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Aug 2023
39m 48s

Georgia Pritchard, Planning Director, Ho...

Dom Hickey & Rachel Tucker
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The Junior Mafia talks to Howatson+Company Planning Director, Georgia Pritchard. We unpack the branding phenomenon that is Barbie, the marketing brilliance of Taylor Swift, feminism, pop culture, and why rich people are now popular culture's biggest enemy. 
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