For our latest episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, continues her live coverage at Cannes Lions 2026 and sits down with Rhonesha Byng, Founder and CEO of Her Agenda, the media platform dedicated to helping ambitious women turn their goals into reality through storytelling, resources, and community. For their chat, Jen and Rhonesha talked about how Her Agenda was built and the mission it continues to focus on almost 20 years later, what authenticity and creativity stand for in today's evolving media landscape, what unconventional career journeys mean for women today and what they both hope to see a year from now when it comes to women in business, media, and leadership.

For our latest episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, is live at Cannes Lions 2026 and caught up with Frank Starling, VP and Chief DEI Officer at Cannes Lions. For their chat, Jen and Frank discussed his talent and DEI goals from last year's festival, his thoughts on new research on how engaging and including disabled/neurodivergent talent is a creative and business unlock, as well as competitive advantage, how the conversation around company-led DEI initiatives has evolved in the last 12 months, and the role that AI will continue to play in creativity.

For our latest episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, is live at Appian World 2026 and sat down with Isaac Sacolick, tech influencer and regular contributor to CIO.com and InfoWorld and the President of StarCIO. For their chat, Jen and Isaac discussed the major takeaways from Appian's research with Harvard Business Review, what Isaac learned from this year's conference and how Serious AI will help enterprises move beyond AI hype into real-world results in the year ahead.

For our latest episode, we are continuing our conversations from SXSW. Our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, caught up with Valerie Chapman, Founder and CEO of Ruth AI, the AI-powered career platform built to help close the $1.6 trillion gender wage gap. For their chat, Jen and Valerie talk about the Fortune op-ed that led to their connection, what Ruth AI is on a mission to do when it comes to gender parity as well as how women can create their own personal brand and continue to own their narrative on social media, at the decision table and in life.

For our latest episode, we are live at SXSW and our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, caught up with Vox Media's Astead Herndon who is an editorial director and frequent host of outlet's Today, Explained podcast. Tied to SXSW 2026, Astead shares what he is hearing and seeing on the ground at the conference, how he and the team choose the topics to cover on the podcast and what communication professionals should focus on in 2026.

For our first episode of 2026, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with Pete Pachal, Founder of The Media Copilot, a platform, podcast and newsletter all about how AI is changing the media. Off the back of CES, Pete shared his biggest takeaways and what's next for AI across the marketing, communications and media industries. Jen and Pete also discussed how newsrooms are managing AI today and other predictions for the year ahead.

In this episode, our Founder and President Jennifer Risi chats with two of the industry's top editors - Jill Manoff, EIC at Glossy and Modern Retail and Marie Albiges, Managing Editor at Total Retail - ahead of the busy holiday shopping season to understand what to expect this Black Friday and Cyber Monday including the standout trends, as well as the forces shaping the retail industry today and we head into 2026.

In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with Forbes' Alex Knapp, who is a senior editor covering healthcare and science, to discuss the state of healthcare in the U.S. with a focus on how AI has become a major player across every field in medicine as well as how the industry has shifted over the last year, and what he expects to see in the future.

In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, chats with Earned First's Founding Editor Arun Sudhaman, to discuss the continued importance of earned media, the controversial topic – #DEI – as well as all the continued changes across our industry as we see more holding groups merge and major players step down.

In this episode, our Founder and President, Jennifer Risi, sits down with Cannes Lions' VP and Chief DEI Officer Frank Starling, live at Cannes to chat about how we - as an industry and as leaders - are going to keep diversity, equity and inclusion front and center at the festival, how Frank and the wider team are prioritizing impact as well as what’s next for DEI against the current and political environment.