Devin Bramhall's content marketing career started in a birth room. She was 25 years old and volunteering at a birthing clinic in Indonesia. That transformative experience prompted her to start a blog. This was just the spark she needed to start turning storytelling into a core career skill.

As Devin says in this episode, "I have been uncomfortable for practically my entire career." For her, this has been the key to growth and she explains how and why she's taken this approach. Devin is an inspiring voice, and one that deserves your attention. She was, after all, recently promoted to CEO of Animalz.

Follow Devin on Twitter at @devinemily and read her post How to Earn a Senior Content Marketing Role.

Janet Choi has run content marketing at iDoneThis, Customer.io and now Clearbit. In this episode, she tells us the story of going to law school, then finding content marketing and pursuing that path instead.

Janet's career has thrived (in part) because she understands how to work across product, sales, support and engineering. Content can't live in a silo and the people who make sure it doesn't tend to grow their careers faster.

Follow Janet on Twitter and the Clearbit blog.

Janessa Lantz got her start in SaaS marketing, and went onto run marketing at RJ Metrics, built the fantastic ThinkGrowth publication (https://thinkgrowth.org/) at Hubspot and is now a one-person marketing team at the early-stage startup Fishtown Analytics. She's been very thoughtful about her career trajectory and is generous when it comes to sharing what she's learned. 

Content is a core skill, but Janessa is a well-rounded marketer. You can follow her on Medium (https://medium.com/@janessalantz), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/janessalantz/), and Twitter (https://twitter.com/janessalantz).

Danyelle is the senior manager of content marketing at Lucidchart. She studied creative writing, worked in journalism, dabbled in healthcare marketing and eventually settled in B2B SaaS. In this episode, she talks about her applying her creative writing and reporting skills to software marketing (and she has tons of great ideas). 

She also talks about building a network of freelancers and learning to manage them well, a topic that all content folks should pay close attention to.  You can connect with Danyelle on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danyellemwhite/

Sean Blanda has the perfect LinkedIn profile. He got his start in journalism, has worked for early-stage startups, ran content at several large companies and now runs all marketing Crossbeam. In this episode, we talk about his career to date. He talks about "learning or earning," why every content marketer needs an "art museum" and explains common mistakes he sees junior content marketers make. You can follow Sean on Twitter at https://twitter.com/SeanBlanda.