Happy April Fools! To celebrate the spirit of first day of April, Jim welcomes to the show one of Duo the Owl’s best friends, Emmanuel Orssaud, the Chief Marketing Officer of Duolingo, one of the hottest growth brands in the world with one of the hottest mascots in the world. Duolingo is the most downloaded education app in the history of the App Store and in 2019 became the top-grossing education app worldwide.

Duolingo’s purpose is to develop the best education in the world and make it universally available; its core service today is in language learning. Duolingo is only a 14-year old brand, founded in Pittsburgh by Luis van Ahn and Severine Hacker, who met at Carnegie Mellon. It is publicly traded, with a market cap of about $14 billion.

Emmanuel, or Manu, has been at Duolingo nearly five years, CMO since August 2023. Prior to Duolingo, Manu worked about five years at Spotify and nine years at Playstation. Tune in for a conversation around growth marketing & more with a bi-lingual CMO (French and English) who is learning Japanese on Duolingo!

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Spring is time for rebirth and renewal…and today’s episode is about a relationship between a client and an agency that embodies continual rebirth and renewal. Jim's guests this week are Sherry Graziano, the EVP, Head of Digital, Client Experience & Marketing at Truist Bank, and Scott Goodson, the CEO and Founder of ad agency StrawberryFrog. Sherry and Scott are longtime partners at Truist, a top 10 US bank headquartered in Charlotte, NC. Truist has a purpose to inspire and build better lives and communities–and they mean that, as you will hear through Sherry and Scott’s stories.

Sherry has been at Truist since 2011; she was part of SunTrust, which became Truist after SunTrust’s merger with BB&T. Scott and his agency have been working with Truist for many years. Many brands switch agencies frequently–this is a story of a client and agency who have learned to work together over the years, and thus discovered the magic of teamwork with a common purpose, common objectives, and a shared ambition. Tune in for a conversation on the playbook for a successful partnership!

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This month marks the opening of a new season for the red-hot NWSL–The National Women's Soccer League. Jim's this week is the Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer of the NWSL, Julie Haddon. Jim has known Julie for many years, going back to her years at the NFL as VP of Global Brand and consumer marketing, before joining the NWSL as its first-ever CMO.

Great CMOs are growth drivers, and Julie has indeed done that with her team. Julie has been CMO for about 2.5 years and the growth rate is staggering; double the number of fans in attendance at matches; two new teams joining the league with more coming; a four-year media deal worth $240 million–the previous media deal was for three years for $4.5 million. And team valuations are increasing massively.

Julie was a journalism major years ago at Indiana University in Bloomington, before launching a career in tech & entertainment that is epic: Dreamworks Animation, eBay, PayPal, Twitter, Zynga, Sofi, the NFL, and now the NWSL. Tune in for a conversation with a CMO who had a vision six years ago in France that she could help shape the future of women's soccer.

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Jim's guest this week is Nicole Parlapiano, the Chief Marketing Officer of Tubi, and the woman behind so much of the strategy and innovation that sets Tubi apart from its competitors.

When we launched this podcast in 2019, no one had heard of Tubi. Now this eleven-year-old brand seems to be everywhere: streaming the 2025 Super Bowl, standing out among Super Bowl advertisers the past few years, and popping up all over social media. Tubi–which is the most watched free TV and streaming service in the US–has an active fan base of about 100 million monthly users.

Nicole has been at Tubi almost three years, and despite the steep growth numbers, seems to be just getting started. Before Tubi, Nicole has had an eclectic career journey, with time at Tinder, WeWork, Vayner, and eharmony. Raised in a blue-colar family outside New York City, Nicole went on to Fordham for her undergraduate degree and later earned her MBA at night at USC. Tune in for Jim's conversation with a CMO who has a self-described endless appetite for risk.

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We kick off Women's History Month with a guest who has championed inclusivity, on and off the courts. Vanessa Wallace, a former NCAA basketball star for the University of Texas Lady Longhorns, and now the Chief Marketing Officer of Savage X Fenty, the intimates, loungewear and sportswear brand founded by Rihanna in 2018.

Headquartered in El Segundo, Ca., Savage X Fenty celebrates fearlessness, confidence and inclusivity. Rihanna launched the brand seven years leveraging her Instagram account; the brand took off quickly and has not slowed down. Savage X Fenty was valued at about $1 billion last year; Rihanna owns the brand along with a group of investors that includes LVMH and the TechStyle Fashion Group.

Vanessa joined Nike a few years after leaving the University of Texas, and held 10 different positions at Nike over the course of 19 years–including Head of Brand Marketing before she left in 2024 to join Savage X Fenty. Tune in for a conversation with a CMO who loves her job–almost as much as she loves her puppy Kobe.

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We're bringing you a bonus episode today as Jim just returned from a 10 day trip to Cuba. Listen in as Jim reflects on his time in the colorful country, including the sights, sounds and smells, plus a few lessons learned from the experience.

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This week we wrap up Black History month, and Jim's guest is one of the most consequential black marketing leaders of all time. Jerri DeVard, the Founder and CEO of BECA, the Black Executive CMO Alliance.

Jerri started her career in marketing the same year Jim joined Procter & Gamble; she also started in consumer goods, working 10 years at the Pillsbury company, now part of General Mills. Jerri went on to CMO roles at Verizon, Nokia, ADT and Office Depot. Jerri was a guest on the show in July 2020. Jim and Jerri chatted through a wide ranging talk about her career, our friendship over the years, and what she has learned about leadership. Well this week, Jim will focus on her life since then, including the founding of BECA, which has been astounding in its impact. It’s an honest, heart-to-heart chat–which is the only way Jerri DeVard rolls.

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Jim's guest today on The CMO Podcast is Stacey Andrade-Wells, the Chief Marketing Officer of the red-hot hydration brand, Liquid I.V.. Here are a few fun facts about Liquid I.V.: Founded only thirteen years ago, in 2012, Liquid I.V. is now roughly $1 billion in sales. Unilever, the $64 billion by sales British consumer goods company, purchased the brand in 2020.

Stacey is perhaps the youngest CMO Jim has interviewed on this show. She began her business career, as Jim did, at Procter & Gamble. Stacey joined P&G in 2014 after a degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and worked on some of P&G’s brand icons: Mr. Clean, Swiffer, and Gain. In 2022 Stacey left Cincinnati and moved to LA to join Liquid I.V. as a VP of Marketing, then in July 2024 she was promoted to CMO. Stacey leads a marketing department of 60+ employees, with oversight of Brand Management, Integrated Marketing, Innovation, Corporate & Brand Communications, In-House Creative, Consumer Insights, and Impact/Sustainability.

Tune in for a conversation with a CMO who believes in listening to her team and her customers!

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Welcome to our 2025 Super Bowl Roundtable bonus episode of The CMO Podcast! This is the sixth consecutive time we have done a Super Bowl roundtable session, and we think this episode is the best yet. Recorded as part of a live stream, in collaboration with Gary Vaynerchuk and his team at Vayner Media.

Jim starts the conversation with the Kansas City Chiefs very own Lara Krug, who joined the Chiefs in 2021 as their Chief Marketing Officer. Then moves onto two roundtables–with five leaders in each Roundtable. Guests include:

Nicole Parlapiano, Chief Marketing Officer of Tubi

Greg Lyons, Chief Marketing Officer of PepsiCo NA

Laura Jones, Chief Marketing Officer of Instacart

Daniel Winer, CEO & Co-Founder, Hexclad Cookware

Steven Saenen, VP Ritz & Portfolio Marketing, US, Mondelez

Sofia Colucci, Chief Marketing Officer of Molson Coors

Shachar Scott, VP, Marketing, Reality Labs, Meta

Ramon Velutini, President, NA & LATAM, The Duracell Company

David Lee, Chief Creative Officer, Squarespace

Brittney Polka, VP, Beverages, Danone

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This May, Jim will celebrate six years of The CMO Podcast. He has had the opportunity to welcome over 330 marketing leaders to this show, many of whom have become friends, and of each other. Well in 2025, we are looking to lean more into this community, by hosting reunions, in-person and virtual. So for this week’s episode, we kick it off with a bang as Jim welcomes Tim Armstrong, founder and CEO of Flowcode, and author, professor, entrepreneur and fellow podcaster, Scott Galloway, back to the show. Both were early guests all the way back in 2019.

This episode was recorded live in-front of an audience of fellow CMO Podcast alumni–about 70 of them. Jim, Tim and Scott dove head first into topics that are affecting us as business leaders, but also as members of society. Tim and Scott first talk about how they’ve built their own rules around goal setting, and their efforts to stick to their goals. And no surprise if you know Scott–the conversation went quickly to the state of young men in America.

Jim then wraps up the conversation by opening to questions from the audience, which took the conversation–which was already deep, raw and real–to some new places. Places which we do not normally talk about on The CMO Podcast. So join Jim as he welcomes Tim and Scott back, for this remarkable and important podcast.

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Scott Galloway joined Jim as an early guest in June 2019: https://tinyurl.com/3v8fhdu5

Tim Armstrong has joined Jim on multiple occasions, July 2019: https://tinyurl.com/39ba2ate And November 2022: https://tinyurl.com/4pkuznsd

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