The Business Storytelling Podcast Creators & Guests

Creating experiences useful to people interested in understanding their customers | Top 100 CX thought leader | Top 5% Global Podcaster | Livestreamer | "Going Live: Livestream your podcast to reach more people" author |

Kyle Shannon is the Co-Founder & CEO of Storyvine, a Guided Video platform that automates video production and is on a mission to democratize video storytelling. He's been an innovator in the digital marketing space for more than 25 years, with multiple successful ventures to his name.Trained as an actor, Kyle pursued careers in acting and screenwriting in NYC in the 80’s and 90’s, and in 1994 founded the World Wide Web Artists Consortium (WWWAC) as well as launching award-winning Urban Desires, the first online art & culture magazine. During that time, Kyle paired up with Chan Suh and the pair co-founded pioneering digital marketing firm AGENCY.COM in 1995. Kyle served as Chief Creative Officer, and later Chief People Officer and helped grow the firm from two people to more than 2,200 in less than five years! After a successful IPO on the NASDAQ in 1999 the company was sold to Omnicom in 2002.

Jenn is the vice president of marketing at Voxpopme and host of Reel Talk: The Customer Insights Show.

Zach Mitchem is on a mission to help you create an impactful YouTube Podcast to position yourself as THE expert in your field.

Chris Stone is inspired to help inspiring brands and motivated entrepreneurs share their stories and maximize their missions via the power of podcasting, live streaming and digital marketing.He founded Cast Ahead after the success of his own co-hosted podcasts changed his life and truly believes that everyone deserves to be heard by using their own voice in their own way.Chris' goal is to be a team member with passionate entrepreneurs & ambitious businesses by integrating podcasting and/or live streaming into their business goals, educate their customers in a creative way – which will in turn attract more listeners, viewers & customers.He's worked with numerous companies, corporate brands & regional startups to not only drive their podcasts into Apple Podcasts charts – but garnered multiple viable leads for these partners via podcasting & livestreaming that resulted in incremental revenue for their companies.Chris has a long-standing history with audio & music in particular, having started his career at Sony Music in the 90’s before deciding to Cast Ahead into the future.

Jaci Clement is a media expert with more than 20 years experience in the communications industry. She is Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of the Fair Media Council, which advocates for quality news and works to create a media-savvy society in a media-driven world. FMC is headquartered on Long Island, New York. Clement writes weekly media commentary and analysis and is regularly interviewed on issues affecting local news and the subsequent impact on the news consumer. She frequently contributes opinion pieces on the topic to a variety of publications, and speaks around the country on the importance of being a media savvy consumer. She has created a media literacy program and brought it into the classroom, believing strongly that news literacy and literacy skills must develop simultaneously to enhance children’s deductive reasoning and critical thinking abilities and, ultimately, to create a generation of world-class citizens. Her news experience began when she was in the fourth grade, when she earned her first byline in a daily newspaper. She worked as a reporter while attending college, in addition to being a stringer for The New York Times' education section and serving as Editor in Chief of her college newspaper, The Chronicle, which was highly regarded as one of the best college newspapers in the country. While still a reporter at The Chronicle, she wrote an investigative news article that forced the resignation of a tenured university professor.Her background in reporting and editing is complemented by extensive experience working on the business side of newspapers, including internal communications, marketing, advertising, circulation and research. Prior to her current position at FMC, she was an executive with Dolan Media, based in Minneapolis, Minn., and Times Mirror Co. She holds the title of Executive Communicator, the highest rank of distinction bestowed by the Association for Women in Communications. In 2007, she was invited to participate in a project to shape the newsroom of the future, which was sponsored by the Media Giraffe Project, a research initiative housed within the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Journalism program. She was a regular panelist on 21 Forum, a talk show produced by PBS affiliate WLIW New York. She has received the Media Advocate of the Year Award from the Long Island Association, Distinguished Service Award from the Advancement for Commerce, Industry and Technology (ACIT) and Top 50 Women on Long Island AWard from Long Island Business News. (Since heading FMC, Clement declines awards from media.)She has served as an adjunct Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University, a member of the advisory board of Media Ethics Magazine, published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a member of the board of Bethpage Federal Credit Union. She is a member of the National Press Club and London-based The Media Society. She was born in Youngstown, Ohio and received a B.A. degree in communication arts from Hofstra University.

Joe Pulizzi is an author and Founder of The Tilt.

Arvid Kahl is a software engineer, entrepreneur, author, and co-founder of FeedbackPanda.

Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately.

Corey Walker is an author.

Neal Schaffer is a leading authority on helping businesses through their digital transformation of sales and marketing through consulting, training, and helping companies develop and execute on social media marketing strategy, influencer marketing, and social selling initiatives. President of the social media agency PDCA Social, Neal also teaches digital media to executives at Rutgers University, the Irish Management Institute (Ireland), and the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland). Fluent in Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, Neal is a popular keynote speaker and has been invited to speak about digital media on four continents in more than a dozen countries. He is also the author of 4 books on social media, including Maximize Your Social (Wiley) and the recently published The Age of Influence (HarperCollins Leadership), on educating the market on the why and how every business should leverage the potential of influencer marketing. Neal resides in Irvine, California but also frequently travels to Japan. Check out his Maximize Your Social Influence podcast for weekly inspiration.

Life & Business Mastery Advisor, Educator, Serial Entrepreneur (5x Founder), avid storyteller, global keynote speaker, YouTuber, blogger, CEO, CFO, Farmer, strategist, coach, photographer, previous tax expert (prepared 7500+ tax returns), previous past podcaster, social impactor, mentor, friend, farmer (wife) of over 29 years, and a proud mother of three thriving young adults!

Trent Anderson is an email & digital marketer, lead generator, consultant, co-founder of Leadlio, and host of The Norton Norris Podcast.

Charlene Walters is a mentor, consultant, speaker, and corporate trainer.

Dan Jourdan AKA The Deej is a self-described ‘Sales Lunatic’. His specialty is training salespeople on how to generate an incredible pipeline of profitable new clients. As well as showing that the difference between the $30,000 salesperson and the $300,000 sales person is just the implementation of a few tools, learnable skills, and some special secrets available to you in his podcast, speaking engagements and books.If you are involved in a startup, sales organization, direct marketer, network marketer, on a job search, an inventor, in the tech world, a sports manager, an entertainment agent, a celebrity, in public relations, a promoter, in real estate, on Wall Street, or anywhere in between, you will need to get customers and a lot of them!. When you come to the realization that everything is secondary to your acquisition of customers you have entered into the Deej Zone.

Ross Brand helps creators & entrepreneurs monetize their talent and expertise. He's hosted shows for leading industry brands such as StreamYard, BeLive, and LiveU and served as a brand ambassador for Wirecast. Ross is the author of the "100 Livestreaming & Digital Media Predictions" Series, a #1 Best Seller in six countries and winner of 24 book awards. Switcher Studio selected him as one of "5 Live Video Experts to Follow" and Klout named him the world's #1 livestreaming expert on social media.

Maddy Osman is an author.

Jason Barnard is an entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, and innovator. He’s the CEO and founder of Kalicube, a premium Digital Branding Consultancy in France.Jason has been hosting a digital marketing podcast for five years.The podcast "Branded Search (and Beyond) with Jason Barnard" is a weekly staple in the digital marketing community. The podcast has run continuously for over five years, with over 250 episodes available. Jason’s guests include Rand Fishkin, Cindy Krum, Andrea Volpini, Joost de Valk, Alex Sanfilippo, Scott Duffy, Joe Pulizzi, and Koray Tugberk Gubur.