The Changeup
Keith Hernandez
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The Changeup sits down with leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs to learn about doing a big career switch from being a high-rising employee at larger company to starting your own thing. It's about the excitement of taking risks, following your passion, and building something new.
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Jeremy Fain, CEO & Co-Founder of Cognitiv
This week's guest is CEO and Co-Founder of Cognitiv, Jeremy Fain.
The media and marketing world has recently become obsessed with artificial intelligence and deep learning, marking it as the future of the business as a whole.
Cognitiv has been applying these practices for years to help predict consumer behavior and drive marketing performance for their clients. We talked to Jeremy about the genesis of Cognitiv, the importance of ethics and AI, and how emerging technologies will revolutionize advertising.
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Jan 16, 2023
Therese Gedda, Founder & CEO of Reimaginez
This week's guest is the CEO and founder of Reimaginez, Therese Gedda.
Reimaginez specializes in designing, redesigning, and scaling culture successfully. They help founders, CEO's and leaders keep, attract and lead high achievers while living as high achievers themselves.
We talked about how growing up in Sweden building her own company was always going to be her path forward, her connection to weightlifting and sports led her to focus on high performance in the workplace and reimagine company culture.
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Jan 9, 2023
Alana Kalin, Co-Founder & CEO of De Kabeza
This week's guest is the CEO and Founder of De Kabeza, Alana Kalin.
De Kabeza is a tech platform with gamified communications and live interactive trivia and games, based in Mexico City.
We talk about her decision to move herself and the company from New York to Mexico to refocus on a Mexican audience, the evolution of gamification, the differences in startup culture and finally how for some of us, wishing to be an Oscar Mayer Weiner is where the dream ends. She shares what it takes to actually drive the Weinermobile.
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Dec 20, 2022
Natasha Kehimkar, CEO & Founder of Malida Advisors
This week's guest is the CEO and Founder of Malida Advisors, Natasha Kehimkar.
Malida Advisors is a strategic advisory firm, focusing on areas of diversity, equity, inclusion, organizational change, and scaling your HR function.
We talk about her career journey in the Pharma world, to tech start-ups, to building her own thing. She also shares how during the pandemic she recorded her family's life story, interviewing her mom and dad daily for posterity.
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Dec 12, 2022
Steven Khuong, CEO & Co-Founder of Curacubby
This week's guest is co-founder and CEO of Curacubby, Steven Khuong.
Curacubby is a next-generation, fin-tech, SAS platform that helps education, recreation, and family service programs save time and money by optimizing finance and business workflow functions.
We discussed how a very personal family hurdle led to the creation of Curacubby, how his family moved from Hong Kong to Grand Rapids, Michigan, and his incredible stories about being a Bay Area hip-hop DJ and producer in the 1990s.
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Dec 5, 2022
Nick Cutsumpas, Founder of Farmer Nick
This week's guest is the founder of Farmer Nick, Nick Cutsumpas.
I met Nick when he was a sales executive at Thrive Global, where we hit it off due to his empathy and creativity and his love of baseball didn't hurt either.
Nick bet on himself and has grown a small empire focused on urban farming. His Farmer Nick Instagram account has over 169,000 followers, his plant coaching business is booming in both LA and New York and his new book "Plant Coach: The Beginners Guide to Caring for Plants and the Planet" is out now.
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Nov 28, 2022
Jill Griffin, Strategist & Executive Coach at Jill Griffin Consulting
This week's guest is Career Strategist, Executive Coach, and Consigliere, Jill Griffin.
Before going out on her own, Jill was a senior executive at massive media agencies like Publicis, overseeing Fortune 500 branding, strategy, and media partnerships.
We talk about how what was initially going to be a few months of consulting turned into a 6+ year career, her ongoing mission to help workforces build inclusive teams and embrace those with disabilities, and how she built her podcast "The Career Refresh".
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Nov 21, 2022
Carmen Diaz, Founder of Press 2 for Espanol
This week's guest is the Founder of Press 2 for Espanol, Carmen Diaz.
We talk about her journey from teaching in schools in Texas to teaching Spanish online. We discuss how she took her love of language and passion for helping others and turned it into a business, and her plans for growth to help her home country of Guatemala.
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Nov 14, 2022
Dan Misener, Co-Founder of Bumper
This week's guest is Co-Founder of Bumper, Dan Misener.
Bumper is a podcast growth agency that helps organizations reach their business goals through the power of audio.
Dan is one of the sharpest minds in audio. We talk about the Faustian bargain some audio companies took to garner scale, what it means to focus on engagement versus download numbers, where he thinks the industry is headed, and how critical podcast strategy will be to it.
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Nov 7, 2022
Laura Garnett, Executive Performance Strategist at Garnett Consulting
This week's guest is the author and executive performance strategist, Laura Garnett.
At Laura's firm, Garnett Consulting, Laura and her team work with highly driven, industry-leading executives and teams to achieve the impact and fulfillment they desire.
We talk about her decision to leave one of the biggest companies in the world, executive burnout, and our psychology at work, as well as some key insights from her book "Find Your Zone of Genius".
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Oct 24, 2022
Steve Schlafman, Founder and Coach at Schlaf & Co
This week's guest is the founder of Schlaf & Co, Steve Schlafman.
Steve was a venture capitalist who made the decision a few years back to leave the industry to focus on building his boutique leadership company that focuses on helping early-stage founders and VCs.
He is also an avid reader and writer and something we explore during our conversation together is how he made it an intentional part of his life. We talk about leadership, forging your own path, and most importantly, creating a space to be present for your family while running a company.
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Oct 17, 2022
Catherine Tabor, Founder & CEO at Sparkfly
This week's guest is the Founder and CEO of Sparkfly, Catherine Tabor.
Sparkfly is a retail technology solutions company that helps innovative retailers and merchants like Chipotle, Texas Roadhouse, and Great Clips leverage technology to create a meaningful connection to their customers
We talk about how she was able to win her first big client and turn that into her business, how vital consumer privacy is in the age of digital, and her awesome business perspective of if you can't get in the door, climb through a window.
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Oct 11, 2022
Laura Mayer, Creator of Shameless Acquisition Target
This week's guest is the creator of Shameless Acquisition Target, Laura Mayer.
Laura and I worked together at the Slate group, where she was a producer at Panoply, also known as Megaphone, prior to its sale to Spotify. She has had a front-row seat to the podcast acquisition boom and helped launch dozens of award-winning shows. It has not punched her ticket to podcast millions, like some lucky people we know have.
That's where Shameless Acquisition Target comes in. It's a smart, funny and incisive examination of the internal machinations of the podcast industry, and it's one of my favorite shows of the year. We talk about its creation and its culmination with her sharing if the company was sold or not.
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Oct 3, 2022
Dr. Ruth Gotian, Author, The Success Factor
This week's guest is the Chief Learning Officer at Weill Cornell Medicine, Dr. Ruth Gotian.
Dr. Gotian is also the author of The Success Factor – Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance, where she researched CEOs, Nobel laureates, and Olympic and NBA champions to find out how we can all optimize our success.
Last year, she was among the 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar list, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking. Get ready to get motivated as we discuss peak performance, becoming aware of and managing your strengths, and how we all can apply these lessons to our daily life.
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Sep 27, 2022
Mack McKelvey, Founder & CEO at SalientMG
This week's episode is with the Founder and CEO of SalientMG, Mack McKelvey.
SalientMG is a strategic marketing firm, focused on accelerating market position for growth stage tech companies.
We talk about leveraging digital tools to better share your skill set, why being a Chief of Staff is the ultimate pipeline to becoming a CEO, and the discrepancy she sees in how founders are able to raise money.
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Sep 19, 2022
Vinit Bharara, CEO & Co-Founder of Mojo
Season 3 Premiere!
So excited to welcome the CEO and Co-Founder of Mojo, Vinit Bharara.
Mojo is a sports stock market, where fans can literally invest in their favorite players' careers. Along with Vinit, there are some pretty big names as co-founders, Bart Stein, Mark Lore, and a baseball player turned businessman, you might have heard of Alex Rodriguez.
Vinit has founded and sold multiple companies prior to this. Quidsi to Amazon, Some Spider Studios to Bustle Digital Group, and CAFE Media to Vox Media, so it's safe to say he knows a thing or two about building companies.
We absolutely nerd out about sports in general, and we talk about the vision for Mojo.
Mojo is now live in New Jersey, check it out!
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Aug 29, 2022
Bonus Episode: A Focus on Race and Diversity
*We took the month off of interviewing and while on break, we put together two special episodes with some of our incredible past guests to highlight some themes that were recurring. *
*This week we focus on diversity and race. *
T*hese entrepreneurs have firsthand experience with the disparities within the corporate and business world and offer insight into their own stories and possible solutions. *
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Aug 15, 2022
Bonus Episode: A Focus on Women Entrepreneurs
*During our short break from interviewing, we decided to reflect back on some of our great past guests. *
*This week we’re highlighting some of our female entrepreneurs from seasons 1 and 2 to reflect back on their experiences in the male-dominated business world. *
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Aug 7, 2022
Noah Zandan, CEO & Co-Founder of Quantified
This week we welcome the CEO and Co-Founder of Quantified, Noah Zandan.
Quantified is the leading firm in combining behavioral science, AI, and experiential learning technology to help people enhance their impact, improve their interactions and establish a greater human connection.
We talk about how a former Wall Street guy got into behavioral science, what it’s like to prepare for and give a Ted Talk and we learn some of the small ways we all can be better communicators.
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Aug 1, 2022
Andy Wiedlin, Host of Backstage with the Brand
This week we welcome my friend and my mentor, Andy Wiedlin.
Andy is the founder of the VERY creatively titled Andy Wiedlin Consulting, an advisor to many startups and publishers, and the host of the marketing podcast, Backstage with the Brand.
We talk about what it takes to be a great sales leader, the differences in the advertising world now versus when he started and I try to get him to be the commissioner of Major League Baseball for a day.
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Jul 27, 2022
Rob Smith, CEO and Founder of Phluid
Phluid launched initially as a physical and online store that makes gender-free, non-binary apparel and accessories. It has grown into a movement committed to challenging the dated practices that inhibit freedom and self-expression.
We talk about building a community by being a listener and always learning, creating a place where people can freely express themselves and how he bucked the “don’t quit your job after your first burning man” advice and created Phluid.
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Jul 18, 2022
Gary Goldberg, CEO & Founder of SquadLocker
This week we welcome the CEO and Founder of SquadLocker, Gary Goldberg.
SquadLocker is innovating the athletic apparel market by making it easier for coaches and league administrators to manage purchasing for sports teams.
We talked about the thousands of hours he had in the textile business, how he applied that to build his own company and the real-time moment when he saw how his customers were actually using the platform.
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Jul 11, 2022
Winnie Sabbat, Managing Partner of Sabacica Capital
This week we welcome Winnie Sabbat, Managing Partner of Sabacica Capital.
Sabacica Capital is a women-led venture fund that focuses on exceptional women and people of color-led startups.
We talked about how they are changing the game with funding, their unique approach to partnering with startups, and her passion for global travel.
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Jun 27, 2022
Julia Alexander, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of ExecOnline
This week's guest is Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of ExecOnline, Julia Alexander.
ExecOnline is a premier provider of online leadership development experiences that are democratizing access to high-quality leadership training and creating a diverse pipeline of future-ready leaders.
We talk about the value of finding mentors outside your field of work, building a mission-driven company, and the importance of providing leadership opportunities for diverse leaders.
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Jun 21, 2022
Cat Agostinho, Co-Founder at Imagen Insights
This week's guest is Co-Founder at Imagen Insights, Cat Agostinho. Imagen Insights is a company that helps agencies and brands get direct crowd-sourced ideas and insights from the Gen Z community.
We talk about the differences between this upcoming generation and the ones before, the spark that got the company going, and how to be prepared to hire people who think wildly different than you.
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Jun 17, 2022
Brandon Harris, Founder & CEO at Playmaker
This week’s guest is Founder and CEO of Playmaker, Brandon Harris
Playmaker is a next-generation sports media and athlete management brand.
We talk about the early lessons learned building his own media company, his refreshing take on the power of sports gambling, and why we both agree that having a chip on your shoulder leads to success.
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Jun 14, 2022
Liza Brody, Founder at HYPE Dance Community
*This week’s guest is the founder and CEO of Hype Dance Community, Liza Brody. *
* Hype Dance Community is a virtual and outdoor dance lesson company for all kids of all abilities. *
*We talk about her decision to leave the advertising events world to start her own business during the pandemic, why movement is so important for everyone, and why the focus of her company is on having fun, not technique. *
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Jun 10, 2022
Michelle Penczak, CEO of Squared Away
This week’s guest is CoFounder and CEO of Squared Away, Michelle Penczak.
Squared Away is a team of trusted assistants who span across the nation. They help businesses and people scale by offering virtual assistance to get busy executives organized. They also have a really compelling hook: they are all military spouses.
We talk about the origination of the concept, her journey from executive assistant to CEO and how she scales the team.
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Jun 6, 2022
Lindsay Patterson, Co-Founder & CEO of Tumble Media
This week’s guest is Co-Founder and CEO of Tumble Media, Lindsay Patterson.
Tumble Media is an educational children’s audio company that has been a pioneer in the kids’ podcast space since 2015. Their mission is to inspire curiosity and discovery through accessible storytelling.
We talk about how Lindsay’s part-time project turned into a full-time business, the educational benefits for children in listening to podcasts, and how becoming a science journalist and interviewing kids about science was the catalyst for Tumble Media.
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Jun 3, 2022
Brian Verne, CEO at Wave Sports and Entertainment
This week’s guest is Founder and CEO of Wave Sports and Entertainment, Brian Verne.
We talk about the expansion and evolution of WSE and their move into sports personality driven content, how Brian’s leadership style allows others to thrive and how he has grown the team from a handful of people in a San Francisco loft to a global sports + media phenomena.
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May 31, 2022
Todd Matteson, Co-Founder of Mondo Brewing Company
This week’s guest is CoFounder of Mondo Brewing Company, Todd Matteson. Mondo Brewing Company is one of the most celebrated craft breweries in London.
We talk about his decision to leave advertising sales and pursue a life in brewing, the cultural differences in the craft scene between the UK and the United States and what style of beer every brewer tastes to judge a new brewery.
One additional note: Todd recorded this session at Mondo’s London brewery so the audio is slightly different than other episodes.
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May 27, 2022
Mario X Carrasco, Co-Founder and Principal at ThinkNow
This week’s guest is Co-Founder of Think Now, Mario X Carrasco.
ThinkNow is the research company for the America we live in today - a multicultural, nuanced landscape. Through their diverse research panel set, ThinkNow helps brands better understand and communicate with their audiences.
We talk about growing up aware of the two cultures in his life - Mexican and American, being a mentor to the next generation and hiring with intentionality.
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May 24, 2022
Michele Heyward, Founder of PositiveHire
This week we sit down with the Founder of PositiveHire, Michele Heyward.
PositiveHire is a tech company which helps to recruit and retain experienced Latina, Black and indigenous women STEM professionals into management positions. Our software assists these women in finding the best fit employer for them to advance their careers. This in turn helps employers retain diverse STEM talent longer.
We talk about her career as a Civil Engineer, growing up in a family where her curiosity was encouraged and why it's more important for people to be a co-conspirator than an ally.
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May 20, 2022
Marty Keiser, Founder & CEO of IV BioHoldings
This week’s guest is founder and CEO of IV Bioholdings, Marty Keiser.
IV Bioholdings is on a quest to radically improve the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease. Listen as I try to keep up with Marty as he shares their bold innovations that are radically improving patients ability to detect diseases like cancer earlier and potentially save lives.
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May 16, 2022
Cristian Palma, Founder of Off the Cuff
This week’s guest is the host of Off the Cuff, Christian Palma.
We go deep into manifesting your dreams, reflecting on what matters most when making really tough career choices, giving people their flowers and how his grandmother was the inspiration for him to start his own podcast, Off The Cuff.
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May 9, 2022
Emily Heck, Owner of Evergreen Strategic Communications
This week’s guest is the founder of Evergreen Strategic Communications, Emily Heck.
Evergreen is a marketing agency specializing in nonprofit, education and small business services. We talk about her decision to leave the corporate side of academia and non profits to strike out on her own, what it means to be an accidental entrepreneur and the healthy startup community she has been able to cultivate
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May 2, 2022
Michelle O'Grady Caballero, Founder & CEO at Team Friday Inc
This week’s guest is Founder and CEO of Team Friday, Michelle O’Grady Caballero.
Team Friday works at the intersection of communications, culture and community helping brands deploy new strategies to reach diverse audiences.
We talk about her decision to leave the corporate marketing world to venture out on her own, how she uses her company’s insights to change brand behavior and a real talk on what it means to be Latina.
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Apr 25, 2022
Jackie Hernandez & Jack Rico, New Majority Ready
This week’s guests are Jackie Hernandez, Co-founder of New Majority Ready and Jack Rico, Managing Partner of New Majority Storytelling.
New Majority Ready helps businesses and brands connect with the increasingly multicultural world. We have a frank discussion about the continued lack of diversity in executive leadership, media and entertainment. And we talk about what companies can do to be more intentional on the hiring front to become a more inclusive place to work.
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Apr 18, 2022
Brittany Chavez, Founder & CEO of Shop Latinx
The purchasing power of the Latinx community has grown substantially in the past 30 years, from $213 billion in 1990 to over $1.9 trillion in 2020. Yet, venture capital funding for businesses started by Latinx founders still sits below 2% year over year.
Brittany Chavez is here to change that. She built Shop Latinx to create a shopping experience around all the passionate, talented Latinx creatives and makers in the world. Her vision is to amplify the work of Latinx and BIPOC business owners by curating a marketplace that speaks directly to our community. We talk about how she turned a brilliant Instagram handle into a business, raising the first $1MM from VCs of color and her personal growth as a founder.
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Apr 11, 2022
Ansley Fender, Founder & CEO of Atlas Solutions
This week on The Changeup, we sit down with the CEO and Founder of Atlas Solutions, Ansley Fender. Atlas Solutions is a software as a service (SaaS) company that streamlines grant management.
We talk about the limitations of a typical 9 to 5 job, how the "American Dream" concept is perfect for those that are more entrepreneurial-minded, and she shares her thoughts on failure and entrepreneurial success. Ansley also discusses some of the difficulties of being a woman in a majority male world, when all you want to do is blend in, be equal and have a seat at the table.
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Apr 4, 2022
Michael Collazo, Partner and CEO, Open Seat Direct
This week we sat down with Partner and CEO of Open Seat Direct, Michael Collazo.
Open Seat Direct empowers anyone to organize events easily, get paid instantly and connect with customers directly. We talk about Michael's growing up in the live event space, from Minor League baseball to the NHL, and how that helped him formulate the idea for Open Seat Direct.
We learn about his growing up in Philly and having your dad be a local celebrity, how music and politics has influenced his life and we nerd out on baseball. I mean really nerd out on baseball and why our Puerto Rican shortstops are the most electrifying athletes in the game right now.
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Apr 1, 2022
C.J. Toledano, Founder of Follow Through Studio
C.J. Toledano is the Founder of Follow Through Studio, a creative sports studio is at the intersection of sports and comedy. We worked together at Bleacher Report, where he was pivotal in building and scaling the Social Moments team that fueled B/R's social growth and then was the creative director for House of Highlights.
We talk about why pop culture, comedy and fashion are so integral to sports fandom experience these days, how he broke into comedy and how excited he is to be a father super soon.
We recorded this about a month ago when the Lakers were medium trash and kinda washed. Sadly, C.J's team has fallen even further since our conversation.
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Mar 28, 2022
Brian Morrissey, Founder of The Rebooting
Brian Morrissey has been fascinated with how sustainable media businesses scale for quite some time. Amidst the pandemic, he left Digiday Media, moved to Miami and started to build a newsletter and podcast called The Rebooting to examine what makes a modern media company hum.
As a big fan of Brian's works, especially his interviews, it was extremely fun to have him on the other side of the microphone answering questions about building his own business.
We talk about the rise of niche (or is it neeeesh), how long it takes for him to realize someone is full of shit and serving a growing audience as a solo practitioner.
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Mar 25, 2022
Ana Milicevic, Principal and Co-founder of Sparrow Digital Holdings
This week’s guest is principal and cofounder of Sparrow Digital Holdings, Ana Milicevic.
Sparrow advisors is a digital advisory firm that works with companies across ad tech, mar tech, e-commerce and media to generate and grow revenue.
We talk about the disconnect ad tech has with it’s intended value, our own perception of advertising, working with CMOs to get digital ready and building a business with a sibling. She is one of the sharpest in the game and a trusted voice of what’s happening in marketing.
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Mar 22, 2022
Nandini Jammi + Claire Atkin, Co-Founders of Check My Ads
Digital advertising was built on a false promise: the ability to track everything would lead to the right ad being served to the right customer at the right time. In reality, what it created was a massive multi-billion dollar arbitrage ecosystem where disinformation and bad actors pull money from advertisers who are unaware they are even running on these bad sites.
Nandini Jammi and Claire Atkin created Check My Ads to shine a light on the dark, dirty world of ad tech and to help brands build a cleaner advertising mix. Their brave work is met with vicious attacks by ad tech founders who were making bank on the status quo. We talk about all this and more on this week's episode.
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Mar 18, 2022
Walt Brock, Co-Founder of CrossOvr Collective
The business of sports is bigger and more integral to the game than ever before. And for athletes that means they have the chance to share their personal journey and personality outside of the field, on their own terms.
Walt Brock started his company, CrossOvr Collective, to help with just that. Working with athletes from all sports, his production team has built a stable of great, made for digital shows. We talk about his own journey from climbing the corporate ladder of college athletic departments to the ah-ha moment where he realized his passion was in video production.
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Mar 14, 2022
Nick Demos, President & Founder of Nick Demos Media
Nick Demos is a Tony and Olivier Award winning producer, filmmaker, business coach, as well as a yoga and meditation instructor AND he hosts his own podcast. We talk about growing up in Montana, his decision to leave dance and theater when from all outward appearances he was at the top of his game and how important the beginner's mindset is to his life journey.
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Mar 11, 2022
Benjamin Aziz, Founder of Marcy Avenue
This week we talk with the founder and partner of agency Marcy Avenue, Benjamin Aziz.
Marcy Avenue is a creative collective of designers and strategists united by a common goal: to bring people together through art and culture. We talk about how his career has traveled from law to sports to politics back to sports and now helping some of the most innovative brands rethink art and culture. We learn about his decision to leave law, how he got his first break in the sports industry and what it's like building a professional soccer club from scratch.
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Mar 7, 2022
Marco Marandiz, Founder, Drop Party
What does fandom look like now? For Drop Party, it's the emotional relationship between brands and fans. Founder Marco Marandiz has been obsessed with how we obsess and build his company to further deepen that bond. With partners like Will Smith, Patrick Mahomes and the Mars 2020 initiative, Drop Party is creating culture with some of the coolest experiences.
We talk about how hurdles at a prior startup strengthened his resolve (and his relationships with investors), how he wants to bring back a bit of serendipity into the shopping experience and how crucial those first few hires are to building the right team.
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Mar 4, 2022
Steve Pratt, Co-Founder of Pacific Content
The world of audio continues to grow and Steve Pratt has been at the forefront of the emerging medium. In 2014 he left a job at the Canadian Broadcast Company with a few colleagues to build Pacific Content, one of the first branded content audio studios.
We talk about the energy and excitement of hitting on an idea you love, finding the absolute best first client ever (they sold their first deal in their first meeting!) and how they get clients to agree to creative bravery and commitment.
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Feb 28, 2022
Shira Atkins, Co-founder + CMO, Wonder Media Network
This week we are interviewing some of my favorite podcast companies and we start with Shira Atkins, Co-founder and CMO of Wonder Media Network.
Wonder Media Network is an audio-first media company focused on women at the intersection of politics, business and culture. They have created hit shows like Womanica, The Brown Girls Guide to Politics and The Growth League. Shira and I talk about what it takes to build your own audio company, her love for the business side of things and their unique approach to developing programs with underrepresented voices.
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Feb 25, 2022
Kevin Jones, Founder and CEO, Blue Wire Podcasts
What do you do when the industry you love seemingly has no job opportunities for you? If you are Kevin Jones, Founder and CEO of Blue Wire Podcasts, you create your own opportunity and shake up the industry. We have an open conversation about how losing his father was a driving force to build Blue Wire, how they are changing the sports audio game and how to find the right advisors/investors to complement your strengths.
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Feb 21, 2022
Haley Rosen, CEO & Founder of Just Women's Sports
In the season premiere, we talk with CEO and Founder of Just Women's sports. 4% of sports media coverage is provided to women's sports. 4%. That paltry number is something Haley is dead set on changing by building her own media empire. We talk about her professional soccer career, why more need to invest in women and the early Instagram success that nearly derailed the company.
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Feb 17, 2022
Coming Soon: Season 2
New episodes every Monday starting Feb 21!
The Changeup is back for another season, featuring deep dive interviews with founders, innovators and those who made the brave leap from the corporate world to starting their own thing.
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Dec 15, 2021
Soledad O'Brien, CEO of Soledad O'Brien Productions and Broadcast Journalist
In the season finale of Season 1, we have the pleasure of talking to the legendary broadcast journalist Soledad O'Brien about her decision to leave the cable news world and create her own company, Soledad O'Brien Productions. We also discuss her new HBO docuseries "Black and Missing", the phenomenal work done by her organization PowHERful Foundation, and the growing difficulties of caring for your elder parents.
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Dec 7, 2021
Tara McGowan, CEO and Founder of Good Information, Inc
In this episode we talk with all around force of nature Tara McGowan, the CEO and Founder of Good Information, Inc, which owns Courier Newsroom. She shares her mission to help battle disinformation in media and increase civic engagement through trusted local journalism in critical local markets. We also talk about the gutting news coming from the Supreme Court in the Roe vs. Wade hearings and how important it is for us to vote in every election, not just the Presidential ones.
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Nov 30, 2021
Michael Miraflor, Founder of Third City Advisory
In this episode, we sit down with the founder of Third City Advisory, Michael Miraflor. We talk about how his curiosity keeps him energized in an ever evolving advertising world, how the agency world is still not diverse enough and he helps me wrap my head around Web3, NFTs and DAOs.
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Nov 23, 2021
Melanie Deziel, Founder of Story Fuel
Melanie, the Founder of Story Fuel, is a keynote speaker, author, award-winning branded content creator, and lifelong storyteller. In this episode, she talks about how she figured out what she was worth as a speaker, why marketing is essentially just building a relationship, and how she ended up living in Raleigh of all places.
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Nov 17, 2021
Akeelah Kuraishi, Co-Founder of Little Global Citizens
In this episode, we sit down and chat with Akeelah Kuraishi, the Co-Founder of the subscription box service, Little Global Citizens. Akeelah discusses how her later in life "gap year" ended up being one of her most profound experiences that ultimately led to her creating her own company. She shares her thoughts on the commonalities of people across the world, how exposure to others fosters compassion and understanding, and most importantly, how we can teach these things to the next generation.
Little Global Citizens
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Nov 8, 2021
Shareen Pathak, Co-Founder of Toolkits
In this episode, we sit down with Co-Founder of Toolkits, Shareen Pathak and discuss her transition from being a journalist and editor to a business owner, how to build up a good BS radar when interviewing people and how having a friend as a business partner makes even boring tasks seem fun.
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Nov 1, 2021
Chris Ruder, CEO & Founder of Spikeball
In this episode, we talk with the CEO and Founder of Spikeball, Chris Ruder. He talks about what Spikeball is and why no one is good at it to start with, what it takes to get on and win on Shark Tank, the foreignness of getting to make all your own decisions as a CEO, and the difference between a calculated risk and just being stupid.
Check out Spikeball
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Oct 26, 2021
S. Mitra Kalita, Co-founder of URL Media
Today we sit down with S. Mitra Kalita and she shares her thoughts on how the pandemic shaped lives, the importance of diversifying media content, and the subtle but important differences between local and community media
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Oct 19, 2021
Jeri Millard, CEO & Founder of In The Pink
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and on this episode of The Changeup, we have the honor of sitting down and talking with Jeri Millard, CEO & Founder of In The Pink.
Jeri is a two-type cancer survivor who is using her experiences to better help other cancer patients with their durable medical needs. Her non-profit boutique offers wigs, breast protheses, post-mastectomy bras, swimwear, scarves, hats, skin-care products and most crucially, counseling, for those battling cancer. In The Pink currently has a community of over 12,000 people in the Jacksonville, Florida area, with a goal of reaching many more in the years to come.
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Oct 14, 2021
Eliana Murillo, CEO of Eliment & Co.
In this episode of The Changeup, we talk to the co-founder of an organic Tequila company, the founder and CEO of the startup Eliment & Co., a consultancy that focuses on how business can design culturally-relevant products and campaigns, the founder of Latinas Who Brunch and a Le Cordon Bleu trained Chef. The wild part? This is all one guest- the incredible (and energetic) Eliana Murillo.
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Oct 12, 2021
Emily Zawisza, Cast Member & Sales Director of Four Day Weekend
In this episode, Emily explains how business and comedy intersect in her improv group- Four Day Weekend. She discusses how improv is not a talent but rather a skill that needs to be practiced, and how imperfect moments are really just opportunities in life and on stage.
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Oct 8, 2021
Keith Stoeckeler, Managing Partner at HEARTLENT
Keith Stoeckeler joins The Changeup to share his thoughts on needing to "make it" before turning 40, the importance of Twitter when you're unemployed, and why starting something new isn't always a financial thing if you really believe in it. We also talk about the Mets. The underachieving, super frustrating, but we still love them, Mets.
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Oct 4, 2021
Ray Ricky Rivera, Founder of Norwalk Brew House
In this episode, Ray discusses his path led him from the music industry to brewing beer, how he was able to create an inclusive homebrew club in Southern California and why turning 40 is way better than anyone thought.
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Sep 27, 2021
Jenna Porcelli, ISR Director
In this episode, we talk with Jenna Porcelli, the director of Infant Swimming Resource, Lower Bucks PA. She shares some of the shocking statistics about childhood drowning, why floaties are dangerous, and what steps parents can take to protect young kids around water. She also discusses the intensive training that is involved in becoming an ISR instructor and what makes ISR such a uniquely safe and effective swim program.
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Sep 21, 2021
Beny Ashburn + Teo Hunter, Founders of Crowns & Hops
The craft beer industry has historically been mostly white. Beny Ashburn and Teo Hunter have made it their mission to disrupt it by creating amazing locally crafted beers and cultivating a diverse community. We sit down with the founders to learn about the initial spark that turned into the brewery, how they left the marketing world to focus full time and the unique fundraising strategy that encourages the community to invest.
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Sep 13, 2021
Claire Mazur, Founder at Of A Kind
Today we sit down with Claire Mazur, the Co-Founder of Of a Kind and author of Work Wife. In this episode, she shares the importance of female relationships, how a relationship should work when building a business and how running is the best anti-anxiety medicine out there.
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Sep 2, 2021
Carlos Aguilar, Founder of Mestizo Coffee
Mestizo Coffee is on a mission to bring dope, high-quality Mexican American coffee to the masses. Started by Carlos Aguilar as a side project he blends top shelf craftsmanship with sharp brand creative. We talk what it was like to bootstrap a DTC brand during a pandemic, how he finds time to pursue all his creative passions and how a great cup of coffee cleanse your mind, body and soul.
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Aug 23, 2021
Alexys Feaster, Founder + CEO of The Kinship Advisors
We sit down with founder and CEO of The Kinship Advisors, Alexys Feaster. Alexys shares with us what it was like to build a new business during the pandemic, her plans for global expansion and how the NBA bubble was a focal point for social justice.
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Aug 18, 2021
James Edward Murray- CEO and Co-Founder of Therify
This episode's guest is the CEO and Co-Founder of Therify. James Edward Murray talks about the transformative experience that therapy can have when you find the right therapist, how it isn't always easy to find a culturally aware therapist, and what Therify is doing to fix the problem.
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Aug 11, 2021
Lindsay Kaplan, Co-Founder of Chief
Today we get to hear from the Co-Founder of Chief, Lindsay Kaplan. In this episode, she walks us through the importance of finding people who balance you, how a focus on poetry for a creative writing degree is the best idea, and why you should never bring a kazoo to a parade.
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Aug 5, 2021
Rajiv Satyal, Comedian
On this episode of The Changeup, we get a chance to hear from "The Funny Indian", comedian Rajiv Satyal. He shares his thoughts on the surprising benefits of an engineering degree, what made him leave his corporate job and life during the pandemic.
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Jul 27, 2021
Adena Jones, CEO and Co-Founder of Another Lane
This episode's guest is CEO and Co-Founder of Another Lane, Adena Jones. Another Lane is an exclusive marketing place for premium sneakers. We talk about what it means to be a sneaker enthusiast, how they started the business and the changing landscape of sneaker culture.
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Jul 2, 2021
Bo Han, CEO of Buzzer
The Changeup sits down with leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs to learn about their big career switch - from high-rising employee at a large company to starting their own thing.
This episode, we talk with Bo Han, founder and CEO of Buzzer.
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