If you thought clean meant natural skincare, this week’s episode with Mike Indursky, the Founder of Hear Me Raw will enlighten you to the difference.  This beauty and wellness industry veteran explains how he is seeking to change the industry from the products to the packaging. Mike also talks about what it’s like to go […]

Dr. Carolyn Kissane, Academic Director for the Center of Global Affairs at NYUSPS and a non-resident fellow at the Payne Institute on Foreign Relations breaks down what we need to know about climate change, climate justice, and how the Biden Administration can get the United States back on track. Joanne and Carolyn also discuss why […]

This week Joanne welcomes Linda Descano, Merged Media Strategist, Conversation Architect, and EVP for Red Havas. Linda offers her wisdom and perspective on marketing in a pandemic, how we adapt, what’s changing, what’s next, and what it means to be a conversation architect. She also shares her thoughts on the state of social media, building […]

This week Joanne welcomes best-selling author Susan Shapiro to the podcast. She’s written for the NY Times, WSJ, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Elle, Oprah, New York Magazine, and Wired. Her credits also include thirteen books her family hates, among them Five Men Who Broke My Heart, The Byline Bible, and her just-released memoir, The Forgiveness Tour: How […]

The first episode of 2021  is about time – what we do with it – how we manage it – and an analog tool Joanne uses that helps her  get stuff done. It Takes An Egg Timer, a guide to creating the time for your life is available on Amazon. Marketing, Mindfulness, and Martinis – an […]

This week Joanne talks with Katie Quinn, Wardrobe Stylist also known as Q the Stylist. They discuss what your personal style means, the inner work it requires to make your wardrobe work for you (even in a pandemic), color theory, virtual styling, the pluses and minuses of using AI and Augmented Reality to get the […]

This week’s guest is Nadina Guglielmetti, a true Digital Marketing veteran and Vice President, General Manager, Marketing at The Vitamin Shoppe. Joanne and Nadina talk retail in the pandemic, why marketers need to educate, what it means to be a data geek, mixing old school marketing tactics with new ones, what the legalization of marijuana means […]

Joanne celebrates reaching ten episodes of the podcast with a solo dedicated to finding gratitude in 2020, also known as the year from hell. She talks about gratitude rituals, being grateful for what is, even when what is may not be what you want it to be, and how starting with the small stuff helps her […]

This week Joanne chats with Ranjana Choudhry, a global marketing and communications leader and currently the Vice President of Advertising and Social Media for Wakefern Foods. A fellow NYU Professor, Joanne and Ranjana discuss marketing silos, social media, philosophies of advertising and what it’s like to start a new job in a pandemic!

In her first solo episode on the podcast, Joanne Tombrakos reflects on a lesson we can all learn from Joe Biden's Presidential win.