In this episode, we look at how businesses use branding, personality, and selling points to reach your emotional needs and, in the process, raise their value from cheap to luxury. And we see all of this in action through, the one and only, Aldi grocery stores.

In this episode, we look at the connection between marketing and your emotional needs. Through the episode, we unpack how all businesses sell you an external need and an internal need, and we see this in action with a case study on Starbucks. We discuss how Starbucks doesn’t really sell coffee. They sell you something else entirely…

In this episode, learn how we all use the number three to make sense of all the prices and buying decisions we face every single day. Plus, see the connection between prices and relativism, and how we use prices to affirm our self-identity (even in the grocery store).

Learn what you and Bud Light have in common. In this episode, we examine Bud Light’s recent controversy to show how Bud Light is bound by the same social norms you are. Both you and Bud Light worry about reputation, social standing, and identity, and neither you or Bud Light can change any of these things too far too fast without paying a high social cost.

Why do you buy what you buy? What made you get that car? Why that toothpaste? Why that pair of shoes? Maybe you’ve never thought about it (which is ok), but we think about it all the time. Marketers are constantly contemplating what makes you buy what you buy. And do you want to know what we know…about you? You buy what you buy because of what you believe - specifically what you believe (and wish to believe) about yourself and what you want others to believe about you. (Don’t worry, we all do this). Listen to the episode to see how.

In this episode of the Owl Street Studio Podcast, we share our thoughts and perspective on race and demographics. We discuss how we feel that demographics must talk about race, but that they should do it through the much more nuanced terms and concepts of ethnicity, heritage, identity, and presentation. We then unpack each of these terms and show how they connect and build upon each other. Plus, we share how these terms help incorporate the lived experiences of code switching, passing, and colorism; and we share how they help incorporate the experience of class and able-bodiedness into the discussion of race and culture.

In this episode of the Owl Street Studio Podcast, we discuss our approach to demographics. We talk through how we feel that demographics should only be used with empathy. We also share how we use demographics as a way to expand empathy and to better understand what it’s like to move through the world as someone different from yourself.

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In this episode of the Owl Street Studio Podcast, we discuss the connection between politics and branding. Through this conversation, we unpack what branding really is, and we outline how politicians use branding (specifically personal branding) to influence your vote.

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