Most founders treat Q4 like a sprint. They show up in October with a discount code and a holiday campaign and wonder why their results feel flat. The brands that actually win Q4 — the ones who sell out, hit their biggest revenue months and build audiences that come back — they started in July. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah breaks down exactly what the Q3 window is for and the three-part audit every founder needs to run right now to make sure they're one of the brands that wins.

Here's what this episode covers: • Why Q3 is not a slow season — it's the most important strategic window of the year • Why holiday buyers are the least loyal buyers you will ever have — and what Q3 has to do with whether they ever come back • The content mix problem — most founders are running 80% attract content when conversion content should take up at least half • Why the offer you're planning to sell in Q4 needs to exist and be tested in Q3

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Q4 marketing strategy, Q3 marketing audit, holiday marketing, conversion rate, marketing strategy 2026, female founder, organic marketing, content that converts

In 2006 Lauren Alexander co-founded LNA Clothing in Los Angeles at 22 years old — hand-sewing dresses, selling to boutiques around LA and figuring it out as she went. No business plan. No fashion degree. Just a genuine idea and the delusion of someone young enough not to know how hard it was going to be. Nearly two decades later LNA is still independent, still growing and still entirely hers. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah sits down with Lauren to talk about what building a fashion brand from scratch actually looks like — the early days getting into Barneys, Nordstrom and Saks, the zipper legging that catapulted them in 2008, why she never took outside investment and what nearly 20 years of staying true to your aesthetic actually teaches you about building something that lasts.

Here's what this episode covers:

• How Lauren and her co-founder April started LNA with no business plan and figured it out as they went
• The zipper legging that catapulted LNA in 2008 and what it taught Lauren about evolving a brand
• Why celebrity dressing — from Madonna to Kate Moss to Brad Pitt — built the brand before influencer marketing existed
• Why she never took outside investment — and what that decision has meant for the brand over nearly 20 years

Connect with Lauren on Instagram at @laurenalexander — https://www.instagram.com/laurenalexander. Shop LNA Clothing at @lnaclothing — https://www.instagram.com/lnaclothing — or visit https://www.lnaclothing.com. Check out Sistine Spritz at @sistinespritz — https://www.instagram.com/sistinespritz — or visit https://sistinespritz.com.

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The brands winning right now are not the ones with the biggest ad budgets or the most polished content. They're the ones with a human face attached to them. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah breaks down why founder forward marketing is not a trend — it's a permanent infrastructure shift in how people decide to buy — and what it actually looks like to build a brand that converts in an era where trust is the only currency that matters.

Here's what this episode covers:

• Why people buy from founders before they buy from brands — and the three reasons trust transfers from person to product
• The Glossier, Skims, Spanx and Liquid Death examples — what each founder did that their competitors couldn't replicate
• Why a founder with 10,000 engaged followers will outperform a brand account with 500,000 every single time
• The three things founder forward marketing actually requires — and why waiting until your brand is ready is the most expensive mistake you can make

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Gigi Robinson grew up in and out of hospitals with a connective tissue disorder. She could have hidden it. Instead she built her entire personal brand around it — and now has over 500,000 followers, a book deal, and a keynote speaking career. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah sits down with Gigi to talk about what it actually looks like to build a brand from your most vulnerable story, why authenticity without strategy is just oversharing, and what the personal brand era means for every founder listening right now.

Here's what this episode covers:

• Why Gigi never hid her chronic illness — and how that decision became the foundation of everything she built
• The difference between influence and impact — and why Gigi has always optimized for the second one
• How anyone can be a content creator in today's world

Connect with Gigi on Instagram at @itsgigirobinson — https://www.instagram.com/itsgigirobinson

Apply to work with Savannah HERE: http://bit.ly/applywlfpodcast or DM her on Instagram @itssavannahjordan with your takeaway.

Gigi Robinson, chronic illness brand, personal brand, marketing strategy 2026, female founder, More Than a Body, organic marketing

Three million views on a single video. And 15K a month in sales. The views were there. The reach was there. The engagement was there. But something was missing — and in this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah breaks down exactly what it was and how fixing it took a non-toxic kitchenware brand from 15K to 80K per month in six months. This is the full case study. The gaps, the strategy shifts, the crisis moment when their hero product failed, and how the marketing framework that built their revenue also became their lifeboat when everything went sideways.

Here's what this episode covers: • The exact difference between attract content and converting content — and why going viral without the second one leaves money on the table every single week • How Savannah used their own comment section to build their entire content strategy • Why social proof is not a carousel of reviews — and what it actually needs to look like to convert • What to do when your hero product fails and you still have to hit your sales goals

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Luke Cook has played the devil on Netflix, made millions of people laugh on social media and built a fresh protein company from scratch. And the thread connecting all of it is one thing — he has never sold out his audience. Not once. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah and Luke dig into what it actually means to build trust with an audience before you ever ask them to buy, why entertainment first and ad second is the formula that makes marketing feel effortless and what the K-Y Jelly ad that almost made Luke physically ill can teach every founder about warming up your audience the right way.

Here's what this episode covers:

• Why Luke refuses brand deals that don't align — and what that protection has done for his audience's trust
• The K-Y Jelly ad breakdown — what went wrong and exactly how it should have been done instead
• Why ShakeWell works as a product launch when most celebrity brands feel like a cash grab
• What 17 years of rejection in Hollywood taught Luke about resilience that directly applies to building a business

Try ShakeWell at getshakewell.com and use code Wolves15 for a discount. Connect with Luke on Instagram at @thelukecook.

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Luke Cook, ShakeWell, never sell out your audience, personal brand, marketing strategy 2026, trust based marketing, content that converts, organic marketing

You look at the millions of views you're racking up and then you look at your bank account — and the zeros don't match. Not even close. That gap has a name. And in this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah explains exactly what's causing it and how to fix it. Gen Z marketing gets you seen. Millennial marketing gets you paid. And if all you have is one of them you are leaving serious money on the table.

Here's what this episode covers:

• Why going viral without a buyer's journey just creates frustrated founders and abandoned carts
• The difference between Gen Z top of funnel content and millennial trust and conversion content — with real brand examples
• Why it's not a personality question about your brand — it's a funnel question
• How Savannah took an art publishing client from 100K to almost 400K in sales in one month without changing a single product or price point

Apply to work with Savannah HERE: http://bit.ly/applywlfpodcast or DM her on Instagram @itssavannahjordan ( / itssavannahjordan ) with your takeaway.

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Bridjet Morris doesn't sell tickets. She sells transformation. She sells the feeling of being in a room with women who are willing to go there — to share the mess, the divorce, the postpartum, the business failure — alongside the wins, the glamour and the celebration. And that feeling has built a multi-six-figure event company that has taken women from Michigan to London almost entirely on word of mouth. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah sits down with Bridjet, founder of Deeply Worthy, to talk about what it actually looks like to build a brand around a feeling, how she curates speakers and rooms that create genuine transformation, and why protecting the energy of that room is worth losing money over.

Here's what this episode covers: * Why marketing a feeling instead of a product creates a word of mouth engine that compounds over time * The secret sauce behind Bridjet's sold-out events — and why vulnerability from the front of the room changes everything * How she filters speakers, sponsors and attendees to protect the brand she's built * Why women feeling deeply worthy is not just the brand name — it's the entire foundation

Connect with Bridjet: Instagram: @bridjetmorris — https://www.instagram.com/bridjetmorris/ Website: https://bridjetmorris.com

Apply to work with Savannah HERE: http://bit.ly/applywlfpodcast or DM her on Instagram @itssavannahjordan ( / itssavannahjordan ) with your takeaway.

Bridjet Morris, Deeply Worthy, event marketing, marketing a feeling, female founder, word of mouth marketing, luxury events, marketing strategy 2026

Hannah Huante built her personal brand on one idea — unapologetic realness. Sharing fashion alongside mental health. Showing the glamorous parts and the hard parts. And that duality built a community that trusted her enough to follow her into an agency, a podcast and a physical content creation studio. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah and Hannah dig into what it actually means to monetize realness without losing it — and why the founders and creators who win are the ones willing to be honest about what they choose to be honest about, repeat themselves endlessly, and keep going long before the results show up.

Here's what this episode covers: • Why being authentic online doesn't mean sharing everything — and what it actually means instead • The six months of being stuck before Hannah finally said yes to building the agency — and how it quadrupled her income • Why she deleted a video that hit a million views — and why it was the right call • The difference between going viral and building a community that actually buys

Connect with Hannah: Instagram at @howhanseesit: https://www.instagram.com/howhanseesit Website: https://www.howhanseesit.com

Listen to How I See It podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2HXwo3ElwPpWtqa1frXiZN?si=8b080afd490643ed Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-i-see-it/id1671023674

Apply to work with Savannah HERE: http://bit.ly/applywlfpodcast or DM her on Instagram @itssavannahjordan ( / itssavannahjordan ) with your takeaway.

Hannah Huante, Unapologetic Strategies, personal brand, monetize realness, marketing strategy 2026, female founder, How I See It podcast, organic marketing

Content going out and content built to make someone buy are two completely different things. Two completely different strategies, two completely different skill sets and two completely different intentions. And most founders — and most agencies — only know how to do one of them. In this episode of Running With Wolves, Savannah breaks down a full client case study that proves exactly why. Her client had a 4 to 5K per month agency, beautiful consistent content and zero new clients to show for it. One week after implementing Savannah's strategy she made 60K in 24 hours — with no agency, less content and less money spent.

Here's what this episode covers: • Why virality doesn't matter — one client had 2,000 views and made 200K, another had 200,000 views and couldn't make 2K • The three questions to ask your marketing team right now to find out if they actually know what they're doing • Why the selling is the last thing you should ever delegate — and most founders delegate it first • The old model vs the new model — and the single KPI shift that exposes every weak piece of marketing you're running

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