PODCAST · business
Bald Ambition
by Mookie Spitz
An expert in consultative selling talks to specialists and shares the latest insights in branding, entrepreneurship, business technology, and sheer grit and motivation.
Episodes
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Evan Boyer Ushers in a Golden Era with LeadersPR
For a decade, PR played marketing's secondhand stepchild: hard to measure, and easy for a CFO to slash. Now the credibility PR builds shapes what AI says about a brand, and LeadersPR founder Evan Boyer calls this moment a golden era for the discipline. On this 95th episode of Bald Ambition, Evan...
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Anjan Kasi's VISIONx: Empowering Today's Managers To See Zoomers with Clarity
Gen Z is the first generation to grow up on social media and the first to openly question hierarchy at work, and their Gen X and Millennial managers keep misreading the signals. Anjan Kasi, a Gen Z leadership coach and TEDx speaker with a software engineering background, joins Mookie Spitz on…
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Carlo D'Amore's Live In Theater Brings Company Culture to Life with Interactive Murder Mysteries
Carlo D'Amore spent years scraping by as an off-Broadway actor before he found the business hiding inside his own street theater. In 2009 he turned a two-page essay about a 19th century murder into The Ryan Case 1873, an interactive show that walked audiences through the streets of Manhattan's...
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Rivka Tadjer is the Jewish Mom of Cybercrime Prevention
Rivka Tadjer joins Mookie on Bald Ambition to make one thing clear: cybercrime and cybersecurity aren't the same fight. Most banks and corporations keep their own infrastructure locked down tight. The opening criminals actually use is the human being working around it, whether that's a CEO wiring...
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Noriko Yokoi of 3cubed.ai: The AI Search Revolution Is Already Here
Noriko Yokoi, co-founder of 3cubed.ai, returns to Bald Ambition a year after her first appearance to talk about how AI search is rewriting the rules of digital marketing. The conversation ranges across GEO, AEO, and what happens to decades of marketing practice once AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and...
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Bill Harper's BrandBossHQ: How to Capture Demand (Instead of Trying to Create It)
Bill Harper, founder and Chief Creative Officer of BrandBossHQ, joins Mookie on Bald Ambition to break branding down to something deceptively simple: a narrative you choose, an expectation it creates, and, if the experience delivers, a reputation that sticks. Every real branding failure, Bill...
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Brian Samson's Plugg Evolves Nearshoring from Cost to Quality
Brian Samson, founder of Plugg Technologies, joins Mookie on the 89th episode of Bald Ambition to talk about how AI has completely inverted the logic of hiring overseas talent. Eleven years ago, Brian used a small investor check to move to Buenos Aires and build a services company for FinTech...
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Jason West on the 1,100-Year-Old Middle Eastern Tea Now Helping Fight Cancer
Jason West, co-founder and EVP of NextGen Scientific, joins Mookie on Bald Ambition to talk about a cancer drug with an unusual origin story. Instead of starting in a billion-dollar lab, it started with a weed growing wild across the Middle East, a plant people have brewed into tea and used as a...
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Scott Pulcini: A Card-Counting Master of the Universe Now Teaches Day Trading
Scott Pulcini learned to trade the old school way, battle-tested on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade where he got so fast and so good at electronic trading that he once accounted for ten percent of the entire S&P e-mini futures market's daily volume. By 2002, he was the top trader at his...
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Chris Carolan: The SaaS Apocalypse Ends with a Conversation
Title: Description: Chris Carolan, founder of the Value-First Team and a HubSpot partner since 2020, joins Mookie on Bald Ambition to talk about what he calls SaaSmageddon, the moment AI starts making the entire software-as-a-service industry, HubSpot, Salesforce, DocuSign, and thousands of...
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Ramon Perez & Dan Williams: Launching Digital Democracy in Florida's 11th
Ramon Perez, Executive Director of the Digital Democracy Project, returns to Bald Ambition six months after his first appearance, and this time he's joined by Dan Williams, a Democratic candidate for Florida's 11th Congressional District, who built his entire campaign around Ramon's technology....
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Tino Reviews Redux: Two Old Friends, One Bad Algorithm, and Lots of Robots
Mookie welcomes back "our favorite New Jersey Goomba," Tino Chiaviello of Tino Reviews. These two go way back as colleagues in the marketing world, and in this 84th episode of Bald Ambition wander everywhere old friends wander: TikTok's engagement collapse since the platform sold, Tino's storage...
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Jason Fishman: How DNA Turns Crowdfunding Into a Marketing Science
Jason Fishman, Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Niche Agency (DNA), joins Mookie on the 83rd episode of Bald Ambition to break down a corner of marketing most people never think about: getting everyday people to invest a few hundred or a few thousand dollars into a company they believe in. He's…
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Why Ganesh Krishnan is Betting His AI Startup Against Today's LLMs
Every major AI company right now is building on the same foundation: the transformer architecture behind ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Ganesh Krishnan, CEO of AI Hello, thinks that foundation is a dead end for solving AI's biggest unsolved problem — hallucination. He joins Mookie on this episode…
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Dr. Adam Link: Stop Paying for Someone Else's Exit Plan By Buying Their IPO
The market right now is touching valuation levels we haven't seen since right before the dot-com bubble burst. Retail investors are piling into AI and space stocks, chasing SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic IPOs like it's 1999 all over again — and Dr. Adam Link, CFP, founder of Fireweed Capital…
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Michelle Hamilton from AnswerRocket Leads AI Adoption That Actually Works
Michelle Hamilton has spent almost 40 years as a glass sculptor. She's also the Director of AI Adoption at Answer Rocket, running enterprise AI rollouts for Fortune 50 clients. On this 80th episode of the Bald Ambition Podcast, Mookie sits down with her to find out how those two careers connect…
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Kent Anderson and Joy Moore: How Science Hijacked Your Attention and Lost Your Trust
Science was supposed to be the one institution immune to the attention economy. It succumbed anyway. Kent Anderson and Joy Moore join Mookie for the 79th episode of Bald Ambition to talk about the already dire implications, and what we should do. Kent and Joy have spent decades inside scientific...
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Vance Morris on the Power of Stupid Crime Stories, Disney's Underground Tunnels, and Marketing 101
Mookie is excited to have Vance Morris on the pod today, a marketing expert who got his start on the opening team of Disney's Yacht and Beach Club Resort, spent three and a half years inside Pleasure Island (Disney's one real off-brand experiment), and now owns three home-service businesses in...
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Christopher Horrocks Returns to Bust More AI Myths
Christopher Horrocks is back in the Bald Ambition studio just three months after his first appearance to keep pace and continue to call-out AI confusion and misinformation. Since April, frontier models have become dramatically more capable, companies have invested hundreds of billions more into...
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Paul Fisher and Chris Klimis of Radiant Mobile on Parental Rights and Free Markets
On this 76th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with Radiant Mobile CEO Paul Fisher and COO Chris Klimis to discuss one of the most contentious questions of the digital age: who should decide what content reaches our phones, our homes, and our children? Radiant is the first...
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Leah Nurik and Brandi AI: How the Bots are Rewiring Search, Brands, and Trust
The rules of marketing are changing faster than most companies can keep up. Search engines are becoming answer engines. AI is replacing blue links with synthesized recommendations. And brands that spent years optimizing for algorithms now face a new challenge: how do you stay visible when the...
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Jimi Gibson: The Uninvisible Man of Marketing
Marketing is changing so fast in the age of AI that half the experts are confused, the other half are terrified, and most business owners are stuck somewhere in between. Fortunately, Jimi Gibson isn't interested in panic, hype, or robot-apocalypse nonsense. Joining Mookie for the 74th episode of...
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Jordan West Ignites the Social Commerce Club on TikTok
Jordan West thinks most brands are sleepwalking toward irrelevance while creators are building the next marketing empire in plain sight. In this episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie dives headfirst into the chaotic evolution from “influencer marketing” to what Jordan calls “word of mouth at scale” —…
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Matthew Whyatt Brings Consultative Torque to Tech
Matthew Whyatt has spent decades selling technology to giant corporations, governments, and industries so tangled in bad processes and duct-taped infrastructure that half the employees are basically performing digital exorcisms just to keep the systems alive another week. In this episode of Bald...
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Gary Lucks Insists We Are the Power — And Shows Us How
On this episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with environmental attorney and activist Gary Lucks to tackle a question millions of frustrated Americans keep asking themselves: “What the hell am I actually supposed to do besides scream at the TV?” Drawing from his book We Are the Power,...
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Peter Swimm of Toilville Makes AI Actually Work for Businesses
Peter Swimm has seen enough AI hype cycles to know where the bodies are buried. Long before ChatGPT turned “AI” into a household buzzword, he was building chatbots, automating enterprise systems, and watching Fortune 500 companies light piles of money on fire chasing shiny tech that promised...
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Hogan Shrum & PIPPA: The AI Cartoon Factory Paying Artists & Keeping Kids Safe
Everyone says AI is coming for your job, your art, your privacy, and maybe your soul. Hogan Shrum has a different idea. In this lively and unexpectedly optimistic episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with Hogan Shrum, co-founder of PIPPA, a generative AI platform built not to replace...
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Rob Whitten & Jane Lo p!ng the Coffee Drive-Thru with AI & Robotics
What happens when coffee meets robotics, convenience meets customization, and the morning drive-through gets rebuilt from scratch? In this 68th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with Rob Whitten and Jane Lo, the founders of p!ng, a startup turning the ordinary caffeine run into something...
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Jack Siney Sprints Past Outdated Sales Management with AI-Powered FrontRace
In this sharp, zero-hype episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with FrontRace co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer Jack Siney to break down one of the worst-kept secrets in business: after decades of CRMs, dashboards, KPIs, pipeline reviews, call analytics, and “sales methodology”...
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Marvin Martinez & Bandsaw.ai: Practical AI for Real ROI
Most are selling AI like it requires a moon landing, a seven-figure budget, and a room full of consultants speaking in jargon. Meanwhile, most businesses are bleeding money from basic operational nonsense: missed calls, duplicate data entry, disconnected software, dead leads, slow follow-up, and...
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Christopher Horrocks on Virtual Intelligence and the Dangerous Myth of Thinking Machines
The 65th episode of Bald Ambition features Mookie diving deep into AI with technologist Christopher Horrocks. Together, they dismantle the two dominant and flawed ways people think about the astonishing tech: dismissed as glorified autocorrect, or celebrated as emerging consciousness. Horrocks...
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Keisha Toni Russell on Merit, Fairness, and Ensuring Equality Under the Law
The 64th episode of Bald Ambition asks a question most people are too afraid or confused to ask out loud: why would a Black female constitutional attorney publicly oppose the nomination of the first Black female Supreme Court justice—and why does that matter? Short answer: standards. Longer…
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Jim Oberweis Brings Old-School Conservatism to the Age of Trump
In this 63rd episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with businessman, investor, and former Illinois State Senator Jim Oberweis for a wide-ranging conversation about the evolution of American politics and its future. Oberweis represents a political archetype that’s becoming increasingly...
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Breaking Democracy’s Chains: Metin Pekin Challenges Party Politics
In this 62nd episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with author Metin Pekin, whose provocative book Breaking Democracy’s Chains argues that modern Western democracies—especially the United States and the United Kingdom—have drifted far from genuine representation. Voters feel increasingly...
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Barry Todd Stands His Ground to Find Justice
In this 61st episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with Barry D. Todd—a former Army captain and Army Ranger who learned, the hard way, what it feels like when the legal system flips the script on you. After being violently attacked outside an Arizona establishment, Todd defended…
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Ramon Perez Democratizes Democracy with Digital Tech
What if voters could weigh in on real legislation—bill by bill—share those results with each other, put them directly in front of elected officials, and then track whether those officials actually voted the way the district wanted? That’s the ambitious bet shared this 60th episode of Bald…
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Tom Joseph Hosts America's Main Street Party
America’s political system isn’t broken on Election Day, it's broken long before that—in the primaries, where money, party leadership, and donor networks quietly decide who voters are allowed to choose from. In this 59th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz talks with Tom Joseph, founder of...
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Jeff Goebel Shreds Van Halen Stories
In this 58th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Jeff Goebel, #1 fan and band archivist for a thrilling look at the force behind his VH Stories. Together they take a deep, affectionate, and awe-inspiring journey into the entire Van Halen phenomenon. After meeting last week…
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My Chat With Chatty Bro: Down the Soul Drain
What happens when a bald, cynical, science- and politics-obsessed podcaster invites his own AI sidekick onto the show—and treats it like a human guest? Season 2's second episode of Bald Ambition is exactly that experiment. Host Mookie Spitz sits down with his “Chatty Bro” personal bot (ChatGPT…
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Mirav Ozeri Wants to Know How Much Money You Make!
Season 2 of Bald Ambition gets off to a fun start as Mookie Spitz sits down with Mirav Ozeri—journalist, documentarian, adaptive entrepreneur, and fellow podcaster of her own show How Much Can I Make?—for a wide-ranging, playfully honest conversation about work, money, ambition, and the weird…
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Inside Tino Reviews: How Martino Chiaviello Built His Own Breakthrough
On this Season 1 finale of the Bald Ambition podcast, Mookie sits down with longtime friend and former colleague Martino “Tino Reviews” Chiaviello — a college professor, digital marketing pro, and most recently social media tech influencer who built a real audience the hard way: persistence,...
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Birthing a Brand After All Else Fails
In this solo episode, Mookie Spitz lays himself bare after nine relentless months of nonstop creation — 227 podcasts, hundreds of blogs, a new sci-fi novel, thousands of videos, and a one-man multimedia studio powered by caffeine, a gasping laptop, a terabyte of monthly wifi, and an old leather...
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Bridging Division: The Majority in the Middle
In this 53rd episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie Spitz sits down with Shannon Watson — founder and Chief Executive of Majority in the Middle, an organization fighting to make bipartisanship more than a talking point. Together, they dissect the machinery of American polarization, from the “campaign...
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Brand Thyself!
Fifty-two Bald Ambition podcasts and counting, Mookie Spitz turns the mic on himself for a no-bullshit autopsy of his own brand. Drawing on 20 years in marketing, a lifetime of overthinking, and a library’s worth of blogs, books, and podcasts, he finally asks the question every creator avoids…
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Catalyst of Pharma AI Engagement
The 51st episode of Bald Ambition features Mookie Spitz sitting down with David Mondgock, founder of Catalyst IQ, to discuss how AI is reshaping pharmaceutical marketing and patient engagement from the ground up. They share a deep dive into how data, content, and automation collide to form a new...
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LA Comic Con 2025: Authors' Recap & Review
In this 50th episode of Bald Ambition, three indie science fiction authors — Mookie Spitz, Ingrid Moon, and Greg Sorber — break down the mayhem, lessons, and human magic of LA Comic Con 2025, held at the LA Coliseum. Over three exhausting, exhilarating days, they shared tables, stories, and...
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The Entrepreneur’s Playbook with Kelvin Abrams
What does it really take to jump off the cliff without a parachute and call it entrepreneurship? In this episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Kelvin Abrams—a zero-BS, get-it-done, grassroots entrepreneur and author of Get Uncomfortable or Change Course—to break down the…
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Inherit from Your Future Self with Kaleido Life
What if life insurance actually gave you life? In the 48th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Craig Du Bruyn, serial entrepreneur and founder of Kaleido Life, a company re-engineering the very foundations of the 150-year-old life insurance industry. Craig shares his…
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Vibe Trading: BotSpot Hits the Spot
In the 47th episode of Bald Ambition, Mookie sits down with Robert Grzesik, CEO of LumiWealth and the mind behind BotSpot—a cutting-edge AI platform that lets you “vibe-code” your own trading strategies. Forget the clunky Bloomberg terminals and line-by-line coding. BotSpot is positioning itself…
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Sleep is Our Superpower
In this 46th episode of Bald Ambition, host Mookie Spitz sits down with Roger Washington, MD, and Scarlet Nickhol, MPP of the Sleep To Live Well Foundation (STLW), to uncover why sleep isn’t just rest—it’s the vital work of human health and resilience. From the science of how insufficient sleep...
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An expert in consultative selling talks to specialists and shares the latest insights in branding, entrepreneurship, business technology, and sheer grit and motivation.
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