Own It
We’re buying out of the ad industry boys’ club. Hosted by Cornett owner Christy Hiler, Own It lifts up the stories of women and nonbinary ad agency owners: their challenges, their successes, and their goals for the industry. We’re aiming to start a movement—because you don’t have the power until you own it.
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August 11, 2026 • 35 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Ari Krzyzek from Chykalophia. Her firm is a web conversion focused firm. They bring brand ideas to life to transform their websites for growth. Speaking of growth, the agency was born from Ari’s simple website design consulting work she began in 2009. So she has seen ownership from that seed of consulting int a large and successful agency.
Ari is originally from Bali, but now based ...
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August 4, 2026 • 44 mins
This week on Own It, we’re talking to Kiley Peters from Rayne IX. She and her firm specialize in helping women entrepreneurs launch, scale and build valuable businesses. And not just in the advertising space, but many verticals. And she is the perfect person to do just that because she is a serial entrepreneur with experience building her own businesses, including a very successful content marketing firm.
We talked about so ...
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July 28, 2026 • 40 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Cass Cruz and Karen Goodman from Nova Consulting. Their firm focuses on branding but specializes in helping founders and business leaders turn what they stand for into meaning and growth for their companies. Karen spent time at Bose on the brand side and MullenLowe and Havas, among others, on the agency side before joining forces with Cass.
Cass also spent time at Bose on the brand ...
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July 21, 2026 • 55 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Abby Lovett from CPT Visibility Advisors. I’ve been looking forward to this episode for a while because Abby has expertise in the sometimes intimidating world of A.I. She helps companies with their visibility in the world of artificial intelligence.
You may want to get out your journals and take notes on this episode. We talked about her firm, the world of AI, her journey here...
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June 30, 2026 • 38 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Rene Ryan from Backpocket Agency. Her firm is a boutique agency that drives engagement for its clients. She’s spent the last 20 years at several firms in the content marketing space, honing strategies for clients across many sectors.
She co-founded BackPocket Agency two years ago and is blossoming into ownership. I so enjoyed hearing about her journey, her thoughts on th...
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June 23, 2026 • 40 mins
This week on Own It, we’re talking to Beth Johnson from RP3 Agency. It is a full-service creative agency that cuts through the tsunami of sameness with wildly original ideas that drive results. She founded RP3 in 2009 so she has a long history as an owner to share with us. She’s also a big traveller, which you know we love talking about.
We talked about her journey, her inspirations and role models and so much mo...
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June 16, 2026 • 42 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Lauren Bello from Sia Partners. She joined the firm as a partner two years ago after several years at Ready Set Rocket where she ultimately served as CEO. Sia Partners is a next-generation global consulting group in strategy, artificial intelligence and management.
We talked about so much. Her roles as an owner, a mom, her journey to ownership and so much more. And I loved her thoughts on...
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June 9, 2026 • 32 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Erika Saracco from Colorwheel Digital. Her firm specializes in integrated marketing strategies that connects brands with audience across earned, owned and paid channels. They eliminate ad waste to make every dollar count.
We talked about her journey, who has helped inspire her to create and own, and even her addiction to cold plunging after time in the sauna. And as always, we got h...
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June 2, 2026 • 41 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Leah Lane from Strong Brew. Leah came to ownership through the entertainment industry as a television producer. But building shows is just as good a training ground for building teams, businesses and agencies.
Strong Brew challenges traditional agency models by placing empathy and collaboration at the core to combat the often chaotic and ego-driven world entertainment presents. ...
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May 26, 2026 • 35 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Suzanne Powers from All&. She and her partner Jennifer Breithaupt founded the firm a little over a year ago. Suzanne spent many years at McCann, Crispin Porter + Bogusky and TBWA. She shared some wonderful insights she picked up over her journey. I loved her story and her thoughts on closing the gender gap in agency ownership.
These conversations and so valuable for us. We know ...
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May 5, 2026 • 41 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Courtney Worthman and Stacey Gersten from Main Character. Their firm’s goal is to make their client’s brands the Main Character in stories, the marketplace and impact. They launched the company in 2025 after working together for several years at Burns Entertainment.
We talked about their individual and partnership journeys, which character from Sex & The City they resemble...
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April 28, 2026 • 53 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Jenna Cummings from Rival. She is originally from Spokane, Washington, but is now based in London, England. One of the things she says she loves about ownership and the advertising business is the ability to live and work anywhere and enjoy a global lifestyle.
Rival is an agency focused on helping challenger brands become blue chip ones, primarily through leveraging research, data and mar...
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April 21, 2026 • 38 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Stephanie Crockett from the Mower Agency. She started at Mower & Associates in 2004 on the account side. By 2021 she was president and chief operating officer. She took over as president and CEO in 2023.
Mower is an advertising and public relations agency with over 50 years experience connecting brands with audience in authentic, lasting ways. Stephanie and I talked about her journey,...
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April 7, 2026 • 41 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Chelsea Derrico from OpAD Media Solutions. She climbed the ladder internally at OpAD from a media planner and buyer to CEO and president, all over the last 14 years. The media agency is based in New York City where Chelsea raises a family, plays tennis and leads a firm that focuses on data-driven media decisions to produce results.
We talked about everything from her children to her...
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March 31, 2026 • 42 mins
This week on Own It, we’re talking to Kimberly Eberl from The Motion Agency. Her firm is based in Chicago and helps clients like Ace Hardware, Whirlpool and more accelerate growth with results-driven creative. Their work and thinking is impressive, for sure.
We talked about her journey from growing up in Cincinnati, to working for Harley Davidson, to founding Motion 20 years ago. She came up through the PR ranks, working at ...
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March 24, 2026 • 36 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Gina Clementi from Good Story. Her firm does what she calls brand archaeology. They dig past marketing speak to uncover stories worth telling. We had fun uncovering her stories worth telling including how she came into ownership. Her experiences with Nike where she built much of her expertise in the industry, and her lifestyle in the pacific northwest.
We also dug into her tho...
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March 17, 2026 • 50 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Cassie Hughes and Gabrey Means from Grow Marketing. Their firm is a full-service agency based in San Francisco that specializes in brand strategy, design and production. They’ve been together for a quarter of a century after early career stops at some major brands.
Cassie worked at Levi Strauss and Esprit along the way. Gabrey was at The Gap and Banana Republic.
We talked abo...
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March 3, 2026 • 45 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Erin Fabio from Grit Studio. Grit Studio is a boutique marketing agency built for bold brands and the women behind them. Erin brings a “dream it, build it” mentality to every challenge. She also recently took up tennis and says it's her time to not think about anything other than being in the present.
Erin has so many good nuggets to share in this conversation. We talked...
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February 24, 2026 • 42 mins
This week on Own It we’re talking to Alexis Toney and Grace Kwak from Background Noise. It is a strategic consultancy that promotes diversity through inclusive strategies that help meet brands where they are and help them grow to where they need to go.
And diversity lives through every bit of their firm. Alexis is a New York City club deejay when she is not working on client projects. Grace balanced that busy life by m...
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February 10, 2026 • 41 mins
This week on Own It, we’re talking to Mandana Mellano from PEONY Talent. It is a boutique talent recruitment and advisory practice that services the media, advertising, marketing, technology and entertainment industries. Her efforts have been focused on modernizing the talent recruitment process in our industry. I love how she’s innovating in that space for us all.
Mandana and I talked about her journey, the issues fac...
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