Sneakers and Strategies

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Feb 2026

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Join marketer Nick Kastner to discuss the latest topics in marketing. Across each episode, Nick covers the latest in marketing, interviews with regional and national marketers from across the United States, and even discusses some of their favorite sneaker options.

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February 23, 2026Episode 1626 min

Agile Marketing Principle 10: Marketing Should Strive for Simplicity.

Send a textAgile marketing is powerful — but only if you don’t overcomplicate it. In this season finale, Nick recaps the nine Agile Marketing principles covered so far and shows why simplicity is the real secret weapon: fewer priorities, clearer alignment, stronger fundamentals, and faster execution. If your “agile” process feels heavier than the old way, this episode is your reset — and your challenge to cut the noise and focus on what actually moves the customer.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.

February 16, 2026Episode 1516 min

Agile Marketing Principle 9: Agile Marketing Isn't Enough.

Send a textIt's easy to think if you're running agile you know marketing. But the truth is - agile marketing isn't marketing without fundamentals. In this episode we go to back to basics as a reminder that goals, value propositions, and target markets still matter.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.

November 6, 2025Episode 1419 min

Agile Marketing Principle 8: Long-Term Marketing Success Benefits from Operating at a Sustainable Pace

Send a textIn this episode, Nick covers probably one of the most important principles: understanding how to operate at a sustainable pace to generate long-term marketing success. Agencies and marketing teams alike struggle from burnout because in marketing - the iron burns really hot. Learn the red flags of marketing burnout and how to protect your team - and culture - at all costs.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.

October 31, 2025Episode 1318 min

Agile Marketing Principle 7: Build Marketing Programs Around Motivated Individuals and Trust Them to Get the Job Done

Send a textIn this episode Nick goes hard in the paint discussing the importance of motivation and trust with your marketing team. Agile marketing is really about people and giving them the freedom and structure to be successful. Nick provides a number of tips and tricks to ensure that you're giving your team the autonomy they need to succeed.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.

September 25, 2025Episode 1217 min

Agile Marketing Principle 6: Organize in Small, Cross-Functional Teams Where Possible

Send a textIn this latest (and late) episode of Sneakers and Strategies, Nick catches listeners up on life and explains why agile works best when you have the right teams (and people) in the room.Also, listeners are invited to Forum Communications' first ever webinar hosted by Nick Kastner on how recent changes to Google search results are impacting businesses in regards to website traffic, analytics, and how brands can operate in this new environment. The webinar will be held on Tuesday, September 30 at 11:30 am EST.You can register for the webinar by clicking here.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.

July 17, 2025Episode 118 min

Agile Marketing Principle 5: Take Chances and Learn from Your Failures

Send a textWhat does it look like to have the safety of failure on your marketing team? Many organizations struggle with the idea of failure not realizing this is how they learn. This week's episode is all about learning how to grow from failure, actual encourage risk, and being smart along the way.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.

July 7, 2025Episode 1016 min

Agile Marketing Principle 4: Plan Only to a Level Sufficient to Ensure Effective Prioritization and Execution

Send a textCareful building big-bang campaigns with long planning times. In agile marketing, the goal is to ensure that we are delivering value quickly and to do that - we have to plan accordingly. This week covers the 4th principle provides some ideas on how to ensure your plan isn't over-cooked from the get-go.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.

July 3, 2025Episode 923 min

Agile Marketing Principle 3: Embrace and Respond to Change to Enhance Customer Value

Send a textNo marketing plan is perfect, but learning to learn and adjust frequently is one of primary jobs of a marketer. After a week of adjusting to change - this week Nick discusses this very topic and the importance of focusing on the customer and not your plan.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.

June 19, 2025Episode 814 min

Agile Marketing Principle 2: Seek Out Different and Diverse Points of View

Send a textSometimes our marketing teams become echo chambers for our leadership. They start to sound like our CEOs or marketing directors and struggle to create anything new. Agile marketing works to prevent that by encouraging diversity of opinion and point of view.This week's episode dives into that topic with 5 points that you can use today to ensure that your team creates value in everything they do.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.

June 12, 2025Episode 718 min

Agile Marketing Principle 1: Transparency

Send a textContinuing on in season 3 on agile marketing, Nick talks about the importance of transparency in marketing across the organization including your relationship with leadership and your marketing agency.Support the showFollow Nick online at @professoroflife on X and Instagram, or find him on LinkedIn. Nick serves as the director of brand and digital strategy at Forum Communications just northeast of Atlanta, GA.