ISA Game Podcast
Welcome, welcome, players to ISA GAME, where you get inside the minds of world-class creators, entrepreneurs, and marketers through wordplay inspired by pop culture and trends in social media, marketing, and business.
ISA GAME is hosted by ISA, aka Isabella (Issy) Di Stefano. She's been in social and storytelling for over 13 years, creating for brands and talent, including Courteney Cox, Calvin Klein, Brooke Shields, Barbie, CFDA, The Chainsmokers, UNO, and Scrabble.
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It’s a Game, not a Podcast Interview
Welcome, welcome, players to ISA GAME, where you get inside the minds of world-class creators, entrepreneurs, and marketers through wordplay inspired by pop culture and trends in social media, marketing, and business.
ISA GAME is hosted by ISA, aka Isabella (Issy) Di Stefano. She's been in social and storytelling for over 13 years, creating for brands and talent, including Courteney Cox, Calvin Klein, Brooke Shields, Barbie, CFDA, The Chainsmokers, UNO, and Scrabble.
Episode 0
Who is she? Get to know your host Isabella (ISA) Di Stefano
Meet your host, ISA (aka Isabella Di Stefano), who has been in social media and storytelling for over thirteen years, driving creative strategies for icons and iconic brands like Calvin Klein, Barbie, Brooke Shields, The Chainsmokers, and Courteney Cox.
ISA invites you inside the minds of world-class creators, marketers, and entrepreneurs through wordplay in her new podcast game, ISA GAME.
Listen to Episode Zero to get to know ISA and learn how the game works. She also reveals who her debut guest is in Season One.
Subscribe to ISAGAME.SUBSTACK.COM for bonus interviews and exclusive content. Follow @isagamepodcast on TikTok and Instagram to connect with Isa directly.
Episode 1
Talk Down Your Ego ft. Laurise McMillian, Content Strategist for Instagram & Meta
On the premiere episode of ISA GAME, we welcome Laurise Mcmillian, Content Strategist at Meta + Instagram and host of the Meta for Business podcast “Social Skills”.
Listen as Isa and Laurise discuss everything from the importance of the optimistic side of social media and a positive digital “diet” (instead of stalking your ex or comparing yourself to other people, utilize social media and consume content that benefits you!) and how Mcmillian wants to use her platform to help small businesses and female entrepreneurs make money.
Laurise and Isa then segway into the word association game, which creates a conversation that would be unlikely to happen any other way. Touching on NFTs, learning to adapt to the ever-changing social media landscape, and the marriage of the physical and digital, to at-home pottery, horseback riding, Lisa Frank, and Cheetos.
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Episode 2
Um, She Designed Lizzo’s Flute Case! ft. Kristen Ginn, acting Creative Director at Houseplant
This week on ISA GAME Podcast, we welcome Kristen Ginn, the acting Creative Director for Seth Rogen's marijuana and lifestyle brand, Houseplant!
A genius, multifaceted artist known for her iconic handbag designs worn by celebrities like Lizzo and Kendall Jenner, she is also the creative brains behind Flower by Edie Parker. Kristen worked for brands, including Tory Burch and Coach, before leaping to Edie Parker and continuing her design ventures (like creating a handmade flute case for Lizzo).
As always, this week's word association leads to many topics that couldn't happen any other way. Kristen and Isa discuss the subconscious need to censor yourself after working for brands with such strong identities, the front we all put on for social media, Kristen’s former cheerleading career (she's sexy! She's cute! She's popular to boot!), weed, and the Spice Girls.
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Episode 3
He Trademarked FOMO, ft. Patrick McGinnis, Author, Venture Capitalist, and Entrepreneur
This week on ISA GAME, we are excited to sit down with author, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and podcaster Patrick McGinnis. Patrick is known for coining the word “FOMO” in 2004 (as well as his podcast FOMO Sapiens) and writing bestselling books like The 10% Entrepreneur.
After leaving his small town in Maine, Patrick attended Georgetown University. While in school, he studied abroad in Latin America, falling in love with the culture, which later led him to invest in Latin American companies that maximize human potential. Patrick is no stranger to traveling. As of the publishing date, he has been to 110 countries.
Listen to what may be the broadest array of topics yet. Patrick and ISA discuss the metaverse and its impending effect on society, the impact of FOMO on productivity, cancel culture, the importance of conscious and self-conscious alignment, Patrick’s first fashion show (Marchesa), and Issy’s very short-lived career in nightlife. ISA also coins her term “NOWstalgia”!
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Episode 4
What We Can All Learn from Skating, ft. Toni Bravo, Social Media Associate for Rare Beauty
On this week's episode of ISA GAME podcast, Isa is joined by the multi-talented Toni Bravo. Based in Los Angeles, Toni is a content creator, roller skater, and, most recently, a social media associate in the beauty industry working for Rare Beauty.
Listen along as Isa and Toni discuss the parallels between roller skating and their career journeys (if you're not falling on your face, you’re not taking the risks you need to level up!), the importance of balancing passions and relaxation, and how social media expands and diversifies the term influencer.
Isa and Toni talk about their shared history as theater kids and how it’s translated into their careers, the evolution of personal style, and the hobby a psychic told Isa to pursue.
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Episode 5
Get Where You Want To Be, ft. Christine Evangelista, Actress
This week on Isa Game Podcast we are so excited to welcome actress, writer, singer, and emerging intimates designer, Christine Evangalista! You may recognize her from projects like The Walking Dead, The Arrangement, and currently Fear of the Walking Dead. Longtime friend of Isa (having met as teens modeling for Seventeen Magazine), Christine hails from Staten Island and is currently living in NYC.
Listen along as Isa and Christine discuss their reunion at the most unlikely of places (a super bowl party), just how much growing up in an Italian family impacted their current careers, and all the ways our relationships have changed since the pandemic. Christine shares her advice for young women who want to break into acting: trusting your gut, saying no, and asking yourself “what are you doing every single day to get where you want to be”.
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Episode 6
Let’s Talk PR & Throwing Great Parties, ft. Savannah Engel, Community Building Queen
This week on ISA GAME Podcast, we welcome Savannah Engel, PR Guru and founder of SAVI.
Listen along as Isa and Savannah discuss everything from Savannah’s craziest celebrity moments to how to make yourself unfireable, advice for new graduates, throwing a great party, cancel culture, and what she loves about PR.
Subscribe to ISAGAME.SUBSTACK.COM for bonus interviews and exclusive content. Follow @isagamepodcast on TikTok and Instagram to connect with Isa directly.
Episode 7
She's Tumblr Famous, ft. Emilie Fife, Fashion & Social Media Boss
This week on ISA GAME PODCAST, we welcome Emilie Fife, previously Fashion Partnerships at Instagram, and currently a digital consultant based in Australia!
Listen along as Emilie tells us what it is like being a corporate girl living in NYC, when she was Tumblr famous, working for the CFDA with Isa, and working closely with Eva Chen during her time at Instagram.
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Episode 8
PINCH ME! She was Editor-in-Chief of Seventeen Magazine, Ft. Atoosa Rubenstein
This week on ISA GAME PODCAST, we welcome Atoosa Rubenstein, previously Editor-in-Chief of Seventeen Magazine and Founder of CosmoGirl!
Listen along as Atoosa tells us about her time as editor-in-chief of Seventeen Magazine, how ISA and Atoosa first met, her thoughts on trends, leaving CosmoGirl, Cathy Black as her mentor, regrets (or lack thereof), pioneering the concept of Seventeen "Real Girls," the importance of that one-hour nap during a busy day, culture, social media, and the next big thing.
Subscribe to ISAGAME.SUBSTACK.COM for bonus interviews and exclusive content. Follow @isagamepodcast on TikTok and Instagram to connect with Isa directly.
