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Talking Marketing is an AMA Boston Chapter original podcast featuring interviews with nationally renown marketing experts. Get tips, insights, trends and best practices to keep you up to speed on marketing thought leadership and ideas.

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October 1, 2026Episode 51 hr 4 min

S2 Ep5: Cracking the Hard-Tech Buying Committee with Multi-Segment GTM Kits

Welcome back to Talking Marketing, season 2 episode 5. Traditional Account-Based Marketing was built for lightweight software, not complex, high-stakes enterprise sales. In this episode, we sit down with the executive team behind Market Operandi: Founder and CEO Dr. Kevin Fahey—a Stanford Ph.D. and MIT Physicist with a track record of quadrupling hard-tech companies—and Director of Marketing Tammy Estrada, MBA, a veteran growth executive and former AMA Boston leader. Together, we bypass surface-level marketing tactics and rip up the standard SaaS playbook. Kevin and Tammy pull back the curtain on how to engineer customized, segment-specific Go-To-Market kits designed to align complex buying committees, navigate multi-layered sales cycles, and convert stuck pipelines into high-value enterprise revenue. Stream the full conversation below to start building a revenue engine tailored for hard-tech and complex sales.

September 10, 2026Episode 458 min

S2 Ep4: Marketing as an Operational Discipline, ft Market Like A Hotshot

Welcome back to Talking Marketing, this is season 2, episode 4. What happens when two senior technical leaders leave the world of corporate IT and enterprise systems to launch their own scrappy, high-impact marketing ecosystem? In this episode of Talking Marketing , hosts of the Market Like a Hotshot podcast, James Feudo and Jeff deSocio, join us to break down what it really takes to make a mid-career pivot into modern content creation. Drawing from decades of high-stakes corporate leadership, James at retail giants like TJX and Jeff across Fortune 500s, they share the critical corporate mindsets they had to "unlearn" to succeed in the fast-paced digital landscape. We dive deep into: Primary vs. Secondary Knowledge: Why relying on classroom theory and certifications can be dangerous in an industry that changes every six months, and how to learn tools by breaking them yourself. Technical Infrastructure vs. Messaging: Why struggling small-to-midsize businesses often face broken digital infrastructure rather than just marketing copy issues. The Power of In-Person Community: How Market Like a Hotshot scaled from a digital show into massive live events and broadcasts across MetroWest. Whether you're looking to pivot careers, scale your business's technical foundation, or cut through the digital noise with real-world connection, this episode delivers actionable insights from two industry veterans.

August 25, 2026Episode 330 min

S2 Ep3: Scaling Authenticity: Inside the Full-Suite Agency Model

Welcome back to Talking Marketing. This is Season 2, Ep 3 Scaling Authenticity: Inside the Full-Suite Agency Model How do agency leaders scale operations, execute strategic acquisitions, and increase production velocity—all without sacrificing the creative quality that built their reputation? In this episode of Talking Marketing , we sit down with Jared Harman , CEO & Co-Founder of The One Group Agency . Jared pulls back the curtain on the operational strategy behind expanding a full-suite agency, including key lessons from their recent acquisition of Bowerhouse. What You'll Learn in This Episode: Creative ROI: Practical frameworks for linking high-end video production to measurable revenue pipeline. Team Integration: Strategies for uniting creative, technical, and strategic teams under a cohesive operational model. Scalable Quality: How to accelerate output speed without diluting brand voice or client trust.

August 4, 2026Episode 241 min

S2 Ep2 - From Users to Advocates: The Art of Community Strategy

Welcome back to Talking Marketing ! This is Season 2, Ep 2 , From Users to Advocates: The Art of Community Strategy . Everyone says they're building community. Almost nobody knows what that actually means. Meghan Arnold does. She's spent 20 years doing it — for a transit system, a global design conference, a beloved font brand, and thousands of Adobe creatives across North America. In this episode we talk about: The real difference between a community and an audience with a logo What managing communications for 42 million transit riders taught her about human connection How to hold a community's trust through a rebrand they didn't ask for What almost broke a major design conference that the audience never knew about What people are really looking for when they walk into a room you've built This one's for anyone who's ever used the word "community" in a deck and wondered if they actually meant it.

July 15, 2026Episode 11 hr 0 min

Season 2 Episode 1: Thinking Like the CMO of Your Accounts: Unpacking Strategic ABM with Sloan Newman

Welcome back to Talking Marketing. This is season 2, episode 1 . In a hyper-crowded market, generic campaigns are white noise. If you want to win enterprise-level accounts, you have to treat them like a market of one. On this episode, I am joined by award-winning marketing executive and strategist Sloan Newman to discuss his brand new book, "The Relationship Revolution: Mastering 1:1 Account-Based Management." Sloan breaks down exactly how to move away from rigid dashboards and transition toward human-centered, high-impact engagement that secures multi-million dollar pipelines. What we cover: 💡 The "CMO of your accounts" mindset shift. 💡 How to balance intense 1:1 personalization with the corporate demand to scale. 💡 The leading indicators that actually prove ABM velocity during long sales cycles. 💡 Real mistakes to avoid when deploying your first strategic ABM playbook. Ready to lead the revolution in your accounts?

June 26, 2026Episode 6954 min

Episode 69: The Solopreneur & The Agent: Building a 20+ Year Marketing Legacy ft. Bryan Fikes

Welcome back to the last episode of Talking Marketing, season 2025-26. We close this year on a high with Bryan Fikes. 20 years in marketing. Multiple startups built. And a new AI agent named Bodhi. What happens when two decades of grit meets ultimate personal clarity and cutting-edge tech? You reinvent the entire entrepreneurial playbook. In this conversation with Bryan, we skip the surface-level AI hype and get into the real mechanics of modern business building. He has scaled the massive, multi-million-dollar traditional agencies of the past, but today, he's building something much more potent: a lean, automated, hyper-focused future. We dive deep into: The 20-Year Perspective: What remains true about building a startup when the tech stack changes every six months. The Power of Focus: How marking one year of sobriety unlocked a new level of operational velocity. Meet Bodhi: Why AI agents (not just tools) are redefining the solo founder journey and replacing heavy agency overhead. If you're an entrepreneur trying to scale without drowning in operational noise, this conversation is a masterclass in modern leverage.

June 17, 2026Episode 6835 min

Episode 68: When Music Meets Marketing ft. Jeff Porter

Welcome back to Talking Marketing! 🎙️ In Episode 68, I sit down with Jeff Porter, marketer at EventPipe and hip-hop artist — to explore why success doesn't have to fit into a single box. From working with children with autism to spending seven years at one company, becoming the only marketer in the room, navigating competing opinions, and balancing a creative career in music, Jeff shares the lessons that shaped his unique path. In this episode, we discuss: What the classroom taught him before marketing ever could The value of staying and growing within one organization What day one really looks like when you're building marketing from scratch How to protect your strategy when everyone has an opinion Why making music makes him a better marketer If you've ever been told to "pick a lane," this conversation is for you. Sometimes the most rewarding careers are built by following more than one path. 🎧 Listen now and join the conversation.

June 5, 2026Episode 6740 min

Episode 67: From Dough to Done: How Milk Bar and Krispy Kreme Made It Work

Two years. One million doughnut samples. And a masterclass in brand stewardship. For National Donut Day, the Talking Marketing podcast goes behind the scenes of one of the most anticipated sweet-treat collaborations in recent history. In this exclusive episode, we sit down with Charlie Hodges (Krispy Kreme) and Shannon Salzano (Milk Bar) to unpack the strategic, messy, and brilliant realities of bringing two iconic culinary giants into the same room. From non-traditional career pivots to the intense operational pressure of a global rollout, this conversation moves past the standard marketing playbook to look at the real tension between creative nuance and massive scale. What you'll learn from this episode: The Non-Linear Path to Brand Love: How Charlie's journey (Chick-fil-A, J&J, Krispy Kreme) and Shannon's path (Editor to Milk Bar Creative Director) shaped their philosophies on building consumer devotion. The Anatomy of a 2-Year Collaboration: A candid look at where the partnership nearly fell apart, who blinked first, and the unexpected lessons learned from managing high-stakes brand equity.

May 19, 202655 min

Episode 66: Neil Cohen - The Marketing Therapist

Welcome to Talking Marketing , Episode: 66 Neil Cohen - The Marketing Therapist. Most brands think they have a marketing problem. Neil Cohen has spent 40 years proving they have a listening problem. From the boardrooms of Hilton, Arby's, and Sega to over 300 companies advised across three continents — the pattern never changed. Brands that struggled weren't out-spent or out-creative'd. They were out of touch with the very people they were trying to reach. Neil calls it therapy. Because that's what it is. The diagnosis is usually simpler than anyone wants to admit — and fixing it costs far less than ignoring it. In this episode, Neil breaks down why listening is the most underrated skill in marketing, what decades inside big brands taught him about the ones that got it right, and why the most expensive mistake a company can make is assuming they already know the answer. For every marketer who's ever built a campaign — this one hits different.

May 5, 2026Episode 651 hr 0 min

Episode 65: The Hard Truths About Building Boston's Design Community

Welcome back to Talking Marketing - Episode 65 - The Hard Truths About Building Boston's Design Community. This week I sat down with Catherine Headen-Carlucci — designer, consultant, and President of AIGA Boston — for one of the most honest conversations I've had about what it really takes to build a design community from the inside. We went deep on: — The gap between what designers are trained to believe design is, and what it actually is in practice — What AIGA Boston is doing that most designers don't know exists — Why Boston loses its talent to other cities and who's responsible for changing that — What the next version of Boston's design community needs to look like. This is not a surface conversation. Catherine doesn't hold back — and that's exactly why you should listen.