existed

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AI didn't build the case to replace you. It just gave companies the tool to finally act on a decision they'd already made. In this episode, Stephen Gates gets brutally honest about what's actually happening underneath the wave of creative layoffs — and why asking "is AI going to…
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Ep 143 AI: AI Isn't a Tool Problem. It's a Culture Problem.

Ep 143 AI: AI Isn't a Tool Problem. It's a Culture Problem.

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Four years into running CRZY, Stephen has watched AI go from an interesting experiment to an organizational crisis that almost nobody is naming correctly. The problem isn't which model you're using. It's not your stack, your workflow, or whether you've got the right prompts. The…
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