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
Every listener to your podcast will arrive with the same question, whether they’re just arriving or coming back for the next episode. This question — which we can call the “critical question” — can make or break the entire experience for them. The problem is, we rarely answer it in our work. (Whoops!) Today, we […]
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Interviewing a guest on a podcast can be a delicate dance. (That’s how I think of it, anyway. It’s not a straight march forward, asking question after question. It’s more like a dance, and you are the leader. You’re setting the tone, watching the pacing, leading people one way, then back another, then visiting one […]
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I came out of the software industry, working at companies like Google and HubSpot, then in technology VC at a firm called NextView. Although I worked in marketing the entire time, the people I always admired most were product managers. They seemed to have an impossibly difficult job. How do you invent stuff? How do […]
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When you host a podcast, your voice becomes a creative tool. Perhaps for the first time, you’re challenged to think about your words as something you wield, something you can strategically deploy to create meaning and inspire action in others. Your voice is just like any other medium (text, imagery, video, or audio). You […]
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For a recent episode of 3 Clips, listener Jim Samuel asked us a poignant question about preparing to launch your podcast: How can I evaluate whether there’s a sufficient audience for a podcast idea I have and would like to pursue? Here’s the quick answer. It deserves a longer explanation: You can’t know for sure, […]
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