Mister Baby Podcast

This week we sit down with the co-founder of Baopals, Charlie Erickson. Charlie talks about small town life, an unfortunate club experience, and of course taking the big step into starting his own business. Don't forget to check out Baopals.com for all your shopping needs.

This week we sit down with the very talented Sherry Shi who has worked as Creative Director at several major agencies and companies including Ogilvy and Apple, just to name a few. She shares her experiences growing up in Beijing, some memorable teenage nights, and what she's learned to love and hate about working in agency life.

This week we sit down with expert events coordinator Logan Celements, the founder and CEO of Logan Strategy Group. Logan joins us to share her Top 5 biggest pop culture influences in honor of this month's Top 5 poster show, as well as share her stories of how she got from Philly to Shanghai to start her own business in sports event managment.

This week we sit down with Clara Elizabeth Davis, owner of District bar in Shanghai and creator of monthly storytelling event Unravel. She tells us about meeting her childhood idol, a family trip to a gypsy circus, and why not to judge a Flordian hillbilly book by it's cover. Check out her monthly show @unravel.shanghai on instagram and Unravelshanghai on WeChat.

This week we sit down with Andy Curtain, a stand-up comedian and founder of Shanghai's Kung Fu Komedy. Andy tells us about his excited business trip to a crooked factory, starting his comedy club, and some of his more memorable stand-up sets ( or rather memorable audience members ). Check out the latest in Shanghai comedy at http://www.kungfukomedy.com

This week we sit down with Otto SOM, a fashion designer here in Shanghai, to talk about growing up in traditional Chinese culture, studying in London, and the current state of culture and fashion in China. He shares what he thinks there next decade will look like with Chinese fashion, and how a major part of his asthetic is finding the balance of modern trends and traditional styles.

This week we sat down with local entrepreneur and philanthropist Henry Sung to talk about fight air pollution in China and across the world. Henry also tells us about being an outsider growing up in California, and his amatuer football career in Shanghai. Remember to check out idMask at www.idmask.com.cn and Breathe Clean.

This week Mister Baby sat with our first television celebrity and friend Alec Odahara a.k.a 田原皓. Alec told us about his time working in Japan wherever he could, his entry into the entertainment world, and of course we had to talk to him about being the star of 非正式会谈 ( Informal Talks ) and his tens of thousands of loyal fans.

For this week's Mister Baby episode we have our good friend Nate joining us. After telling us some incredible stories about misguided youth, working in multiple sketchy enviornments, and his perfect night out in Berlin, we realized that it was for the best that we keep the public information to a minimum.

This week we sat down with our good friends, and hosts of The Failure Show, Ida Lindsey and Ben Frank. In addition to telling us about being regulars here in the Shanghai comedy scene, they shared their stories of Mississippi funerals, adventurous lunches in Israel, courtroom confessions, and eating cheesesteaks with celebrities.

This week we sat down with Tom Weishan to talk about his short lived career at Second City and the DIY sketch/improv scene of Chicago, moments of Hazing students gone wrong, and how he came to Shanghai to perform Josh Groban songs for wealthy Chinese parents in order to close some sales.

This week Beryl and I sat down a group of ladies from around the world, who have all ended up here in Shanghai at one time or another. Annie, Jenny, and Clarissa share their stories from living and traveling abroad, the wonderlust they feel while working around the globe, and how their adventures have shapes the connections they still have today. Oh, and of course MOOOSH!

This week Beryl and I sat down with Alex Duncan our friend and ex-boss to chat about his many business ventures while he's been in Shanghai. We learned about how he took his degree in zoology and turned that into start-ups in the fashion world, the art world, the fly fishing world, and now the tech world.

This week we sat down with our friend Tim Neesham and heard all kinds of amazing stories from his travels around the world. From trouble with street kids in South America, to hillybillies of the Australian Outback, Tim has certainly seen some things, and that was all before he landed here in Shanghai.

For Episode 0, Beryl and I sat down and just chatted with ourselves as sort of an intro to the podcast. We ( mostly B ) ended up telling the story of our road trip across America, and how it tested our friendship, but inevitably bringing us much closer.