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Keeping up with marketing trends and leveling up your career doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Don’t go at it alone. Marketing Happy Hour was created to help you navigate the corporate marketing world, launch your own business, and stay sane while advancing in your career. Join hosts Cassie Tucker and Ally Golden each week as they dive into real conversations with industry guests, covering everything from marketing strategies to career growth and leadership insights—all served with a mix of inspiration and support to keep you thriving.
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- Today35 min
Turn Content Creation Into a Career | Olivia Shannon Wolk, Marketer and Creator
Whether you’re a marketer looking to build your personal brand or someone seriously considering the leap into content creation, this episode is for you. Olivia Shannon Wolk is an Orlando-based content creator and social media strategist with 70K+ followers across TikTok and Instagram, and she just made the jump to creating full time. In this conversation, she gets into how she went from posting casually in college to building a loyal, engaged community around one very specific niche, and what she learned along the way working brand-side at Villa Tel and Rosen Hotels. She covers how to actually find your niche, the three-hook content strategy that stops the scroll, why serialized content has been her single biggest growth driver, and the mindset shift around pricing yourself that every creator needs to hear. This one is packed with practical takeaways whether you’re brand new to content or looking to level up what you’re already doing.Key Takeaways:// Niche down to grow faster. Olivia tried sharing everything in college and it wasn’t until she focused on “things to do in Orlando” that her community actually started growing. Niche content is saveable, shareable, and gives people a reason to follow.// Use the three-hook method on every piece of content. Visual hook (opening clip), text hook (on-screen text), and caption hook. With shorter attention spans, you need all three working together to keep people watching past the first second.// Serialized content is the biggest growth lever most creators overlook. Olivia’s “31 Things to Do in Orlando in October” series drove more growth than any single standalone video. Series create anticipation, repeat engagement, and give audiences a reason to keep coming back.// Stop chasing partnerships and focus on the content. Her first paid deal came to her because an agency found her content organically. The shortcut is not pitching more brands, it’s posting better content more consistently.// Repurpose smarter, not harder. She posts to Instagram, posts a slightly different version to TikTok, then uses Repurpose.io to auto-distribute to trial reels, Pinterest, and YouTube. One piece of content becomes four with minimal extra work.// Personal branding is a career asset, not just a creator thing. For marketers, having an active, intentional social presence signals expertise, builds credibility, and can open doors to jobs and partnerships before you ever send a resume.Connect with Olivia: LinkedIn | Instagram____Join the MHH Collective! The MHH Collective is a community for marketers and business owners to connect, ask real questions, and grow their careers together. Join for access to live Q&As with industry experts, a private Slack community, and ongoing resources: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/mhh-collectiveSay hi! DM us on Instagram and let us know what content you want to hear on the show - We can't wait to hear from you! Please also consider rating the show and leaving a review, as that helps us tremendously as we move forward in this Marketing Happy Hour journey and create more content for all of you. Join the MHH Collective: Join nowGet the latest marketing trends, open jobs and MHH updates, straight to your inbox: Join our email list!
- 1 weeks ago28 min
How to Build a Marketing Strategy for a $250B Industry | Kiara Kempski of The Knot
What does it take to market a product that people only buy once, in the most emotionally charged moment of their lives? Kiara Kempski, VP of Global Consumer Marketing at The Knot Worldwide, leads a team of 80+ across a $250B+ industry and has the battle scars to prove it. In this episode, she breaks down how to build a data-informed brand strategy (not data-led — there’s a difference), why she abandoned big-name influencer campaigns in favor of an always-on roster of real couples, and how that shift drove 80% growth in social revenue. She also gets into what she looks for when hiring marketers, how to stay close to your customer without ever leaving your desk, and the one leadership philosophy that’s carried her from a nonprofit art job to one of the most recognized wedding platforms in the world.Key Takeaways:// Data-informed vs. data-led is a real distinction. When you’re building a new category or launching something without historical benchmarks, you can’t wait for perfect data. Kiara’s approach: build the story, set the checkpoints, and measure impact after launch rather than before.// The influencer math in a finite market is different. With only ~2 million US weddings per year, reach-based influencer metrics don’t translate to ROI the same way they do in beauty or CPG. The Knot shifted to nano and micro creators who tell authentic stories and generate content that doubles as paid creative.// Pattern recognition is the most transferable marketing skill. Kiara has worked across fintech, ancestry, health, and weddings. Her throughline: anchor every strategy to the root business or consumer problem, then stay agile on channels and tactics.// Social listening is a non-negotiable. She personally monitors TikTok, Reddit wedding subreddits, and brand comments every week and sends her team a roundup every Monday. That proximity to the customer shapes strategy faster than any panel or focus group.Connect with Kiara: LinkedIn____Join the MHH Collective! The MHH Collective is a community for marketers and business owners to connect, ask real questions, and grow their careers together. Join for access to live Q&As with industry experts, a private Slack community, and ongoing resources: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/mhh-collectiveSay hi! DM us on Instagram and let us know what content you want to hear on the show - We can't wait to hear from you! Please also consider rating the show and leaving a review, as that helps us tremendously as we move forward in this Marketing Happy Hour journey and create more content for all of you. Join the MHH Collective: Join nowGet the latest marketing trends, open jobs and MHH updates, straight to your inbox: Join our email list!
- 2 weeks ago35 min
REWIND: How to Use AI as a Strategic Teammate (Not Just a Tool) | Kahlea Wade, Creator and Agency Founder
What happens when a non-tech founder decides to stop “pushing” prompts and starts “pulling” solutions from AI? Kahlea Wade, creator and founder of Alora Society, walks us through her “aha moment” — building a fully functional internal onboarding app from 500 pages of documentation in just a weekend — and explains why she now treats Claude as a strategic teammate. From streamlining soul-crushing admin tasks to navigating the ethical boundaries of generative AI in the creator economy, this episode is an essential guide for any professional ready to move from AI curiosity to AI proficiency.Key Takeaways:// The “Teammate” Mindset: Stop treating AI as a search engine or a tool; treat it as a brainstorming partner, market researcher, and strategist to unlock its true potential.// Pull vs. Push Prompting: Instead of telling AI what to do (push), describe your frustrations and goals and ask the AI to design the solution (pull).// The Claude Ecosystem Explained: Understand the difference between Claude Chat (ideation), Claude Cowork (agent building and connectors), and Claude Code (efficient, terminal-based execution).// “Life-Quake” Automation: Use AI to handle the “mental load” of tasks like email categorization, task prioritization in ClickUp, and daily industry news briefings.// Human Agency and Taste: While AI can take over “workflows,” it cannot replace “roles.” Humans remain the only ones capable of establishing “taste,” sharing lived experiences, and navigating complex emotions.// The Experimentation Mandate: The only way to overcome AI fear is through “summer shred” style consistency — spending time tinkering with platforms like Lovable and Poppy AI to see what is actually possible.// Claude (Chat, Cowork, Code): Her primary “teammate” for writing and agency operations.// Lovable: The “no-code” savior used to build her internal team app.// Poppy AI: A visual “vision board” interface that houses multiple LLMs (Grok, Gemini, Claude) for content analysis.// ClickUp and Make: The connective tissue used to turn AI outputs into automated business tasks.Connect with Kahlea: InstagramKahlea’s Tech Stack Mentioned:Follow MHH on Social: Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | Facebook____Join the MHH Collective! The MHH Collective is a community for marketers and business owners to connect, ask real questions, and grow their careers together. Join for access to live Q&As with industry experts, a private Slack community, and ongoing resources: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/mhh-collectiveSay hi! DM us on Instagram and let us know what content you want to hear on the show - We can't wait to hear from you! Please also consider rating the show and leaving a review, as that helps us tremendously as we move forward in this Marketing Happy Hour journey and create more content for all of you. Join the MHH Collective: Join nowGet the latest marketing trends, open jobs and MHH updates, straight to your inbox: Join our email list!
- 3 weeks ago34 min
Tips for Trial Reels, Paid Social, and Organic | Ally Lloyd of Peoplefinders
In this episode, we sit down with Alli Lloyd, Global Director of Marketing at Peoplefinders, who spent twelve years at Match Group building and marketing some of the most recognizable dating apps in the world — from owning brands holistically to standing up an internal creative and creator agency to running full-funnel marketing for The League. Alli brings a sharp, channel-agnostic perspective to marketing that every brand builder needs to hear: paid social is a testing ground, organic is a community tool, LinkedIn is underrated when your audience is there, and trial reels are one of the most underused creative testing tools available right now. She also gets candid about the career advice that has stuck with her since she was twenty-two, why she uses her personal social accounts as a live testing lab, and what she looks for when building a marketing team. Key Takeaways:// Every channel has a job. Know what it is before you turn it on. Alli’s approach to channel strategy is simple: define the goal, set the expectations, and decide upfront what success and an exit look like. LinkedIn for The League drove lower volume and higher cost — but better quality users with higher in-app engagement. That is a win if you define it correctly going in.// Paid social is your fastest testing ground. When you need quick learnings on hooks, messaging, or creative formats and do not have the budget for consumer research, paid social gives you A/B data fast. Use it to test before you scale, not after.// Trial reels are one of the most underused tools in social right now. Alli started testing trial reels on her personal account and saw immediate results on reach and format performance. Her approach: use them to understand what type of content drives shares, comments, and follows — and let those learnings shape the broader content strategy.// Use your personal account as a live lab. Alli has gone viral on TikTok and driven trial reel results by testing on her own page first. If you are relying entirely on your agency or team to tell you what works, you are giving up the fastest feedback loop available to you.// Your job early in your career is to make your boss look good. It sounds old school but Alli credits this filter with accelerating her career at Match Group from an EA role to running full-funnel marketing. Making your manager’s life easier builds the trust that opens every next door.// Start your day grounded, not overwhelmed. The best advice Alli ever received came from a CEO who told her to come into each day prepared and centered — not reactive and stressed. For her it started with a morning run and arriving early. The form evolves, but the principle has never changed.Connect with Ally: LinkedIn____Join the MHH Collective! The MHH Collective is a community for marketers and business owners to connect, ask real questions, and grow their careers together. Join for access to live Q&As with industry experts, a private Slack community, and ongoing resources: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/mhh-collectiveSay hi! DM us on Instagram and let us know what content you want to hear on the show - We can't wait to hear from you! Please also consider rating the show and leaving a review, as that helps us tremendously as we move forward in this Marketing Happy Hour journey and create more content for all of you. Join the MHH Collective: Join nowGet the latest marketing trends, open jobs and MHH updates, straight to your inbox: Join our email list!Follow MHH on Social: Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | Facebook
- 4 weeks ago21 min
How to Turn Social Media Virality into Community | Angela Trotti, Consultant + Founder of Jelly Seashells
In this episode, we sit down with Angela Trotti, founder of Jelly Seashells and social media consultant, for a conversation that spans agency life, in-house brand management, and building a creator business from scratch. Angela started her career in a nonprofit, found her way into social media through an agency — where she and Cassie first crossed paths — spent six years leading social for Mental Floss under Minute Media, and eventually turned a love of seashells and the Florida coast into a growing creator brand with surf retreats in Costa Rica and Portugal and a consulting practice of her own. She gets refreshingly honest about what brands consistently get wrong when briefing creators, what it actually takes to make social content feel native rather than forced, why going viral is only the beginning of building something lasting, and the one piece of advice she would give anyone sitting on an idea they have not launched yet.Key Takeaways:// Going viral is the starting point, not the destination. Any piece of content can blow up at any moment. What separates creators who build lasting careers from one-hit wonders is what they do after the moment — how they show up consistently, stay true to their voice, and turn casual viewers into a real community.// Community means giving people something to walk away with. An engaged audience watches and reacts. A community comes back because they know they will leave with something — an idea, an experience, a connection. Angela built hers through workshops, surf retreats, and being genuinely reachable through DMs.// Brands need to trust the creators they hire. The briefing process often fails because brands say they want something authentic and then hand over a bullet list of required talking points. If you hired a creator because their audience trusts them, let them lead the creative direction. That trust is exactly what you are paying for.// Brand guidelines exist to help you play, not just to restrict you. Knowing your brand's lane is what makes it possible to jump on a trend in a way that feels earned rather than desperate. The brands that do it well are the ones who have done the foundational work first.Connect with Angela: LinkedIn | Instagram | Jellysseashells@gmail.com____Join the MHH Collective! The MHH Collective is a community for marketers and business owners to connect, ask real questions, and grow their careers together. Join for access to live Q&As with industry experts, a private Slack community, and ongoing resources: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/mhh-collectiveSay hi! DM us on Instagram and let us know what content you want to hear on the show - We can't wait to hear from you! Please also consider rating the show and leaving a review, as that helps us tremendously as we move forward in this Marketing Happy Hour journey and create more content for all of you. Join the MHH Collective: Join nowGet the latest marketing trends, open jobs and MHH updates, straight to your inbox: Join our email list!Follow MHH on Social: Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | Facebook
- Oct 1, 202623 min
A Brand Reputation and Communications Masterclass | Kamara Turner, McDonald's
Kamara Turner is back for her third appearance on Marketing Happy Hour, and this time she is bringing insights from her newest chapter: Supervisor of U.S. Enterprise Communications at McDonald's, where she has been navigating the world of internal and corporate communications after years of brand and external PR experience at Walgreens, PepsiCo, Ulta Beauty, and The Coca-Cola Company. In this conversation, Kamara opens up about what it is like to communicate for one of the most personally meaningful brands in the world, how she thinks about the difference between building a community versus an engaged audience, her nuanced approach to using AI as an organizational tool without letting it replace her writing, and the career lesson that has stuck with her most: not all great ideas will see the light of day, and that is okay. She also shares a standout influencer campaign from her Pulse and Perspective newsletter and walks through how she keeps cross-functional stakeholders aligned when everything is moving fast. Key Takeaways:// When you work for a brand everyone already knows, your job shifts from introducing to nurturing. At McDonald's, Kamara is not building brand awareness from scratch — she is maintaining and deepening a relationship that people already have deeply personal feelings about. That requires a fundamentally different communications mindset.// Community means pouring back into the people who support you. An engaged audience watches and listens. A community leaves with something — an idea, a resource, a tangible value. If you want to build one intentionally, start by asking what you are going to give people, not just what you want them to do.// Data is your best tool for getting buy-in. When you can back an idea with consumer insights and hard numbers, you are no longer just pitching a concept — you are connecting it to the business. In a comms role where numbers can feel foreign, leaning into data is what separates ideas that get approved from ideas that stall.Connect with Kamara: LinkedIn | Pulse and PerspectiveKamara’s Episodes: Mastering Your Brand Communications and PR Strategy | The Strategies You Need for Brand Communications and PR____Join the MHH Collective! The MHH Collective is a community for marketers and business owners to connect, ask real questions, and grow their careers together. Join for access to live Q&As with industry experts, a private Slack community, and ongoing resources: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/mhh-collectiveSay hi! DM us on Instagram and let us know what content you want to hear on the show - We can't wait to hear from you! Please also consider rating the show and leaving a review, as that helps us tremendously as we move forward in this Marketing Happy Hour journey and create more content for all of you. Join the MHH Collective: Join nowGet the latest marketing trends, open jobs and MHH updates, straight to your inbox: Join our email list!Follow MHH on Social: Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | Facebook
- Sep 24, 202637 min
Why Your Personal Brand Is Your Most Important Career Asset | Cassie + Ally
In this solo episode, Cassie and Ally pull back the curtain on the career strategies they have been teaching inside their Denison Edge sessions and the MHH Collective, and share how they got there in the first place. From navigating the overwhelming landscape of marketing paths as a student, to making the ask in a way that actually works, to building a LinkedIn presence that keeps you top of mind, to landing your first speaking engagement, this episode is a practical and honest conversation about the moves that have shaped both of their careers. They also walk through exactly how they built the expertise and personal brand that led to ongoing teaching opportunities with Denison Edge, and share what is coming up this fall and into 2027 for anyone who wants to go deeper with them.Key Takeaways:// Your first marketing role is a starting point, not a label. The landscape is broad and the paths are many — follow your curiosity, play to your strengths, and talk to people actually doing the jobs that interest you before committing to a direction.// The make the ask formula works. Be specific, be brief, make it easy to say yes, and follow up. Whether you are asking for a fifteen-minute coffee chat or pitching yourself for a collaboration, the people who make specific and well-researched asks are the ones who get responses.// Your personal brand is always working for you, or it isn't. Posting once a week — about what you are working on, what you learned, what you are reading, or what your honest take is — is the single highest-return habit for any marketer trying to stay visible and relevant.// You do not need more experience to start speaking. You need clarity on what you know. Getting crystal clear on your areas of expertise is what allows you to pitch yourself confidently for speaking engagements, teaching opportunities, and podcast appearances. A repeatable session on one topic is more powerful than a dozen half-formed ideas.// Podcasting is a gateway to speaking. You do not need to start your own show — pitching yourself as a guest gets you comfortable articulating your expertise, your elevator pitch, and your story in a low-pressure format.Enroll in Denison Edge Courses: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/denison-edge____Join the MHH Collective! The MHH Collective is a community for marketers and business owners to connect, ask real questions, and grow their careers together. Join for access to live Q&As with industry experts, a private Slack community, and ongoing resources: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/mhh-collectiveSay hi! DM us on Instagram and let us know what content you want to hear on the show - We can't wait to hear from you! Please also consider rating the show and leaving a review, as that helps us tremendously as we move forward in this Marketing Happy Hour journey and create more content for all of you. Join the MHH Collective: Join nowGet the latest marketing trends, open jobs and MHH updates, straight to your inbox: Join our email list!Follow MHH on Social: Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | Facebook
- Sep 17, 202630 min
How to Monetize Your Corporate Marketing Experience | Allie Hartman of Creator Partnerships Lab
In this episode, we sit down with Allie Hartman, founder of Creator Partnerships Lab, who spent 16 years building influencer and creator marketing programs for brands like Dr Pepper, Snapple, Core Hydration, BaubleBar, and more before leaving her comfortable corporate role in April 2026 to go out on her own. Allie walks us through the career arc that took her from the Ad Council to Ogilvy to Keurig Dr Pepper, what finally pushed her to make the leap, and how she built Creator Partnerships Lab around a simple but powerful idea — that most brands focus on finding the right creators and completely underinvest in the infrastructure that makes those partnerships actually work. She breaks down the biggest misconceptions brands still have about influencer marketing, why relationship-first thinking will always outperform one-off posts, what fractional consulting actually looks like day to day, and the mindset shift she credits for finally getting clear on what people would pay her for. If you have ever thought about leaving corporate, monetizing your expertise, or building something of your own — this one is packed with honest, practical insight.Key Takeaways:// The infrastructure underneath the content is where most brands fail. Briefs, measurement frameworks, contracting standards, usage rights, approval processes — these are the things that make creator relationships actually work. Most brands skip all of it and wonder why their influencer marketing is not producing results.// Purpose is the intersection of your values and your expertise. Allie credits a Jay Shetty framework for giving her the clarity she needed to build her business. Once she understood that her purpose was to take 16 years of specialized expertise and make it accessible to as many people as possible, everything else clicked into place.// Start with the problem, not the product. Allie built her Creator Partnerships Operating System after listening to a creator friend complain about a brand that had no idea how to work with her. She identified the problem, realized she could uniquely solve it, and built the product from there.// Fractional consulting is the future of work for senior operators. Companies do not always need every senior role full time — their needs are cyclical. Fractional consulting gives brands access to director and VP-level experience at a fraction of the cost, and gives operators the autonomy, flexibility, and purpose alignment that corporate rarely provides.Learn More About Allie and Her Business: https://www.creatorpartnershipslab.com/mhh____Join the MHH Collective! The MHH Collective is a community for marketers and business owners to connect, ask real questions, and grow their careers together. Join for access to live Q&As with industry experts, a private Slack community, and ongoing resources: https://www.marketinghappyhr.com/mhh-collectiveSay hi! DM us on Instagram and let us know what content you want to hear on the show - We can't wait to hear from you! Please also consider rating the show and leaving a review, as that helps us tremendously as we move forward in this Marketing Happy Hour journey and create more content for all of you. Join the MHH Collective: Join nowGet the latest marketing trends, open jobs and MHH updates, straight to your inbox: Join our email list!Follow MHH on Social: Instagram | LinkedIn | TikTok | Facebook
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