Dan Portrait is Kamp Grizzly’s Chief Creative Officer and founder. Portrait’s artistic upbringing in Portland’s hotbed of subcultures, music and film during the early 90’s helped to shape the young creative’s approach to founding and running Kamp Grizzly, one of the most accredited and forward-thinking creative agencies, known for blurring the lines between advertising and entertainment. Portrait’s natural curiosity and creative outlook has been instrumental in impacting Kamp Grizzly’s DNA and a...
Feb 19, 2025•44 min
Nycole Hampton is a results-driven senior marketing leader with two decades of experience in integrated marketing and brand strategy, including 13 years in leadership roles. At her core, she is a builder—of brands, in-house teams, global agency practices, marketing frameworks, content engines, and full-funnel strategies that drive measurable results. Throughout her career, Nycole has worked with clients and strategic partners such as ALDI, Air New Zealand, American Airlines, Auntie Anne's, Baref...
Feb 18, 2025•40 min
The ad that has everyone saying, "whoa." Lyle Yetman | Co-CCO The best thing that ever happened to Lyle’s advertising career was not getting hired as an account person at BBDO. He would have sucked at that. Instead, he became a writer. After getting his master’s at the VCU Brandcenter, Lyle left his Boston roots, moved out west, and started his career at BSSP, where he worked on MINI, Chipotle, and El Pollo Loco, created the Priceline Negotiator and made award-winning spots for Google, among oth...
Feb 13, 2025•44 min
In nearly two decades in the communications field, Amy Widdowson has guided organizations through inflection moments and critical public relations challenges, with work across executive visibility, messaging and storytelling, thought leadership, and crisis management. Prior to her role as VP Communications at Medium, she spent over ten years agency-side in both corporate and public affairs leadership capacities, where she developed strategies for organizations in the technology, consumer goods, ...
Feb 12, 2025•53 min
Growing up in Brooklyn with modest means, Cheryl Toussaint knows first-hand how sports can change the direction of one’s life. After discovering a local track meet by chance at age 12, she ran her first race in a pair of borrowed sneakers and went on to earn the silver medal in the 1972 Olympic Games, even after an early mishap forced her to run with only one shoe! Now, Cheryl has turned her lifelong passion for running (she remains active today, even in her 70’s) and the lessons she learned abo...
Feb 10, 2025•40 min
Andy Lambert is a serial entrepreneur with a proven track record of building and scaling successful software businesses over the past 12 years. As a founding member of ContentCal, a social media marketing platform, he helped grow the company from inception to acquisition by Adobe Inc. in 2021, raising $10M in funding and serving thousands of customers globally. Andy is passionate about education and sharing knowledge, which led him to author the best-selling book ' SOCIAL 3.0 ' in 2022. Drawing ...
Feb 06, 2025•52 min
Foram Mehta is a leader in the social impact sector with over 13 years of experience driving initiatives in sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and youth empowerment. As the Global Partnerships Manager at Women First Digital, Foram has spearheaded innovative solutions to address access gaps in abortion care, contraception, and digital security, particularly in underserved regions like Latin America and Africa. She specializes in building meaningful partnerships, leveraging technolog...
Feb 03, 2025•28 min
Labeled a leading voice in the intersection of marketing and technology by Forbes, Keith is the Vice President of Strategy at Linqia , the leading influencer marketing agency for enterprise brands. Keith also co-hosts the renowned Creator Economy Live podcast, is a contributor for Forbes on influencer marketing, and speaks at conferences around the world on the topic of the creator economy. Keith has developed marketing and influencer strategies for some of the largest brands in the world includ...
Jan 30, 2025•43 min
Emma Lehman is an independent podcast producer, investigative journalist, researcher, and scriptwriter. She produced, wrote, and hosted Gooned , a multi-award-winning limited-series investigative podcast about the Troubled Teen Industry, and is also the creator of the Texas Twiggy podcast. She graduated from UCLA in 2022 with a B.A. in English and minors in Global Studies and Professional Writing.Emma grew up outside of Washington, D.C., and now lives in Los Angeles with a cranky asthmatic cat n...
Jan 27, 2025•50 min
Ashley Mann is a seasoned communications and PR professional with 15 years of expertise in B2B and B2C technology. Her experience spans both agency and startup environments, where she has honed her approach to strategic communications. As co-founder of The Colab, she partners directly with high-growth companies to uncover and amplify their core mission. Ashley brings a unique perspective shaped by extensive experience in consumer and technology sectors, focusing on delivering impactful, mission-...
Jan 21, 2025•51 min
Megan Hueter is the strategic leader of MikeWorldWide ’s digital practice and the managing director of the social and influencer agency Everywhere , with 15+ years of experience leading digital and social media strategy for both B2B and consumer brands such as Deloitte, Nikon, FanDuel, Subaru, Whole Foods, YETI and more. She has a wide range of industry experience that cuts across large-scale digital product designs and builds, customer experience, journey mapping, email marketing, social media,...
Jan 16, 2025•48 min
Nicole Emerick went from commercial banker to blogger to Fortune 100 social media director. With experience as a creator/entrepreneur, agency lead and client side social media leader, Nicole has a unique perspective on using social media to drive and sustain business growth. Outside of work, Nicole enjoys coaching leaders on building standout personal brands.
Jan 14, 2025•48 min
Brandon Lawson is a nonprofit communications specialist based in New York City and currently serves as the Director of Content Strategy at Smile Train , the world’s largest cleft charity. With over 20 years of experience, Brandon has dedicated his career to helping organizations craft compelling narratives, engage audiences, and achieve their financial goals. Check out his team’s multiple Shorty award winning blog and Oscar-qualified documentary film, Every Day After , streaming now on the Docum...
Jan 10, 2025•33 min
Jenny Hoyos has mastered the art of making anything go viral, amassing over 6M subscribers and 2B views. Through her group coaching program, she’s helped thousands of creators replicate her success too. You can learn more at ViralShortsClub.com And what you learn very quickly is that Jenny is building for the long term and putting the same amount of detail into this business than a CFO at a Fortune 500. If you’re a brand looking to understand creators better and create better brand deals – or a ...
Jan 03, 2025•44 min
Kathy Eldon has worked as an award-winning film and television producer, best-selling author and journalist in England, Kenya and the United States. In 1998, Kathy and her daughter, Amy, launched Creative Visions Foundation, inspired by the life of her son, Dan Eldon - Reuters photojournalist, artist, and creative activist. Creative Visions, a United Nations non-governmental organization, has helped incubate more than 500 projects and productions on five continents. Kathy, a popular speaker, has...
Dec 31, 2024•37 min
You may have seen your favorite creators apologizing in advance for sponsored posts during the holidays. Troy Clarke gives a great breakdown on how to fix that for the brand, the creator and the consumer. Troy is a seasoned brand advocacy consultant at Duel , specializing in helping some of the world’s leading fashion and beauty brands harness the power of their passionate advocate communities. With three years of experience in the brand advocacy space, Troy designs and implements strategic, gam...
Dec 27, 2024•38 min
Kyra Knox is an award-winning director who understands the power of storytelling. Her work has been featured in Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, NPR Morning Edition, Axios, Filmmaker Magazine, and more. Driven by a passion for storytelling, Kyra transitioned from a full-time job to pursue directing. Her directorial debut, the award-winning feature documentary " Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia ," explores gun violence in her city and the community's efforts to combat it. FOX Soul and Prime Vid...
Dec 23, 2024•34 min
Scott Fisher, Founder and Chairman of Select Management Group , is an early innovator in the creator economy. Since founding Select in 2010, Scott has transformed it into a leading talent management firm, championing digital-first creators and producing award-winning content. His forward-thinking approach has pushed Select to the forefront of media, entertainment, and commerce, making it a powerful force for next-gen talent. Today, Select manages a diverse roster reaching over one billion people...
Dec 19, 2024•49 min
Doug Busk brings a builder’s perspective to marketing transformation based on a career that spans global brand product marketing, higher ed, and political organizing. Currently, he’s advising Google on their brand social media approach. While leading marketing at Emory, Doug multiplied the university’s share of voice via social through the first phase of the pandemic --- catapulting it from 12th to 1st among top competitors. At Coca-Cola, he created and implemented the company’s first global app...
Dec 13, 2024•52 min
Laura Macdonald is Chief Growth Officer for Hotwire , leading the organization’s global business development, marketing and innovation teams, as well as consulting with top global technology clients including Palo Alto Networks, Samsung, Sony, Siemens and eBay. Under her leadership, Hotwire’s innovation team has launched a series of technology solutions from data-driven insights to measurement dashboards, and now its generative AI optimization service to allow clients to make faster, smarter dec...
Dec 11, 2024•43 min
Misha Brown is a true entertainment powerhouse excelling as a creator, podcast host, comedian, actor and accomplished musician. Having a knack for captivating audiences he shot to notoriety on TikTok , gaining over 1 million followers in less than a year. USA Today named him one of their “TikTok Comedians to Watch” and said his comedy is “equal parts bite and heart”. Misha doubled down on his meteoric rise on social media and passed the one million follower count on Instagram in just over a year...
Dec 05, 2024•39 min
In immigration, people feel like children. That’s the Shorty Impact Award winning collaboration from Career Pathway Institute and Affect Group that instantly grabbed attention with bold, colorful and surprisingly budget friendly design. Kate Khatseyeva is an award-winning Career and Leadership Coach, nonprofit founder, and passionate advocate for professional development. As the founder of the Career Pathway Institute , Kate helps individuals create clear career paths and navigate their journeys...
Dec 03, 2024•34 min
Allie Cohen is an experienced digital marketing expert in both the for-profit and non-profit spaces. She has supported the growth and expansion of ACE’s internal creator marketing program over the past two years as Senior Creator Marketing Manager. Prior to ACE, Allie spent five years in entertainment marketing in the music industry, working across social media, e-commerce, and brand partnerships teams to connect music artists with their fans. Breena Cocco was brought in to scale the pilot versi...
Dec 02, 2024•43 min
Mikki Bennett moved to Los Angeles, California from Kansas with a dream of editing movie trailers. While that dream has expanded and adapted along the way, the passion for entertainment marketing burns strong. With nearly a decade of experience in the industry, Mikki’s past was primarily at AV Marketing Agencies coordinating, managing, and producing AV creative assets including trailers, promos, and featurettes. In 2020, she joined the brand-new streamer, HBO Max, as a 360 creative. She’s now le...
Nov 25, 2024•44 min
Mike Nellis is a dynamic force in the realm of political activism and digital marketing, renowned as the Founder of Authentic and Quiller.ai . With a remarkable track record, Mike has raised an astounding $1 billion in grassroots donations for Democratic campaigns and purpose led causes. " White Dudes for Harris " is nominated this week for seven Impact Awards and Authentic has played a pivotal role in shaping the landscape of digital marketing for political causes and global nonprofits. Further...
Nov 19, 2024•51 min
Jordan Howlett, AKA 'Jordan The Stallion,’ is a globally recognized celebrity content creator with a staggering fan base of over 35 million across various platforms. The Oceanside, California native is our Creator of The Year. Not just because he is the founder of The Fast Food Secrets Club or because he has created hit collaborations with Donald Glover, Kevin Hart, Method Man, Halle Berry (hallelujah) and brought them to his channel. It’s because with Jordan there are no secrets and he inspires...
Nov 14, 2024•32 min
Mark Boothe, CMO of Domo, is passionate about driving business growth through marketing initiatives. In his previous role as VP of Community, Partner, and Field Marketing, Mark and his teams established new and strengthened existing programs to address customer pain points and create a greater sense of community. They also executed campaigns, programs and events that showcase the value of the Domo platform. Before joining Domo, Mark spent more than 10 years working in customer relations and mark...
Nov 11, 2024•38 min
Clarissa Unger is the co-founder and executive director of the Students Learn Students Vote (SLSV) Coalition, the largest nonpartisan network in the U.S. focused on increasing college student voter participation. With extensive experience in advocacy, communications, fundraising, and political campaigns, she has led strategic efforts both nationally and internationally. Before founding SLSV, she served as the Development Coordinator at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, where she promoted...
Nov 04, 2024•33 min
Lauren Kunis is the CEO and executive director of VoteRiders, a nonpartisan nonprofit focused on ensuring that all citizens can exercise their right to vote. VoteRiders provides voter ID information, helps citizens secure IDs, and supports organizations, volunteers, and communities in sustaining voter ID education and assistance efforts. With a career dedicated to strengthening democracy, Lauren has designed and managed impactful voter education, civic engagement, and government accountability p...
Oct 30, 2024•40 min
Stephanie Roberts is Head of Global Communications for Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. As an American woman on assignment in Japan — and her company’s first expat to be sent to Japan — Stephanie brings a rare perspective to her role, leading global communications from Tokyo. With expertise spanning internal, external, executive, and crisis communications, along with content strategy and social media, she has more than a decade of hands-on experience in the fie...
Oct 28, 2024•29 min
