One year into shaking up the US media agency world, Obsessed Media Co-Founder Danny Weisman returns for episode 140 of the Media People Podcast. We chat:

🎯 Obsessed Media: One year later

🎯 What Netflix got right

🎯 Growth through entrepreneurship

🎯 2026: Another year of Hollywood reboots and remakes?

🎯 Rethinking the NFL’s Pro Bowl

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Episode 139 of the Media People Podcast is LIVE with Girl Gone Wild Author, Courtney Kocak. We chat:

🎯 Her memoir, Girl Gone Wild

🎯 Why writing is therapy

🎯 Why she makes her own art

🎯 Growing up in rural Minnesota

🎯 Her podcast, Private Parts Unknown

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Girl Gone Wild is available April 1st, 2026. Pre-order your copy here→

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Episode 138 of the Media People Podcast is LIVE with The Local Collective Founder & President, Kaitlin Doherty. We chat:

🎯 Why Cossette was her ‘big break’

🎯 Founding The Local Collective

🎯 What goes into developing a Super Bowl commercial

🎯 Growing up in Saint John, New Brunswick

🎯 How entrepreneurship runs in the family

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Episode 137 of the Media People Podcast is LIVE with MotoVitesse Racing, Inc., Founder, Jim Bowie. We chat:

🎯 Motorsports marketing

🎯 Winning the 1997 Indy 500 with Arie Luyendyk

🎯 Life lessons from working on a farm

🎯 Why customization is the future of sports media

🎯 What Jim’s cooking with MotoVitesse and Brandrenaline

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Building a multicultural podcast network? Life lessons learned working at McDonald’s? Episode 136 of the Media People Podcast is LIVE with Pod Digital Media Founder, Gary Coichy. We chat:

🎯 Emigrating from Haiti to New York City

🎯 How working at McDonald’s shaped both his English and EQ

🎯 Why Eddie Murphy’s ‘Marcus Graham’ is an influence

🎯 Why he founded Pod Digital Media

🎯 Why tennis might be an entrepreneur’s sport

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Matt LeBlanc and Steven Spielberg? Episode 135 of the Media People Podcast is LIVE with MOCEAN Chief Creative Officer, Greg Harrison. We chat:

🎯 Growing up in suburban Detroit

🎯 Editing for Steven Spielberg

🎯 Cutting Matt LeBlanc’s demo reel for his Friends audition

🎯 The intense work and secrecy behind movie trailer production

🎯 Why everyone should consider “AI Exposure Therapy”

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Episode 134 of the Media People Podcast is LIVE with Other.™ Founding Partner, Matt Jenkins. We chat:

🎯 Growing up in Mount Albert, Ontario

🎯 The impact hockey had on his youth and career

🎯 How a reluctant first job led to a new passion

🎯 The principles Other.™ was founded on

🎯 Two-stroke and four-stroke motorcycle engines

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Episode 133 of the Media People Podcast is LIVE with Creativ Company Founder & CEO, Wes Morton. We chat:

🎯 Growing up in Brenham, Texas

🎯 Taking a sabbatical from Columbia University after freshman year

🎯 Joining an archeological dig in Kenya

🎯 How restaurant work builds resilience

🎯 Why he spent the pandemic in the Dominican Republic

🎯 How Creativ Company is shaking up the agency model

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Special GuestX & 1stAveMachine Creative Conductor, Sam Penfield, is this episode's guest. We chat:

🎯 Growing up in Bowman, North Dakota

🎯 Producing for Michael Bay

🎯 Being the youngest registered female auctioneer

🎯 How AI is changing creative media

🎯 How SpecialGuestX & 1stAve Machine are at the forefront of this change

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Episode 131 of the Media People Podcast is LIVE with T1 President & CSO, Nithya Ramachandran. We chat:

🎯 Growing up in Toronto, India, and Edmonton

🎯 The blueprint to getting a promotion

🎯 Consulting during the Alberta energy boom

🎯 Pivoting from consulting to marketing

🎯 Why you might be someone’s ayahuasca

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