The Audience

My guest for Episode 206 is Melanie Deziel, making a repeat visit to The Audience to drop all kinds of advice and tips about getting paid to speak

Melanie is the founder of StoryFuel, which teaches marketers, publishers, creators and companies of all sizes how to tell better brand stories. She is also the author of The Content Fuel Framework: How to Generate Unlimited Story Ideas — which released February 24, 2020.

She is a keynote s...

My guest for Episode 206 is Neen James. Neen is an international keynote speaker and author of the books Folding Time and Attention Pays™. 

Neen has been named one of the Top 30 Leadership Speakers by Global Guru several years in a row because of her work with companies including Viacom, Comcast, and Abbot Pharmaceuticals among others. Neen’s quick-witted boundless energy offers powerful strategies to pay attention to what matters s...

My guest for this episode is Josh Windmiller, musician and event producer. Josh is an amazing and electric performing artist who has worked in many parts of the music industry, both onstage and off. His band, The Crux, is known for their theatrical shows. 

Josh (among many other things) is the Founder and Director of the Railroad Square Music Festival in Santa Rosa, CA, and has also been the Music Director for Petaluma, CA’s Riverto...

My guest for Episode 204 of The Audience is Denise R. Jacobs, an expert on creativity and how to banish your Inner Critic. Denise is a Speaker + Author + Creativity Evangelist who speaks at conferences and consults with companies worldwide. As the Founder + CEO of The Creative Dose, she promotes techniques to unlock creativity and help people become engaged contributors, synergistic collaborators, and authentic leaders. 

She is the ...

My guest for Episode 202 is Gini Dietrich. Gini is the founder, CEO, and author of Spin Sucks — an outstanding professional development hub and blog for marketers, PR professionals, and a variety of other communicators, She is the host of the Spin Sucks podcast, and author of a bestselling book by the same name. She also has built, run, and grown her own successful agency — Arment-Dietrich — for the past 14 years. Gini is co-author...

My guest for this episode is the awesome Chris Brogan. Chris is the CEO of Owner Media, a best-selling author of 9 books (and counting!), a keynote speaker, host of the Making the Brand podcast, and a business advisor who helps companies navigate the evolving cultural effects of the digital landscape. He’s spoken for or consulted with some huge brands including Google, GM, Microsoft, Coldwell Banker, Titlelist, Humana Health, and a...

My guest for this episode is Dr. Taryn Stejskal, who is currently the Head of Leadership Development, Executive Programs, & Coaching for Cigna. In that role, Dr. Stejskal leads strategy and execution of Cigna’s global talent management agenda and enterprise-wide leadership development initiatives focused on executive programs and coaching. 

She is an expert on leadership and organizational resilience, and is writing, speaking, a...

My guest for this episode is Anne Gherini a marketing executive, writer, and public speaker with over a decade of experience leading both B2B and B2C marketing teams. Anne’s career roots include building strategic partnerships for Paramount Pictures and Sony PlayStation — which has led to building successful marketing strategies at several venture backed startups, including StumbleUpon and now at Affinity.co. Anne's superpower...

My guest for Episode 008 is Peter Corbett, who I’ve had the pleasure to know for a number of years as we’ve worked in various overlapping circles in the tech community.

Peter is the Founder and now Retired CEO of iStrategyLabs, a DC-based, global digital agency, that develops solutions to clients’ challenges and brings them to life in the online and offline world. He is a tireless champion of innovation, and disruptors everywhere — ...

Episode 007 (unofficially my James Bond episode) of The Audience features my first pair of guests —Jen Capstraw and & April Mullen. Both are email marketers extraordinaire and Co-Founders of the global nonprofit organization, Women of Email. 

Jen is a strategist, speaker, writer and #emailgeek — currently the Director of Strategic Insights and Evangelism at Iterable. April leads client marketing and strategy for Selligent Market...

Episode 006 of The Audience features special guest Quinn Tempest, a digital strategist and designer based in Phoenix. For 5 years, she served as Director of Marketing at top internet marketing agency, Vertical Measures. She has worked with enterprise-level corporations, including Banner Health and UPS, to develop large-scale, paradigm-shifting content marketing strategies. As a designer, she helps small businesses and entrepreneurs...

My guest for this episode of The Audience is Melanie Deziel, Founder of StoryFuel and a brand storytelling speaker who travels the world teaching marketers and publishers how to tell better brand stories. She has spoken at conferences and events around the world, including Content Marketing World, Native Ad Days, SXSW, Social Media Marketing World, Inbound, and more.

Melanie is on the board of the Native Advertising Institute and te...

My guest for this episode is the awesome Ajit Nalwalkha. Ajit is  a serial entrepreneur, global educator & consultant. He is the co-founder of Mindvalley Teach, Evercoach  and Global GRIT Institute, author of The Book of Coaching and Live Big — which comes out today as of the posting date of this episode. 

Born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, living in a home with 23 other people, Ajit has always pursued the dream of Living Big. Over the ...

My guest for this premiere episode of The Audience is Ann Handley, which I’m so grateful for. Ann is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author who speaks worldwide about how businesses can escape marketing mediocrity to ignite tangible results. IBM named her one of the 7 people shaping modern marketing. 

Ann is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs, the leading marketing training company. She is the Wall Street Journal bestsell...

My guest for this episode of The Audience is Michael Barber. Michael is the Senior Vice President, Chief Creative Officer at Godfrey. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes. This work has been awarded numerous industry awards, but more importantly has driven successes including the most effective and cost-efficient campaign in the history of a Fortune 500 company, a 160x return on ad s...

Welcome to the Audience, Soulful Conversations with People Creating Out Loud.

This is the "origin episode" and gives you an overview of what this podcast is all about. In a nutshell, this is a podcast about how to thrive in the conference and event business. 

Each episode will feature guest interviews and/or solo riffs by me, Jaimey Walking Bear — bringing you:

• Practical advice for building and growin...