Founder of Marketing Showrunners, host of 3 Clips and other podcasts and docuseries about creativity, and author of Break the Wheel. I’m trying to create a world where people feel intrinsically motivated by their work. Previously in content marketing and digital strategy at Google and HubSpot and VP of brand and community at the VC firm NextView. I write, tinker, and speak on stages and into microphones for a living. It’s weird but wonderful.
Get in touch anytime: jay@mshowrunners.com // Speaking inquiries: speaking@unthinkablemedia.com
I once had a colleague we lovingly called “New England’s Matthew McConaughey.” He always had this slow and measured way of speaking, this warm yet angled smile on his face. He lacked the southern drawl of the real McConaughey, but he made up for it with a slightly rounder, more boyish face than the actor’s […]
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The single best book I’ve ever read about podcasting is called Out on the Wire by Jessica Abel. It’s also the only book I’ve ever read about podcasting. But it is, indeed, awesome. The author follows around the teams behind some of the most amazing podcasts on the planet to learn their process, including This American Life (of […]
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A big part of my creative career is paid speaking. (Glances at the outside world.) A big part of my creative career WAS paid speaking. The speaking industry has bottomed-out, sadly, along with so many other industries, and my heart goes out to folks who depend on that industry for the bulk of their livelihood […]
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“We are one of something like 800 competitors in our category. This idea is what makes us stand out compared to the other 799 companies all doing cookie-cutter marketing to the same people.” I recently spoke with Ben Battaglia, director of marketing at B2B software company Lessonly and proud speaker of the words above. (At […]
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We have a slack problem, and I don’t mean the app. This American Life kills about half the stories they start to work on. That’s right: half. (Comedian Sarah Cooper told me that to sound smart in meetings, I should repeat numbers as percentages, so here we go…) That’s FIFTY PERCENT of the stories they […]
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