If anyone was going to put the diet in MediaDiet, it was going to be Dominique Elissa.

Before you write her off as someone who’s optimised the joy out of living, know that Dom has been building her wellness empire from the other side of something harder. Anxiety defined most of her 20s and the rituals that now shape her mornings and evenings aren’t blatant aesthetic choices but the things that worked for her life when she really needed them to.

Eliza Livingstone is SKMG’s newest Account Executive, our resident Gen Z lens on culture, and the person we’ve tasked with breathing new life into our socials and content engine. She likes to get her news from Instagram… she swears it’s all fact-checked.

Nick Tsindos has spent over 11 years as a freelance photographer and visual director – work you’ve likely seen across the likes of Provider Store, Mud, Handsom, Westhill, some very renowned publications and in a handful of exhibitions – before recently landing at Assembly Label. He knows how to see things. He knows how to shoot things. He also reckons he knows how to balance his life, which we’ll let you be the judge of.

Adam Della-Grotta once said he’d do a week’s internship at SKMG for shits and giggles. Then he actually showed up. Surprise, surprise. Four days straight with us featuring questions, focus and a part of his brain he swore he’d pissed away years ago. Turns out he’s still somewhat got it.

Lola Abbey is the designer and owner of Dady Bones, a jewellery brand she runs from a little desk downstairs in her home, where her days are split between making things with her hands and trying very hard not to open Pinterest. Or Instagram. Or whatever else might delay the actual work she sat down to do. She knows this about herself. She is not yet troubled enough to fix it.

You have it on good authority that Ben Liebmann’s media consumption is not so much a diet as it is a full-service buffet with no closing time.

He’s the founder of Understory, an international advisory working across media, entertainment, hospitality and culture. He also makes television, including the award-winning Omnivore for Apple TV, writes on Substack (when the mood strikes), and eats at restaurants with a frequency that even makes us look bad… which, for the record, doesn’t happen a lot.

Nick studied journalism and anthropology but now he works in climate, energy and environmental policy for government, which feels like a fairly logical outcome for someone who still loves social science but has made peace with the idea that traditional journalism is in its death throes “because of the likes of Murdoch, Bezos, Musk and Ellison buying up everything we see and read”.

Bronte is never far from her handbag, and we will tell you why. She’s known affectionately to one SKMG partner as Bronte Handbag, a reputation built among friends for coming as a package deal with (you guessed it) her handbag. The name stuck hard enough to become an Instagram handle, which makes it feel less like an inside joke and more like a public declaration of love to an accessory.

Rachel Cham (we usually drop the Rachel) wakes up online and goes to bed online. Instagram before breakfast, TikTok affirmations before coffee, Spotify for mood-setting, Love Island for decompression. Somewhere between all that she’s running comms for Ksubi.

Bella Thomas lives the kind of way that makes you want to slow down a bit when you read about it. Not because it’s exactly quiet – she’s been modelling for a decade and building a creative career online since before Instagram even realised it needed creators – but because she approaches everything with a kind of tender intentionality that feels increasingly rare these days.

Alexander Fletcher is a man powered entirely by Pinterest boards and sheer geezer determination. A director and founder of 360° brand, creative and strategy business, SUB:BIO STUDIOS, he’s worked with the likes of ASICS, Hidden NY, Needles, Up There Store and more in the last year alone. Alexander runs, he boxes, and he can quote more from The Sopranos than you can throw some gabagool at.

Eva Li is a freelance director and producer working across APAC who, after spending a year in Seoul, boasts some pretty cool creds, from a Hwasa video clip to the latest lululemon campaign featuring Amotti (for those of you who, like us, plan to rinse the Physical: Asia finale tonight). Like you might have noticed in the headline, Eva’s working rhythm only really kicks into gear once the sun goes down: her days are quiet, her browser tabs chaotic and her nights a beautiful collision of cooking freestyles, animated classics and deep-cut YouTube lore that “definitely” counts as research.

Ian Tran is the brains and brawn behind Sydney design and fabrication studio, Domus Vim, which has been quietly shaping the look of Sydney’s cultural corners, one brushed metal or perspex sign at a time. He’s also the artist behind Dinner à la Perspex, translating iconic meals into glossy, colour-saturated art. It’s all just a stupidly delicious crossover of design, humour and nostalgia that captures taste in more ways than one.

Rory Twomey’s something of an enigma: a free-to-air TV loyalist in a streaming world. He still finds comfort in the cadence of TV programming, the gentle absurdity of prime-time game shows and the quiet hum of the Nine News theme at breakfast. It’s a reminder that while he might live online, his sensibilities are still tethered to something classic… proof that media, like marketing, is best when it blends old rituals with new rhythms.

Vanessa Nguyen is an enthusiast of the world. Running her own Melbourne-based studio, BYV.STUDIO, she has a knack for ignoring the well-trodden path, especially in the wedding industry, where her work feels like a creative pursuit stitched together from art, form and her innate curiosity.

Since making the move back from London this year, Sophie consults for SKMG, but outside of work she’s a reader, a re-reader (Fran Lebowitz forever) and someone unafraid of the occasional YouTube spiral - even if she’s reluctant to tell us which one. She has the kind of relationship with newspapers that borders on religious devotion and the kind of coffee schedule that would excite the dullest of baristas.

By day, he’s a designer at Entropico. By night (and often very late night), he’s a K-drama aficionado, anime loyalist and chess.com struggler still chasing an ELO worth bragging about. He’s the kind of friend who will send you a link to some esoteric research zine, a Qendresa track that will stay in your head for weeks, and a TikTok reel that’s either a stroke of genius or a complete algorithmic cock up. Often both.

If there’s a cultural moment happening, odds are Jeeven Singh is all over it. He’s the type of friend you see tagged in last night’s gig photos, this morning’s exhibition opening and somehow at a cafe meeting before you’ve finished your Coco Pops. A brand strategist guy – most recently Ksubi and Depop before that – Jeeves has a sixth sense for where the cool stuff lives and how it works.

If our COMMPRESS MediaDiets were an Olympic sport, then Kate O’Loughlin is now officially the poster child for them. She consumes content with all the grace of someone shotgunning a Red Bull before their yoga class, bouncing from TikTok brainrot to existential news podcasts to fantasy smut audiobooks all before you can make it out of bed.

He’s not your average ideas guy. Jerome Williams is a Melbourne-based ex-agency art director turned born-again dyslexic, freelance writer (his words, not ours) and one who treats media like a topographical map: something to be traversed, questioned and occasionally fished from.