Founder of Marketing Showrunners, host of 3 Clips and other podcasts and docuseries about creativity, and author of Break the Wheel. I’m trying to create a world where people feel intrinsically motivated by their work. Previously in content marketing and digital strategy at Google and HubSpot and VP of brand and community at the VC firm NextView. I write, tinker, and speak on stages and into microphones for a living. It’s weird but wonderful.
Get in touch anytime: jay@mshowrunners.com // Speaking inquiries: speaking@unthinkablemedia.com
Drift’s first podcast had all the ingredients of a great show. Hosted by a CEO with a big audience, with a co-host who was an emerging executive in the field, the podcast Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel and Dave Gerhardt exploded. So now what? Mine that asset for goodness, no? What about a miniseries inside […]
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Every Friday on Marketing Showrunners, the staff picks one branded podcast or video show to profile for inspiration and insights, pulled from our popular post, The World’s Biggest List of Branded Shows. Here’s this week’s Show Spotlight… I’ve gotten into more meaningless debates on Twitter than I care to remember, mostly involving the subjects that […]
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It’s easy to disassociate our own abilities, brands, industries, or material from our favorite shows. Today, we go inside the final episodes of the legendary podcast StartUp from Gimlet Media to uncover a few missing pieces from our storytelling style as marketers — even when our source material feels boring, bland, and predictable. SUBSCRIBE TO […]
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“What do you do for work?” Oh no — not this question again. A funny thing happens when you happily share what you love with others: the barista politely nods until, look, it’s time to step to the right, there’s a line building up, and if working from home really leaves you this desperate for […]
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REI owns and operates some incredible (and surprising) podcasts. Today, we talk to their head of podcast strategy, Chelsea Davis, about what it takes to make a truly resonant show without throwing budget at the problem. Chelsea owns the end-to-end show development process across all of REI’s shows — and there are several ambitious programs […]
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