Confessions of an Adman, “The Industry Is the Enemy:” Neal Foard

This episode contains a candid insider critique of the advertising and consumer-marketing industries, and one guest anecdote of pointed karmic justice against a schoolyard bully.

What happens when a man who spent 30 years inside the propaganda business, who helped launch Lexus, who won awards writing advertising for some of the largest brands on Earth, wakes up one morning and realizes he was one of the baddies, and the industry that made his career is quietly rewriting how you see yourself, what you think you need, and who you believe you have to become?